I have been studying this for a short time and have learned a lot of how this theory actual works and I want to share some of my views on it. First, I want to say that I believe that this is going to be a series of blogs and a lot of information. I will share all of my content so you all who follows this blog can have once source to go to when it comes to critical theory.
I first want to share what critical theory is because I don’t want to assume that people know what it is because I didn’t. So, I will share two videos that explains it perfectly. Here’s the webster definition to it.
Critical theory, Marxist-inspired movement in social and political philosophy originally associated with the work of the Frankfurt School. Drawing particularly on the thought of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, critical theorists maintain that a primary goal of philosophy is to
understand and to help overcome the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed. Believing that science, like other forms of knowledge, has been used as an instrument of oppression, they caution against a blind faith in scientific progress, arguing that scientific knowledge must not be pursued as an end in itself without reference to the goal of human emancipation. Since the 1970s, critical theory has been immensely influential in the study of history, law, literature, and the social sciences.
This video will show the levels that critical theory and how they work. The video also shows why as Christians we should not be part of this movement. https://youtu.be/DAABuCC96tI
Ok let’s begin; the one main thing I saw through all the information was that no one has come straight to the point on the motivation behind this and who is the author behind the whole movement which to me its Satan. I will show you through their own words and positions that alone will testify to who they truly are serving. See before I can continue on this topic, I need to be sure that we fully understand the adversary that we are facing for without you understanding this you will not see his handy work at play.
He is our enemy from the very beginning at the garden, since his first temptation with just a fruit well today, he has a little more to use against us. Through out history Satan has been trying to come after those who serves the one living king, King Jesus. Well his job is to deceive and draw us away from the creator, what people I believe miss is that Satan already has the world. He comes after us and until we fully comprehend this we will be easily deceived and willing to see other means of how to come to Christ. So, we need to be diligent in all of these issues that arises and take them to scripture to see if they align with the word of God. To me this is the key component that is missing we are not going to scripture, instead we are using other books and stating that without understanding or have read these books we are clueless on the matter being presented to us. This is the wrong way, as Christians we are to line up every word written or otherwise and take it to scripture to see it to be true.
I will start with your identity in Christ Jesus, if we are truly born again then this is who are now. God made this clear in scripture and I have explained this in one of my previous blogs. What I will do in this blog is show what I am about to explain in scripture because God spoke of this to Nicodemus a ruler of that time and here’s how that conversation went.
3 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus[a] by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again[b] he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.[c] 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You[d] must be born again.’ 8 The wind[e] blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So, it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Now for those that do not understand what is being said and why Jesus emphasized this to Nicodemus let me explain. When you are born of the flesh through the womb you are connected to the earthly realm with all the cultures, ethnicities and all of its corrupted ways. (Sin) When you are born from you mother and father you are of their culture and those influences, but God comes to bring you out of the corruption that is in this world and offers you His kingdom which is in Heaven. This is why Jesus said to Nicodemus that he had to be born again through water and spirit, if not he could not enter the Kingdom of God. (Heaven) See Nicodemus understood what being born meant in detail and that is why he said how is that can a man re-enter his mother’s womb. I believe that this was put there deliberately so we would understand the implication of this and how important it is. God wants us to have a clear picture of being born-again and being someone completely different than who we were from birth.
I will go a little further on this, if you are a born-again Christian which by the way is the only way that you can be a Christian is to be born again without being born again you are not a Christian. With that said here are what some people who call themselves Christian are because they are not truly Christians at all. We can be sometime Christians or on vacation, vacancy sign around your neck saying Christians out for lunch really, yeah really, because that is how some Christians act. However, you are born again it is who you are and that should never change. You are no longer a black, white, yellow, Japanese or all of the many cultures or tribes out there you are now a new creature a Christian and belong to God. See we can’t remain in our old ways and be new creations of the Lord almighty it does not work that way. God says you are a new creature all things have been made new, you are no longer your own you have been brought and paid for a price that you will never be able to repay.
Here’s a clip my Pastor shared with me in a conversation that we had, and I told him that this clip will go perfectly with the blog I am currently working on so here it is. https://youtu.be/K8wW6T4Vhko This young lady has a better understanding of who God is in her life than most Christians do and that is shameful. She asked the coach to ask her who am I and he did, but her response was one that we all need to be able to do but we are stuck in the ways of the world. If you have the same understanding as she does, then that should also be your response. She did not say I am a black girl from Boston or wherever she may live but that she is a child of the living God. I pray that all will come to that sobering understanding. I hope after that video and the verses below this will help you to see my point.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So, glorify God in your body.
1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV
Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Titus 2:14 ESV
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
We should marvel in these verses because they speak of the new creatures we are in Christ Jesus. I believe that the bigger picture is what God did for us to have this freedom is unheard of. God came to earth to suffer a horrible death for us to have this freedom and live with Him forever, how awesome is our God How awesome is He. There is no God like my God and I hope you feel the same. I highlighted the first five words in 1 peter
I know that this is a long back drop but I need to set the stage accordingly so you can see things through clearly with 20/20 vision. I want all to see the hypocrisy in this movement and how it does not line up with the word of God. You will see that there are thing related biases, but the end result is unbiblical.
I am adding a verse here that I don’t think people take seriously enough, or it is possible that people read through it but don’t understand or see the depth of its meaning. So, here’s the verses and I will elaborate.
Matthew 10:32-35
32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
Consequently, to put in simple terms I will explain what this mean to those who do not understand and here is how it reads. If you deny the word of God in any form is the denial of the Son Jesus Christ, our Lord and savior or should I be saying my Lord and savior. Why I say this, because there are so many who hold a different value in the world, they think that they can hold a worldly value and still be in the will of the Father. I’m here to tell you, you can’t; God after saving you, calls you out of the world and into his council and grace. Consequently, here are the things that are being denied:
1. Life
2. The union of Man & Woman (marriage)
3. who you are at birth. (man or woman)
4. Your identity. (Child of God born again holy spirit filled)
The craziest thing is that these are qualities that we should know is of God and should keep us grounded in Christ Jesus but does not. Satan know this and is using it to his benefit but if people was truly following God, Jehovah Jesus they would never line themselves up with an organization that does not support all of the above key points of God. In case this is not known these are the most important things to God. I can’t express this enough these are the most important things to God it is what hold us in unity with Christ Jesus. When God created us, he told us to subdue and multiply (life) meaning for us to continue that cycle He started with us. Teach your off springs to do the same and let them know as man and woman they become one. (marriage) When your child is born teach them who they are and who we serve, let the man known as a boy that he is a boy and a girl that she is a girl so the there is no confusion. Explain to them how, God give a man one practical body part that is absence from a woman and from birth God has designed them male and female. (Man & Woman). After they are grown and understand they will give they hearts to Christ Jesus repent of their sins and old ways and be new creatures in Christ Jesus no long bound to the sin on this world, but eternal connected to the kingdom of God.
26 Then God said, “Let us make man[a] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created him; male and female he created them. Answer to #1 & 3
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Answer to #2
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Answer to # 2 a longer version of this you’ve read above.
Ok let’s get back to the core topic critical theory and how it will affect Christians and the word of God.
There is no way to hold the values of God and use critical theory as a bases to ministry or teach God’s word.
I went on a rant because I felt that this was important for me to get across to all who reads my blog my clear intention is to bring all to a saving grace of the Lord and savior. My own and true desire is that we all come to a saving and graceful understanding of God’s word. So, I will never water down what I feel is important. I will leave it here for now peace and blessings
To be continued
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