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Apostasy Update # 17
Tom: Carl, last week—and this point is so important that, folks, you’re going to be hearing it every time that we have the privilege of having this dialogue, having this discussion, and it has to do with oneness and otherness. Carl, could you remind us what those terms mean?
Carl: Sure. It’s important that your audience understand that as you scratch through what worldviews look like, when you go right through everything down to its core, you are left with two options: the dominant world option, the dominant worldview that is now in play is the idea of oneness. And oneness is this: it implies that God, nature, and man are all intrinsically one. There is no fundamental difference. Each of the realms are bound together at their core. In other words, nature is divine, God is nature, creation and Creator—there are no distinctions between the different aspects of what we understand the universe to be. God is the same as the universe.
The biblical worldview is, “No, no, God is other. He is different. He is distinct.” Reality, therefore, is comprised of two: Creator and creation.
And that is something so important for your audience to understand. How you view these two options—either otherness or oneness—will determine your thoughts on ethics, law, morality, gender issues, sexuality, politics, education, values…Tom, I can’t think of anything that isn’t touched by how you will accept either otherness or oneness.
And realistically, we have been in a conflict between these two opposing worldviews since Genesis 3, which is the first example of oneness—Eve taking the fruit and in essence saying, “I will be as God.” That was the lie held out to her, that she could become one with divinity.
And this plays out all the way through—through Eastern mysticism, the New Age movement…even the world of atheism ultimately takes on that oneness perspective, because it says that man is the measure of all things. There is nothing higher than man ultimately. There is nothing higher than our intelligence. Well, at that point, we have put ourselves up in our own temple, the temple of man.
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