by John Baker
There is a “new” (not necessarily new as God’s word says: Ecclesiastes 1:9 ” That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun”) thinking within 21st century mainstream Christianity that says Globalization and “Oneness” thinking is Christian thinking.
And the following passage from the Bible is used to justify that thinking: Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (God)”
And when you compare that passage with what Eastern Religions teach about the “Oneness” of everything in the Universe: that there is no separate creator God because the Universe and everything in its totality is “god”, it is easy to see where so many people who have not studied the Bible to understand what God is saying, go wrong.
And I will also say that it is not enough just to study the Bible, very few people have the ability to pick up the Bible and read it without taking into it some preconceived ideas, and when they have preconceived ideas they overlay those onto God’s word, what they believe it means, and that extends to Galatians 3:28. If you have been inundated within a culture that teaches and forces globalization and the global “oneness” of humanity then you will attempt to build a link between what Galatians 3:28 says and what Eastern Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism) teach in regards to the “inherent divinity” of the Universe.
However when you truly understand God’s word and what it says you will find that there is a huge and unbridgeable gap between what Galatians 3:28 speaks of: which is a spiritual unity of all BELIEVERS in Christ, as opposed to what Eastern Religions say: that there is a unity among all physical creation and that unity is “god”
Further, to fully understand the difference, and the fundamental importance of it, because understanding it guides us into all Truth, you must have a spiritual understanding. And this is where many “christians” go wrong. They may have a mental or academic acceptance that there is a God separate from humanity but they do not have a spiritual understanding and acceptance of God! Hence they go along with Global “Oneness” ideologies because they cannot grasp the fundamental flaw of it!
The Apostle Paul says this in 1 Corinthians 2:6-16:
“However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
Notice this part of the passage: “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.”
A true acceptance of Jesus Christ and God is not just a mental or academic assent, it is a spiritual acceptance via the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and that is given by God! And if you do not have that spiritual acceptance you WILL NOT grasp the deeper underlying spiritual truths within God’s word! And if you do not, you will stumble and accept “man’s wisdom”
And “man’s wisdom” constantly wars against God’s wisdom!
Once you have God’s spiritual wisdom you WILL see that main theme, of God’s word! And God’s word will show you where “man’s wisdom” leads: The ages old, and constantly repeating effort by man to create an “empire” of his own completely separate from, trying to be equal to God, and contrary to what God intended for man!
That ages old and constantly repeating effort by man to create a global empire, ran by a minority to dominate the masses, is laid out in God’s word, it shows where this effort, over time, and throughout man’s history is like a snow ball effect! As it moves forward it becomes larger in scale and covers more people, until such time that an attempt is made for it to cover the entire earth!
In God’s word, it details where this started with a man named Nimrod: Genesis 10:8–12 “the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
Now most people think this passage means that Nimrod was just a great hunter! However when you understand the original Hebrew language that this passage was written in, you see something quite different, Nimrod was a mighty hunter of men! And if you read further about him in the Bible he was the first man after the Biblical flood to build an empire, the first to want to dominate others, the first to want to be a great king over many city states, and the first to want to create an alternative “religion” to compete with and replace worship of the one true God!
And the rest of the Bible follows the theme of man wanting and attempting to do his “own” thing separate from what God wants man to do, and how that expands and accelerates over time, until it eventually aspires to bring the entire earth and all of mankind under a one man centered kingdom called the “Antichrist (In place of and opposed to Christ/God) Empire”
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