One Of The Main Tenets Of Post Modernism, The New Liberal Doctrine, Is Message Control.
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 you 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 you 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."
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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 another case of just 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.
One of the main tenets of Post Modernism, the new Liberal doctrine, is message control. Under post-modernism, there are no absolutes; truth not only doesn't matter, but, under post modernism, truth does not exist. This concept is also known as relativism--the opposite of fundamentalism. Liberals love to say, "Everything is relative." If everything were relative, then truth doesn't exist and life is about winning. And that is exactly where the trail ends for the Liberal religion. The meaning of life is winning. The purpose of life is getting what you want, pleasure, money, entertainment, fun, recognition, fame and fortune. And that is where message control enters in.
message control is essential to winning. If the liberals are going to win, they must control all communication. Al Gore made a terrible mistake when he "invented the Internet," but Liberals are struggling to bring the Internet under liberal control so they can give the message of liberalism as the only message.
Since the 1960s, the liberals have made hugh sacrifices and dominate every form of communication. If there is a method of communication, the liberals control it or are trying to gain control of it. There are some areas where liberals are, for various reasons, having trouble gaining control and these are discussed later in this article.
The schools were a major target for liberals and they have spent a huge amount of effort coercing Christians and other non-liberals out of education. They literally drive non-liberal teachers from the schools and universities to control what children will be taught.
Hollywood has made every effort to get rid of any non-liberal actor, director, or other major player. The effort is to have only liberal plays, movies, dramas, comedies, and documentaries. The entertainment industry is an area where the liberals have a strangle-hold, and how they reacted in anger to a movie that depicted Christ with respect!
The entertainment angle is particularly deceptive, because even the "nice" shows have a theme, a deep liberal theme. Every drama becomes a chance to make use of the natural trance state of TV to sell some Liberal point. Liberals learned long ago that there are many of their ideas that just don't work in real life. Not to worry, write a play or TV script. In the land of make-believe anything can work. Fiction is great for proving liberal points that could be proven in no other way. And, fortunately for the liberals, American Christians are addicted to entertainment. Those who are wise should take warning.
The music industry has proven to be a powerful persuader. Music itself can carry the liberal message without words. In fact, much of what is called Christian Music is actually new age, if not in word, in spirit.
Most of the book publishers and book reviewers are liberals, so a non-liberal book will be ignored.
The early effort to gain control of the scientific community, scientific journals, etc. has paid off well for liberals, but it has greatly compromised the integrity of what is called "science." Now, any non-liberal paper is routinely screened out. Non-liberal teachers are removed from universities, and, increasingly, college degrees are merely certificates of political correctness held by individuals who have been educated into ignorance. Evolutionism and global warming are sold as if they had evidence, which they do not.
The news media was an obvious area where liberals gained control quickly and now control virtually all major media outlets: TV, Newspapers, Magazines with few exceptions. The news industry has been very successful in drumming out any non-liberals. ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS, PBS, The New York Times, and literally every major news source other than Fox News is controlled by the Left wing and will get rid of any non-liberals. Fox is pretty much a mix of Liberals and non-liberals and the liberals are angry that Fox has let non-liberals work in the industry. Liberals are trying to do something about Fox because they want no non-liberals reporting the news.
The news media has been trading credibility against the opportunity to persuade the public and, so, gain political power. The 2004 election almost put Dan Rather and others out of business. Only about 30% of all people believe they are getting unbiased news from these liberal news sources, but most liberals think that the news media elite are unbiased.
As the Communists did in Russia, the American liberals know that they need to have absolute control of communication. As the Communists in China will kill a woman for handing out Bibles in the market place, so the liberals in America know that they need to hold tight message control. Much of the Liberal so-called election reform has actually been an attempt to muzzle all non-liberals. Liberals have open minds, but only to liberal ideas.
There are a few lines of communication that are still open, but liberals are working to close them up. Radio talk shows have been a great opportunity for non-liberals to have at least some voice, and many non-liberals now get all their news from talk radio.
Accusations that are totally unfounded are presented as if they had credibility, but only if those accusations are against a Christian or even any who seem to be non-liberal. When as many as three-hundred witnesses attest to something, it is carefully screened from the news as not newsworthy, because it is something that would blow the whistle on liberalism. Wild claims and liberal mantras are carried around as if they were news and as if they were proof of liberal ideas. Information is censored if it shows how silly liberalism really is. Then, enormous effort is put forth to try to say that the liberal news media is not liberal. Since, to these liberals, absolutism is a terrible thing, these types of misrepresentation are just part of playing the game. Predictably, Christians are listening to these empty voices less as they come to understand the intent and purpose of the news casts.
Another source for non-liberal news has been the Internet with great news services such as MRC.org, ICR.org, NewsMax.com, and CNSNews.com. On the internet, you get your news faster, more to the point, and when you want it. And you don't have to listen to lies.
Email has been another great source, although it is easy for Liberals to put out false emails that sound credible in order to make it harder to discern truth from fiction. In addition, websites that are supposed to be watch dog organizations, like snopes.com, can tend to lean left and just slightly twist their analysis, making themselves like CNN and CBS.
So, beware of worldly counselors.
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Last updated: Nov, 2011
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