kosta: how do you know your God is the true God and theirs is not?
Spirited: Paul tells us that there are only two foundations for all religions and/or belief systems. He defines them like this: either you will worship and serve (mindless) nature or you will worship and serve the (personal, living, rational) Creator of nature.
Under the first heading falls all nature religions and practices such as witchcraft, divination, alchemy, necromancy, Hermeticism, theosophy, animism, astrology, shamanism, the Ancient Mystery religions, atheist Buddhism, atheist materialism (reinvented animism), green environmentalism and New Age (animism, spiritism, brazen satanism, occult).
Common to all of these systems, whether religious or slyly defined as science, is the denial the living, personal Creator and the denial of being. Being-—mankind’s individual psychic endowments—have been transferred to nature, whether it be called Gaia, Elan Vitale, the Force, absolute spirit, atheist-evolutionism, omnipotent chance and natural selection, the sun, moon, stars (astrology), memes, thinking matter, and so forth. In this view, man is merely a part of mindless nature. And as Herme’s magic formula says: As above so below. This means that if ‘above’ is mindless nature, then below is mindless man.
It is not that the personal, rational, living Creator is ‘our God,’ as you mistakenly framed the issue. It is that though He is the Creator of everything and everyone, from the very beginning, many have chosen to reject Him.
This means that from the beginning, there have always been two general categories of men: those who willingly seek Truth, to which they will submit, and those who willfully choose not to, for they elevate ‘autonomous self’ above all. These two categories can be further characterized like this: Those who seek the living, personal Creator and those who feel more comfortable speaking of impersonal, irrational energies, forces, and spirit/soul.
The Christians taking part in this Great Debate are seekers of Truth, hence seekers of the living, personal Creator. He, and He alone do we worship and serve.
All others seek not Truth but self-delusion and personal power. In this category are for example, Nimrod, the Pharoahs, Caligula, Nero, Hegel, Comte, Nechaev, Bakunin, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Hitler, Jung, Mao, Che, Castro and the legions who have essentially worshipped and served them.
Tell me, since you are so smart, is that according to his will, or against it?
You left out Obama.
Thank you so much for your wonderful insights, dear sister in Christ!