If you turn away your
foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your
pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath
a delight,
the holy day of the
LORD honorable,
and shall honor Him
not doing,
your own ways, nor
finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own
words,
then you shall
delight yourself in the LORD;
and I will cause you
to ride on high hills
of the earth and feed
you with the heritage
of Jacob your father,
the mouth of the LORD
has spoken.
Isaiah 58:13–14
When there
is an emulsification of heathen philosophy and Christianity the end result is
not a better product as each belief systems, while having some similarity are
so different that cannot be homogenized and as with this form of emulsification
there is fall out, a separation one element from another. Milk is a homogenized
product, once done it remains emulsified. Oil and vinegar dressing with all the
herbs must be shaken up to blend them once again as there will be at the bottom
of the bottle a sludge of herbs and other unblended products. Now, if you mix
vinegar with baking soda and attempt to emulsify these products you are going
to get an exothermic reaction. This is because when these two are mixed, the
mixture rapidly expands to its original volume. This simple knowledge is well
explained in High School Chemistry. There is in this combination an attempt to
blend products with the hope of establishing a good thing and all that has been
done is to have an explosion of sort, or in the least a tremendous overflow of
bubbles. Then end result will not produce a good product. This is what occurs
when heathen philosophies are attempted to be syncretized with Christianity;
the end result is in a bad product. Heathen philosophies, no matter how good
some things said or believed are, they are still from the root of heathenism.
Vinegar is a good thing, baking soda is a good thing; yet together they are not
good. The good sounding of heathen philosophies often lead people to believe in
what is not Scriptural, to practice things that are not Scripture, to build
organizations that are not Scriptural; the sound good, but their base is in
heathenism. One diversion that has occurred due to the influence of heathen
philosophies can be seen often on Sundays which for Christians the Sabbath Day.
The Seventh Day Adventist use the old Jewish Sabbath Day as being the proper
day for worship of God. By doing so, promoting this day as the Sabbath they
have ignored history and the reason why Christians claim Sunday as the Sabbath
Day. We may argue about this day, but do you have a Sabbath? If so is it
aligned with Sunday which was the day set aside as the Sabbath from early
Christianity. Today there is a blending of the world with Christianity. How?
For many this is a day of boating, skiing, shopping, going out to lunch making
cause for someone to serve them when they should be associating with other
brothers and sisters, to play football, or other sports on this day, etc.. Yes,
many use this day for their pleasure and not taking time to delight themselves
in the Lord. God has promised to feed you to care for you, and this is
according to your devotion to Him, and in the above Scripture it is by keeping
the Sabbath. How does this demonstration of impiety align with the above
analogies? It is an emulsification of the world with Christianity and many give
reasons for doing so all sounding good, but are not Scriptural. This
emulsification of heathen philosophy and Christianity and made cause for many
developments leading to many forms of religion, Christian religion and many to
ignore the facts, the facts of history, the facts of Scripture.
What has
this emulsification caused? One such result of this blending of philosophies is
reason, it is an exalting of reason to be Reason. It is by this Reason one can
come to God and know God and that this Reason was given to man as a guest in
our consciousness. It is from this Reason that we have, “God within us.” These
ideologies of such as Neoplatonism teach that Reason is the necessary mediator
between God and man. This may sound good, that it has the ring of truth to it
for every man is said to be enlightened by this Reason, and of God being
universally in man. This philosophy of religion is to be found in Plato,
Pythagoras and in Neoplatonism, that Reason was necessary as the mediator between
God and man, the teacher for man, the interpreter of God, and is Divine and
human at the same time. This syncretized religion, a blending of heathen
philosophy with Christianity has not taught the truth about God and His dealing
with man. What has been done is to reduce the knowledge of God to be
individual, a personal manifestation of God that each man can have which may or
may not be different from another man’s manifestation of God. We find this in
the world today where it is taught and believe that every man has his/her own
truth. God is not then the absolute God of the universe, rather it is a god
that is manifested in spirit and truth. We find this thinking of individuality
of belief in Churches that teach special revelation from God. No one is to suspect,
or oppose such demonstrations that may seem so absurd, and against the norm,
rather we are to accept them as God’s manifestation. This Realism leads to a
belief system that refers all our religious knowledge to be subjective. It is
this subjective reasoning that leads to a mysticism that is unscriptural. While
there may points of agreement, a blending by stirring up the fallen particles
and making them once again to be Christian all that is been done is to assign
to one’s belief is speculation and the result is to syllogize heathen
philosophy into a form of mysticism. This emulsification can be found in such
teaching of George Fox (1624 – 13 1691)
who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known
as the Quakers or Friends. In this religious group there will be found
mysticism practiced and emulsified with Scripture. They, as many do, attempt to
find God where God does not reside.
I will
illuminate more on this subject as it pertains to all of us and our faith. As a
reminder I am reproducing the definition of Neoplatonism:
1. A philosophical system
developed at Alexandria in the third century a.d.
by Plotinus and his successors. It is based on Platonism with elements of
mysticism and some Judaic and Christian concepts and posits a single source
from which all existence emanates and with which an individual soul can be
mystically united.
2. A revival of Neo-Platonism or
a system derived from it, as in the Middle Ages.
A philosophical system originated in
Alexandria in the 3rd century A.D., founded on Platonic doctrine, Aristotelianism,
and Oriental mysticism, with later influences from Christianity.[1]
When you cry out,
Let your
idols deliver you.
But the wind will carry them
All away.
A breath will take them.
But he who
puts his
Trust in Me shall possess the land,
And shall
inherit My holy mountain.
Isaiah 57:13
Revive Your Soul;
Read His Word
Richard L. Crumb
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