The Interlocking System of Arrogance 4th Ed by Dr. Frank P. Ferraro - HTML preview

Arrogance & Living The LIE . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..994

Gate #80 – The Arrogance of Pseudo Spirituality . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .996

The Breath of the Spiritual Life . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..997

Spirituality vs Emotionalism . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .997

Distortions of Spirituality . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .998

Spirituality by Relativity . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1000

Spirituality by Ecstatics . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1000

Gate #81 – The Arrogance Regarding Prayer . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1001

Malfunction of Prayer . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1001

Gate #82 – The Arrogance of Idolatry . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1002

Entrance into Idolatry . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1003

Substitution & Despondency in Idolatry . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1010

Modern Idolatry . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. ..1012

Ritual vs Reality . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1014

Idolatry & Love . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1014

Idolatry & Emotion . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .1015

Idolatry & Freedom . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1016

Idolatry & Psychosis . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1018

Results of Idolatry . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. ..1018

Recovery from Idolatry . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .1022

Gate #83 – The Arrogance of Legalism . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1023

Moral Degeneracy the Result of Legalism . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1028

Gate #84 – The Arrogance of Religion . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1030

Gate #85 – The Arrogance of Denominationalism . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1036

Gate #86 – The Arrogance Involving Dormant Faculties . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1039

Development, Effects and Dangers of Dormant Faculties . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1040

The Grace of God vs Dormant Faculties . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1045

Results of Dormant Faculty Development . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1048

The Solution to Arrogance . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .1054

The Escape . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1055

Recovery from Arrogance . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1058

Orientation to the Christian Way of Life . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1058

Solution to National Arrogance . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1060

Conclusions . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. ..1063

The Fragmented Life . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1065

Recovery from the fragmented life: . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1066

Introduction to Arrogance Reference Material . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1067

40 Divine Assets for the Spiritual Life . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1067

39 Irrevocable Assets . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1067

1 Revocable Asset . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1070

The 10 Problem Solving Devices . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1072

#1 – Rebound Procedure . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .1072

#2 – Filling of God the Holy Spirit . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .1072

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#3 – Faith Rest Drill . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1072

#4 – Grace Orientation . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1072

#5 – Bible Doctrine Orientation . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1072

#6 – Personal Sense of Destiny . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1072

#7 – Personal Love for God . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1072

#8 – Impersonal / Unconditional Love for Mankind . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1073

#9 – Sharing the Happiness of God . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .1073

#10 – Occupation with the Person of The Lord Jesus, The Christ . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1073

Problem Solving Devices on the Forward Line of Tr

d Line of T oops . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1073

The Problem Solving Devices & The Gratitude Gauge . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1074

The Divine Dynasphere . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1074

Gate #1 – Filling of God the Holy Spirit . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1074

Gate #2 – Basic Christian Modus Operandi . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1075

Gate #3 – The Authority Envelope – Teachability

Gate #3 – The Authority Envelope – T

. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1075

Gate #4 – Orientation Envelope . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1075

Gate #5 – Advanced Christian Modus Operandi – Basic Spiritual Momentum . .. .. .. .1075

Gate #6 – Integrity Envelope – of Virtue . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1075

Gate #7 – Testing Envelope

Gate #7 – T

. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1076

Gate #8 – Maturity Envelope – Execution of the Protocol Plan of God .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. . . . . . . .1076

The Edification Complex of the Soul . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .1076

Foundation . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1077

1st Floor . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1077

2nd Floor . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1077

3rd Floor . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1077

4th Floor . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1077

5th Floor . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1077

6th Floor . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1078

7th Floor . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1078

8th Floor . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1078

Four Spiritual Mechanics of the Protocol Plan of God . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .1078

Grace Apparatus for Perception – Operation Z . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1079

4 Rs of Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine . .1079

Malfunction of the Grace Apparatus for Perception . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. ..1080

Grace Apparatus & Operation Z . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1081

Faith Rest Drill (5 stages) . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1081

Stage #1 – Faith Perception . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1081

Stage #2 – Claiming Promises . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1081

Stage #3 – Adding Supportive Doctrinal Principles . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1082

Stage #4 – Forming Bible Doctrine Rationales . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1082

Stage #5 – Reaching Bible Doctrinal Conclusions . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1082

Reversionism . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1082

Definition of Reversionism . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1082

Preliminary Negative Volition toward Bible Doctrine . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1083

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Reaction and Distraction . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1083

Frantic Search for Happiness . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1083

Operation Boomerang . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1083

Emotional Revolt of the Soul . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1083

Locked In Negative Volition . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1083

Black Out of the Soul . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1084

Scar Tissue of the Soul . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1084

Reverse Process Reversionism . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1084

The Equation of Hope . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1085

The Equation of Despair . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .1086

10 Unique Factors of the Church Age . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .1087

National Debt . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1089

The Cogs of Carnality . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1090

8 Characteristics of the Plan of God . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1091

Priorities of the Power System of God . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1091

Mandates of the Power System of God . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1092

Doctrinal Rationales . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1093

Cosmic Dynasphere Comparison . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .1095

The 10 Characteristics of Spiritual Adulthood . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1097

Human Soul Functions . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .1099

Passages Concerning Arrogance . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1100

The Reluctant Sparrow . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .1181

Postulates of Divine Integrity . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1182

Glossary . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1186

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Dedication

The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to

the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow, and is a

critic of thoughts and intents of the heart. (Heb 4:12) All Scripture is God-breathed, and is

profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man

of God might be mature, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (2Tim 3:16-17) Study to

show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing

the word of truth. (2Tim. 2:1)

This compilation of doctrinal principles is dedicated to my pastor of some 40+ years, Col. R. B.

Thieme Jr., who, in my humble opinion, is one of, if not the, foremost theologian of the 20th

century and most likely many others as well. Without his consistent undaunted dogmatic

teaching of Bible Doctrine this document would not have been possible and I would most likely

NOT have a clue about the Christian Way of Life. In his physical presence, mental acuity,

supreme dedication to the word of God and overriding dogmatic veracity in the presentation of

the doctrines of the bible he has been a life changing inspiration to myself and literally

hundreds of thousands of other believers throughout the world. I, and these others I am sure,

look forward to the honor of standing in ranks before the Judgment Seat of Jesus Christ as

representatives of the “Berachah Battalion” who have grown up in the Spiritual Life as a result

of his phenomenal grace teaching.

I would like to give special thanks to Pastor Robert Lyon who has been a constant stimulus and

encouragement to me, and a HUGE assistance in putting this and other materials together as a

consolidation of bible doctrine to enable others to assimilate or review.

Also to my good friend Jeffrey D. Laughlin now Face to FACE with The Lord Jesus the Christ,

for his support, review and proof reading of this document and constant stimulation to recall

and review doctrinal principles.

Return to the Table of Contents

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Preface

Before a believer begins to study anything related to bible doctrine he must name or

acknowledge his sins privately to God the Father in order to be forgiven those and all other

sins, to be placed again into fellowship with God and under the teaching and guiding ministry

of God the Holy Spirit. 1st John 1:9 states, “If we confess (name or cite) our (known) sins, He

is faithful and justified to forgive us our (known) sins and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousness (unknown sins).” This will put the believer into fellowship with God and

under the Filling of God the Holy Spirit in a state of Genuine Humility and teachability and

ready to learn Bible Doctrine. If you have never personally expressed faith alone in The Lord

Jesus, The Christ alone the issue is NOT naming your sins. The issue is nonmeritorious faith

alone in Christ alone. “He who believes in the Son has Eternal Life; But he who does not

obey the command to believe in the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on

him.” (John 3:36)

If we are totally objective we must admit to having delusions about some things in life at some

time. For myself there is ONE thing in this life which I have no delusions about, Bible

Doctrine. Were it not for the teaching ministry of Col. R. B. Thieme Jr. and his consistent

clear, concise and DOGMATIC presentation of the doctrines of the bible I would know nothing

of orthodox fundamental biblical doctrine and the Christian Way of Life. I have no delusion

about my knowledge, calling or spiritual gift; and, recognize that I could not do what he and

many other pastors have done, and continue to do, in the constant studying and teaching of

doctrine to their congregations. Over the years I have learned innumerable principles from

these studies by Pastor Thieme. One of the most important things I have learned has been that

“One’s rate of learning MUST exceed one’s rate of FORGETTING” in order to advance in the

Spiritual Life or to maintain your level of spiritual growth. This amplifies the necessity

therefore of constant consistent Post Salvation Epistemological Rehabilitation through Perception,

Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine and ultimately the application of it

to life. It is my desire that this document be a source of consolidated doctrine to fulfill that

very purpose.

This is a compilation from my notes on the principles directly derived from the lessons taught

by Col. R. B. Thieme Jr., in the period from 1970 to the end of his ministry, in the studies

involving the Life of David, Series #631, Psalm 37, Series #366, and the Epistles of 1st, 2nd,

and 3rd John, Series #429, 431, and 433 respectively, the Book to the Ephesians and many

other lessons as well. Within these lessons he delineated a system of failure which MUST, by

all possible means, be avoided by the believer in his advance toward and residence in the

status of Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God. This he named “The INTERLOCKING

System of Arrogance”. In these studies the Colonel delineated 26 entrance points into this

system of failure for the believer. In my review of many years of notes I have taken from the

many lessons he had taught, I have been able to identify many more entry points into the

Interlocking System of Arrogance therefore I have taken some liberty in segregating and

included these in this document. Many of these lessons, having been taught many years prior

to the time of my compiling this document, still, to this day, reflect a degrading condition

which exists in societies in general in history and most emphatically in the society of the

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United States today. All of these were taught after many years of Pastor Thieme serving in his

ministry of Studying and Teaching Orthodox Fundamental Biblical Christian Doctrine according

to an Isagogical, Exegetical and Categorical method. With this in mind be conscious of the fact

that some of the terminology, doctrine and principles presented here will be, at best, obscure

and possibly difficult for the new or infant believer. It took the Colonel many years to come

to the point of being able to extract these doctrines and principles from the original languages

of scripture so it should reasonably require some years of study by the believer under his type

of ministry to be able to understand what is herein contained. To facilitate this understanding

on the part of the reader I have linked segments of this document with others to enable the

reader to review or recall concepts, principles and doctrines while reading. I have also

included a Glossary of terms and sections of fundamental doctrinal principles which I believe

will help in this endeavor.

As one would expect, I have entered some opinions and concepts of my own from what I have

learned from my studies of Pastor Thieme’s teaching of Bible Doctrine in later lessons, from

later years and from life experiences and other current materials regarding ongoing historical

and social trends. I have in addition not kept the numbering or organizational system of the

Entrance Points of the Interlocking System of Arrogance identical to what the Colonel had

listed. The effort here on my part has been to consolidate maximum principles of Arrogance in

order to provide a place where believers might go to acquire or review concise but detailed

concepts related to avoiding the Arrogance pitfall while living as a Christian. However, nothing

contained herein is ever to be construed to have been originated by my personal abilities to

extract doctrines from the scripture. Neither is this to be a substitute for consistent daily study

under one’s right Pastor Teacher in order to develop the momentum needed to reach and hold

on to spiritual maturity, the ultimate objective of the Spiritual Life. I have taken the liberty of

trying to only add pertinent examples of historical and social trends which I see occurring some

time after these lessons elucidated them. If more details and reference passages are desired on

the Arrogance Complex or how these principles were derived the original lessons can be

ordered from R. B. Thieme Jr. Bible Ministries, P.O. Box 460829, Houston Tx. 77056-8829, or by phoning 713-621-3740.

My objective in presenting this compilation of Bible Doctrine does not include nor am I

concerned as to whether it is considered good or bad, liked or disliked as a message but

whether God the Holy Spirit can use the doctrinal content in the life of YOU the believer

reading it. I have nothing to prove to anyone in life and it is only getting the message

through to the YOU, the reader, that is important to me so that there is something for God the

Holy Spirit to use. I have, in fact, attempted to organize these principles into discrete

segments or categories. However, the ARROGANCE COMPLEX is an INTERLOCKING SYSTEM of

mental attitude indifference toward God coupled with the control of soul by the old sin nature

resulting in Sin, the production of Human Good and spiritual destruction from the constant

influence of EVIL (the plan and policy of Satan in ruling this world) on the soul of the believer.

Please! Keep in mind that the Arrogance system of Satan is the fundamental means by which

he controls the human population and rules this world and is all permeating in societies

throughout the world. This manuscript as the 3rd Edition is an ongoing process of extracting

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and delineating points of entry into the Interlocking System of Arrogance and their interaction

with other areas of arrogance. However, these principles resist any attempt at separation into

singular units being intricately interlocked into a system of rejection of God and distraction

from the Christian Way of Life. What the believer studying arrogance must keep in mind is

that once a person dangles his toe into the ocean of arrogance he will be instantly entangled

by the tentacles of the Arrogance Monster and sucked into the system by interlocking with

MANY other Arrogance areas. Also, the principles elucidated by Pastor Thieme in his studies of

Arrogance were taught at varying times with different background context and they must be

related to other parts of the complex with which they readily interact in order that their

meaning in a particular situation is best understood and their propensity to move the believer

deeper and deeper into this complex can be identified by the believer in order that he might

avoid or recover from them. With this in mind understand that there will be duplication and

repetition and one type of arrogance CANNOT be separated and individually studied without

relating it’s impact on and from, very often, several others. However, as the Colonel might

have said on occasion: “REPETITION, REPETITION, REPETITION IS INVALUABLE SO GET USED

TO IT AND ENJOY IT.

Dr. Frank P. Ferraro

Additional Bible Doctrine Compilations Available:

Spiritual Common Sense

Royal Family Honor Code

Propaganda, Brainwashing & Psychological Warfare

Flexibility & Essentials in the Christian Way of Life

To An Understanding of Grace

The Influence of Grace vs The Influence of Evil on the Soul

Counterinsurgency & War and the Christian

The Power System of God – The

Divine Dynasphere

Working for God – How Good is GOOD ENOUGH!

Progression in the Spiritual Life

Other Short Compilations

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Introduction

Christianity & Christian Way of Life

In the approach to the vast subject of Arrogance, the greatest potential failing of the Christian,

there must be an approach based on understanding Creation. To subscribe to the “THEORY”

of evolution is in fact IDIOTIC. Evolution basically says that given enough time, the chair you

are sitting in, the table at which you eat your dinner, GIVEN ENOUGH TIME, can become

YOU! The one who proposed the THEORY in fact did not subscribe to it and only published it

because of peer pressure to do so. To study and comprehend the complexity of one’s

environment, especially one’s own human body invariably will bring the open minded

individual to the conclusion that these things could never have randomly occurred but require a

higher intelligence to have brought them into being and set them all into motion. GOD!

The Creation and Fall of Man

Prehistoric Angelic Creation

In the beginning without a beginning, Eternity Past, (Gen 1:1) God the Father, God the Son and

God the Holy Spirit sat at the Deity Round Table and had a discussion about what they wanted

to do in eternity. They decided to “CREATE”, and considering the status of this creation

today we can honestly say “ONLY GOD KNOWS WHY”. Having agreed to create they divided

the responsibilities for the creation among themselves. God the Father agreed to be the

administrator and oversee the Plan which he devised for creation taking into consideration all

events and potential events and outcomes and potential outcomes from his omniscience and

presented this to God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They unanimously agreed that it was a

PERFECT plan and they decided to call it GRACE. It contained all the structure, laws, policies

and procedures for the creation they had decided to engage in. It was God the Father who

was the “author” of the plan and God the Son agreed to be the executor of the plan and God

the Holy Spirit agreed to empower and reveal the plan when needed. When the plan had been

completed and agreed upon, the Creator, God the Son, (the Executor) spoke a word and

Initiated Stage I of the Plan, Angelic Creation. This resulted in a myriad variety of angelic

creatures instantly coming into being. (John 8:44, Job 38:4-7, Ps 8:3) The plan was not a random plan but contained detailed structure and organization providing varied levels of

function for the angelic creatures. The pinnacle of this angelic creation was the most perfect

creature in body and mind, a super genius of all genius’, Lucifer, son of the morning the bright

morning star. (Ez 28:14-17, Is 14:12-14, Is 45:4-7) Stage 2 of the creation was to give these angelic creatures a place to live and again God the Son spoke a word and the universe was

created and the angelic creatures given freedom to move about and live in it. (Is 45:18, Ez

28:12-18, Rev 12:4) Christians often consider the presentation of ideas like the “BIG BANG”

theory of the beginning of the universe to be ANTI-Christian but in fact that is exactly how the

universe was created, The Lord Jesus, The Christ, God the Son said “BE” and it was. BANG!

At this time Lucifer was given the job of overseeing for God the functions of this angelic

“society” and reporting to God in his throne room. Over a period of unknown duration this

was the case however but as Lucifer went about his duties in angelic creation overseeing and

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reporting to God he was INUNDATED with praise and adoration by other angelic creatures

because of his relative perfection, intelligence, position of authority, physical beauty and ability.

This attention stimulated Lucifer’s PRIDE so that in Eternity Past he became involved in the

first case of Arrogance and wanted to and thought he could be equal to God in doing what

God did in controlling angelic creation. Lucifer began to think he could do his job without

having to report to God and in fact could do the job as well as God in running angelic

creation. I envision Lucifer in the throne room of God looking around to see if anyone was

watching, looking at God’s throne and walking around it a touching it and then moving up

onto the dais and imagining what it would be like to sit on that throne and control everything.

Eventually his Prideful Arrogance let to Envy and the desire for that Power got the better of

him and he slyly checked around again to be sure no one was watching and then slid right

onto and sat on God’s Throne. As he sat there and wiggled around feeling the exhilaration of

being on God’s throne his thoughts turned to greater and greater arrogance and forgetting his

origins and place as a CREATURE he thought, I can run this creation just as good as God, “I

will be like the most High God” (Is 14:12-14, Ez 28:12-18) Lucifer being dissatisfied with only being the best, brightest, smartest, most powerful angel set about developing a system of to

control what he wanted. This system uses ARROGANCE and now ANTAGONISTIC EMOTIONAL

HATRED in 2 complex highly integrated, interacting and interlocking power systems or

Dynaspheres to form his policies for controlling first Fallen Angels and now mankind.

Satan’s Strategic Offensive Action in Eternity Past

Satan’s “Offensive Action” in Prehistoric Times in the Angelic Conflict (Is 14:12-14) was the

result of Satan’s thinking that he would dominate all creatures in existence in all of angelic

creation. This occurred at the time of the beginning of his “REVOLUTION” and he was most

likely also thinking he could be equal to God. He then, as a result of his solidly established

arrogance and delusion, organized his plan to run the angelic creation, which is known by

mankind as Good and Evil, in which he attempted to duplicate or counterfeit the policies and

provisions of the GRACE Plan of God. Lucifer was so full of himself, so arrogant that he then

went about the angelic creation for an unknown period soliciting members for his Mutual

Admiration Society. He proposed to them that they function under his plan of EVIL to produce

“Angelic” GOOD things in order to establish a perfect functional angelic society based on their

efforts and achievements which Lucifer wanted to use to supplant the production of Divine

Good of the Grace Policy under God’s Plan and provisions. He did this for an unknown period

until every single angelic creature created by God the Son had an opportunity to choose to

follow him under his plan of Evil or stick with God under the Grace plan. Lucifer had

established a headquarters for his plan of Evil in of all places this very planet Earth. Basically

he held parties here and never cleaned up the beer cans so it was a total mess at the point of

God the Father calling together the Supreme Court of Heaven. At this point, God threw Lucifer

and his organization off of the earth and packed it in ice to prevent their return there. (Gen

1:2) With God the Son and God the Holy Spirit present the Supreme Court of Heaven convened and a trial was begun indicting Lucifer and his followers because of his revolution,

with ALL angelic creation in attendance observing the proceedings.

When the trial was convened, God presented the facts from his omniscience, there obviously

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could be no defense possible against the omniscience of God, and then rendered the judgment

of condemnation of the revolutionaries to the Lake of Fire. It was at this point in eternity past

that the Lake of Fire was in fact created for Satan and his followers. In a STRIKING moment

of LUCID CLARITY Lucifer realized he had made a big error and he did not have any desire to

spend eternity confined to the Lake of Fire so he rendered an appeal to the Supreme Court of

Heaven. In effect Lucifer impugned the perfection of the character of God by contending that

in rendering the Judgment of the Lake of Fire for the rebels God had neglected to consider his

LOVE attribute and only functioned in considering Lucifer’s failures based on his attributes of

perfect Righteousness and Justice. Lucifer was in fact saying that God could not be God if he

condemned the rebels to the Lake of Fire because he had set aside his LOVE to function only

within the confines of his Righteousness and Justice. Satan ignored the fact that the Love of

God is the area of motivation and not the area of action of the Essence of God. He ignored

the fact that the area of action of the Essence of God is based on the principle that what the

Righteousness of God approves is only what the Essence of God can accept and what the

Righteousness of God demands the Justice of God must execute.

In focusing on the “Love of God” Lucifer tried to ignore and confuse the issue that upon any

creature violating the standards of God, his, and in fact all angelic and human contact would

become, not the “Love” of God, but the other aspects of the Integrity of God, (Graphic File Here) the Justice of God and the Righteousness of God. The Righteousness of God rejected the

Arrogance of Satan and his indifference to God in the revolution of the Angelic Conflict

therefore the Justice of God, in a JUDICIAL Decision from the Supreme Court of Heaven,

immediately condemned him and all those who followed him to the Lake of Fire for all

eternity. In reality, Lucifer had failed to realize or completely ignored the fact that when he

entertained Arrogance and rebelled he TOOK HIMSELF OUT from under the provisions of the

Love of God and PLACED HIMSELF directly under the function of the Justice of God based on

the requirements or standards of the Righteousness of God. However, God in and under his

established GRACE PLAN accepted the appeal of Lucifer. He did so in order to provide a clear

demonstration to all creation that the Essence of God always functions together at all times and

the Love of God and Justice of God and Righteousness of God all work in unison in providing

for ALL of his creation. Lucifer did not understand that the Love of God was the MOTIVATION

for the actions of God BUT that all actions from God had to be approved by the Righteousness

of God and then could be executed by the Justice of God because these 2 areas of God’s

essence protect the consistency of his character. God, in granting the Angelic Conflict Appeal

Trial, caused a situation which resulted in the need for witnesses to choose for the Plan of God

vs the Plan of Satan in the same manner as what had occurred throughout the angelic creation.

God, therefore, in agreeing to this appeal, set up a test situation with LOWER creatures for all

angelic creation to observe. [This is YOU AND I in this life] (Luke 15:7-10, 1Cor 4:9, Eph 3:10,

1Pet 1:12, 1Tim 3:16, 1Tim 5:21) The setting for the creation of test subjects was chosen as the former headquarters of the “Evil” party. This is the sole purpose of the creation of man

and the development of Human History as the stage for producing these witnesses. (Matt 19:4)

Therefore, in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial ALL witnesses are derived ONLY from members

of the Human Race, therefore, the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial is co-terminus with Human

History. To be a proper witness and demonstrate the exact conditions of the Angelic Conflict

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choices of Angelic Beings, MAN, though created lower and much less powerful than angels, has

the 1 thing necessarily common between Angelic creatures and Humans that being FREE WILL,

Volition.

Restoration of the Earth & Creation of Man

Upon the acceptance of the Appeal of Lucifer in the Angelic Conflict Trail, the Trinity of God

the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit moved ahead to clean up the earth and

restore it from its frozen state preparing it for man. (Gen 1:2, Gen 1:3-31, Job 26:13, Ps

104:30) God then set up a system called “TIME” as a linear progression of events and

established cyclic periods on the earth and completed these preparations in 6 earth days. Then

The Lord Jesus, The Christ culminated the restoration of the earth with the creation of Ish,

Man and sometime later Ishah Woman (from Man) as the “helpmate” of man under a Divine

Institution system called Marriage. (Gen 1:26-27, Is 43:7) God stopped on the 6th day and

“rested” BECAUSE HE WAS FINISHED AND THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO BE DONE.

Therefore, Man was created originally and exists today as a test subject to demonstrate the true

nature of the character of God toward his creation. Both Ish, (later called Adam) and Ishah,

(later called Eve) were created directly from the hand of The Lord Jesus, The Christ as

trichotomous beings with a physical Body, a non-physical Soul and a non-physical Human

Spirit. Their souls gave them the ability to relate to each other and appreciate each other and

their Human Spirits gave them the ability to relate to, have contact with and appreciate God.

Ish and Ishah were created to demonstrate to Lucifer, the Fallen Angels AND the ALL the Elect

Angels, that contention in the Appeal of Lucifer during the Angelic Conflict trial, that in

condemning the fallen angels to the Lake of Fire the Righteousness of God and Justice of God

did not consider the Love of God, WAS FALSE. Even today, Satan (meaning deceiver)

successfully blinds mankind to the fact that mankind must adjust to God’s Righteousness and

Justice not His love in order to become the BENEFICIARY of His Love. (Is 14:13-14)

At the point of their creation, to resolve this Angelic Conflict, The Lord Jesus, The Christ gave

to Ish and Ishah Biological Life for their physical bodies created, Soul Life to a format soul,

and Spiritual or Spirit Life to their Human Spirit, resulting in what the bible calls Everlasting

Life or Endless Life (Gen 2:7). The combining of Soul Life with the activated biological make

up of their lifeless bodies resulted in Human Life for both. The Lord, from his LOVE, provided

everything necessary for Ish and Ishah to live an UNENDING, or ENDLESS life on this earth in

the Garden of Eden. This was to continue to be provided based on the requirement that they

adhere to the prohibition to not engage in or partake of the Knowledge of “Good and Evil”,

(the principles and production of Lucifer’s plan and policy to rule in God’s place represented by

the “fruit” of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil). They were also given the Tree of

Everlasting Lives whose “fruit” they could eat from in order that they would have immediate

and constant APPRECIATION of what God had and continued to provide for them. They had

ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to know anything about “Good and Evil” which IS the plan, policy

and production of the Cosmic Dynasphere system of Satan (the Interlocking System of Arrogance

and the Interlocking System of Antagonistic Emotional Hatred) to initially rule angelic creatures

and, during this Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial extending the Angelic Conflict into Human

History, Human Beings on earth.

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Inevitably Ishah was targeted by Satan, first because she was under the authority of Ish, her

husband and because she had become dissatisfied with her position and wanted to be smarter

than Ish. She initially rejected the authority of Ish, then that of Bible Doctrine taught by The

Lord Jesus, The Christ in the “cool evenings” in the garden and ultimately the authority of

The Lord Jesus, The Christ, God himself. She therefore decided to violate the prohibition of

God regarding the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil having been deceived during

conversations with her pet the Serpent, indwelt by Lucifer. He appealed to her developing

Arrogance, by manipulating her into thinking that by doing so she would be smarter than Ish

and as smart as God. She, as a result, adopted the totality of the Arrogance of the Plan of

Satan. Then, when she had executed her decision to violate God’s Prohibition, Ish also rejected

God’s prohibition and gave up his authority position in the Grace Plan of God, by choosing to

FOLLOW Ishah instead of lead her, choosing her over the Plan of God and The Lord Jesus, The

Christ in the garden. He thereby adopted her viewpoint and also accepted the Arrogance of

the Plan of Satan. They both in effect had rejected EVERLASTING ENDLESS LIFE with God in

the garden for something which they did not understand NOR had any need to understand. As

a result their Human Spirit died and they were then isolated from God having lost their

Everlasting Spirit Life. (1Cor 15:21-22, Rom 5:12). Essentially they could no longer initiate any contact with God nor have any relationship with Him and the only contact God could have

with them was based on judgment and condemnation from the Righteousness of God and

Justice of God. However, as part of his GRACE plan, GOD under Grace provided for them and

all subsequent human beings the OPPORTUNITY to regain the ability to Eternally Live with him

and have a temporal and eternal relationship with him. This provision came to mankind first

in the promise of a potential for Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. Therefore, at the

point of their rejection of the prohibition of God, His Justice had become the point of contact

for them and all subsequent human beings as a direct result of their rejection of the Love

Provisions and Grace of God in the Garden of Eden. (Gen 3:15) This is now a historical fact

and includes the promise of a LIFE enabling the believer to live in ETERNITY with God,

Everlasting Life.

Existence of man – Power Systems

In this world man, for his continued existence, must depend on some invisible power system

and Satan as the ruler of this world, being the genius of genii, has a power system for

rulership of this world which is found in the Cosmic Dynaspheres originating from his own

Arrogance. The principles of Evil involved in the system of the Cosmic Dynaspheres is too

subtle and sophisticated, far too designing, contriving and skillfully oriented in subterfuge and

scheming to be handled or overcome by believers or unbelievers minus Bible Doctrine

Principles. Therefore, the believer should never divorce himself from his only source of

strength in the Spiritual Life which is Metabolized Bible Doctrine accumulated by residence in

the Power System of God the Divine Dynasphere and is designed to be saturating his soul.

Since the functions of GRACE and EVIL are completely antithetical it is therefore obvious that

Arrogance in any category automatically seeks to divorce the believer from this source of

strength by distracting him from Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible

Doctrine.

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Power System of Satan = Slavery of Man

If man rejects what God has provided he becomes a slave to what Satan provides, the Cosmic

Dynaspheres. These power systems of Satan make the person, who is in fact a slave under

them, think he is the greatest thing in the world, by trapping him within his own Arrogance,

therefore, Arrogance blinds the minds of all who serve Satan. The believer must understand

clearly that the greatest power in life outside of what God has provided for man is found in

Arrogance, Cosmic Dynasphere I. It is a most attractive invisible power system, it is a killer, a

devastating invisible power. In itself it inevitably leads to antagonism and animosity toward

and complete rejection of God and the Plan of God, all while romanticizing self. This system

builds up the one involved in it but when he is torn down because of his failures, he learns

nothing from his own destruction but this instead intensifies the Arrogance involving self to

avoid the reality of the failure.

Satan, as ruler of this world, has great power and administers his power through or by means

of Cosmic Dynasphere I, the Interlocking System of Arrogance and Cosmic Dynasphere II, the

Interlocking System of Antagonistic Emotional Hatred. These, along with the inevitable

undesirable results of Sin and involvement in Reversionism, destroys the potential of the

unbeliever and the function of the believer as a witness for the prosecution in the Angelic

Conflict Appeal Trial. Satan has invented this system for administration of the world he rules

and HIS absolute BEST solutions for any problems in life are always found in the Arrogance

Complex. Arrogance as a complex includes the worst failures of mankind and attacks the soul

directly and never is and can never be an isolated failure. The whole purpose and inevitable

result of Arrogance is to divorce the individual from the reality found in Absolute Truth. This

is an entire system of preoccupation with Self whereby one becomes totally subjective and then

eventually antagonistic toward Bible Doctrine.

All ‘EVIL’ as Satan’s plan and policy and all iniquity in the world is founded on Arrogance.

The Plan and Policy of Satan known as EVIL, has a desired production which is Human Good

but which inevitably results in SIN, violations of God’s Standards and Crime as well, violations

of common law based on the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions. When considering the Plan of Satan there are 2 categories of Evil:

• Motivational Evil == Motivational Arrogance + Motivational Emotional Antagonism

• Functional Evil == Functional Arrogance + Functional Emotional Antagonism

When there is persistent residence and function under the Plan of Satan, EVIL, Motivational

Arrogance leads to Functional Arrogance which leads to Motivational Antagonism which leads to

Functional Antagonism with the total destruction of the Spiritual Life of the believer and any

potential for the Spiritual Life of the unbeliever.

Power System of God = Freedom of Man

For a more comprehensive understanding of the Power System of God follow this link to the

Divine Dynasphere the Power System of God. In order to have a basic understanding of the difference between the Power System of Satan and Power System of God consider that in the

Plan of God there is only 1 power system and it is based on 2 categories of Grace which are

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totally antithetical to EVIL:

• Motivational Grace == Motivational Virtue

• Functional Grace == Functional Virtue

Both of these can only be developed within the Power System of God the Divine Dynasphere.

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Introduction to the Interlocking System of Arrogance

This 4th edition of the Interlocking System of Arrogance is the continuing process of elucidating

principles related to Arrogance and has, so far, involved 10 plus years of attempted

consolidation. This information concerning Arrogance is from the lessons taught by Pastor R.

B. Thieme Jr. over the course of his ministry of some 53 years and it is an ONGOING process.

It has been taken from notes I have accumulated from lessons I have studied for more than 40

years under his ministry. Still this accumulation of knowledge concerning the concepts and

principles of Arrogance and the Christian Way of Life is NOT as yet complete and may never

truly be completed by me. I have chosen with this 4th edition of the Interlocking System of

Arrogance to divide it into 3 categorical segments in order to make clearer the relationships

between the involved mechanics of entry into the Interlocking System of Arrogance. I have

considered creating a 3 volume set but could not discern a way to keep the inter document

hyperlinks functioning but this may still occur in the future as the volume of information

concerning Arrogance continues to grow. The information contained in this volume regarding

the Interlocking System of Arrogance can be studied on an individual subject basis, a

categorical segment basis or read and studied in its entirety.

In consolidating this information I have been able to come to several conclusions with regard to

the Arrogance Complex. These are based on the incredible number of different ways a person

can become involved in Arrogance as a sin or distraction from the Christian Way of Life AND

the fact that the Angelic Conflict itself started with Arrogance. Arrogance in all of its aspects is, if nothing else, SUBTLE. It is, many times, not obvious, not even to those who are

saturated with it. It is not like the OVERT IMMORAL sins which scream in the face of

normalcy. However, within the Interlocking System of Arrogance there is a system of Total

Weakness where the individual, especially the believer, can enter and become entangled

through many ‘Gates’ or entry processes.

In the ongoing study and consolidation of concepts of arrogance from the lessons of R. B.

Thieme Jr. it is my general conclusion that there is no possible way on a day by day basis for

anyone, especially the believer, to avoid contact or confrontation with or involvement in some

level of Arrogance. Instead, the believer must rely on and consistently use the Rebound

Procedure to avoid continuous entanglement by its destroying capabilities and to prevent it

destroying his Spiritual Life, his capacities and spiritual advance. Arrogance is in fact the

FOUNDATION of the entire plan and policy of Satan in ruling this world which starting in the

Garden of Eden has been called “GOOD and EVIL”. All human beings living in this world in

all of Human History since the Graden, especially in this Church Age, are subjected to it

constantly. It is imperative from the beginning that this principle is clearly understood;

Arrogance

is the FOUNDATION

and

UNDERLYING principle of the entire plan and policy of

Satan to rule and control this world since the fall of Ishah (Eve) and Ish (Adam). This plan is

the policies and principles of EVIL motivating the production of GOOD,

Human Good

.

All human beings are derived from the same lump of clay and ALL come into and go through

the same system from birth to death, the Cosmic Dynaspheres of Satan. Each individual can

either shape up as HONORABLE or degrade as DISHONORABLE and this depends on WHAT HE

THINKS. The means of shaping the lump for both the unbeliever and the believer is the

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divinely delegated system under the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions. The

Honorable person uses his volition to live in the Divine Dynasphere as much as possible progressing through as many of the 8 “Gates” or levels as possible which for the believer is to

Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God. The process for the unbeliever involves functioning

properly under the system of Authority Orientation derived from the Laws of Divine

Establishment and Divine Institutions. The Dishonorable person uses his volition, his free will

choices to live in the Cosmic Dynaspheres.

Degeneracy vs Sin

Arrogance is Degeneracy and thus the foundation for being destroyed either by the reality of

one’s circumstances or by the drive toward unreality, in which one’s circumstances are coated

over with fantasizing. Arrogance is the pin which, when pulled from the grenade, blows up

one’s life into a myriad of destructive fragments. Arrogance is a fragmented system of life

which is inconsistent and therefore NO ONE can ever be consistent while entangled in the

Interlocking System of Arrogance. Arrogance divorces the individual from the realities of life,

personal, historical, and spiritual. Arrogant thinking results in irrationality to the point that

locked-in involvement in Arrogance results in psychotic, neurotic, and psychopathic behavior.

Arrogance very often produces inconsistencies of thinking and function which one cannot see in

self. It produces wide emotional swings from involvement in Emotional Revolt of the Soul and

therefore, Arrogance is totally unstable, inconsistent, and can never find reality. Arrogance by

producing a false perspective of life, results in a drive toward happiness, which entangles with

the Frantic Search for happiness in stage 2 of Reversionism, which is total unreality.

▴ Sin

▾ A volitional violation or transgression of or a falling away from the STANDARDS,

CHARACTER or EXPRESSED Will of God. It is clearly described and defined in

the Decalogue, the 10 commandments, as violations of Freedom and in Codex III

of the Mosaic Law from the perspective of the principles of the Laws of Divine

Establishment and Divine Institutions. ALL sin is directed toward or against GOD

alone.

▴ Degeneracy

▾ Taking an area of Sin or Human Good and forming it into a system for demanding

rights or changes to the standards of a group or nation which to be legitimate

must adhere to the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions. Therefore

ALL aspects of Arrogance are Degeneracy while ALL involvement in reversionism is

Apostasy and some Arrogance can be Sin, Apostasy and Degeneracy all at the same

time.

Immoral vs Moral Degeneracy

Immoral Degeneracy begins as a SIN but sin is not necessarily degeneracy; as an illustration, in

the historical past in the Unites States of America, Homosexuals rarely made an issue of their

SIN, it is just another sin, and in many ways it is not as bad as gossip, judging, etc., and in

other ways much worse. The Degeneracy begins when Homosexuality becomes OVERT and

BLATANT and organizes into a system to demand acceptance. Because this process of

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organizing involves that which is sinful, this system can only be based on and functioning fully

from the influence of EVIL thus it is a system of EVIL. When it becomes a political

organization and demands rights from its position of SINFULNESS it creates IMMORAL

DEGENERACY. Consider the last time there has been a protest march in any city where

Heterosexual Adulterous Fornicators were demanding their rights! People who make an issue

of their sins not only lack any kind of self esteem but their drive is to create systems of

Degeneracy. There are also the prefect moral Self Righteous people who form organizations

like the Moral Majority in the United States demanding their rights, albeit most often as a

reaction to the overt Immoral Degeneracy. They want ALL the laws to be Christian laws and

based on principles of the Christian Way of Life so that they can inevitably eradicate Immoral

Degeneracy. They want abortion to be abolished and Christian prayer in the public schools and

many other things which are NOT issues in the Christian Way of Life. THIS IS DEGENERACY

and Christian social action through Crusader Arrogance and Christian activism is MORAL

DEGENERACY. These people are basically saying, “I am right and BECAUSE I AM RIGHT, I

am going to superimpose my norms and standards on the entire Human Race”. This also

applies to those systems which want to impose their standards of function on others but are

IMMORAL or based totally on EVIL as well like ALL Religions, Islam, Romanism, Hinduism,

etc., along with political systems involving tyranny such as Socialism, Communism, tyrannical

dictatorships, ETC. These concepts fail to recognize many biblical subjects or areas and are

derived from involvement in the Interlocking System of Arrogance, Cosmic Dynasphere I, and

not in any way from Spiritual Self Esteem, Spiritual Autonomy nor Spiritual Maturity in the

Protocol Plan of God. The fact is that these individuals and their groups may be right about

many things but many of these things belong ONLY to Christians and not to unbelievers. To

make laws based on the principles of the Christian Way of Life makes criminals out of all

unbelievers thus destroying the purpose of the existence of man to make HIS OWN DECISIONS

regarding the Plan of God. To make laws based on someone’s fear or dislike of weapons

makes criminals out of all people who choose to prepare themselves to defend their own

persons and property. This is DEGENERACY and is based totally on the principles of EVIL.

The Dead Sea is a memorial to Immoral Degeneracy while in America’s recent past Bombed

Abortion Clinics are memorials to Moral Degeneracy. No one, especially Christians, have any

RIGHT to destroy anyone else’s property and under the Laws of Divine Establishment and

Divine Institutions, PROPERTY and LIFE are sacred. Some of these morally degenerate people

have distorted the principle of LIFE to mean it begins at conception and have no idea of the

true nature of life and the reality of the imputation of life BY GOD at physical birth.

Contradictions cannot ever exist in the Christian Way of Life and either the believer lives in the

Power System of God, the Divine Dynasphere and possesses Spiritual Self Esteem, Spiritual Autonomy and Spiritual Maturity or lives in the Power System of Satan, the Cosmic

Dynaspheres and becomes either Morally or Immorally degenerate.

As a system of wrongdoing, involvement in the Interlocking System of Arrogance is therefore

DEGENERACY. In the Immoral Degeneracy of the Interlocking System of Arrogance there is as

one manifestation symptoms or syndromes of aberrant sexual activity:

▴ Homosexuality

▴ Bestiality

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▴ Pederasty

▴ Incest

▴ Other abnormal sexual activities

These are OVERT manifestations of an individual’s or nations Immoral Degeneracy but are NOT

the only considerations of Degeneracy. Degeneracy results from having the Interlocking System

of Arrogance anchored in one’s soul and these aberrant functions are only symptoms or

manifestations of that Degeneracy. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah were declared to be

DEGENERATE and their form of degeneracy was IN PART aberrant sexual practices including

HOMOSEXUALITY. Therefore, Homosexuality is a symptom or syndrome of the degeneracy of

the Interlocking System of Arrogance. Homosexuals today flaunt their sexual predispositions

because their Arrogance brings them out into the public eye and they then demand special

individual rights. The TRUE degeneracy is NOT in what they are choosing to do in their sinful

sexual proclivities but in what is in their soul, the Arrogance by which they systematically

DEMAND special treatment because of their sin.

The Interlocking System of Arrogance not only provides the basis for degeneracy but also a

blindness of mentality so that people are generally unaware of how truly bad things are in their

contemporary historical setting. One of the greatest functions resulting from degeneracy is

socialism with it’s welfare state and as occurred in Nazi Germany, the first sign of it rising in

society is the attempt at finding someone or some group to blame for all the wrongs in society.

At that time in western Europe the antithesis of this socialism was the Jew. It was by this

means that Hitler started his drive of antisemitism and as a result one of the most brilliant well

organized nations in history was destroyed. Not, however, without first going through years of

involvement in the Interlocking System of Arrogance from 1933 with the night of the long

knives to 1945 when Hitler killed himself in a bunker. This demonstrates historically that no

one ever survives antisemitism. Unfortunately, when the Jews went to Palestine after World

War II they engaged in socialistic government because of where they had come from. The fact

that Jews are in palestine and people think this is a GREAT thing is wrong and in fact a part

of EVIL as satan tries to move them to palestine BEFORE Christ regathers them at his 2nd

advent thus bringing him victory in the Angelic Conflice Appeal Trial.

Any time the population of a nation enters into the Interlocking System of Arrogance it

generally becomes vulnerable to all the entry gates so that there will be repetitive periods of

national or historical disaster for them. This IS the degeneracy of the population, as a state of

the soul, manifesting itself as toleration or acceptance of homosexuals, ascetics, lascivious

individuals, glorification or protection of criminals, liberalism, and many other concepts, with

groups or individuals totally in opposition to the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine

Institutions. Therefore, once a believer becomes involved in the Interlocking System of

Arrogance he begins to move down this road of degeneracy to complete degeneration.

Degeneracy is NOT simply immorality but is the Mental Attitude of involvement in the

Interlocking System of Arrogance. This is one of the greatest principles of explanation of what

is WRONG with the Human Race and why it ultimately goes bad. From Sodom and Gomorrah

to the Unites States of America in the 21st century, degeneracy results from function outside the

Protocol Plan of God for the believer in The Lord Jesus, The Christ or in opposition to the

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Divine Institutions and Laws of Divine Establishment for the both the believer and unbeliever.

Therefore any entrance into the Interlocking System of Arrogance is the ignition for ALL

Degeneracy. Once there is selfcenteredness and hypersensitivity about self with insensitivity

about others then the degeneracy begins to show itself. This may manifest as power lust,

immoral lust, monetary lust, approbation lust but whatever its manifestation, degeneracy

destroys individuals and nations from within, one individual at a time. There has not ever

been a nation historically which declined and was destroyed which did not first have maximum

degeneracy from its involvement in the Interlocking System of Arrogance long before it was

destroyed by an outside power. This is obvious when considering Rome, Assyria, Greece, and

all the other nations which were once GREAT in history and then fell to nothing. All of these

had the overt manifestations of Arrogance and total entanglement in the Interlocking System of

Arrogance and degeneracy long before any outside nations destroyed them.

The people in the United States of America have moved, for perhaps about 100 years, deeper

and deeper into the field of Degeneracy, which, again, is not simply immorality but is all

aspects of involvement in the Interlocking System of Arrogance. The Interlocking System of

Arrogance involves some 80 plus ways or “Gates” of entry, which will, when access is gained,

interlock with any if not all of the other areas of Arrogance. One of the worst of these is

considered to be Psychopathic Arrogance and this is the general Status Quo of a large number

of people in the United States of America and a major contributor to American National

Degeneracy. In the 1960s Jane Fonda, as a result of her catering to the communists in

Vietnam, should have been shot as a traitor not made a heroine by the people of this nation.

Today the toleration of youth gangs, moslems, homosexuals and mentally incompetent

government officials is another blatant example of the degeneracy rampant in the United States

of America. This is in part the result of the loss of the ‘voice’ and courage of the World War

II generation who are almost totally gone. In World War II the United States of America had

gallant people, both men and women who served and fought to ensure freedom but these are

now almost completely gone along with their process of thinking and the basis for it.

Therefore, the only answer to the degeneration in the United States of America is the advance

and expansion of the pivot of mature believers in The Lord Jesus, The Christ to preserve this

nation and bring America to the principle of success in the Angelic Conflict.

Power System of Satan = Slavery of Man

The power systems of Satan to control and rule this world include the Stages of Reversionism

and the Cosmic Dynaspheres of which the Interlocking System of Arrogance is Cosmic

Dynasphere I. Consider, What is Tyranny? A political function? Absolutely NOT! It is

Arrogance and can be some sweet pleasant hard working Christian service person who is

admired by many who wants only APPROBATION and POWER to CONTROL what others think,

say and do and may use legalistic taboos and other Christians in order to do so.

The believer in Cosmic Dynasphere I the Interlocking System of Arrogance is NOT anti Bible

Doctrine but he is making an issue only of self instead of the Absolute TRUTH of Bible

Doctrine. This one involved with Arrogance is outside the Plan of God and functioning in the

Plan of Satan. In Cosmic Dynasphere I the believer is neglecting and rejecting Bible Doctrine

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and God while in Cosmic Dynasphere II he becomes the enemy of God being antagonistic to

and overtly opposing Bible Doctrine and God. As a result of this fragmenting of his own life,

the believer is ignorant of the Plan, Purpose and Will of God for his life. Therefore there are 5

areas in the life of the Christian of disastrous ignorance:

▴ The 40 Assets given at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.

▴ The Mechanics of Execution of the Protocol Plan of God.

▴ The 10 unique characteristics of the Church Age.

▴ The 10 Problem Solving Devices.

▴ The entire realm of the Mystery Doctrines of the Church Age.

Any entrance into Cosmic Dynasphere I, the Interlocking System of Arrogance always is

accompanied by entrance into the stages of Reversionism. This is the result of some level of

Negative Volition toward Bible Doctrine. The real tragedy is that God has provided so very

much to protect the believer from this self fragmentation which comes from entanglement in

the Interlocking System of Arrogance and results in his becoming a LOSER believer but the

loser often rejects it all. The Loser is the believer who fragments his own life and NEVER does

anything about it despite the availability of solutions provided by God for him. Therefore all

failure in the Spiritual Life and entrance into reversionism and the Interlocking System of

Arrogance is basically some level of Negative Volition toward Bible Doctrine. This results in

malfunction of functioning under the 4 Spiritual Mechanics and thus the development and

deploying of the 10 Problem Solving Devices of the Protocol Plan of God through Ignorance or

neglect of Bible Doctrine. Self Fragmentation of the Spiritual Life is the ultimate failure in the

Christian Way of Life and it results in IGNORANCE of the Grace of God and his provisions to enable complete execution of his Protocol Plan.

This is the result of a lack of consistent Post Salvation Epistemological Rehabilitation by

Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine and its application to

situations in life. However, Winner believers use the Grace provisions of God for advancement

in their Spiritual Life and are motivated from right priorities to be consistent in Post Salvation

Epistemological Rehabilitation and develop momentum for spiritual growth and advancement

from Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine. Losers pull the

pin of the Arrogance Grenade and fragment their own lives by entrance into and entanglement

within the Interlocking System of Arrogance, Cosmic Dynasphere I. Their recovery from this

fragmented life requires the consistent use of the Rebound Procedure as an Instant Reaction

Force when they fail but because of their ignorance of Bible Doctrine they generally are NOT

even aware of it’s necessity. (1John 1:9) In the fragmented life the believer is easily deceived

by False Doctrine and this thus becomes a life of Self Deception causing function under the 3

Arrogance Skills. (Eph 4:14) The fragmented life is often characterized by:

▴ Sexual Arrogance – Eph 4:19

▴ Inordinate Anger Eph 4:26

▾ Though one may become angry NEVER let sundown come when one is still angry