The dialectic is a procedure for changing attitudes, beliefs,
doctrines, or any other held
   position in politics, religion, economics, etc. It is not in
itself a position. When members of a
   Christian Yahoo Group were first introduced to the teachings of
Dean Gotcher, some in the group
   thought it was a doctrine, that is, a position, rather than just a
procedure to change people's
   positions. They said that John Hagee represented the dialectic,
when, in fact, he tends to preach his
   doctrines in a didactic way. He might use the dialectic in
conversations. What Hagee teaches
   must in itself be examined for its conformity to the New Testament.

   However, the procedure of the dialectic does come out of an
anti-Christian system of thought, a set
   of doctrines, beliefs and attitudes. The Marxists have a term they
call "Dialectical Materialism." The social
   and clinical psychologists who began to popularize the use of the
dialectic were not exactly followers of Christ.

   The dialectic is a procedure for making use of peer pressure, not
peer pressure itself. You can use the
   didactic way of communicating to make use of peer pressure. The
dialectic is usually more deceptive than
   the didactic procedure for changing positions. And - the dialectic
as a procedure is not easily
   understood when you are first exposed to what it is. What is often
needed to show people what
   it is would be a verbatim, or almost verbatim record, in writing
or as an audio, of a conversation type of verbal
   interaction involving someone who is taking the role of the
facilitator and another who is the target
   of the procedure. This is why Luke 11: 14-28, as an almost
verbatim record of the conversation between Christ
   and the Pharisees and the woman in Luke 11: 27 who offered the
compromise is so instructive.

   This woman offered the dialectic side step to move the two
opposing sides to a compromise. She did not
   really deal with the main issue, of whether Jesus was casting out
demons with the power of Satan. She, in effect,
   tried to change the "thread," or change the topic, to the physical
woman and her beasts that nursed Jesus. Notice that Jesus didn't
exactly agree with her. He said in verse 28, "Yea. rather, blessed are
they that hear the word of
   God, and keep it."