A Biblical Framework for Worship and
Obedience
In an Age of Global Deception
by Charles A. Clough
Indexing the Framework
Series
(in Progress)
There are several different ways to index, catalog, or search the various materials. The best way, of course, is to listen to all of the 224 lessons and take copious notes. That may not be timely, if you are looking for a very specific word or phrase (e.g. “Chain of Being,” Ex Nihilo,” “Personal Responsibility,” etc.)
Keyword or Phrase Search: The most basic approach is to download all of the transcriptions into a directory on your computer that is dedicated to the transcriptions. Then, Right Click on the directory name, and select the “Search…” option. Then, type the exact phrase that you want to find, into the “Containing Text:” edit control in the “Search for Files and Folders” dialog box, and touch the “Search Now” button. It will very quickly list the files containing your phrase. You can double click the file names, causing the file to open in a window. When it is open, you can use <Ctrl-F> to search for the phrase, within the file.
A Special Search Program: There is a program that generates files such as those listed below. :
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Each context, displayed within the above topics, contains the keyword, with words preceding and following it. If the n-character context following the keyword also contains the keyword, then the context is extended to include the next n-characters, ad nauseam. The number of characters before and after is user defined.
As you may conclude from reviewing the above samples, lessons (e.g. Lessons 001-134) have been broken out into individual lessons, in order to get the correct lesson number in the internal headings for each context. Again, these kinds of tools are only available because of the transcriptions, provided by Ellen Kelso and the “notes” provided by Connie Vitaliti. Notice the lesson numbers, as you scroll down through the “Flood:” 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19 (29 of ‘em), 20 (22 of ‘em), 21 (6 of ‘em). Charlie talks about the flood often in the lessons up to 19. But then in Lesson 19, he refers to the Flood 63 times, in 29 displayed contexts. One may conclude that Lesson 19 is where Charlie began teaching the subject of the Flood.
Lesson / Subject Matter Index: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) A Table of Contents for the “Framework” series. A sequential listing of the major topics taught in each lesson was begun by a lady, whose name I do not know, covering Lessons 1-162 (available here):
FW001 = Creator / Creature Relationship
FW003 = Introduction to Paganism and the Pagan Worldview
FW004 = The Presuppositions of Biblical and Pagan Worldviews
FW011 = Review Continuity of Being. Two Cosmologies.
FW016 = The ill-effects of sin and evil.
FW061 = The “Framework,” developed so far, is used to understand “The Cosmos: Viewing civilization.” Sub-titled “Why city ghettos (et al) are undesirable.”
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Event / Doctrine Index: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) A list of the major events in Scripture and the Doctrines taught by those events. The beginning of this list follows:
Event
(ref.) Doctrine(s)
Taught
Creation (Gen 1-2) Creator-Creature Relationship Essence of God
Fall (Gen 3- ) Human Responsibility Volition
Evil Suffering
Death
(God did not cause death)
Curse
on Nature
Civilizations
(Gen 4-5)
Noahic Flood (Gen 6-) Salvation
Kinds
Noahic Covenant (Gen 9:13) Judgment / Salvation
Covenants:
God’s Faithfulness. Scriptures attest to His fulfillment
Call of Abraham (Gen 12) Election
Justification
Positional
Sanctification
Beginning of a
Counter-Culture
The Exodus Judgment /
Salvation
Mt. Sinai Giving of
the Law
Experiential
Sanctification
Wandering in
Wilderness
Faith Rest
Conquest and
Settlement Entering
the Land
Holy War
Election and
Reign Israel’s
First King
of David Melchizedec = King/Priest (a mix of church
and state) = (Gen 14:17)
a type of the
King that Christ would be. A type of the Royal Priesthood
Golden Era of Solomon
Kingdom
Decline
Kingdom Fall
Exile
Restoration
Birth of the King
Life of the King
Death of the King
Resurrection of the King
Ascension and Session
Pentecost
Separation of Church from Israel
Church History
Priesthood
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Scripture Index: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) List the scripture references with lesson and timestamp, to assist my finding that subject matter when I ponder that verse in another setting. e.g.
John 3:16 FW032 @ (00:24:30)
FW067 @ (01:04:15)
FW032 @ (00:43:45)
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Theological Glossary Index: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) List of terms with definitions, Scripture references, and lesson and timestamp. Note: The Special Search Program, above, could be used to locate the contexts. Some entries could be:
Fate. FW008 [hh:mm:ss].
Using this index entry, if one goes to Lesson 008, Charlie discusses the Communicable Attributes of God. And, mm minutes and ss seconds into the lesson, one can hear Charlie discussing how the pagan worldview replaces the Sovereignty of God with Fate. In Enuma Elish (a pagan text from tablets written at the time of Moses), the gods had to secure the tablets of destiny in order to become the head god.
Fate. FW003 [hh:mm:ss].
Using this index entry, if one goes to Lesson 003, Charlie teaches that whoever holds the tablet of destiny controls (or is) fate. The movie “2001, A Space Odyssey” includes symbols. An Ape, at the beginning and at the end of the movie, throws a stick (a tool) into the air. The tool becomes HAL, the computer. There is also another symbol—a tablet—which is Fate. It appears and disappears throughout the movie, but it is always there. And, it is related to how the storyline in the movie progresses.
Inerrancy. FWnnn [hh:mm:ss].
Everyone believes in inerrancy; it is the location of it over which men argue. We argue that the location of inerrancy is in the Scriptures; They believe that inerrancy is within themselves.
Prophet: FW195 [hh:mm:ss].
Using this index, if one goes to Lesson 195, and mm minutes and ss seconds into the lesson, one would hear Charlie discussing what a Prophet is, and how to tell if someone is a false prophet. Two passages in Deuteronomy teach the laws of evidence and case law for telling if someone is a Prophet. It is related to whether the Prophet is consistent with the Mosaic Law and Moses teachings. Also, a Prophet must be Jewish. So, Mohammed and Joseph Smith are frauds on first observation. On second view, their teachings are contrary to the Law, consequently, they are frauds, punishable by death. Paul, in Gal 1:8, teaches that the content of the Word is authoritative, not the people teaching it. So, even if Paul or an angel teaches another gospel, “let him be accursed.”
Regeneration.
FWnnn [hh:mm:ss].
is the only “new species” activity in time. We are created a new species In Christ at the moment of salvation. Any system of works for salvation uses a pagan COB model, in which there would be a gradual change from unsaved to saved.
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List of Distinctions: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) A listing of the very basic distinctions between the pagan worldview and the Biblical worldview:
Evil:
Pagan – Evil and Good have existed eternally. Consequently, we are all victims.
Biblical – Evil is bounded, having a beginning (fall of Adam) and an ending (when all evil is tossed into the garbage dump of the Lake of Fire). We are responsible.
Creation of the Universe:
Pagan – Starts with gas
Biblical –Starts with God
Creation of the Sun and Stars:
Pagan – Sun and stars pre-exist life on Earth
Biblical – Life on Earth pre-exists Sun and stars
Origin of Mankind
Pagan – Man evolved from mammals
Biblical – Man created directly from the Earth, and woman indirectly from man.
Processes of Existence
Pagan – Evolutionary processes continue today.
Biblical – Whatever processes were used by God were turned off on the 7th day. Creation is depicted as having stopped in Gen 2:1-3, “Completed,” “Completed,” “God Rested,” “from the work God had Done,” “had created,” “Had made.”
Difference between Divine Institutions and Human Conventions (example)
Pagan – “Life partners” is a Human Convention.
Biblical – “Marriage” is a Divine Institution.
Perhaps
make a chart?
Summing
up the situation at the end of the eighteenth century, Protestantism had
established the Bible as the only source of verbal revelation (Rv) while
it stimulated a new hands-on approach to studying the non-verbal revelation of
God’s world (Rnv).
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True Universal History (Genesis 1–2) (Rv & Rnv) |
Perverted Universal History (Enuma Elish) (RnvP) |
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Two-levels of existence: eternal, independent Creator and temporal dependent creation |
One-level of existence: eternal existence transmutes in form from personal gods to impersonal matter |
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Divine sovereignty behind creation and history |
Mixture of Fate (Tables of Destiny) and Chance (outcome of gods’ squabbles) behind transmutation and history |
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Divine thought and speech suddenly create things in specific categorical kinds |
Extrapolated natural
processes (procreation and spontaneous generation) transmute original
material into new forms over many days and years |
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Creation free of sin and death |
Evil, death, and
murder always present |
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Mankind created in blessing |
Mankind created in cursing |
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Man responsible for creation’s destiny before his Maker |
Man embedded in
existence, a passive victim of the gods’ quarrels |
Pagan origin myths
systematically distort true history according to the underlying agenda of
making the world safe for sinners by subtracting out offending truths and
adding back in speculative replacements.
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Topical Index: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) A list of topics that Charlie discussed or concepts that I would like to find within the lessons, understand, or perhaps master? A single entry might be:
FW004 [00:44:00]. God's Language (Word) as Energy (in the E=MC2 sense)
If one goes to Lesson 004, and 44 minutes into the lesson, one would hear Charlie discussing Language, from God's viewpoint, to wit: The evolutionist makes the speech of man the result of the development of the material parts of evolving man. Proto-language causes the brain to evolve bigger. A bigger brain allows more complex speech, which in turn causes a bigger brain to evolve. That is, from the evolutionist's worldview, "Language" is a derivative of physical processes. On the other (Biblical) hand, the Bible claims that material man is the result of the speech of God. Language precedes all existence. God speaking (Energy from the Source) commands the mass of matter into existence (E=MC2). Language brings the material existence into being. God’s speaking brought Physics into existence. Science can discover F=MA because it reflects mathematically the way God made it...
FW025 [00:55:00 and 1:04:00]. Williamsburg Jurisprudence (on acquittals & convictions)
An interesting dialog between one of the character actors (a colonial judge) and a tourist.
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Applications Index: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) Interesting applications of various doctrines. An entry might be:
FW064 [00:35:00-00:43:00] Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
If one goes to Lesson 064, and 35 minutes into the lesson, one would hear Charlie discussing the application of doctrine on the occurrence of a death of a child from SIDS. “Why did God allow that to happen to my child?”
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List of Interesting Thoughts: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) With every lesson, Charlie communicates “I Wish I had said that” concepts. These are not thoughts that one would think of and reject; but they are thoughts that most of us would never have thought of in the beginning. In any case, they are thoughts that I don’t want to forget. Some examples:
Church and State – Melchizedek was a King-Priest—a mixture of church and state is not necessarily a bad thing. A “type” of our Royal Priesthood.
Self-Esteem – In Isaiah 14, Satan expresses the ultimate in self-esteem. Self-esteem may be a step toward arrogance.
Evolution as Modern Science – Ancient Paganism has always held a belief in cosmic evolution. Evolution is endemic to the Continuity of Being, which belief has come forward and colored completely the ideas of the modern world. Loren Eiseley, a science historian, and the man who edited the proceedings of the Centennial Celebration of Darwin’s Writings, at the University of Chicago, wrote, “Far-Eastern philosophers thought of creation in evolutionary terms—a belief in an inherent continuity of all creation—and second, a reference to the merging of one species into another.” Far-Eastern philosophers thought of evolution centuries before Darwin. But, it is presented in schools and universities as if this is modern science—a brand new scientific idea. Eiseley wrote, “All that the Continuity of Being actually needed to become a full-fledged evolutionary theory was the introduction into it of the conception of time in vast quantities added to mutability of form.” (Continuity of Being =you can mutate from one relative level to another). [Loren Eiseley, Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958), 9–10.]
Historians’ View of Christianity – The pagans control the academic subject of History. Historians consider Christianity to be equal to the Roman Catholic Church. They hate Christianity. They named the age in which the Roman Church was the dominant force in society, “The Dark Ages.” When the Church stopped dominating all of society, they changed the name of the period to “The Enlightenment.” (TWW: When religious people are portrayed by Hollywood, they are usually Roman Catholic.)
Salvation by Works Rooted in Paganism – “In Adam” is a Kind; “In Christ” is a Different Kind. Salvation by works is an evolutionary process whereby one attempts to become the Kind = ”In Christ” by successive steps of works up the Continuity of Being scale, rather than by a change of Kind by the creative act of the Holy Spirit in regeneration.
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List of Expressions of Unbelief: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?) The arrogance of unbelief is manifest in their dogmatism.
Scriptures – “I do not know who wrote the Gospel of John, but I know that it could not have been written by the Apostle John.”
Creation – “I do not know where the center of the Universe is, but I know that it cannot be the Earth.” Biblically speaking, where did God decide to place man? Where did God fellowship with Adam, such that, after the fall, Eden was guarded by angels to protect God’s abode from fallen man? Where will our Lord Jesus Christ reign?
List of Apologetic Arguments: (Would Anyone Like to Volunteer to Make This Index?)
There are many more ways to search through this rich gold mine of Truth.