Imagine an automobile, with all of its principal parts masterfully assembled by the mechanic. Every piece of metal or material comes together, affecting another, and with none doing the work of the other.
… Sin’s Relational Destruction, and the Gospel’s Restoration
Who is Man? What’s his nature? Is he primarily a spirit who has a soul living in a body or is he a living soul? Is he merely material or more?
One persistent objection raised against Christianity by ‘Pan-Africanists’ is that African Christians serve a foreign God, a white man’s Wanga. To them, Christianity is nothing more than a medium of residual cultural imperialism and neo-colonialism.
One of the most formative theological books I ever read is Luther’s De Servo Arbitrio or merely The Bondage of the Will. You may accuse Luther of barbaric arrogance, to which he would humbly admit, but you cannot fail to concede to the forcefulness of the argument he makes in this masterpiece.
This last Sunday, while preaching on 1 John 2:3-14, Pastor Bobby (of North Shore Community Baptist Church in Beverly South Hamilton MA) hinted on how Christianity (and the gospel) does not offer us just another item to add to the list of activities we already have. He mentioned that for most people, the invitation to a personal relationship with God looks just like that, an additional item on their ‘to-do-list.’
Eternal life, according to Jesus in John 17:3, is the knowledge of the Triune God. If this is so, then our eternal vocation is to know God and enjoy Him forever. Also, if this holds true, then our endeavors here on earth must be to know Him as much as we can, with a singular and simple focus.
In Part 1 of these series, I introduced IYF with a brief survey of their practices and teachings. I hoped to delve deeper into their mind control propaganda as narrated by those who attended IYF’s camps.
The International Youth Fellowship (IYF), is an organization founded by Ock Soo Park in 1995, in South Korea, with the aim of taking ‘full charge of problems of the youth.’ According to their official website iyf.org, its roots go back to the July 1995’s ‘first South Korea-U.S Combined Youth Camp.’
Relativism always begins with an appearance of wisdom. ‘Has God indeed said?’ (Gen 3:1). Relativism is the craftiest demonstration of folly. It questions the absolute truth of God, thereby relativizing His absolute decrees. ‘Has God said?’ is another way of saying, subtly ‘that is God’s opinion, I have my own which differs from His, and you know what; so, should you too!’
Man, here am I!
But from whence, and what am I?
A mere speck of dust, a figment of mind?
A mindless mixture of mind and matter
Am I pure mind or pure matter?
If I am pure matter, does it matter?
And if a pure mind, must I never mind?
