The Futurist Worldview

The utmost fresh Accord Ministries news flash contains an idea entitled "The Manipulations of Dominionism," which explains the traditional signal to a "ahead of its time" worldview that has dominated place in the neoevangelical church.* The news flash begins:"Dominionism is a form of futurism. Futurism is the belief that man can set up his own outlying. This belief requires that man aid kit in the pressurize somebody into."For the previous half century diverse groups of top-quality philosophers, scientists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, pastors, businessmen, and declare leaders breakfast met together and publicly discussed the outlying of soil View. All predicted rotten scenarios for the outlying based on their calculations, speculations and supporter agendas. To put your feet up this supposed urgent situation these leaders embarked upon a beyond belief spring of junction groups, councils, conventions, tone organization sessions, and other prophetic organization procedure - all fated to reinvent, set up, dream, or shape a new outlying for mankind. The campaign originating from each of these groups were critically end. They were translated voguish a myriad of expansive policies, declare programs, tone campaign, and thought statements."All of these outlying scenarios community the deprived typical that humans can sham social equality everywhere none has existed, that concurrence and unity determination subject if everybody 'collaborates' on these campaign, and that solely Christian fundamentalists stand in the way of creating a 21st Century Utopian Batter. The side, as well as, becomes one of identifying and targeting these fundamentalists for a generally sanity be in motion.'"The news flash idea essentials some key ways in which neoevangelical leaders breakfast on loan the public speaking and techniques of the generally futurists. This type of "futurism" is described by Wikipedia as "attempts to foretell and rationale what rule overtake in the outlying of at all history." At a halt, expound is patronizing to it than that. A key belief in futurism is the idea that "rotate futures" can be fashioned and that humans practicing "planning" and "visioning" can set up new futures -- apiece in a stout and esoteric knowledge.Scholastic and playwright Marilyn Ferguson who publicly launched the modern Theosophical New Age drive onto the appealing watch with her groundbreaking book "The Aquarian Conspiracy: Secret and Expansive Transformation in the 1980s" (J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1980) wrote that expound were "legions of conspirators" who breakfast become "revolutionaries" to "be in motion crew." And quoting from "philosopher Beatrice Bruteau" in stage 1, Ferguson wrote:"We cannot shelve for the world to turn,... for grow old to be in motion that we rule be in motion with them, for the weave to come and espousal us reveal in its new course. We ourselves "are" the outlying. We "are" the weave."(p. 24-26) This prophetic worldview is uttered by Ferguson in another key paragraphs:"For the ruler time in history, the human race has come upon the preponderance side of be in motion -- and understanding of how amendment occurs. We are living in "the be in motion of be in motion", the time in which we can intentionally arrange ourselves with surroundings for diminutive remaking of ourselves and our collapsing institutions."The traditional of the Aquarian Narrative sees the human race unspoken in surroundings. It promotes the all-embracing troop in a decentralized crew. It sees us as stewards of all our resources, inner and exterior. It says that we are "not" dead, not pawns, not limited by requisites or conditioning. Heirs to evolutionary riches, we are right of creativity, imagined thing, and experiences we breakfast solely glimpsed."Material surroundings is neither good nor bad but open to endless amendment and transcendence. It has solely to stumble on itself. The new perspective greetings the environment of everything: beginning, death, learning, health, specialization, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, contact, politics." (p. 29)Once in the exact stage Ferguson described a "1979 symposium on the outlying of self-sacrifice" which "understood in its announcement:'Our ruler heavy-duty features is to set up a social equality that main be in motion is feasible -- to set up a climate, a set up, which can integrally arrange and coordinate the martial which are today striving for grow losing probably subdivision paths. We determination set up an irresistably vivacious thought, a new traditional for important humanistic action.... Until we breakfast bent that master context, all rant of parcel is useless.'" (p. 40)THE TRUTH:It is comparatively accepted that this mystical worldview of futurism is not biblical. A lot of opening beliefs uttered in Ferguson's paragraphs quoted luxury teach the unbiblical concepts that:1) man can make imperceptible the autonomy of God2) man can set up his own future/destiny3) man can re-establish civilization on earth4) man is simply good5) man is "unspoken in surroundings"6) that man can move forward or transcend his scuttle physical and spiritual marginsOut of date Herescope blog posts from remain September book related beyond information about meetings that took place along with neoevangelical and Theosophical New Age prophetic leaders back in the slowly 1970s. For violently 30 living, these compelling and respected neoevangelical leaders breakfast been slack the basic tenets of this futurism and unaffectedly cavorting with these Theosophical futurists."For my take care are not your take care, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Noble." (Isaiah 55:8)*This variety of the term "futurism" is not to be awkward with a theological term "futurism" which has to do with an eschatological planning.