Sunday, October 4, 2020

Heresy; a Spiritual Disconnect from Reality

 

Monday, October 5, 2020

For I was born a sinner—yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.  But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there.  Psalm 51:5-6
And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.  Romans 7:18

There is a pop psychology which parrots the oft-heard I’m OK/You’re OK mantra.  This teaches that there is a lot of good in you, and that is not totally Biblically-wrong…God’s creation was, and is, good!  Where it departs from 100% truth is denying the evil in each of us.  And anything credited to Scripture, which is not entirely true and consistent with all of Scripture, by definition, is heresy. 

The pop-theology psychological disconnect from truth (heresy) is to claim that the things that are problematic in your life just need a few little tweaks, changes, or a little self-discovery here and there, and you’ll be alright. 

The Bible never says that.  What the Bible does say (to believers/followers of Jesus) is that you will be ok…that God has your life in His hands, and, when necessary, He will straighten you out.  What the Bible does say to both believers and unbelievers alike is you’re depraved…totally; you inherited a sin nature, and that is who you really are, deep down, inside!  Before you surrender to Christ you are NOT OK.

This born-perfect-and-able to get even better kind of thinking has spawned all kinds of spurious thinking that, not only are we OK, anything we can think up to do is OK as well.  Sexual perversion is one of the more glaring examples of that; think gay pride parades, etc., flaunting it in the very presence of God, that we can do what we want, even if Scripture abhors and forbids it, because we’re OK.

Being created, and accepting that you can stay that way, is as goofy a life-principle as physically staying a baby; can you imagine the joy of changing a diaper on a 40-year-old?  This spurious theology spawns a host of ill-thinking and degraded living because it rejects the sovereignty of God, and our required surrender to God’s will.

The worldly mindset is that we never have to change anything, while trusting in the sovereignty of God is coming back to reality; recognizing we must let God change anything, or everything.

Unfortunately, some (even many) people deny this reality.  They don’t believe what David wrote in his Psalm about God requiring life-long honesty.  And, in covering up the lie about our sinful bent, we disconnect from truth. 

And, frankly, life is downhill from that point.

Living in truth, even when it means climbing down off the I’m OK/You’re OK pedestal we’d like to think is our right, is the only way to truly be right with the One who created us.

Getting started on that project is simple, if not easy.  Say it with me…forgive us our trespasses…

You chew on that as you hit the Rocky Road; have a blessed day!

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For other posts on heresy see:  The Tempter Arrives and Light Has No Shadow



 

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