God Loves Freedom
of Conscience
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“Congress
shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise
thereof.” US Constitution,
Amendment 1.
Freedom of
Conscience and the Constitution
God loves freedom
of conscience. What is freedom of
conscience? Just that, a
conscience that is free. Nothing
is dearer to the original
Protestant and Republican
principles of the United States
Constitution than freedom of
conscience.
“The
Constitution of the United States
guarantees liberty of conscience.
Nothing is dearer or more
fundamental. Pope Pius IX, in his
Encyclical Letter of August 15,
1854, said: “The absurd and
erroneous doctrines or ravings in
defense of liberty of conscience
are a most pestilential
error—a pest, of all others,
most to be dreaded in a
state.’ The same pope in his
Encyclical Letter of December 8,
1864, anathematized those who
assert the liberty of conscience
and of religious worship,’
also ‘all such as maintain
that the church may not employ
force.’” GC 564, 565.
When Rome today
speaks of freedom, she is
speaking of freedom of the papacy
to implement its power and
control.
The Test
Freedom of
conscience is the test regarding
the worship of the beast and its
image, the very focus of the
Third Angels’ Message.
The great issue of
the Image of the Beast is the
issue of the Image coercing the
conscience: “And he had
power to give life unto the image
of the beast, that the image of
the beast should both speak, and
cause that as many as would
not worship the image of the
beast should be killed.”
Revelation 13:15. That day is
quickly approaching. What this
verse is speaking about is the
coercion of conscience-the
worship or submission of
conscience to the image of the
beast.
God declares,
“all souls are mine.”
Ezekiel 18:4. However, in the
education of the conscience to
submit to church hierarchy, the
church hierarchy says, “all
souls are mine.”
Your
Baptismal Vow
The issue of soul
freedom is so delicate and must
be preserved so carefully that
God took steps to preserve this
freedom from the very beginning
of discipleship. One greater than
the Temple, has given us our
baptismal vow: “Come out
from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and
touch not the unclean, and I will
receive you, and be a Father unto
you, and ye shall be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord
Almighty.” 2 Corinthians
6:17, 18.
If you do not
depart from iniquity, if you do
not separate your soul from the
miasma and spiritual and moral
confusion all around you, you
will be contaminated, infected,
and lose eternal life. You must
separate. That is your
baptismal vow.
This separation
from the moral, spiritual, and
social confusion of Babylon is
fundamental to country living.
God designed that there be plenty
of personal space, plenty of
family space, around the
soul-space in which the Spirit of
God could have free play, space
in which Christ could be exalted
and His slightest whisper heard.
True
Discipleship The Opposite of
Christogenesis
When Christ calls
a man to follow him, as He did
with Matthew-Levi, the one and
only acceptable response is to
immediately leave all and follow
Him.
Discipleship
Creates Individuality
In accepting the
call of Christ, a man becomes an
individual; because he must leave
all, forsake all, for Christ.
Christ makes him an individual,
an individual connected directly
by faith with a holy God. Christ
makes an immediate breach between
that individual and all else all
the immediacies of life, even the
closet ties with loved ones, are
broken in this breach. In this
way alone is soul freedom and
individuality preserved. From
then on all relations pas through
Him, the Mediator-even the
closest kin. Only through Him do
we have access to the Father.
Only through Him do we have
access to other people.
Diaprax
Destroys Freedom
Diaprax works to
destroy this breach, this
freedom. Thus, diaprax is the
right hand of pantheism, which
seeks to fuse all into a
mind-melt, a unity of mind on a
basis of alienation from Christ.
This is the greatest challenge in
working for the salvation of
souls in our time.
Youth
Ministry is Promoting a Form of
Jesuitical Christogenesis
Current Structure
Youth Ministry on campus is
promoting “fusion”
and “integration”
–the very slogans currently
being used. Thus, the youth
are immersed in Jesuitical
pantheism to accept a version of
Christogenesis, the Teihardian
pantheistic Christ resulting from
the fusion of the minds. The
youth are led to believe that
when they are in a state of mind
fusion with all the other
youth-brought about through rock
music and other such devices,
that then they have Christ.
A Deadly
Pantheistic “Christ”
The submersion of
the self into the pantheistic
mind-melt of group think appears
to provide a solution on the
surface for youth growing up in a
culture of unparalleled
loneliness. However, it is a
deadly solution, for discipleship
is unknown, character is
destroyed, individuality is
eliminated, salvation is
terminated. This form of
collectivism was the basis of the
totalitarianism of Nazism and
Communism.
How We
Know When We Are United With the True
Christ
How do we know
that we are in touch with the
real Christ of the Bible, of the
everlasting gospel, and not some
false Christ? Fundamental and
first of all, all is forsaken for
Christ. There is that irreparable
breach which forbids pantheistic
fusion. We leave all to follow
Him. However, in this process are
further important indicators as
to whether we are in possession
of the true Christ.
How We
Partake of Christ’s Glory
“In this
glory of Christ all His followers
are to share. The Savior could
say: “I seek not Mine own
will, but the will of the Father
which hath sent Me.” John
5:30.” And, “declared
John, the Father giveth not the
Spirit by measure unto
Him.” So with the
followers of Christ. We
can receive of heaven’s
light only as we are willing to
be emptied of self. We can
discern the character of God, and
accept Christ by faith, only as
we consent to the bringing into
captivity of every thought to the
obedience of Christ. To
all who do this, the Holy Spirit
is given without measure. In
Christ “dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily.
And ye are complete in Him.”
Colossians 2: 9,10.” 8T 334.
Here is how we
partake of the purity of Christ
Himself:
1.
“We can receive of
heaven’s light only as we
are willing to be emptied of
self.” Those who are full of
self, those who lust for power,
cannot receive of heaven’s
light. Only those willing to be
emptied of self can receive of
heaven’s light.
2.
“We can discern the
character of God…only as we
consent to the bringing into
captivity of every thought to the
obedience of Christ.”
The only person
who can discern the character of
God is the person who brings
every thought into captivity to
the obedience of Christ.
Therefore, this is the
only person who will ever know if
the Christ he is following is the
true Christ of the Bible.
3.
“We can…accept Christ
by faith, only as we consent to
the bringing into captivity of
every thought to the obedience of
Christ.” Those who
do not bring every thought into
captivity to the true Christ of
the Bible can not
accept Christ by faith.
They have some other pantheistic
“Christ,” like Pierre
Teihard de Chardin created.
The true, Biblical
Christ must be seen as
distinct and separate from all
church hierarchies and groups. If
Martin Luther had not known that
Christ is distinct from the
ecclesiastical hierarchy, and
related to Him independently of
the hierarchy, there never would
have been a Protestant
Reformation. If early Protestants
had not known Christ as distinct
from the church hierarchies and
groups of their times, there
never would have been the Great
Advent Movement and the
completion of the Protestant
Reformation.
Training
the Conscience to Submission to
Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in
Preparation for the Worship of
the Image of the Beast
Conscience
is Above church and State
The principle of
the Protestant Reformation is
that Christ is King, and a
conscience formed in direct
submission to Christ alone, based
on His Word, is supreme over
church and state. This is
the essential feature of
Protestantism. This is the last
issue over which the Great
Controversy will be fought in the
battle over the worship of the
beast and its image.
“The
principles contained in this
celebrated Protest…
constitute the very essence of
Protestantism. Now this Protest
opposes two abuses of man in
matters of faith: the first is
the intrusion of the civil
magistrate, and the second the
arbitrary authority of the
church. Instead of these abuses, Protestantism
sets the power of conscience
above the magistrate, and the
authority of the word of God
above the visible church. In
the first place, it rejects the
civil power in divine things, and
says with the prophets and
apostles, ‘We must obey God
rather than man.’ In
presence of the crown of Charles
the Fifth, it uplifts the crown
of Jesus Christ. However, it goes
farther: it lays down the
principle that all human teaching
should be subordinate to the
oracles of God.” Ibid., b.
13, ch. 6. The protestors
had moreover affirmed their right
to utter freely their convictions
of truth. They would not only
believe and obey, but teach what
the word of God presents, and
they denied the right of priest
or magistrate to interfere.
The Protest of Spires was a
solemn witness against religious
intolerance, and an assertion of
the right of all men to worship
God according to the dictates of
their own consciences.” GC
203.
Eliminating
the Old Conscience Based on the
Authority of God, Replacing It
With a Conscience Formed in
Submission to the Group
Dialectical Praxis
is used wherever it is needed to
break down a soul’s reliance
upon God’s authority and
God’s Word, and re-establish
the soul in harmony with the
“group,” the
“church,” the
“government,” or the
“school.” It is the destruction
of the fundamental principle of
discipleship and the Protestant
Reformation. It is the
implementation of Antonio
Gramsci, the noted Italian
communist theorist, who said that
if communism were to take over
the West it would first
have to eliminate the West’s
reliance upon a transcendent God.
Diaprax eliminates the
soul’s reliance upon the
authority of the transcendent God
of heaven, and re-establishes a
new conscience, re-educated to
submit to the authority of the
“group,” the
“commune,” the church
hierarchy, to Rome.
From
Obedience to God to Pantheism
Dr. Gotcher, who
researched over 600 books on the
topic of dialectical praxis, says
that once a person submits to
Dialectical praxis, only help
from the outside will avail for
deliverance. Diaprax is a
particularly evil form of
spiritualism. In the field of the
Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives, Festinger, Bloom,
Havighurst and Kholberg are
united regarding the stages of
“cognitive moral
development.” In the six
stages laid out by Lisa
Kuhmerker, explaining the
relationship between faith
development and Kohlberg’s
stage model, the individual
progresses from Stage One which
is “obedience to
adults,” and “obedience
to deity” to stage six which
is “Cosmic principle
–pantheism
universality.” (Lisa
Kuhmerker, The Kohlberg Legacy
for the Helping Professions.
[Birmingham: R.E.P. Books, 1991],
p. 161), quoted in Dean Gotcher,
Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives.
Diaprax in
Action
“In order to
effect rapid change, [one] must mount
a vigorous attack on the family
lest the traditions of present
generations be preserved.
It is necessary, in other words, artificially
to create an experimental chasm
between parents and children to
insulate the latter in order that
they can more easily be
indoctrinated with new ideas.”
Warren Bennis, The Temporary
Society, p. 45.
In this way, the
Protestant ways are completely
expunged from society.
Teachers
Trained in Diaprax
Teachers are
trained in these techniques of
dialectical praxis from
Bloom’s Taxonomy of
Educational Objectives: Handbook
I-Cognitive Domain, published in
1956, and then a second book
dealing with the affective domain
(Handbook II: Affective Domain),
in 1964, to bring about the
submission of the conscience,
particularity of dissidents.
These books have become the bible
for contemporary education.
“The Learner Outcomes
required in most states today are
structured directly out of these
books. Therefore, they are
essential reading for anyone
desiring to understand
Outcome-Based Education.”
Dr. Dean Gotcher, Taxonomy of
Educational Objectives [Comments
by Dean Gotcher], Institute for
Authority Research, Tulsa, Ok.
“Universities around the
world now consider the writings
of these Transformational
Marxists (Luckacs, Gransci, and
Korsch) as some of the most
important reading a student can
do if he is going to understand
how the world is to function in
the 21st
century.” Gotcher, Dialectic
& Praxis, p. 14.
“A
Man’s Foes Shall Be They of
His Own Household” Matthew
10:36
Writes Dr.
Gotcher, “These
transformationalists used to come
to us as liberal politicians or
professors. Today they come to us
as our own spouse, our friends,
our teachers, and our
minister…. They are gaining
control over our children, our
spouse, our friends, our
community, our nation, and even
the church. That is why moral
decay (fallout) is multiplying
all around us.” Gotcher,
Dialectic and Praxis, 23.
John Huss
on Authority
Regarding John
Huss, Wylie writes, as Huss
studied the issue of authority,
“This led him to adopt for
their own guidance, and to preach
to others for theirs, the
maxim that the precepts of
Scripture, conveyed through the
understanding, are to rule the
conscience; in other words, that
God speaking in the Bible, and
not the church speaking through
the priesthood, is the one
infallible guide.”
Wylie, b. 3, ch. 2.” GC 102.
Giving Up
One’s Judgment
In the assault of
diaprax, people are often
subjected first to public
vilification and then to massive
dialectical pressure to cave in
and give up their own judgment
and conscience to the group. This
process, continued to its logical
conclusion, would ultimately
result in the reception of the
mark in the forehead, where
the mind has been warped by
dialectical praxis.
These principles
of dialectics were used in
establishing the Soviet Union,
now they are everywhere in
America. There are over 10,000
Marxist professors in over 400
universities now in America
alone. This is one of the reasons
why we are seeing such a
breakdown of moral character. It
is all involved in the process of
preparing America to receive the
worship of the Image of the
Beast.
No Man Is
to Control Your Conscience
But Jesus said,
“Call no man Master.”
“Jesus impressed upon the
people that they were to give
no man a title of honor
indicating his control of their
conscience or their faith.”
DA 613.
“Christ
foresaw that the undue assumption
of authority indulged by the
scribes and Pharisees would not
cease with the dispersion of the
Jews. He had a prophetic view of
the work of exalting
human authority to rule the
conscience, which has been so
terrible a curse to the church in
all ages. And His
fearful denunciations of the
scribes and Pharisees, and His
warnings to the people not to
follow these blind leaders, were
placed on record as an admonition
to future generations.”
GC 596.
Do Not
allow Your Conscience to Be
Trained To Submit to Earthy Power
Instead of the Living Christ
To train the
conscience to submit to church
hierarchy rather that to God is a
diabolical work to train the
conscience to ultimately worship
the beast and its image, and to
receive the mark in the forehead
or in the hand, for the
submission of the conscience to
church hierarchy is a fatal
character trait which is easily
transferred to another church
hierarchy and ultimately the
beast and its image.
Do not
ever walk down the path that bids
you to break down your
conscience. Avoid it, pass not by
it, and resist it unto blood, for
the soul is at stake.
Sacredly
Preserve Freedom of Conscience in
Your Own Soul
Freedom of
conscience must be sacredly and
jealously preserved at all costs.
The first steps of the training
of the conscience to submit to
church hierarchy rather than God
is a deadly work that weakens the
character and prepares it for the
worship of the Image of the
Beast. Others all around you may
submit to “group
think,” but you may not.
They may try to make you think
you are crazy for not submitting
to the judgment of the group, but
remember that every soul must stand
for himself before God and His
judgment, which requires freedom
of
conscience, that most precious of
all freedoms.
Never Give
In Except to Convictions of Honor
and Good Sense
Winston Churchill
declared, “Never give in, never,
never, never, in anything
great or small, large or petty,
except to convictions of honor
and good sense.” There is a
vast world of what the Word of
God calls “wisdom” in
proverbs chapters two and eight,
and in 1 Corinthians 1:30 where
we read that Christ is made unto
us Wisdom. There is a sin against
wisdom, a sin against judgment, a
sin against discretion. Never sin
against wisdom, against sound
judgment, against discretion.
The Way of
Truth
Now, just now, our
work is to educate our
consciences to be free in Christ.
“Stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of
bondage.” Galatians 5:1.
Freedom of
conscience is nurtured and grows
strong in the living presence of
Christ by faith in the soul, and
is fed by the Word, faith,
prayer, and action in
following the conscientious
convictions installed by the Holy
Spirit. Character is built
through action. Act on
your faith. Act on your
convictions, and your faith and
convictions will grow strong in
Christ, preparing you to triumph
in the great struggle over
freedom of conscience in the
battle with the Breast and its
Image.
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