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Cornelius Van Til, with his "circles," was so far upstream from today's cultural maladies. It's amazing. He saw it in the German Historical school--the monism behind it, sometimes manifest as materialist humanism (Marx) other times as Idealism (Hegel), but both are forms of a gnostic/monist metaphysic. Peter Jones wrote about it a quarter of a century ago. James Lindsay is writing about it today. It's massive, and too many believers are absolutely clueless about it.

I lay some of the blame on those who say "no need to study all the counterfeits, just study the original." Yes, there's a place for that. But when the devil's tricks are wordplay, word hijacking, misquoting, quoting out of context, eisegesis, "speaking the same thing but thinking differently," "sharing our vocabulary, but not our dictionary," and when "the battle isn't won on the barricades, it's won in the dictionary" -- then how do we know what they're "meaning" when they're "saying"?

We need to be far more discerning. We need to be "wise as serpents, harmless as doves"; we need to "expose the works of darkness"; we must "[b]e sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."

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