Posted on 11/15/2010 5:51:43 PM PST by Cvengr
J. Reversionism and Degeneracy.
1. Reversionism is the actual status of Christian degeneracy. This is true of both moral and immoral degeneracy. The eight stages of reversionism are a breakdown of the various facets of degeneracy.
a. Reaction and distraction. In polarized fragmentation you react to people, situations, and are hypersensitive - the conflict between legalism and antinomianism. Your priorities change and Bible doctrine is no longer one of your priorities.
(1) Reaction from legalism or antinomianism leads to negative volition to Bible doctrine.
(2) Distraction is caused by apathy, indifference, wrong priorities, in which the antinomian believer places sexual lust, chemical lust, criminal lust first in his scale of values; whereas the legalist places crusader arrogance first.
b. The frantic search for happiness. 2 Tim 3:4, "Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God."
(1) The legalist turns to asceticism, crusading.
(2) The antinomian is living it up, having a party.
(3) Both are looking for power, approbation, success, influence, money, pleasure, sex, every thing that the confused Christian associates with happiness.
c. Operation boomerang. The pursuit of happiness causes bad decisions which only intensify one's unhappiness. There is no true happiness for the believer apart from execution of the protocol plan of God. Operation boomerang substitutes the frantic search for happiness for learning and using the problem solving devices. The more we search for happiness, the more elusive it becomes.
d. Emotional revolt of the soul. Emotion revolts and takes control of the soul, making the soul a slave to the sin nature. Emotional revolt divorces the believer from reality and substitutes irrationality for application of Bible doctrine and emotional sins for capacity for life. Emotion gives no motivation for using the problem solving devices. Emotion rather than Bible doctrine becomes the criterion for the Christian way of life.
e. Permanent negative volition to doctrine. The believer cannot be distinguished from the unbeliever in his thinking. Permanent negative volition guarantees a progressive decline to degeneracy.
f. Blackout of the soul. Blackout of the soul is tantamount to God relationship fragmentation. Blackout of the soul effects the left lobe of the soul.
g. Scar tissue of the soul. Scar tissue of the soul effects the right lobe of the soul. Blackout of the soul plus scar tissue of the soul almost guarantees the believer will die the sin unto death.
h. Reverse process reversionism. Reverse process reversionism is the final status of degeneracy.
2. The degenerate believer in reverse process reversionism is described as follows:
a. Gal 5:4, "drifting off course from grace."
b. Heb 12:15, "falling from grace."
c. 2 Pet 2:7-8, "a tortured soul."
d. 2 Pet 2:14, "an unstable soul."
e. Rev 2:4, "having left his first love."
f. Rev 3:15-16, "lukewarm."
g. 1 Tim 1:19, "shipwrecked."
3. The characteristics of degeneracy or reverse process reversionism are described in Scripture:
a. "The enemy of the cross," Phil 3:18.
b. "The enemy of God," James 4:4.
c. "The hater of God," Jn 15:23.
d. "Double minded," James 4:8.
e. "Anti (against) Christ," 1 Jn 2:18, 22.
f. "The disciple of the devil," 1 Jn 3:8, 10.
4. Moral degeneracy includes several categories of reversionism.
a. Legalistic reversionism, Col 2:16-18; Heb 5:11-6:16.
b. Ascetic reversionism, 1 Tim 4:5.
c. Mental attitude rev & locked-in arrogance, 1Tim 6:4,17.
K. Christian Degeneracy Versus the Protocol Plan of God.
1. Christian degeneracy is contrary to Bible doctrine, and the will, plan and purpose of God. Both moral and immoral degeneracy contradict the teaching of the mystery doctrine of the church age. Eph 4:18-19 cf. 20, "But you have not learned Christ in this manner."
2. The pattern of degeneracy emphasizes several major problems in Christian experience.
a. The rejection of Bible doctrine with special emphasis on the stages of reversionism. Your attitude toward doctrine when it is being taught is the indicator of your positive or negative volition.
b. You have the wrong priorities in life. Your priorities are in conflict with Bible doctrine.
c. The problem of lust. Power lust, approbation lust, inordinate ambition, social lust, sexual lust, chemical lust, crusader lust, money lust. Whatever the lust, it always takes the focus off Bible doctrine.
d. The problem of creating a hero self-image from the fragmentation of subjective arrogance.
3. Degeneracy is the ultimate tragic flaw and reflects ignorance of the mystery doctrine of the church age.
4. By rejection of Bible doctrine, the degenerate believer has rejected Christ as the ruler and authority of his life. Inconsistency is obvious: he has accepted the authority of Christ for salvation, but rejected the way of life Christ mandates for His royal family. You trust Him for eternal life, but reject Him for temporal life.
5. The correct and accurate teaching of the word of God never encourages degeneracy.
6. The correct and accurate teaching of the word of God rejects both legalism and antinomianism, the two polarized trends of the old sin nature. There is nothing in the Scripture to encourage the function of personal sins, human good, or evil.
7. The status of Christian degeneracy is always the fault of the degenerate believer who makes too many bad decisions from a position of weakness inside the cosmic system. We fragment ourselves.
8. The believer who implodes, explodes, and reverts blames others for his condition and typically never assumes responsibility for his own negative attitudes, volition, decisions, and actions.
9. Inevitably Christian degeneracy blames other Christians, pastors and even God, which is why so many never recover from their degeneracy.
10. By taking the full responsibility for your own apostasy, degeneracy, and cosmic involvement you can use your volition to rebound and get on the road to recovery.
11. Recovery demands consistent function of metabolization, perception and application of Bible doctrine. Recovery demands learning and using the problem solving devices of the protocol plan of God.
12. As long as you are alive you can recover from Christian degeneracy.
L. The Warning Against Christian Degeneracy, 2 Jn 7-9.
1. Verse 7, "Because many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and an antichrist." These deceivers reject the doctrine of the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union, e.g., Gnosticism.
2. Verse 8, "Look out for yourselves, that you may not lose your momentum which you have accomplished, but that you might receive a full reward." A full reward is the distribution of escrow blessings for time and eternity.
3. Verse 9, "No one has fellowship with God who keeps advancing out-of-bounds and does not remain on the playing field through the doctrine of Christ. He who resides in it [the divine dynasphere] keeps on having fellowship both with the Father and with the Son."
a. "Advancing out-of-bounds" is implosion, explosion, reversion. It is to decline progressively into degeneracy.
b. "The doctrine of Christ" is the mystery doctrine of the Church Age.
M. The 4 Categories of Post-salvation Sinning Related to Degeneracy.
1. Frequent sinning. This is the status quo of the new believer and of the believer in implosion, explosion and cosmic involvement.
2. Continuous sinning. This is the status quo of the believer in reversionism and Christian degeneracy. This can only be checked by rebound and the use of the other problem solving devices.
3. Sporadic sinning. The believer's sins are related to either implosion or explosion, but checked by the rebound technique. This is the status of the adolescent believer verging spiritual adulthood.
4. Occasional sinning. The status quo of the adult believer, checking implosion and explosion through rebound, but has full use of the other problem solving devices.
Part I : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2627648/posts
Part II: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2627677/posts
Geeze, it's been years, but I'm delighted to see the Colonel's work posted. Thanks for that.
Has anyone from Berrachah begun posting his audio messages on the internet?
Great notes, by the way. Put me on your ping list, please.
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