People don’t talk about transcendency much. I must admit that I was looking for it for a long time and didn’t know what it was. Even the atheists are groping for it, as I once did.
An objectivist/atheist friend on Facebook pointed me to an article by Daniel Dennett, where Dennett was trying to promote the notion that "Goodness" is transcendent. Dennett had survived a serious heart malfunction and apparently needed to reach out beyond himself and the material world to thank somebody or something for his life. He decided to turn the whole episode into a public opportunity to mock Christ and encourage people to "Thank Goodness" whenever they are tempted to thank God. It was appalling, and it was really nothing but a diatribe for Pantheism. Dennett, as if he is a god, even went so far as to say that Christians who prayed for him had committed a sin in praying and that he needed to forgive them! So Daniel Dennett, one of the prominent, so-called, rationalists of our day, is a pantheist trending toward Panentheism.
The Pagan/Atheist notion of transcendence is always rooted in materialism. The Luciferian, Alice A. Bailey, even wrote a book entitled The Consciousness Of The Atom. She published that book under her publishing company, Lucifer Publishing.
What Bailey and Dennett have in common should already be obvious, but there is more to it. Both of them promote the idea that Christianity is founded on pagan religions. Keresy Graves was a hack writer with the same idea. He published a book entitled, Sixteen Crucified Saviors, where he tries to make the case that Christ is a myth borrowed from pagan religions and that there were many Christ-figures in those religions centuries before the rise of Christianity. He listed these sixteen false-Christs, and I took up the challenge to examine them. I ranked them according to ten criteria that Graves claimed that a Christ should meet. I gave them each a tenth of a point for each criteria that they met. I used the best sources I could access. I could not find a half of a Christ among them! I even gave one them credit for being a miracle worker because he was supposed to have 10,000 wives!
Now what I find particularly interesting about all of this is the thread of irrationality in godlessness. Dennett is a man who claims to have no religion, yet he wants to promote one. Bailey wants to worship Lucifer, but she claims that one can and should follow a false Christ. Graves, claiming to be a champion of reason, is so intellectually bankrupt that he makes bold assertions that he can’t support in order to "prove" that God doesn’t exist. The Bible teaches the person that says God doesn’t exist is a fool. The Bible gets it right, atheism is irrational.
Pantheism is an attempt to attribute deity to the material world, which is not transcendent. It is proposition to ascribe personality to that which cannot contain it. It’s personality without a person.
To reject God is to embrace insanity and nonsense. Isaiah 29 and Romans 11 talk about a stupor that God has decreed for a people who have the law and transcendent promises communicated to them and reject them while saying they believe. Not only that but the Word Of God says that such people will have understanding removed from them. Searching for something while rejecting it is irrational! It is stupidity.
The God of the Holy Bible is unique. He has many imitators. He is like none other in the way that He can redeem the human heart and make it whole. People sense a brokenness in their lives and the soul wants to reach out beyond the material world for a personality that has the power to save them from themselves and their circumstances. People relate to their world and each other in terms of personality. All other religions are feeble attempts to satisfy the need for a transcendent all-powerful personality.
There is one personality in all of human history that claims to transcend material existence and offer living hope beyond the material world. That person is the incarnation of the God of the Holy Bible, the Creator, Jesus Christ. He is the author of sanity. He is the Logos, the Word Made Flesh. Read! Test! Believe!
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