THE PLATONIC TWIST

Before I continue, I had a friend comment on my last writing about the ‘Gospel of Nike’.

They lovingly said:

“Sounds an awful lot like “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations” to me.

be careful to make the distinction between generic situations that affect all believers, and specific revelation God gives you about specific things…”

This is true. But let me clarify: there is nothing wrong going out to preach the gospel to the whole world. Fifty years ago there was NO exaltation of ‘revival’ either. If they happened they happened. However, due to the platonic leaven in the body of Christ, these ‘ideals’ are more exalted sometimes then Jesus – and many of us have seen the confusing contradiction in these meetings questioning what is more exalted.

There is one more thing I need to let people know what I am doing with these types of ‘false gospel’ articles - I am being contradictory. I need to say this again as I did in my final post of “The Hebrew Gospel to a Greek Church (Part 6)”:

“What I am about to do now is not an Hebraic thing, rather a Grecian category, listing the things that I have personally seen manifest in different ministries around the world.”

I feel also compelled to stress this again which is of the Hebraic world view:

“The Hebraic world view would say that they are one and the same thing but expressed differently – that being the lie.”

If we observe the names of certain church movements and doctrines, they seemingly reveal these specific types of ‘gospels’ but also demonstrate how they are all specifically intertwined together in one big mess.

The above interwoven knowledge, power, money, etc gospel results in a Platonic clash. The Platonic wishes to purify and exalt knowledge itself and does not want to see power or beauty associated with it. Beauty often is not associated with intelligence. Strength or power wishes to remain separate from any form of intelligence and believes practical is more pure than brain power. It’s the classic (oddbodz) game of brains beats beauty, beauty beats beast/power, beast/power beats brain.

But the Hebraic world view embraces this understanding to be various manifestations of the one lie. Therefore there is no clash in the Hebraic world view on this issue.

If you’re a bit confuse with what I’ve said above, try this example below:

• “Hades was having sexual relations with Proserpina. Adonis was exercising his own intelligence. Eros was becoming stronger and winning over Apollos.”

Let me explain what I just said in the previous sentence that reveals the Platonic clash:

• “Hades was having Aphrodites with Proserpina. Adonis was exercising his own Athena. Eros was becoming Atlas and Nike’ing over Apollos.”

The platonic thinking manifest in these stories of the ideal person of these broken categories CLASH!

Under the Hebraic world-view they are all one and the same thing but expressed differently – the Lie. Or what Paul calls it – delusion/ deception.

In briefly addressing this, I would now like to look at another stronghold/ false gospel/ entity.

This next one is an interesting one.