"Healthy Environment" = "Healthy Person." by Dean Gotcher

"Healthy Environment" = "Healthy Person."
(Personal note.)

by
Dean Gotcher

"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:16

"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me." "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Romans 7:18-21, 24

If you can 'create' a "healthy environment" you can 'create' a "healthy person." This is the lie, i.e., the great deception: that man can become "good," i.e., "God" (only God is "good") by doing "good" works—being raised in a "good," i.e., "God," i.e., "healthy" environment being the requirement. In this way of 'reasoning,' that a "healthy environment" can 'create' a "healthy person," "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" remains in tact since all that man can work with is that which is "in the world" and "of the world," making himself God, i.e., "good," i.e., "right" in his eyes.

"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 16:25

"And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." 1 John 2:16

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 7:21

Man's concept of "good," i.e., "right," i.e., "healthy" is pleasure, i.e., "lust," i.e., that which is "of the world," i.e., "What can I get out of this situation and/or person for my 'self.'" God's is Holiness, i.e., doing the Father's will, with goodness, i.e., righteousness coming only from Him—righteousness being imputed by Christ, though faith in Him ("good" being a work of God himself, i.e., God's work in and through man, i.e., by the work of His Son, Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit). A "healthy environment" does not a "healthy person" make, unless your definition of "healthy" is "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," i.e., that which is "of the world," which "is not of the Father." In that case the heart of man is unchanged, resulting in, no matter how "good" the environment, the deceitfulness and wickedness of man's heart prevailing.

"The heart is deceitful above all things [thinking pleasure is the standard for "good" instead of doing the father's/Father's will, i.e., having to set aside your carnal desires ("lusts") of the 'moment' that the world is stimulating, i.e., having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline your "self" in order (as in "old" world order) to do the father's/Father's will, i.e., in order to do right and not wrong according the father's/Father's established commands, rules, facts, and truth], and desperately wicked [hating the father's/Father's authority that "gets in the way," i.e. that prevents, i.e., inhibits or blocks you from enjoying the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' that the world stimulates]: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9

You can not see your hate of restraint as being evil, i.e., "wicked" ("desperately wicked") because your love of pleasure, i.e., "lust," i.e., "self interest" (getting in the way) blinds you to it. Like a drug, pleasure (dopamine emancipation), i.e., "self interest," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," i.e., that which the world stimulates blinds you to your hatred toward restraint, i.e., hatred toward the father's/Father's authority, i.e., blinds you to your "wickedness" which is being expressed toward those who are preventing (or trying to prevent) you from having access to the drug, i.e., to pleasure (dopamine emancipation) when you are doing wrong, disobeying, sinning—making you not just wicked but "desperately wicked" in your effort to attain it, keep it, or get it back. All man can do is 'justify' his "self" when he 'creates' a "healthy environment" in order to 'create' a "healthy person." No environment he 'creates' can resolve the human heart, i.e., his love of pleasure, i.e., his "lusting" after the carnal things of the world (including the affirmation, i.e., the praises of men) and his hate of restraint, i.e., his hate of the father's/Fathers' authority that gets in the way.

"To enjoy the present reconciles us to the actual." (Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right')

In other words, Karl Marx, et al. was saying, it is not the Father, reconciling you to His "self" (by faith in Him) who is "actual," it is you 'justifying' your "self," i.e., your "lusts," i.e., "human nature" before others, "reconciling" your "self" "to the world"—know as "self-actualization."

"When a man has finally reached the point where he does not think he knows it better than others, that is when he has become indifferent to what they have done badly and he is interested only in what they have done right, then peace and affirmation have come to him." (G. F. W. Hegel, in Carl Friedrich, The Philosophy of Hegel)

In other words, your "lust of the flesh," "lust of the eyes," and "pride of life," i.e., "human nature"—being recognized and 'justified' by others as being "right"—brings you and them "peace and affirmation." Anyone standing in the way, i.e., judging you and them for being "wrong," i.e., evil, i.e., wicked, i.e., not "good" becomes wrong, i.e., evil, i.e., wicked, i.e., not "good," needing to be placed in a "good," i.e., "right," i.e., "healthy" environment, learning to 'justify' their and your "lust of the flesh," "lust of the eyes," and "pride of life," i.e., "human nature" in order to become "good," i.e., "right," i.e., "healthy" or removed—'creating' "worldly peace and socialist harmony" in the process. In man's effort to 'create' a "healthy environment," in order to 'create' a "healthy person," all he can 'create' is an "environment" and a man who is 'liberated' from the Father's authority so he can do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., "lust" without having a guilty conscience (which the father's/Father's authority engenders), i.e., so he can do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., "lust" with impunity, i.e., with affirmation, i.e., with the approval of men, dying in his sins. Instead of being saved from judgment (damnation) for his sins (God loves all, but, being perfect, judges all for their thoughts and actions—"every one of us shall give account of himself to God." Romans 14:12) in man's creation of a "healthy environment" in order to create a "healthy person" all he can do is save his "self," i.e., "the lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes," and "the pride of life" from the Father, i.e., from the Father's authority, "preventing someone who KNOWS from filling the empty space [the eternal present, i.e., the "here and now," i.e., what "seems to" be right. There is no judgment, i.e., no wrong in the "empty space," i.e., in the imagination of the heart. Left to its "self" there is only man's carnal desires, i.e., "lusts" of the 'moment' that the world is stimulating—stimulus-response]." (Wilfred Bion, A Memoir of the Future) In focusing upon the "here and now," i.e., living "in the 'moment,'" i.e., in the "eternal present" (in the "empty space") all man can see is what brings him pleasure, rejecting the "there-and-then," i.e., the father's/Father's authority, i.e., the guilty conscience (fear of judgment) for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning, i.e., for "lusting" that gets in the way.

"Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." "For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak." John 5:19, 30; 12:47-50

"Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." Hebrews 12:5-11

"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Matthew 12:50

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15

"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9

"It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6

"And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts." Galatians 5:24

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8, 9

The dialectic formula goes like this: "healthy environment" = "healthy person," i.e., "stimulus-response," i.e., "all that is in the world," i.e., "the lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes," and "the pride of life" is all there is. This is the only outcome that the religion of "healthy environment" = "healthy person" can initiate and sustain. If what all men have in common, i.e., "the lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes," and "the pride of life," i.e., "human nature" and the world that stimulates it is all there is, then only that which is "of the world," i.e., man's carnal nature is "good." In other words, man can not create a "healthy environment" apart from his carnal nature, i.e., his "lust" for pleasure and the world that stimulates it, 'justifying' his "self," i.e., "the lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes," and "the pride of life," calling it (his "self," i.e., "lust," i.e., pleasure) "good" in the process. Adding the Word of God to the formula only makes it more seductive, deceptive, manipulative, making God's Word subject to the opinions, i.e., the carnal desires, i.e., the "self interests," i.e., "the lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes," and "the pride of life" of men ("as above, so below").

"No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Luke 16:13 Only God can change you. God alone.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8, 9

"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." James 4:4

"And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16:15

"The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil." Psalms 36:1-4

Your "creating" a "healthy," i.e., a "good" environment in order to 'create' a "healthy," i.e., a "good" person only makes you (and them) God, i.e., "good" in their eyes. It is only God (who alone is good) who can 'change' a person's heart. The environment is not the issue. The heart is. Man's "healthy environment" agenda only 'justifies' his carnal nature, i.e., his "lust of the flesh," his "lust of the eyes," and his "pride of life," i.e., his heart, making his "self" God, i.e., "good" in his eyes, wanting others to 'justify' him (to affirm his "lust of the flesh," his "lust of the eyes," and his "pride of life"), thus making his "self" God, i.e., "good" in their eyes.

"Experience is, for me, the highest authority." "Neither the Bible nor the prophets, neither the revelations of God can take precedence over my own direct experience." (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

You preach, teach, and discuss the Word of God, accepting it as is, by faith. In other words: God changes you via your repentance and faith in Him, i.e., your giving up, i.e., your giving your "self" to him—denying your "self," picking up your cross (enduring the rejection of men) daily, and following Him, doing the Father's will. You dialogue your carnal desires of the 'moment' that the world (the situation) is stimulating. In other words: you change your "self" by 'justifying' your "self" ("goodness" lies within you, just waiting to be 'liberated' via the "right" environment aka conditions), negating God's judgment upon you in your thoughts and actions. The soul knows by being told, engendering faith. The flesh knows by "sense experience," negating faith.

"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17

"But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Hebrews 11:6

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1

When you dialogue, i.e., share your opinion of the Word of God with others ("I feel," "I think") you make the Word of God subject to your "self," i.e., to your "lust of the flesh," your "lust of the eyes," and your "pride of life" making your "self" God, i.e., "good" in your eyes, wanting others to perceive you as being God, i.e., "good" as well. You are not "good," i.e, God "in and of your self" and can never become "good," i.e., God. There is no "environment" you can 'create' that can change that fact. The father's/Father's authority, where a child/person must humble, deny, die to, control, discipline his "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to the father's/Father's established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the father's/Father's will is based upon 1) preaching commands and rules to be obeyed as given, teaching facts and truth to be accepted as is, by faith, and discussing any command, rule, fact, or truth being preached and/or taught that is not understood (at authority's discretion: providing they deem it necessary, have time, those under authority are able to understand, and are not questioning, challenging, defying, disregarding, attacking authority), 2) blessing and/or rewarding those who obey and do things right, 3) correcting and/or chastening those who do things wrong and/or disobey (that they might learn to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline their "self" and do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth), and 4) casting out or expelling any who question, challenge, defy, disregard, attack authority. In such an environment all must chose to obey or disobey, i.e., either do their will, i.e., dialogue with their "self," 'justifying' their "self" or do the father's/Father's will, discussing with their "self" what is right and what is wrong according to the father's/Father's established commands, rules, facts, and truth. In discussion you must suspend, as upon a cross your "self," i.e., your carnal desires, i.e., your "lust of the flesh," your "lust of the eyes," and your "pride of life" in order to hear and receive the truth. In dialogue the father's/Father's authority is negated since in dialogue you must suspend, as upon a cross any command, rule, fact, or truth, i.e., the father's/Father's authority that gets in the way of dialogue, i.e., that gets in the way of the 'justification of "self," i.e., that gets in the way of "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life." Apart from God's Word (God's work in man) all man has is his opinion of what a "healthy environment" is—in which to 'create' the "healthy person"—'justifying' his "self," i.e., his "lust of the flesh," "lust of the eyes," and "pride of life," i.e., "all that is of the world" (even doing so in the name of the Lord, deceiving himself and others who trust in and follow him).

"Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." Jeremiah 17:5

"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is." Jeremiah 17:5, 7

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Proverb. 3: 5-6

The Protestant Reformation was grounded upon this truth: unless the Lord change the heart, and he alone, no change can taken place.

"We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous [in Christ], we do righteous deeds." (Luther's Works: Vol. 31, Career of the Reformer: I, p. 12)

"This theologian of glory, however, learns from Aristotle that the object of the will is the good and the good is worthy to be loved, while the evil, on the other hand, is worthy to hate." (Luther's Works: Vol. 31, Career of the Reformer: I, p. 57) When man defines "good," God becomes subject to "human nature." Evil, i.e., what is to be hated therefore becomes anyone who gets in the way of God, i.e., "human nature," i.e., the will of man, i.e., "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life."

"... with the assistance of the mastermind Aristotle, they decree further that the soul is 'essentially the form of the human body' [the cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor domains] [which] make[s] it possible for them to hold fast to the human dreams and the doctrines of devils while they trample upon and destroy faith and the teaching of Christ." (Luther's Works: Vol. 32, Career of the Reformer: II, p.78)

"Here (Col. 2:8) it is clear that Paul wants Christ alone to be taught and heard. Who does not see how the universities read the Bible? ... it has been so bothersome to read and respond to this filth." (Luther's Works: Vol. 32, Career of the Reformer: II, p.259)

"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." Colossians 2:8

"For philosophy does not know the efficient cause for certain, nor likewise the final cause, because it posits no other final cause than the peace of this life, and does not know that the efficient cause is God the creator. Indeed, concerning the formal cause which they call soul, there is not and never will be agreement among the philosophers. For so far as Aristotle defines it as the first driving force of the body which as the power to live, he too wished to deceive readers and hearers. [foot note: Aristotle On the Soul, II 4, "But the soul is the cause and first principle of the living body. The words 'cause' and 'first principle' are used in several separate senses. But the soul is equally the cause in each of the three senses to which we have referred; for it is the cause in the sense of being that from which motion is derived, in the sense of the purpose or final cause, and as being the substance of all bodies that have souls [making all mankind one, the basis of Gnosticism]." W.S. (trans.), Aristotle's On the Soul (Cambridge, Mass. 1935), p.87] Nor is there any hope that man in this principal part can himself know what he is until he sees himself in his origin which is God [We can not know who we really are apart from God, who created us, who alone is good.]." (Luther's Works: Vol. 34, Career of the Reformer: IV, p.138)

"In vain does one fashion a logic of faith, a substitution brought about without regard for limit and measure." (Luther's Works: Vol. 31, Career of the Reformer: I, p. 12)

"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions [Gr, antithesis] of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith." 1 Timothy 6:20, 21

"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;" "Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." Romans 1:21, 22, 28, 32

Let no man deceive you with vain words [words you want to hear, i.e., words that 'justify' your "self," i.e., your carnal desires of the 'moment' that the world is stimulating]: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them." Ephesians 5:6, 7

"The sophists have imposed tyranny and bondage upon our freedom to such a point that we must not resist that twice accursed Aristotle ["healthy environment" = "healthy person"], but are compelled to submit. Shall we therefore be perpetually enslaved and never breath in Christian liberty, nor sigh from out of this Babylon for our scriptures and our home?" (Luther's Works: Vol. 32, Career of the Reformer: II, p.217)

"The sophists, nevertheless, rise proudly up, hold their ears, close their eyes, and turn away their heart just so that they may fill all ears with their human words, and alone may occupy the stage so that no one will bark against their assertion[s] ... The word of man is sacred and to be venerated, but God's word is handed over to whores ... the meaning of sin ... is dependent on the arbitrary choice of the sophists." (Luther's Works: Vol. 32, Career of the Reformer: II, p.216) Question the use of psychology, i.e., dialogue, i.e., "the lust of the flesh," "the lust of the eyes," and "the pride of life" in the "church" today and you will experience excommunication without writ.

"Miserable Christians, whose words and faith still depend on the interpretations of men and who expect clarification from them! This is frivolous and ungodly. The Scriptures are common to all, and are clear enough in respect to what is necessary for salvation and are also obscure enough for inquiring minds ... let us reject the word of man." (Luther's Works: Vol. 32, Career of the Reformer: II, p.217)

"My advice has been that a young man avoid scholastic philosophy and theology like the very death of his soul." (Luther's Works: Vol. 32, Career of the Reformer: II, p.258)

"I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell." (Luther's Works: Vol. 1, The Christian in Society: p. 207)

"I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt." (Luther's Works: Vol. 1, The Christian in Society: p. 207)

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:3, 4

Facilitators of 'change,' i.e., psychologists, i.e., behavioral "scientists," i.e., "group psychotherapists," i.e., Marxists (Transformational Marxists)—all being the same in method or formula—are using the dialoguing of opinions to a consensus (affirmation) process, i.e., dialectic 'reasoning' ('reasoning' from/through the students "feelings" of the 'moment,' i.e., from/through their "lust" for pleasure and their hate of restraint, in the "light" of their desire for group approval, i.e., affirmation and fear of group rejection) in the "group grade," "safe zone/space/place," "Don't be negative, be positive," soviet style, brainwashing (washing the father's/Father's authority from the children's thoughts and actions, i.e., "theory and practice," negating their having a guilty conscience, which the father's/father's authority engenders, for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning in the process—called "the negation of negation" since the father's/Father's authority and the guilty conscience, being negative to the child's carnal nature, is negated in dialogue—in dialogue, opinion, and the consensus process there is no father's/Father's authority), inductive 'reasoning' ('reasoning' from/through the students "feelings," i.e., their natural inclination to "lust" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment'—dopamine emancipation—which the world stimulates, i.e., their "self interest," i.e., their "sense experience," selecting "appropriate information"—excluding, ignoring, or resisting, i.e., rejecting any "inappropriate" information, i.e., established command, rule, fact, or truth that gets in the way of their desired outcome, i.e., pleasure—in determining right from wrong behavior), "Bloom's Taxonomy," "affective domain," French Revolution (Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité) classroom "environment" in order (as in "new" world order) to 'liberate' children from parental authority, i.e., from the father's/Father's authority system (the Patriarchal Paradigm)—seducing, deceiving, and manipulating them as chickens, rats, and dogs, i.e., treating them as natural resource ("human resource") in order to convert them into 'liberals,' socialists, globalists, so they, 'justifying' their "self" before one another, can do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., "lust" with impunity.

"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken." Jeremiah 6:16, 17

Home schooling material, co-ops, conferences, etc., are joining in the same praxis, fulfilling Immanuel Kant's as well as Georg Hegel's, Karl Marx's, and Sigmund Freud's agenda of using the pattern or method of Genesis 3:1-6, i.e., "self" 'justification,' i.e., dialectic (dialogue) 'reasoning," i.e., 'reasoning' from/through your "feelings," i.e., your carnal desires of the 'moment' which are being stimulated by the world (including your desire for approval from others, with them affirming your carnal nature) in order to negate Hebrews 12:5-11, i.e., the father's/Father's authority, i.e., having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline your "self" in order to do the father's/Father's will, negating Romans 7:14-25, i.e., your having a guilty conscience when you do wrong, disobey, sin, thereby negating your having to repent before the father/Father for your doing wrong, disobedience, sins—which is the real agenda.

"And for this cause [because men, as "children of disobedience," 'justify' their "self," i.e., 'justify' their love of "self" and the world, i.e., their love of the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' (dopamine emancipation) which the world stimulates over and therefore against the Father's authority] God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [that pleasure is the standard for "good" instead of doing the Father's will]: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth [in the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ], but had pleasure in unrighteousness [in their "self" and the pleasures of the 'moment,' which the world stimulates]." 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12