Is Creation Wicked?
In my readings, on
other authors and sources, when it comes to “The Da Vince Code,”
I have been detecting a lot on what we might call “The Gnostic Gospels.”
Back in my way younger
years, when I first heard of the term “gnosticism” it basically was
shared with me, back around 1990, when I was beginning to realize of the
position a believer has when they see for who they are in Christ. It was
basically every time I would be around someone, whom we might, today,
call an old fashion church goer, begin to tell us that it was the
Gnostics whom 1st John 1:9 was correcting. But, if it was the
Gnostics, that 1st John 1:9 was correcting, who believes,
“Redemption ‘consists in knowledge of one’s self’”,
and that “…the material realm is evil, and man must escape it”,
would it not seem that they are agreeing that they are wicked as the
orthodox, catholic or whom ever is trying to interpret the passage to
read?
What are Gnostics?
Gnostics, as you know,
are those who think that this world which we are living within is wicked
even including this flesh that we are living within is also wicked. The
Gnostic’s main strive is to put forth a “…spiritual effort to escape the
confines of history and physical embodiment….”
For the Gnostics proclaim that the “…the material realm is evil, and man
must escape it.”
Even the Christ, in
Gnosticism, could not dare come within this physical world because of
the wickedness which is why they would say:
“…Christ is not
interested in early, historical events as much as freeing the spirit
from the entrapment of the body.”
“Instead of coming to
save us from sin, he comes as a guide who opens access to spiritual
understanding.”
Worse still, even some
of the Gnostics would claim, since they say this world is wicked, that
“…the Christ descended into Jesus at baptism, empowering him for his
ministry, and then left him prior to his death.”
Basically what the Gnostics are claiming is that this Christ is some
phantom…here the one minute and gone the next.
What about even some of
the orthodox faiths even out there today for is it not their notions
that some day we also will escape this world we reside within? I would
say yes in some parts but also no in other parts when it comes to a
question such as “will we one day leave this world.”
The reason why I say no
is because most orthodox faiths that believe in the death burial and
resurrection of Christ do believe that this world is wicked, and I would
say yes because one day we will lay off this earthsuit we reside
within.”
Most orthodox who
believe that this world is so wicked is because they take 2nd
Peter 3 in a literal fashion which says:
2nd
Peter 3:10 “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
So, it would seem, by 2nd
Peter 3:10, which most Orthodox and Catholics, who I myself would call
“futurist,” are in agreement with the Gnostics, when they say that,
“…the material realm is evil, and man must escape it.”
Even on the flooding
that happen in New Orleans, many months back, it is said, by most
futurist, to be a sign that the world is getting worse but that is not
so because if you would look closely at New Orleans:
“Without this
drainage system, much of the city would be engulfed in water. New
Orleans occupies swampland created by millions of years' worth of silt
deposits from the Mississippi River. As a result, the ground is wet
and spongy, and prone to flooding from rainfall and hurricanes.”
Even if floods do
happen at times, in our world, it is not a sign of the end; it is only a
sign that most couples are living in areas where they are taking a risk
on their survival.
By the small
comparisons of the futuristic perspective and the Gnostics it would seem
that Dan Brown would be right when he seems to claims that Christianity
is nothing but a gigantic fraud.
One comment from Olson
and Miesel sort of makes since when they say, in their own words that:
Just as the Left
Behind books have been used to promote a premillennial
dispensationalist understanding of Scripture and the end times, The
Da Vince Code has proven to be an effective toll for attacking
Christian doctrine and undermining the faith of those uncertain of how
to respond to the many accusations leveled against the church.”
Other people of the
orthodox faith honestly do not see this world as wicked as the futurist,
or even as the Gnostics, might see it. They seem to see a good part of
this world for they strongly believe that this world could easily take
care of itself, which is the way God has made it, despite whatever comes
about.
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Isaiah 45:17 “But
Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye
shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.”
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Eph.
3:21 “Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all
ages, world without end. Amen.”
When it honestly comes
to both the futurist and Gnostics it would assume that they both
contradict their very own belief. What I mean by them claiming to
contradict their very own faith:
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Why do they get
married?
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Why do they still
bring forth new borns into this world for in Matt. 24:19 did it not
say “…woe unto them that are with child…”?
Even if those two
questions are simple to answer what really makes, those two very,
question an oxymoron is when they get married and have their own kids
that their focus is not even on trying to make a difference in the world
but they just let it get worse, so they say, which basically shows that
they do not even care for their kids they brought forth into the world.
Would it not be
reasonable, if you had the chance, to make a difference in the world,
like some of the Muslims, who have built new hospitals?
Let those of us
Christians, who takes our position in Christ serious, not let writers
such as Tim LaHay, who promotes the dispensational view on the world
getting worse where it tries to convince some of us to give up hope, and
even more worse, let us not be like the Gnostics who think living within
this world is evil because when we look at ourselves positionally in
Christ we are then able to realize that we are someone special and that
God did put us here for a reason which was to live a long productive
life while also bringing glory and honor to Him for he alone is the
Giver of life.
What I basically am
saying is this that for me, when I came to the realization of the
position I have in Christ, I do not believe that a true believer needs
to confess their sins every moment of the day that they realize that
they have committed one. Now, I am not saying that we never do wrong
because if we look within ourselves, with all honesty, we would realize
that we commit faults. What it is, that I am saying, is that
positionally, in Christ, we are spotless for it was His righteousness
that we have been inputted with.
If we just honestly
look, covenantally speaking, at Romans 5, we can then confirm that just
as through Adam we were made sinners so also even through Christ we are
made righteousness.
So, instead of always
going out on a confession spree why not instead to begin to see for who
you are in Christ…positionally speaking.
