The Gift and Grace of the Sole Metanarrative for Followers of Christ Jesus
A revision to an earlier post...
4 “Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! 5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. 8 You shall also tie them as a sign to your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead. 9 You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Note: My previous post with this title has been removed and revised in this post. The previous post was hurriedly published in an unfinished condition and did not present my views clearly or accurately. My apology to readers.
This article got my attention (click link): “How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?” The article gives a very accurate explanation of the main force behind the American flocking to the European-based World Economic Forum (though Harvard University was its place of origin), to the United Nations, and to the World Health Organization – all based in Geneva. The American flock includes the U.S. elite political class, U.S. corporations, U.S. banks, Wall Street and U.S. financial organizations, U.S. manufacturing organizations, Big Tech, Big Pharma, etc., all by the their CEOs and Boards of Directors with their institutional and wealthy elite stockholders in tow. As a “narrative,” the article offers an explanation of the transition from one form of American political-economy to another so as to better understand the world we live in today.
What has this to do with the topic of “metanarrative”? What’s more, what’s this about gift and grace in regard to the preeminent metanarrative given to Christ-followers in the Deuteronomy passage?
The go-to site for quick and to-the-point definitions, Wikipedia defines metanarrative as “a grand narrative… about historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.” Of course, there are exceptions that lead to any number of rabbit holes of more refined delineation of terms, meaning, context, and specialization. An enticing first step away from the meaning of the article about the American political-economy and about why Americans who determine the political-economy for all of us – the elite political class and the elite class of corporate leaders, is to consider the article’s explanation as having to do with different modes of perception of reality, such as delineation between modernism and post-modernism. But, here is where discretion is the better part of valor. Colossians 2:8 becomes an important warning when thinking about the meaning of the term “metanarrative.” The Biblical warning is this: See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[a] of the world, and not according to Christ.
The metanarrative for the Christ-follower is essentialized in the Nicene Creed. This early Church creed of the Christian faith gives the essentials of the sole metanarrative about the Christian’s identity, the Christ-follower’s place and position in the world, and the sole framework by which Christ-followers discern all things including truth from error. Does this mean that a discussion about political-economy and decisions and actions by leaders are unimportant? No, but as followers of the Lord Jesus, we must be cautious and discerning about how and why we discuss the things of the world. That caution and discernment should make a thoughtful Christian wary of discussing the things we observe and seek to understand without reference to our sole metanarrative.
Hence, what are some reasons why American political and business leaders have flocked to the World Economic Forum - an organization based in Europe that embraces those extreme leftist notions that are contestable and debatable by scholars, scientists, and other intellectuals worldwide? There are many and varied. A few are these:
· Climate change – the WEF embraces climate change as caused by humankind’s industrial and technical progress – the very means which have delivered the benefits of global liberal-capitalism to more people in the world than ever before. The problems and contradictions of global capitalism lie not in the moral use of its world ordering, but in the ignored corruption and refusal to address the contradictions for the benefit of all, if not the many and to regulate and restrain the few who take unfaird and illegal advantage of the contradictions.
· Social control of the global population through Central Banks – the WEF advocates and participates in supporting the development of various social-financial models to institutionalize new controls based on a social credit system similar if not equivalent to the Chinese social credit system. The Chinese social credit system operates by requiring single individual compliance to the establishment’s requirements – political, economic, and social, in order to be able to legally have access to currency to transact for good and services for survival and entertainment. The political-economic entity of the state becomes the final authority and arbiter of an individual’s life in her private and public existence. In this new world order, the global population can be controlled and the number of people allowed to exist globally and in what degree of luxury or deprivation can be managed by a central power. Individual autonomy will be reduced to individual willingness to comply or to not comply and suffer the consequences. The extreme leftist WEF-ers have determined it is better to defend and protect their privileges than work to improve and correct the global system. Because the means of technocratic control seem apparently at hand, it is much easier to do that which insures their privileges than work to solve looming issues.
· The New Political-Economic order – the WEF seeks to influence and bring about a new world order by the agreement and compliance of the leading political and business leaders in all nations throughout the world. Why do the global political and business leaders want this system? What is the incentive for them? It seems clear that the incentive for elite political and business leaders is that they have accepted the extreme left’s beliefs that the world – every aspect of the connected world, must be managed by elite leaders who have been elevated to their positions of rank and privilege by “fate” to use technology and political science to determine what inputs will derive the best outputs to protect their privileges while construction new classes in the population… classes that protects and insures their privileges while allowing the parsing out sparingly certain minimal privileges to others as neccessary.
· The Utopian philosophy as the foundation of the new world order – Due to the imagined and partially successful use and implementation of technocracy over the last 30 years combined with a philosophy of positivist utopianism, which asserts that humans can create and sustain a near perfect existence for “some” and a marginally acceptable existence for the remaining “many” on spaceship “Earth,” the exploitation of the planet’s natural resources and the exponentially increasing human population demand that the new world order be established and operational by 2030. The alternative is that we, the human species on Earth, will find that by our inaction we have put the entire planet in a diminishing point of no return – the problems we, as a species, face will grow beyond our ability to manage with the result that we as a species face extermination from want and incapacities and the entire world will face a slow but unimagined turmoil of degradation and destabilization.
This is one interpretation of why the political and business elite are clamoring for the changed world order of the WEF. The big caveat of this is that individually, each self-promoted and entrepreneurial elite leader coveting the rising hegemony of the WEF has determined that she or he will be included in the small group of the privileged class – they will be the new aristocrats in new world feudalism of technocracy.
The WEF narrative will continue to grow in influence, though some rhetorical tweaks can be expected in order to marginalize serious objections that have to be enfolded into the grand narrative of the new world order. In the crucial stages of disbursement and acceptance, and while the mass population still has the power to prevent the implementation from being established, the WEF grand narrative will be streamlined to obfuscate, confuse, deceive, and outright lie as is being done today to make the WEF metanarrative established as the new world order.
Our sole grand narrative – our only metanarrative is the Old Testament shema coupled with the New Testament testimony that Israel’s and the world’s Messiah has come and will come again, as it is written in John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. This sole metanarrative is the gift and grace for the believer and follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.