WORLD VIEW STUDIES

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WORLD VIEW STUDIES

• A CONDENSATION OF LECTURES BY THE TEACHERS AT
  SUMMIT MINISTRIES

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TEACHERS AT SUMMIT MINISTRIES, MANITOU SPGS, CO.

• Dr. David Noebel, CEO and Founder
• Dr. Jeff Meyers
• Dr. Bob Linden
• Dr. Del Tacket
• Mr. Kevin Bywater
• Dr. Ron Nash
• Dr. Jobe Martin

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1 CHRONICLES 1232

• ... the children of Issachar, which were men
  that had understanding of the times, to know what
  Israel ought to do the heads of them were 200
  and all their brethren were at their
  commandment.
• KJV

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COLOSSIANS 28

• BEWARE LEST ANY MAN SPOIL YOU THROUGH PHILOSOPHY
  AND VAIN DECEIT, AFTER THE TRADITION OF MEN,
  AFTER THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, AND NOT AFTER
  CHRIST.
• KJV

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2 CORINTHIANS 105

• CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS, AND EVERY HIGH THING
  THAT EXALTETH ITSELF AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF
  GOD, AND BRINGING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO
  THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST.
• KJV

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2 Timothy 225b-26 KJV

• If God peradventure will give them re- pentence
  to the acknowledging of the truth and that they
  may recover them- selves out of the snare of the
  devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
  KJV
• And they may come to their senses and escape
  from the snare of the devil, having been held
  captive by him to do his will. NAS

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GENESIS 1819

• GOD REFERS TO ABRAHAM
• FOR I KNOW HIM, THAT HE WILL COMMAND HIS
  CHILDREN AND HIS HOUSEHOLD AFTER HIM, AND THEY
  SHALL KEEP THE WAY OF THE LORD, TO DO JUSTICE AND
  JUDGMENT.
• KJV

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IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

• IN THE BATTLE OF IDEAS WE REJOICE ALWAYS
• Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In
  everything give thanks for this is the will of
  God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 THESS
  516-18

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COLOSSIANS 42

• Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with
  thanksgiving. KJV
• Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it
  with an attitude of thanksgiving.
  NAS
• Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with
  thanksgiving. KJV

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CHRISTIANS PRAY

• Oh God, show me your will
• so that I can consider it!

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LUKE 2242

• Jesus prays saying Father, if thou be willing,
  remove this cup from me
• nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

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BIBLICAL FAITH

• I obey Gods Word no matter what the cost, the
  circumstance, or the consequence!!!!!
• I do what Gods Word says!!

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AS THE BATTLE OF IDEAS INTENSIFIES - - - WE PRAY!

• But the end of all things is at hand be ye
  therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
  1 Peter 47
• Praying always with all prayer and supplication
  in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
  perseverance and supplication for all saints.
  Eph. 618

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HABAKKUK 317ff

• Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither
  shall fruit be in the vines the labor of the
  olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no
  meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold,
  and there shall be no herd in the stalls Yet I
  will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God
  of my salvation.
• WHEN TIMES ARE DIFFICULT REJOICE!

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WHEN WORLDVIEWS CLASH REJOICE!!!!!

• My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
  divers temptations knowing this, that the trying
  of your faith worketh patience. But let patience
  have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
  entire, wanting nothing.
• James 12-4
• MY SITUATION IS BAD, BUT I WILL REJOICE IN THE
  LORD JESUS!!!!

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JOHN 1622

• And ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see
  you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your
  joy no man taketh from you.
• . . .for this day is holy unto our Lord
  neither be ye sorry for the joy of the Lord is
  your strength.
• Nehemiah 810b

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WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?

• Your worldview is your basic belief system.
• Your worldview is the position you take regarding
  the answers to the major questions in life such
  as
• Does God exist and is He Good?
• What can be known for sure?
• Who am I why am I here where am I going?
• What do I value what is important to me?
• Is there purpose and direction to life?

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WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?

• Our worldview is the position we take on the
  basic building blocks of
• Theology, Philosophy, Ethics, Biology,
  Psychology, Law, Sociology, Politics, Economics,
  and History.
• Our Art, Music and Culture flow out of the above
  10 categories.
• Each category has its own system of Math.

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WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?

• The position we take and what we believe about
  the 10 basic building blocks forms our worldview.
• Our worldview establishes our value system what
  is important to us.
• Our worldview and value system are publicly
  displayed by our behavior.
• Behavior, then, is the outward display of our
  worldview.

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IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS WORLDVIEWS CLASH

• The Right clashes with the Left.
• Conservatives clash with Liberals.
• Theists clash with Atheists (now the Brights).
• Pro-Life clashes with Pro-Death (abortion,
  infanticide, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell
  research, suicide, etc..

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WHEN WORLDVIEWS CLASH

• Concerning the senate democrats block of a vote
  for conservative, Hispanic judge Miguel Estrada,
  (He removed his name after 28 months of waiting
  for the vote), Judge Clarence Thomas wife,
  Virginia, said on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003 A
  familiar stench is coming from the liberals in
  the Senate when it comes to Judicial confir-
  mation battles. A process that only a few years
  ago used any chargetrue or un-

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• trueto take down an ideological opponent or
  nominee now needs no such proxy. Instead, U.S.
  senators, who happen to be democrats, audaciously
  mimic the rhetoric of far left groups by claiming
  that ideology can be a disqualifier from public
  service. There is a strict orthodoxy that doesnt
  tolerate dissent, especially from minorities. Law
  is rarely ideological. Con- cern for rule of law,
  victims rights, due process, privacy, freedom of
  religion or

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• even statutory construction is overruled by their
  orthodoxy.The U.S. Senate has a cadre of
  actorssome who act honorably and most who dont
  really care. But some people, many who are
  nameless and faceless, care very much and want to
  use your nomination for their agenda, their
  power, and their interests. Youve never met them
  and even if you did, they wouldnt really care
  about your integrity or experience. They have
  their agenda.

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RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEWS ARE CLASHING IN U.S. SENATE

• If you are a brilliant Pro-life (against
  abortion), Catholic, Conservative Hispanic you
  are not fit to serve your country as a federal
  judge! WHY??
• Because you do not hold to the liberal,
  socialist, religious worldview agenda of senators
  Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schummer, Hillary Clinton,
  John Kerry, etc.

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1 KINGS 1819ff CLASH!!!

• Elijah on Mount Carmel versus 450 prophets of
  Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah (groves)
  a major clash of two opposing worldviews!
• Elijah If the LORD be God, follow Him but if
  Baal, then follow him. And the people answered
  him not a word.
• But later The LORD, He is God! (x2)

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MATTHEW 1613ff CLASH!!

• The Lord Jesus is at Caesarea Philippi, Mt
  Herman, and He asks His disciples Whom say ye
  that I am? (identification)
• Peter answers Thou art the Christ, the Son of
  the living God.
• Mt. Herman was headquarters for Pan worship
  (Pantheism) and Caesar worship.
• Trinitarianism vs polytheism and monotheism

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ACT 1716ff CLASH!!!

• Paul on Mt. Mars (Mars Hill in Athens, the
  intellectual and spiritual capital of the world)
  confronts two of the major worldviews of the
  Greco-Roman world Epicureans (Atheists,
  Humanists) and Stoics (Pantheists, New Age).
• Paul presents the Creator, Resurrected Lord and
  Judge at headquarters. CLASH

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CLASH AT HEADQUARTERS

• Elijah, the Lord Jesus, and Paul went right to
  the headquarters of the opposing worldview and
  took on the enemies of the one true God and
  Savior.
• Mt Carmel Baal
• Mt Herman Pan and Caesar
• Mt Mars Atheists and Pantheists

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IN THE BATTLE OF IDEAS PERSEVERE

• Persevere in Chinese is a combination of two
  words knife and heart.
• What is pictured is a knife in the heart, but
  you keep on going!!!!
• Gods people must be 98 pure, biblical backbone
  and the rest pure, biblical gristle, tempered
  with godly gentleness and reverence. 1 Peter 315

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IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

• Do not be taken captive by the erroneous ideas of
  unbiblical worldviews!!! Col. 28
• We must identify the enemy.and the enemy is
  always attractively disguised!!!!
• For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
  transforming themselves into the apostles of
  Christ. And no marvel for Satan himself is
  transformed into an

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angel of light. (II Cor. 1113,14)

• The world runs on ideas, and these ideas have
  godly or ungodly consequences.
• In the end, the sword is always conquered by the
  mind. Napolean Bonaparte

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THE CYCLES WHEREIN CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND FALL

• From bondage, comes spiritual faith.
• From spiritual faith, comes courage.
• From courage, comes liberty.
• From liberty, comes abundance.
• From abundance, comes complacency.
• From complacency, comes apathy.
• From apathy, comes dependency.
• From dependency, comes bondage.

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A CIVILIZATION IS ROOTED IN A WORLDVIEW

• A worldview is the sum total of the ideas
  (assumptions) which function as its base.
• The ideas (assumptions) which make up a worldview
  reach into every area of life Theology,
  Philosophy, Ethics, Science, Psychology,
  Sociology, Law, Politics, Economics, History,
  Art and Music.

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WORLDVIEW A SYSTEM OF BELIEFS

• Your worldview is your system of beliefs.
• Your worldview (beliefs) establishes your values.
• Your values determine your behavior.
• For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
  Proverbs 237a KJV

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EXAMPLE ETHICS OF HUMANISTS IS MORAL RELATIVISM

• Moral Relativism is the idea of the Humanists
  that there are NO ABSOLUTES
• If a professor teaches that there are no
  absolutes, a pertinent question is Are you sure
  there are no absolutes, Prof.?
• Prof. Yes, there is no such thing as an
  absolute.

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Student Are you absolutely sure, Prof.?

• Prof. Well arent you a clever student! I will
  admit that there is one absolute and that is that
  there are no absolutes.
• Student Could there be two absolutes?
• Prof. NO! Student Are you sure?
• Prof. Yes, of this I am sure!
• Student Are you absolutely sure?

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MORAL RELATIVISM

• Is it a moral absolute that it is wrong for a
  student to murder their professor?
• Is it a moral absolute that the mass killings of
  Hitler were wrong? 911
• Is it a moral absolute that we should not
  torture babies for fun?
• Is it a moral absolute that the murder of
  young at T. Sq., in China was wrong?

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MORAL RELATIVISM HOMOSEXUAL ITY IS AN
ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE

• WHAT DOES THE GOD OF THE BIBLE SAY?
• Genesis 1313, Homosexuality is sin and
  wickedness!
• Genesis 1820, Homosexuality is grievous sin!
• Genesis 197, Homosexuality is wicked!

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Leviticus 1822, Homosexuality is an
abomination.

• Deuteronomy 2317-18, Homosexuality is an
  abomination to the Lord of Hosts.
• 1 Kings 1424, Homosexuality(sodomy) is an
  abomination.
• Romans 124, Homosexuality dishonors your own
  body.
• Romans126, Lesbianism is a vile affection.

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Lesbianism ...is against nature.

• Romans 127, Homosexuality is unseemly
• Romans 128, Homosexuality is the fruit of a
  reprobate mind.
• 1 Cor. 69, Effeminate (male prostitutes NIV)
  and abusers of them- selves with mankind
  (homosexuals NAS) shall not inherit the kingdom
  of God

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE!
• The authorial intent of this sentence is that it
  is an absolute statement. If everything is
  relative, then this sentence is part of
  everything and is itself relative. Then it
  negates itself.

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES!
• This sentence is intended to be an absolute
  statement. If there are no absolutes, then this
  sentence is not absolute and it negates itself
  and means nothing!

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG!
• The major assumption behind this sentence is that
  the person saying it is claiming he or she is
  right in saying that there is no right or wrong!
  Again, we have a statement that negates itself.

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• WHOS TO SAY?
• This sentence intends to silence someone who is
  taking a position. In other words, You have no
  right to say that! This negates itself, if no
  one has a right to take a position, then no one
  has a right to say Whos to say? because that
  is taking a position!

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THE FOUR DEADLY QUESTIONS

• 1. What do you mean by that?
• 2. How do you know that is true?
• 3. Where do you get your information?
• 4. What happens if you are wrong die?
• Example You say you do not believe in God? What
  do you mean by God? What do you mean by believe?

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IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES AND ASSUMPTIONS DETERMINE
CONCLUSIONS

• You interpret what you see based on what you
  already believe (assume).
• - - Age of moon rocks - -
• BELIEVING IS SEEING
• I am an atheist and an evolutionist. (since I
  believe, assume, God does not exist I also
  believe, assume, Evolution is true.)

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ASSUMPTIONS DETERMINE CONCLUSIONS

• When talking with an atheist, dont tell him/her
  how stupid they are for not acknowledging the
  existence of God, but ask him/her Why do you
  believe in Atheism?
• What evidence did you find that convinced you
  that God does not exist?

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• Is there any kind of evidence about the reality
  of God that I might share with you that you might
  consider?
• You do not claim to know everything about
  everything, so could God possibly exist in the
  sphere of things that you do not know?
• This same Atheist may tell you that language has
  no inherent meaning.
• This is called POSTMODERN DECONSTRUCTIONISM.

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DECONSTRUCTIONISM

• Simple Def. Language means what it means to
  youno absolute meaning.
• Ask a Deconstructionist Well, if language has
  no inherent meaning then do your statements mean
  anything?
• Prof., if words have no inherent mean- ing, then
  why should I buy your textbook or listen to your
  lectures? Does a red stop sign have any meaning
  for you?

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DECONSTRUCTIONISM IS A PART OF POSTMODERNISM

• Postmodernism is a worldview.
• Postmodernists believe that truth is created by
  the life story of the individual.
• A Postmodernist might say, I have my truth and
  you have your truth.
• In other words in a certain sense you create
  your own reality. No absolute truth.
• Quite similar to New Age in this respect.

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• Humanists, Marxists, etc., say God is dead, or
  Man is God.
• Postmodernists agree with Humanists and Marxists
  that God is dead, but go one step farther and
  say of any piece of literature, art or music The
  author is dead!
• If the author is a product of his/her time,
  culture, language, etc., and he/she is deadthen
  it is impossible for the reader of their text to
  get into their head and understand their
  intentions.
• There is then no authoritative interpretation of
  any text. The meaning is determined by the reader
  of the text!

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Bill Honsberger, honzl_at_msn.com says

• What then replaces the authors intent,
  unknowable to us all? Well what is left is
  different versions of what is called reader
  response theory. What this means is that the
  reader of the text brings to the text their
  communitys values, language games, experiences,
  ethical concerns or lack thereof.

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Bill Honsberger, honzl_at_msn.com says

• The question then for example is not What was
  the Apostle Paul trying to say when he speaks
  about propitiation in Romans 3?, but rather
  What do I/we think Paul was saying based on our
  communitys values and concerns. So one might
  answer (and they have) that as a lesbian,
  feminist community our understanding of the Bible
  is based on our values and understanding and we
  say that Paul is a homophobic, sexist,
  patriarchal evil white man, who was seeking power
  over us with his claims to truth.

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Bill Honsberger, honzl_at_msn.com says

• I think there is a direct connection between
  Nietzsches death of God and the Pomo writers
  death of the author. In both cases there is a
  denial of any authority (no truth giver) which or
  who sits above that of the autonomous human (the
  singular man in Existentialism and the community
  of humans in PostModern circles) and therefore
  all we are left with is the much tamer opinion or
  perspective. This is easily dis-missed since all
  have perspectives and no per-spective is any
  closer to an alleged truth than any other.

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THE BIBLE IS OBJECTIVE, CERTAIN TRUE TRUTH!

• Postmodernists claim that there is no objective,
  certain, clear, authoritative truth.
• Notice that they must use words that are clearly
  understood and objective and authoritative to
  make their claim.
• Postmodernists disconnect from reality.
• The ultimate end of postmodern thought is that
  the Bible has no meaning of its own.

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POSTMODERNISM PENETRATES CHRISTIANITY VIA THE
EMERGING CHURCH.

• The Emerging Church movement claims to be
  exiting Modernism.
• Modernism is seen as a synonym for the
  Enlightenment thought of 17th -19th century
  Europe.
• Enlightenment, now called Modernism has been an
  obstacle to church growth, so says the
  evangelists of the Emerging church

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• The Emerging Church claims that Modernism
  (European Enlightenment Thought) was concerned
  with
• Truth
• Certainty
• Individualism
• Colonialism
• Objectivity
• Ethical absolutes
• And a host of other evils.
• Postmodernism rejects all of the above!

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• The cure for the problems in The Church (of
  historical Christianity), according to prominent
  Emerging Church writers, is to adapt to and
  accept the worldview and values of the
  predominant postmodern culture.
• In other words, to minister to the postmodern
  culture we Christians must, to a great extent,
  live out the postmodern value system ourselves.
  We must become all things to all people.

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HANG ON A MINUTE.

• 1 Corinthians 922
• To the weak became I as weak, that I might
  gain the weak I am made all things to all men,
  that I might by all means save some.
• Is the Apostle Paul saying in this verse that
  he would live out the Postmodern lifestyle to win
  postmodernists to the Gospel?

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I am made all things to all men,

• Is Paul saying, I will become an alcoholic to
  minister to alcoholics?
• I will become a drug addict to minister to drug
  addicts.
• I will become a fornicator to minister to
  fornicators.
• I will become a heretic to minister to
  heretics.
• I will deny the absolute Truth of the Bible to
  minister to Postmodernists.

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• It is unfortunate that the phrase all things to
  all men (1 Cor. 922) has been used and abused
  by the world and made to mean what Paul did not
  intend for it to mean. Paul was not a chameleon
  who changed his message and methods with each new
  situation. Nor was Paul a compromiser who
  adjusted his message to please his audience. He
  was an ambassador, not a politician! Wiersbe, W.
  W. 1996, c1989. The Bible Exposition Commentary.
  "An exposition of the New Testament comprising
  the entire 'BE' series"--Jkt. Victor Books
  Wheaton, Ill.

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1 Corinthians 88-13

• But meat commendeth us not to God for neither,
  if we eat, are we the better neither, if we eat
  not, are we the worse. 9 But take heed lest by
  any means this liberty of yours become a
  stumblingblock to them that are weak. 10 For if
  any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat
  in the idols temple, shall not the conscience of
  him which is weak be emboldened to eat those
  things which are offered to idols 11 And through
  thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for
  whom Christ died? 12 But when ye sin so against
  the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye
  sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my
  brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the
  world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

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• The primary purpose of Pauls not taking full
  advantage of his Christian liberty was that he
  might win the more. He deeply believed that he
  who is wise wins souls (Prov. 1130) and was
  willing to do anything and to sacrifice anything
  to win people to Jesus Christ. As far as his
  rights were concerned he was free from all men,
  but because of his love for all men he would
  gladly limit those rights for their sakes. He
  had, figuratively, become a slave to all. He
  would modify his habits, his preferences, his
  entire lifestyle if any of those things caused
  someone to stumble, to be offended, or to be
  hindered from faith in the Lord. MacArthur, J.
  1996, c1984. 1 Corinthians. Includes indexes.
  Moody Press Chicago

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I am made all things to all men,

• What Paul means by this statement is that he will
  voluntarily restrain himself from certain
  freedoms he has in Christ so as to not offend a
  weaker brother!
• He is not saying that he would become a
  Postmodernist in order to witness to a
  Postmodernist!
• Paul would not support the Emerging Church.

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POSTMODERNISTS CLAIM

• There are no truths which apply to all of us.
• There are no absolute moral standards.
• There are no absolute ethical concerns.
• There is no God.
• There are personal opinions.
• There are personal perspectives.
• See the writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard,
  Ricouer, Foucault, Rorty, Baudrillard, etc.
• Most Postmodernist thinkers are/were
  disillusioned Marxists.

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• Disillusioned Marxists became PostModernists and
  now gain strength through Multiculturalism and
  its stepchild, Political Correctness, which is
  rightly labeled, Cultural Marxism.
• Marx and Lenin taught that, given the chance,
  European workers would overthrow capitalist
  governments and replace them with communism.
• But after the Russian revolution of 1917 the
  Western European workers did not support the
  Communist revolution or ideas.
• Why not?

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• Christianity and its moral and ethical absolutes
  was the roadblock to the expansion of Marxism.
• This roadblock was noticed by two Marxist
  theorists in 1919 Italian, Antonio Gramsci and
  Hungarian, Georg Lukacs.
• These two men decided that the spread of
  Communism could only be accomplished if Western
  Christian culture was destroyed.
• So Lukacs introduced sex education into the
  public schools of Hungary,1919, believing that if
  children knew more about sex their lust for it
  would overpower their Christian morals!

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• So Gramsci and Lukacs laid the groundwork to
  change communism from economic terms (ownership
  of private property is evil) into cultural terms.
  (tolerance, sex ed, drug ed, etc.)
• Then in 1923 at Frankfurt University in Germany
  the Institute for Social Research was
  establishedThe Frankfurt School.
• The Frankfurt School moved to New York City in
  1933 when Hitler came to power.
• Theorists like Wilhelm Reich, Eric Fromm, Max
  Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, etc.

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• The Frankfurt School invented Critical Theory
  which had the goal of demonizing all traditional
  institutions such as family, fatherhood,
  patriotism, Bible-believing churches, etc.
• The Frankfurt School published Studies in
  Prejudice which taught that anyone who believes
  in traditional Western Christian culture is
  prejudiced, a racist or sexist or fascist
  or is mentally unstable.
• Mixing Freud with Marx, they perfected the
  technique of psychological conditioningthus, for
  example, TV shows Homosexualsnormal.
• TVChristians are crazy, intolerant fools

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• For example see The Humanist magazine, Nov/Dec
  1987
• Featured cover article Christianity and Mental
  Health A Psychotherapist looks at how
  Christianity may harm mental health, by Dr.
  Wendell Watters.
• The picture on the cover is of a church with a
  person on the psychiatrists couch and an
  all-wise-looking psychiatrist doing the
  counselling.

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• Herbert Marcuse, working with Hollywood friends,
  became a leading evangelist of Cultural Marxism
  (Political Correctness) especially on the
  university campuses of USA.
• In his book Eros and Civilization, he argued
  that by freeing sex from any restraints, we could
  elevate the pleasure principle over the reality
  principle and create a society with no work, only
  play (Marcuse coined the phrase, Make love, not
  war). Marcuse also argued for what he called
  liberating tolerance, which he defined as
  tolerance for all ideas coming from the Left and
  intolerance for any ideas coming from the

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• Right. In the late 1960s Marcuse became the
  chief guru of the New Left, and he injected the
  cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School into the
  baby boom generation, to the point where it is
  now Americas state ideology.
• The next conservatism should unmask multicul-
  turalism and Political Correctness and tell the
  American people what they really are cultural
  Marxism. Its goal remains that Lukacs and Gramsci
  set in 1919 destroying Western culture and the
  Christian religion. see Wm. Lind, Cultural
  Marxism The Schwarz Report, vol. 46, No. 4, p 4.
  www.schwarzreport.org

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PSALM 197-9

• The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the
  soul the testimony of the Lord is sure, making
  wise the simple.
• The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the
  heart the commandment of the Lord is pure
  enlightening the eyes.
• The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever
  the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous
  altogether.

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HOW DID WE GET TO NOW?

• Acts 17 to 1636 read Faith and Freedom by Ben
  Hart and Understanding the Times, by Dr. David
  Noebel
• 1636 John Harvard and Thomas Sheppherd founded
  Harvard University as an Evangelical Christian
  College
• 1691 John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding
  (Root of French Revolution)

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1805 Harvard goes Unitarian (Jesus is not God
denial of the Trinity)

• 1839 Horace Mann (a Unitarian) establishes
  government-sponsored education (Public Education)
  in Mass.
• 1848 Karl Marx publishes the Political Economy.
  Main idea is Socialism and Private Property is
  Evil.
• 1859 Charles Darwin, Origin of Species by Means
  of Natural Selection or the Preservation of
  Favored Races

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in the Struggle for Life (EVOLUTION 1859!)

• 1859 Marx and Engels, Das Capitol (Socialism
  and abolition of private property)
• 1859 Richard Wagner, Tristan and Isolde
  (Immorality and Materialism)
• 1860-1900 Nietzche, (God is Dead, Nihilism no
  meaning to life)
• IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!

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1929 First Humanist Church of N. Y. City
Established by Charles Francis Potter

• 1930 John Dewey Atheist, Humanist, Pres. of
  The League for Industrial Demo., Public Education
  Secular Humanism
• 1933 Humanist Manifesto I
• 1934 A Common Faith, John Dewey, Pub. by Yale U.
  Press Humanism is a RELIGIOUS FAITH

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THE 1960S

• Mad Magazine and Johnny Carson There is nothing
  sacred!!!!
• Frank Sinatra I did it my way.
• Debbie Boone How can it be wrong when it feels
  so right?
• Invictus I am the master of my fate, I am the
  captain of my soul.

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1961 (Torcaso vs Watkins) Humanism a religion
protected by 1st amendment (501c 3)

• 1962 (Engel vs Vitale) Prayer banned
• 1963 (Abington vs Schempp) Bible read- ing
  forbidden in schools.
• 1968 (Epperson vs Arkansas) Laws against
  teaching Evolution now unconstitutional
• 1973 Humanist Manifesto 2 Roe v Wade
• 1980 (Stone vs Graham) 10 commandments out of
  schools

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1982 (McLean vs Arkansas) Law mandating creation
and evolution banned

• 1987 (Aguillard vs Edwards)
• God is out of USA!
• 2003TX law against sodomy overturned
  Homosexuality is in!!
• 2005Euthanasia is in (Florida-Terri Schiavo).

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FAMILIES OF AMERICA

• WE MUST REPENT OF OUR SINFUL AND REBELLIOUS WAYS
  (ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY TO NAME TWO) or our
  country will be destroyed by the Holy and
  Righteous Lord Jesus Christ who gave up His life
  to cleanse us of all sin.

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ROMANS 58

• But God commendeth His love toward us, in that
  while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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ROMANS 109

• That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
  Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
  God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be
  saved.