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Philosophical naturalism (view source)
Revision as of 23:09, September 21, 2015
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:In this way, and in all variations of the same kind of "naturalist" teaching, the supernatural resurrection of Christ is done away. The orthodox (Greek "''ortho'', right, ''doxos'', doctrine") teachings of Christianity and the Bible (containing what "''Esoteric Christianity''" calls "''metaphorical symbolic imagery of esoteric truth''") are given to the masses as the "''exoteric'' (''for the many'')" doctrine as a means of relieving them of fear. The "''esoteric''" (''for the few'') doctrine, the ''[[Secret Doctrine]]'', is given privately by word of mouth only to a smaller, select number of qualified individuals in every generation as the liberating ''gnosis'' that they are one with nature and the whole of the universe, with skill to use the forces of nature as an "''expression of the mind of God''". The difference between this spiritual naturalism or religious naturalism and philosophical naturalism is that philosophical naturalism rejects the possibility of the personal ''postmortum'' survival of the human person and the possibility of ''invisible, immortal existence'' before the [[Last Judgment|Final Resurrection]]. Philosophical naturalists view those who do not subscribe to philosophical naturalism as ignorant and deluded and unwilling to see reality as it is. Both of these spiritual naturalist and philosophical naturalist views are utterly rejected by Christians as representations of [[blasphemy]] and expressions of spiritual rebellion. They are represented by various forms of [[Gnosticism]] and the [[New Age Movement]] and of [[Secular Humanism]] which reject the reparation for [[sin]] achieved by the saving redemption of mankind on the Cross accomplished by Jesus as the unique and only-begotten Son of God, the Word of God made flesh, and head of the human race, who suffered, died, and rose again, and ascended into [[heaven]], who has sent the [[Holy Spirit]] on the Church since the day of [[Pentecost]] to guide us into all [[truth]], and will come again in glory to judge all mankind, and save from his righteous wrath all those who from their hearts trust in him as their own personal Savior, "''who obey the truth and by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality''" (Romans 2:5-8), and condemn to [[hell]] all who hate or ignore goodness, [[virtue]] and the truth, all who have rejected him.</small>
:In this way, and in all variations of the same kind of "naturalist" teaching, the supernatural resurrection of Christ is done away. The orthodox (Greek "''ortho'', right, ''doxos'', doctrine") teachings of Christianity and the Bible (containing what "''Esoteric Christianity''" calls "''metaphorical symbolic imagery of esoteric truth''") are given to the masses as the "''exoteric'' (''for the many'')" doctrine as a means of relieving them of fear. The "''esoteric''" (''for the few'') doctrine, the ''[[Secret Doctrine]]'', is given privately by word of mouth only to a smaller, select number of qualified individuals in every generation as the liberating ''gnosis'' that they are one with nature and the whole of the universe, with skill to use the forces of nature as an "''expression of the mind of God''". The difference between this spiritual naturalism or religious naturalism and philosophical naturalism is that philosophical naturalism rejects the possibility of the personal ''postmortum'' survival of the human person and the possibility of ''invisible, immortal existence'' before the [[Last Judgment|Final Resurrection]]. Philosophical naturalists view those who do not subscribe to philosophical naturalism as ignorant and deluded and unwilling to see reality as it is. Both of these spiritual naturalist and philosophical naturalist views are utterly rejected by Christians as representations of [[blasphemy]] and expressions of spiritual rebellion. They are represented by various forms of [[Gnosticism]] and the [[New Age Movement]] and of [[Secular Humanism]] which reject the reparation for [[sin]] achieved by the saving redemption of mankind on the Cross accomplished by Jesus as the unique and only-begotten Son of God, the Word of God made flesh, and head of the human race, who suffered, died, and rose again, and ascended into [[heaven]], who has sent the [[Holy Spirit]] on the Church since the day of [[Pentecost]] to guide us into all [[truth]], and will come again in glory to judge all mankind, and save from his righteous wrath all those who from their hearts trust in him as their own personal Savior, "''who obey the truth and by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality''" (Romans 2:5-8), and condemn to [[hell]] all who hate or ignore goodness, [[virtue]] and the truth, all who have rejected him.</small>
==Assessment of philosophical naturalism==
Philosophical naturalism has consistently shown itself to be a nonscientific [[Atheism is a religion|religious perspective]] that is adverse to impartial inquiry into the nature of reality according to the scientific principles of methodological naturalism. Its adherents and defenders have consistently shown by their writings and opinions a prejudicial intolerance of fundamentally human intuitive understandings of reality and an anti-intellectual rejection of compelling evidence that has proven acceptable to profound thinkers and researchers. It is not science, nor is it a scientific approach.
Philosophical naturalism represents an approach that is ''ipso facto'', by its ''a priori'' absolute rejection of the possibility of the supernatural, and in particular by its denial of the possibility of the bodily physical resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and the existence of God, militantly anti-Christian, and overtly hostile to religion and to human culture.
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