Conceptual Truth

 Today’s Question:  Given someone was growing in faith with God, and wished to see more of Truth in politics, what understandings may they need?  

Faith is a journey.  We all start somewhere.  Someone may have started with an IV League education.  Someone may have started as a homeless man.  Someone may just be a young person.  Growing in faith, we should be headed towards being of “One Mind.” (Philippians 2:2)  I don’t know that understanding politics is for every Christian.  We all have roles or function in the Body of Christ.  (Ephesians 4:11)  I may be able to give someone interested food for thought.  

When I received a calling from God in October 2013, I had about average Bible knowledge for a life long Christian.  I didn’t know much.  God called me, I started feeling smarter.  I started speaking words of God, and took notes when I received something.  Using Given-then statements helped.  

As someone is growing in faith, they may need to understand concepts.  I was never taught a Conceptual Bible Study in Church.  I started working for God, and started understanding concepts.  

Concept - Mankind is like God’s Vineyard.  

- Noah after the flood, after leaving the Ark, he planted a vineyard.  (Genesis 9:20)

- Trodding The Wine Press.  (Isaiah 63:1-6)

- The Parable of The Tenant Farmers.  (Luke 20:9-19) 

- Jesus is the true vine, the Father the vitner.  (John 15:1)

Mankind as God’s Vineyard is a consistent concept that runs through the Bible, through multiple authors, showing God’s Holy Spirit.  Righteousness and Holiness are particular concepts with particular meanings.  Given someone is in understanding of a the concept, they are flush with all scripture.  Flush like in construction.  

In politics and philosophy, there are also particular concepts with particular meanings.  Do politicians lie?  How do they lie and towards what ends?  Given someone was part of a particular ideology, he may have been motivated towards particular ideological goals.  

A lot of philosophers have talked about The Soul and Spirits.  Given we are coming into all Truth, someone may be coming into the reality of  God and exorcism.  God is scary.  Was a philosopher deceiving people about the soul and spirits to hide away God?  (Romans 1:18-25)  Apostle Paul used plain language, and not complicated or flowery speech.  Was a Philosopher making certain ideas abstract and esoteric where practical understanding was hidden away? Making something abstract, and confusing ideas is one way people have been deceived.  

There have been political philosophers like Karl Marx.  The ideology of Marxism has worked in particular ways.  We have over a hundred years of history, through multiple countries, to witness how Marxism worked.  A lot of Marxists may have been doing something illegal, and will lie about it, and/or they were egotist who thought there way, their vision was the best one.  Don’t believe their lies?  The ideology of Marxism was developed with Mass Media.  Part of Marxism is using lies to control the masses.  

Do you understand something like Keynesian economics, and how it differed from Neo-Liberalism?  Prior to working for God in 2013, I was a certified Social Studies teacher.  I was really interested in topics like this.  When I found God, understanding came to me in time.  Your body is a temple, Jesus lives in a man through his Holy Spirit.  Having God may be similar to Socrates where all knowledge was in someone, and they forgot.  A man asks questions.  Ask and you shall receive.  

Something to reflect and pray on.  People who love Jesus love Truth and Justice.  In Truth, there are concepts with particular meanings that work particular ways.