God’s which rule our lives!
Throughout all ages school of thought which effect man’s outlook on life have arisen. School’s of though and philosophy which are in grave error with the Bible. Right before and during the time of Christ it was Greek philosophy. During the medieval ages it was a type of mysticism and magic somewhat influenced by Greek ideals and philosophy. During the renaissance it was a revival of Greek thought and humanism. And later during the 1800’s to the 1900’s it was humanism and the supremacy of science which ruled. During all of these periods we find that Theologians and the Church tried to fit these philosophies in with the Bible. The effects of these which can still be felt and seen to a degree nowadays.
You might say, these schools of thought in a way were elevated to the degree of god. And naturally when seeing the rule and prevalence of these philosophies one might say that. So what is the current philosophy god that is rampant today? I would say he goes by two names. Relativism and Tolerance and yet if you throw of these god’s cloaks you will find one god. His name would be Emotion. Emotion is the God which creates and has created all those other god’s. And as in Greek mythology there is a hierarchy to these gods(now please do not accuse me of falling pray to what I am writing about. I am using the greek god’s hierarchy as an analogy to what I am explaining and not deriving my life philosophy around greek poly-theism. Thank you.) These groups of duo gods serve tanother god called Emotion. The difference now is that instead of declaring their laws in the name of philosophy they just declare them directly in the name of Emotion or his alias Feelings.
If you look at the theologians during the renaissance they shaped their theology based on the incoming philosophies of humanism and the prevalent Greek philosophy. During the 1800 and 1900 hundreds the Church and leading theologians again gave way to the current gods and started trying to fit in the current science and humanist schools of thought into their theology ( I always find this funny because the views of humanism and science where at the heart trying to destroy Christianity more then ever). You would find pastors trying to say that the first 6 chapters in Genesis allow for evolution. Well, we today are still doing it, we are still allowing the current philosophical god to direct our philosophies.
We base everything that we do based on tolerance of others viewpoints. We say that everything is relative so that I can worship in the way I want and you can worship how you want. God is now concept based on what how we feel and He would never do anything or have any rules or that would make us feel bad or inhibit us from feeling good. We won’t go to a worship service or worship in anyway that doesn’t give us a good feeling. We pick all our movies, music, house, dress, accessories, car, philosophies, theology, principles, convictions etc. etc. based on how they make us feel. This god emotion has even twisted two types of love into self serving emotions. Love of friends now means “not ever making them feel bad and them not ever making me feel bad”. The Love that is supposed to be found in a marriage for your other spouse has been turned into wanting someone that makes me feel good all the time when I am around them.
Now this god called emotion has a very real enemy named Truth. You have heard the phrase “the truth hurts?” And when you also look at this closely you find that these gods of relativism, tolerance, and emotion are as direct enemies of God that you could possibly ever find. Why? Because God is Truth and Truth is God. “I am the way, THE TRUTH, and the life.” Yes, these gods are diametrically opposed to the true and only God.
In reality Emotion is not the top dog or god. He is the guardian of two twin brothers called Pride and Self. And we all know that these two twin brothers reside in us and are always bucking for control. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not entirely against Emotion. It is just that emotion has usurped his natural position and bloated himself up as being more important then he should be. Emotion and his brother Conscience were given to us to enhance life and not dictate it. You see when in balance conscience is a monitor and emotion is supposed to be an enhancer of life and the messenger for the conscience (For instance when we sin the conscience tell the emotion to make us FEEL guilty or bad). But when Emotion is pushed up and elevated as guardian of pride and self, we then have a war break out. Conscience starts getting active and hurts Emotion in order to try and bring him back to his natural position as an enhancer of life. Emotion then says “NO” and then we start to remove anything in our lives that makes us feel bad or uncomfortable.
So my question is this. Are there areas in your life where the philosophy and god Emotion dictate the rules. Where you are ignoring and allowing something that should not be there simply because it makes you feel good. Are you ignoring a friend’s advice or a pastor’s exhortation because it makes you feel bad. Have you not incorporated a rule or conviction simply because you believe that if you did you would not enjoy or feel as good? Do you base your theology, principles and view of God based on how you feel? I know I have done this often, and we need to take Truth and put emotion back where it belongs as an enhancer of life.
Thank you for reading my ramblings!
posted by Chris Ong @ 11:53 AM
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