Tinker with Theology, Tinker with Man: and Angel’s once again..

Very interesting article up at Herescope this evening; it sort of goes hand and hand with the article below on man’s tinkering with creating a new ‘being’ the ‘humanzee’. Man is always trying to play God, isn’t he….

I’ll only post a portion, you can read it at the link: but take notice that once again we are seeing someone else expounding on how we need to be working hand and hand with “good Angels”. Apparently Todd Bentley isn’t the only one who has the wrong concept and theology concerning God’s Holy Angels. (to read an excellent post titled; Todd Bentley’s Angels go to Wolf Tracks)

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“…should we suppose God to have created the nearly universal, vicious, animal-versus-animal world of nature? Indeed, were carnivorous animals originally herbivorous (as is implied in Genesis 1:28,29)? Does the Evil One and his assistants have sufficient knowledge to tinker with the DNA of God’s created order and distort nature to become ‘red in tooth and claw?

“Obviously, the great theologians of the past, such as Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Calvin, could not have imagined how lions, originally content to lie down with a lamb, could or should one day be restored to that state through the combined efforts of good angels and human endeavors. But, remember, if Satan has covered his tracks well, we would not expect find many thinking these thoughts. How then are we going to attempt to destroy his works? Is that a mission to be pursued? Does that represent a frontier to be crossed?”

- Ralph Winter, “Twelve Frontiers of Perspective“

When neoevangelical leaders began concocting new doctrines and new understandings of old doctrines, they began tinkering with theology. Ralph Winter of the Fuller School of World Mission, and highly influential in training a generation of evangelical missionaries, devoted a good deal of thought to reinventing and revising the Garden of Eden scenario in Genesis to fit a more Gnostic mold. And like his Dominionist cohorts at Fuller, especially C. Peter Wagner, Winter believed that man needed to reclaim the earth and restore it himself. A summary of Winter’s aberrant theology of the evolution of man can be found at http://www.ralphwinter.org/F/view.htm?id=204&section=11∂=6 .

Of particular concern is the nature of Winter’s Dominionism, which defines man’s “earthly mission” as an “ally” in “destroying the works of Satan,” particularly by manipulating DNA. Winter would have man “fix” the problems with DNA as part of his Dominion Mandate to restore pre-Fall paradise conditions on Earth. For example, Winter stated:

“…we do not even understand disease germs as the work of Satan (of course, Calvin did not know germs existed). As a result we are not fighting against the whole range of deadly pathogens in the Name of Christ even though the New Testament clearly states that ‘the Son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of Satan (I Jn 3:8).’

“Our earthly mission begins to appear more clearly as we recognize as best we can the full extent of the ‘works of Satan’ (shifting the blame to Satan and thus glorifying God), and as we ally ourselves with the good angels in destroying the works of Satan. ‘Without God we can’t and without us He won’t.’ Our mission is clarified as we learn more and more about the DNA-level mechanisms of distortion which account for most of the suffering in this world.”

more can be read here

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