ROC-Private Interpretation Of Scripture

Investigative Report on Independent Interpretationists:
How Isolating Truth from the Covenant of Christ Produces
Psychological and Spiritual Exploitation of Christians
by Dr. Eric vonAnderseck, Th.D., D.D.
President, Second 8th Week Ministries, Inc.
Confirmed Apostle of Jesus Christ

Report Title:
Private Interpretation of Scripture Causally Linked to Spiritual Exploitation

Pt. Huron, MI: Christians usually don’t come right out and say, “I can believe in God my own way.” They usually say something like, “The Lord told me…,” or “The Holy Ghost showed me…,” or “I’m following Jesus.”

If you can believe in God your own way, then you can serve God your own way. God always established a pattern for faith and was pleased when the faith of the people followed His prescribed pattern. "And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God. To walk in all His ways. And the love Him, And to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul. To keep the commandments of the Lord" (Deut.10:12). God has something specific in mind.

One thing stands out when reading through the books of the Kings and Chronicles; the rulers who served God their own way were said to be ‘evil’. “And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree,” I Kg.14:22,23.

It is true that we are in the New Testament and that the Holy Spirit now writes His laws of grace and truth upon the heart. However, God established a pattern for that to take place. God still has a specific working in mind and therefore designed our participation accordingly. The law of grace and truth was designed by God to bring the soul into contact with Himself, to increase the soul in His likeness, and to free the soul from the bondage of sin and death. This takes place within the environment that God created for this transference to take place.

If we were to approach the Bible without first understanding the dynamic behavior of all of the contributing factors necessary for Christ to be formed within that would be like bees deciding they were going to produce honey any way they wanted to or us expecting to harvest honey any way we want to. If we took the bees out of an apiary the flowers are still capable of producing nectar, but the dynamic behavior of bees upon the flowers and the transference of pollen to the bee to produce honey is restricted. Bees do not produce honey any way they want to. They follow the design of God for contact. There is a transference of substance that takes place as bees harvest pollen and nectar. As God created the flower to yield its pollen to the bee so the bee could in turn yield its honey to man, so also God created the soul to yield itself to grace so that in turn God would receive the treasures of the fruits of Christ born in the inner man.

When the church fell away from the Headship of Jesus Christ and no longer received doctrinal instruction through living apostles the church fell into confusion and no longer was in the environment God created for Christ to be formed in the inner man. Many books have been written addressing the problems that the Church is facing and every symptom from moral decline to the decline in church attendance is investigated and discussed. Authors challenge the church to “return to the purity of faith,” yet the authors themselves are believing God their own way.

One such book, written by Charles Colson, is called “Being The Body.”

Here is what CBN has to say about this book:

“Provocative and insightful, Being the Body inspires us to rise above a stunted "Jesus and me" faith to a nobler view of something bigger and grander than ourselves --the glorious, holy vision for which God created the church.”

The author has made another observation, confession, and self analysis of the church. According to this book it is obvious that “serving God one’s own way” stunts growth. The true remedy is not provided in Colson’s book. We would have to go to the root cause of stunted growth and return the church to the Headship of Jesus Christ through Apostolic Governance. Lacking that foresight, the church instead suggests with great ambiguity that Christians can “rise above” their stunted condition.

When authors are finished helping faith participants reevaluate their faith they have only awakened a sense of need for the church to return to purity and stimulated a sense “new beginnings.” This usually produces a month of fervor towards new goals that are set to help believers live up to new expectations. This boundless enthusiasm soon wears off (just like it did the last time believers processed) and leave faith participants again searching for truth. For many this has led to a life time of confusion and frustration as each cycle of renewed engagement and initial experience of excitement or joy brought with it another set of paradoxes. What I am describing here is Program Exhilaration followed by program let down. The initial experience of joy or peace is not sustained by the Spirit of God and cannot be sustained by the human will.

Because the reaction to each new challenge is real to the senses and agrees to a form of correctness and speaks to the design of the soul for increase, believers place a variety of values upon these experiences. These values are seen as “spiritual insight.” Therefore, PE can also be called Induced Insight Phenomena (IIP).

God created the soul in His own image and likeness. Therefore, God designed the soul to experience completion and increase only through contact with Him. Yet we have seen throughout history that thousands of spiritual tools can bring a life time of spiritual experiences that are said to be very satisfying. People of every faith confess spiritual highs, love, joy, and awe. This is why there are so many religions in the world and so many forms of Christianity. However, it is important to note that not all spiritual experiences bring the soul to completion nor increase the soul in the likeness of God. When faith participants cannot make that distinction problems develop that then need to be resolved.

When spiritual experiences do not bring the soul to completion nor increase the soul in God’s likeness then the soul cannot enter into God’s rest and will continue to struggle against paradoxes and a host of Exigent Faith symptoms and behaviors. Despite the claims of spiritual experience, the doctrine and discipline of that faith model would have to be reexamined to understand why it is producing Exigent Faith symptoms and behaviors. These are the dangers of serving God our own way.

Based on my 28 years of empirical research I have found that despite their love for God, Christians were facing crisis in their faith within the first year following their conversion. They attempted to serve God their own way and fell victim to the Exigent Faith. For some this translated into 10, 15, 20, and sometimes 30 years of spiritual suffering.

The Disparity Index shows how vast and far reaching Exigent Faith symptoms and behaviors are. The fallout column contains typical fallout that Christians face on account of faith paradoxes. I have set that column next to the paradoxes to give a constant visual reminder of the consequences of faith that does not follow the pattern and design of Jesus Christ.

EVA Disparity Index: Plotting Program Exhilaration and IIP against Exigent Faith Symptoms

#	Program Exhilaration & IIP	Exigent Faith Symptoms& Behaviors	Paradox	Fallout
1	Spiritual fulfillment	“I am still anxious about Gods will for my life.”	Moments of spiritual fulfillment did not remove spiritual anxiety	Frustration, Confusion, Stress
2	Spiritual consciousness	“I need to grow closer to God.”	A moment of spiritual consciousness did not produces a closer relationship with God	Displacement anxiety
3	Connectedness	“I do not know God’s plan for my life, but someday I hope to.”	Moments of feeling a connectedness to God did not produce a knowledge of God’s plan.	Frustration, False confidence
4	Confidence	“We need to learn how to let God in, how to let God do His work in us.”	Moments of confidence did not produce a knowledge of how to yield to the Spirit of God.	Dread, Fear, Stress
5	Trust	“We need to remove the barrier of pride.”	A moment of trust did not remove barriers.	Anguish, Frustration
6	Wholeness	“I need help adjusting my attitude.”	Wholeness did not translate into understanding how the daily fruit of Christ is born in the heart.	Feeling alone, feeling worthless to God.
7	Peace	“We need to adopt childlike humility.”	Moments of peace did not translate into humility.	Disorientation, Loss, Confusion
8	Joy	“I need to attend classes on how to keep my joy and not let Satan steal it.”	Joy is fleeting and not bound to the law of grace and truth.	Apathy, Anger, Depression
9	Love	“I need to return to my first love of God.”	Love cannot be sustained.	Questions, Doubts
10	Longsuffering	“I can raise my faith level by gaining insight into biblical characters so I can copy their behavior.”	Longsuffering needs to be supported by new insights.	Resentment, Isolation, Confusion, Stress
11	Gentleness	“I need to cultivate the fruits of the Spirit.”	Moments of gentleness did not yield completion. The soul looks for further cultivating tools.	Grief of mind, Sorrow of heart
12	Goodness	“I am looking for spiritual breakthrough.”	Moments of goodness did not remove the resistance.	Spiritual defeat, Frustration
13	Meekness	“Negative attitudes limit God, therefore I am always seeking ways to remove negativity from my life.”	Moments of meekness did not remove the limitations set by the law of sin and death.	Worry, Fear of lack, Frustration
14	Temperance	“I need to finds ways to better ways to find a moral center.”	Moments of temperance could not produce a moral center.	Self-abasement, Guilt
15	Laughter	“I am seeking for new direction for my faith, new power, new keys.”	Laughter did not give direction for faith.	Confusion, Unhappiness
16	Exhilaration	“I need to find keys that promise to unlock spiritual mysteries.”	Exhilaration did not bring the soul into rest.	Spiritual restlessness
17	Awe	“I need to visualize my success, victory, competence”	Awe did not remove the confidence of the flesh.	Contradiction, Rejection
18	Tingling sensations	“I need to escape mediocrity.”	Tingling sensations did not translate into mature faith.	Dread, Loss of direction
19	Electrical sensations	“I need the Lord to show me areas of my life that need to be changed.”	Electrical sensations did not yield stable growth patterns.	Out of balance
20	Shouting	“I need to enlarge my vision.”	Shouting did not bring completion. The soul is still wandering.	Loss of equity, Stress, Sadness
21	Animal behavior	“I need to learn what my gifts are and use them for God.”	Animal behavior did not bring the witness of the Spirit. Believer cannot distinguish between spiritual gifts and signature gifts.	Feeling estranged from God, spiritually wandering
22	Levitation	“I need to master my thinking to open the door to spiritual possibilities.”	Levitation did not bring salvation to the soul.	Confusion, Fear, Shame
23	Astral Projection	“I need new keys of power and insight.”	Astral Projection did not join the soul to God for faith in Jesus Christ.	Confusion, Fear, Shame
24	Satisfaction	“I need to be able to develop excellent thinking in order to achieve my spiritual goals.”	A moment of satisfaction referenced faith to a pattern of thinking rather than the principle of Christ.	Helplessness, Anguish of heart, Confusion
25	Fortitude	“I need to get serious with God.”	Fortitude did not produce consistency	Guilt, Shame
26	Dreams	“I need to learn how to find strength in adversity.”	Dreams did not strengthen the soul	Loss of power
27	Visions	“I need to learn how to turn a curse into a blessing.”	Visions did not remove the curse	Disheartened, Let down
28	Trance	“I need to “start” trusting God.”	Trance did not produce trust	Feeling you are not spiritually grounded
29	Euphoria	“I need to learn the secrets of giving.”	Euphoria did not open the secrets of God.	Fearfulness, Spiritual nausea
30	Anguish	“I need to learn life’s lessons from biblical characters.”	Moments of anguish leaves the soul still searching.	Spiritual apathy
31	Excitement	“I need to learn how to plant seeds of kindness to be more like Jesus.”	Excitement did not yield discipleship.	Wandering of soul
32	Anticipation	“I need to get direction by hearing a word from God through prophetic utterance.”	Anticipation failed to yield direction.	Blindness of heart
33	Spiritual Exhaustion	“I need to learn how to revitalize my faith by learning how to move the Spirit.”	Moments of Spiritual exhaustion does not revitalize faith.	Spiritual weariness
34	Amazement	“I can gain happiness by choosing happiness.”	Moments of amazement provided no lasting happiness.	Iniquitous displeasure
35	Revitalization	“We need to strive to be people of integrity.”	Moments of revitalization did not bring integrity.	Spiritual nakedness
36	Renewal	“I need to learn how to remove despair and depression over sin.”	Moments of renewal did not remove depression over sin. The conscience still bears the record of sin.	Insecurity, Fretfulness
37	Miracle	“I need to be so enthusiastic for Christ that it will rub off on others.”	Miracle did not translate into fervent faith.	Numbness, Dullness of spirit
38	Healing of emotional wounds	“I need to learn how to deal with despondency.”	Healing of emotional wounds did not remove despondency.	Guilt, Shame, Remorse
39	Wonderment	“I need godly insight.”	Wonderment does not produce godly insight.	Pain and sorrow of heart
40	Emotional release	Schematics for worship continue to evolve, change, redefine itself against the dynamics of tradition with a view towards Themistic Law	Emotional release does not stop the evolution of faith and worship wars.	Spiritually lost in many truths
41	Intellectual insight from study of Bible	“I think that truth is unknowable and that there are many views to Christ and God accepts them all. God wants us to find the good and true wherever it may be found.”	Moments of intellectual insight from study of the Bible did not set truth in Jesus Christ, but in many models of faith.	Confusion, Guilt, Frustration
42	Emotional insight from suffering	“I find encouragement from other people’s life stories, trials, and tribulations.” Fables are born from true experiences that are then taken and redirected to give witness to the individual or indoctrination, but not to the covenant of Jesus Christ.	Moments of emotional insight from suffering opened the door to fables and the witness of human signatures over the witness of the Holy Spirit.	Spiritual uncertainty, Frustration, Confusion, Guilt
43	Ability to grasp spiritual concept	Addressing the paradoxes of holiness with Sliding Scale	Ability to grasp spiritual concept does not keep the scale from sliding.	Anxiety, Loss of hope
44	Moments of clarity	“I need to find a matrix to God’s divine nature.”	Moments of clarity leaves one still looking for the door to faith.	Spiritual void, Floundering soul
45	Reverence	Looking for biblical truths in one’s own environment	A moment of reverence does not stop the search for biblical truths.	Disharmony in the soul
46	Deep appreciation	“I need to set new personal goals for spiritual achievement, growth, success, writing them out, and reviewing them.”	Deep appreciation does not prevent one from setting the gospel within the framework of one’s signature.	Disillusion-ment, Grief of mind
47	Affirmation of truth	“I need to seek higher knowledge from God.”	Affirming truth does not confirm the standard of Christ	Empty heart, Confusion, Guilt
48	Hope	“I am searching for that missing piece in my life and I am journeying towards wholeness.”	A moment of hope does not remove faith from self-referencing tools.	Feeling of separation from God
49	Contentment	“I am looking for keys to “anxiety-free” living.”	A moment of contentment does not lift anxiety.	Feeling lost and deserted
50	Moment of reconciliation	“I need to learn how to shift my confidence from the flesh to the Spirit.”	Moments of reconciliation does not yield confidence.	Lack of spiritual security

The principle that is left to the will empowers the will. The power of God is absent from programs, doctrines, spiritual tools, and books that are removed from the Headship of Jesus Christ. The powers that are left to the will are the powers of reason, the voice of the conscience, the powers of the soul to feel, the powers of seducing spirits, and the principles of Satan’s 13 Kingdoms.

Darkness puts a burden upon the soul to increase with the tools of Satan’s Kingdom, and thus the imagination rules the soul in place of faith. Furthermore, the evidence broadly supports the view that when Program Exhilaration and IIP responses are not in compliance with the design of the soul to find completion and increase after the likeness of God, faith practitioners deal with this deficit by forcing the soul into a journey towards achieving God’s likeness. The journey masks Exigent Faith symptoms and behaviors and mitigates fallout, offering faith participants hope through further experiences with PE. The primary candidates for these bogus journeys are those whose faith has been disenfranchised. In conclusion, Program Exhilaration, accompanied by Exigent Faith symptoms, points toward failure to find completion and increase after the likeness of God.