04 January 2024
Related to the issue covered in my previous post is the question of the Doctrine of Election. What happens to the non-elect?
Scripture says very little. It should be obvious that, since there is an Elect, a privileged group who belong to God's household from before their birth, then there are some who are not part of that group. We are warned of the ways they will influence our lives, particularly as confirmed children of darkness, but little is said of them otherwise.
Indeed, we cannot even estimate the relative size of this population. Jesus' comment about the narrow mountain path of righteousness versus the broad highway to Hell is more about how people live in this world. It's not a reference to election. Paul is careful to nail down that the issue of election for us is not about taking the highway to Hell in this life. Sure, we who are Elect can bear in our convictions the certainty of eternity with Christ, but that's meant to guarantee that we will live righteously. The implication is that the non-elect cannot even choose to live righteously.
Indeed, the non-elect cannot even grasp the concept of living righteously. But then, the Elect don't get it automatically, either. For most of us, it's a lot of work taming the flesh and bringing the heart of conviction to the throne of our lives. We end up striving daily to keep that clear in our own minds.
Which brings us to a related topic: the pervasive materialist-rationalist view that dominates our world. This is the creation of unredeemed minds; it's all they have. I refer you to a speech by Dr. Mattias Desmet:
[T]otalitarianism is not a coincidence. It is a logical consequence of our materialist-rationalist view on man and the world. When this view on man and the world became dominant, as a spontaneous consequence, a new elite and a new population emerged. A new elite that excessively used propaganda as a means to control and steer the population; and a population which lapsed more and more into loneliness and disconnectedness, both from its social and its natural environment.
These two evolutions, the emergence of an elite that uses propaganda and a lonely population, reinforced each other. The lonely state is exactly the state in which a population is vulnerable for propaganda. In this way, a new kind of masses or crowds emerged throughout the last two centuries: the so-called lonely masses.
People fall prey to mass formation to escape a pervasive feeling of loneliness and disconnectedness, induced by the rationalization of the world and the ensuing industrialization of the world and the excessive use of technology. They merge together in fanatic mass behavior because this seems to free them from their lonely, atomized state.
Humans are designed to seek a connectedness that exceeds reason and physical reality. Without election, that connection is impossible. It can be emulated by the lying spirits of idolatry, in that even the damned can activate their hearts and migrate their consciousness above the intellect. But when they get there, no Spirit of God welcomes them to that higher moral awareness. Instead, they are met with one or more false spirits.
Dr. Desmet does a good job of explaining how that plays out in our broad human experience. The rebellious elohim council members seem to have backed off their historical emphasis on an obvious pagan idolatry in favor of teaching the bulk of humanity that there is nothing beyond their flesh. This is the importance of Dr. Desmet's thesis for us.
By the way, a key search term is "mass formation" -- it's the kind of thing Big Tech tries to hide, censoring the results in some search engines. Dr. Desmet knows a thing or two about being censored. But I can't say much for his proposed solutions. I believe he is quite right about the problem. However, sincerity by itself will not answer the soul's needs. It is merely a step in the right direction.
Comments
Jay DiNitto
Really wondering how much MK Ultra and whatever else is out there has influenced things like this. Totalitarianism was around way before, certainly, but probably the tech part of it is where its influence finds a home.
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