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Christian Vocabulary

Christian Vocabulary

The Bible word, of course, is
“ass” (see Job 11:12), but we forebear
due to the feelings of many thin-skinned readers in the Laodicean church who gave up using Bible terminology a long time
ago.

At any rate, donkeys can be
IDENTIFIED. A number of identification tags bear the name “mark,” as in
“watermark” for papers and stamps,
“bench mark” for border lines, etc.
Certain groups, books, ideas,
philosophies, etc., bear “marks” by
which they can be recognized
immediately. Paul says, “I BEAR IN MY
BODY THE MARKS OF THE LORD JESUS” (Gal. 6:17). The Antichrist’s Catholic
followers will eventually have to bear a “mark” (Rev. 13:16-18).

Now, in the last forty years the Body of Christ has been infiltrated with a peculiar type of EDUCATIONAL HUMANISM that eventually permeates every major
work. No one would have spotted this
type of humanism unless they themselves had been exposed to a college education; as a consequence, the deadly virus has
succeeded remarkably in infecting almost every part of the Body in the last forty years.

What we are speaking of is not
the standard material found in The
Humanist or the religious “Liberalism”
of the “Modernist” or “Neo-Evangelical.” What we are speaking of her is far more subtle than “religious humanism.” What we are speaking of here is the
appearance in Christian periodicals
(magazines, advertising brochures,
newspapers, etc.) OF A VOCABULARY THAT
IS PLAINLY THE VOCABULARY OF AN UNSAVED SOCIALIST.

If you want to watch this thing at work, read the ads for Bob Jones
University published in The Sword of the Lord, or the ads for Pensacola Christian College published in various magazines, or the ads for Tennessee Temple. (We
will show you the “earmarks” in a
minute.) In the Bible this peculiar
secularized, humanistic vocabulary is
called “GOOD WORDS AND FAIR SPEECHES”
(Rom. 16:18), and the “WORDS OF MAN’S
WISDOM” (1 Cor. 2:4), and “GREAT
SWELLING WORDS” (Jude 16). It escapes
the notice of ALL THOSE WHO USE IT.
They assume (without evidence) that they are being “Christian” and effective in
their use of this vocabulary. The
vocabulary is standard in every
classroom controlled by the NEA and it
is the vocabulary of AN UNSAVED ATHEIST WHO IS AMORAL.

Now, we have chosen only one
publication to illustrate these
“earmarks,” although we could have
chosen a dozen. However, ONE will do
just fine, and the one we have chosen is the official, standard organ of
publicity of the Seventh-Day Adventist
Church. It comes to our house monthly
and has for four years. It is called
“MINISTRY”–International Journal for
Clergy. In the edition that I quote we find the special denomination “PREACH
EDITION” (Nov. 1988), and the reader had not better make any mistake about it.
He should underline the words and
memorize them and look for their
reappearing in THE FUNDAMENTAL
LITERATURE PRINTED AND PROMOTED BY THE
SWORD OF THE LORD, FAITH MAGAZINE,
PULPIT HELPS, AND THE SCHOOL CATALOGUES AND “YEARBOOKS” OF THE “MILITANT”
CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. It is one barn. All the donkeys bray alike–saved or lost,
Communist or Catholic, humanist or
cultic, fundamentalist or liberal.

Here are the “earmarks”:

  1. “TASK FORCE recommends hike.” There are no “task forces” anywhere in or out of scripture. The term is borrowed from military jargon during World War II. It is an AP, INS, UPI word.
  2. “A DRINKING PROBLEM.” No one has a “drinking problem.” That is university rot. You are a drunk, or a lush, or a boozer, or a bimbo, or at BEST a “chronic alcoholic.” You don’t have a “problem.” You have a sin. “Problem drinkers” are classroom subjects of unsaved students majoring in sociology.
  3. “THIS WILL TOUCH OUR LIVES.” No way. “Reaching out to TOUCH and COMMUNICATE” is part of the SIECUS sex education curriculum stuck into the Anaheim schools back in 1968 after all the white people left the area because they didn’t want blacks undressing their six-year-old white children in the first grade. NEVER “TOUCH” ANYONE’S LIFE. Preach the hell out of them, or witness to them, or teach them the Bible, or sympathize with them, or pray with them (and for them), but don’t ever “TOUCH THEIR LIVES” with ANYTHING, including a red hot poker. Don’t talk like a jackass.
  4. “WILL BE FEATURED” in her “NEW ROLE.” No Christian was ever “FEATURED” in any “ROLE.” The second word is holistic and Gestalt psychology taken out of classrooms where people only play “roles” in life as they imitate someone’s “lifestyle.” The term is a movie term used by the Associated Press.
  5. “ENRICHING YOUR DEVOTIONAL LIFE.” Go stick your head in a bucket. No one is “enriched” with anything. The term is a term meaning “quit memorizing and studying and learn how to smoke pot and belly dance” so you can match the culture that invaded the schools in 1964. “ENRICHMENT” is the hackneyed term of a professional educator involved in world socialism; the term is MEANINGLESS even when defined. It has no MORAL content.
  6. “AN EXPERIENCE IN RENEWAL.” The word is “revival.” There is no “renewal” for anyone but a professioal psychologist engaged in keeping a reprobate on “drugs” till he adjusts. The term is a favorite, hackneyed cliche for someone who doesn’t wish to discuss “good or evil,” “just or unjust,” “right or wrong,” or “black and white.” “RENEWAL” is the earmark of a jackass. A LAODICEAN, CHRISTIAN JACKASS.
  7. “A POWER LADEN ENCOUNTER.” The last word is a favorite with people who cannot say “convert,” “saved,” “meeting,” “revival,” “repentance,” or similar words. An “encounter” with a book or a sermon is nothing but you reading or hearing the sermon. All international socialists in the NEA were given the word “encounter” to add to a vocabulary that uses ANY word as long as it doesn’t have MORAL or IMMORAL content.

Jackasses are AMORAL.

8. “A FULL SENSORY EXPERIENCE
FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION.” A full sack
of baloney for a depraved idiot.
NOTHING is “formed spiritually” by any
“sensory experience,” and there is no
such thing as a “FULL sensory
experience” in reading any book, or
hearing any sermon, or going to any
school, or watching any TV program, or
studying anyone’s work. “FULL SENSORY
EXPERIENCE” IS FOUND IN DRUGS.

9. “EMPLOYEE REMUNERATION.”
Blank. You pay him or he goes broke.

10. “NOW THIS IS THE NORM IN
THIS AREA.” There are no “areas” unless you can walk on them and measure them
with a surveyor’s line; there is no
“NORM” anywhere in modern education, as the NORM shifts with the “SOCIAL MILEU.” “These areas” and “this area” IS THE
ABSOLUTE AND FINAL IDENTIFICATION of the educated nut who lost his vocabulary and had to pad it with what they taught him in sociology classes”: ALL MODERN
FUNDAMENTALISTS USE THE TERM.

11. “THIS PILOT PROGRAM.” There are no “pilot” programs. There never
have been. There have been first and
second programs, and good and BAD
programs, but PILOT PROGRAMS are the
programs cited by those who have had
their “PILOT LIGHTS” blown out. It is
educational, sociological MADNESS.

12. “THE CRITERIA SHOULD BE
IMPLEMENTED.” No, it shouldn’t. The
facts should have some more facts to
back them up. TALK CLEARLY. Don’t talk like a jackass so people will think you have been to college. “CRITERIA” is a
philosophical term that came from
unsaved atheists. It means what you
think you or someone else is certain of, depending upon what you want to believe. THE CRITERIA for the Christian is a
BOOK. YOU CANNOT “IMPLEMENT” it with
anything. You can EXPOUND it, TEACH it, EXPLAIN it, PREACH it, ILLUSTRATE it,
and APPLY it, but you could no more
IMPLEMENT it than you could “implement” the Resurrection.

13. “NEW RESOURCES FOR PASTORS.” “Resources” are what you have in the
ground that you can use to stay alive
with. (Ain’t that a CRITERIA, man!)
Your RESOURCES are prayer and the Bible, and if you want SUCCESS (not “resource”) you can study Larkin, Pember, Bulinger, Scofield, Torrey, Greek and Hebrew
texts, lexicons, commentaries, etc.
THERE ARE NO NEW “RESOURCES” FOR
PASTORS. A computer is not a resource; it is an aid or a handicap, and
sometimes both.

14. “THE FINAL DRAFT: THE BOTTOM LINE.” The term is not as bad as the
others, as it came from the business
world, in particular the insurance world and the architect’s world. Overuse will mark the user with his family tree. It will “earmark” him.

15. “DO YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS”? You do? Get on the
phone, write a letter, or shoot the bull over a cup of coffee. The word is taken out of classes on psychology where
people have a hard time “communicating” with each other. The unsaved atheist
seeks COMMUNICATION with Soviet Russia
and the Communist party. The apostate
Catholics seek to “communicate” with
Charismatics who have given up the Bible as the final authority. Problems in
“communications” simply mean YOU CAN’T
CONVINCE THE OTHER PERSON YOU ARE RIGHT. The term is a Swindoll-Dobson-SchullerMacArthur term which means “LET YOUR
WIFE RUN YOUR BUSINESS.” For blacks it means, “How do you get access to the
white man’s money and jobs?”

Jackasses bray in the same
language.

16. “ENHANCE YOUR RAPPORT.”
No, defuse you dud. Paul never
“enhanced his rapport” even when John
the Baptist was “enhancing his rapport” so he could “reach out and touch” in
those “areas” where “sharing and caring” enabled people to “communicate”!

17. “RECOIL FROM UNATTRACTIVE
PEOPLE.” No, GET AWAY FROM WICKED MEN. Don’t “recoil” from anything; not even
the “lifestyle” of those who are
“alienated” from you. All of this is
from psychology and sociology classes in college.

18. “A RESTRUCTURED ECONOMY.”
Communism. You “restructure” anything
that is old-fashioned or based on COMMON SENSE or EXPERIENCE; you simply make
adjustments to bring it into line with
sin, death, and hell.
“Environmentalist” is another word for
Communist, and another word is
“Political ACTIVIST.” These are the
stock-in-trade of the pie-on-the-earthnow -and-now boys who cannot talk or
write straight because they can’t THINK straight.