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Their alleged "positivity" (which in
reality is really not that positive) is in reality
a word to express their own chosen ignorance. It
is a word that describes their comfort-zone. Their
critical thinking faculties are not challenged,
and in the same time they can follow their fleshly
lusts for even more comfort (calling it
"blessings" or "being anointed")
under the guise of "good": it's
"positive".
You can't speak about differences, you can't
expose false teachers and preachers, you can't
speak out and try to wake up those who profess to
be Christians because they believe in
"positivity" rather than Truth.
The result?
They have lost their identity, they have lost
their foundation, they have lost their uniqueness
with which they were created. That is because they
never bother to deal with negativity. Everything
that people do which enhances them in their
"comfort zone", will drive them further
away from being an individual and more into
becoming a mindless slave of the political
correctness of the day.
And then there came that statement.
"Your negatives define you".
And it's true!
The positivo's (I didn't make this one up, it's
a national Dutch joke) don't have any identity.
They could just be the next man. The Christian
could be the Muslim. They don't deal with
negativity, remember?
So their "positiveness" doesn't
define them.
In fact, they don't want to. They call that
"negative". It's "negative" to
say that you do not believe Buddhism is the truth.
It's "negative" to say that Christian
Reggae Artists should not put themselves into
their own little ghetto where they can safely make
the Christian Faith into a product in a
self-proclaimed "Christian Industry".
And with that, they even expose their own
illogic. For the positivo's are often very, very
negative.
When I read sometimes what certain people write
about me, for example, just an example, is very
negative too. And of course, it cannot be
different. It identifies them for what they are:
principal rejecters of critique, whether it truth
or not. It defines them, for they do not love the
truth as the truth is not their standard.
And when you look to the things I speak out
against, the things where I am negative about, you
will get a pretty good description of me too.
Of course I have positivity too. I think very
positive about Reggae Music as a music, for
example. And so I positively review music, even of
artists where I do not agree with their own chosen
spirituality or religion if you will or
must.
So that doesn't really define me...
On the other hand, I speak out against Babylon.
I speak out against "Hippieness" and
other forms of Post Modern weakness. I speak out
against false teachers and preachers who in the
Name of my Saviour make my faith into a product in
their Industry which they even named after the
Lord to complete their list of sins with using His
Name in vain! I speak out against those doctrines
that the Bible calls "doctrines of
devils".
And these negatives do indeed define me. They
identify me as part of a group of people who are
being negative about a certain thing.
The very word "Church" which proper
use is to describe all those who know themselves
to be born again through the Holy Spirit in Yesus'
Name from all times and places, means: "group
of people who are being called out of
something". The real Christian Church is
negative by it's very nature: it is a group of
people that steps out of something.
This stepping-out defines the Christian Church.
So I tend to agree with the statement. Sure, I
know there are some flaws in it, but as a general
rule I think it's true and it can be of a tremendous
help to see this statement working in reality as
well.
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