20 October 2023
How would I summarize the Radix Fidem path?
It started with a genuine faith, but the line of departure from the mainstream of Christian religion was what some have called an obsession: We must understand the Bible from within itself. At some critical juncture in my spiritual formation, someone taught me: "The Bible is an eastern book; Jesus was an eastern man. Christianity is an eastern religion." If we don't go back and recover the ancient Hebrew culture, we cannot hope to grasp the nature of faith in the God of the Bible.
From there, we have built up some ideas that help people to make the crossing from where we are today in post-modern America to a better understanding of the Scripture and what God requires of us. I've noted for years that, if we need a covenant law code, Noah is what applies to us. Let me pull up a quote from the Code of Noah HOWTO:
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One: You must embrace the mystical approach to understanding reality. Our mortal existence is not ultimate reality; it can be compared to a mere simulation. You are obliged to see the moral truth first and foremost, so that the question of living in this mess is not figuring out what your senses can tell you, but to sense the hidden truth directly with your heart. You must embrace the idea that this world is not really all that important.
Two: Creation itself is feudal. God owns everything that exists, and parcels it out in vassal domains as He sees fit. Your obligation is to discover your assigned role, knowing that at least part of it is likely to be a moving target. You must go into this knowing that it is your duty to sense the subtle shifts in dominion among humans based on the fluidity of the context. Western individualism is a sin; no one is totally free of all government. On the other hand, no human government can argue with God.
Three: Creation is also alive and sentient. In the same way that you are accountable to God for how you deal with other people, so you are to treat all of Creation as a person and as many people. We do not conquer nature; it is our ally in serving the Lord. It is not fallen; we are. But it will obey you in degrees based on your understanding and obedience to God’s Law.
So a primary issue is embracing that you are fallen and that the flesh is not your real self, but it belongs within this simulation. Our human mortal existence is rather punitive in nature. We should strive to work our way out of it. This is part of the Code of Noah. It’s not just works of the flesh, but a lifetime of diminishing the flesh.
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This is more or less the minimum understanding. If you ask me, just getting hold of that little bit will make it possible for you to find your own true religion of following Christ. And indeed, this is the crux of our challenge to the mainstream. It does no good to load up on Scripture references to support all of these contentions. They are there in the Bible, but if these ideas don't ring a bell of recognition, nothing else we can say will do you any good.
And if you do embrace this little bit, then just about everything else is negotiable. This is what it means for us to make Jesus Lord and Savior. We are confident that, from this foundation, the Lord will speak to you and build in you what He intended, and we would never argue with that.
Spiritual warfare is essentially you conquering your flesh, and keeping it busy doing Christ things instead of the will of Satan and his elohim allies. Human logic cannot plum the depths of the Holy Spirit. The key to victory is not some imaginary continuity of intellectual propositions, but obedience to your convictions.
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