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OUR CHURCHES ARE NOT YET READY FOR THE COMING
ATTACK BUT DON’T WORRY!
By Dr. Michael J.
Bisconti
Before we begin we would like to point everyone to
that part of our website that helps to prepare churches for the coming attack
with which this article deals: Scientific
Biblical Studies – Full Content.
The coming attack will come in the area
of the “original languages text of the Bible”; that is, the Bible as originally
inspired in ancient Hebrew, ancient Aramaic, and ancient Greek.
Today, there are many defenders of the
original language text of the Bible both among professional Bible scholars and
individual, dedicated Christians.
However, we have seen none that are addressing the ultimately
crucial questions necessary to determine the true text of the Bible. These questions relate to matters of
Christian, biblical epistemology and Christian, biblical ontology
(subjects covered by the biblical discipline of idesistemology, which,
grandiose as it may sound, we alone are addressing). To best illustrate our point, we will
describe our personal experience. We
have omitted proper noun references so as not to disparage anyone’s past,
present, or future ministries or other contributions to society.
This is my experience, the experience of
Dr. Michael J. Bisconti:
Forty years ago I began seeking answers
to questions relating to the textual authority of the original languages text
of the Bible. At that time, there was
no public debate and discussion of the original languages text of the Bible as
there is today. Indeed, it was very
difficult to find information on the subject.
A couple of decades later some people began writing on the subject;
their books were helpful. As the years
went by, others wrote more extensively and more persuasively on the
subject. However, in all of these
writings one critical element was missing – definitive argument or
proof. The key word here is
“definitive.” The word “definitive”
applies to “what is put forth as final and permanent” (standard
Webster’s dictionary). All books on the
subject, to date, have provided, at best, argument and evidence that is only
99% compelling relative to the fact that the Hebrew-Aramaic-Greek text
underlying the King James Bible (or any other version of the Bible for that
matter) is the correct Hebrew-Aramaic-Greek text of the Bible. They have all been missing, what we referred
to above, idesistemology.
Our churches are not
ready for the coming attack on the “original languages text of the Bible”; that
is, the Bible as originally inspired in ancient Hebrew, ancient Aramaic, and
ancient Greek because they ARE NOT INSTRUCTED IN IDESISTEMOLOGY. Now, others may prefer to use a different
term than “idesistemology.” Fine. That does not change the present, dire
situation, which is that our churches are not ready for:
THE COMING ATTACK ON THE “ORIGINAL LANGUAGES TEXT OF THE BIBLE.”
Our churches have been misled into
thinking that objective science is enough to defend the original
languages text of the Bible. The fact is
that the defense of the original languages text of the Bible can only be completed
in the realm of the powers of the human spirit, the powers of the mind –
psychiatry, psychology, empirical epistemology, empirical ontology, etc.,
etc. These are all summed up in the field
of idesistemology. To put it in
plain Scriptural language, as the Apostle Paul said in I Corinthians 2:5:
That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
In this verse, the Apostle Paul gives us the
key principle of idesistemology, the key principle for identifying the true
text of the Bible in the original languages – the power of God. Now, note that this is not mere, poetic
language. This is, rather, a profound,
intellectual principle.
“Dunamei Theou,” the
actual Greek words used by the Apostle Paul and translated “the power of God,”
refers to “a specific and definable operation of God in the human psyche
(the soul, the spirit, the mind, the heart, etc.…we won’t argue semantics).”
The standard definition for “psyche” (see
the standard dictionary) is “the mind.”
The standard definition for “mind” (see the standard dictionary) is:
The element or complex of elements in an individual that
feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons.
Thus, the power of God is:
A specific and definable
operation of God in:
The element or complex of elements in an individual that
feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons.
Now, this specific and definable operation
of God does not require a college degree to understand, though, admittedly,
this article may tend to suggest that it does require a college degree
to understand. The reason we must use
big words and complex ideas is that, for some areas of human knowledge:
Only big words and complex ideas can prevent confusion.
For example, the Apostle Peter says in II
Peter 3:16, of the Apostle Paul’s writings:
As
also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which
they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they
do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Note the words:
…some things hard to be understood….
This article deals with one of those
“things hard to be understood” but, note, IT IS ONLY HARD UNTIL
YOU GET THE UNDERSTANDING. AFTER THAT,
IT IS EASY!
Now, returning to our main point, the
power of God is:
A specific and definable
operation of God in:
The element or complex of elements in an individual that feels,
perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons.
What is the specific and definable
operation of God in the element or complex of elements, etc., etc.?
Ahhh, now this is where it gets tough;
i.e., “hard to be understood.” In the
time of the early Christians, there were no widely accepted sciences,
which are not always sciences, of psychology, psychiatry, empirical
epistemology, empirical ontology, etc., etc. Today, the extreme opposite is true. As a result, there is a flood, AN
ENORMOUS FLOOD, of scientific and pseudoscientific ideas – fact and fiction
– that oppose the truth of God, the truth of the Bible. There is only one way to be rescued from
this flood – go straight to the truth of God, go straight to the Bible. HOWEVER, THE FLOOD HAS BECOME SO ENTRENCHED
IN CHRISTIAN THINKING THAT:
WE MUST ALSO FIGHT THE BATTLE ON THE ENEMIES TURF!
Fighting the battle on the enemies turf
is nothing new. The Apostle Paul did
this many times; for example, on a couple of occasions recorded in the Bible,
he quoted NONBIBLICAL WRITERS.
Again, returning to our main point, the
power of God is:
A specific and definable
operation of God in:
The element or complex of elements in an individual that
feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons.
Again, what is the specific and definable
operation of God in the element or complex of elements, etc., etc.?
Now, some people, including some
Christians, will declare “Only a simple answer is required!” They are partly right. They are right in the sense that only a
simple answer is required BY THEM.
However, most people, including most Christians – among these are:
·
“Professionals of the
mind” (psychiatrists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, etc.,
etc.)
·
“Deep thinkers” (people who
can only see things on a detail level; for these people, a thing does not exist
unless it exists in detail)
·
“The confused masses,” the
biggest group of all, who are confused because of the chaos and confusion of
the host of speakers and writers trying to explain to them, in conflicting
ways, the mysteries of the human mind and/or the mysteries of the endowments of
God in the human mind and heart
– need a complex answer.
Now, they need a complex answer but, good
news, the complex answer is simply a large collection of simple answers. This large collection of simple answers
comprises (makes up) idesistemology.
Now, more good news, not everyone needs to learn the entirety (all) of
idesistemology. The reason for this is
that you only need to learn those truths that you need to fight the battles
that you face. In addition,
there is a special class of people who need to learn all of the truths
of idesistemology. These are the people
who defend, on one or more levels, the written word of God – Christian ministers,
as well as Christian psychologists, Christian psychiatrists, Christian
empirical epistemologists, Christian empirical ontologists, Christian
sociologists, Christian anthropologists, etc., etc.
Well, after reading this far, you might
feel cheated unless we provided at least one of the truths of idesistemology;
so, here is one, a very important one:
REALITY IS A PIE THAT CAN BE SLICED MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
In technical, idesistemological language
that would be (the deep thinkers will love this):
The conscious manifestation
of the human psyche to the self can vary from individual to individual and,
within a given individual, from situation to situation and this manifestation
can, contrary to the psychiatric and psychological, speculative
thinking of A FEW, constitute the conscious manifestation of God in
human experience.
Or, as our ultimate authority says in I
Corinthians 12:7:
But the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to every man to profit withal.
Note the word “manifestation.” The Greek word in the above verse is
“phanerosis.” The word “phanerosis” ALWAYS,
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS means:
A CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE
A conscious experience
can be, AMONG A MILLION OTHER THINGS:
·
A conscious thought
·
A conscious feeling
·
A conscious imagination
·
A conscious visualization
·
A conscious dream
·
A conscious daydream
·
A conscious emotion
·
A conscious desire
·
The experience of seeing
something
·
The experience of hearing
something
·
The experience of tasting
something
·
The experience of smelling
something
·
The experience of feeling
something with the sense of touch
In plain English, stretching the word
“feel” to its permitted limits (according to the standard, American English
dictionary), and NOT limiting the word “feel” to human emotion:
WHEN GOD ENTERS YOUR LIFE, THERE
ARE NEW THINGS TO “FEEL.”
THE TIP OF THE
ICEBERG
Now, we have just unveiled the tip of a
very large iceberg. Lord willing, we
will be presenting God’s entire message in the field of idesistemology, using
both biblical and scientific proofs:
The enemy has been engaged, a
revival has begun!
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