The Rise of 18th and 19th Century Humanism Set the Stage For the 19th Century Christian Cults

Posted : 20 Jan, 2013 05:47 AM

The Rise of 18th and 19th Century Humanism Set the Stage For the 19th Century Christian Cults



As a result of humanism and the cultural change as a paradigm shift, many Christians lost their love of the truth (II Thessalonians 2: 10-12) and zeal to protect the faith and Gospel of Christ. So, the false prophets of the 19th century and the cults began to gain more and more Christian followers.



Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), Ellen G. White (1827-1915), Edward Irving (1792 �1834), John Darby (1800 -1882), Charles T. Russell (1852-1916), and and C.I. Scofield (1843 -1921) were some of the major false prophets of the 19th century who influenced Christians.



The most influential 19th century false doctrines,or cults, were the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, Christian Science and Dispensationalism. Dispensationalism took over the Niagra Bible Conferences of 1876 to 1897, and then excluded non-dispensationalists from speaking. Over the following decades dispensationalists took control of most of the evangelical Christian denominations, and the majority of the seminaries.



Another date, other than 1876 to 1897, that

is important for the falling away of II Thessalonians 2: 3 is 1909 when the first edition of the Scofield Reference Bible was published by Oxford University Press. So, the falling away began sometime in the 19th century, or very early 20th century.



See http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/4809823/Alexander_Solzhenitsyn_denounced_the_West_too_but_we_didnt_want_to_know/Solzhenitsyn

for Solzhenitsyn's 1978 speech at

Harvard. I can find no reference made by Solzhenitsyn

to the Frankfurt School in an online text of his 1978 talk shown on

http://old.nationalreview.com/document/document060603.asp....



The site above does quote Solzhenitsyn as saying in his 1978 Harvard

speech that "There are telltale symptoms by which history gives

warning to a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance,

a decline of the arts or a lack of great statesmen. Indeed, sometimes

the warnings are quite explicit and concrete....How did the West

decline from its triumphal march to its present debility? Have there

been fatal turns and losses of direction in its development? It does

not seem so. The West kept advancing steadily in accordance with its

proclaimed social intentions, hand in hand with a dazzling progress in

technology. And all of a sudden it found itself in its present state

of weakness.....The humanistic way of thinking, which had proclaimed

itself our guide, did not admit the existence of intrinsic evil in

man, nor did it see any task higher than the attainment of happiness

on earth. It started modern Western civilization on the dangerous

trend of worshiping man and his material needs......"



"As humanism in its development was becoming more and more

materialistic, it also increasingly allowed concepts to be used first

by socialism and then by communism, so that Karl Marx was able to say,

in 1844, that "communism is naturalized humanism."



"Humanism which has lost its Christian heritage cannot prevail in this

competition."



"We have placed too much hope in politics and social reforms, only to

find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession:

our spiritual life."



"Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must

be more spiritual: not a total engrossment in everyday life, not the

search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then their

carefree consumption."



It would seem from these statements by Solzhenitsyn that the United

States and Europe in 1978 had become degenerate and fixated on the

flesh, feelings, desires, conditioning and pride as self-esteem

without help from the psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists of

the Frankfurt School. But this loss of spirituality and failure to

see the intrinsic evil in man may have been the condition in the

United States that allowed transformational Marxism to have the large

influence on our institutions it has had during the second half of the

20th century.



In other words, the falling away from the truths of the Bible and the

Gospel of Jesus Christ had Already been going on by the fifties when

Theodor W. Adorno et al published the 1950 book, The Authoritarian

Personality, which began the influence of transformational Marxism in

the major universities of the U.S. Humanism, the belief that man by

himself, alone and self-sufficient without God, and man leaning unto

his own understanding (Proverbs 3: 5), had taken over almost all of

society, and was operating also in the Christian churches.



In 1978 Solzhenitsyn was warning the West that humanism in general had

been undermining the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was not talking only

about Transformational Marxism or the Frankfurt School in particular.



And - that more general humanism had been going on in the 19th century

before the rise of the major Christian cults of that century.

Humanism had set the stage to make it possible for cults to develop

and for one of them to take over the majority of the churches in the

U.S. by about 1950.



That more general kind of humanism, of man leaning to his own

understanding (Proverbs 3: 5), led to Christians, or those who claim

to be Christians, substituting man made theology for the word of God.

They continued to study the Bible, but after the humanism of the 18th

and 19th centuries - the Enlightenment - and after the development of

a new man made theology called dispensatrionalism, that theology was

used to interpret scripture. In other words, after man-made theology

took over, especially in the American Christian seminaries, scripture

was to be interpreted by man made theology, and not by other

scripture if that other scripture did not agree with

dispensatrionalism.



Dean Gotcher, who for a number of years has been an expert on the

influence of Transformational Marxism upon American society and

culture and also on the churches to make them a dialectic church was

trained in a Christian college. Later, he enrolled in a Christian

seminary. Gotcher says in one of his many audios online that he

enjoyed learning Greek at the seminary. But - when his professor and

class spent six weeks studying some theologian - I don't remember

which one - ol Gotcher asked why they were spending so much time on

this theologian rather than studying the word of God. He got nothing

but silence from the class. Gotcher got up and walked out, never to

return to a Christian seminary. He had seen first hand the work of Christian humanism, of man leaning to his own understanding, which had made study of a man-made theology more important than study of "it is written."



http://www.rense.com/general86/killatree.htm



This site says "...the Frankfurt School's Marxist `thinkers`

instigated the student revolts of the 1960's, which dealt a series of

fatal blows to Western culture. Bombarded with Cultural Marxist

Neo-Communist ideas, pseudo-psychology, Eastern New Age spirituality

and adolescent idealism, a generation of Western youth rebelled

against the "establishment"..."



The sixties generation began what Antonio Gramsci, a pre-war Italian

Marxist whose radical anti-western ideas had by then been externalised

in society, termed the "Long March Through the Institutions." The

Transformational Marxists knew that their Long March had to include

the Christian churches.



"Destroy the family and you destroy society." Lenin.



Lenin is supposed to have also said that "...no matter how hard a

person is bombarded with ideas contrary to what he has been

conditioned to believe he will not change. Then you have created the

New Soviet Man." Bolshevism and supposedly non-violent gradualist

Transformational Marxism both produce the "New Soviet Man,"

or collectivist man. Spiritually, the New Soviet man is in the strong

delusion of II Thessalonians 2: 10-12.



The site shown above goes on to say "One of the primary tenets of

Marxism is the eradication of the nuclear family, and it is no

coincidence that a major thrust of the `sixties cultural revolution`

was directed against the family, the very soul of nations and

communities. Subsequently, all aspects of that traditional and most

natural core of the human condition have been attacked and vilified

throughout all avenues of education and information. Can anyone

remember the last time they saw a film which extolled marriage and

family values? "



The Frankfurt School infiltrated our major universities and brought

America transformational Marxism, propagated to a great extent by

psychologists like Abraham H. Maslow and Carl Rogers, and others.

Frankfurters Theodor W. Adorno and Herbert Marcuse were professors at

Berkeley and Brandeis. American psychologized transformational Marxism

put its foot in our door in 1950 with the publication of The

Authoritarian Personality, by Theodor Adorno and others, a book which

claimed that Christianity and the strong family are the causes of

fascism and must be severely weakened or eliminated.



Their goal was to de-Christianize the United States, and to severely

weaken the American family. And they not only helped to bring in the

counterculture of the sixties and seventies, but under educational

psychologist Benjamin Bloom's educational goal taxonomies took over

our public school system, and replaced absolute truths and absolute

morality with the dialectic, and with feelings, opinions, and group

consensus. True Christianity and the Marxist dialectic cannot exist

together; one must overthrow the other, and Dean Gotcher has been

doing all he can to alert us to this fact. God preserves a Remnant,

even as the big herd is in the falling away of II Thessalonians 2:

3-4, due in part to the dialectic of transformational Marxism.



What is left of American Christianity after psychologized

transformational Marxism is that which is described by Paul in II

Timothy 3: 5 and II Timothy 3: 7, the Christians in apostasy have

"...a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof...ever

learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."



Christian Zionism and several other false doctrines

have been around so many decades that the "till" in Luke 13: 21 has come to fulfillment and the whole has been leavened, which is also the falling away of II Thessalonians 2: 3-4. And

often those in false doctrines use the perfected dialectic to promote

and defend their man-made theologies. Christian Identity is another false theology which is also part of the falling away, though it is not nearly as big as dispensationalism. In recent decades the prosperity doctrine, or name it and claim it movement, was part of the falling away. And now Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Church movement is obviously a form of Christian humanism - which actually makes use of marketing techniques and the small group dialectic attitude change procedure developed by the psychologists of Transformational Marxism.

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