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186 <strong>Liberating</strong> Pihet <strong>Earth</strong> God. It isn’t possible to ramrod God’s blessings from the top down, unless you’re God. Only humanists think that man is God. All we’re trying to do is get the ramrod away from them, and melt it down. The melted ramrod could then be used to make a great grave marker for humanism: “The God That Failed.” The Continuing Heresy of Dualism Many (of course, not all!) of the objections to the material in this book series will come from people who have a worldview that is ve~ close to an ancient church problem: dualism. A lot of wellmeaning Christian people are dualists, although they don’t even know what it is. Dualism teaehes that the world is inherently divided: spirit vs. matter, or law vs. mercy, or mind vs. matter, or nature vs. grace. What the Bible teaches is that this world is divided ethz2a@ and @rsonally: Satan vs. God, right vs. wrong. The conflict between God and Satan will end at the final judgment. Whenever Christians substitute some other form of dualism for ethical dualism, they fall into heresy and suffer the consequences. That’s what has happened today. We are suffering fmm revived versions of ancient heresies. Marct”ont Dualism The Old Testament was written by the same God who wrote the New Testament. There were not two Gods in history, meaning there was no dualism or radical split between the two testamental periods. There is only one God, in time and eternity. This idea has had opposition throughout church history. An ancient two-Gods heresy was first promoted in the church about a century after Christ’s crucifixion, and the church has always regarded it as just that, a heresy. It was proposed by a man named Marcion. Basically, this heresy teaches that there are two completely different law systems in the Bible: Old Testament law and New Testament law (or non-law). But Marcion took the logic of his position all the way. He argued that two law systems means two Gods. The God of wrath wrote the Old Testament, and the God of mercy wrote the New Testament. In short: “two laws-two Gods.”
What Are Biblical Blueprints? 187 Many Christians still believe something dangerously close to Marcionism: not a two-Gods view, exactly, but a God-whochanged-all-His-rules sort of view. They begin with the accurate teaching that the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament were fulfilled by Christ, and therefore that the unchangz”ngprinc@les of Biblical worship are applied dij%ent~ in the New Testament. But then they erroneously conclude that the whole Old Testament system of civil law was dropped by God, and nothing Biblical was put in its place. In other words, God created a sort of vacuum for state law. This idea turns civil law-maldng over to Satan. In our day, this means that civil law-makhg is turned over to humanists. Christziws have unwitting~ become the philosophical allies of the humanists with respect to civil law. With respect to their doctrine of the state! therefore, most Christians hold what is in effect a two-Gods view of the Bible. Gnosticism Dualism Another ancient heresy that is still with us is Gnosticism. It became a major threat to the early church almost from the begin ning. It was also a form of dualism, a theory of a radical split. The gnostics taught that the split is between evil matter and goocl spirit. Thus, their goal was to escape this material world through other-worldly exercises that punish the body. They believed in retreat j-em the world of human conjlicts and responsibility. Some of these ideas got into the church, and people started doing ridiculous things. One “saint” sat on a platform on top of a pole for several decades. This was considered very spiritual. (Who fed him? Who cleaned up after him?) Thus, many Christians came to view “the world” as something permanently outside the khgdom of God. They believed that this hostile, forever-evil world cannot be redeemed, reformed, and reconstructed. Jesus didn’t really die for it, and it can’t be healed. At best, it can be subdued by power’(maybe). This dualistic view of the world vs. God’s kingdom narrowly restricted any earthly manifestation of God’s kingdom. Christians who were influenced by Gnosticism concluded that God’s kingdom refers only to the insti-
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LIBERATING PLANET EARTH
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1 CHRIST AND LIBERATION All things
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Chtit and Liberation heart, soul, a
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Christ and Liberation 21 ever there
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Chrzkt and Liberation 23 Adam was a
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2 THE GOD OF LIBERATION God spoke a
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The Enemies of Liberation 49 or God
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10 THE INEVITABILITY OF LIBERATION
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