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▋INTRODUCTION. I want to, from the outset, make it abundantly clear that I support the principle of free speech and the right of any individual or institution to publish its worldview, ideas and opinions freely without fear of reprisal or banishment, as long as those opinions and that worldview do not encourage the breaking of the law and/or do not propagate or encourage wanton, fascist-driven violence, anarchy and lawlessness in society.
Having said that, I do not support the WTM (‘World Transformation Movement’) simply because of its particularly (i) Leftist, postmodernist dismissal of Christianity and its (ii) neo-pagan promotion of Scientific Pantheism (Darwin’s ‘Evolutionary Theory’). Some reasons explored:
▶ The WTM is founded exclusively on so-called ‘Knowledge’. It is 'knowledge' driven, and fails to distinguish between knowledge and wisdom while claiming that:
Having said that, I do not support the WTM (‘World Transformation Movement’) simply because of its particularly (i) Leftist, postmodernist dismissal of Christianity and its (ii) neo-pagan promotion of Scientific Pantheism (Darwin’s ‘Evolutionary Theory’). Some reasons explored:
▶ The WTM is founded exclusively on so-called ‘Knowledge’. It is 'knowledge' driven, and fails to distinguish between knowledge and wisdom while claiming that:
"it will after a few generations have the ability to eliminate all the upset state of the human condition in humans." [WTM: FAQ6.1].
The last place I want to live in is a world founded on (secular) knowledge alone, sometimes also referred to as ‘Scientism’, i.e., the worship of science or scientific knowledge as the ultimate (‘silver bullet’) solution to all of mankind’s problems and challenges. The WTM explicitly states that it allows no 'deity' in its doctrine, in other words, the 'knowledge' it pursues is not godly, Biblical knowledge, but secular knowledge bereft of any proven, time-tested Judeo-Christian values.
What they have feared (a world 'without knowledge') has actually come over them, i.e., the WTM is perishing because of a lack of the knowledge of God (YHWH, Yahweh, the God of Moses, Mt. Sinai and the Ten Commandments). See the irony where the very thing they clamour for and claim to pursue ('knowledge') was the very thing they first and foremost rejected at the outset, i.e., God, the Bible and knowledge about God:
"For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst."
[Isaiah5:13MKJV].
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I."
[Hosea4:6MKJV].
My idea of a perfect world is a world founded on divine wisdom, or, divinely inspired wisdom for humanity; specifically on the Absolute and Infinite Wisdom of a loving Creator and Heavenly Father. My advice to the leaders of the World Transformation Movement:
"Talk no more so very proudly. Remove arrogance out of your mouth, for Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed."
[1Samuel2:3MKJV].
Note how the Bible teaches that God weighs actions, not necessarily good intentions. Nevertheless, when scientists tell us that they only know about 10%-20% of what is going on in the oceans of the world and about 5% to 10% of what is going on in the Cosmos, any philosophical model exclusively predicated on the rickety feet of today’s secular knowledge (scientific, biological or psychological etc.) poses a risk I am not prepared to take, and I am quite familiar with the concept of risk-benefit analysis. Today's knowledge is based on 10%-20% scientific information about the oceans and 5% scientific information about the Cosmos. In other words, the World Transformation Movement is like a house of cards erected on the unreliable, incomplete sand of 80%-90% scientific ignorance about the oceans of the world and 95% scientific ignorance about the Cosmos.
What concerns me thus is not what the world’s academicians and scientists (including those from WTM) already know; my concern is with what they still do not know, i.e., the 90% to 95% they still do not know about the Cosmos ('undetectable by scientific instruments dark energy + dark matter') and the 80% to 90% they still do not know about our oceans; for all intents and purposes they are blind leaders of the blind. Pretending to be wise, they have rejected the very Wisdom that could have qualified them as wise:
"The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
[Proverbs1:7MKJV].
"And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding!"
[Job28:28MKJV].
"Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding."
[Proverbs 3:5MKJV].
The Bible teaches us, in other words, not to rely on our own understanding, but to begin our quest for knowledge and wisdom with the fear of Jehovah (the fear of the LORD), exactly the opposite of what the WTM advise us to do. Only a fool bereft of Biblical knowledge of Moses and God's Moral Law, and an understanding of the character of Jesus Christ will follow such an organisation and such an ideology.
▶ The WTM rejects the Divinity of Christ and the dynamics of Evangelical Christianity.
“In WTM … there is no deity involved or deference to any one personality; in fact, there is no worship of any kind.” [WTM: FAQ6.1].
The WTM preaches a postmodernist, ‘New Age’ type of ‘Christ’ totally alien to the wisdom of Moses and Jesus Christ and the theology of the Epistles of the New Testament, while at the same time, having the gall to disingenuously dropping the names of Moses and Christ (in whom they do not believe) into its literature as ideological crutches to build its fragile case for the WTM, and, by doing so, creating the illusion by its naive followers that the WTM has the tacit doctrinal approval of the Creator (in which they say they do not believe).
They are, in other words, they are plagiarists, using the Name of God 'in vain' (i.e., using the Name of God for nefarious purposes in order to commit evil) ... a mortal sin against God. If the Bible, Judaism and Christianity (and the God of the Jews and Christians) really were so useless and obsolete as the WTM purports it to be, why did it need the ideological crutches of the names of Moses and Christ in its 'sales literature' and pamphlets to enhance its arguments for the WTM?
▶ The WTM has, unilaterally, cancelled ‘guilt’ out-side of the sacrifice and blood of Jesus Christ, the Paschal Lamb of God.
“Guilt, and the whole notion of ‘good and evil’, has been eliminated forever." [WTM: FAQ6.1].
This is so false it reeks of apostasy of the worst kind. Compare that with what the Bible that teaches:
“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him [JESUS CHRIST] a liar, and His Word is not in us.”
[1John1:7-10MKJV].
The WTM has, in other words, rejected any hope to be ever forgiven and cleansed from sin by Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross of Calvary (Golgotha) by not understanding the grave consequences of their deluded stance, i.e., rejecting Jesus Christ as Saviour and the only Name by which they can be saved.
▶ The WTM preaches Scientific Pantheism. The WTM claims that it has (i) eliminated the ‘involvement of deity’ and (ii) that ‘there is no worship’. However, just other Darwinists (evolutionists) they worship at the feet of Evolutionary Theory (Scientific Pantheism), i.e., they worship at the ‘throne’ of the triumvirate of Father TIME (for ‘billions of years’), Mother NATURE (for ‘beneficial mutations', 'natural selection', 'adaptation', 'speciation’ etc.) and the original (contemporary, wannabe) ‘messiah’, Charles Darwin.
The WTM's literature is rife with oldfashioned, obsolete and defunct 'Evolutionary Theory' teaching and has rejected Jesus Christ as Saviour of mankind and the Messiah of the Jews. Jesus Christ has, however, warned those who reject Him:
"Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins, for if you do not believe that I AM, you shall die in your sins."
[John8:24MKJV].
The WTM, a religious movement that believes in Scientific Pantheism (Evolution-by-random Accident & Chance), founded on secular all-knowing scientific knowledge (Scientism) that is to be revered for everything that exists and will ever exist. The WTM appears to have no idea where science leaves off and where science-fiction begins, just like the communists from the old U.S.S.R. who for ages erroneously believed that there is no Creator and that 'Nature created itself'. Listen to the remarkable statement below; it almost sounds like a paragraph from a fictional Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury or Brian Aldiss story, or from a fictional Steven Spielberg script. Like the drunk driver who always reckons himself 'sober enough', the WTM leadership appears to reckon themselves 'wise enough':
“Over the eons out in the Universe, a chaotic cosmos continues to organize itself into stars, planets, galaxies. And here on Earth, atoms became ordered or integrated to form molecules, which in turn integrated to form compounds, universal organisms and single-celled organisms to societies of multi-celled organisms.” [WTM, FAQ6.2].
The communists of the old USSR used to believe that Nature created itself; now the WTM perplexingly believes that the chaotic cosmos organises itself; no wonder they are confused. They overlook the simple fact that the words 'created' and 'organised' (in their narrative) demands a Creator and Organiser. This explains why a brilliant physcist like Stephen Hawking can write similar nonsense encapsulated in a book titled 'The Theory of Nothing'.
▋THE TROJAN HORSE. People should feel free to pursue the faiths (belief-systems) of their choice. However, should any of WTM’s members aim to bring the sham ‘World Transformation Movement', 'Human Condition’ doctrine into the Evangelical Church, they will be accordingly dealt with doctrinally as the treacherous Trojan Horse in the Church.
Let's be clear, Evangelical Christians reject the WTM doctrine with the contempt it deserves. We follow Jesus Christ, Creator of Heaven and Earth. Why would we value the WTM leaders' words higher than the words of Jesus Christ? We may be Christ's sheep, but we are not stupid, and I'd rather be a sheep in a fold with Jesus Christ as Shepherd than a wolf in a dog-eats-dog pack without any kind of 'shepherd' at all.
"God, who at many times and in many ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son [JESUS CHRIST], whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing of our sins, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For to which of the angels did He say at any time, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You?" And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?" And again, when He brings in the First-born into the world, He says, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."
[Hebrews1:1-6MKJV].
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[Revision 30 August 2023].
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