Webinar - HERESIES: UNIVERSALISM AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY Part 2

 EVANGELICAL UNIVERSALISM (EU) – All will be Saved after a period of cleansing (Purgatory).

       

·       and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. (Colossians 1:20)

 

However, the EU stops short of citing the following verses

• Colossians 1:21-23 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

 

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·       Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:9-11)

 

·       Colossians 3:12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.

 

·       Galatians 3:26-28 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

 

Verses Against EU:

 

·       Daniel 12:2 “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”

 

·       Matthew 25:46 “And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.”

 

·       Matthew 12:32  “And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come. ”

 

·       Matthew 7:21-23 “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

 

·       Matthew 5:20 “For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

 

·       Luke 13:24 "Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”

 

·       John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not (“never” ESV) see life, for God's wrath remains on him."

 

·       1 Corinthians 6:9–10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

 

·       Galatians 5:21 I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

 

·       Ephesians 5:5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

 

·       Hebrews 6:8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.

 

·       Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

 

·       Jude 1:13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved forever.

 

EU is destructive of the entire Christian faith.

 

 

CRITICAL RACE THEORY – DIVIDING CHURCH

 

Critical Race Theorists (CRTs) allege that whites are invariably racist “oppressors,” even if they don’t recognize it, and that racism is engrained in the fabric of the American society - guilty without any hope of being proven innocent: “This is the analytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing power structures. CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color. (“What is Critical Race Theory?” UCLA School of Public Affairs, Critical Race Studies, https://spacrs.wordpress.com/what-is-critical-race-theory)

 

IMPACT: An immigrant from Thailand, married to a Caucasian, read aloud from a letter she wrote to the Williams County School Superintendent detailing the tremendously disturbing emotional impact this curriculum had on their sever-year-old son who as a result now despises the “white” half of himself. She then elaborated, “The story of Dr. King and his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is beautiful and uplifting. This is the world my child lived in until now. He was color bind. But this curriculum has changed that. It is far more harmful than helpful. It depresses him. It is dark and divisive. It paints a world with only white and black people. It paints a picture of poor black people being attacked by evil white people.” (Richard Land)

 

Mrs. Xi Van Fleet to a school board teaching CRT: “You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history…To me, and to a lot of Chinese, it is heartbreaking that we escaped communism and now we experience communism here. . . . The Communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people. . . . The only difference is they used class instead of race."

 

Sasha Johnson, of the British chapter of Black Lives Matter, called for a “racial offenders register” for whites: “The white man will not be our equal, but our slave. History is changing. No justice, no peace #BLM.” https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2021/05/28/a-whiteout-of-whites-ignoring-the-albino-dhimmi-elephant-in-the-room-n2590147

 

 

Division and Criticism

 

Marxism: Division between the “oppressed” (the “woke” those who are awake) and the “oppressors,” who must be silenced and re-educated by the “oppressed.”

 

•                  Dennis Grimski: The strategy of Marxists is always to cultivate a victimized group and then convince its members that solidarity is required against the oppressors. This creates divisiveness, resentment and hatred and is how Marxist ideologies fulfill their revolutionary objectives. https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/the-frankfort-school-and-the-history-of-political-correctness/

 

•                  Kenneth Craycraft: The fact remains, contends Marx, that where religious institutions are present, exploitation and alienation also are present. Religion is an ideology…and which, like any other ideology, is used by the ruling class to legitimate its power. The very presence of religion, by definition, means that real human emancipation cannot yet have occurred…Religion will not be abolished by criticism, but rather by action, i.e., changing the situation in which religion is fostered. Religion is just another form of illusion which disappears when other forms of illusion (including ultimately the state) also disappear. https://www.crisismagazine.com/1989/why-marx-hated-christianity-a-reply-to-leonardo-boff

 

Constant Criticism (CRT) to Destroy any Opposition:

•                  Max Horkheimer (Frankfort School for Cultural Marxism and Critical Theory: “It is not economics that creates oppression but rather the nuclear family, traditional institutions, traditional morality and concepts of race, gender and sexual identity. These are the chains of tyranny which must be broken by revolution.”

 

•                  Horkheimer: “…It recognized that disinterested scientific research was impossible in a society in which men were themselves not yet autonomous…the researcher was always part of the social object he was attempting to study.”

 

•                  Herbert Marcuse (Frankfort School): “One can rightfully speak of a cultural revolution since the protest is directed toward the whole of society and its cultural establishment, including the morality of the existing society. What we must undertake is a diffuse disintegration of the entire societal system.”

è Political Correctness, Cancel Culture

 

è CRT Strategy - to Vilify “Oppressors”: “Systemic racism is the cause of disparities. If you doubt that, it is because you are a racist who wants to protect your power and keep those disparities in place. This has to be true because, if you were not racist, you would know that the cause of disparities is… racism.” (Voddie Baucham)

 

All in the Same Boat:

•                  Romans 6:22–23 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

•                  Romans 3:10–12 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

 

 

There must be Unity within the Body of Christ:

•                  Do not explain racism to a POC. Do not explain how the microaggression they just experienced was actually just someone being nice. Do not explain how a particular injustice is more about class than race. It’s an easy trap to fall into, but you can avoid it by maintaining a posture of active listening. (“Be the Bridge” Facebook group)

 

•                  Ephesians 4:3–5 [We must be] eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

 

•                  John 17:21–23  [Jesus prayed] “that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”

 

Once an Oppressor, always an Oppressor?

•                  Galatians 3:27–28 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

Justice Opposes Favoritism:

•                  Deuteronomy 24:16 “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.”

 

•                  Exodus 23:2–3 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

 

•                  Ezekiel 18:19–20 “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

 

•                  James 2:8–9 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

 

 

Systemic Racism?

 

•                  According to federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, in interracial violence involving blacks and whites, white perpetrators account for 15 percent of the cases while black perpetrators account for 85 percent. In other words, far from there being an epidemic of whites “hunting down innocent, unarmed black men,” when it comes to interracial violence, black people are overwhelmingly more likely to victimize white people than the other way around. (Baucham, 166)

 

•                  A police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black assailant than an unarmed black man is to be killed by a cop. (Baucham, 166)

 

•                  The best research on the topic of fatal officer-involved shootings (FOIS) has been clear, as were the findings of Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. in a forthcoming study. “On the most extreme use of force, FOIS,” he writes, “we find no racial difference in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account.” Fryer was actually surprised by his findings. (Baucham, 48)

 

•                  Meanwhile, a National Academy of Sciences study ignited controversy when its authors proclaimed, “We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.” (Baucham, 48)

 

•                  I reject the idea that America is “characterized by racism,” or that racism is an unavoidable byproduct of our national DNA. In fact, I believe America is one of the least racist countries in the world. (Baucham, 201)