Nang, I didn't know you were in a Darby type church. Some of the people I know or have read or heard on the Internet who have become interested in the remnant came out of dispensationalist churches. One man who was the moderator of a Christian Yahoo Group I was on came out of the Southern California home of Calvary Chapel under Chuck Smith, a dispensationalist. There is an interesting connection between Chuck Smith and the Jesus Freak movement. Yet this guy came out of dispensationalism and became a leader of some of those interested in the remnant. A woman who was in that group later became a moderator of a later Christian Yahoo group, and she did a study on the 144,000 and the remnant and multitude, which became a foundation for the remnant people who were in those Yahoo Groups and some others. She came out of a Pentecostal- dispensationalist church in California to become another leader of the remnant. Like the earlier man who was in Chuck Smith's church in California, she left California for Idaho. He moved to southwest Oregon several years ago.
There is another man who has had an influence on the remnant people I know about and I will mention his name because he is better known.
One of the reasons Dean Gotcher is not liked in the churches is because what he is talking about is a paradigm shift, and in talking about that he is over the heads of almost all church members. And they do not like that. Gotcher is a preacher and a scholar, and they don't like that either. Because as a preacher he is a remnant leader and as a scholar he says things they do not understand but have some vague impression that he is being critical of the churches.
Gotcher does not,like the other two I just mentioned, focus on a criticism of dispensationalism. But what Gotcher says certainly does not agree with dispensationalism. In fact much of what Gotcher says is about false doctrines and the way false doctrines are promoted and defended.
I don't know what Christian denomination Gotcher came out of. But for a while he was following the life of a conventional church Christian. He got a degree from some Bible college in Christian education and was in a Christian seminary for a while, until one day he got up in class and asked why they were studying some theologian rather than scripture. He got nothing but silence, and he walked out never to return to a seminary.
Karl Marx comes along and begins to make use of the Hegelian dialectic as a way of changing the society through changing its paradigm, in order to set up a totalitarian government and society.
This is where Dean Gotcher loses most of his audience. They do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic can be used to change paradigms, even if they have some idea of what a paradigm is.
In the eyes of the dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for
all time, nothing is absolute or sacred." (Karl Marx)
Benjamin Bloom, who wrote the two volume book on the Taxonomy
of Educational Goal Objectives, by which all teachers must be
certified, said "We recognize the point of view that
truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and
fast truths which exist for all time and places.” (Benjamin Bloom, et
al., Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Book 1, Cognitive Domain)
With the Hegelian dialectic, there are two opposing positions, or attitudes, or beliefs, and these two clashing positions are to be resolved in a compromise. The thesis and the anti-thesis conflict and the result is the synthesis, which is brought about to change paradigms.
The word of God is absolute truth. But absolute truth cannot be tolerated by Marxists. The good Marxist tries to make every statement about facts or scripture into opinion. Opinions can be argued about all over the place and for a long period of time such arguments can go on. But facts that can be verified or scripture, if you believe scripture, must not be treated as opinion like a good Marxist would do.
Someone who has faith, and believes scripture must not compromise that absolute truth by running it though the Marxist version of the Hegelian dialectic, so that an argument in opposition to an absolute truth from Scripture results in a compromise which moves the position a little away from absolute truth, that is, it compromises it. Then, the same process is carried out again and the absolute truth is compromised a little more, and on and on. Finally, you have changed the paradigm, so in the minds of those who have been led into the dialectic mind set, there is no longer an absolute truth any more in scripture, but everything is relative and subject to change. Gotcher talks about relationships of affection being effective in bringing change to the positions people take, or to their truth.
