The delusion of heathenism [unbeliever reversionism] occurs when the unbeliever has negative volition at God-consciousness and if he should hear the gospel message, negative volition at that point as well. As a result, he goes through the Eight Stages of Reversionism becoming an absolute fool. The present tense of professing is a pictorial present, it depicts the delusion of reversionism in the process of occurrence, a delusion which occurs in every generation. Several generations of negative volition and the nation goes out.  Sodom and Gomorrah, Assyria, Chaldea, Persia, the Hellenistic monarchies, Rome, Hitler’s Germany, etc. can give testimony to this.

 

1. These “fools” accept darkness into their souls and then apply it to life, people and circumstances and call it wisdom—a delusion.

 

2. This affirmation of non-existent wisdom is the status of heathenism in the last three stages of reversionism—blackout of the soul, scar-tissue of the soul, and reverse process reversionism.

 

3. The reversionist (the apostate) sets up false norms for wisdom, then uses these false norms to allege and conclude the possession of wisdom.

 

4.This explains the blindness of the sincere liberal, the do-gooder, the person in politics legislating his delusionary ideas on the peoples of his nation.

 

5. Negative volition at gospel hearing triggered this unbeliever reversionism. The unbeliever may have been pro-establishment before his rejection of the truth at God-consciousness and gospel hearing. This rejection produces not only scar tissue but a vacuum in the soul by which he will believe every Satanic lie or any other falsehood.

 

A few more points:

 

1.To be the kind of fool described in the following verse, there must be arrogance.  and pride of reversionism.

 

Romans 1:22. Although professing themselves [delusional unbelievers] to be wise, they became fools [from blackout of the soul].

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2. Self-righteousness and arrogance in reversionism is creative in the sphere of evil even to the point of creating its own gods.

 

3.Arrogance sets itself above the essence of God and distorts the perfect attributes of God into ridiculous images of human and animal power.

 

4. The arrogant man declares that the images which he has constructed are gods by which he may contact demons. The fact that man can manufacture a god is the epitome of arrogance, the quintessence of human folly, and total blasphemy.

 

Man is corruptible because of his old sin nature; man is mortal because of death; man is perishable because of the human body. All the same, images of men who exercise great power and authority in life are set up and worshipped. Many countries had some form of bird-worship since birds have the power and ability to soar like the hawk and the eagle etc. The bull was worshiped for his power in ancient Egypt and Crete. Today, the cow is worshipped in India. Snakes and crocodiles were also worshipped in many ancient countries. Today, the monkey and even the rats are worshipped in certain parts of India.

 

There is no excuse for the heathen, the reversionistic unbeliever for he has rejected that which he has had total cognizance—the understanding of God at God-consciousness and the salvation message at gospel hearing. Instant adjustment to the plan of God at salvation is as simple as Ephesians 2:8,9; Acts 16:31. Rejection of Christ as savior is instant maladjustment to the plan of God.    

 

Summary:

 

1. One of the blessings of instant adjustment to the grace of God at salvation is to have a permanent relationship with God.

 

2. On the other hand, to abandon the grace provision of God at salvation is the most awful thing which can happen to any individual.

 

3. The unbeliever in heathenism lives a horrible life and dies miserably only to be followed by eternal condemnation in the eternal Lake of Fire.

 

4. Therefore, there is a sign at the entrance into heathenism for unbeliever reversionism: Abandon all hope, he who enters therein.

 

5. Here, then, is negative volition at the point of gospel hearing with the self-seeking promotion of the self-righteous unbeliever.

 

6. The self-righteous type has inordinate ambition which demands the use of his own arrogance related to his self-righteousness or legalistic modus vivendi.

 

7. Disobedience to the gospel, negative volition at salvation, means obedience to evil and the perpetuation of that maladjustment.

 

8. Such perpetuation of unbeliever reversionism causes the justice of God to adjust to the status quo of the maladjusted, and that means anger an anthropopathism denoting God’s punishment of the unbeliever’s rejection of the gospel in time, and wrath an anthropopathism for God’s judgment of the unbeliever for all eternity. 

 

9. The justice of God is expressed, then, in two anthropopathisms namely anger, the judgment from the justice of God in time on both a personal and national basis; secondly, wrath, the judgment from the justice of God for eternity, the lake of fire. Either the unbeliever will adjust to the integrity of God, or the integrity of God will adjust to him. What the righteousness of God demands, the justice of God executes!

 

10. The extremely self-righteous unbeliever is very difficult to deal with since

he in his mind doesn’t need to hear about a grace solution, a solution for what? I don’t have a problem!

 

11. As long as any person in the world thinks that there is any system of human righteousness, talent, ability, planning or system of works which can satisfy the integrity of God and clings to his system of self-righteousness, whatever it maybe, he has no chance of ever having a relationship with God.

  

12. No human factor, including Jewish self-righteousness, can therefore provide or add anything to salvation adjustment to the integrity of God. The first issue we face in the human race is salvation and there is nothing that we can add to what the grace of God has already provided.

 

13. No Jewish rationalism of being better than the Gentiles will provide salvation or spirituality, or maturity. All the way through this chapter, the Jews are in view and are used as the illustration.  

 

14. Jews and Gentiles are under the condemnation of sin. At birth, each member of mankind is born with a sin nature which was passed down to him in copulation. At the instance of birth, God imputes Adam’s Original Sin to that person and condemns him to the Lake of Fire.

 

Documentation:

 

Romans 5:12. For this reason just as through one man [Adam] the sin [the Sin Nature] entered into the world, and so spiritual death through the sin [Adam’s Original Sin was imputed to the Sin Nature], and so spiritual death spread to all mankind, because all sinned when Adam  sinned [Since we were seminally in Adam when he sinned, we receive the sin nature through his seed and consequently receive the imputation of Adam’s Original Sin].

 

Psalm 51:5. Behold, I [David] was born in iniquity [Adam’s original sin imputed] and in sin I was conceived [sin nature passed down in conception].

 

Romans 5:19. For as through one man’s disobedience [Adam] the many [human race] were made sinners [the imputation of Adam’s Original Sin at birth], even so through the obedience of one [the humanity of Christ], many [those who believe] will be made righteous [imputed righteousness at salvation].