![]() ![]() Instead, our role in the body is to “outdo one another in showing honor” ( Romans 12:10). ![]() The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.” We don’t control or police one another as Christians. Tozer wrote, “Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. ![]() “Love does not envy or boast it is not arrogant.”Ī.W. Whoever thinks much of himself makes himself little in the eyes of God, for he does not exemplify the sort of love outlined in the second commandment which Paul expounds upon in 1 Corinthians 13:4. Jesus spoke to the matter of hierarchy: “So the last will be first, and the first last” ( Matthew 20:16). Wealth or academic success do not dictate whether one believes in Christ for salvation or rejects God altogether. God hears how people respond to the good news: either with repentance and devotion or with indifference, skepticism, or scorn? None of these attitudes resides within a single social class. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted” ( Galatians 6:1).Ĭhristianity is an inclusive faith, open to anyone who will believe in Christ for salvation - male, female, child, or adult wealthy or poor. A Christian is answerable to God and does not live in fear of his fellows, but “if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Biblical Attitude Towards the IlluminatiĬhristians do not police, judge, and punish one another, lying in wait for their fellows to slip-up. When a person believes in Christ for salvation and submits to the process of sanctification, he becomes more and more like Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and chooses to live according to the two greatest commandments: Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself ( Matthew 22:36-40). You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.” ( Luke 11:52).Īlthough the 10 Commandments supply guidelines for living life, one does not achieve salvation by following the rules. Christ declared “woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. When the Pharisees tried to trap Jesus into blaspheming the Lord, knowledge stood in the way of recognizing the promised Savior. Intelligence does not save a person or elevate him. Enlightened Thinking: Their brand of empirical reasoning was superior to that of any religion. People “too influenced by matter were doomed” but if one was able to acquire gnosis, he “could yet be saved.”Įssentially, one became a deity, rose intellectually to a higher plane, and was able and entitled to subjugate the natural world to his purposes and plans for personal gain or the good of the Illuminati.Ĥ. Deity: A popular idea of theirs was that members of the highest class within their order could possess a special “deep, mystic, and divine knowledge” ( gnosis), which would elevate them to “a superior form of human being” destined - for now - to live with lesser beings. There were never more than 2,000 members of this “movement” which spread across Europe “from Italy to Denmark and from Warsaw to Paris.” Still, rumors persist that the Illuminati exists to this day and conspiracy theorists suggest this secret society was behind revolutions and high-profile murders throughout the past two centuries.ģ. The group was banned in 1787 under an “edict making membership punishable by death” ( History). They invited only wealthy, powerful, and/or intellectual men to join their ranks. The Illuminati or “Perfectibilists” of Bavaria were carefully policed by a structure of “internal discipline and a system of mutual surveillance” established to maintain order and secrecy. Occultism involves “various theories and practices” regarding “supernatural forces or beings” which “centre on the presumed ability of the practitioner to manipulate natural laws for his own or his client’s benefit.” Members sought to “replace Christianity with a religion of reason” while their beliefs share more in common with occultism than with the Enlightenment. ![]() They considered Christianity irrational yet were influenced by the mystical Jewish Kabbalah, freemasons, Egyptian Hermeticism, alchemy, and more. The Illuminati, like others at the time, did not believe in the Christian God. Their organization was known as the “ Illuminati.” Although contemporary with the Enlightenment of Rousseau, Diderot, and Voltaire, they wanted more than wisdom the Illuminati strayed into the realms of the occult while establishing a secret, hierarchical society. In 1776, a group of educated Bavarian gentlemen began an organization bent on “illumination” and propagating a “new kind of reason” in response to the restrictions of Catholicism. ![]()
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