Talk:Paradigm/Tract

 The HUMAN PARADIGM

 Consider:

 The missing element in every human 'solution' is an
 accurate definition of the creature.

 The way we define 'human' determines our view of self,
 others, relationships, institutions, life, and future. 
 Important? Only the Creator who made us in His own image 
 is qualified to define us accurately. Choose wisely...
 there are results.

 In an effort to diminish the multiple and persistent
 dangers and abuses which have characterized the affairs
 of man in his every Age, and to assist in the requisite
 search for human identity, it is essential to perceive
 and specify that distinction which naturally and most
 uniquely defines the human being. Because definitions
 rule in the minds, behaviors, and institutions of men,
 we can be confident that delineating and communicating
 that quality will assist the process of resolution and
 the courageous ascension to which man is called. As
 Americans of the 21st Century, we are obliged and privi-
 leged to join our forebears and participate in this
 continuing paradigm proclamation.

 "WHAT IS MAN...?" God asks - and answers:
     HUMAN DEFINED: EARTH'S CHOICEMAKER
      by JAMES FLETCHER BAXTER (c) 2006

 Many problems in human experience are the result of false
 and inaccurate definitions of humankind premised in man-
 made religions and humanistic philosophies.

 Human knowledge is a fraction of the whole universe. The
 balance is a vast void of human ignorance. Human reason
 cannot fully function in such a void, thus, the intellect
 can rise no higher than the criteria by which it perceives
 and measures values.

 Humanism makes man his own standard of measure. However,
 as with all measuring systems, a standard must be greater
 than the value measured. Based on preponderant ignorance
 and an egocentric carnal nature, humanism demotes reason
 to the simpleton task of excuse-making in behalf of the
 rule of appetites, desires, feelings, emotions, and glands.

 Because man, hobbled in an ego-centric predicament, cannot
 invent criteria greater than himself, the humanist lacks
 a predictive capability. Without instinct or transcendent
 criteria, humanism cannot evaluate options with foresight
 and vision for progression and survival. Lacking foresight,
 man is blind to potential consequence and is unwittingly
 committed to mediocrity, averages, and regression - and
 worse. Humanism is an unworthy worship.

 The void of human ignorance can easily be filled with a
 functional faith while not-so-patiently awaiting the foot-
 dragging growth of human knowledge and behavior. Faith,
 initiated by the Creator and revealed and validated in His
 Word, the Bible, brings a transcendent standard to man the
 choice-maker. Other philosophies and religions are man-
 made, humanism, and thereby lack what only the Bible has:

 1.Transcendent Criteria and 
 2.Fulfilled Prophetic Validation.

 The vision of faith in God and His Word is survival equip-
 ment for today and the future.

 Man is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by nature
 and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of Criteria.
 Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive characteristic
 is, and of Right ought to be, the natural foundation of
 his environments, institutions, and respectful relations
 to his fellow-man. Thus, he is oriented to a Freedom
 whose roots are in the Order of the universe.

 At the sub-atomic level of the physical universe quantum
 physics indicates a multifarious gap or division in the
 causal chain; particles to which position cannot be
 assigned at all times, systems that pass from one energy
 state to another without manifestation in intermediate
 states, entities without mass, fields whose substance is
 as insubstantial as "a probability."

 Only statistical conglomerates pay tribute to
 deterministic forces. Singularities do not and are
 therefore random, unpredictable, mutant, and in this
 sense, uncaused. The finest contribution inanimate
 reality is capable of making toward choice, without its
 own selective agencies, is this continuing manifestation
 of opportunity as the pre-condition to choice it defers
 to the natural action of living forms.

 Biological science affirms that each level of life,
 single-cell to man himself, possesses attributes of
 sensitivity, discrimination, and selectivity, and in
 the exclusive and unique nature of each diversified
 life form.

 The survival and progression of life forms has all too
 often been dependent upon the ever-present undeterminative
 potential and appearance of one unique individual organism 
 within the whole spectrum of a given life-form. Only the 
 uniquely equipped individual organism is, like The Golden 
 Wedge of Ophir, capable of traversing the causal gap to 
 survival and progression. Mere reproductive determinacy 
 would have rendered life forms incapable of such potential. 
 Only a moving universe of opportunity plus choice enables 
 the present reality.

 Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly 
 developed, and sensitive perception of diversity. Thus 
 aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact-
 ing internal mental and external physical selectivity. 
 Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends 
 itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.

 Man is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes his
 definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall that his
 other features are but vehicles of experience intent on
 the development of perceptive awareness and the
 following acts of decision. Note that the products of
 man cannot define him for they are the fruit of the
 discerning choice-making process and include the
 cognition of self, the utility of experience, the
 development of value-measuring systems and language,
 and the acculturation of civilization.

 The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,
 customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of
 his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity is a
 choice-making process. His articles, constructs, and
 commodities, however marvelous to behold, deserve
 neither awe nor idolatry, for man, not his contrivance,
 is earth's own highest expression of the creative process.

 Man is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and significant
 act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon
 which man levers and redirects the forces of cause and
 effect to an elected level of quality and diversity.
 Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental
 opportunity, freedom, and bestows earth's title, The
 Choicemaker, on his singular and plural brow.

 Deterministic systems, ideological symbols of abdication
 by man from his natural role as earth's Choicemaker,
 inevitably degenerate into collectivism; the negation of
 singularity, they become a conglomerate plural-based
 system of measuring human value. Blunting an awareness
 of diversity, blurring alternatives, and limiting the
 selective creative process, they are self-relegated to
 a passive and circular regression.

 Tampering with man's selective nature endangers his
 survival for it would render him impotent and obsolete
 by denying the tools of diversity, individuality,
 perception, criteria, selectivity, and progress.
 Coercive attempts produce revulsion, for such acts 
 are contrary to an indeterminate nature and nature's
 indeterminate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.

 Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just
 begins with a respectful acknowledgment of The Creator,
 The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will be ever
 learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
 The rejection of Creator-initiated standards relegates
 the mind of man to its own primitive, empirical, and
 delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect
 cannot ascend and function at any level higher than the
 criteria by which it perceives and measures values.

 Additionally, such rejection of transcendent criteria
 self-denies man the vision and foresight essential to
 decision-making for survival and progression. He is left,
 instead, with the redundant wreckage of expensive hind-
 sight, including human institutions characterized by
 averages, mediocrity, and regression.

 Humanism, mired in the circular and mundane egocentric
 predicament, is ill-equipped to produce transcendent
 criteria. Evidenced by those who do not perceive
 superiority and thus find themselves beset by the shifting
 winds of the carnal-ego; i.e., moods, feelings, desires,
 appetites, etc., the mind becomes subordinate: a mere
 device for excuse-making and rationalizing self-justifica-
 tion.

 The carnal-ego rejects criteria and self-discipline for such
 instruments are tools of the mind and the attitude. The
 appetites of the flesh have no need of standards for at the
 point of contention standards are perceived as alien,  re-
 strictive, and inhibiting. Yet, the very survival of our
 physical nature itself depends upon a maintained sover-
 eignty of the mind and of the spirit.

 It remained, therefore, to the initiative of a personal
 and living Creator to traverse the human horizon and
 fill the  vast void of human ignorance with an intelli-
 gent and definitive faith. Man is thus afforded the
 prime tool of the intellect - a Transcendent Standard
 by which he may measure values in experience, anticipate
 results, and make enlightened and visionary choices.

 Only the unique and superior God-man Person can deserved-
 ly displace the ego-person from his predicament and free
 the individual to measure values and choose in a more
 excellent way. That sublime Person was indicated in the
 words of the prophet Amos, "...said the Lord, Behold,
 I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel."
 Y'shua Mashiyach Jesus said,  "If I be lifted up I will
 draw all men unto myself."

 As long as some choose to abdicate their personal reality
 and submit to the delusions of humanism, determinism, and
 collectivism, just so long will they be subject and re-
 acting only, to be tossed by every impulse emanating from
 others. Those who abdicate such reality may, in perfect
 justice, find themselves weighed in the balances of their
 own choosing.

 That human institution which is structured on the
 principle, "...all men are endowed by their Creator with
 ...Liberty...," is a system with its roots in the natural
 Order of the universe. The opponents of such a system are
 necessarily engaged in a losing contest with nature and
 nature's God. Biblical principles are still today the
 foundation under Western Civilization and the American
 way of life. To the advent of a new season we commend the
 present generation and the "multitudes in the valley of
 decision."

 Let us proclaim it. Behold!
 The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV

 CONTEMPORARY COMMENTS
 "I should think that if there is one thing that man has
 learned about himself it is that he is a creature of
 choice." Richard M. Weaver

 "Man is a being capable of subduing his emotions and
 impulses; he can rationalize his behavior. He arranges
 his wishes into a scale, he chooses; in short, he acts.
 What distinguishes man from beasts is precisely that he
 adjusts his behavior deliberately." Ludwig von Mises

 "To make any sense of the idea of morality, it must be
 presumed that the human being is responsible for his
 actions and responsibility cannot be understood apart
 from the presumption of freedom of choice."
 John Chamberlain

 "The advocate of liberty believes that it is complementary
 of the orderly laws of cause and  effect, of probability
 and of chance, of which man is not completely informed.
 It is complementary of them because it rests in part upon
 the faith that each individual is endowed by his Creator
 with the power of individual choice."
 Wendell J. Brown

 "These examples demonstrate a basic truth -- that human 
 dignity is embodied in the free choice of individuals."
 Condoleeza Rice
 

 "Our Founding Fathers believed that we live in an ordered
 universe. They believed themselves to be a part of the
 universal order of things. Stated another way, they
 believed in God. They believed that every man must find
 his own place in a world where a place has been made for
 him. They sought independence for their nation but, more
 importantly, they sought freedom for individuals to think
 and act for themselves. They established a republic
 dedicated to one purpose above all others - the preserva-
 tion of individual liberty..."  Ralph W. Husted

 "We have the gift of an inner liberty so far-reaching
 that we can choose either to accept or reject the God
 who gave it to us, and it would seem to follow that the
 Author of a liberty so radical wills that we should be
 equally free in our relationships with other men.
 Spiritual liberty logically demands conditions of outer
 and social freedom for its completion." Edmund A. Opitz

 "Above all I see an ability to choose the better from the
 worse that has made possible life's progress."
 Charles Lindbergh

 "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for
 oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibil-
 ity of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not
 a man but a member, an instrument, a thing."
 Thomas Jefferson

 THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER
 Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son
 of man that You visit him?" Psalm 8:4
 A: "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against
 you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing
 and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and
 your descendants may live." Deuteronomy 30:19

 Q: "Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him?
 Or the son of man, that you are mindful of him?" Psalm
 144:3
 A: "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose
 for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the
 gods which your fathers served that were on the other
 side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose
 land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will
 serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15

 Q: "What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is
 born of a woman, that he could be righteous?" Job 15:14
 A: "Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He
 teach in the way he chooses." Psalm 25:12

 Q: "What is man, that You should magnify him, that You
 should set Your heart on him?" Job 7:17
 A: "Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his
 ways." Proverbs 3:31

 Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son
 of man that You take care of him?" Hebrews 2:6
 A: "I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have
 laid before me." Psalm 119:30 "Let Your hand become my
 help, for I have chosen Your precepts."Psalm 119:173

 References:
 Genesis 3:3,6 Deuteronomy 11:26-28; 30:19 Job 5:23
 Isaiah 7:14-15; 13:12; 61:1   Amos 7:8   Joel 3:14
 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8                 Psalm 119:1-176
                      DEDICATION

                   Sir Isaac Newton
       The greatest scientist in human history
            a Bible-Believing Christian
     an authority on the Bible's Book of Daniel
            committed to individual value
               and individual liberty

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"Man cannot make or invent or contrive principles. He can only discover them and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author." -- Thomas Paine 1797