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text: "I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH" By wwcgarch May 11, 2018 [embed]http://worldtomorrow-radio.wwcg-archives.com/03%20-%20True%20Church%20Series/35%20True%20Church%203.mp3[/embed] TRANSCRIPT: I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH (Radio Program: True Church 3) Herbert W. Armstrong brings you the Plain Truth about today's world news and the prophecies of the World Tomorrow. Ladies and Gentlemen, Herbert W. Armstrong: Where did the very church go which Jesus Christ said He would build? Men have searched history for a large, popular, growing, visible, politically organized body in endeavoring to compile the history of the church. So if you go to libraries and you obtain church histories, that's what you'll find. That's what historians have recorded. Now in the actual history of the first two centuries of the professing church, we saw it was divided into many different sects, many denominations, in one division, the Gnostics alone, there were more than fifty divisions, fifty different sects. But now let's look into the history of the true Church. Remember that the largest book of prophecy in the New Testament, the book of Revelation, the one great prophetic book in the New Testament pictures the church in the future and it shows TWO CHURCHES, not one. I've explained to you that the word church comes from the Greek word, since the New Testament was written in the Greek language, the Greek word ecclesia and it means a crowd, a group, an assembly of people, that's all. There's no sanctity in the word church. And so if you have a world church, of this world, that's not the Church of God. Then there is the Church of God mentioned in the Bible. Now we find in the book of Revelation is a great world church pictured here, and it is not the Church of God at all. This is the FALSE church, the DECEIVING church, the FALLEN church, and this pictures what we saw beginning in the history that we've read to you, and I have read to you from various histories, various encyclopedias, but primarily from Gibbon's Rome in the past several broadcasts. Now Rev. 17: just notice a little bit of the false church before we get into the actual history of what happened to the real true Church. :1 There came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, (now John is the one who is writing this. He is not the revelator. Jesus Christ is. It's the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him and God sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant John and John recorded it to writing. Now the prophetic part of the book of Revelation as we saw when we were going through the book of Revelation, the prophetic part of the prophecies is contained in the visions, the things that John saw in vision. Usually it was in symbol of course. But it was in the vision and the things he saw, so here is the prophecy and here is what he saw.) There came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, (that is the seven last plagues) and he talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: That's Rev. 17: verse 1. Now in the 18th chapter you'll see about the judgment and her name is called Babylon and God's people are told to come out of her that we be not partakers of her sins, that we received not of her plagues, for strong is the God that judges her. Therefore, her plagues are to come in one day, death and mourning and strong is the Lord God that judgeth her. They're His judgments, these plagues. The kings of the earth have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her and so on. And she's called here the great city Babylon. In one hour is thy judgment come. Now these judgments are the punishments that God is going to send on this professing church because of the false doctrines, because of, well it is the church of the world whose god is the devil. Now the people in it are deceived. The people in it are good, sincere people, that is they 're as good as people are and they are as good and bad in human nature of course. There is so much good in the worse of us and so much bad in the best of us, I guess and that's true but we're carnal unless we've received the Spirit of God to change our minds and our hearts. And so these people in relation to religion have been honest and sincere. They've just been deceived and the devil is the great deceiver. But here is an instrumentality that he has been able to use. Now here is this great woman. Now in the Bible prophecies a woman is a symbol of a church. You'll find it in the fifth chapter of Ephesians where the true Church is the financed Bride of Christ. To be presented to Him a chased virgin. That's the true Church. Then in II Cor. 11: you'll find again where the symbol of woman is a symbol for the church. So we know this is a church. Now she's a great church, not a small church. And she's sitting on many waters. Now that is a symbol, the many waters. But you turn over to verse 15 of Rev. 17: And he saith unto me, The angel explained it, the waters which thou sawest, where this great fallen woman sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. That is many nations speaking many different languages. Which means of course, many Gentile nations speaking many different languages. Now the fact that the woman sits on them means she has a grip on them religiously and controls or rules the religion. So it is a religion then that has dominated and permeates many nations. Alright the second verse says, :2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. In other words, she has actually mixed into the politics of this world's civil governments. You know, God is a Supreme Ruler. God has ordained however and decreed MAN MUST CHOOSE whether man will accept voluntarily the government of God or whether he will reject it. And he can. God has allowed man to set up his own ideas and to organize himself if he pleases. Which man has chosen to do. And all of that sort of thing. And God has laid before mankind the truth on the one hand and allowed him to disagree and to take error on the other. God has set before man, for man to choose. Life and death, good and evil. And man has usually chosen evil. Of course, man thinks he wants good and he really and sincerely thinks he does but it seems that he usually goes the way of the evil. And so God has set apart a seven thousand year period, my friends, in which He has DECREED as the SUPREME RULER, that we must choose. Even though we chose wrong. And He allows us to go wrong. Now we can only go wrong and chose wrong because God allows it and only as long as God allows it and for any organized rebellion against God on this earth He has allowed just 6,000 years. Then there 's going to be 1,000 years in which God is going to take over the government and is going to rule mankind and all nations of this earth and we 're coming to that time, the beginning of that seven thousand years in our generation now, this 20th century. We, my friend, are living at the end of the age. We're the people that are living in two ages. Two worlds. And you're going live into the happy, peaceful, joyous world tomorrow. We're at the end of this world. And here's what's happening at the very end God is going to finally send His plagues on this great false religious system. Now in verse 5 on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, (yes, in it's the pagan Babylonish mysteries that she has putting Christian names on them as I've shown you) MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT. Now Babylon means confusion. It's confusion, division, many, many, many divisions of religion disagreeing. Yes, all in confusion but it's a great system and there is one thing in unity in the whole system, and that's rebellion against God. They don't want what they call works. They don't want OBEDIENCE to God. They want salvation but they have turned grace into lasciviousness or license to disobey. Jude 4 tells us to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered . Now God prophesied that this thing would happen. That the people would rebel against God. God laid before Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden the truth and the Holy Spirit, symbolized by the Tree of Life, but also He laid before them rebellion and sin and going THEIR OWN WAY, and the way that would seem right to a man, symbolized by the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It was a mixture of good and evil. That's what we have in human nature. That's what they partook of. They rejected God. They turned the wrong way. My friends, that's what the people did in the professing Church that Jesus started. But remember that they weren't in the Church once they rebelled against God they were no longer in the Church. The Church is not a visible organization. The Church is an invisible, a spiritual organism. It's composed of visible people of course. Flesh and blood people. But it is only those people that have the Spirit of God in their hearts. That are being lead by the Spirit of God. Whose very lives have been changed by the POWER of God and who have been COMPLETELY been broken up about the kind of life they had always lived . Who have REPENTED of it and TURNED AWAY from it and turned to God, and given themselves to God to let Jesus come into their hearts and lives and live His life, His Holy, righteous, perfect life in them and for them. So it is Christ in them. And that is the hope of glory, and the people in the true Church do have Christ in them, in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Now one maybe here and one there. And again there might be a body attending together all but one of whom are in the true Church but that one is apostate, and is not a real Christian, not really following the way of God. That one is not in the Church even though he attends with them. You see, it isn't a matter of how many band together and meet in some building and assemble in Church pews or something like that, my friends. Joining a visible organization doesn't get you into the Kingdom of God or buy you any salvation in any way at all. Now those in any group, many of them might be Christian and some not or many of them might not be and a few might be. Or they might all be or they might none of them be. God knows. And we're not the judge. And God alone can read men's minds and hearts. And He knows who are His. Well, now this name is Babylon the Great, not the LITTLE, the SCATTERED, the DISPERSED, the PERSECUTED, the DESPISED. Oh no, JESUS said that HIS Church, the Church that HE said He would build would be the little flock. He said it would be despised and hated by the world. He said if they persecuted Me, they will you too. And so, the you, is the people that formed His Church. He said you 're not greater than your Lord and Master. They've persecuted Me, they've hated Me. They spit in His face. They crowned Him with a crown of thorns. They beat Him almost to death before He was crucified. He took your sicknesses and your diseases and infirmities on Himself. Did you know that? And then they crucified Him and they stuck a spear in His side and the blood gushed out. They gave Him gall and vinegar to drink when He was thirsty. But He looked up to Heaven and said God, Father forgive them, they don't know what they're doing. Yes, He had the love of God in His heart. That isn't a carnal love. Now His people were going to be scattered, by the popular organizations of this world. And so here was BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Rev. 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the MARTYRS of Jesus: (There, my friends, is the professing church that ASSUMES the name of Christ. The Christian name Jesus said many false prophets will arise. They'll say that I am the Christ, they'll profess that I am the Christ, they'll take My name, they'll use it, they'll call themselves Christians but they shall deceive many. Well, here's the picture of it in Rev. 17: That's a prophecy. Did that prophecy come true? Has it ever happened? Is it ever going to happen? It's in the word of God, my friends. Now in the 12th chapter of Revelation you find the true Church is pictured. And this is a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. :2 She being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. (Now that is first the Church of the Old Testament). My friends, do you realize that God's Church, that is God formed a Church, it wasn't God's Church in one sense. It wasn't called the Church of God. But it was a church. And it was the only one that belonged to God in any way. Formed under Moses and you'll find in the seventh chapter of the book of Acts, verse 38 in your Bible that that is called the church in the wilderness. Why they called themselves the same name, it's just a synonym, different English word, but it means the same thing, the Congregation of Israel. But that was the Congregation of Israel, the Church of Israel not the Church of God. That Church did not have the Holy Spirit. That Church did not have salvation. That Church was not commissioned to go into all the world and preach the gospel. But my friends, after Jesus went to Heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit and on the Day of Pentecost the Spirit of God came to enter into the minds and the hearts of the people that had accepted Christ. And the people who had really repented and those that now submitted themselves to God so that God could send His Holy Spirit, His great power, His very life into their minds, their hearts and their lives to change them, TO CONVERT THEM, and so they became converted, which they hadn't been in the Old Testament. Now these people had been spiritual begotten whereas they were merely flesh born in the Old Testament. Now they became the Church of God . Not the congregation of Israel. There's a great difference then, of course, between the old and the new. But here first it's speaking of the church as she was prior to the time of being begotten by the Spirit of God while it was even Israel. Rev. 12:2 She being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. Well then here appeared the great red dragon that is called the Devil, in verse 9, and he stood before the woman that was ready to be delivered and the child, which is Christ, of course, and speaking of the birth of Christ. For to devour her child as soon as it was born. :5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to His throne. The time element passes rapidly, completely through in that one verse the birth, the whole ministry, and the death, and the resurrection of Christ and His ascension to Heaven in that one verse five. Now then, we come even into the Middle Ages where this happened in history. Verse 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. In other words, that, my friends, in prophetic language (and I haven't time to explain all of the technical details of it just now) that is a duration of 1,260 years. That happened in history. The true church was a persecuted church. It was scattered and they had to flee beyond the bounds of the paganized civil governments, least the secret police would get them and completely torture them and finally martyr them unless they recanted and accepted the pagan doctrines that were falsely labeled Christianity. It actually happened. Now you find the devil being bought into focus here in verse 9 And the great dragon was cast out, (there had been a war up in Heaven with Michael, the Arch Angel, and his angels and it says) he is called the Devil, and Satan, that deceiveth the WHOLE world: Satan deceived the WHOLE world. Now, is that true? Has he? Or is the whole world all enlightened now? And only a few deceived? My friends, we believe well of course, naturally we look at what everybody professes and believes this Christianity, all these people couldn't be wrong. You know we believe like for instance the cigarette manufacturer said that millions can't be wrong and people really believe that. I want to tell you, my friends, in God's word it's the millions who usually are wrong but in this world the way they look at it, it's just the other way around isn't it. They think the majority is always rights. Well God shows the majority usually are wrong, very often. Now, here is Satan deceiving the whole world. And later we find that the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, verse 13, let's drop down to that. He came down here in verse 12 having great wrath, the Devil because he knew he had but a short time. Now, and when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. He persecuted the true Church. And that true Church had been terribly persecuted. :14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. The Church had to flee. Now, the last verse, verse 17 And the dragon was wroth (that's very angry, full of wrath) wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, (remnant is the last generation, the last remains, the very last portion or part, that is then this last generation of the true Church and that time is coming. AND WE'RE THE GENERATION THAT ITS SPEAKING OF, AND IT HAS NOT YET HAPPENED. It's going to happen in your life time and mine. In the next few years. Now it's coming a lot sooner than you think. I tell you, my friends, it's right now later than you think. We are living in MOMENTOUS times. We're living in TERRIBLE times. And it's time to WAKE UP! Look what's happening in the world. Look at the hydrogen bombs. Look at what's happening. Now I think that the wars are going to be held back a while. In fact, there's a great deal in prophecy to indicate it. I don't think it's going to break out into a world war in the next month or two. I want to tell you it's going to happen in a very few years and one, two, five, fifteen years whip by so rapidly today that it's just like a passing breathe of some kind. Like passing another airplane up in the air. Or two trains passing each other on two tracks. It just soon passed you. And it's a lot later than we think. You know God is the Supreme Ruler. God has ordained, however, and decreed that man must choose whether man will accept voluntarily the government of God or whether he will reject it. And God has laid before mankind the truth on the one hand, and allowed him to disagree and take error on the other. God has set before man, for man to choose, life and death, good and evil, and man has usually chosen evil. Of course, man thinks he wants good and he really and sincerely thinks he does but it seems he usually goes the way of the evil. Now, here's this devil, wroth with the woman, the true Church, and went to make war with our generation now. The remnant of her seed WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. There aren't very many today that believe in that, my friends. The majority of professing Christians today just hate the commandments of God. They despise the commandments of God, just like the devil. The devil despises God's law. Why his original rebellion was against that. Disobedience to God, insubordination, refusal to recognize and to submit to the government of God. And trying to make himself the ruler is what made him a devil in the first place. Turn back to Ezekiel 28:, Isaiah 14: And there it is. My friends, he is deceiving the world by putting that very thought in the minds of the people that profess to be Christians . Turning grace into lasciviousness. Oh, my friends, don't let an evil devil, such an evil influence of spiritual delusion and deception, deceive you. Keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus. Now there is the true Church being persecuted, scattered, driven away. There you are. Alright now let's go a little farther. Also in this same book of Revelation is an amazing prophecy and almost no one seems to understand it and yet it is so very plain and it shows you the actual history of the Church. Of course, it was written in advance. It was prophesy. But now it's history, it's already happened. That prophesy has been fulfilled. And it is in the second and the third chapters of the book of Revelation. Revelation 2: & 3:. Now usually we pass right over the second and the third chapters of the Book of Revelation. Well, we passed over this second and third chapters because they of themselves are not part of the main prophesy of the world. They are a prophesy of the true Church which has not been recognized by the world at all. And we were going into the prophesy of what would happen in the world. So, I skipped that but now I'm going to go into it. Now, I'm going to let you understand just exactly what it says. I see the time has gone so far that we aren't going to, anymore than just barely, get started in this program. So let this be sort of an introduction and listen every single night or every single day. Whatever time this program is on in your part of the country. And we are going to go through this mysterious Revelation 2: and Rev. 3: that almost nobody has ever understood which merely traces in detail, more or less detail that is, in advance the prophesy of what was going to happen from the very time of Christ on down to now in the true Church of God. Where is that Church? Jesus said I will build My Church. Well, He did build it. It isn't the church the world has held up to it's gaze. It isn't the church the historians have looked for because they didn't know what to look for. They looked for the popular church that prophesy said would deceive the world. So, my friends, when we get church history, we're getting history of the world's churches. The churches of this world. Now if you'll notice, we'll go as far as we have time here for just about two or three minutes. For instance, notice Rev. 1:12 & :13 John sees a vision of seven candlesticks. And Jesus is in the very midst, the middle of the seven candlesticks. Now, the Bible interprets the seven candlesticks to mean these seven particular church congregations as you read in verse 20. Now, Jesus is here picturing the church through seven successive stages. It's only the one church. But it's in seven successive stages of different time and different generation, and so He has taken seven churches that did exist in Asia Minor. They were on a mail route. And He takes those churches that were on a actual mail route, and the mail carrier went around first from the one, from Ephesus, next he came to Smyrna, then to Pergamos, and so on, finally winding up at Laodicea. And so there's the time order and God uses that to show the successive spirits and events that would happen in the true Church. And He shows the condition of the Church. Now of course, in a sense, you will find all seven of these characteristics in the Church of God at any one time, in a sense. And actually for instance, in the church at Ephesus, while you'll also find among some of the people in the church the Laodicean condition and some of them the Sardis condition, some of them the Philadelphian condition. Yet the Ephesus condition dominated at that time. And at the end the Laodicean condition of lukewarmest dominates. And yet there is a definite succession in these churches. Well, Jesus is pictured as dwelling among them. He's in the midst of these seven candlesticks and the seven candlesticks are the seven successive phases of the church. They were a type of the entire church. Now Jesus dwells in the entire church then. That's what it shows us. By that symbol which is explained in the Bible itself. Now since the vision pictured Jesus dwelling only in these seven churches, those seven churches pictured there actually represent the one great Church of God in it's seven successive eras or stages of time. Now Jesus chose the seven because they formed a perfect two-fold pattern. Now first they were typical of the general conditions among God's people anywhere and at any time. That's why we today are admonished to hear what the Holy Spirit says to all of the seven churches, not just to the one that might be in our time now. Second, those seven churches, each of which had it's own particular characteristics were chosen because their location in successive order on this long mail route was typical of the seven successive stages of expansion of the Church of God through all ages. And of course, these characteristics were typical of those literal churches that existed at that time. And they were a type of what was going to happen all the way through. Now beginning the next program we're going to begin right there with that and we're going to go right on through and show what the prophesy said and then we're going to dig it right out of history and we're going to show you what history says did happen and I'm going to show you where is that church that Jesus said He would found. The persecuted Church. The scattered Church. The True Church of God. Where is it? And what have they believed and what have they done? And what customs have they practiced and followed through every generation down to now? 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Tuckahoe school budget fails; Elwood passes
The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed Tuesday in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.
The vote on Tuckahoe's revised $19,293,000 budget was 215 "yes" to 186 "no." The positive margin of 53.6 percent was larger than in the first round of voting in May, but still well short of the 60 percent that state law requires for districts seeking to exceed their caps.
The Elwood district also was holding a revote Tuesday, and its revamped $59,458,599 budget passed with ease — 1,577 to 326 — for an approval of 82.9 percent. That system stayed within its cap limit and the budget needed to pull a simple majority vote to pass.
School board president Andrew Kaplan said, "We're delighted with the positive result, and can move forward for the new school year."
In Tuckahoe, school administrators and parents alike reacted to the defeat with surprise and sorrow.
Allan Gerstenlauer, the district's part-time superintendent, said school board members probably will meet Monday to discuss their next move.
"I'm disappointed with the results," said Gerstenlauer, a veteran administrator who earlier served as superintendent in the Longwood district. "The results speak to the difficulties school districts face in operating under a tax cap. The allowable tax-levy increase for Tuckahoe was about one-third of 1 percent, which is simply inadequate to fund school operations in any sustainable fashion."
Before the revote, local officials had announced that rejection of the revised spending plan would force the district to suspend purchases of new equipment and draw down on cash reserves in order to maintain student programs and class sizes at current levels.
Theresa Caulfield, a mother of twin sixth-graders attending Tuckahoe School, expressed dismay when told of the budget's rejection.
"Without meaning to sound cliched, the children are our future, and if we don't invest in them, then we're just not investing in our future in general," Caulfield said.
Tuckahoe's defeat came despite a last-minute get-out-the-vote effort by parent volunteers, who called an estimated 200 residents on Monday night and Tuesday morning. Many voters unmoved by the appeal said they objected to the district's insistence on trying to exceed the state's tax restrictions.
"If there's a cap, there should be a cap, and it should be observed," said Jim Wallis, a sales representative who has lived in the district for 26 years.
Other budget opponents complained of the district's unsuccessful efforts in recent years to consolidate with the neighboring Southampton system.
"I think it would be beneficial if Tuckahoe and Southampton could merge," said Tony Vassallo, a local business owner.
Tuckahoe, located in Southampton Town, enrolls 350 students in preschool through eighth grade in its single school building, and sends older students to Southampton High School on a tuition basis.
Over the past 10 years, the district has experienced dramatic demographic changes, with its proportion of Latino students rising from 30 percent to 60 percent.
The state's cap law, first imposed in 2012, basically limits school districts' annual tax increases to the inflation rate or 2 percent, whichever is lower, with exemptions for certain expenses such as interest payments on bond issues. Cap limits this year were the tightest since the system went into place, because of unusually low inflation.
Under law, districts failing to get 60 percent voter support in two tries face tax freezes the following school year.
Such instances are rare. In the current 2015-16 year, only two districts — both located in the state's far North Country — have been forced to hold taxes level due to budget-vote losses last spring.
Tuckahoe and Elwood were among nine districts across the state holding budget revotes Tuesday, according to the New York State School Boards Association. A total of 676 districts statewide, with 124 of those in Nassau and Suffolk counties, held initial budget votes last month.
Tuckahoe's revamped budget called for a 1.75 percent increase in total tax collections, known as a levy, for the 2016-17 school year. That was well beyond the district's allowable 0.38 percent tax cap — though less than the 2.48 percent raise in the proposed spending plan that voters rejected May 17, in the first round of voting.
At that time, Tuckahoe residents voted 146 to 145 in favor of the district's $19,533,000 plan, which carried a 2.3 percent spending hike. The bare majority vote was far short of the 60 percent required for passage. The defeat came despite attempts by the district to economize by eliminating a summer school program that usually enrolls about 100 children.
Elwood, like Tuckahoe, tried to override its tax cap in the first round of voting last month and failed. Its margin of defeat was smaller, with 1,132 yes to 805 no on the initial $59,891,409 budget. The 58.4 percent majority was just short of the 60 percent needed.
With that outcome, Kaplan said, "The board got the message."
Trustees in the midsize district, which enrolls about 2,270 students in Huntington Town, trimmed the spending request to a 0.04 percent decrease from what the district appropriated this year.
At Elwood Middle School, a steady stream of voters arrived soon after the polling place opened at 2 p.m.
Julie Testa, a resident of Elwood for 10 years who has two children in the district, voted in favor of the district's first proposed budget in May and pulled a repeat performance Tuesday. She was the first one to vote.
"It's important for the children, for the school, for the community," Testa said. "It's not just about the kids. It is about all of us."


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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Oprah, Miracles, and the New Earth
Monday, December 22, 2008
Coming Soon - A Marginal Jew, vol 4: Law and Love
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Baker Publishing Group receives Theologos Award
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
50% Off Bible Sale - December 12th & 13th
Friday, November 28, 2008
Zane Hodges Passes Away
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
ETS Paper Stirs a Debate Over the ESV
Finally, I don't understand when Strauss says, "I need to say first of all that I like the English Standard Version (ESV). After all, the ESV is a moderate revision (about 6% I believe) of the Revised Standard Version (RSV; 1952), which itself was done by very competent scholars." But he then describes the translation as "overly literal—full of archaisms, awkward language, obscure idioms, irregular word order, and a great deal of 'Biblish.' Biblish is produced when the translator tries to reproduce the form of the Greek or Hebrew without due consideration for how people actually write or speak." With that said what's there to like? He says it's a "good supplement to versions that use normal English." Why? How is a translation so plagued with problems a good supplement?
I will watch with great interest to see how this plays out. Also, there was a paper read on another translation which has not had enough visibility--The Holman Christian Standard Bible. You can find that here.
Friday, November 21, 2008
ZECNT 3 - Worship Service or Christian Court?
This is not a new interpretation and the more recent commentaries address the issue. I think B/K have got this one right. This is one of those cases where a surface reading of the text can lead you one way but in fact the details, when properly understood, point in another direction. But the question becomes what difference does it really make? Isn't the point the same no matter what the original context--don't show favoritism!
In one sense this is true. It is possible to wrangle over details of interpretation and then miss the main point. On the other hand if our goal is to understand the Bible and to explain it accurately then we can't simply bypass these issues. And while in this case the application is not affected one way or the other, this may not be true in other passages. Competent application is always built on solid exegesis. Sometimes faulty applications are read back into passages and therefore skew the interpretation. I'll give one brief example. Often we see Gen 31:49 "May the Lord keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other" as a divided pendant worn by two people as a sign of their love for each other and to trust God to care for them in their absence. The problem is the context of the passage is one of distrust! The next verse Laban says to Jacob, "If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me." (Note the NIV Study Bible text note says, "May . . . other. The so-called Mizpah benediction, which in context is in fact a denunciation or curse." (en loc)) But we are so used to seeing the verse applied in a loving context we assume that's how it was originally intended. With that said, I think it is worth understanding the original meaning of the text. That's why I read commentaries!
Back to ZECNT. In summary these "In Depth" sections, few as they are, are an added bonus in what is quickly becoming one of my favorite commentaries to recommend to pastors and small group leaders.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Study Bible Notes Compared 2 - Heb 6:4-6
For this text I compared the following Bibles: ESV Study Bible, TNIV Study Bible (the notes in this Bible are the same as the NIV Study Bible), NLT Study Bible, NKJV Study Bible, The Life Application Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible and The Ryrie Study Bible. The first to note is all these study Bibles come from varying degrees of a Calvinist perspective which leads one to ask don't the Arminians have a study Bible? Well, they certainly don't have the choices that the Calvinists do. A couple that have gone out of print are The Reflecting God Study Bible (which was an adaption of the NIV Study Bible and the old The Wesley Study Bible. There is a new Wesley Study Bible due to come out next year from Cokesbury. Otherwise some have pointed to the Life in the Spirit Study Bible which is Arminian but also Pentecostal. The Society of Evangelical Arminians has a small write up on this Bible and its treatment of election which some will find useful. With that aside let's look at the "Calvinist" study Bibles.
The ESV Study Bible offered the most view points (4). It certainly has the longest note and dedicated a couple of different notes for the passage. It argues heavily for the view that these are not genuine Christians and salvation may not be lost. The TNIV Study and the Ryrie Study Bible name three different views. The former leans in the direction of these being "professing Christians" and the latter, while a bit vague, seems to lean in the direction of the hypothetical view. (This is, in fact, his viewpoint if you check his Basic Theology, p 385-86.) MacArthur presents only one view at the verse itself but offers more discussion in a section called "Interpretive Challenges." In typical MacArthur fashion he states, "There is no possibility of these verses referring to losing salvation." The NLT Study Bible and the Life Application Study Bible offer an interpretation but do not indicate there are other options. The former does say it is "one of the most difficult" passages.
Overall I think the ESV study Bible has the best coverage (from a Calvinistic perspective). The TNIV Study Bible would be my second choice. Let's remember notes are just that--notes, not dissertations. While it is nice when a study Bible offers a little lengthier note (as in this case with the ESV) that is not always possible. If a note at least alerts the reader of interpretive options then they can pursue further study if so desired. Those that offered only one interpretation (NLT Study Bible and Life Application) would be last on my list. What about Ryrie and MacArthur? I understand that in these notes I'm getting the author's unique perspective. I don't expect them to give alternate views although I think it is nice when they do.
Next week we'll look at I Tim 2:12 and the issue of women in the church.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
ZECNT 2 - Structure of James
Monday, November 17, 2008
New Commentary Series from Zondervan 1
Do we really need a new commentary series? After spending the weekend with Zondervan's debut volume of a new commentary series, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, I have to say yes. The first volume in this series is authored by Craig Blomberg and Mariam J. Kamell on the book of James . Blomberg talks about his hesitancy of doing another commentary but after seeing the prospectus and the format distinctive he was sold. Having worked through the book of James over many years he felt most qualified to do this entry in the series. He says, "I have had to study this epistle more intensively than any other book of the Bible." (13). Shortly after accepting the project he asked his research assistant, Mariam Kamell, if she would like to work on the commentary. Kamell had done her M.A. thesis on aspects of James. She accepted and the result is truly collaborative effort. Blomberg explains more of this in detail in the "Author's Preface."
I'll talk a little about the format in this blog and later I will comment on specific issues in James. The series is targeted towards the "busy pastor or teacher" and is designed for a "one-stop shopping approach to adequate sermon preparation or lesson planning." In order to better facilitate this goal Zondervan consulted with pastors, teachers, ministry leaders, and seminary professors to glean what would be most helpful in a commentary that would be useful to the church. The result is a commentary which devotes seven sections to each passage of Scripture treated. The first is the "Literary Context" which helps the reader see the connection between what precedes and what follows that particular material. I especially enjoyed this section as it kept me from getting lost in the details of the text. Too often we forget the larger context and can't seem to follow the "train of thought" the author is presenting. The next section is the "Main Idea." Here the main idea of the passage is presented in one or two sentences. For preachers looking for the "big idea" of a passage this will be very welcome. Then follows the "Translation and Graphical layout." Here the author provides their own translation and then diagrams the passage. This is really nice. The diagramming of a passage helps the reader to visually see how the text flows together and how the parts relate to each other. The "Structure" section describes the "flow of thought in the passage and explains how certain interpretative decisions regarding the relationship of the clauses were made in the passage." (11) The "Exegetical Outline" provides a more detailed outline of the passage. The "Explanation of the Text" is where you find the verse by verse exegesis of the passage. The final section is "Theology in Application." Here you will find the theological message of passage summarized and suggestions on "what the message of the passage is for the church today." (12)
Pastors and small group leaders will want to take full advantage of this new series. Don't let the size fool you. This is a first-rate commentary at the beginner/intermediate level. It does interact with the Greek which make some avoid using it. But there is plenty in here for those who don't know Greek.
Next time I will talk about the structure of James and how Blomberg/Kamell understand it and I'll look at a couple of passages of interest.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Study Bible Notes Compared 1
Next week we will start with the very controversial passage of Hebrews 6:4-6.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Goldingay on Psalms now complete
Amongst a myriad of methodological approaches to the Psalms, Goldingay's approach is from a Canonical context (think Brevard Childs). He sees almost no need to identify the author, or the Sitz im Leben, the "situation in life" in which the Psalms were composed for. In this way, he matches the series goal to write a commentary for "ministers, seminary students, and Bible study leaders. Of these groups we have most in mind clergy and future clergy, namely seminary students." (Volume I: Psalms 1-41, p. 8) But if you think the academic and textual comments are scant, think twice. Goldingay gives his own translation of each Psalm, followed by a large volume of textual notes both in the text and in footnotes. He then gives his interpretation and the "Theological Implications" of the Psalm.
After reading his 70-page introduction to the Psalms I had some reservation in giving the book a warm and positive review. This was partly because I have extensively studies the Psalms and read quite a bit of material on Psalm Studies. He believes that the Psalms anonymity, including the "Davidic" ones (see his notes on the Hebrew le in the superscriptions for his wonderfully grounded argument) open up the Psalms for use in both Israel and our own churches. Given the patriarchal society of the Old Testament this anonymity also may protect the fact that some of the Psalms may have written by women (although he only mentions this in passing).
He gives a good account for the MT's inclusion of the superscription in the text itself as well as a good synopsis of the words which appear in the margins of most translations as notes for singers/choir directors, eg., selah. He also gives a good overview of Hebrew Poetry and the use of parallelism.
The reason for my positive and warm review is that the introduction complements the actual commentary very nicely. The book is well organized, the layout is simple to understand and the writing is conversational and the book is actually enjoyable to read. Even for someone who has read so extensively in Psalms studies I was able to learn very valuable insights in the Psalter and how the church can benefit from them in their own worship.
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Gospels Now Complete in BECNT Series
Monday, November 3, 2008
Jesus and the Feminists: Who Do They Say He Is?
This book is primarily a survey although Kostenberger does provide critiques along the way. Those looking for hearty critiques may sometimes be disappointed but she does provide further resources in numerous footnotes. As the title suggests the book focuses on Jesus and therefore most of the discussions are on the Gospels. A number of times I had to remind myself of this as I kept wondering why she wasn't dealing with this or that passage from Paul. Furthermore, I sometimes wished for more interaction with certain authors like William Webb. However, because Webb does not work much with the Gospels she concludes the "Gospel evidence does not feature prominently in [his] hermeneutical scheme." (169) She does interact with other prominent evangelicals such as Grant Osborne, Douglas Groothuis, Ben Witherington, and R. T. France.
An important issue for Kostenberger is Jesus' selection of twelve men as apostles. She asserts "Despite advancing various explanations, feminists have not been able to account satisfactorily for the fact that Jesus appointed twelve men as apostles." (213) Egalitarians will counter that Kostenberger is overstating her case and simply dismissing their responses as wrong without sufficient argument. Kostenberger devotes one chapter to various passages from the Gospels of Jesus and women. Here she persuasively demonstrates how difficult it is to portray that Jesus was in any meaningful sense a feminist by 21st century standards (radical, reformed or evangelical). It appears that if a strong case is going to be made for feminism then it can't be found on the basis of anything Jesus said or did. The case must be made elsewhere and this is precisely how so many today are arguing. Most prominent have been those who follow along the lines of Webb in his redemptive hermeneutic. See for example Scot McKnight's most recent book The Blue Parakeet.
Because the feminist debate so frequently ends up centered around Pauline texts (at least in evangelical circles) this is a refreshing volume to remind us that the Gospel evidence must not be neglected. For those interested in the spectrum of ideas represented in Feminist Theology this is an excellent introduction.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Baker Staff Pictured in Time Magazine
Monday, October 27, 2008
Jonah - Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
Friday, October 17, 2008
Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell and Don Golden
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
ESV Study Bible - Available Now
The contributors of the study notes represent some of the finest in contemporary conservative Christian scholarship. Among them are Gordon Wenham, Duane A. Garrett, C. John Collins, Andreas J. Kostenberger, Clinton Arnold, Grant Osborne, Robert Yarbrough and Thomas R. Schreiner to name only a few. Finally, these Bibles have been printed on the finest paper and are all Smyth-Sewn to ensure a quality final product. With your purchase of the print edition you will always have access to a FREE ESV Online Study Bible which offers the full content of the print version, plus additional unique features. You must see these first hand in order to appreciate it fully so stop in today and see for yourself. You won't be disappointed.
Friday, October 10, 2008
The latest in the BECNT Series is in!
Friday, October 3, 2008
Bringing the Bible to Life - Study Guide Series
These guides were based on the award-winning NIV Application Commentary series. This means that each guide brings with it the insights of top evangelical scholars like Douglas Moo, John Walton and Karen Jobes to name a few.
But enough with the basic facts, I should tell you why I recommend this series: because for someone who has grown up in church (like myself) this study guide curriculum goes refreshingly deeper than other series. I don't say that to put down other books, or to exonerate myself, but just to recognize that when you grow up in the church it's easy to know all of the "right answers" to common Bible study questions and it's easy to get bored with Bible study. Because this series focuses on scholarship (but still maintains accesibility) it is challenging me to think more deeply about verses I've heard many times, and exposing me to knowledge about the text that you only typically find in commentaries.
I recommend this series to those who want something "deeper" in their small groups and Sunday school classes, and I especially recommend it to those who have been through numerous study guides and programs before - these might reignite your passion to study the Bible again. My Bible study group just started Romans. As we work through it, I'll add other thoughts about the series to this post, so check back!
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Theology in the Context of World Christianity - Timothy C. Tennent
"...The lifeblood of Christianity is found in its ability to translate itself across new cultural and geographic barriers and to recognize that areas that once were the mission field can, over time, become the very heart of Christian vitality, while those areas that were once at the heart can lose the faith they once espoused...places like Lagos, Nigeria, and Seoul, South Korea, where the presence of Christianity at one time seemed almost unimaginable, are today vibrant centers of the Christian faith." (p.6)
Though this text is not brand new (2007), considering it as a textbook it is still new enough to merritt a review, and I was so impressed by Tennent's work I felt I had to mention it here.
There is much to learn from the global Church. It's easy in developed countries, where church is perfected and polished, available in a thousand flavors and expressions, to assume that we have the corner on theology. But as Tennent asserts it is often in those places that seem to be less churched where the Church is often at its most vibrant, relevant, and offering fresh insights on who God is.
This book is completely accessible for lay readers and the general audience. It looks and feels like a textbook but Tennent's passion for his beliefs come through in a powerful way. I would recommend this for Sunday School classes, Missions classes, and if you have an ambitious small group it could be used there as well.
"Those of us from the older northern churches of Christendom must listen attentively to these new southern Christians. We are no longer the only, or even the central, players on the filed. Admittedly, this is not an easy adjustment for us. We are not accustomed to living in a world where the heartlands of Christianity are located in Africa, Latin America and Asia. nevertheless, twenty-first-century Christianity will largely be determined by the faithfulness of those outside our primary sphere of influence. After all, the theology that matters the most is wherever the most Christians are located." (p. 272)
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Friday, September 19, 2008
How to be Evangelical without being Conservative - Roger Olson
So begins Roger Olson in How to be Evangelical without being Conservative.
In this short book Olson manages to tackle a number of religious/social/political issues that are often unnecessarily used to polarize viewpoints, while attempting to redeem words like "evangelical." Each chapter begins by asking a relevant but often unspoken question: What does it mean to "Take the Bible Seriously Without Literalism"? Or to "Celebrate America without Nationalism"? To even to be "Religionless without Secularism"?
As we enter the final stages of the Presidential race I encourage you to read this book. Olson does not present a partisan argument, but encourages readers to think beyond pundit labels and media slant. You may not agree with all of his thoughts, but his reasoned approach and personal tone are worth reading. This book also includes a glowing foreword by Scot McKnight in which he says:
"This book reminds us that the two-option approach so popular in our world today, two options that are held with utter certitude by both sides, is not always the right one. Sometimes, in fact, there is a Third Way, a way that might not be so cocksure and certain, but just might be 'Here I stand, so help me God.'"
Check back every Friday for Andrew's updates on new Zondervan resources for ministry and Bible study! Andrew Rogers is a Promotions Manager for Zondervan.
Friday, September 12, 2008
African Christian Ethics - Samuel Waje Kunhiyop
HippoBooks is a shared imprint among several publishers and partners including Zondervan and African publishing houses. The vision for HippoBooks is to stimulate growth in the African Church by enabling African scholars to address their native realities from an evangelical perspective.
As the world grows smaller through the Internet and easier travel, African issues grow in importance for the Western Church. HippoBooks allow us to get a firsthand look into a larger vision of the body of Christ, and its problems, guided by trustworthy scholars.
If your church has a multi-ethnic congregation, then I would especially recommend this book to you. It's emphasis on understanding cultural sensitivities and it's concise dealing with each topic make it a handy reference tool.
Speaking of the topics, I was particularly intrigued when I saw this book because of the variety of ethical issues it covers: Church and State, War and Violence, Striking, Contraception, Polygamy, Domestic Violence, Incest, Rape, Witchcraft and many more. Often reading a non-western perspective on these topics is enlightening and gets me thinking about the Church and faith issues in new ways.
This would also be great reading for anyone travelling, even just short term. in Africa. It would also be good for students entering a missions program this fall. Kunhiyop's writing is in-depth but not overly academic. (Don't balk at the book's 400 pages, it reads much faster than it looks.)
Thanks to Baker Book House for allowing me to be a guest blogger. Check back next Friday for more news about Zondervan's ministry and Bible study resources. I'll be posting weekly and if you use any of the resources mentioned don't hesitate to leave a comment, we want to know what you think!
Andrew Rogers, Promotions Manager, Zondervan
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The Shack - Discussing the Trinity Part 1: Papa
I'd love to hear feedback from every point of view, but please, let's keep it clean.
With this first post we'll examine "Papa." For the remainder of the discussion I will refer to "Papa" interchangibly with "God" meaning the figure of the Trinity traditionally called "God the Father."
How is he/she portrayed and what are the implications of this portrayal? I'll list a few observations, you can post your responses.
1) God is a woman named "Papa": See p.86 and 91. The average Christian thinks of God as a man, even the Lord's prayer refers to "Our Father," but a number of scholar's conclude that God is genderless. What are your thoughts?
2) God has scars from the cross: On p.95-96 Papa reveals her scarred wrists to Mack. "We were there (on the cross) together." (p.96) Mack asks about Matt.27:46 - "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (NIV) Papa responds with "you didn't understand the mystery." So was God crucified with Christ, or was Christ forsaken, or both? One step further, was the Holy Spirit crucified too? ("We were there...")
3) God became human with Christ: See p. 99: "When we three spoke ourself into human existence as the Son of god, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitations that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood." Despite the pronoun and tense confusion in this paragraph, what does this say of the incarnation? Were all three human? Or was only Christ human with the other two present in him? Can this question really be answered definitvely?
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
"Jesus Mean and Wild" - Mark Galli
Galli's book is a helpful and balanced antidote to the all too common picture of Jesus as someone who was perennially nice and just walked about spouting gems of wisdom to passers by. The Jesus of the Gospels is far removed from this image. Galli observes how Jesus "sternly charged" people and was sometimes angry. He cursed the fig tree and destroyed a herd of swine. The reactions to Jesus' actions are described as "amazed," "utterly astounded," "terrified," "fear and trembling," and "terror and amazement."
A particular strength of the book is Galli's pastoral experience and keen eye for avoiding extremes. Galli is a former pastor and a senior managing editor of Christianity Today. No where does this experience show better than when he carefully nuances his presentation. For example, chapter 16 begins with "Just when we need him most, God forsakes us." (p.165) Galli acknowledges that "this is a disturbing thought . . . but it is a truth of human experience. We would do well to acknowledge it up front." In a chapter that is brimming with the potential for pessimism Galli faces a truth of the Christian life and shows the silver lining.
This is a book that is forged in the realities of the Christian life. In the end we find Jesus—undomesticated, mean and wild but "pulsating with unnerving and irresistible love."
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Christ, My Companion - Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Discuss "The Shack" at BBH
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Solomon Among the Postmoderns - Peter J. Leithart
Similar to the ending of Ecclesiastes, Leithart chooses not to leave his readers with a hopeless sentiment by reminding us, "But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works." (Ps. 73:28)
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Arbor Lodge Community Tree Planting
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By Arbor Lodge Tree Stewards Liz Stevenson & David Taylor
Back in September 2009, some city crews came through and chopped down our elm trees in front of our house because they were infested with Dutch Elm Disease. These elm trees had been planted in the 1950s, and provided a spectacular canopy in front of our modest homes in Arbor Lodge. The elms were one of the reasons we were attracted to buying our home, so when they were gone, a great gaping hole in our world was created that, frankly, made us want to cry.
But soon we were not alone. Within a week several neighbors, many of whom we did not know before this incident (although we've lived in the neighborhood for 13 years!), sent a flyer around the block wanting to organize and do something about losing our trees. We heard that the City wasn't going to replant. We offered to have the meeting in our home and we were surprised by how many neighbors showed up (about 30!) to talk about the trees. After many contacts with different City departments, we learned about the neighborhood tree stewardship program and my husband David Taylor and I signed up to learn about the urban forestry plan.
Through the tree stewardship program we met Karl Dawson and he agreed to help us replant the trees in our neighborhood. The City gave us the choice about what types of trees to plant, from a list that they generated, and we held a sort of straw vote on the block. Karl told us when to plant the trees, while David and I organized our neighbors to help plant them. The neighbors have agreed to water the trees for the first few years during the dry season so they will grow strong and tall.
From what started out as a heartbreak has ended up being a great way to meet our neighbors. We learned that we have some fabulous, dedicated neighbors who are deeply committed to our environment and have a great respect for the aesthetics of our neighborhood. If there's anything that I would have done differently, we would have planted the slower growing oak trees in the middle of the block, and planted the faster growing Accolade elms closer to Rosa Parks Way – a busy, noisy street. But, ah well, in a few years it won't matter as much.
We have to continue caring for these trees, making sure that they get watered through the long, dry summers on Omaha Avenue. In a few years we can hold a session about pruning and use these trees as examples of good pruning practices.
David and I also look at our neighborhood much differently than we used to. We always liked the trees, but now we notice the Heritage Trees, the lovely "big" trees, the maples and walnuts, as well as the badly pruned trees, the diseased birches, and some uncared-for hawthorns that become a mess so easily. We notice it all! We want to help our neighbors with their troublesome trees and encourage the others to be good stewards of their trees. We love our canopy and we want to make sure it grows and flourishes for as along as we're here to help. For upcoming Arbor Lodge events go to ArborLodgeNeighborhood.com.
Sign up for December 20 Tree Planting here or email karl.dawson (at) portlandoregon.gov
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Abstinence is the state and process of refraining from engaging in a particular pursuit. We commonly hear the word used in sexuality or addiction recovery contexts.
Abstinence is the antithesis of unmitigated pleasure and consummate indulgence. I would brand it as a portmanteau of abstain and continence. The individual has to exercise a great level of self-discipline and abstain from indulging in immediate gratification, consequently yielding to the tenets of the pleasure principle–the psychoanalytic engine behind Sigmund Freud's id (the repository of instinctual desires).
When threatened or coerced by external, worldly pleasures, abstinence employs self-restraint and willpower as its internal mechanisms, culminating in a show of strength–personified by self-control.
These internal mechanisms are countermeasures of the ego's dogma: the reality principle, which assesses the risks and rewards, rationalizing situations and deploying delay discounting.
Abstinence secures precarious accommodations, settling on one extreme end of the moral gamut, while surveying the hedonistic landscape. Abstinence's gaze fixates on the far, distant, and opposite periphery where decadence is perched on a towering pedestal, enshrouded in symbols of indulgence. The gamut sits on an incline as the scale tips and abstinence feels the brute weight and pressure of a society deeply entrenched in patterns of decadence–particularly consumerism as a form of psychological and emotional salvation.
Is Abstinence Sensible?
However, in a world where addictions are prevalent and etch themselves in the human condition, redefining conceptualizations of normalcy, is it enough to simply abstain from addictive pursuits? Is abstinence really the epitome of recovery?
We have to remember that abstinence is still preached in the addiction community. Groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous propagate abstinence as the objective. The brain disease model of addiction points out that certain agents or pursuits (e.g. alcohol, gambling) are inherently addictive, causing changes to neural circuitry in the brain and perpetuating a cycle of cravings and compulsions.
Thus, this model implies that the goal of treatment is complete cessation of drug intake or specific behaviors in order to eradicate addiction. Further, the person must maintain abstinence throughout his or her life. Is this realistic? We live in a world of addictions. We are immersed in a consumerist culture and are constantly barraged by a hyper-reality of sex, food, drugs, alcohol, shopping, gambling, etc.
All these pursuits are branded in a way that appeals to us emotionally and psychologically. We do not engage sexually solely in the confines of an intimate and consensual relationship. Instead, we are flooded with pornography, prostitution, sexy clothing, and dating sites to fulfill our wildest fantasies and more importantly, meet unmet needs and desires such as acceptance, love, and power.
We do not just eat to survive anymore. Instead, we are sucked into over-indulging in salt, sugar, fat, and processed foods–beyond the point of survival or simple sustenance.
In order for abstinence to be a truly liberating component of addiction recovery, our entire socioeconomic and cultural order would need an overhaul. As long as society is entrenched and rooted in this idea of exhuming psychological and emotional needs (i.e. acceptance, love, power, belonging, etc.) via material possessions–sustaining a cycle of mass consumption–abstinence will endure a Sisyphean fate.
Where Does That Leave Abstinence?
Therefore, it is not enough to just abstain from an addiction because abstinence challenges and denies our real, authentic selves. Addiction is a response to our world. Contrary to popular belief and science demonizing addiction and casting it in the realm of abnormality, I think the propensity for human beings to become addicted is a part of us and is rooted in the meddling of biology in sociocultural contexts.
I would argue that it is normal to engage in obsessive, ritualistic, and even pathological behavior (denoting compulsion and obsession in its informal usage)–especially when threatened by deprivation, pain, adversity, or loss.
We tend to love so deeply, form deep loyalties, act habitually, and master certain skills amongst many other activities. Society creates problems, but also provides solutions to our problems. In our current social order, we find relief and deliverance in many kinds of tangible and material possessions.
For example, a new, luxurious handbag may be emotionally branded as instilling confidence and awarding social recognition amongst a cohort. If we are depressed or anxious, our sociocultural context has made it convenient and acceptable to seek relief and assuagement in a myriad of pursuits such as drugs or gambling–taking advantage of the neuroplasticity of our brains and exploiting, as well as compromising, our biology.
We become immersed in a pathological, dependent relationship, anchored in servitude, where objects and material things are the portals to idealized forms of acceptance, belonging, love, power, confidence, respect, and security amongst other intangibles.
We experience not only physical withdrawal symptoms when that symbiotic relationship is threatened or severed, but also undergo a psychological withdrawal as the ego is overwhelmed by anxiety and depression. Unless our pervasive capitalistic virtues are replaced by a new social order that does not require human-object dependency to acquire intangibles, then addiction is most likely here to stay.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Abstinence implies that the individual maintains the addict label and has to endure a lifetime of refrainment from relapse–particularly in the case of drugs and alcohol. Imagine someone who suffered from alcohol use disorder and gained sobriety five years ago. That alcoholic label lingers because the person could relapse at any time.
That person could achieve 20 years of sobriety and suddenly guzzle one drink or 20 drinks. In that instance, no matter the quantity consumed, his alcoholic identity publicly resurfaces.
The amount of alcohol does not appear to matter. So,
if quantity is irrelevant, what truly defines an addiction? I think the barometer for addiction is the negative consequences and physical, social, and personal difficulties that arise. Perhaps addiction is not something to be cured, but something to be understood and moderated. If we can contemplate and embrace the notion that addiction is ingrained in the human condition–existing in a specific sociocultural and historical universe–then we may gain a deeper understanding of it.
Incorporating a harm reduction perspective, I maintain that moderation and balance are the key in life. From ritualistic binge drinking to tireless smoking, moderation matters while still recognizing and appreciating the real, physical dangers of specific addictions, such as to drugs and alcohol, and their potentially deadly effects on the body and the mind (e.g. death).
Once we achieve ways of truly gratifying needs such as love and belonging, we do not need to overindulge in worldly pleasures. How do we achieve this moderation and balance? We find those intangible needs in other social actors. In a nutshell, maintaining strong and meaningful relationships is a key aspect. We cannot find authentic security, love, or respect in money or tangible things, but we can find it in meaningful relationships with other people. It is the significant, purposeful relationships that we build and maintain that will help us truly fulfill our needs.
Taylor, D.M., Segal, D. (2015). Healing ourselves and healing the world: Consumerism and the culture of addiction. Journal of Futures Studies, 19(3): 77-86. Retrieved from https://bestfutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/


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