This was a great read, we need more thinking about improving ourselves instead of constantly pointing out how bad the Synodal/Modernist is ( even though it IS an abomination).
I tried to subscribe in the normal way on substack, but the only option is a free subscription. Will you be enabling paid subscriptions (monthly, annually) via substack?
Also--could you please explain the (to me) baffling picture at the beginning of this article?
Hi Stan. I only have the free subscriptions option. To support with a donation click on donate button. The image is symbolic of reason ruling will, and will ruling passions.
Very pertinent article and reminds me of a saying of the great Samuel Johnson that "the passions must be taught to move at the command of virtue." External and internal. mmm, you've got me thinking now.
“Egalitarianism is fundamentally the hatred of hierarchy and the refusal to accept that reality itself possesses distinctions, gradations, superiors and inferiors, rulers and subjects, teachers and students, fathers and children, clergy and laity. Liberalism, meanwhile, is fundamentally the hatred of restraint and seeks freedom detached from truth and authority. Liberalism thus desires liberty not for excellence but liberation from limitations.”
A more accurate assessment was never made! Liberty & freedom should never be confused with liberation or its even more (spiritually) deadly cousin, licentiousness. The man of the world just wants to do as he pleases when he pleases with whom he pleases. Secular college freshman, anyone?
If intelligence should guide the will, and the will should govern sensibility, intelligence needs spiritual discernment from God in order to function as God intends. If it doesn’t, intelligence continues to function under the limitations of human weakness, and passion will continue to dominate the will. Reason is under the same limitation when it is not illuminated by the Holy Spirit. Passions and desire rule everyone who is not moderated by God by using unconditional trust in Him, which opens us up to grace regardless of an intellect formed by philosophy, theology, history, spiritual reading, and careful study. The will is strengthened by grace and not by practice. Passions are moderated by grace and not by discipline. Assuming that we are operating under grace is not what activates it within us. Dependence on God activates it, and replaces human effort as we usually attempt to exert it under human weakness. The crisis needs more than the business as usual, which has been around for a very long time.
This was a great read, we need more thinking about improving ourselves instead of constantly pointing out how bad the Synodal/Modernist is ( even though it IS an abomination).
Funny how most trouble comes from pride 😀
In my past I have confused pride , with self respect.
It’s only in more recent times that I have ….understood.
I tried to subscribe in the normal way on substack, but the only option is a free subscription. Will you be enabling paid subscriptions (monthly, annually) via substack?
Also--could you please explain the (to me) baffling picture at the beginning of this article?
Hi Stan. I only have the free subscriptions option. To support with a donation click on donate button. The image is symbolic of reason ruling will, and will ruling passions.
I also found the selected picture….arresting, and not pleasantly so.
Very pertinent article and reminds me of a saying of the great Samuel Johnson that "the passions must be taught to move at the command of virtue." External and internal. mmm, you've got me thinking now.
Thank you for another powerful reminder of Truth.
Blessings and appreciation from Sydney Australia.
“Egalitarianism is fundamentally the hatred of hierarchy and the refusal to accept that reality itself possesses distinctions, gradations, superiors and inferiors, rulers and subjects, teachers and students, fathers and children, clergy and laity. Liberalism, meanwhile, is fundamentally the hatred of restraint and seeks freedom detached from truth and authority. Liberalism thus desires liberty not for excellence but liberation from limitations.”
A more accurate assessment was never made! Liberty & freedom should never be confused with liberation or its even more (spiritually) deadly cousin, licentiousness. The man of the world just wants to do as he pleases when he pleases with whom he pleases. Secular college freshman, anyone?
If intelligence should guide the will, and the will should govern sensibility, intelligence needs spiritual discernment from God in order to function as God intends. If it doesn’t, intelligence continues to function under the limitations of human weakness, and passion will continue to dominate the will. Reason is under the same limitation when it is not illuminated by the Holy Spirit. Passions and desire rule everyone who is not moderated by God by using unconditional trust in Him, which opens us up to grace regardless of an intellect formed by philosophy, theology, history, spiritual reading, and careful study. The will is strengthened by grace and not by practice. Passions are moderated by grace and not by discipline. Assuming that we are operating under grace is not what activates it within us. Dependence on God activates it, and replaces human effort as we usually attempt to exert it under human weakness. The crisis needs more than the business as usual, which has been around for a very long time.