MATERIALIST WORLDVIEW VERSES PAGANISM
Beliefs are fundamental to one’s worldview; they can work for or against you, limiting the extent of your vision or maximising it. A materialist worldview only acknowledges empirical evidence that can be touched, tasted, smelt, felt, or heard. They believe that life ends when their allocated years are complete. Within this paradigm, there are positives and negatives. Generally, you’ll observe a materialist perspective where there is industrial development, scientific research, and socialisation to advance the economy. They lack superstition and do not believe in the spiritual realm; therefore, it is dead to them in their consciousness, as they have not been made alive by Christ.
A paganistic worldview is one where people primarily believe in the spirit. They tend to think everything is spiritual and are often riddled with superstition. They believe it is up to the deity to determine if they are blessed financially and if they have food, drink, and clothing, as they have the mindset that they must appease God for blessings. They attribute everything to the spirit and often ask who is to blame rather than what is the cause. They might think someone has cursed them and see it as a spiritual matter. In many pagan nations, there is usually little industrial development and no scientific inquiry; people often wait for miracles to receive their promotions or even food to eat. This belief system works against them because they do not understand that the entire earth is governed by physical laws.
Language and society therefore create these physical realities. The same language is used, but the way ideas are shaped through systems and structures that influence how people see creates material effects. This is where we must find the flows of information and begin a thought experiment. The leaders or kings of the land in education, church, politics, family, police, media, and authorities are the institutions where hegemonic beliefs are reproduced and affect the way people think. All these institutions deal with the mind, but most importantly, our churches, where our fundamental belief system runs deep, depend on the ideas sown into the mind that determine how we view the world. In Western nations, the church is not the most predominant institution due to the materialist paradigm.
Most people do not attend church because they have associated God with religion, leading them to see little sense in pursuing it. In non-Western countries, people tend to be more spiritually centered; their churches are bustling as they connect God with religion. Let’s define religion to establish a conceptual model: religion is an effort to reach God. People might consider practices like tithing, attending church weekly, and engaging in communal singing. It’s almost an exclusive club of like-minded individuals, where they seek God's blessings. However, they are not there to discover their purpose or calling, nor to fulfill God's will beyond the church's four walls, where the harvest is ripe. They often participate in rituals that do not yield results, waiting for miracles. Some may believe they are under a curse for not contributing to the house of God. They might serve devotedly within the church, yet outside its doors, they face economic challenges and lack quality systems in every aspect because they are too consumed by religion. They may pray for hours but fail to translate these prayers into tangible outcomes, akin to masturbation, where the seed is wasted on the ground without producing new life.
We must not equate God with religion; that is how people get trapped and waste all the resources that God has invested in them because they were never taught how they were created to function. Sometimes, people wait for their future out there as if God will cause all these circumstances to align, and suddenly, they will have a ministry. Your ministry is already within you, waiting to be developed; it can grow as big as you are willing to work for it. As I have shown here, we can see how a belief system will either limit you or work in your favour. No one was created merely for employment or to look for a job to earn money. We were all created by God, for God, and for His purpose. God never designed us for religion; He created us for a personal relationship, as it was before the fall in the Garden of Eden. If we look into that picture, we will understand clearly why we were created, and God blessed us, saying we have dominion over the fish of the sea, the cattle, and every creeping thing.
We were created to be stewards of every physical thing, bringing order and beauty to the land through principles of truth, responding as God to be responsible managers. This pattern remains unchanged today; there is a small piece of the earth where you are called to bring the kingdom of God's government to rule by superimposing His values and principles, redeeming that part of the earth for God. In this picture, there is a personal relationship with God, who came and fellowshipped with them in the cool of the day. Throughout the day, Adam and Eve worked as instructed and functioned from the heart, not from the outside. They didn’t need to perform any religious sacraments for God to bless them; it was simply their obedience to instruction, their connection to the Word, and their walk in union with the truth that mattered.
The totality of the kingdom lies in his righteousness, which encompasses his principles, values, and spirit. When we live according to the laws of the kingdom and understand how we are designed to function, we can discover ourselves and bring the kingdom's domain down here to earth. Therefore, an appropriate worldview is one that not only relates to God but also adheres to material laws. When there is spirituality without a conversion that makes it tangible, it results in a dead religion. Conversely, if material laws are followed without connecting to the Father, while they might yield physical evidence of their creative nature bestowed upon them by God, they miss the essence of life. Hence, it’s vital to combine the two: we must work as if there is no God, yet pray as if everything depends on Him.
Written by Rochelle White
MATERIALIST WORLDVIEW VERSES PAGANISM
Beliefs are fundamental to one’s worldview; they can work for or against you, limiting the extent of your vision or maximising it. A materialist worldview only acknowledges empirical evidence that can be touched, tasted, smelt, felt, or heard. They believe that life ends when their allocated years are complete. Within this paradigm, there are positives and negatives. Generally, you’ll observe a materialist perspective where there is industrial development, scientific research, and socialisation to advance the economy. They lack superstition and do not believe in the spiritual realm; therefore, it is dead to them in their consciousness, as they have not been made alive by Christ.
A paganistic worldview is one where people primarily believe in the spirit. They tend to think everything is spiritual and are often riddled with superstition. They believe it is up to the deity to determine if they are blessed financially and if they have food, drink, and clothing, as they have the mindset that they must appease God for blessings. They attribute everything to the spirit and often ask who is to blame rather than what is the cause. They might think someone has cursed them and see it as a spiritual matter. In many pagan nations, there is usually little industrial development and no scientific inquiry; people often wait for miracles to receive their promotions or even food to eat. This belief system works against them because they do not understand that the entire earth is governed by physical laws.
Language and society therefore create these physical realities. The same language is used, but the way ideas are shaped through systems and structures that influence how people see creates material effects. This is where we must find the flows of information and begin a thought experiment. The leaders or kings of the land in education, church, politics, family, police, media, and authorities are the institutions where hegemonic beliefs are reproduced and affect the way people think. All these institutions deal with the mind, but most importantly, our churches, where our fundamental belief system runs deep, depend on the ideas sown into the mind that determine how we view the world. In Western nations, the church is not the most predominant institution due to the materialist paradigm.
Most people do not attend church because they have associated God with religion, leading them to see little sense in pursuing it. In non-Western countries, people tend to be more spiritually centered; their churches are bustling as they connect God with religion. Let’s define religion to establish a conceptual model: religion is an effort to reach God. People might consider practices like tithing, attending church weekly, and engaging in communal singing. It’s almost an exclusive club of like-minded individuals, where they seek God's blessings. However, they are not there to discover their purpose or calling, nor to fulfill God's will beyond the church's four walls, where the harvest is ripe. They often participate in rituals that do not yield results, waiting for miracles. Some may believe they are under a curse for not contributing to the house of God. They might serve devotedly within the church, yet outside its doors, they face economic challenges and lack quality systems in every aspect because they are too consumed by religion. They may pray for hours but fail to translate these prayers into tangible outcomes, akin to masturbation, where the seed is wasted on the ground without producing new life.
We must not equate God with religion; that is how people get trapped and waste all the resources that God has invested in them because they were never taught how they were created to function. Sometimes, people wait for their future out there as if God will cause all these circumstances to align, and suddenly, they will have a ministry. Your ministry is already within you, waiting to be developed; it can grow as big as you are willing to work for it. As I have shown here, we can see how a belief system will either limit you or work in your favour. No one was created merely for employment or to look for a job to earn money. We were all created by God, for God, and for His purpose. God never designed us for religion; He created us for a personal relationship, as it was before the fall in the Garden of Eden. If we look into that picture, we will understand clearly why we were created, and God blessed us, saying we have dominion over the fish of the sea, the cattle, and every creeping thing.
We were created to be stewards of every physical thing, bringing order and beauty to the land through principles of truth, responding as God to be responsible managers. This pattern remains unchanged today; there is a small piece of the earth where you are called to bring the kingdom of God's government to rule by superimposing His values and principles, redeeming that part of the earth for God. In this picture, there is a personal relationship with God, who came and fellowshipped with them in the cool of the day. Throughout the day, Adam and Eve worked as instructed and functioned from the heart, not from the outside. They didn’t need to perform any religious sacraments for God to bless them; it was simply their obedience to instruction, their connection to the Word, and their walk in union with the truth that mattered.
The totality of the kingdom lies in his righteousness, which encompasses his principles, values, and spirit. When we live according to the laws of the kingdom and understand how we are designed to function, we can discover ourselves and bring the kingdom's domain down here to earth. Therefore, an appropriate worldview is one that not only relates to God but also adheres to material laws. When there is spirituality without a conversion that makes it tangible, it results in a dead religion. Conversely, if material laws are followed without connecting to the Father, while they might yield physical evidence of their creative nature bestowed upon them by God, they miss the essence of life. Hence, it’s vital to combine the two: we must work as if there is no God, yet pray as if everything depends on Him.
Written by Rochelle White
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