STUDIES IN DECEPTION PART V
INTRODUCTION OF FALSE SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING "TRUTH"
As everyone should know, the entire basis for Western Civilization has been built upon the Classical Method for Determining Truth. This Method became fully developed during the Greek era. Only the Highly Educated were taught the Full System. Then Rome adopted it, the Apostle Paul used it, the Church down through the ages has used it, and it has been with us continually ever since as the tried-and-true Classical Method for Determining Truth. It is based on Old Testament concepts, as Philo proved.[1]
The Classical System maintains that a Logical Proposition is euther TRUE or it is FALSE. Two "circles" if you will, were developed, one circle which was called the "Thesis" or "a", and all that was True was placed in it. In the other, called the "Antithesis" or "-a" all that was not True was placed. This became the Foundation of Classical Logic and Philosophy. Thus the Greeks developed Absolutes based on this System and has been passed-down to us.
THE SUBTLE REJECTION OF THE CLASSICAL SYSTEM
Because the Classical System was used by Christians and refuted pagan and early Humanistic thought, the later Humanists had to develop another System for Determining "Truth" to replace the Classical System in peoples' minds. The Classical System refuted Humanism, so they knew it had to be removed. The System they finally adopted to replace the Classical System was The Hegelian Dialectic.
Hegel took the two "circles" of the Classical System (Thesis and Antithesis; "a" and "-a") and said they could be "combined" into what he called a "Synthesis". This "Synthesis" became the "current or potential truth" that eliminated the need for Absolutes in peoples' minds. Therefore, Hegel said that "Truth" could be derived without any need for Absolutes whatsoever. This cast all of the thinking based on Absolutes in question in peoples' minds and opened the door to Humanism.
"Truth" could became tota;;y arbitrary. Whatever was "expedient", "helpful" or today, perhaps whatever is "politically correct", "sociologically helpful" or a "reflection of statistical averages" (which can change moment-by-momebt), to "create" Hegels' "Synthesis".
The Hegelian Dialectic is taught in colleges and universities today as a valid Method for attempting to find "Truth". Basically, it rejects or ignores all Absolutes.
"The are no Absolutes!"
This led to Nietzsche and "God is dead".
The Bible, being based on Absolutes, then becomes a dead letter. The Universe, having no Absolutes, becomes meaningless and amoral.
In secular and some Christian Humanism, there remains NO RESOLUTION, NO ABSOLUTE, IN TERMS OF WHAT IS TRUE OR FALSE, but merely a "Synthesis" or a hint at one. Or perhaps none at all! The hint or absence of Resolution brings on what Heidegger called Angst. The "limbo-land" of non-Resolution waoting for some future promised "Resolution" which can become merely ephemeral in nature. Or, in more radical applications, the philosophical position expressed by Jean-Paul Sartre in his No Exit (extrapolated from the Hegelian Dialectic), that there remains no Resolution at all, nor should we expect one (in a meaningless Universe) and we should somehow be content there!
This is what the rejection of the Classical System for Determining Truth has done to modern man, and where modern Humanistic man finds himself today.
HOW IT AFFECTS THE CHURCH
Some Churches have been infiltrated by Christian Humanism. Having learned the Hegelian Dialectic in school,or absorbed it at college or university, they then attempt to use it to interpret Scripture or Doctrines. Many who believe themselves "teachers" should not even be teaching at all. Case in point:
What is called "Calvinism"[2] and Arminianism are deliberately diametrically opposed. The Remonstrance of 1610, also known as "The Five Points of Arminianism" were written to rebut and to attempt to refute the Canons called "T.U.L.I.P." or "The Five Points of Calvinism" Ruled Lawful at the Synod of Dort.
There is no reconciliation between these two docrines, and here is the reason why: the Arminian party specifically worded their doctrine to completely oppose "Calvinism". The "Five Points of Arminianism" were deliberately and intentionally drawn up as their version of "biblical aAbsolutes" to specifically reject the "Five Points of Calvinism". They had no Lawful Council or Synod to Rule them Lawful of course, but they still presented them as their "absolute" in order to undermine and reject the Synod of Dort that had Lawfully Convened a Synod of all the Protestant Churches and had unanimously rejected Arminius' teaching outright.
AN EXAMPLE OF THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC IN "TEACHING"
The Hallmark of the Hegelian Dialectic is (Students may not realize this is the System that is being taught, but having been exposed to it, they may subtly use it for "problem solving") to reject or ignore the Absolute altogeter, and remains in use today.
Direct quotes, in context, from a "teaching".
(name ommitted) : "this calvanism (sic) vs armenianism (sic)[
