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table, eating the crumbs that may occasionally fdl from that
table. This view of the relationship between the saved and the
lost in history is the reverse of what the Bible teaches: “Then
came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he
answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread,
and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs
eat of the crumbs which fhll from their masters’ table. Then
Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy fhith:
be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made
whole from that very hour” (Matt. 15:25-28). Because modern
fundamentalism has reversed the biblical worldview in this
regard, it promotes a despair similar to that which is promoted
by the humanists’ view of the Iower-storey world of science and
technology. It destroys freedom under God.
The Upper Storey
To escape this inherent despair, fundamentalists have turned
to their own version of the humanists’ escape hatch: an upperstorey
universe. This upper storey is the world of faith, expectation,
and hope: the heavenly realm. It is a hope in heaven - a
world above and beyond this world of Christian powerlessness
and defeat. With respect to this world, there is a preliminary
way of escape: the Christian family and the local church. In
other words, Christians find solace in the time that remains
after the work day is over and on weekends. This world of
tempora~ rest and recreation - a realm of exclusively individual
healing - does not and cannot heal the State or society in general.
God’s healing is limited to individual souls, families, and
churches. Why? We are never told precisely; it just is. 5
5. A growing number of Christians now contend that God’s healing can work in
education, too. This has split churches all over the nation. The idea that Christians
need to start their own private schools, pulling their children out of the humanistic,
tax-supported, officially “neutral” public schools, is regarded as a heresy by most
Christians, who continue to tithe their children to the Moloch State.