"Christianity Based On Certainty!"

Bernard Goldberg, award winning veteran CBS reporter, exposes in his best-selling book "Bias" (a behind the scenes look at major broadcast and journalistic media) the all-pervading anti-Christian bigotry engaged in by most reporters and staff as a matter of routine.

The same closed-minded prejudice engulfs the major houses in the publishing industry, especially textbook publishers. After all, it decidedly wouldn't do to have school children hearing about spiritual experiences!

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rules that America's Pledge of Allegiance cannot be recited in public schools because some parents might choose to feel bothered by their children hearing the words "in God we trust." The U.S. Supreme Court rules that while some displays of the Ten Commandments are acceptable, others are outlawed because they might be seen as favorable to the idea of religious faith.

Faith is no longer "politically correct."

Everywhere we see elitists who like to call themselves "liberal" and "progressive" sneering at George Bush's faith-based Presidency and his attempts to listen to spiritual guidance.

Mocking faith, belittling faith, depreciating faith, taunting faith, ridiculing faith, insulting faith ... this is the game plan of Americans who have chosen the political state as their object of worship and the meager findings of science as their "best available" guide.

In today's atmosphere so darkened with anti-faith air pollution, it's not hard to understand why young people say to Christians, "Show me proof! It's stupid to accept anything on faith!"

Faith isn't cool these days.

The widespread antagonism against faith is largely a result of extensive evangelizing of Marxist philosophy in college classrooms. "The Marxist worldview is based on a materialist understanding of life. In popular jargon, 'materialism' means an excessive love of material things. But philosophically, 'materialism' means that the only reality is matter, that there is no reality beyond the material world." --Dennis Prager (The Rejection of Materialism: The Case for Judeo-Christian Values, Part XXI)

So-called "mainline" Christian churches, Episcopal Church (USA), Presbyterian Church (USA), United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, all of which plead with us in an apologetic manner to "have faith," continue to dwindle in membership and popularity. Meanwhile, spiritual renewal movements and charismatic Christianity are growing rapidly by offering an undeniable experience, an intimate personal proof about which there can be no doubt.

Faith no longer holds a widespread attraction. But people continue to respond to (and will always respond to) certainty.

Enter Jesus with his new revelation: A Course in Miracles.

Jesus gives us His new course for the 21st Century affirming that certainty is within us and certainty must be our foundation.

"To know is to be certain. Uncertainty merely means that you DON'T know. Knowledge is power BECAUSE it is certain, and certainty is strength." --Jesus (ACIM Text: Chap. 3 Section III)

In His new course Jesus explains the Bible and emphasizes that Christianity must be based on certainty.

"The Bible instructs you to 'KNOW thyself,' or BE CERTAIN. Certainty is always of God.... 'Fear God and keep His commandments' becomes 'Know God and accept His certainty.' " --Jesus(ACIM Text: Chap. 3 Section III)

Jesus asks Christians to exhibit His certainty, extend His certainty, and share not our faith but His certainty, which is total love.

"To think like God is to share His certainty of what you are. And to CREATE like Him is to share the perfect love He shares with YOU." --Jesus (ACIM Text: Chap. Chap. 7 Section I)

Ask inside and listen to your heart. Do you merely have faith that God is reality? Or are you certain?

Naturally there is resistance among Christians to abandon their long-used faith language and replace it with certainty language. After all, didn't Paul mention faith over 100 times in his letters which became part of our Holy Bible?

But what if Paul when he is interpreted as using our word "faith" is actually meaning certainty? "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1) Wouldn't you say that "substance" and "evidence" are Paul's way of referring to our inner certainty?

Adherents of a particular non-Christian religion popular among Hollywood stars have admitted to themselves an important fact: people are attracted to certainty and naturally enjoy feeling certain. Notice how close this excerpt from Scientology echoes the words of Jesus:

"Under Scientology we group those things of which we can be certain and only those things of which we can be certain. Knowledge itself is certainty; knowledge is not data. (Knowingness means the capability to know and to ascertain within oneself truth.) And knowingness itself is certainty. Sanity is certainty, providing only that that certainty does not fall beyond the conviction of another when he views it." --Qualified Training

Christians enjoy an infinitely more solid foundation than Scientology, but are being asked by the Holy Spirit to recognize the need to build a Christian Certainty Movement. As we join in spirit to build such a movement, influencing each other to be honest with how certain we really are, and changing our language from faith language to certainty language, we will be constructing an unsinkable ark which will help Christianity ride out the would-be capsizing waves of popular philosophical materialism.

Of course changing our language will not convert the elitist media, elitist entertainers, elitist politicians, elitist judges, and elitist educators. Jesus himself would laugh at such a fantasy. Jesus knows that these prodigal sons and daughters who have exiled themselves to the land of egoist arrogance have already started their campaign against certainty itself.

"The campaign against certainty is merely the philosophical veneer for an attempt to politically marginalize and intellectually disenfranchise believers. Instead of arguing the merits of any issue, secularists are trying to win the argument by default on the grounds that the other side displays unhealthy certainty or, even worse, unseemly religiosity.

"Why this panic about certainty and people who display it? It is not just, as conventional wisdom has it, that liberals think the last election was lost because of a bloc of benighted Evangelicals. It is because we are almost four years from 9/11 and four years of moral certainty, and firm belief is about all that secular liberalism can tolerate." --Charles Krauthammer (Time Magazine Online Edition Wednesday January 1, 2005)

There is no question that the campaign against certainty will heat up. But unlike the fierce resistance against faith, fighting against certainty can only be a losing campaign. The elitist argument that certainty is foolish because scientifically speaking nothing is certain makes no sense to the common man. The common man feels inside that there is something certain, even if he hasn't yet identified what it is.

Together we can speed up the implosion of the egoist anti-certainty campaign and move Christianity to the foundation asked for by Jesus. Please pass this message on to everyone you know who is a Christian pastor, minister, priest, teacher, or active lay person. Perhaps join our Christian Certainty Movement eGroup. But most importantly, every possible moment look inside to the depths of your heart and soul, to the depths of your being, and feel the joy of truth: