Nicholas Lewis

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

For weeks we have been discussing absolutes, relativisms, idolatries, and man’s failed attempts to produce an all-encompassing system for human flourishing. Time and again, men have tried to create grand systems for society that only ended in hardship, oppression, enslavement, and loss of life.

The political relativisms and idolatries of this world only ever consider that which can be seen and felt, that which is here and now. They  completely neglect what humanity really needs:  a system that goes beyond mere earthly concerns to include that which is transcendent, that which is eternal, and that which possesses ultimate power.

Where can humanity turn for such a system?

Only the Kingdom System of our God Jehovah makes God supreme, embraces and engages our transcendent relationship with Him, and allows humanity to engage in the power that it delivers for life now and life forever. This results in total and complete freedom.

Only when humanity believes in, accepts, and follows His way of doing and His way of being right do we find total and complete freedom. Only then do we enjoy the liberty to live life successfully. The only place on this planet where corruption, greed, and evil cannot exist is in His Kingdom and in His Citizens who pursue His way of doing and being right.

The Kingdom System of our God is our master light for all our seeing and for all our knowing.

Simply stated, Man is made for the Kingdom System of our God, and the Kingdom System of our God is made for man. Nothing else will fit.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Socialism and Humanism addressed only the mundane (earthy, secular) things of life and they totally ignored, completely dismissed, and totally removed and eliminated our eternal, transcendent relationship with a higher power. The power that man was designed to function under, and that man cannot live without, and is not optional for our success. The ideas themselves become gods (idols) and often ultimately garner absolute power and total control over humanity.

Fascism made the state supreme, Naziism made the race supreme, and Communism, Socialism, and Humanism supposedly make man/humanity supreme. In the end, they all made humanity a slave to a very few who gained control and had the power to rule and to destroy their followers at will.  Genocide is always a result of man’s totalitarian systems. They eliminate whoever disagrees with them and with their methods. Their systems and methods have always resulted in no freedom at all for their enslaved participants.

Next week we will look at God’s solution — the correct choice to the alternative systems of the world.

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Religion, government, and all the spheres of culture in our world are full of relativisms that are presented as absolutes. In reality, most of their doctrines and their positions are only relativisms disguised as absolutes. Their action and their reaction to the Kingdom System of our God clearly identifies their false doctrines and their incorrect positions. Many present their ideas as a totalitarian, all-inclusive and all-encompassing system. They are only relativisms manufactured by man for man, primarily to control other men. As Dr. E. Stanley Jones said, “they are half-gods.”

Not a single totalitarian system that has ever been offered to humanity, other than the Kingdom of our God, has survived when accepted and inaugurated by humanity.  They all have eventually exposed and even created their own corruption, and they all end in slavery, servitude, and complete loss of freedom for humanity. They have failed humanity as a system that provides an absolute, unshakeable method for life.

Next week we will look further into these “half-god” totalitarian systems, and see their utter untenability — especially when compared with the Kingdom System of our God.

JANUARY 27, 2023

Last week, we defined and discussed the concept of relativisms — beliefs that may be accurate, but their greater value is in their relationship to another reality that is absolute and that does not change. This week we turn our attention to absolutes.

To function and to operate effectively and efficiently on our time journey, we must have, and we must operate from, a stable and an unchanging platform. A platform that is absolute, exists by itself independently, and does not require validation from anyone or from anything else.

This is what we are to use to work down from the relativisms in our life. We gain understanding and guidance to correctly address all of the relativisms that we face continually.

Our King, the unchanging Person of Jesus Christ and His unchanging Word, and the unshakeable Kingdom realm of our God are the absolutes that humanity is provided for their use in addressing and in evaluating all of the relativisms on the earth.  When we build our lives upon the unshakeable Kingdom and the unchanging Person of Christ, we have a transcendent vantage point from which to make choices, live our lives, discern the validity of the relativisms we face, and understand our reality.

JANUARY 20, 2023

What are relativisms?

Relativisms are beliefs that may be accurate, but their greater value is in their relationship to another reality that is absolute and that does not change.

There are many relativisms. Most of the doctrines of organized religion are relative in their relationship and their impact to the Kingdom of God, which is absolute.

Sadly, religion has failed to teach and to display the Kingdom, and have chosen to base their understandings of who God is and how we relate to Him on doctrines that are at best relativisms only. 

We must decide their accuracy and their value arbitrarily. We must have an absolute and unshakeable standard for our reference to determine their value in relationship to the absolutes that we are provided.

Next week we will discuss the all-important antithesis to this idea, and the anchor of reality: absolutes.