Logical Antithesis

Have you ever wanted to understand better how your mind works, or how to control it better? What are the biggest influences on whom you are and what shapes these characteristics?

I must warn you that most of the concepts are not the most complex or astounding, but when looked at from a biblical point of view they take on a new importance. It may take more than one article on the subject to draw to a conclusion, but please try to be patient with me as I endeavor to write something rather large and nebulous into full clarity.

By Whose Standard?

Firstly, if you have an evolutionary bias do not read this article. I cannot cure, fix, or help you because of what you have molded your thoughts into. If you believe in evolution, you have this strict mindset that all things change for the better if left to their natural devices—which blatantly contradicts the word of God. If you call yourself a “Christian” while believing in evolution you utterly strip God of His power and ability to help your life, by denying that he has the power to create the world from nothing in a period of six miraculous days. If you deny these things I can do nothing for you. For what is harder: to make the world, or to cure a sin-sickened soul determined to disbelieve?

Three Foundations of Personality

To understand the relationships between these various foundations I have ordered them in rank of priority, the top being the most important. In addition to this, I have broken them apart … because as much as they contribute to a person’s psychological makeup they are disconnected. Yes, that’s right, they’re virtually “pillars”, and yet don’t fit that classification.

Notice that religion is the ultimate factor in a person’s behavior. Then comes their upbringing and its factors. Then genetics; I know that you have heard all the excuses about people genes making them so, and it is all a bunch of baloney.

Define: Religion

What you must first understand, is that religion and culture go hand-in-hand. In each person one is derived from the other. What do I mean?

Culture is religion externalized. – Cornelius van Til

The simplest definition of religion is, “beliefs, morals, and bias held.” That’s it. Evolution tells you that the world took uncountable years to bring you about, and that everything just happened by chance … and these beliefs will (if accepted) change your morals and irrationalize your bias into something completely perverting the laws of logic. If you think yourself unbiased, just remember that thought is a part of your bias.

So you, yourself, fall into one of two camps.

The first camp is comprised of those people who derive their religion from their culture. That is, the culture in which they were raised (should it have not been shown as wrong) will naturally shape the religion of the person. So if you were raised by christian parents within a highly atheistic and self-deceived society, without adequately explaining the deceit of it, then you will, of course, be influenced by culture! But how often does our culture change? Often, it’s all about change now, didn’t you know?

The second camp is comprised of those whose religion shapes their culture. Naturally, throughout your upbringing culture will shape you, but by application of God’s laws and truths your culture will stabilize into what God wants. And those individuals who hold the Biblical precepts as absolute and resolutely apply them in their lives are so much more stable. If you take God’s word as truth and law, then naturally (since His word never changes) your personality will be stable.

All “christian evolutionists” fall into the first camp. There is no third camp for these double-minded and unstable heretics (James 1:8). Those people who cannot decide what side of the fence to sit upon automatically fall out of God’s appointed pasture. These individuals are reprimanded by the entire book of Jude, and confirmed by James 1:8 and 4:8.

Therefore culture is inseparable from religion, and is precisely where our once glorious culture here in The united States of America (not a misspelling) has gone: it’s gone to the dogs of evolution and democracy [mob rule] – and we’ve simply let them have it!

Uniting the Three Foundations of Personality

Each of those three foundations has something to contribute to your personality and physical make-up.

Your genetics provide the absolute baseline for who you are. But, the nutrition, love, and care that you receive throughout your early years (your Upbringing) will dictate how these genetics are expressed.

Your Upbringing will tell you more than you will ever consciously know, because everything has an implication. If your parents don’t condemn immodesty, of course you’ll think it’s acceptable when the culture/religion around you says that “whoredom is normal!” So your Upbringing will affect and shape your Religion.

And your Religion will shape your personal culture into either depravity, mediocrity, or righteousness. As you should know, only righteousness is approved of by God: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then, because thou art luke-warm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit thee out of my mouth. (Revelations 3:15-16)

the Word that Was Not

The final thing to learn is the power of perversion that lies within the word not. “Not” is one of the hardest concepts that children learn. No is obvious, that’s just refusal. But what is “not”? Think about it for a second and try your hands at these; try to infer the meaning from the context, of not, rather than the mental definitions which you have learned.

I do not like apple pies.

Okay, this is an easy one to start you out. If you take “do” and “like” together, they mean a positive concept of enjoyment. Therefore, “I do like apple pies!” means that you enjoy (delight in) them. The not says (no thinking of dislike, which is not-like, or distaste, the not-tasty, or dis-…) that this becomes a negative concept. The opposite of like is disgust, which has no dis- prefix, which means that you find the food repulsive. But… couldn’t you have said this with, “I find apple pies mildly repulsive,” or “I think apple pies typically taste poorly?”

I am not being dishonest with you, but I do not want to hurt your feelings.

I’ll let you ponder this one. Remember that dis- means not, and that this but has a negativity to it. A better way to write this, instead of how we think (which is very complex like the above) is, “I am being honest with you, but I am worried about hurting your feelings.” This one expresses concern and yet the example expresses it too, it’s just cloudy because of all the negativity and inversion going on.

I am not not not not not not not being unserious.

Now, how would you ever figure that out without counting? But notice “I am not”, which takes a positive concept (“I am”/“I have being”) and turns it into a negative concept (“I lack”). So with seven nots in that sentence, the resulting meaning is positive … and therefore the meaning switches back. But wait! There’s an un- prefix, another not! So… it is positive (or true) that you are being “unserious”. Unserious being the inverse (NOT again!) of serious (sober/grave/deep-interest/not-jesting) … and therefore being jesting/disinterested/mocking or in a similar state. So they’re positively being unserious, eh? Is that not hard enough to understand in one sentence? “I am being silly,” is the total meaning of that sentence.

Are you confused yet? I hope so! I worked hard to make you confused. See, in your own mental dialogue your subconscious—which hears, sees, feels, and watches all the conscious does—cannot comprehend the meaning of the word not. If you mention to yourself, “I am not going to have another piece of that pie,” your subconscious will obviously know that (omitting the not) that you are going to have another piece no matter how reluctant you are. How many times have you said something similar, and then later talked yourself into it?

a Final Summary

So what does all this add up to? Understanding I hope. The bible says to get knowledge, then understanding, and then wisdom. I have shared my knowledge and the understanding that I was given in turn, in hopes that it may be able to help you.

I won’t claim to have wisdom here, but I have garnered some understanding and hope that it was beneficial.

So…

1. Talk to yourself in a positive tone and light. Make goals in a positive manner. Denote boundaries through positive affirmation of the right behavior; list no do-nots but rather the do’s.
2. Resist the shaping of the world’s culture, affirm (positively!) the deity of Christ and the validity of your beliefs in the Bible. Reshape your culture, and through it your religion, into something that honors God as He should be.
3. Hold fast to the Bible and the true religion that it puts forth, and not the interpretations of man which change on a whim (just as fast as those evolutionists sometimes). Rest on God, and He will care for you (Matthew 6:24-34).