Theology - Good and Evil

 Given we were to go to a University, any University in America or Europe, was that University, and what they were espousing, Good or evil?  We will work on answering this question today.  

I have a short testimony as a warm up for this topic.  In was Fall-Winter 2013.  I was in downtown Murfreesboro, TN at Three Brothers Bar.  It was a Thursday night, and some hippies from nearby community called Hippie Hill visited.  Hippie Hill is exactly what it sounds like.  It was a commune near Nashville where there were hippies. 

I was sitting at the bar, alone, drinking my drinks.  The hippies took a special interest in me for some reason.  I ended up talking, and drinking with "Possessed Man."  Everyone has been in some state of possession.  Some people have ventured into spiritualism outside of God, and may have become a "more possessed person."  Possessed Man was a more possessed person, who had been in some occult mysticism.  I did not 100% understand that he was a more possessed person, as I was talking to him.  This understanding came to me later, with reflection with God.  

Possessed Man and I had some interesting discussions.  Towards the end up the night, I started talking about God, and Possessed Man corrected me. 

"There are many gods.  Gods bring happiness, and man brings war.  Which are you?"  asked Possessed Man.

I look at him square in the eye and say "I am a man."  

Possessed Man has a look of horror on his face for a second or two.  His friends come over, and they are preparing to leave.  As Possessed Man is leaving, he smiles at me, and says "I'll be seeing more of you."  

Reflection

In reflection of this event, with God, I discovered something that was potentially very ancient and profound.  There were a lot of interesting implication to what was going on.  In understanding Good and Evil......

God is Good.  God is Holy and separate from sin.

I am a Man.  

Does that make me evil?  

In an understanding that, as a man outside of God, I was an evil person, this opened me up to growing more in faith.  There was some sort of threshold there, and I needed to come to terms with the fact that I had been an evil person.  Someone like Apostle Paul or Saint Augustine, they were the worst of sinners.  

Good would be being aligned with God, in God's good plans.  Evil would be someone outside of God.  Did someone lie?  That person is a liar.  They were doing evil, and putting people into darkness.  Did someone steal?  That person was a thief.  They were doing evil, and putting people into darkness.  Was someone in darkness or The Light of the Lord?  (Ephesians 5:8)  

A lot of Universities, they started out as Christian Institutions.  Harvard and Yale and Oxford, they were Christian Institutions.  What are they now?  Right now, many Universities, that used be Christian, are more Secular Humanist Liberal Institutions who have been separate from God.  That would make them evil. 

Does being a Theologian with advanced degree give someone authority in Christianity?  No. Being aligned with God, doing God's will, gives a man authority.   In Academia, who was a Peer?  This is important.  There is Peer Reviewed work.  Who exactly is a Peer?  

A Marxist?
A Nazi? 
A Eugenicist? 
A Post-Modernist follower of Nietzsche who believed the ends justify the means? 
A Marxist Feminist who was into Witchcraft and Intersectionalism?  

Who was a Peer in Theology?  The goal of Theology may have been that someone became a Brethren in Christ.  They were aligned with Christian Tradition, capable of receiving Revelation from God, and/or Spiritual Discernment.   Revelation is what separates Theology from Metaphysics.  Someone who was trained in Theology should be of "One Mind." (Philippians 2:2) 

Around Academia, there has been a "Spirit of Worthlessness." Worthlessness would be the fruit.  (Matthew 7:16-20)  Fruit is what someone or some institution produces.  A Muslim or a Buddhist may have had a fruit.  Someone who wore the orange robes of a Buddhist, that was part of their fruit.  Talking to Buddhist, he may have been part of a particular sect.  We understand this by his fruit.  Around Western Societies that should have been Christian Nations, there has been a Spirit of Worthlessness.  Someone who was in authority around Academia, they may have been engaged in an Occult Mysticism relating to Belial.  Part of that fruit may have been men spiraling into Nihilism.   

Things to pray and reflect on.