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  The  HUMAN  PARADIGM 
  
  Consider:
  The missing element in every human 'solution' is 
  an accurate definition of the creature.

  In an effort to diminish the multiple and persistent
  dangers and abuses which have characterized the 
  affairs of man in his every Age, and to assist in the 
  requisite search for human identity, it is essential to 
  perceive and specify that distinction which naturally 
  and most uniquely defines the human being. Because 
  definitions rule in the minds, behaviors, and institutions 
  of men, we can be confident that delineating and com-
  municating that quality will assist the process of resolu-
  tion and the courageous ascension to which man is 
  called. As Americans of the 21st Century, we are oblig-
  ed and privileged to join our forebears and participate 
  in this continuing paradigm proclamation.

        "WHAT IS MAN...?" God asks - and answers:
      HUMAN DEFINED: EARTH'S CHOICEMAKER
             by James Fletcher Baxter  (c)  AD 2007 

  The  way we define 'human' determines our view of self,
  others, relationships, institutions, life, and future. Many 
  problems in human experience are the result of false  
  and inaccurate definitions of humankind premised 
  in man-made religions and humanistic philosophies.

  Human knowledge is a fraction of the whole universe. 
  The balance is a vast void of human ignorance. Human 
  reason cannot fully function in such a void; thus, the 
  intellect can rise no higher than the criteria by which it 
  perceives and measures values.

  Humanism makes man his own standard of measure. 
  However, as with all measuring systems, a standard 
  must be greater than the value measured. Based on 
  preponderant ignorance and an egocentric carnal 
  nature, humanism demotes reason to the simpleton 
  task of excuse-making in behalf of the rule of appe-
  tites, desires, feelings, emotions, and glands.

  Because man, hobbled in an ego-centric predicament, 
  cannot invent criteria greater than himself, the humanist 
  lacks a predictive capability. Without instinct or trans-
  cendent criteria, humanism cannot evaluate options with 
  foresight and vision for progression and survival. Lack-
  ing foresight, man is blind to potential consequence and 
  is unwittingly committed to mediocrity, collectivism, 
  averages, and regression - and worse. Humanism is an 
  unworthy worship.

  The void of human ignorance can easily be filled with 
  a functional faith while not-so-patiently awaiting the 
  foot-dragging growth of human knowledge and behav-
  ior. Faith, initiated by the Creator and revealed and 
  validated in His Word, the Bible, brings a transcend-
  ent standard to man the choice-maker. Other philo-
  sophies and religions are man-made, humanism, and 
  thereby lack what only the Bible has:

  1.Transcendent Criteria and 
  2.Fulfilled Prophetic Validation.

  The vision of faith in God and His Word is survival 
  equipment for today and the future. Only the Creator,
  who made us in His own image, is qualified to define
  us accurately.

  Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by 
  nature and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of 
  Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive 
  characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural 
  foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-
  spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-
  ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the 
  universe.

  At the sub-atomic level of the physical universe quantum
  physics indicates a multifarious gap or division in the
  causal chain; particles to which position cannot be
  assigned at all times, systems that pass from one energy
  state to another without manifestation in intermediate
  states, entities without mass, fields whose substance is
  as insubstantial as "a probability."

  Only statistical conglomerates pay tribute to
  deterministic forces. Singularities do not and are
  therefore random, unpredictable, mutant, and in this
  sense, uncaused. The finest contribution inanimate
  reality is capable of making toward choice, without its
  own selective agencies, is this continuing manifestation
  of opportunity as the pre-condition to choice it defers
  to the natural action of living forms.

  Biological science affirms that each level of life,
  single-cell to man himself, possesses attributes of
  sensitivity, discrimination, and selectivity, and in
  the exclusive and unique nature of each diversified
  life form.

  The survival and progression of life forms has all too
  often been dependent upon the ever-present undeterminative
  potential and appearance of one unique individual organism 
  within the whole spectrum of a given life-form. Only the 
  uniquely equipped individual organism is, like The Golden 
  Wedge of Ophir, capable of traversing the causal gap to 
  survival and progression. Mere reproductive determinacy 
  would have rendered life forms incapable of such potential.  

  Only a moving universe of opportunity plus choice enables 
  the present reality.

  Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly 
  developed, and sensitive perception of variety. Thus 
  aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact-
  ing internal mental and external physical selectivity. 
  Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends 
  itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.

  Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes
  his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall 
  that his other features are but vehicles of experi-
  ence intent on the development of perceptive 
  awareness and the following acts of decision and
  choice. Note that the products of man cannot define 
  him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice-
  making process and include the cognition of self, 
  the utility of experience, the development of value-
  measuring systems and language, and the accultur-
  ation of civilization.

  The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,
  customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of
  his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the 
  creative process,  is a choice-making process. His 
  articles, constructs, and commodities, however 
  marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol-
  atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth's own 
  highest expression of the creative process.

  Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and 
  significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean 
  fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the 
  forces of cause and effect to an elected level of qual-
  ity and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a 
  natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and 
  bestows earth's title, The Choicemaker, on his 
  singular and plural brow.

  Deterministic systems, ideological symbols of abdication
  by man from his natural role as earth's Choicemaker,
  inevitably degenerate into collectivism; the negation of
  singularity, they become a conglomerate plural-based
  system of measuring human value. Blunting an awareness
  of diversity, blurring alternatives, and limiting the
  selective creative process, they are self-relegated to
  a passive and circular regression.

  Tampering with man's selective nature endangers his
  survival for it would render him impotent and obsolete
  by denying the tools of variety, individuality,
  perception, criteria, selectivity, and progress.
  Coercive attempts produce revulsion, for such acts 
  are contrary to an indeterminate nature and nature's
  indeterminate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.

  Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just
  begins with a respectful acknowledgment of The Creator,
  The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will be ever
  learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
  The rejection of Creator-initiated standards relegates
  the mind of man to its own primitive, empirical, and
  delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect
  cannot ascend and function at any level higher than the
  criteria by which it perceives and measures values.

  Additionally, such rejection of transcendent criteria
  self-denies man the vision and foresight essential to
  decision-making for survival and progression. He is left,
  instead, with the redundant wreckage of expensive hind-
  sight, including human institutions characterized by
  averages, mediocrity, and regression.

  Humanism, mired in the circular and mundane egocentric
  predicament, is ill-equipped to produce transcendent
  criteria. Evidenced by those who do not perceive
  superiority and thus find themselves beset by the shifting
  winds of the carnal-ego; i.e., moods, feelings, desires,
  appetites, etc., the mind becomes subordinate: a mere
  device for excuse-making and rationalizing self-justifica-
  tion.

  The carnal-ego rejects criteria and self-discipline for such
  instruments are tools of the mind and the attitude. The
  appetites of the flesh have no need of standards for at the
  point of contention standards are perceived as alien,  re-
  strictive, and inhibiting. Yet, the very survival of our
  physical nature itself depends upon a maintained sover-
  eignty of the mind and of the spirit.

  It remained, therefore, to the initiative of a personal
  and living Creator to traverse the human horizon and
  fill the  vast void of human ignorance with an intelli-
  gent and definitive faith. Man is thus afforded the
  prime tool of the intellect - a Transcendent Standard
  by which he may measure values in experience, anticipate
  results, and make enlightened and visionary choices.           

  Only the unique and superior God-man Person can deserved-
  ly displace the ego-person from his predicament and free
  the individual to measure values and choose in a more
  excellent way. That sublime Person was indicated in the
  words of the prophet Amos, "...said the Lord, Behold,
  I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel."
  Y'shua Mashiyach Jesus said,  "If I be lifted up I will
  draw all men unto myself."

  As long as some choose to abdicate their personal reality
  and submit to the delusions of humanism, determinism, and
  collectivism, just so long will they be subject and re-
  acting only, to be tossed by every impulse emanating from
  others. Those who abdicate such reality may, in perfect
  justice, find themselves weighed in the balances of their
  own choosing.

  That human institution which is structured on the
  principle, "...all men are endowed by their Creator with
  ...Liberty...," is a system with its roots in the natural
  Order of the universe. The opponents of such a system are
  necessarily engaged in a losing contest with nature and
  nature's God. Biblical principles are still today the
  foundation under Western Civilization and the American
  way of life. To the advent of a new season we commend the
  present generation and the "multitudes in the valley of
  decision."

  Let us proclaim it. Behold!
  The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV

  CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS
  "I should think that if there is one thing that man has
  learned about himself it is that he is a creature of
  choice." Richard M. Weaver

  "Man is a being capable of subduing his emotions and
  impulses; he can rationalize his behavior. He arranges
  his wishes into a scale, he chooses; in short, he acts.
  What distinguishes man from beasts is precisely that he
  adjusts his behavior deliberately." Ludwig von Mises

  "To make any sense of the idea of morality, it must be
  presumed that the human being is responsible for his
  actions and responsibility cannot be understood apart
  from the presumption of freedom of choice."
  John Chamberlain

  "The advocate of liberty believes that it is complementary
  of the orderly laws of cause and  effect, of probability
  and of chance, of which man is not completely informed.
  It is complementary of them because it rests in part upon
  the faith that each individual is endowed by his Creator
  with the power of individual choice."
  Wendell J. Brown

  "These examples demonstrate a basic truth -- that human 
  dignity is embodied in the free choice of individuals."
  Condoleeza Rice

  "Our Founding Fathers believed that we live in an ordered
  universe. They believed themselves to be a part of the
  universal order of things. Stated another way, they
  believed in God. They believed that every man must find
  his own place in a world where a place has been made for
  him. They sought independence for their nation but, more
  importantly, they sought freedom for individuals to think
  and act for themselves. They established a republic
  dedicated to one purpose above all others - the preserva-
  tion of individual liberty..."  Ralph W. Husted

  "We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching
  that we can choose either to accept or reject the God
  who gave it to us, and it would seem to follow that the
  Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should be
  equally free in our relationships with other men.
  Spiritual liberty logically demands conditions of outer
  and social freedom for its completion." Edmund A. Opitz

  "Above all I see an ability to choose the better from the
  worse that has made possible life's progress."
  Charles Lindbergh

  "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for
  oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibil-
  ity of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not
  a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."
  Thomas Jefferson

  THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER
  Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son
  of man that You visit him?" Psalm 8:4
  A: "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against
  you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing
  and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and
  your descendants may live." Deuteronomy 30:19

  Q: "Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him?
  Or the son of man, that you are mindful of him?" Psalm
  144:3
  A: "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose
  for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the
  gods which your fathers served that were on the other
  side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
  land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will
  serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15

  Q: "What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is
  born of a woman, that he could be righteous?" Job 15:14
  A: "Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He
  teach in the way he chooses." Psalm 25:12                            

  Q: "What is man, that You should magnify him, that You
  should set Your heart on him?" Job 7:17
  A: "Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his
  ways." Proverbs 3:31

  Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son
  of man that You take care of him?" Hebrews 2:6
  A: "I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have
  laid before me." Psalm 119:30 "Let Your hand become my
  help, for I have chosen Your precepts."Psalm 119:173

  References:
  Genesis 3:3,6 Deuteronomy 11:26-28; 30:19 Job 5:23
  Isaiah 7:14-15; 13:12; 61:1   Amos 7:8   Joel 3:14
                    Ecclesiastes 3:1-8  
               
                       DEDICATION

                    Sir Isaac Newton
        The greatest scientist in human history
             a Bible-Believing Christian
      an authority on the Bible's Book of Daniel
             committed to individual value
                and individual liberty

      Daniel 9:25-26  Habakkuk 2:2-3    selah

  "What is man...?" Earth's Choicemaker Psalm 25:12
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   An old/new paradigma  -  Mr. Jefferson would agree!
             (Alternative? There is no alternative.)
                
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"Man cannot make or invent or contrive principles. He
can only discover them and he ought to look through the
discovery to the Author."         -- Thomas Paine 1797

"Got Criteria?" See Psalm 119:1-176 

semper fidelis
Jim Baxter
Sgt. USMC
WWII & Korean War

Teacher,  5th Grade - 30 years
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"
                               - Yogi Berra



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