Free Will the doctrines of demons as taught by Aliester Crowley and Van Til

Aleister Crowley and Cornelius Van Til:
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”
by
Monty L. Collier
Satanism, and I do mean the religion of Satan, teaches that the will of man is independent from God. Satanism teaches that man has free-will. Satanism teaches that man should do whatever he wants, rather than what the Bible alone says. The inescapable implication of this teaching of Satanism is man himself is God.
Satanism teaches that man should not believe in God, but rather, man should believe in himself. This evil is sometimes called humanism. The person who does not believe in God, but trusts in himself, is echoing Protagoras’ ancient maxim: man is the measure of all things. This satanic notion is the ideological father of the many different forms of pragmatism, which all sing the praises of phenomenological relativism.
A more recent rendering of Protagoras’ ancient maxim can be found in the teachings of Satanist Aleister Crowley, who taught the following: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Crowley’s maxim permeates Hollywood and the music industry like a bad rash. The messages of Hollywood movies and popular music are anything but Biblical, and each year these evil messages grow incrementally worse. Not surprisingly, T-shirts depicting popular rappers and actors can be found advertising the satanic slogan “Do what thou wilt.”
Not only does Satan control the media, but Satan also controls most of the so-called Christian organizations, too. For example, satanic teachings have been part of the curriculum at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia for decades. Enter the teachings of Cornelius Van Til. The teachings of Van Til dominate Westminster Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, but they also influence quite a few other Presbyterian denominations. Although slightly disguised, Cornelius Van Til also taught Alister Crowley’s Satanic doctrine (Do what thou wilt) in a series of published statements. Check out the following quotes from Van Til:
“Now since God is not fully comprehensible to us we are bound to come into what seems to be contradiction in all our knowledge. Our knowledge is analogical and therefore must be paradoxical.”
(The Defense of the Faith, page 44)
Of course, the Bible never says all human knowledge is paradoxical, nor does any Reformed confession, but heretics disregard such things. In another work, Van Til denied there was any difference between an actual contradiction and an apparent contradiction (paradox). Van Til writes:
“Shall we then follow Karl Barth in saying that contradictions in Scripture do not matter in the least because what the gospel is really all about takes place in a real ‘above’ ordinary history? Or shall we with Gordon Clark say that the ‘contradiction’ that we think we ‘see’ is no real contradiction at all? We cannot follow any of these ways.”
(Toward a Reformed Apologetics, page 4)
In yet another work, Van Til explains why his followers do not and should not attempt to reconcile any paradoxes they might find in the Bible. He writes:
“It is precisely because they are concerned to defend the Christian doctrine of revelation as basic to all intelligible human predication that they refuse to make any attempt at “stating clearly” any Christian doctrine, or the relation of any one Christian doctrine to any other Christian doctrine. They will not attempt to “solve” the “paradoxes” Involved in the relationship of the self-contained God to his dependent creatures.”
(An Introduction to Systematic Theology, chapter 13, page 172)
For Van Til, the Bible is filled with irreconcilable paradoxes, and so he thinks none of his followers should even bother to teach clearly. Van Til’s satanic teaching (the Bible is full of contradictions) is ferociously opposed by Martin Luther. Consider what Luther wrote:
“Nevertheless, it is impossible for Scripture to contradict itself except at the hands of senseless and stubborn hypocrites.”
(Luther’s Works, Volume 26, page 295)
John Calvin was Luther’s greatest student. Calvin completely rejected the heresy of Van Tilianism. Calvin constantly labored to show the logical consistency of Scripture, by publishing entire harmonies of Scripture. Unlike Van Til, Calvin believed that Christians should make every effort to teach clearly. When it came to paradox, which Roman Catholics have always passionately embraced, John Calvin stated:
“I abhor paradox.”
(John Calvin: Tracts & Letters, Volume 3, page 149)
Even so, few people today read Martin Luther and John Calvin. This is one reason men like Van Til can infiltrate Presbyterian seminaries and dispense their poison so easily. The Bible says:
“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
(Jude, verse 4)
Once a person comes to believe Van Til’s teaching (all human knowledge is hopelessly self-contradicting), then it doesn’t matter what one believes or does—for, according to Van Til, there is no truth—THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE! So, when it is all said and done, Van Til’s response to Francis Schaeffer’s profound question “How should we then live?” is: Do what thou wilt shalt be the whole of the Law! Cornelius Van Til was teaching Satanism.
I thank God for His Word, which completely contradicts the satanic teachings of men like Van Til and Crowely. Although these Satanists did not believe in truth or knowledge, the Holy Scripture states:
“The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed”
(1 Samuel 2:3)
“He (God) that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?”
(Psalms 94:10, emphasis mine)
“His (God’s) truth endureth to all generations”
(Psalms 100:5, emphasis mine)
Satanic principles, whether from Aleister Crowley or Cornelius Van Til, assert a disregard, not only for Holy Scripture in particular, but for all people in general. These hellish teachings breed psychopaths, who operate on the old Jesuit maxim: the end justifies the means. Of course, none of this is coincidental, and this is why Satanism leads directly to Roman Catholicism.
To conclude, when we Calvinists say the pope is Antichrist, we are testifying that the Roman Catholic Church is Satan’s church.
Let us never forget:
The Bible alone is the Word of God!