The Southern Baptist
Convention just passed a resolution advocating a path to legal status for
illegal immigrants. A newspaper article reported that the SBC, ‘which has been declining in membership and
baptisms in recent years, sees ethnic diversity as one of the keys to a
turnaround’. I can imagine the Spirit being offended at the thought that
ethnic diversity somehow is a key to more baptisms.
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Gail;
-----Every person has a spirit. God has a Spirit, too. What is a spirit? What’s it made of? You can’t touch it, or see it, or hear it. So it can’t be measured. Then how do you define it? Is it merely essence? If so, then where is its life and how does it will? We have trouble relating to spirit because we can only think about it in the abstract. We have no trouble relating to body because we see it, touch it, and hear it all the time, every moment of the day. It is concrete. Many people deny the existence of spirit because it is abstract. They simply ignore anything abstract, since these are so difficult to grasp. And the abstract doesn’t seem to put bread on the table. The rest of us hold the testimony of God’s faithful in our hands and read it and know of a spirit and recognize a real place for its abstract which puts bread into our hearts.
-----Much of what is happening today has both abstract and concrete connections to what has happened in history. Those abstract connections network through philosophies of the past building upon philosophies previous to even them, and so forth, into the current philosophies we see shaping today’s events and attitudes. Concrete connections are the people and events of history being popularized and demonized to steer the public mind into certain current, abstract philosophies venturing us all towards a perceived security for mankind. Far too many people relate to these events and people without paying so much as one thought to their underlying abstract fabrics.
-----Recognition of the abstract defines many of freedom’s boundaries for those who understand it. The SBC has illustrated how effectively self-ambition blinds one’s eyes to the subtle but important abstract boundaries. Many peoples have tried to assemble a world government and have failed, except one. Those people who built the Tower of Babel succeeded briefly. Their world government failed because God intervened. This governance was not His will for that time, and it hasn’t been for any time since. But it will be for another, briefly. His Word indicates His will for the interplay between individual humans and individual nations. He wanted individuals mutually cooperating within each and with each. It’s that abstract nature of mutuality within nation the SBC has ignored.
-----The American experiment is based upon everyone owning this nation instead of someone owning it. That means we each have stock in what someone else also owns, and therefore we must each respect that someone else’s ownership rights as well as what is owned. Being something owned, this nation’s substance for being owned can only be defined in terms of border, language, and culture. These are made of us all. But “we all” are defined by law. Law is part of culture, and citizenship law intertwines the rest of the law like a single thread throughout the weave of your shirt. Destroy that thread and the shirt falls apart. The philosophy of “normalizing the illegals” movement intertwines this destructive ambition. It is elementally within the world government philosophy for reducing all nations into a common world ownership. The Bible is clear about to which individual that ownership will be briefly delivered. Shame on the SBC for being blind to the consequences of crossing this abstract boundary of freedom!
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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