The History of the World - Past, Present, Future

The Final Church: Laodicea (The Apostate Church)

Humanist Manifesto; Modernism

Humanist Manifesto I, 1933

The time has come for widespread recognition of the radical changes in religious beliefs throughout the modern world. The time is past for mere revision of traditional attitudes.

1: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created.

2: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.

3: The traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.

5: The nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values. Obviously humanism does not deny the possibility of realities as yet undiscovered

6: We are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism

9: In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer the humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being.

10: It follows that there will be no uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural.

11: Existing acquisitive and profit-motivated society has shown itself to be inadequate and that a radical change in methods, controls, and motives must be instituted. A socialized and cooperative economic order must be established to the end that the equitable distribution of the means of life be possible

Revelation 3:14  To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:  The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:

Revelation 3:15  I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot;

I wish that you were cold or hot.

Revelation 3:16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

Revelation 3:17 Because you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched {in bondage to sin} and miserable {in need of mercy} and poor {spiritually bankrupt} and blind and naked {i.e., sins not covered}

1 Timothy 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,

1 Timothy 4:2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron

1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God

Matthew 24:5 Many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.

Hebrews 6:4 In the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 6:5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

Hebrews 6:6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance

Genesis 3:5 God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Ephesians 4:14 We are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

Ephesians 4:15 but speaking the truth in love holding the truth, loving.

John 14:6 I am the way, and the truth, and the life; (the true way of life} no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Jude 1:24 Now unto him that is able who has the power to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory

John 10:28 I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand