Liberalism Definition

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened. *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, “I guess I’m making the whole thing up.” It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn’t want God to rule over him.

When you look up the word, Liberalism, in the dictionary, you get a definition that is very different from the generally accepted connotation of the word. The whole concept of Liberal versus Conservative can be mind-boggling. For that reason, this explanation of the dictionary definition of liberalism is provided. Also for this reason, SeekFind.net has made every effort to use the commonly understood meaning rather than the dictionary meaning.

We got a letter from a woman who claimed to be a liberal Christian and claiming that we were bashing liberal Christians. We are not bashing anyone. We are trying to communicate clearly. It would seem that this Christian woman is not a liberal by our definition, because, if she were a liberal "Christian" by our definition, then she would not be offended. She would simply defend her mindset. She would say, "The Bible is out of date." She would say, "My mind can determine who God is and what He is all about, what He will judge, and what He will bless." So, before you decide that SeekFind.net is picking on you, read the definition below and see if you are a liberal by our definition of the word.

"A political theory founded on the natural goodness of humans," but Jesus said, "There's none good but God." Many Scriptures say that there is not a just man on earth, there is not even one who does good. This theory is based on no evidence at all. As with the theory of evolution, the theory of liberalism is based on a simple-minded declaration.

"... autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties," and yet it is the liberals who are trying to take away liberty to declare faith in God. The only liberty they seem to be favoring is the liberty to be free from God and His righteousness.

"... government by law with the consent of the governed," although, in the United States, the liberals are very much into coercion and ultimate power over the individual. They like the idea of law with the consent of the governed so long as they can control all the media and all the education and all the grant money.

"... protection from arbitrary authority." This meaning has no relationship to liberal thought in the 21st century.

"An economic theory in favor of laissez-faire, the free market, and the gold standard." This is a lie. The liberals seek to restrict the market. They seek socialism if they can't have communism. They seek that which has repeatedly lead to totalitarianism and oppression.

Recently, the power of the liberal press has been brought to bear by reversing this definition. Now, according to the press, in America, a liberal pushes for creating more people who depend on the government and are not independent, but in the former Soviet Union, a liberal is just the opposite. This introduces a confusion to the discussion. The press is made up of professional communicators and persuaders. It would be inconceivable that they would create such a confusion by accident. They also have begun calling the pro-communists forces, "conservatives" in the former Soviet Union. Yet, the conservatives in the United States are anti-communist, while the liberals have been pro-communist in the United States. In a similar way, they have tried to say that Adolf Hitler, a communist, was right wing. But right wing is the term that means anti-Communist and left wing is the term that means communist. Left wing is a synonym for liberal.

Liberalism refers to the tenets of the New Age religion. These tenets are also known as the new morality or political correctness. Proponents of the New Age religion aren’t required to follow all the tenets, but they choose the ones they want. In fact, the prime commandment of the New Age is, "Do as thou wilt." The various tenets are not required to be consistent with each other. New Age zealots have no problem believing two or more diametrically opposed ideas at the same time. In fact this inconsistency is considered to be very "intellectual." New Age gurus can change the tenets at any time, and various gurus can have quite widely divergent tenets.

In theological circles, the term, liberalism, is sometimes applied to those who pick and choose which parts of the Bible they will accept. It is also applied to the tendency to add rationalized speculation to the Bible truth.

Liberalism Definition

How can we know anything about anything

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