Humanism

The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man

The Conflict
Everyday I feel the pressing temptation, the overbearing seduction to settle for the ordinary, to domesticate my soul and anchor my hopes, my identity, my dreams in the here and now, the kingdom of man. What is the ordinary? The ordinary is gaining the entire world, yet forfeiting my soul. Even if I should indeed gain the whole world--the fame, money, power, status, and the glamor and glory of man that accompany treasures and accomplishments of the kingdom of man, I will have remained ordinary, for to forfeit my soul is to lose everything. Indeed, it would be to not have truly lived at all. I was created for the purpose of knowing God, and to be known by Him. Everything else pales in comparison. I was created to love God--the highest pleasure of eternal measure. I was created to be loved by the infinite, personal God, who is the creator and the embodiment of love. I do not need to gain the whole world. That desire is far from my soul. I desire a King, whose desire is to give me His kingdom. I refuse to settle for anything less.

The Kingdom of God is glorious and majestic beyond all comprehension. However, seen through the lens of the value system of the kingdom of man, it lacks the prestige, glamor, and the worldly beauty that would draw those deeply embedded in the principles of this world.

For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against persons without bodies—the evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world; and against huge numbers of wicked spirits in the spirit world. (Eph. 6:12, TLB)

As followers of Jesus Christ, we find ourselves caught up in a conflict that spans both heaven and earth. The forces that confront us are “persons without bodies”—evil spiritual powers in the unseen realm that oppose all true righteousness and seek to establish Satan’s dominion over the whole world. Our responsibility in this conflict is unique, because Christ has committed to us alone the spiritual insight and weapons that can give us victory. The governments and the armies of this world, operating solely on the natural plane, have no understanding of the conflict and no power to deal with the satanic forces in the heavenlies. On the contrary, without realizing it, they themselves are manipulated and controlled by those forces.

One essential requirement for victory is to identify the nature of the forces that are at work in any given situation. In recent months as I have been meditating on developments in the world—and especially in the U.S.A. and Israel—I believe that God has shown me the identity of the evil, deceptive power that Satan plans to use to consummate his purposes for the end of this age. It is HUMANISM. I had always thought of humanism as a comparatively harmless error. When I consulted a dictionary, I was taken aback by its definition: “the denial of any power or moral value superior to that of humanity; the rejection of religion in favor of a belief in the advancement of humanity by its own efforts.” I realized that humanism is not spiritually neutral. On the contrary, it is a deliberate denial and rejection of God’s power and authority. It is an anti-religious religion. For this reason, it can be—and often is—taught in educational systems, such as that of the U.S.A., which prohibit the teaching of religion in its usual sense.

To understand the dangers of Humanism we must first understand what Humanism is. Wikipedia defines Humanism as “a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particularly rationalitiy, without resorting to the supernatural or alleged divine authority from religious texts. It is a component of a variety of more specific philosophical systems. Humanism can be considered as a process by which truth and morality is sought through human investigation and as such views on morals can change when new knowledge and information is discovered.

In focusing on the capacity for self-determination, humanism rejects transcendental justifications, such as a dependence on belief without reason, the supernatural, or texts of allegedly divine origin. Humanists endorse universal morality based on the commonality of the human condition, suggesting that solutions to human social and cultural problems cannot be parochial.” Humanism at it’s core root is the spirit of the antichrist. The spirit of the antichrist wants to put itself in the place of God or anything else that proclaims to be god.