If she doesn't want to listen to Chris, you should at least show her the full video that he quotes parts of in his book. This is the history of psychology and the military:
I cannot contemplate why you (Jeanne) thought that a woman who won't listen to basic reason is going to sit down and watch a documentary that is specifically for the military. Why would you make that suggestion? Is Caleb's mother in the military? How much do you know about his mom? Perhaps you do know details about his mother that I may have missed, and if so, I apologize for what I'm about to say, but if you don't, then you need to stop and consider Caleb's position. I believe the reason you made that comment is because that documentary hit home to you personally, so you were thinking selfishly, rather than thinking about Caleb.
For Caleb: Have you read the entire book? If so, you may have missed the point; a point that I made many times in multiple chapters. A fool is someone who cannot be reasoned with, and therefore, you cannot fix a fool.
Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
-Pro 13:16
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
-Pro 26:5You're not addressing your target audience according to their folly. This would be a good time to address something I've wanted to address with you for long time, going back to many of your posts, which reflect your heart. I'm going to your account right now, and I'm going to list out to you the topics of your past posts, starting with the most recent:
- Liberals and vaccines
- Schizophrenia
- Paraplegics
- Cocaine & Coca-Cola
- Feminism and Social Justice Warriors
- Antifa
- Trying to make a joke, trying to put my name on the title of this ministry (which wasn't funny)
- Christmas
- Speaking in Tongues Gibberish
- Hate Crimes
- Flat Earth
There is a reason I'm pointing this out; just wait. That's just in the last 20 posts. If I go over the last 100 posts you have made, I have found that you quoted Scripture a grand total of three times. Let's take a look at those posts:
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8: 31-32
In this case, the truth will set you free but not free from the insanity that is the defenders of Christmas! "Don't forget to buy Creation Magazine". You're not helping the belief that Creationists are like vampires and vultures when it comes to money.
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way and he that hateth reproof shall die. Proverbs 15: 10
He's really got that "gotcha" attitude and then he says the most hypocritical thing: Repent of that. He's got the same attitude like when people say "So put that in your pipe and smoke it!"
He doesn't even do proper research: for example, he didn't even look up that the Unicorn is a rhinoceros, however, he said that its proper translation is wild ox:
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. Isaiah 34:7
That is just as bad as the "repentance means to turn" idea.
Caleb, you may not understand this right now, but I can tell the difference between someone who is quoting me quoting Scripture, and someone who quotes it because they understand it. These three posts are void of doctrinal understanding. It's amazing that you quoted Jesus when He said "
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed," which is very significant considering the evidence that you, Caleb, don't really continue in God's Word, do you? You read creation articles and watch political vidoes; that's your primary education isn't it? You might listen to my teachings, but you don't study the Word of God yourself, do you? What you continue in are the very "conspiracy" things that you claim you "came out of."
(See here:
http://www.creationliberty.com/forum/index.php?topic=692.msg5704#msg5704)
That's why those are the only things you discuss here:
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
-Matthew 15:18The reason you claim that you have come out of your "conspiracy days" is because you have heard me condemn the "conspiracy ministries," and in the past, you've also heard me say that there are false converts that only want to talk "science in creationism," and so you started to shift your conversation a bit after you heard me say that. Is this sounding familiar? That's all for an outward appearance because the evidence in your conversation is clear, and I want you to understand: You're not going to be able to put on an outward show and fool everyone here.
Caleb, I've seen this pattern and this problem with you for the past year, but I've been waiting until now, when you really wanted to reason with someone close to you, in order that you might see the problem.
You lift yourself up in the pride of your heart, trying to create some position (or rather, a respect of person) for yourself here with new people. Someone joins and you introduce yourself as the "animal guy" on this forum.
See here:
http://www.creationliberty.com/forum/index.php?topic=637.msg5102#msg5102And here:
http://www.creationliberty.com/forum/index.php?topic=392.msg2822#msg2822Who said you were the "animal guy?" What is that supposed to even mean? Have you ever seen me introduce myself as the "bible guy?" Do you think that would be appropriate? These are rhetorical questions that are designed to try and get you to think about what you say and do because that is a direct reflection of the corruption in your heart.
The reason you missed the core foundation of the problem with your mother is because you lack Scriptural understanding. Why do you lack it? I'm not sure yet. You're not looking at the core problem of repentance and remission of sins, and based on your conversation with us, I can guarantee you're not addressing your family in that way either.
Caleb, I don't know what the problem is in your heart only because I haven't seen any doctrine in your conversation over the past year. That means I can't specifically address anything to you. All I can say for certain, based on the evidence of your conversation, is this:
The Word of God is boring to you, isn't it? I'm not saying these various topics are wrong to talk about, don't misunderstand, but that's why zoology and mysteries and conspiracies and politics is the focus of everything you say, because the doctrine of Christ is boring to you, and the evidence is seen clearly in your conversation.
Your mom is buried in her sin. She will
NEVER understand until she comes to repentance of her sin. Only the Living God can heal people of their spiritual problems, and taking antidepressants is attempt to address spiritual problems in a physical way, which is impossible and nonsensical.
I could have just responded in this post with that paragraph alone, but the point I want to make is, even though you may be in agreement with that paragraph, it does not mean you understand it. Do you think knowledge of conspiracies and zoology and politics is going to help your mother? If not, then how does knowledge of those things help you or anyone else? I only documented that information for born again Christians; that they would turn from the world and turn to God. Furthermore, you believe that you can open her understanding by your own power, simply by having technical knowledge of statistics or quotes from Freud; what good do you think that will do?
There is not a person on this planet who reads the book I wrote that will understand the matter unless God opens their understanding, just as all the prophets and Jews in the days of the Old Testament could not understand the fullness of what was written in Scripture until Jesus opened the understanding of His disciples:
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
-Luke 24:44-47People talk with one another based on their understanding. I'm not some intellectual person, but by the grace of God, I certainly know the difference between the disciples of the world and the disciples of Christ by their conversation because that is a direct reflection of their understanding. Caleb, in summary, I would say this: There is no way you will be able to address the problems with your mother until you address the problems in your own heart first, and your conversation will not be changed until you clean out the inside first.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
-Eph 4:17-24If you only try to change the way you talk here, it won't work, and those with discernment here will be able to tell the difference. You can't hide it. Clean out the inside, and then the outside will automatically reflect the inside. Only then can you begin to help someone else see the truth about spiritual problems because we are all less than useless if we try to address spiritual problems when we are hypocrites.
