COSMIC THINKING, COSMIC PANACEAS, AND WORLDLINESS

COSMIC THINKING

Cosmic Thinking is the mental attitude of the person residing inside Satan’s power system (i.e., cosmic system), inculcated with the doctrines of demons, and thereby living a life based on human viewpoint as opposed to divine viewpoint.

Cosmic thinking defines the mentality and lifestyle of the unbeliever in rejection of the Gospel and the believer with negative volition toward Bible doctrine. Cosmic thinking enslaves man to his own bad decisions and arrogant notions. It perpetuates sin, human good, and evil in the devil’s world.

COSMIC PANACEAS

Cosmic Panaceas is Satan-inspired philosophies and agendas upheld as cure-all remedies for the complex problems of mankind.

Utopian ideals such as durable peace, human equality, and perfect environment are unattainable in the devil’s world. But to foolish man they are panaceas—guaranteed cures for unhappiness, poverty, injustice, deprivation. These oversimplified solutions are commonly molded into agendas to redistribute wealth, clean up the environment, disarm the nations, and legislate morality and welfare, all of which oppose the plan of God while professing to help mankind. Cosmic panaceas promise everything that cannot be fulfilled. Their very nature demands a full mobilization of arrogant self-righteousness, which must finally resort to coercion, confiscation, and destruction of freedom to impose its false standards.

WORLDLINESS

Worldliness is a mental attitude based on human standards.

Worldliness describes the thinking of someone who resides inside the cosmic system, controlled by the sin nature and influenced by Satan’s sphere of power, as opposed to the thinking of someone controlled by the Holy Spirit and living inside God’s power system (i.e., the divine dynasphere). It is sometimes described as humanism.

The world is the first great enemy of the believer, because “the world [kosmos]” designates a system devoid of God’s power and truth (John 15:19; 1 John 2:15–16). Contrary to the assumptions of legalistic Christians, worldliness does not consist of violating cultural taboos such as gambling, carousing, provocative dancing, drinking, or any other behavior that personally shocks certain people. Such activities might sometimes reflect poor judgment or even sinfulness, but they are not the essence of what the Bible describes as worldly. Worldliness is not a system of pleasures or overt human activity but rather a way of thinking in the soul. It is entirely human viewpoint. Worldliness includes everything from slavery to circumstances and the details of life, to humanistic ideologies like socialism, to eyes on self or other people, to attempted spirituality through legalism and human good.

Believers are commanded, “do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind [renovation of your thinking]” (Romans 12:2a). Conformity to the world is thinking and living according to the standards of the cosmic system. Renovated thinking refers to a mentality operating on divine viewpoint, a soul filled with metabolized doctrine. In his epistle to the Colossians, Paul reiterates the doc - trine of divine viewpoint versus human viewpoint by telling those in Christ to “set your mind on the things above [the absolute truths of God], not on the things that are on earth” (Col. 3:1–2). The believer without Bible doctrine can be nothing but worldly, for he has no standard of thinking from God that allows him to objectively evaluate himself, make accurate application to life, and thereby glorify God.