Robert Muller former Asst.

secretary general of the United Nations introduced The

World Core Curriculum, which gives principles to govern all of the planet’s education
programs; for good reason some have named him the “Father of Global Education.
Muller believes The UN is the New Genesis. He has written “The United Nations is the
only place on Earth which can give humanity a new sense of direction, a general holistic
philosophy and vision of a global, planetary civilization” (Robert Muller, My Testament.
pp. 8-9). If we want to see where we are headed in education we only need to look at the
goals promoted through the UN.

To create the new world citizen it is necessary to remove all “prejudice” against the
beliefs which other people may hold’” (cited from Global Peace and the rise of Antichrist
p.95, Dave Hunt).

To change the system one must change people’s values and their thinking.
Something must be introduced that would bring a new paradigm. Something that would
affect not a few, but many at the same time.

For new ideas to replace the old ones one, we must disregard the old and only embrace
the new. We have come to identify this by what they call it, “the paradigm shift.”

One can tell who these agents of change and their supporters are by what they say and do:
Marilyn Ferguson writes, “The radical Center of spiritual experience seems to be
knowing without doctrine ... the teacher does not impart knowledge but technique.
This is the ‘transmission of knowledge by direct experience.’ Doctrine on the other
hand, is second-hand knowledge, a danger. … ‘Do not get entangled in any
teaching” (The Aquarian Conspiracy, Marilyn Ferguson, pp. 371, 377.)

“A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible

but necessary” (Jesus,’ A Course in Miracles Workbook Manual, p. 77)

No truer words can be applied to this paradigm than- “Beware lest anyone cheat you
through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to
the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ” (Col. 2:6-9). The reason
we are warned is because the Bible gives us standards that are based on absolutes
from our creator, it is didactic; these are instructions that are based on moral
absolutes.

Rom. 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of
God.” This transforming of our mind that was of the fallen nature is renewed by the word
of God and the power of the Spirit. This changes us daily into the image of His Son. 2
Cor. 3:18 “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the
Lord.”
Dialectic: is defined as the art or practice of examining statements logically as by
question and answer to establish validity (Funk and Wagnell’s Dictionary). Another
Dictionary describes this as “the art or practice of examining opinions or ideas
logically, often by the method of question and answer, so as to determine their
validity.”

Hegel’s ideas are used and applied to various facets of life, psychology, religion, and
history. While this method has been used by famous thinkers and has a veneer of
logic, it really is subjectivism and promotes relativism. Hagel’s dialectic is logic
used illogically. Truth becomes abstract under the Hegelian Dialectic. Consensus
or synthesis is at the core of the Hegelian Principle. Agreement is the object of this
principle. What praxis is about is exactly what the New age movements goals are,
unlearning your traditional values - to let go of what keeps you from moving toward
the new paradigm of whatever it may be, in the case of the New age agenda--global
harmony. In other cases it may be used to bring harmony in smaller groups.

“Praxis was later developed in the early 20th century by socio-psychologists

(Transformational Marxists) such as Georg Lukacs, Karl Korsch, and Antonio
Gramsci” (Vol. 1 No. 1, 1996, The Dialectic & Praxis: Diaprax and the End of the
ages by Dean Gotcher).

The use of the word Diaprax, or Praxis it is simply another form for the Hegelian
Dialectic. We may not be familiar with these terms but we need to be more familiar
in identifying their work. If we can know how it works we can identify the process
and not fall for its procedure.

This concept started a new development that redefines truth; it removes one from
the surety of absolutes and proposes that truth changes throughout history as
peoples ideas and cultures change. This becomes a continual process that is never
stabilized in absolutes. The old “truth” (thesis) is challenged by a “new concept”
(antithesis), which changes ones thinking and the result births a new truth
(synthesis), which becomes the new thesis for the next process that will bring
change. The change can be ever so slight each time this type of message is heard, as the
recipients are moved over slowly to where the speaker wants them to be. Each process of
change is actively pursued until the arrived goal is finally reached. Each part is a
necessary component for the change. So the means to reach the goal is integrated in the
continual process to achieve the goal. But this goal does not have to have anything to do
with truth. It is what we identify as relativism (moral, spiritual etc.) its intention is to
move people away from the truth.

This is the vehicle by which people are influenced to change their currently held
belief systems in order to come to consensus -The means is tolerance, the main
objective today is unanimity - unity, that will bring the result of peace and harmony.
 The solution of do not judge

Satan used this method of consensus with Eve as he made her move from believing
in God’s absolute truth to entertaining his version of what was meant, called a lie.
He came to Eve and brought doubt to what God had said; that what He said was not
an absolute statement. He then substituted a lie for the result of her eating the fruit in
order to get her to do what God told her not to do. How? He was able to get her to think
differently about the fruit--something good. No you will not die the day you eat of it
(challenging God’s word as absolute truth). The reason he is keeping it from you; so
you will not become as wise as He is, (something good will come out of this). He made
her look at where she should not have, reach for it and do the prohibited act: eat of it.
Thus instigating the fall of her and Adam and all of humanity with them thereafter.

If Eve exercised her judgment by standing on the truth she received, the temptation
would have been over. (Regardless, God knew this would take place and had a plan).
Satan was right, both Adam and Eve did learn the knowledge of good and evil, by
experience. God did not want them to learn this knowledge in this manner.

Our fallen intellect is no match for the Devil’s strategies we are warned to be aware of
his scheming. The light of the Word of God has to be our armor. When we take off
the armor, we become exposed to falsehood and its gets through because the belt of
truth is not on.

THE biggest problem in the church today is its unwillingness to exercise the
command to distinguish the truth from falsehood. We are to judge. It’s not that we
judge too much, but that we have very little judgment. The church lacks the skill to
discern because we don’t know that we are to judge, we are untrained. The
willingness to discern and identify what is false has been taken away from us. How
did we get to be like this? When you hear people tell you not to judge you need to
understand the motivation for their saying this. This has been the position of the
false teachers for years, they have trained the people to dispense with judging them,
allowing falsehood to continue and become the normative in the church.

How this is implemented is much like cultism. We have often heard the statement
that the cults have the people leave their brains at the door. In other words their
cognitive, critical thinking is removed. We see the same concept creeping into the
church when judgment is removed. What we find is the same language and
concepts used by the New Age Movement inside the church.

Ask yourself, who will gain the most by not judging? It’s not the church. In the long
run it is Satan who has victory, for he does not want any Biblical discernment to
take place because he will lose his influence. Satan tells those who have the word not
to judge so the counterfeit can be established. This way he can either keep you from
growing or shipwreck your faith. He wants to bring the church to the place where we
cannot distinguish between God’s Word of truth and Satan’s lies. The whole point
is to prevent one from finding what is disagreeable and make it all agreeable.
 Jesus’ ministry was constantly opposing the Pharisees who tried to have him agree
with their own Bible interpretations. Jesus mentioned the Pharisees as a group to
not listen to. He warned of their teachings as leaven, He compared what they said to
what God said and what He said. The Pharisees kept the teaching of Moses but they
had added their teachings as equal and made them the focus of their lives. This way
the people were no longer taught Moses’ law. The Pharisee’s wanted to kill Jesus
because of his judgment on them, telling the people they were not following God the
way He required and leading them to do the same. Just as Satan made a mixture of
truth with error to Eve, he has been trying to pollute and mix his false teachings into
the church since it began. He did so with Israel and he is doing so today.

The “How to” of praxis

They employ these methods by straw man arguments and easily tearing them down to
introduce a whole new way of doing things. By working through the antithesis to
challenge the thesis they can reach the pre-determined outcome of the consensus.
For example, you may hear, don’t you want to see the church succeed? Well we
haven’t had much success in doing it this way, people are having success doing it
another way; therefore we should abandon this way and try their way, (even if it is
not biblical). They have implemented a pragmatic concept - the ends justify the
means, therefore we have consensus if people agree, we have unity. Truth is left out
of the equation; all that matters is the result.

“How can we be wrong when we are successful?” Don’t be negative, don’t look at
what’s wrong, as if it does not need to be corrected, look at all that is right, even if it
is a smaller percentage than what is wrong. The Bible is put aside for worldly
wisdom. To bring those who hold to the biblical principles to do it another way, they
must convince them it’s “not that big of a deal,” it’s acceptable.

While we see this practiced all round us the most dangerous has become its entry
into the church. “The past several decades have been marked by an unprecedented
degree of discontinuity with the past. Part of that discontinuity is reflected in the new
rule book on how to do church in the new millennium...” (Lyle E. Schaller, The Very
Large Church: New Rules for Leaders.) http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/

Change is the key word, and we see it happening everywhere. But when unbiblical
change is finding place in the church we can only have problems. We see this
influence on the mission fields where people are willing to try new ideas “So the time
is ripe for a ‘sea change’ in the way we do missions,” writes Michael McLoughlin
(Youth With A Mission, Marketplace Ministries). “A ‘sea change’ is an entire shift
in our thinking and our methodology towards missions. Without this change, we
risk the temptation to retreat into our cultural Christian ghetto surrounded by our
spiritual walls of the fear of compromise, suspicion of technology and reluctance to
risk.”
 We need to recognize this as a “paradigm shift,” but the real question we need to ask
is how these methods are employed to bring others into the paradigm. Experimental ways
are used to reach out to numerous groups that have been unsuccessful in today’s way we
measure success. The making of Messianic Muslims on the mission field is one way
we see this put this into practice. ‘They, after conversion continue a life of following
the Islamic requirements, including “mosque attendance, fasting and Koranic
reading, besides getting together as a fellowship of Muslims who acknowledge
Christ as the source of God’s mercy for them” (for more on this
www.letusreason.org/curren31.htm also reported in March 24, 2000, Charisma News
Service report). There is no such thing as Messianic muslim as there are Messianic
Jews.

Ted Haggard (an apostle under C. P. Wagner’s leadership) pastor of New Life Church
and now the president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) along with
Fred Markert, executive director of Youth With a Mission intend on reaching the
Muslims without the gospel, but by showing their good works. Haggard states, “The
primary goal is not to win new Christian converts but to “serve the Islamic people.”
“We believe it is the role of Christians to befriend people in the Islamic community to
ensure their peace and safety, Haggard said he wants people to “become aware of the
Islamic community and locate their needs.” That includes leaving them alone if that’s
what they want, he said.’” “Markert said the goal is to give people a choice of
religions, not force Christianity on them. He said missionaries would provide blankets,
food and other short-term relief as well as help with long-term projects such as installing
clean water systems” (Quotes from The Gazette -Pastors issue call for missionaries to
Islam 9/29/01).

We only have to look no further than the book of Acts and the epistles to see this
was not the way the apostles succeeded with God given grace in their missionary
work (Mark 6:11). Forcing the gospel on anyone is not even an option, we don’t do
that; but we MUST tell them that if they are to find their roots with Abraham, (as
they claim), that this Jesus is whom Abraham, Moses and the prophets spoke of.
And explain to them who Jesus is and what is required of us to be in relationship to
God.

What would be the difference to these people if we do what anyone else can do to
help? People of any religion can do this, Humanists can give them blankets and
food, Atheists can do this. So why would they be attracted to Christianity instead
because of this?

The commission still stands: Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature.” There is nothing recorded in Scripture to do
what we are being told in this new way of “friendship” evangelism (Acts 8:25; Acts
15:7; Rom.15:15-16;1 Thess. 2:2). Paul tells Timothy “…Preach the word; be
instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and
doctrine” (2 Tim 4:1-5).
 Today wanting to be friends and do good to people is priority. Although there is
nothing wrong with this in itself, we should be friendly and help; this is not how the
apostles approached the Gentiles. We are now being asked to have a more
reasonable approach to do things; a more culturally correct way because the
apostle’s method is considered outdated according to some new paradigm thinkers.
Some want no friction inside the church and others want to go further applying this
to interfaith so we can all live in peace.

There are no New Rules of engagement. The Churches guidelines were given us by
God Himself in His Word, any deviation from this will have us leave the God of the
Word and we are left doing this on our own.

The church being Spiritually Correct

The world is taught global governance is the answer to its problems, the church is
being taught that ecumenism is the answer.

The concentration on religion is most severe as most know this is where the
greatest disagreements are.

The New Age Movement has been using certain philosophical methods to bring
their unity to the church. Interfaith is a bold attempt to unify all of the world’s
religions, to overlook and dispense with our differences to work together. This goal
is considered the higher road. But underneath the surface activity for reaching this
goal is working in the darkness. Ecumenism must be established first for the next
step: interfaith. When Evangelicals join forces with the cults such as the Mormons,
the Unification Church, and Catholics in pursuing commendable goals to change
society for the better (such as peace, ecology, opposing abortion or pornography,
feeding and clothing the poor etc. and etc.), this is the ecumenism that eventually
leads to interfaith. As one can mutually work with these groups over a period of
time, there is no reason why they cannot take the next step and work with others
that do not claim to be Christian for the same goals.

The Hegelian Dialectic is used to breakdown divisions between religions its goal is
tolerance and this produces ecumenism. In a group setting, opposing views are
formulated and synthesized into a collective view that becomes the new thesis. Two
opposite view points of exclusiveness are made to find commonality. Through this
process of thinking, unity is achieved. From this we can unite with those that call
themselves Christians who we disagree with and then the next step is to those who
are of other religions. The big tent concept (Globalism) after solving two or more
that were at odds, then it is not hard to implement a more aggressive move to
embrace all religions as the spiritual brotherhood of man. Soon we can believe that
we all worship the same God, just by different names. This method is not used to
help people come to the knowledge of truth but to dispense with any truth they may
have, allow them to be wrong to bring a false unity.
 The Parliament Association begun in the 1800s networking for global unity (world
government). Their drive for global religious unity did not become accepted until the
1980s. After the 60’s in America the climate was ripe for oneness, as many went
through the paradigm shift via the love, peace, drug revolution. What stands in the
way are old religious institutions. New Age spiritual planners use ecumenism as a
springboard to interfaith and the church is the main target. At the 1993 Parliament of
World Religions Robert Muller delivered the Parliament’s first keynote address, rallying
for the creation of a “permanent institution” dedicated to pursuing religious unity.” “We
[participants in the Parliament of World Religions] are persons who have committed
ourselves to the precepts and practices of the world’s religions. We confirm that there is
already a consensus among the religions which can be the basis for a global ethic - a
minimal fundamental consensus concerning binding values, irrevocable standards,
and fundamental moral attitudes” (Given at the 1993 Parliament of the World’s
Religions, September 4, 1993, in Chicago, Illinois).

Their goal is a synthesis of those who oppose by giving the people a completely ne
way of looking at things.. This praxis concept can be most useful to influence unity in
most anything. Arriving at a consensus of agreement does not mean each party
upholds the truth; truth does not need to be part of their conclusion. In this case, it
certainly is not! The Bible does speak of unity, it is found in the one who is the truth
and wrote the truth. Jesus Christ and His word.

The vision of the new age is to reshape us into global citizens where we think
collectively in agreement and the collective whole becomes more important than any
individual. A world without borders, no countries, no sovereignty. As John
Lennon’s song “imagine,” a song that became ingrained in our culture, and was
adopted as the United Nations’ theme one year. Imagine a world in which there
would be no borders, no political systems and no religion. Long since implemented
“We need a new way of governing the whole planet. The problems we face today are
bigger than any single country” (Children’s Task Force on Agenda 21, Rescue Mission
Planet Earth: A Youth Edition of Agenda 21, Peace Child Charitable Trust p.81, 1994).

Maitreya, the New Age Christ of choice says it well, “It is only in group formation
that the Aquarian ideas can be sensed, apprehended and worked out. It will be the Age of
Synthesis, which is the Age of the Group. Fundamentally, there is only a group in the
world on the soul plane man is One. The Hierarchy is a group. They have no personal,
separate consciousness.” This is the ultimate group-think; individualism is gone to
achieve spiritual unity.
The Way to Unity

What we see used today in the church is Hegel’s concept modified. The purpose is
to build bridges of two opposite parties of beliefs to be united. Remove disapproval
and move to a consensus of agreement on something inconsequential.

As an example: The cup that is half empty or the cup is half full. Can we agree that
the cup is halfway no matter which direction the liquid is going? We have consensus.
It does not matter if the cup is going up to be filled or diminishing to be empty, the
consensus is for agreement only, for unity.

For example: Christianity teaches Jesus is God, Islam or another religion sees Jesus
as only a man but still a prophet. Using the Hagelian dialectic it is asked: can we see
Jesus is a prophet? Can we both agree Jesus is a prophet? Yes. We then go to the
next principle on the outer core, until finally there is agreement on enough points to unite.
Each piece is stripped away until there is only enough is to be agreed upon, we go only so
far to have agreement, we do not go any further for it would disrupt this newly held
agreement and unity.

Compromise is the goal as the main core beliefs are supplanted. The two biggest
religions Islam and Christianity need to find agreement. On the subject of Islam and
Christianity, Ralph Reed of the Christian coalition was being interviewed on CNN he
commented that he did not see any significant difference in the faiths (CNN capitol
gang interview, April 13, 2002). Whether he is doing this purposely or not does not
matter, all that matters is the result. This kind of compromise is going on all the time
to move us closer to synthesis. And this happens because one does not stand on Biblical
truth. There are many who act more like politicians representing the church than a
leader who stands for and protects the church. It’s as if any noticeable differences do
not matter as much as the unity we can achieve by agreement. Anyone who knows the
basics on Islam and Christianity knows the single main difference is their view on Christ.
The deity of Christ is the most important issue; it is a Christian distinctive. Only
those who do understand and who don’t care will not make a stand for Christ’s
deity.

Praxis is not used to help people by correcting the wrong and bring them closer to
the truth but to execute change, convincing them of another view to take place over
God’s truth.

I do not think alone, therefore I am in Unity

There are those who have something to say and those who have to say something.
When this happens behind the pulpit it become a sad situation. What is the content? Is it
making you think or dulling you not to think! Is it bringing you to be confronted with the
truth or seducing you away from the truth to feel better about yourself? This practice has
come into the church by drunk in the spirit meetings to break down the teaching aspect
and bring in learning by an experience. Experiential spirituality is the trend, not
learning by reading and using the mind. This new way of practicing Christianity is
the goal of the New Age movement,

Spiritual truth is found by numerous means today, not just the Bible. It’s a spiritual
smorgasbord. We hear that we can learn new truths that have not been written (in
the Bible). Scripture says truth is always the same; it’s really a matter of how
accurate we are in our understanding it. It is already revealed, it is not invented by
the minds of men. The simplest definition of truth is that “truth is absolute and
constant; it never changes,” because its source is God and it is related to God’s
definition of Himself, “I am that I am.” YHWH describes Himself as the God who
never changes, and is eternally the same in His nature. Truth flows from the nature of
God.
What we hear today are arguments from those who have come to a new consensus
from this new truth. Statements such as: “don’t put God in the box;” “He can do
whatever he wants” exhibit their change in thinking. While this statement may seem
true on the surface its meaning goes much deeper. This is like saying God is not
constrained to what He says in His book. Their purpose is to open us up to go beyond
the guidelines of the Scripture and remove us from boundaries God has already set,
communicated by His revelation. This is not a valid position to hold.

The God of Judeo-Christianity is different from all other religions,. He says of

himself: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my, says the
LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:7-9). The books of the Bible were
all written by men limited, being inside the box inspired by a eternal being (YHWH -
God) outside the box.

Many are redefining Christian beliefs, reinterpreting the Bible to what they
think; adding teachings and practices that are not in Scripture. Yes God is outside
the box but because He has set guidelines for man He will not violate them. He will not
do something that will contradict his nature or ways. What he has revealed and done
before gives us guidelines and principles to know what God is actually doing today.

What we believe about truth affects everything, and translates into how we live.
How do we know what we have is the truth? How do we arrive at knowing truth?
The basis of truth is connected to our faith. Not just faith as a belief but the faith
that was delivered to the saints once and for all. It is based on facts and God who
has worked through history and is revealed in the Bible.

Transformational thinkers are unable to process factual information; they are unable to
accept absolutes well, they cannot integrate it in their living because of their worldview.
We see this in the church from those who are following men that claim to be specially
anointed and from prophets. These people believe every word that comes out of their
mouths, even if it sounds like it came from the pit of hell.
 Praxis (diaprax) doesn’t teach anyone how to think for them-selves; it shifts one
over to rely on feelings and experiences. The Bible is then interpreted by ones
personal feelings, not by the context it was written in. This teaching minimizes the
importance of pursuing scriptural knowledge and using didactic teaching, is it any
wonder the church has become diluted. With the absence of Instructive teaching of the
Bible (i.e. consistent verse by verse Bible teaching) within the Church, this opens
people for praxis or any other non-biblical method to be used. The church becomes
a field seeded with concepts of “tolerance, unity” for its goal and anything else that
is non-biblical can grow. People are being removed from what is written to think
beyond (limitations) what God has said.

The new church model concentrates on the needs of unbelievers instead of

building and equipping the believers. It has created an “inoffensive” atmosphere
where sin and the cross are eliminated from its focus. In some churches Bibles are
purposely not seen lest the unbelievers think they are too radical. Sermons are catered
to be inline with what everyone else is thinking, feeling and experiencing to relate to
them. Bible studies or group meetings are centered on asking what each persons
opinion of the scripture being read means and everyone’s opinion is valid. Who is
susceptible to this? We all are, but especially new - born Christians that know no
better can be easily led into this method of group opinions and participation. Even if
they know they are unbiblical, they succumb to the pressure of the group to be in unity.
Numerous churches (aptly named seeker friendly) are focused on meeting people’s
needs (especially the unbelievers) as more important than pleasing God by giving
the truth. For example there is a famous preacher who went around and took a
survey of why people don’t come to church. He found out they didn’t enjoy the
teaching on sin or being called sinners, they didn’t like any guilt. So he began a
church that would make them feel comfortable. One that would build up their self
worth and have them love themselves. Now they go to church and most of the
members have no idea what the gospel is about. Yes, this is true story. The moral of
the story is: meet their needs and they will come. A spiritual “field of dreams”
workshop is built to fulfill the people’s dreams for their lives. The most important
thing becomes your happiness, your fulfillment and your dreams. It seems so caring,
so loving to be part of this social gospel. But God is not here to make your dreams
come true. This worldly self - perspective the Bible unequivocally condemns. Knowing
“Jesus Christ and him crucified,” as Paul proclaimed is no longer our churches focus but
it was for the early church. Jesus taught that, “Whoever does not bear his cross and
come after Me cannot be My disciple.” Our self with all its wants and motivations is to
be put to death for Christ to live through us and give us power. How far has this gone,
some churches do not want to display the cross less they offend the new comers. To
be ashamed of the symbol of what Christ did is to deny why He came.

So now we have many experimenting and implementing various new models of

doing church. The success of the 21st century church depends on first impressions
for the new visitors, this is essential to keep them coming back. Worship must be an
experience and be experienced. Contemporary music and dance, skits are
incorporated within services to make people feel at home (or entertained) and to
continue coming. Relationships become more important than fellowship, and time is
spent more at having fun and other curricular activities than learning the Scripture,
evangelism and real mission work for souls. A life being poured out for the Lord is
secondary to ones self-fulfillment.

To bring one to participate in the new spirituality the enemies work must remain
concealed; until a majority of people have accepted it. Once we understand what is
working here we can immunize ourselves. It’s astounding how the enemy can get the
church to accept heresy, the philosophy of men, and worldliness by dressing it up as
Christianity. When we don’t know our Bible we can easily be led away. “

“For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one
husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest
somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (2 Cor. 11:2-3)

The bottom line -- if you have bought into this you have been had, you have been
“diapraxed” and have accepted the new paradigm.

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