Yes; evidently we are supposed to submit ourselves, not to God, but to the self-selected "anointed ones." Thomas Sowell has written an excellent book detailing the types of mental operations to which these anointed ones are typically subject — Intellectuals and Society (2009). I believe you would find it of great interest, dear sister in Christ.
One thing the present-day self-selected anointed ones seem to have in common is the absolute denial of spiritual reality. In this way, they not only "get rid of God"; they also get rid of the human soul, whose moral and rational order depends on its relation to God. Thus the sanctity of the individual person can be dissolved into the abstract concept of man in the mass....
Thus the "turning away from God" constitutes the primary source of intellectual and moral disorder, of human persons and of societies alike.
Thank you ever so much, dear spirited irish, for your splendid insights!
Thus the "turning away from God" constitutes the primary source of intellectual and moral disorder, of human persons and of societies alike.
snip: evidently we are supposed to submit ourselves, not to God, but to the self-selected “anointed ones.”
Spirited: That is the definition of the Gnostic. Irenaeus described them as the ‘lawless ones.’ They acknowledged no ‘law’ but their own, no ‘truth’ but their own.
Gnosticism is truly the
‘demonic inversion’: Lucifer over God the Father, death over life, immoralism over morality, lie over truth, Cain over Abel, Judas over Jesus Christ, androgyny over male-female sex norms, chaos over order, fantasy over reality.
Not surprisingly, Gnostics were the first Progressive Liberals and fellow travelers such as the Bolsheviks.
They are the ‘systems builders’ of second realities.