1: The Lost Foundation of Spiritual Truth
In my first career as an economist, I was interested in why some countries developed politically and economically while others became failed states ruled by dictators. I discovered that real parliamentary democracy and the industrial revolution first began in England. The unique thing about England was that unlike Europe where corruption and wars of religion had discredited the Church; the Bible had been translated into English in 1611 and was the only book available to most people. It was deeply embedded in the culture.
Personal freedom and thriving democracy have been seen in all places and times to depend on a Judeo-Christian cultural foundation of shared truths. Citizens can trust each other to keep God’s Commandments and resolve conflict by accepting the will of the majority.
The seven truths of the Judeo-Christian foundation of truth have been seen to be true in all places and times including our own. They are invisible spiritual truths. They are the supernatural dimension working in the natural or physical dimension. The evidence of these truths proved the authenticity of Jesus and the Apostles and the Church He founded. Together they form a complete, coherent understanding of the relationship between the divine and mankind. If one is not seen to be true, Christianity becomes incoherent. For example, if Jesus was not the divine Son of God, He could not atone for the sins of the whole world, and we are all spiritually dead in our sin.
1.1: The Holiness of God
The holiness of God is the sum and essence of the foundation of the supernatural truths that bind us together under divine authority and judgement. The Ten Commandments are rules for life that define how we are to obey God and love our neighbour to be in a holy relationship with God and our neighbour. “Holy Matrimony,” for example, is the spiritual opposite of same-sex marriage. God is not like us. God is the holy — pure, whole, complete, undivided, all-knowing, all-powerful creator of everything. We are unholy, impure, incomplete, divided, and unknowing. The central teaching of the Bible is that individuals who rebel against God’s order, like Adam and Eve, are guilty of sin (rebellion), made unholy, and cannot be in God’s holy presence in heaven when they die.
1.2: The Process and Order of Creation
The creation story teaches us the importance of Darwin’s overlooked process of creation. Evolution and survival of the fittest is God’s order or way of ensuring creation evolves to show more of God’s glory. This is how things get better. The order of creation is from less complex and competent to more complex and competent. Humans are at the top and working together in obedience to God as stewards of creation. This is the opposite of our satanic woke diversity, inclusion and equity policies which discriminate against better, excellence and competence in rebellion against God’s plan. This is survival of the less fit, the different and the deluded.
1.3: Male and Female Identity and Relationship
The Creation Story teaches us that man and woman are created to be signs of God’s glory in the world. They are jointly responsible for the continuing stewardship of creation. The Bible, physiology and psychology teach us that they are spiritually, psychologically, and physiologically designed to be opposite, interdependent, and incomplete without the other. Pope John Paul II described the greatest sign of the glory of God as the union in self-sacrificial love of these two opposites. They are spiritually joined together in Holy Matrimony to continue God’s creation of humanity.
1.4: How Satan and Spiritual Evil Works
The competition model in the Creation Story includes Satan who deceives Eve into disobeying God’s clear instructions not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. She says God told her she would die if she ate the apple. Satan said she would not die. Both statements are true. Eve, like us, would die spiritually and be put out of an eternal relationship with God. She would not die physically until old age. We have an enemy of our souls, with an army of evil spirits who try to tempt us, deceive us, destroy us spiritually and separate us from God.
Many Christians have not been taught the foundational biblical and spiritual truth that the Holy Spirit or Spirit of God came over Mary and caused her to conceive Jesus. (Matthew 1.18) If they cannot understand and believe in this supernatural truth, then they cannot believe in the divinity of Jesus. If Jesus was merely a man; then He logically cannot give His life for the sins of the world, and we are all dead in our sins. This all depends on the divinity and resurrection of Jesus. The Resurrection of Jesus celebrated at Easter is God’s divine yes to the New Covenant of Jesus. God would accept the sacrificial death of Jesus as full payment for all the sins confessed and taken to Jesus for forgiveness. Our part is to believe in Jesus and show this by repenting, confessing, and asking Him for forgiveness. The Resurrection is objective truth. The Risen Jesus was seen and touched by many people in different places. Many people in our time have spoken to Jesus in heaven and returned to earth. I have talked to one of them. The evidence is that the witnesses’ lives were and still are dramatically changed.
1.6: Supernatural Healing and Deliverance Ministry
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.” Luke 4.18–19
Supernatural physical and spiritual healing and deliverance in Jesus Name is unique to Christianity. No other religion can point to the physical evidence of this healing prayer ministry in many places and times up to the present. The miracles were evidence of the authenticity of Jesus message. The ministry includes supernatural physical healing and deliverance from spiritual oppression, through the confession of sins, forgiveness in Jesus’ name, and prayer. Specifically gifted and anointed ministers act as a holy pipe through which the Holy Spirit can come and heal. In Chapter 9: Recovering Objective Truth (page 145) this is explained more fully for the many pastors, clergy and laypeople who are unfamiliar with this ministry.
1.7: The Holy Spirit as the Continuing Presence of Jesus
“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.” John 15.26
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, revealing and helping us understand the teachings of Jesus and the Bible. As the continuing presence of Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes (when invited) to believers with an amazing outpouring of spiritual gifts. We experience the guidance of the Holy Spirit intuitively as our conscience. The gifts of the Holy Spirit include healing, words of wisdom, words of knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, distinguishing between spirits and tongues. Paul explains that these gifts are given as the Spirit desires. They are not a sign of spiritual superiority to be used for personal gain but to build up the community of the Church. This is why different people have different gifts — and why we need to be together in a church community.
To recover these spiritual truths, we all need to understand how they fit together and depend on each other as a coherent social foundation of discipline for the development and sustaining of freedom and democracy.
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