Beginning with the Absolute that there is a God and at specific times and places, working through human personalities created in His image, stupendous changes are created in both nature and human civilizations to redux the past into the future.

Absolutes are defined as truth residing outside the auspices of human understanding. Another way to describe an Absolute is that it is a natural law in which we humans can only apprehend, but cannot change in the sense of its universal application. The reason we must resort to the use of the term Absolute is that the old term of truth has been so distorted and made politically correct that it no longer really defines anything but a spin of a faux reality.

The term Absolute, as a modern philosophical construct, became popular through the ministry and the writings of Francis Schaeffer. While produced in the turmoil of the 1970s, Schaeffer’s most famous work, “How Should We Then Live” is a video series that essentially dramatizes the cultural changes we now are having a very difficult time believing.

In our enlightened world, the reality of Absolutes causes all sorts of angst. How can we be continually evolving onward and upward when there already exists a standard that makes our best efforts seem moronic in their best spin?

So we see a contrast between the things of God and the things of man. As we have pointed out in previous weeks, Godly change works from the Universal to the individual. Human change begins with the individual to form a collective, to be administered by the more highly evolved above us.
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Tags: Francis Schaeffer, Absolutes, Christian Diaspora, Christian Redux, God, dry bones valley, propitiation, justification, revivalism, Protestant Liberalism

Last week we closed the Sheep to Wolves article with the signature paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

If you would like to know the succinct answer on why the United States finds itself in its present predicament, a new version of those thoughts would go somewhat as follows:

With a firm reliance on the my personal virtue of unfettered greed, I will do whatever necessary to get ahead according to my definition of success, giving no thought at all to the pain and suffering I might cause other people, or the world in which I live.

Furthermore, to accomplish my goals as rapidly as possible, with the least personal risk, I will work for a large global corporation, institution, or government that shares my values.

Turn on the television to the lame stream media and you will hear that capitalism no longer works, so we need to replace it with diverse government programs that will solve capitalism’s problems.

These pundits have a religious bias that they alone think that they can fix something broken, with something better in their own eyes. When in reality their solution is worse than the broken predecessor. Welcome to the world of ObamaCare.

Turn on Fox News and you will hear pundits say that the solution is to get back to the messiah-ship of Ronald Reagan and that the free markets of personal and corporate greed will solve all the problems that the progressive bureaucratic regulators are using to try to keep us all from getting rich by the principles of trickle down economics.

The fact of the matter, little money and virtually no real wealth trickles down to the folks, through either big government, or big business, or big labor. Furthermore if any of them can figure out a way to get some of the little they let go of, back, they will do that with as much conniving as possible.
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Tags: Declaration of Independence, capitalism, ObamaCare, God, Ronald Reagan, dry bones valley, tea party

The United States and the world today are facing “Outside the Box” stresses. It has been a long time since the stupendous changes of economics and politics have not only forced people to look outside their comforts and securities for solutions, but also to examine the basic paradigms on which their perceived security is based.

In previous articles we have stated that in western culture about every five hundred years a major reboot of the way we do things occurs. This turmoil creates the fertile soil for new developments that redefine our individuality and communities in ways that were unknown before the plowing or tilling began.

Beginning with the absolute understanding that humanity is a creation of God, and was indeed a creation in the image of God, it logically follows that this five hundred year upheaval, forces us again to look beyond the temporal world and refocus upon the transcendent nature of common life. That understanding then brings about the incorporation of that transcendence into the religions of mankind.

While all religions including evolutionary materialism are exclusive in their worldviews, stresses develop that quickly become fault lines between the reformers and the establishments they are attempting to reform. Within Christianity the last time this occurred was in the Protestant Reformation.

That Reformation led to an era known as the Enlightenment where those new religious views received a more common application. At the time when the human development and religious fervor were properly understood within the broader culture, time was right for the miracle that became the American Revolution and the founding of the United States of America as a constitutional republic.

Notice all the “re” words that accompanied the changes from subjugation by divine right of kings into a worldview that valued individual liberty above all else. It then attempted to formulate a minimal governmental structure in which all humans would have the opportunity to pursue happiness, without class distinction.
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Tags: God, transcendence, Reformation, U S Constitution, revivalism, Christianity, dry bones valley