tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8122759623212037938.post1654823935472608980..comments2023-05-18T05:29:26.376-07:00Comments on I Heart Huckabee: Fred Needs to Debate MikeAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10765463019357372498noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8122759623212037938.post-68163244083244306722007-09-18T08:51:00.000-07:002007-09-18T08:51:00.000-07:00The Season of Generation-Choicemaker ...The Season of Generation-Choicemaker <BR/> Joel 3:14 kjv<BR/><BR/> Consider:<BR/> The missing element in every human 'solution' is <BR/> an accurate definition of the creature.<BR/><BR/> In an effort to diminish the multiple and persistent<BR/> dangers and abuses which have characterized the <BR/> affairs of man in his every Age, and to assist in the <BR/> requisite search for human identity, it is essential to <BR/> perceive and specify that distinction which naturally <BR/> and most uniquely defines the human being. Because <BR/> definitions rule in the minds, behaviors, and institutions <BR/> of men, we can be confident that delineating and com-<BR/> municating that quality will assist the process of resolu-<BR/> tion and the courageous ascension to which man is <BR/> called. As Americans of the 21st Century, we are oblig-<BR/> ed and privileged to join our forebears and participate <BR/> in this continuing paradigm proclamation.<BR/><BR/> "WHAT IS MAN...?" God asks - and answers:<BR/> HUMAN DEFINED: EARTH'S CHOICEMAKER<BR/> by James Fletcher Baxter (c) AD 2007 <BR/><BR/> The way we define 'human' determines our view of self,<BR/> others, relationships, institutions, life, and future. Many <BR/> problems in human experience are the result of false <BR/> and inaccurate definitions of humankind premised <BR/> in man-made religions and humanistic philosophies.<BR/><BR/> Human knowledge is a fraction of the whole universe. <BR/> The balance is a vast void of human ignorance. Human <BR/> reason cannot fully function in such a void; thus, the <BR/> intellect can rise no higher than the criteria by which it <BR/> perceives and measures values.<BR/><BR/> Humanism makes man his own standard of measure. <BR/> However, as with all measuring systems, a standard <BR/> must be greater than the value measured. Based on <BR/> preponderant ignorance and an egocentric carnal <BR/> nature, humanism demotes reason to the simpleton <BR/> task of excuse-making in behalf of the rule of appe-<BR/> tites, desires, feelings, emotions, and glands.<BR/><BR/> Because man, hobbled in an ego-centric predicament, <BR/> cannot invent criteria greater than himself, the humanist <BR/> lacks a predictive capability. Without instinct or trans-<BR/> cendent criteria, humanism cannot evaluate options with <BR/> foresight and vision for progression and survival. Lack-<BR/> ing foresight, man is blind to potential consequence and <BR/> is unwittingly committed to mediocrity, collectivism, <BR/> averages, and regression - and worse. Humanism is an <BR/> unworthy worship.<BR/><BR/> The void of human ignorance can easily be filled with <BR/> a functional faith while not-so-patiently awaiting the <BR/> foot-dragging growth of human knowledge and behav-<BR/> ior. Faith, initiated by the Creator and revealed and <BR/> validated in His Word, the Bible, brings a transcend-<BR/> ent standard to man the choice-maker. Other philo-<BR/> sophies and religions are man-made, humanism, and <BR/> thereby lack what only the Bible has:<BR/><BR/> 1.Transcendent Criteria and <BR/> 2.Fulfilled Prophetic Validation.<BR/><BR/> The vision of faith in God and His Word is survival <BR/> equipment for today and the future. Only the Creator,<BR/> who made us in His own image, is qualified to define<BR/> us accurately.<BR/><BR/> Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by <BR/> nature and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of <BR/> Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive <BR/> characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural <BR/> foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-<BR/> spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-<BR/> ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the <BR/> universe.<BR/><BR/> At the sub-atomic level of the physical universe quantum<BR/> physics indicates a multifarious gap or division in the<BR/> causal chain; particles to which position cannot be<BR/> assigned at all times, systems that pass from one energy<BR/> state to another without manifestation in intermediate<BR/> states, entities without mass, fields whose substance is<BR/> as insubstantial as "a probability."<BR/><BR/> Only statistical conglomerates pay tribute to<BR/> deterministic forces. Singularities do not and are<BR/> therefore random, unpredictable, mutant, and in this<BR/> sense, uncaused. The finest contribution inanimate<BR/> reality is capable of making toward choice, without its<BR/> own selective agencies, is this continuing manifestation<BR/> of opportunity as the pre-condition to choice it defers<BR/> to the natural action of living forms.<BR/><BR/> Biological science affirms that each level of life,<BR/> single-cell to man himself, possesses attributes of<BR/> sensitivity, discrimination, and selectivity, and in<BR/> the exclusive and unique nature of each diversified<BR/> life form.<BR/><BR/> The survival and progression of life forms has all too<BR/> often been dependent upon the ever-present undeterminative<BR/> potential and appearance of one unique individual organism <BR/> within the whole spectrum of a given life-form. Only the <BR/> uniquely equipped individual organism is, like The Golden <BR/> Wedge of Ophir, capable of traversing the causal gap to <BR/> survival and progression. Mere reproductive determinacy <BR/> would have rendered life forms incapable of such potential. <BR/><BR/> Only a moving universe of opportunity plus choice enables <BR/> the present reality.<BR/><BR/> Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly <BR/> developed, and sensitive perception of variety. Thus <BR/> aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact-<BR/> ing internal mental and external physical selectivity. <BR/> Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends <BR/> itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.<BR/><BR/> Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes<BR/> his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall <BR/> that his other features are but vehicles of experi-<BR/> ence intent on the development of perceptive <BR/> awareness and the following acts of decision and<BR/> choice. Note that the products of man cannot define <BR/> him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice-<BR/> making process and include the cognition of self, <BR/> the utility of experience, the development of value-<BR/> measuring systems and language, and the accultur-<BR/> ation of civilization.<BR/><BR/> The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,<BR/> customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of<BR/> his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the <BR/> creative process, is a choice-making process. His <BR/> articles, constructs, and commodities, however <BR/> marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol-<BR/> atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth's own <BR/> highest expression of the creative process.<BR/><BR/> Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and <BR/> significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean <BR/> fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the <BR/> forces of cause and effect to an elected level of qual-<BR/> ity and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a <BR/> natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and <BR/> bestows earth's title, The Choicemaker, on his <BR/> singular and plural brow.<BR/><BR/> Deterministic systems, ideological symbols of abdication<BR/> by man from his natural role as earth's Choicemaker,<BR/> inevitably degenerate into collectivism; the negation of<BR/> singularity, they become a conglomerate plural-based<BR/> system of measuring human value. Blunting an awareness<BR/> of diversity, blurring alternatives, and limiting the<BR/> selective creative process, they are self-relegated to<BR/> a passive and circular regression.<BR/><BR/> Tampering with man's selective nature endangers his<BR/> survival for it would render him impotent and obsolete<BR/> by denying the tools of variety, individuality,<BR/> perception, criteria, selectivity, and progress.<BR/> Coercive attempts produce revulsion, for such acts <BR/> are contrary to an indeterminate nature and nature's<BR/> indeterminate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.<BR/><BR/> Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just<BR/> begins with a respectful acknowledgment of The Creator,<BR/> The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will be ever<BR/> learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.<BR/> The rejection of Creator-initiated standards relegates<BR/> the mind of man to its own primitive, empirical, and<BR/> delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect<BR/> cannot ascend and function at any level higher than the<BR/> criteria by which it perceives and measures values.<BR/><BR/> Additionally, such rejection of transcendent criteria<BR/> self-denies man the vision and foresight essential to<BR/> decision-making for survival and progression. He is left,<BR/> instead, with the redundant wreckage of expensive hind-<BR/> sight, including human institutions characterized by<BR/> averages, mediocrity, and regression.<BR/><BR/> Humanism, mired in the circular and mundane egocentric<BR/> predicament, is ill-equipped to produce transcendent<BR/> criteria. Evidenced by those who do not perceive<BR/> superiority and thus find themselves beset by the shifting<BR/> winds of the carnal-ego; i.e., moods, feelings, desires,<BR/> appetites, etc., the mind becomes subordinate: a mere<BR/> device for excuse-making and rationalizing self-justifica-<BR/> tion.<BR/><BR/> The carnal-ego rejects criteria and self-discipline for such<BR/> instruments are tools of the mind and the attitude. The<BR/> appetites of the flesh have no need of standards for at the<BR/> point of contention standards are perceived as alien, re-<BR/> strictive, and inhibiting. Yet, the very survival of our<BR/> physical nature itself depends upon a maintained sover-<BR/> eignty of the mind and of the spirit.<BR/><BR/> It remained, therefore, to the initiative of a personal<BR/> and living Creator to traverse the human horizon and<BR/> fill the vast void of human ignorance with an intelli-<BR/> gent and definitive faith. Man is thus afforded the<BR/> prime tool of the intellect - a Transcendent Standard<BR/> by which he may measure values in experience, anticipate<BR/> results, and make enlightened and visionary choices. <BR/><BR/> Only the unique and superior God-man Person can deserved-<BR/> ly displace the ego-person from his predicament and free<BR/> the individual to measure values and choose in a more<BR/> excellent way. That sublime Person was indicated in the<BR/> words of the prophet Amos, "...said the Lord, Behold,<BR/> I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel."<BR/> Y'shua Mashiyach Jesus said, "If I be lifted up I will<BR/> draw all men unto myself."<BR/><BR/> As long as some choose to abdicate their personal reality<BR/> and submit to the delusions of humanism, determinism, and<BR/> collectivism, just so long will they be subject and re-<BR/> acting only, to be tossed by every impulse emanating from<BR/> others. Those who abdicate such reality may, in perfect<BR/> justice, find themselves weighed in the balances of their<BR/> own choosing.<BR/><BR/> That human institution which is structured on the<BR/> principle, "...all men are endowed by their Creator with<BR/> ...Liberty...," is a system with its roots in the natural<BR/> Order of the universe. The opponents of such a system are<BR/> necessarily engaged in a losing contest with nature and<BR/> nature's God. Biblical principles are still today the<BR/> foundation under Western Civilization and the American<BR/> way of life. To the advent of a new season we commend the<BR/> present generation and the "multitudes in the valley of<BR/> decision."<BR/><BR/> Let us proclaim it. Behold!<BR/> The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV<BR/><BR/> CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS<BR/> "I should think that if there is one thing that man has<BR/> learned about himself it is that he is a creature of<BR/> choice." Richard M. Weaver<BR/><BR/> "Man is a being capable of subduing his emotions and<BR/> impulses; he can rationalize his behavior. He arranges<BR/> his wishes into a scale, he chooses; in short, he acts.<BR/> What distinguishes man from beasts is precisely that he<BR/> adjusts his behavior deliberately." Ludwig von Mises<BR/><BR/> "To make any sense of the idea of morality, it must be<BR/> presumed that the human being is responsible for his<BR/> actions and responsibility cannot be understood apart<BR/> from the presumption of freedom of choice."<BR/> John Chamberlain<BR/><BR/> "The advocate of liberty believes that it is complementary<BR/> of the orderly laws of cause and effect, of probability<BR/> and of chance, of which man is not completely informed.<BR/> It is complementary of them because it rests in part upon<BR/> the faith that each individual is endowed by his Creator<BR/> with the power of individual choice."<BR/> Wendell J. Brown<BR/><BR/> "These examples demonstrate a basic truth -- that human <BR/> dignity is embodied in the free choice of individuals."<BR/> Condoleeza Rice<BR/><BR/> "Our Founding Fathers believed that we live in an ordered<BR/> universe. They believed themselves to be a part of the<BR/> universal order of things. Stated another way, they<BR/> believed in God. They believed that every man must find<BR/> his own place in a world where a place has been made for<BR/> him. They sought independence for their nation but, more<BR/> importantly, they sought freedom for individuals to think<BR/> and act for themselves. They established a republic<BR/> dedicated to one purpose above all others - the preserva-<BR/> tion of individual liberty..." Ralph W. Husted<BR/><BR/> "We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching<BR/> that we can choose either to accept or reject the God<BR/> who gave it to us, and it would seem to follow that the<BR/> Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should be<BR/> equally free in our relationships with other men.<BR/> Spiritual liberty logically demands conditions of outer<BR/> and social freedom for its completion." Edmund A. Opitz<BR/><BR/> "Above all I see an ability to choose the better from the<BR/> worse that has made possible life's progress."<BR/> Charles Lindbergh<BR/><BR/> "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for<BR/> oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibil-<BR/> ity of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not<BR/> a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."<BR/> Thomas Jefferson<BR/><BR/> THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER<BR/> Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son<BR/> of man that You visit him?" Psalm 8:4<BR/> A: "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against<BR/> you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing<BR/> and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and<BR/> your descendants may live." Deuteronomy 30:19<BR/><BR/> Q: "Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him?<BR/> Or the son of man, that you are mindful of him?" Psalm<BR/> 144:3<BR/> A: "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose<BR/> for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the<BR/> gods which your fathers served that were on the other<BR/> side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose<BR/> land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will<BR/> serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15<BR/><BR/> Q: "What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is<BR/> born of a woman, that he could be righteous?" Job 15:14<BR/> A: "Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He<BR/> teach in the way he chooses." Psalm 25:12 <BR/><BR/> Q: "What is man, that You should magnify him, that You<BR/> should set Your heart on him?" Job 7:17<BR/> A: "Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his<BR/> ways." Proverbs 3:31<BR/><BR/> Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son<BR/> of man that You take care of him?" Hebrews 2:6<BR/> A: "I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have<BR/> laid before me." Psalm 119:30 "Let Your hand become my<BR/> help, for I have chosen Your precepts."Psalm 119:173<BR/><BR/> References:<BR/> Genesis 3:3,6 Deuteronomy 11:26-28; 30:19 Job 5:23<BR/> Isaiah 7:14-15; 13:12; 61:1 Amos 7:8 Joel 3:14<BR/> Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 <BR/> <BR/> DEDICATION<BR/><BR/> Sir Isaac Newton<BR/> The greatest scientist in human history<BR/> a Bible-Believing Christian<BR/> an authority on the Bible's Book of Daniel<BR/> committed to individual value<BR/> and individual liberty<BR/><BR/> Daniel 9:25-26 Habakkuk 2:2-3 selah<BR/><BR/> "What is man...?" Earth's Choicemaker Psalm 25:12<BR/> http://www.blogger.com/profile/4744267 <BR/> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2728/<BR/> http://www.choicemaker.net/<BR/> jbaxter@choicemaker.net<BR/><BR/> An old/new paradigma - Mr. Jefferson would agree!<BR/> (Alternative? There is no alternative.)<BR/> <BR/> + + +<BR/> <BR/>"Man cannot make or invent or contrive principles. He<BR/>can only discover them and he ought to look through the<BR/>discovery to the Author." -- Thomas Paine 1797<BR/><BR/>"Got Criteria?" See Psalm 119:1-176 <BR/><BR/>semper fidelis<BR/>Jim Baxter<BR/>Sgt. USMC<BR/>WWII & Korean War<BR/><BR/>Teacher, 5th Grade - 30 Wonderful years !<BR/> vincit veritas<BR/><BR/>"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"<BR/> - Yogi Berra<BR/><BR/>Choose:<BR/>MIKE HUCKABEE is Mr. President. jfbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com