Manipulating Society - Rise of Beast Government

When the facts don't fit a conclusion, just ignore what is plainly obvious and invent some fiction. Now we have something called "multiracial whiteness" according to the Washington Post.

<<<To understand Trump’s support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness:

...take a look at the FBI’s posters showing people wanted in the insurrectionist assault on the U.S. Capitol: Among the many White faces are a few that are clearly Latino or African American.

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Yes, Trump’s voters — and his mob — are disproportionately White, but one of the more unsettling exit-poll data points of the 2020 election was that a quarter to a third of Latino voters voted to reelect Trump.

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many Black and brown voters have family and friends who fervently backed the MAGA policy agenda, including its delusions and conspiracy theories.

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what are we to make of unmistakably White mob violence that also includes non-White participants? I call this phenomenon multiracial whiteness — the promise that they, too, can lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion and domination.>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/understand-trumps-support-we-must-think-terms-multiracial-whiteness/

In George Orwell's novel "1984" the main slogans of the Party were...

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

The people were kept in a constant state of fear and anxiety through the means of a constant barrage of never ending and contradictory propaganda. What is wasn't and what isn't was.

George Orwell, in writing and publishing "1984," was warning the world of how a totalitarian government can induce unquestioning submission and support via the means of psychological control. Control the minds and you control the people.

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

or

Racism is still racism even when it isn't.

Incitement is still incitement even when it isn't.

Delusion and conspiracy theory is still delusion and conspiracy theory even when it isn't.

Facts don't matter! What does matter is the propaganda narrative that will lead people into unquestioning submission to authoritarian centralised control. In this case it is the rejection of MAGA because it is racist, even though it isn't.

It actually goes much deeper though.

"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" Revelation 13:4

The "beast" in the Bible is representative of a system premised on "animalistic man." In other words, men whom are unrestrained by the love of God in their hearts. You see, man was created in the "image of God" (Gen 1:27) not the "image of beasts." Yet man can act like a beast by forsaking God and His image.

Jesus Christ bore witness of the image of God to humanity and described this image as "I am the way, the truth and the life" (Joh 14:6) and He invited people to "abide in me, and I in you" (Joh 15:4) because the outworking of true righteousness (ie. good fruit - Joh 15:8) is only possible through abiding/walking/living in the framework of God's love, His Spirit, His power. All one and the same thing.

To not do that is to be a beast and exist apart from God which is why the Bible makes a clear distinction between the "walking in the flesh" and "walking in the Spirit" (Rom 8:1-4).

"Walking in the Spirit" can be equated to self government via the Spirit of love. This is why the Apostle Paul would write "faith works by love" (Gal 5:6), "love works no ill" (Rom 13:10) and "if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law" (Gal 5:18). It's a very simple principle.

Yet that principle is rejected by most people to their peril and the end result will ALWAYS be totalitarianism of one form or another. You see, virtue is voluntary because it involves choice. Jesus invited people to follow Him, He didn't force them. Totalitarianism is the opposite, totalitarianism uses FORCE (psychological and physical) to compel obedience.

Everyone desires a better world, yet that doesn't mean every effort will bring one about. There are two paths, freedom of choice or coercion. Coercion NEVER works as history clearly demonstrates and that is because coercion requires centralised power and when human beings unrestrained by genuine love wield power they will ALWAYS abuse that power and you end up with an unrestrained BEAST power. An unchained wild animal devouring and wreaking havoc.

The United States was founded upon the principle of "freedom of choice" and "virtue." Whilst certainly not perfect and with much hypocrisy along the way, it was those underlying principles that allowed the United States to become so successful.

There are many today who arrogantly think they know what is best and desire to impose THEIR PLAN on everyone else and there are many more whom foolishly and blindly believe their rhetoric and thus elevate these kinds of people to power.

The United States didn't become the most powerful, productive and innovative nation in all of world history for no reason. It wasn't because of slavery, an institution that had existed worldwide for millennia. It was due to liberty, freedom and virtue. A people being able to pursue their dreams but in the respect of allowing others to do so as well. A "central plan" was not needed to develop a prosperous and productive society any more than a "central plan" was needed to develop the English language.

The United States was not founded as a "Beast" because the founders detoothed, declawed and chained the beast via the means of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The USA founders recognised the fundamental unalienable rights of man and also recognised that the express purpose of government is to "secure these rights" in writing...

<<<We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.>>> Declaration of Independence

There was no concept that government existed to "fix the world" or "solve all problems." That was for individuals to do as they saw fit as they lived and prospered in a free society.

Yet there have always been those whom desire an unchained beast with the teeth and claws necessary to impose their "fix it" plans and therefore seek, at every opportunity, to undermine the USA founding principles.

In the absence of being able to directly refute liberty and freedom too openly (it doesn't sound good), it has to be done in a round-a-bout way ala George Orwell's...

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

By redefining reality one can put the people in a constant state of fear, confusion and anxiety by which those very people will empower a beast to be their saviour and protector. This is how totalitarian societies are born.

That's what's going on today.

Scott.

George Orwell and the Strong Delusion

One of the most effective means to deceive people is via the use of a dialectic. A dialectic works upon the mind by framing a false paradigm which serves to limit thought.

George Orwell understood this as expressed it in his chapter on Newspeak found in his novel 1984. Newspeak consisted of a simplifying of language in order to remove certain concepts from the minds of those whom used the language, thus "bad" was eliminated in favour of "ungood." Thus the concept of "wrong" was minimised in favour of a more neutral point being the extremity of thought. This served to produce an intellectually handicapped people who would find it very difficult to perceive the actual reality surrounding them and thus see through the propaganda they were being influenced by every day.

What has happened with Christianity over the past 2000 years is very similar. Instead of eliminating terms they have simply been redefined.

A good example is the word "grace."

In the Greek it is...

charis [STRONGS]

From G5463; graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude): - acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace (-ious), joy liberality, pleasure, thank (-s, -worthy).

Paul writes...

Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Very clearly GRACE is principled in the divine influence of God upon our hearts whereby we are influenced to do what is right. The grace of God which brings salvation TEACHES US TO DENY UNGODLINESS AND LIVE GODLY INSTEAD.

We see this grace evident throughout the Old Testament in the law of Moses, in the petitions of the prophets, even in the Proverbs written by Solomon. Deny ungodliness and uphold godliness. VERY SIMPLE.

Yet with the introduction of the doctrine of Original Sin into church orthodoxy in the Fourth Century, the notion of INABILITY took hold.

Original Sin, in its many variants, basically teaches that the sin of Adam corrupted human nature by which all human beings are BORN ENSLAVED TO SIN. Thus "enslavement to sin" is not rooted in choice or a refusal to deny ungodliness.

With a sinner henceforth viewed as an involuntary victim of their birth state, firstly, personal responsibility is denied because the root cause is something apart from choice. Secondly, an offset to the involuntary inability suddenly becomes a requirement. Hence the reason for a redefining of grace into being that offset.

Instead of grace merely being the free provision of divine influence upon our hearts, freely given to all men (see Tit 2:11-12), it instead becomes something granted at a particular point in time as an offset to the involuntary sinning nature.

An individual caught up in this subtle ruse will then perceive a "denial of the inability offset" (ie. a denial of the redefining of the term) as a "denial of grace itself" because in their mind "grace is an inability offset." The trap is thus closed upon the mind in much the same manner as to what George Orwell alluded to in 1984. This trap is clearly illustrated in the conflict between Augustine of Hippo and Pelagius in the Fourth Century. Pelagius was ultimately declared a heretic by the Catholic Church because he denied the inability offset, which they viewed as grace itself. To this very day many people view Pelagius as a heretic who denied grace when the truth is that all he denied was inability and thus naturally denied the need for an offset. Pelagius taught that all people were fully responsible for their conduct and that no one lacked the ability to obey God. The issue was whether people would CHOOSE to yield or not, spiritual transformation being wrought through yielding, yielding being a byproduct of a real repentance.

With both the notions of "inability" and the "inability offset" firmly implanted it simply necessitates in the mind that one wait on God to change them because one cannot effect change in themselves due to being born in a disabled state. Thus sinners are deceived into believing they approach God in a wicked state and wait for some magic to occur instead of perceiving the very simple truth that actual change is wrought through a wholehearted yielding to God.

Paul wrote of the dynamic of transformation...

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Faith = Wholehearted yielding to God.

Grace = Divine influence of God upon the heart.

Thus salvation is wrought through the WORKING DYNAMIC of yielding ourselves to the leading of God by which His Spirit sheds the love of God within thus empowering us to walk according to His will. This is why Jesus would teach "abide in me and I will abide in you." Faith is the operative principle of yielding our hearts to God by which the influence of God is no longer resisted, the result being the full manifestation of God within our hearts. Is it any wonder James would assert that faith without works is dead? Not at all, James understood that faith was an operative dynamic, in other words FAITH WORKS as opposed to being STATIC.

Under the lie, "for by grace you are saved through faith" is redefined to be a mere forensic accounting in the form of a legal transaction. The terms being redefined into...

Faith - Trust and acknowledment of certain perceived facts.

Grace - Inability offset and unmerited favour.

Generally people are taught to...

1. Confess (confess they are a sinner, confess their inability)
2. Trust (Trust in the inability offset, ie. trust God will change them at some stage)
3. Receive (Receive Jesus in the context of Jesus effecting a substitution on their behalf upon the cross by which the penalty for sin is cancelled due to being paid in full)

Under the above salvation is viewed as a change in legal status, not a TOTAL MANIFEST transformation of character. A few comments on substitution...

With the introduction of the death of Christ being substitutional in context it is easy to understand how the lie functions upon the mind. Substitution (in its variant forms) basically teaches that the purpose of Jesus death on the cross was to serve as a counter balance to the penalty of sin. There are three main views...

1. Satisfaction - Harmony is brought by the infinite sacrifice of Jesus serving as a counter balance to the dishonour of God wrought through sin.

2. Governmental - Harmony is brought by the infinite sacrifice of Jesus serving as a counter balance to the breaching of the just law of God.

3. Penal - Harmony is brought by Jesus literally being punished with the punishment due sinners thus permanently canceling it out.

In all the above substitution views the "forgiveness of sins" is justified via the counterbalance wrought through the "substitutional death of Christ."

Therefore when Substitution is combined with the redefined faith and grace, "justification" is then established upon the principle of a forensic accounting, as opposed to that of a MANIFEST TRANSFORMATION.

This is the reason why Eph 2:8-10 is thus viewed as an abstraction instead of the operative dynamic which Paul is speaking of. Thus the notion of the QUICKENING (the MANIFEST transformation of the spirit)...

Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

...is removed from the Gospel and replaced with a mere mental assurance that something has happened when nothing actually did.

So just like people remain in slavery in the novel 1984, they remain in slavery to sin in false Christianity.

Words and their meanings are key and we ought pay close attention to such when communicating with others because often disputes and misunderstandings are actually rooted in underlying error, not that which we see on the surface. Understand this and it becomes much easier to both grasp the truth and defend it.

Praise God. :)