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 ABOVE LINEAR DIVERSION
Flavors have been used to define and redirect markets. A penchant for choices may expand those markets while feeding diversity. Humanity delights in preference where the soul is otherwise barren -- as also during the short interval of early childhood. However, pursuit of preferrences yields ignorance: both with the senses and in our comprehension. Tension soon becomes a force for compromise on-scale. These things have been militarized by the Adversary as a means to foment divisions that overtake and hold captive our faith unto Salvation. They have become siegeworks of preferred reason in this New Enlightenment era, being subject to destruction by the power of God through the weapons of our warfare.
Preferences, zones for compromise, creeds... these and other symptoms reflect the ill-use of perspective or opinion within a proposed range of linear positions. Instead of holding to the needed goal or purpose, opinions begin riding preference, running unchecked to strike elsewhere. Consider by way of illustration: the effect in being moved to select & fan a favorite sports team... a diversion from the core/global objective that has long been more helpful/needful: good sportsmanship by all.
Against all these things, The Truth; the Son or God, Son of Man, the One known as Y'shua, Jesus the Messiah/Christ. Language of the New Testament writings define truth [αληθεια] as what is releasing with liberty to reach the goal.
Jesus, the matchless "One Way" Life Narrative lives determined to place our aim back on Him as the what-is-needful target.
EXAMPLES IN CAVEAT
Atheist to Indoctrinated accompanies the Constantinian-era churches into the present times. This as an indicator of indoctrination, rather than of new hope, new birth, or new life in Christ. Religious aim & target, drawing the "perfect" miss.
"As to The Lord..." [Ephesians 5:22; 6:7]. The of this has overtaken us pragmatically by many assumptions that a man must believe that the thing is being done for him. Otherwise, he/she is drawn to misunderstand or fail to appreciate the thought or action. A typical employer will seek your servitude as being directed toward them --- not as to serve your God. What husband will settle for a love he cannot solely possess? Here, the Adversary would bring us to miss what is in order for all things. Specifically, that it is YHVH the Almighty One, bringing up His Family in glory, which is the point, directive and designated direction of all things. Absent this trust controlling, attempts to obviate or balance motive have the outcome of landing our actions at distance from Christ -- Who could do nothing that He did not perceive the Father doing.
God's Sovereignty & man's conscience of Choice. The as who chooses whom? John Calvin & Jacobus Arminius remain the oft' cited villains in an early and costly misunderstanding of the koine Greek word καταβολης. The progression in how casting-down became constitutione [Latin], makyng [Old English], beginninge [Tyndale], foundation [Darby/KJV], reveals plenty of uncertainty. But Bibles are translated to satisfy needs of an ever-changing, political (and consequently) divided church. To Ephesians 1:4, just as He is choosing us in Him before the casting-down ["disruption" | CLV] of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. Suddenly, we're back on the target, recalling also the Bridegroom & Bride analogy. Ephesians 1:4 is revelatory in the how, rather than a logical delineation of who is doing the choosing.
The Scale imagined in-between Yes and No: re-imagining, How much righteous? Or, the absurdity to wonder, "How sanctified am I?" Yet, social-driven and mega church has wandered deep into these weeds by means of pulpits & publishing. The whole man cannot be sanctified (set-apart) in-part; neither is he/she to be honestly realized a little-bit or "mostly" righteous in doing. Not merely an abuse of terms... this buoyed approach to the sacred bears the signature of the Adversary, who is bent on confusion via gratification that solicits human feeling. As the remedy for sin is not a scale or measure for sanctification, nor for righteousness, Christ is thereby missed; effectively denied. Under this single diversion, many have fallen of late to condemnation and lifelessness [death].
RESOLVE
Press forward, breaking away from aims scaled to humanity.
Our freedom is won and warranted in Christ, for Christ.
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