Kristopher, I want to share with you an excerpt from a good book I just finished reading called the Power of Negative Thinking.
This excerpt will show how Positive Thinking, New Thought, Humanism, Neo-Orthodoxy and religious liberalism has also had a huge part in the moral decline and degeneration of America. The abominations and great evils that are so pervasive in our culture and society today are a direct result of this degeneration that has happened to America. And of course, for the rebellion and great wickedness seen in the United States; we can see and discern that it has definitely brought God's judgment on America.
And now, here is an excerpt from the book, The Power of Negative Thinking:
"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" (Gen. 3:1).
That was Satan's plan to start with. You see, Mother Eve was a type of THE BODY OF CHRIST (see Eph. 5:31) as Adam was a type of CHRIST (Rom. 5:14-19; 1 Cor. 15:22, 45; Heb. 2:9-14).
It was when Satan got the Body of Christ - made up of saved, Bible-believing Christians - to doubt what God SAID (1880-1901), that he began to build the Laodicean Church (Rev. 3:14-20). The Philadelphia Church "KEPT" what God said (Rev. 3:8). The heralds of the mammoth, international apostasy (1850-1900) were all positive thinkers: Darwin, Huxley, Paley, Chambers, Haeckel, Marx, Freud, Einstein, and "Strata" Smith.
They sold Colin Wilson (The Mammoth History of Murder) on the idea that no crimes are punished after the death of a criminal, all criminals can blame someone else (or SOMETHING else) for their crimes, and none of them are "wicked" or "evil" for acting like AMORAL animals (Darwin, Einstein, Huxley, et al., same crew exactly) since no such things as "immorality," "evil," "wickedness," "unrighteousness," "sin," or "Hell" even exist.
That is "the power of positive thinking."
It is the quickest and easiest road to the Lake of Fire (Rev. 20:14) ever invented by "possibility thinkers."
The sanest and safest approach to life (on any continent in any age) has been to obey God when He reveals anything. If He reveals that man is a failure without God, that man has been degenerating since 4000 B.C., and that man's crimes and sins are incurable apart from His intervention, you had better believe it. If His Book says that "man" is headed for judgment and eternal retribution and the "Age of Gold" (Greek Philosophers) or the "Kingdom of God" (Utopia, Valhalla, the Happy Hunting Ground, Nirvana, Paradise, Heaven, Samadhi, or "peace on earth") will only be attained by God Himself, then you had better adopt THAT attitude toward your future instead of the attitude (or "mind set") recommended by 22,999,999 other books in the Library of Congress.
In any book you read, if "man" begins in a mud puddle and ends up as master of the universe, with no reference to "evil," "sin," "unrighteousness," "sinners," "Hell," "damnation," "depravity," "degeneration," "apostasy," "transgressions," "trespasses," "wickedness," "demons," "Satan," "God," "Jesus Christ," or the "Holy Scriptures"; you can be certain that no author is writing the book but a half-baked, positive thinking, pseudo-intellectual CRACK-POT. He will get you killed. All kingdom builders are bloody killers.
What modern, conservative and evangelical Fundamentalists have done in this country, since World War II, is adopt the humanistic thinking patterns of unsaved psychiatrists, journalists, TV news analysts, amateur psychologists, and politicians. In their effort to build their careers (like all movie stars, entertainers, and politicians) instead of serving with their ministries, preachers have "donned" the mantle of "magical thinking" in order to increase their enrollments, attendance, offerings, and incomes."
- (THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING; Pgs. 187-188, & 186, Dr. Peter S. Ruckman)
