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The scientific method, while still used in scientific
experiments in the laboratory and clinic, has long been
abandoned in the persuasive arts, notably journalism,
but also in politics. Any journalist analyzing facts
based on logic and science instead of accepting the
interpretation of our universe handed down from above
would soon lose their job. We have long lived in an
anti-scientific, and hence, an anti-natural, world
and are now reaping the inevitable rewards of our
denial of truth.If we were to be honest with ourselves for just a
brief moment, we would admit that Western society is
deeply sinful (or in secular terms, unwholesome) and
even worships sin, celebrating it with carnivals
and gay parades, and teaching young children how to
perform sex acts in schools. And of course, the Western
world routinely commits infanticide. Romans 1:25
describes the Western world to a t (Paul uses
homosexuals as an example but this issue ranges far
wider than that):
“…God also gave them up
to
uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor
their bodies among themselves, who
exchanged the truth of God for the
lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than
the Creator.” (Romans 1:24-25)The end of that discourse on sinners describes the
outcome.
“ men with men working
that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence
of their error which was meet.” (Romans 1:27)A graphic depiction of some of that recompense for
this particular group of sinners can be found
here. I referenced that site in my commentary The
recompence of their error.So why do people deliberately engage in
self-destructive practices that our otherwise superior
intelligence should be telling us to avoid for the
purposes of self preservation? Or for that matter, why
do they pursue Keynesian economics amassing mountains of
debt that no one could ever repay in a headlong rush to
destroy our economy, our means of survival? No animal
species would do that.The answer is right there in Pauls discourse, and
this is the part Christians need to focus on when
analyzing the causes of Western societys failure to
manage its laws, its immigration, its social ills, its
fruitless wars, its finances and economy, its moral
code, etc:
“Because of this,
God
gave them over to shameful lusts.”
(Romans
1:26)And several verses later:
“God gave them over to
a reprobate mind.” (Romans 1:28)Did you ever consider what that means?
GOD facilitates the destruction of the disobedient
and the ungrateful by abandoning the disobedient to
their own sinful desires. Paul is talking about
people who worship nature instead of the Creator because
they were ungrateful to Him for the blessings of
life. Why would people who once worshipped nature turn
around and do something unnatural, as Paul calls this
behavior in this same passage?A person analyzing this without spiritual
discernment might say this incongruence makes no sense
and would be at a loss to explain it in rational terms.
Some spiritually blind (but otherwise intelligent)
analysts say that for this reason, Paul couldnt really
have meant unnatural when describing this behavior,
and they therefore tweak the translation from the
original Greek to make it say something else. (They
forget that in the 4th Century, Jerome, a
fluent speaker of koine Greek, rendered this term
as contra naturam in his translation of the
Vulgate Latin Bible).The fact is, God routinely allows people to do the
unnaturalcommitting acts outside the laws of nature
that cant be explained by any scientific (e.g.,
psychological) laws. Once you turn your back on God, He
abandons you and you fall into a behavior pattern
designed by Satan. There is nothing natural about sinful
behavior because it was not designed by God.So if it is not natural, then is it supernatural?
No, it is not. Since God performs supernatural
worksthat is, works that are above naturethen
Satans works and the works of humans gone over to the
dark side might best be considered as infranatural,
or beneath nature.An animal would not destroy its own economy its
food stores, for example the way Westerner leaders
are now doing, most notably in the Euro Zone and the US
through irrational banking practices and eradication of
home industry and cheap energy by legal and regulatory
means (even as they encourage other nations, notably
China, to use cheap energy and high carbon combustion in
competing with the West).Nor would an animal devote itself almost solely to
the pursuit of sex, especially homosex, the way many
humans do (although bisexuality is known in the animal
kingdom, there are no known strictly homosexual animal
individuals that eschew all individuals of the
opposite sex).Such infranatural phenomena are exactly why we
face an imminent worldwide economic collapse.
Economists, supposedly specialists in math, no longer
use mathematics in their convoluted Keynesian
calculations. Likewise, otherwise educated people who
understand human anatomy deliberately and routinely
utilize as an inlet a bodily organ designed as an
outlet, a lifestyle that often leads to horrific
diseases and death (see
here).But as Paul says, amazingly, GOD facilitates this
mindlessness by abandoning those who abandon God
including His scientific laws. Because people stopped
trusting in Him and thought they could come up with
their own answers.Look around you. How do you like the results of
Western secularist, humanist political, diplomatic,
economic, social, military, etc, behavior? Vote for
either candidate and you will get more of the same. Look
at Europe. An entire continent that thinks it is smarter
than God is now drowning in debt and fighting for its
economic life. If this is not sufficient evidence of the
God that Paul describes, i.e., a God who deprives
disobedient humans of their cognitive faculties, then I
cant imagine what is.This is why the West does not need more laws or a
better government.It needs a spiritual revival. And that revival will
not happen without Westerners accepting the love,
forgiveness and righteousness that Jesus taught, making
a sincere attempt to do what is morally right as
dictated by our God-given conscience. Americans,
including the best and otherwise most civil and decent
of us, are beating each other up because we think this
is about people or the lack of wisdom of individuals or
leaders. If people do this or
that, or if we make this or that law or elect this or
that politician, then we can get back on track. How can
this group or that group be so
stupid?
they say of those who disagree with them.But again, they ignore Pauls teachings, as recorded
in another letter of his:
“For our
struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of
this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil
in the heavenly realms. Therefore take up
the whole
armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the
evil day, and having done all, to stand.”
Ephesians 6:12-13If you think this is too lofty and ethereal to
relate to your life and the world around you, consider
the antithesis. For example, the article below
describes John Maynard Keynes, a homosexual and
pedophile who authored our current failed economic
system. Bailouts rewarding bad business and banking
practices and other government interventions that kill
free enterprise were his brain child:
http://www.keynesatharvard.org/book/KeynesatHarvard-ch09.htmlIf we take to heart Pauls message in Romans 1:25-27,
we can easily see it was no coincidence that Keynes
was both a sexual deviant (pedophile, homosexual,
etc) and the author of the most perverted economic
system known to humankind.There can be no logical or scientific explanation for
Keynes self-destructive lifestyle and destructive
teachings, or of an entire civilization deliberately
patterning itself after him, destroying itself
economically and morally with no apparent justification.
These examples of a West deliberately weakening and
sabotaging itself are the best examples of
unquestionably infranatural phenomena.As incredible as it may seem to those imbued with
the rigid doctrinaire humanism that is foisted on
Western society by an incessant drumbeat in
media, schools and universities, in cinema and on the
street, Pauls brief discourse on a God having given
people up to a reprobate mind is emerging as the default
explanation of a civilization marching resolutely to its
utter economic and moral ruin. As God warned us,
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight!
“Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men
of strength to mingle strong drink: which justify
the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!”
Isaiah 5:20-23So why is this explanation for Western civilizations
failure never raised in the churches of our nation?Perhaps because God is giving our
most of our clergy over to the
very same reprobate mind that Paul spoke of. They
interpret the scriptures as though they were hopelessly
outdated when in fact, these ancient writings offer
the only glimpse of sanity and hope that is left in
our reprobate world.“Yet
in
all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who
loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor
angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor
things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created
thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which
is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans
8:37-39
Don Hanks website:
http://laiglesforum.com/Other articles by my
friend, Don: “Wanted: A Few Bad Men”
and
“Truth or Fiction: No Correlation between
Smoking Pot and Better College Grades?“See also
Rising Persecution in the “Land of
the Free”