|
Protestant Christian
Holiness
Revivalism emphasizes definable turning
points
in a Christian life as essential.
Emphasis on
salvation by grace through
faith.
1542 John Calvin founds the first
Protestant absolutist theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland.
In Protestantism
there has been an evolution and a mixing of
Protestant theological belief
systems that has resulted in a continually splintering, changing,
regrouping and evolving Christian theology.
Calvinism emphasizes
God's rule over all
things.
The Reformed Tradition of John Calvin held that as a
consequence of the fall of
man, every person born is enslaved to
the flesh.
Calvin claimed individuals were inclined to reject
ethical concerns but
this is a mistaken viewpoint and trap frequently fallen into by
Roman
lawyers.
Calvinists believe attainment of heaven to be
unconditionally grounded in God's
mercy expressed as absolution.
God saves those whom God has
pre-determined to save.
Once truly saved always
saved.
1552
Calvinist thought reached
its zenith of its influence in the Anglican Church during the reign of Edward
VI first as Forty-Two Articles of Religion found in the Book of
Common Prayer.
1563 Reduced to
Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion.
1571 Adherence to the Thirty-Nine Articles made a
legal requirement by the English Parliament, requires church attendance on the
Sabbath.
Anglicanism, in its
structures, theology and forms of
worship, is understood as a distinct tradition representing a middle ground
between Roman Catholicism and
Protestantism.
Late
1500s
Puritanism, a religious reformation movement, begins in
England.
Its initial goal was removing any remaining links to
Catholicism within the Church of England after its separation from the Catholic
Church.
1603 The accession of James I to the
English throne brought the Millenary Petition, a Puritan manifesto for
reform of the English church.
1604 James I calls
the Hampton Court Conference.
At the Hampton Court
Conference James commissions the translation of the Christian Bible into
the English vernacular, the King James Version (KVJ).
1610 Dutch Arminianism is articulated in
the Remonstrance.
Arminianism is a school of soteriological
thought in Protestant Christian theology founded by the Dutch theologian
Jacobus Arminius. Its acceptance stretches through much of mainstream
Protestantism.
Arminianists believe that individuals are
naturally unable to make
any effort towards salvation, salvation is possible by grace alone,
works of human effort
cannot contribute to salvation,
God's Elect have
unconditional faith that:
Christ's atonement is for all
humanity;
God
allows his grace to be resisted by those unwilling to believe;
salvation can be lost as
continued salvation is
conditional upon continued faith in Christ as
the personification of
God.
emphasis on individual ability to
experience
God and understand the Will of God for oneself
1650 George Fox,
imprisoned for blasphemy, begins the
Quietism revival.
A judge
mocks George Fox's exhortation to "tremble at the Word of the
Lord", calling George Fox and his
followers "Quakers".
1653 George Fox is
imprisoned and it is requested that he be put to death.
Parliament
requests his release rather than "a young man die
for religion".
George Fox is taken to London for a meeting with the
Lord Protector.
Fox affirms he has
no intention to take up arms
and is able to speak about the differences between the
Anglicans and the
Friends.
Fox suggests
Oliver
Cromwell listen to God's voice and obey
it.
This is "speaking truth to
power".
"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive
a man of his natural liberty upon
a supposition that he
may abuse it." - Oliver Cromwell
By "speaking truth to power" -
simple ideas related with plain
speech - George Fox pursued social justice.
1654 George Fox is imprisoned in London.
1656
George Fox is imprisoned in Launceston.
1660 and
1663 George Fox is imprisoned in Lancaster.
1666 George Fox is imprisoned in Scarborough.
1674 George Fox is imprisoned in Worcester.
Quakers repeatedly fell foul of
laws forbidding unauthorized worship.
George Fox often emphasised
the Quaker rejection of baptism by
water; a useful way of highlighting the focus of Friends
on inward
transformation.
This differed from what he saw as
the superstition of outward
ritual.
George Fox's theology in his words:
Let no man speak in an unknown
tongue.
Let no one be put to death for chattel, for
money or any outward thing.
Let all these things be taken away, he that
will not speak a few words to his neighbor without money, freely without end,
or reward, or bribery,
and so bring it to a free Nation, and so a free people by the
Power of God.
Let no one that is high, proud, or
lofty, envious or scornful bear Office, for
he will turn the sword backward and
do Satan's work.
Let no law be, but that man may ask a question.
If it be a free Nation, let it be free.
Let none be persecuted
and imprisonment as vagabonds who are moved by God to speak abroad the
Word of God freely and
faithfully.
Let none lie long in
prison, for that is the way to spoil people, and to make more thieves, for
there they learn wickedness together.
Let all this money, and stipends, and tithes, and
hour-glasses for preaching by the hour be taken away from men, who make a trade
of the Scripture.
Let all worship God
in selflessness not in
selfishness.
Let all the Burying the dead for money, and Marrying for money,
and Christening for money, and Churching of women for money, let all these
things be swept away, and let the Nation be a free Nation.
Let no man
bear the sword in violence, or accuse any man
falsely.
Let no Judge, nor
Justice, nor Sheriff that is ambitious, highminded, bear rule, for such do not
stand in awe of God which
is the beginning of the wisdom
with which they should order
the Creation to the Glory of God.
They are out of the meek state and
humility, and doing
justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly before God, and they are
aroma in the nostrils of
God.
Let all preaching for
money and singing for money be laid
aside.
Let not preaching be a trade, nor
the Word of God made
merchandise of.
emphasis on the spiritual life of the
individual,
coupled with a responsibility to live an upright life
1703 Pietism becomes
popular in Denmark.
Pietistic Lutherans meet together in conventicles,
"apart from Divine Service in order to mutually encourage piety."
They
believe "any true Christian could point back in his or her life to an inner
struggle with sin that culminated in a crisis and ultimately a decision to
start a new, Christ-centered life."
"The hoary adage "cleanliness is next to
godliness" was resurrected
by evangelist John Wesley and preached from a
thousand pulpits."
Thomas A.
Metzger
1738
John Wesley, an
Anglican minister, begins preaching the precepts of Methodism which leads to
the Methodist revival.
John Wesley intensely studied the Church Fathers
and Eastern Orthodox Church.
He attended Moravian meetings, heard a
sermon of Dr. John Heylyn and seriously studied Christian religious
sects.
John Wesley expressed strong
disagreement with the doctrines of election and reprobation teaching that
individual efforts towards holiness of heart and life could bring
a truly holy and loving Christian to
salvation.
The evangelistic teaching of John Wesley incorporated and
melded Arminianist , Calvinist and Anglican doctrine as seen in the
Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion.
John Wesley abridged the list
from 39 to 24 (editing out much Calvinist emphasis) for use by American
Methodists in the 18th century.
1808 General
Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church passed the first
Restrictive Rule, which states that the General Conference may
not in any way change the Articles of Religion making the list
twenty-five articles.
Gnostic translation of
twenty-five articles:
Article I. Acceptance of
a triune
Godhead.
Article II. Christ is the Son of
Man as well as the Godhead.
Article III. The
soul is
eternal.
Article IV.
All is
homoousion
Article V. Old Testament canonical books are:
Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges,
Ruth, 1st & 2nd Books of Samuel, 1st & 2nd Books of Kings, 1st &
2nd Books of Chronicles, Book of Ezra, Book of Nehemiah, Book of Esther, Book
of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Songs of Solomon, Four
Prophets the Greater, Twelve Prophets the Less.
All the books of
the New Testament are canonical.
Article VI. Acceptance of the
Ten Commandments.
Article
VII. Man is apt to fall into unnatural
desire.
Article VIII. Walking with God
allows us to act in good
will.
Article IX. Only Christ can mend our
flaws.
Article X. There is no earthly redemption in
man's world.
Article XI.
Neoevanglisits
make up stuff.
Article XII. We are all
sinners. Redemption lies in
repentence.
Article XIII.
Oops !!!
Article
XIV. Fetishes,
relics,
invocation of saints are
not of Christ.
Article XV.
Speak plainly the
Word of God so
all may hear.
Article XVI.
"Two Sacraments ordained of Christ our Lord in the Gospel; that is to say,
Baptism and the Supper of the Lord." - John Wesley
Article XVII.
Baptism is
a sign of
regeneration or rebirth.
Article
XVIII. The bread we share
together is a partaking of the body of
Christ; and likewise the
cup of blessing is a partaking of the
blood of Christ.
Article XIX.
Christians
are not exclusive. We do not form cliques or
cults.
Article XX.
Christ sacrificed himself so you don't
have to.
Article XXI.
Procreation is
OK.
Article XXII. Any
sincere heart felt oblation is
acceptable in
ritual.
Article XXIII. We don't
belong to Britian anymore !
Article XXIV.
Status does not the man
make. Share
resources.
Article XXV. Loyalty
only to Christ but acquiesce
to principalities orders.
Wesley saw
doctrine must be
rational as faith and
reason are synonymous.
John Wesley defined the witness of the
Spirit of God
as:
"an inward impression on the
soul, whereby the Spirit of
God directly testifies to an individual's spirit that they are indeed
children of God."
John Wesley understood a person must hear the
Word of God himself - intercession is
ineffective as redemption occurs only
in a contrite heart.
John
Wesley's strength lay in his ability to combine seemingly opposing theological
stances backed up by a
reasonable interpretation of scripture.
He was very good at
dialectism.
John Wesley's evangelical theology, grounded firmly in
sacrament, was his promotion of what he termed
Christian Perfection, or
Holiness of Heart.
John Wesley insisted that in this life, the Christian could come to a state
where the Agápe, or
perfect compassion, reigned supreme in one's heart.
To be made perfect
in compassion meant a Christian could live with the primary guide "to love your
neighbor as you love yourself.".
This parallels the philosophy of
Siddhartha
Gautama.
Pentecostal denominations are descended from Methodism and
the Methodist Holiness Movement.
Pentecostal soteriology is generally
Arminian rather than Calvinist.
גבר
אני
אדם־בן
"Surely it is obvious, to those who wish to see and have had
their eyes enlightened by
Christ, that
the professing church,
Christendom,
has become nothing more than a very successful business,
reaping huge profits into the
coffers of those who, wandering
off the garden path, have been enticed by a desire for fame, fortune and
universal acceptance.
They have turned the Father's house into nothing
more than a
house of
merchandise and are utilizing the secular world's resources and the secular
world's methods to achieve what they believe to be spiritual success.
The corporation churches, in the same manner as the corporations of the
secular world, have definite characteristics that are clearly observable.
They are human initiated and governed, management-based,
profit-oriented, success-driven, client-friendly, product-focused (programs and
services), and image
conscious. " - Hugh Skyborn |
|
 |
This web site is not a commercial web site and
is presented for educational purposes only.
This website defines a
new perspective with which to engage reality to which its author adheres. The
author feels that the falsification of reality outside personal experience has
forged a populace unable to discern propaganda from reality and that this has
been done purposefully by an international corporate cartel through their
agents who wish to foist a corrupt version of reality on the human race.
Religious intolerance
occurs when any group refuses to tolerate religious practices, religious
beliefs or persons due to their religious ideology. This web site marks the
founding of a system of philosophy named The Truth of the Way of the
Lumière Infinie - a rational gnostic mystery religion based on reason
which requires no leap of faith, accepts
no tithes, has no supreme leader, no church buildings and in which each and
every individual is encouraged to develop a personal relation with the Creator
and Sustainer through the pursuit of the knowledge of reality in the hope of
curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the human spirit. The tenets
of The Truth of the Way of the Lumière Infinie are spelled out in detail
on this web site by the author. Violent acts against individuals due to their
religious beliefs in America is considered a "hate crime."
This web site
in no way condones violence. To the contrary the intent here is to reduce the
violence that is already occurring due to the international corporate cartels
desire to control the human race. The international corporate cartel already
controls the world economic system, corporate media worldwide, the global
industrial military entertainment complex and is responsible for the collapse
of morals, the elevation of self-centered behavior and the destruction of
global ecosystems. Civilization is based on coöperation. Coöperation
does not occur at the point of a gun.
American social mores and values
have declined precipitously over the last century as the corrupt international
cartel has garnered more and more power. This power rests in the ability to
deceive the populace in general through corporate media by pressing emotional
buttons which have been preprogrammed into the population through prior
corporate media psychological operations. The results have been the destruction
of the family and the destruction of social structures that do not adhere to
the corrupt international elites vision of a perfect world. Through distraction
and coercion the direction of thought of the bulk of the population has been
directed toward solutions proposed by the corrupt international elite that
further consolidates their power and which further their purposes.
All
views and opinions presented on this web site are the views and opinions of
individual human men and women that, through their writings, showed the
capacity for intelligent, reasonable, rational, insightful and unpopular
thought. All factual information presented on this web site is believed to be
true and accurate and is presented as originally presented in print media which
may or may not have originally presented the facts truthfully. Opinion and
thoughts have been adapted, edited, corrected, redacted, combined, added to,
re-edited and re-corrected as nearly all opinion and thought has been
throughout time but has been done so in the spirit of the original writer with
the intent of making his or her thoughts and opinions clearer and relevant to
the reader in the present time.
Fair Use Notice
This site may contain
copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically
authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our
efforts to advance understanding of criminal justice, human rights, political,
economic, democratic, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe
this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for
in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C.
Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those
who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for
research and educational purposes. For more information see:
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted
material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you
must obtain permission from the copyright owner. |
 Copyright
© Lawrence Turner
All Rights Reserved
|