Christian Clarity Review

Anti-Christ poses riddles as if some divine answer to “the problem of not getting along together” and disguises his riddle as angst over ‘multiculturalism’: how can truth and lies get along together? Can such a ’secular’/'meta’ be forced to exist? Can it be chosen? Isn’t that what man has been calling ‘civilization’ all these thousands of years? If it is an engine what does it do? If it is a bomb, what does it destroy? If it is alive, what does it want?

How does anti-Christ pose these riddles as if by the mere posing of them some good has been demonstrated?

By thinking out loud through Rushdie at the Times on the problem of ‘multiculturalism’:

…When we, as individuals, pick and mix cultural elements for ourselves, we do not do so indiscriminately, but according to our natures. Societies, too, must retain the ability to discriminate, to reject as well as to accept, to value some things above others, and to insist on the acceptance of those values by all their members. This is the question of our time: how does a fractured community of multiple cultures decide what values it must share in order to cohere, and how can it insist on those values even when they clash with some citizens’ traditions and beliefs?

The beginnings of an answer may be found by asking the question the other way around: what does a society owe to its citizens? The French riots demonstrate a stark truth. If people do not feel included in the national idea, their alienation will turn to rage. Chouhan and others are right to insist that issues of social justice, racism and deprivation need urgently to be addressed. If we are to build a plural society on the foundation of what unites us, we must face up to what divides. But the questions of core freedoms and primary loyalties can’t be ducked. No society, no matter how tolerant, can expect to thrive if its citizens don’t prize what their citizenship means — if, when asked what they stand for as Frenchmen, as Indians, as Britons, they cannot give clear replies.

The problem is that to face up to what divides is not possible by fallen man even though fallen man’s speech can’t stop asking the question of what “it” is in the middle of feeling emotions and speaking words as if some combination of the three must sooner or later end up as answer; as if merely talking it out would eventually end up as cure. Thus the worship of anti-Christ in the guise of needing to demonstrate an ability that does not exist: freedom of will in freedom of speech.

The fall itself was simply the replacement of God as Word with anti-Christ as non-creating speech. Now that fallen man is completely encapsulated in a speech that create nothing, his only lens and agenda is scarcity/not-enough and death: non-creation. Everything from his ‘understanding’ of the universe (Darwinism/evolution –nothing more than a validation of the speech that speaks non-creation and therefore seems to necessitate some other explanation/non-creating word order than outright creation as an act of speech from nothing of how things are and came to be that way) to his attempt to simultaneously worship mere speech as supposedly necessitating the protection and inclusion of any word order that can be strung together as being ‘fortuitously encountered’ and yet ‘discriminate’ amongst the variously encountered word orders as truth or lies with assigned values as such are anti-Christ. His mind is non-creating. His speech is non-creating. His thoughts and desires are non-creating. Thus he can never be satisfied.

Ephesians 4:17-19 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts, who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

Yet he hopes he will be satisfied one day in the future. It will supposedly be an event: satisfaction. In his non-creating/not-enough mind that is anti-Christ, he desires only to build up emotional opportunities around him, a well of supposed cures to dissatisfaction and some combination of what is in the well will supposedly save him one day. He hears of lies and feels them good so as to turn them into opportunity and is further ensnared and does not perceive it. He trades on truth for one lie and sees nothing has changed. He is religious today for one deity and another tomorrow; then an atheist in the end. He writes books on some particular of the mix/kaleidoscope view he sees and argues vehemently when another has a different ‘view’ from the same well. He is deceived he desperately needs the well with all its mixed wine to find the cure for dissatisfaction. He must have his multi-‘culturalism’ as it seems to him to be the untouched jungle/garden from which the miracle cure will one day be discovered.

Yet within them all with the one exception of true Christianity, they are all non-creating. Trillions of incantations and mixed phrases within it can and are spoken every day. There is no end to the algorithms mixed to get a new order and say it and hear it. The powerless words are the money/medium of exchange of the emotional economy of the world that buys everything but salvation from it. The whole is powerless. They are mere idols of sound and sight: a plastic god always nodding yes.

Psalm 115:4-8 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands: They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not; They have ears, and they hear not; a nose have they, and they smell not; They have hands, and they handle not; feet have they, and they walk not; they give no sound through their throat. They that make them are like unto them, –every one that confideth in them.

Note the question is the common one these days and is set up so as promote and sustain the lie of free will and that the foundation of the lie of free will: (”pick…choose…”) that only one speech exists in total reality and it is non-creating (and thus non-’interfering’ with the will) –that ‘we’ are all in a box of not-enoughness and yet that is all there is. Supposedly, not only are we, by divine fiat forced to ‘use our free will’, but do so as competeing with our neighbor and as fighting very loosely and lyingly defined inner demons that have nothing to do with speech over a better slice of the only steak around; that is to say, the only emotional opportunity around, or as anti-Christ says “what society owes its citizens and what its citizens owe society” as if creatures had free will.

Do Rushdie or any of his contemporary thinkist of the mind of anti-Christ know that it is anti-Christ who speaks through them in such writings, which in their mind are well intended and for the good (of course) and that discourse is the solution to all problems? Of course not. Anti-Christ to such as they is always elsewhere as the ultimate evil. Anti-Christ is to them Emotional Negative that has free will ‘too’ and thus the source of all Emotional Negatives: the invisible enemy in one’s neighbor that must be talked out into the open and conquered.

Anti-Christ through Rushdie poses a question as if a riddle, then seems to force choice at the end as a solution to the problem of how ‘we’ are to use the ‘free’ will as answer. His only answer is always to ‘keep’ ‘using’ the ‘free’ will as if it were really free and his speech the one speech in total reality. That the will is not free, that we do not at all make the future and that Jesus Christ is a separate and distinct Word from anti-Christ is the fly in the soup of worldly/multiculturalist hopes.

How will Rushdie and company grasp Jesus Christ as Creating Speech? How will the reader grasp what is in front of them? By letting go of the speech they grew up in: all its knowledge; all its understanding; all its rules of how and why; all its wisdom: to become a child.

To do so is to be free from desire itself: to see Satan’s merchandise as the evil it really is and to know that ‘multi’-culturalism is nothing more than anti-Christ as single-speechism and the pretence to unite something that is not disparate, even given there are niche tumors in anti-Christ’s one mind that fight against one another and the whole: all of it is non-creating speech. It is to see the same speech by which the Russians both formed (as the Authorities) and took to the Gulags (as prisoners). It is not Russian. It is the same speech by which the Germans formed the death camps (as the Authorities) and those who were killed therein spoke as false hope of delivery from them. (They had long ago been caught in it and it only worked itself out as the fruit of their own mouth.)

Yet there is no free will because there are two speaks in total reality: God is One/Word, anti-Christ is the other. One is God/Jesus Christ, the other a living creature that has deceived all those it has devoured even as it speaks out through them until the end. The only salvation from that speech/mind of anti-Christ is actual new birth in Jesus Christ, by which God will perform on you the sign of the Prophet Jonah in that Bel is anti-Christ:

Jeremiah 51:44,45 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon is fallen. Go ye out of the midst of her, my people, and deliver every man his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah!

And God will say to you, after you have been cast out of the mouth of your former speech and cut off from the world that is still inside it:

Ezekiel 16:4-8 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou wast not rubbed with salt at all, nor swaddled at all. No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, from abhorrence of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. And I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, and I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live! yea, I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live! I caused thee to multiply, as the bud of the field; and thou didst increase and grow great, and thou camest to fulness of beauty; thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: but thou wast naked and bare. And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; and I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.

That actual new birth is to hear God as Word. To gain the indwelling Word/Jesus Christ.

John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

1 Peter 1:23 being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living and abiding word of God.

You will either be born again as hearing God, Jesus Christ as Word or you will love your old speech which is anti-Christ.

Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The whole of all contention is the difference between the two speaks. If you love the speech of this world and yet you think to be a “religious and political conservative” you are of anti-Christ and will end up, no matter where you start, in a drive for satisfaction and the supposed necessity of a lot of words to ‘pick’ from to get that satisfaction as a multiculturalist. You will set up what you call a lie today next door to you so that you can specifically choose it as truth tomorrow simply to prove you’ve got free will and freedom of speech. You will worship such sentences as “I’m open minded to new ideas” as idols that protect your supposed free will.

Then you will turn around a few decades later and say, as the French do now, “How did this happen to us?” And no matter what you say, you won’t be satisfied. So you will question the lies you set up next door and the ones you left and yet will go in search of more to start over with because your only wisdom will be to experiment with words in a hunt for satisfaction and the only Word you will hate in that hunt is Jesus Christ and His brethren: anything that even remotely appears to get in your way of the hunt for satisfaction. You will only see those who are real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ as the kings of fools who keep saying there is another speech and you will say to us: “Huh? Nothing you say makes any sense according to all that is called sense.” –even as you perfectly understand that God as Word does away with the whole lie of ‘culture’ and that there are no cultures at all. As your life and love will be plastic, you will probably love plastic flowers over real ones and the ‘idea’ of love and marriage rather than the real thing.

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There is only Truth and lies: God as Word/Jesus Christ as Truth/Way/Life or anti-Christ as non-creating speech/lies/alternate literal of God.

1 John 4:5,6 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Psalm 146:3,4 Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen