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The Lost Sheep
&
The Prodigal Sons & Daughters
In
Ten
Minutes I Can Demonstrate That
The Doctrines
Of All Existing Modern Churches
Are Fatally Flawed
Because they Are All Built Upon A Common
Defective Foundation -- That Of Pagan Rome
While The Teachings Of Jesus Are The
Truth
The Way Of The Churches Bring Spiritual
Death
Your Choice Is To Follow The Doctrines of
Men
Doctrines Which Were Anticipated By Jesus,
James, Peter And Paul
Doctrines Which Were Openly Condemned In The
Bible
Or You Can Walk in TheWay That Jesus Ordained And
Taught
You Can't Serve Two Masters
You Can't Be Faithful To Manmade Church
Doctrines
And Be Faithful To Jesus
Yeshua/Jesus Came To Call
Those Who Would Follow In TheWay
But Few Are Willing To
Make The Journey
He Warned That While Many Are Called, Few
Are Chosen
And These Words Would Never Have Been Said
If All That Was Required Was To Call Upon
The Name
While Continuing To Live In The Way of This
World
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There Is No Biblical
Basis For Modern Christian Church Doctrine
Using The Bible, It
Can Be Demonstrated Conclusively, That The Modern Christian
Church Has Been Turned Out Of TheWay
The Pharisees
Had Become Spiritually Compromised
While They
Called Upon The Lord With Their Lips
Their Ways
Were Not TheWay Of The Lord
Jesus Said:
"But all these things they
will do to you for My name's sake, because they do
not know Him who sent Me. If I had not come
and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now
they have no excuse for their sin. He who
hates Me hates My Father also" (John
15:21-23 NKJ).
As the soul who lived
as Jacob who people call James, the first leader of
the Jerusalem New Covenant Congregation, I was sent
back into the world at this time to call the Churches
to repentance from the idolatry and doctrines of
death of Pagan Rome. And as the one who has
been sent unto the Churches,
what was true
then, is true today:
"If I had not come and
spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they
have no excuse for their sin."
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It's Right
There In The Bible
Demonstrated Conclusively
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In Ten minutes of
your time, I can demonstrate that the manmade
Doctrines of the
Church
Have totally
alienated the believer community from
The True Gospel
Message
Thereby, Rendering
The Christian World Spiritually Sterile
"If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments"
(John 14:15)
In Ten Minutes The
Truth Can Be Proven
Beyond All Reasonable
Doubt!!!
While modern Christians claim the validity of
their dogmatic beliefs by virtue of being founded upon the teachings of
the historical Jesus and the Bible, it is easily demonstrated that the
Original Teachings were corrupted, thereby making such
claims little more than a bogus fraud -- a fraud perpetrated upon a
community of unknowing believers who have been duped by political forces
which were external to the Church. And while
this fact is easily proven, the Christian world remains in denial.
The Fallacy Of Salvation By Faith Alone:
Christians maintain that they are saved by faith totally apart from
their actions and works -- and their salvation is guaranteed from the
moment they accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. But is
this the original teachings of Jesus? Perhaps this can be gauged
by a recent interview with Pastor
Brian McLaren who made the rather profound
statement: "One of the problems is that the
average Christian in the average church who listens to the average
Christian broadcasting has such an oversimplified understanding of both
the Bible and of church history - it would be deeply disturbing for them
to really learn about church history."
And truth be told, it can easily be
demonstrated that the core purpose and objectives of the original Gospel
teachings which have been restored at
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com are so radically different than what is preached from our
pulpits today, that the Gospel of the first century would be condemned
as heresy if it was presented to a modern congregation of believers.
Reply:
The Flawed Doctrine Of Perpetual Redemption totally ignores the many
statements by Paul where he warns: "For it is
impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and
hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV). Why did
Paul make such a statement? Because the original Gospel teachings in
their original form was one of spiritual transformation -- and those who
willfully sin after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel message are
not only unbelievers and apostates to the teachings of the Gospels, but
in Paul's words these counterfeit believers crucify the Son of God
afresh -- and, in total opposition to what the Churches preach,
"...there no longer remains a sacrifice for
sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries." These, and other such spiritual
concepts, were totally unacceptable to the fourth century heathen Church
of Rome -- and while these few passages continue to exist, the
scriptures were corrupted (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ) in order to make the Gospels support
the doctrines of a series of Roman Emperors who ruled over the Church
from the fourth century onward. That the Church has abandoned the
original teachings of Jesus -- to the degree that when it is proven that
the fourth century Church even edited and corrupted the very words of
God spoken to man (see
http://TheTenWords.com ) -- means that until the Church itself
repents of this great sin against the Holy Spirit, they will remain
under a cloud of ignorance in an exiled state in a Spiritual Diaspora.
What does the Apostle of faith say? To the Romans he warns:
"Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God
did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those
who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his
kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off" (Rom 11:20-22
NIV). Because the Christians entered into a covenant with Pagan Rome
-- installing the emperor as the head of the Church -- and in a state of
absolute arrogance, hunted down and murdered all sincere spiritual
Christians and original Ebionite Nazirenes who did not accept the
religious doctrines of the emperor -- even editing and corrupting the
very words of God spoken to mankind -- the Church has not only been
"cut off" -- but the Christians
themselves dwell in a Spiritual Diaspora under the cloud of spiritual
ignorance.
Further Witness: Further witness to the above
warning of Paul is found in the early scripture known as the
Shepherd of Hermas.
In the introduction to this Gospel in the Anti-Nicene Library it is
written that the Shepherd
"...was one of the most popular books, if not the most popular
book, in the Christian Church during the second, third, and fourth centuries..."
A. D. Howell-Smith writes concerning the Shepherd of Hermas (Jesus Not a Myth,
pp.120-121): "The Shepherd of Hermas, a strange
allegory written sometime in the second century, had a great vogue in orthodox
circles and was even included in some copies of the New Testament (it is found
in the Sinaitic Codex). The theology of the Church must have been very elastic
at a time when such a book could enjoy popularity and implicit, if not
explicit, ecclesiastical sanction..."
A further witness of the Shepherd
of Hermas in support of the above statement and warning of Paul is
demonstrated in the statement in an article by Spotlight Ministries (see
Article )
where it is written: "In Hermas' dialogue with
the Shepherd, among the many instructions that are given to him, the
issue of post-baptismal sin is discussed. It is revealed to Hermas that
anyone who sins after baptism is given the opportunity to repent only
once. Any sin that is committed afterwards is viewed extremely dismally
and the implication is given that such an individual will no longer be
able to obtain forgiveness. Various interpretations have been applied to
this doctrine of penance for post- baptismal sins. For example, it is
possible to view Hermas as one who is compromising the area of Christian
repentance, one who acts as a reformer and exhorts the Church to holy
living, or even one who is of such intense eschatological anticipation
that he believes there will be no possibility of further repentance."
The fact that the question is even raised with respect to sin after
baptism, only serves to demonstrate the state of absolute
disenfranchisement of the Church from both the New Testament, as well as
the original teachings of Jesus and TheWay.
Minister Of Sin? Paul
poses the question: "But if, while we seek to
be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ
therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! For if I build again those
things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor" (Gal
2:17-19). That the pagan doctrines which became infused into
Christian dogma have transformed the Church into a spiritual abomination
and apostate to the Kingdom, is because they ignore these many
statements of Paul -- portraying Christ as a minister of sin!!! And
these warnings of Paul raise still another important question that the
modern Church attempts to totally ignore. Christians preach that they
are saved by Grace -- and they are guaranteed salvation from the moment
they recite their Jesus-prayer. He will never abandon you, they
preach, regardless of how you live your life. Yet, Paul warns the
congregation of believers: "Do not be arrogant,
but be afraid..." Why? Because Paul warns that if the
Gentile believer violates the covenant, that
"...you also will be cut off". Yet, to the spiritual
undoing of the community of believers, this warning has absolutely no
place in the present dogma of the Church.
While the Church's preach that if you call
upon the name of the Lord that Jesus will never leave you -- regardless
of your actions and lifestyle in this life -- Paul warns that if you
turn back to the ways of this world, that you should not only
"...be afraid" -- but that as a
Christian you will be "cut off" --
and the blood of the Lamb will be a "...fury of
fire which will consume [you as an] adversary" to the core
Gospel teachings. And what this means is that if you call upon the
name of the Lord in the manner that the Church's preach today -- and you
then knowingly sin, you not only "...commit
apostasy" and yourself "...crucify
the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt"
-- but, as an apostate to the New Covenant, Paul warns that
"...there no longer remains a sacrifice for
sins". If we ask the question: Did Paul really mean that
the sacrifice on the cross is canceled for those who knowingly sin after
calling upon the name of the Lord? This is confirmed in the words of
Paul when he wrote: "What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall
we who died to sin live any longer in it? …knowing this, that our old
man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away
with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin… Therefore do not let
sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And
do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin,
but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your
members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have
dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then?
Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly
not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey,
you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to
death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?” (Rom 6:1-16
NKJ).
Peter Warns That Christians Are Worse Off
Than The Unbelievers: How can Peter warn that the fate
of complacent Christians are in fact worse off than those who had never
come into contact with the Gospel Message? Thus, we have a great void
that modern Christians totally lack the insight to understand -- and the
fact that the man-made dogma of the Church is built upon this great spiritual
void, is representative of the very reason the Church exists as an
abomination to the original teachings of TheWay . An
honest Christian would recognize that the words of Peter are so contrary
to modern-day belief, that these words should literally haunt every
person who calls themselves a Christian believer:
"If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome,
they are worse off at the end than they
were at the beginning. It would have been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have
known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was
passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: A dog returns to its
vomit, and, A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud"
(2 Pet 2:20-22 NIV). Where the modern Church promotes the doctrine
that they are saved by Grace regardless of the manner in which they live
their lives, Peter not only states that this doctrine is in grave error,
but correctly states that: "It would have been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have
known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was
passed on to them." Every Christian should ask themselves:
How can
those who have never known the teachings of Christ, be better off than
those who having heard, and are complacent towards those teachings?
It would appear that Peter is stating that those who had never heard the
Gospel message -- and had themselves committed much sin -- will in the
hereafter inherit a more lofty place in the Kingdom than the complacent
believers.
Thus, Jesus warned: "And that servant,
which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did
according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that
knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with
few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much
required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the
more" (Luke 12:47-48). Thus, because of the suppression of
many important original Gospel teachings, the modern Christian simply
has no means to understand why and how the lukewarm believer will be
beaten with the stripes of greater judgment, than the unbeliever.
So what is the fate of those who "...did commit
things worthy of stripes" -- but they shall clearly receive
far less than those who knew the masters will, but did not properly
prepare themselves? This is in opposition to everything that modern
Christians believe.
Christians promote the doctrine that only
those who believe can be saved -- and here Peter is stating the opposite
is true -- and that those people who claim to believe, and fall back to
their old ways where they embrace the culture and ways of this world,
will in fact be worse off after they have come to believe, than before
they began to believe. Moreover, the shepherds and blind guides that
Peter is making reference to, are those who preach the modern doctrine
of using the Gospel as a license to dwell in perpetual sin that is
promoted in churches today -- i.e., "This is
especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful
nature..." (2 Peter 2:10). Because these false
shepherds even if they are sincere, fail to understand the reality of
what Jesus meant when he used the terms Whole, and Complete, they preach
the "...promise [of] freedom [in their doctrine
of salvation by faith and grace alone], while they themselves are slaves
of depravity" In what can only be in total opposition to
what Christians today believe, Peter states that it would have been
better for the entry-level believers to have never heard of the Gospel,
than to have heard, and then fall prey to the false shepherds who
promise them freedom, but blindly lead the believers into the proverbial
ditch. And thus, there is simply no means for the modern Christian who
believes the doctrines of the Church, to even begin to understand what
Peter is making reference to in the Original Gospel teachings that were
suppressed by the Church (see
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ).
Christians Ignore What They Don't Possess
The Capacity To Understand: Because the above statements
by both Peter and Paul simply have no place in modern Church dogma --
dogma which is representative of totally manmade explanations by
spiritually disenfranchised authorities of the Church -- Christians
would rather ignore the implications of these statements of warning,
than to seek to understand why the biblical authors wrote these statements of warning to
the community of believers. Thus, the community of believers exercise
absolute blind faith in the leaders of their respective Churches, even
when the dogma contrived by these leaders is in total opposition to the
core principles of the Gospel message and teachings. While Christians
dwell under the grave misconception that they exercise faith in Jesus,
they are not -- but rather, they exercise faith in the doctrines of the
Church which came into existence in the fourth century under Pagan
Rome. Further, in view of the fact that the early Church changed and
corrupted the very Words of God spoken to man in order to totally alter
their meaning and context (see
TheTenWords.com ), the Jesus which they claim to exercise faith in
is a manmade creation by Roman Emperors who ruled over the Church.
While the majority of people who call
themselves Christians -- while in practice, they are not -- believe that
they have a license to live in abject lawlessness and questionable moral
values by virtue of the dogma of their respective Churches -- the very
dogma of the Church which they embrace, is totally rejected by the
authors of the scriptures they claim to believe in. Why? Because the
dogma of their respective Churches has so alienated the community of
believers from the core Gospel teachings and objectives, that it has
become impossible for the very people who champion the scriptures with
their lips, to understand the higher spiritual reality of the
message. And thus, they choose to totally ignore what their manmade
doctrines of belief have inhibited them from understanding. And in
their blind ignorance, they have made themselves the latter-day
embodiment of the statement: "Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make
one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child
of hell than yourselves" (Matt 23:15 KJV). And if the
question is posed: How can I make such a statement? Does not Paul warn
that the dogma of the Church teaches the believers to openly
"...commit apostasy" -- to the degree
that modern believers are taught to "...crucify
the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt"
-- while ignoring the reality that "...there
no longer remains a sacrifice for sins"??? And in the same
vein, does not Peter warn with respect to those who have been seduced by
the dogma of the Church that their end is actually worse than before
they embraced the dogma of the Churches -- i.e.,
"It would have been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the
sacred command that was passed on to them." And the
congregation of believers are forced to ignore these core teachings, for
no other reason than the pseudo-authorities of the Churches removed
essential teachings that are necessary to understand the very foundation
of the Gospel message -- a massage that they no longer possess the
capacity to comprehend with any depth.
Cast Out Of The
Bosom Of Christ: In order to make the Gospels
support the doctrines of fourth century Pagan Rome when the faction of
the Church which called itself Orthodox entered into a covenant
relationship with the heathen Emperor Constantine, important spiritual
teachings had to be removed. As confirmed in the
words of Prof. Bart D. Ehrman in his book, The
Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, where he warns us that:
"...theological disputes, specifically
disputes over Christology, prompted Christian scribes to alter the words
of scripture in order to make them more serviceable for the polemical
task. Scribes modified their manuscripts to make them more patently
‘orthodox’ and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of
orthodoxy" (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ). In a surviving excerpt of what has
been historically known as the Gospel According to the Hebrews, which
was reported to be the "original version of
Matthew" that was composed in the
Hebrew Characters (see
The Original Spiritual
Language Of The Gospels
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#OriginalLanguage
), it was written:
"If ye
be in my bosom and do not the will of my Father which is in heaven, out
of my bosom will I cast you away".
This same verse of scripture is quoted in what is historically known as
the 2nd Epistle of Clement who was the disciple of the Apostle Peter, wherein it is written:
"Let us, then, not only call Him Lord, for that will not save us. For He
saith, 'Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall be saved, but
he that worketh righteousness'. For this reason the Lord hath said,
'Even though ye were gathered together to me in my very bosom, yet if ye
were not to keep my commandments, I would cast you off, and say unto
you, Depart from me; I know you not whence ye are, ye workers of
iniquity". What these verses confirm is that if you continue
to sin after coming to Messiah/Christ, that you are an apostate to the
teachings of TheWay, and "...there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a
fury of fire which will consume the adversaries"
(Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).
Is the Church founded upon the teachings of
the Apostle Peter? While there were many notations pertaining to
the Gospel of Peter in the early church, a partial copy was recovered in
the Oxyrhynchus Papyre discovery. In the fourth chapter of the
Gospel of Peter this teaching is contained:
"Let us, then, not only call Him Lord, for that will not save us. For He
saith, 'Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall be saved, but
he that worketh righteousness.' Wherefore, brethren, let us
confess Him by our works, by loving one another, by not committing
adultery, or speaking evil of one another, or cherishing envy; but by
being continent, compassionate, and good. We ought also to sympathize
with one another, and not be avaricious. By such works let us confess
Him, and not by those that are of an opposite kind. And it is not
fitting that we should fear men, but rather God. For this reason, if we
should do such [wicked] things, the Lord hath said,
'Even though ye were gathered
together to me in my very bosom, yet if ye were not to keep my
commandments, I would cast you off, and say unto you, Depart from me; I
know you not whence ye are, ye workers of iniquity'” (see
The Anti-Nicene Library
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf09.xii.vi.iv.html ).
Cause Of Christian Ignorance - The
Reality Of The Soul & The Mysteries Of The Kingdom:
Perhaps even more important to the sincere Christian seeker who is
attempting to escape the shackles of Roman Church doctrine, is the
version of this verse that has been preserved in what has come to be
known as The Gospel Of The
Nazirenes, where it reads:
"Though you be gathered together in my bosom, if you keep not my
commandments I will cast you forth. For if you keep not the lesser
mysteries, who shall give you the greater."
Why is this version of this saying so important? Because the
Christian world itself is proof of its validity. The inner spiritual
meaning of the scriptures -- the knowledge of the soul and what Paul
portrayed as the knowledge of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God (see
Mystery) -- and even the
reality and meaning of the life that each person is presently living --
can only be revealed and understood, by those who have prepared
themselves to be a Final Temple
-- which is a foundational Gospel Objective of Jesus' teachings.
Yet, by
using Jesus as a pagan mojo -- i.e., as a license to sin in the manner
that the Churches preach -- thereby in the very words of Paul, openly crucifying the Son of God afresh by
virtue of a cultural mindset and worldly lifestyle -- the Christian
world is proof positive of the reality of this important teaching.
In the case of this article which endeavors to
restore an important teaching that was removed by the Roman Emperors who
dictated to the Church what beliefs they were permitted to embrace and
promote, it is important to understand why most Christians have been
totally alienated from the knowledge of the previous lifetimes that
their soul has lived. If they were in fact a genuine follower of
Jesus, then these essential truths of how the soul evolves to perfection
would be revealed to their understanding -- i.e.,
"You, therefore, must be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect"
(Matt 5:48). In fact, once understood, the fact that most Christians
do not know the previous lifetimes that their soul has lived, is proof
that they have been cast from the bosom of Messiah/Christ -- and because
they presently dwell in a Spiritual Diaspora, they remain in what Jesus
portrayed as the Prison (see
Prison), and/or
what Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness"
of mind and being (see
Outer Darkness).
Not only have they alienated themselves from the Truth and TheWay when
they adopted the dogma of Pagan Rome -- but they changed the very words
of God spoken to man (see
http://TheTenWords.com ) -- important words which convey how Jesus
was able to accomplish all that he did -- and it is these words that
were changed by the Church of Pagan Rome, that is necessary to embrace
for those who follow in the footsteps of Jesus to inherit the very
Promise of Eternal Life.
Judgment Of Those Who Drink From The Cup
Of The Lord Unworthily: The counterfeit leaders
and shepherds who presently guide the Congregations, will attempt to
tell you that sinners have been saved by the blood of the Lord by the
Cup of Salvation -- and yet, in a total rejection of this Church
doctrine, Paul warns that those who eat the body and drink from the cup
of the Lord and continue to sin, eat and drink judgment and damnation
unto themselves -- i.e., Paul warns:
"Therefore whoever eats this
bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be
guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself,
and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats
and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself,
not discerning the Lord's body. For this reason many are weak and sick
among you, and many sleep" (1 Cor 11:27-30 NKJ).
What Paul is warning is that an unworthy or complacent Christian who
attempts to eat the bread and drink the cup of the Gospel New Covenant,
invokes the Laws which render them
"...weak and sick among you, and
many sleep"!!!
This sleep is the Spiritual hardening of their hearts and minds that
imprisons the congregation of counterfeit believers in a Spiritual
Diaspora -- and is demonstrated in the blindness of the Christian world
to the true meaning of the very scriptures which they champion.
Blindness Of Those Who Lay Under The Sway
Of Satan: The above is confirmed in one of the existing
alternate endings of the Gospel of Mark which is portrayed as the
authentic ending by early Church authorities.
And what
this means is that the religion of Jesus in its original form was one of
spiritual transformation -- and those who willfully sin after coming to
the knowledge of Christ, crucify the Son of God afresh -- and in the
warning of Paul,
"...there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect
of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries."
This is why Paul stated with respect to those who call themselves
Christian, and continue to live a sinful life:
"But if, while we seek to be
justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore
Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
For if I build again the things
which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor"¯ (Gal
2:17-18 KJV). Which confirms the alternate ending of the Gospel of Mark
which reads: "This Age of
lawlessness and unbelieving lies under the sway of Satan, who will
not allow what lies under
the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God;
therefore, they said to Christ, reveal your righteousness now. Christ
answered them, The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but
other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of
sinners, that they might
return to the truth and sin no more,
that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual
and imperishable in heaven" (Moffatt, quoting Gospel Of Mark
in Codex W - Also quoted by St. Jerome as being the authentic ending of
the Gospel of Mark). Thus, Jesus warned those who would call upon the
Lord and expect to have earned salvation:
“But why do
you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say?”
(Luke 6:46 NKJ). And,
“Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will
enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father
who is in heaven”
(Matt 7:21 NIV).
That the very people who with their lips proclaim themselves to believe,
continue to lie
"...under the sway of Satan"
-- or, in the words of John: "Little
children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is
righteous, just as He is righteous.
He who sins is of the devil,
for the devil has sinned from the beginning" (1 John 3:7-8
NKJV).
And if we ask:
What did Jesus say the requirements were? Jesus said: "You have
heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your
enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who
persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven;
for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on
the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what
reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you
salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not
even the Gentiles do the same? You, therefore,
must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matt
5:43-48 RSV). In not understanding how this requirement of perfection
can be fulfilled, or even how Jesus fulfilled the Royal Law within
himself in order to achieve this perfected state, the Christian world
remains spiritually disenfranchised and totally alienated from the
knowledge of the Kingdom which Jesus taught was within them. And
thus, while they should be Anointed and All-Knowing, they remain
shackled to what Jesus said was the "outer
darkness" of mind and being -- i.e.,
"But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness.
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (see Matt 8:12;
22:13; 25:30 NKJV). Because the modern Christian world ignores these
many warnings in the scriptures, and in their mindset and lifestyle they
crucify the Son of God daily, they dwell in a Spiritual Diaspora where
the higher knowledge of the Mysteries of God remain an enigma to their
understanding. Failing to comprehend the reality of the words spoken
directly to them by Peter that
"...they are worse off at
the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for
them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it
and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to
them."
All Who Call Upon
The Name Of The Lord: From a modern perspective, the whole
of Christians doctrine is based upon the alleged statements of Paul
which the
Gentile believers are saved by faith -- regardless of the above warnings
by the same Paul that if they continue to sin after coming to
Messiah/Christ, that they are apostates to the Son of God who will
receive the fiery judgments which will consume them -- and to the
exclusion of these many Gospel warnings, they base the whole of their
dogma on the statement in the Epistle to the Romans that:
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved" (Rom 10:13 KJV). Yet, to their own
demise, the meaning of the statement to
"...call upon the name of the Lord", can in no manner cancel out
the foregoing warnings and statements by the same author who wrote:
"For it is
impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and
hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).
Thus, was the bar lowered, and a new standard was set?
Or, are those who praise the Lord with their lips, while believing and
living in accord with the doctrines and ways of this world, not even
considered to be believers -- i.e.,
"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 'These people
draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but
their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as
doctrines the commandments of men'" (Matt 15:7-9 NKJ).
Paul did not
say that if you call upon the name of the Lord in any manner of your own
choosing -- and yet,
continue to live in the manner of the culture and mindset of this world
-- that you will inherit the salvation and entrance into Life that is
promised in the Gospels. Quite the contrary Paul writes:
"Do not be
unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has
righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with
darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a
believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God
with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
'I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they
shall be My people.' Therefore 'Come out from among them and be
separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will
receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and
daughters, says the Lord Almighty'" (2 Cor 6:14-18 NKJ).
What does it mean to be "...unequally yoked
together with unbelievers"? Quoting the
Wikipedia:
The term belial (בליעל bĕli-yaal) is a Hebrew
adjective meaning "worthless" from two common words beli- (בְּלִי
"without-") and ya'al ( יָעַל "value").
Without-value would be those who cling to the mindset, thinking and
lifestyle of the this world -- versus, those who dwell in the world but
are not in any manner of it as portrayed in the words:
"...'Come out from among them and be separate,
says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean".
Separateness is required to
the degree that Paul commands not even to eat with a person who is
immoral or an idolater -- i.e., "But now I am
writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a
brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a
drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat" (1
Cor 5:11 NIV). What is clear is that modern Christians are absolutely
clueless as to the context of the salvation by faith that Paul made
reference to. And the dogma that the Church promotes, is the
fulfillment of Paul's warning with respect to those who continue to
embrace the ways of this world after coming ot the knowledge of the
Lord, that
"...there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a
fury of fire which will consume the adversaries."
Further evidence is demonstrated
in the scripture known as the
Shepherd of Hermas
which the into in the Anti-Nicene Library states was
"...the most popular books, if not the most
popular book, in the Christian Church during the second, third, and
fourth centuries...".
Quoting from the intro of the foregoing link:
If it is true that the Pastor of Hermas was one of the most important
scriptural authorities over the first four centuries, then we can use it
in our endeavor to better understand the essence of early Christian
thought. What the Shepherd of Hermas has to say is very important to
us today, because it represents the scriptural tradition that was taught
directly to the faithful flock by the Apostles of Christ. Thus, on the
nature of scripture, in the Shepherd we find:
“I am senseless,
sir, say I, and do not understand these parables. For how she can crush
out, and on the other hand save, I do not perceive. Listen, says he.
Those who have never searched for the truth, nor investigated the nature
of the Divinity, but have simply believed, when they devote themselves
to and become mixed up with business, and wealth, and heathen
friendships, and many other actions of this world, do not perceive the
parables of Divinity; for their minds are darkened by these actions, and
they are corrupted and become dried up. Even as beautiful vines, when
they are neglected, are withered up by thorns and divers plants, so men
who have believed, and have afterwards fallen away into many of those
actions above mentioned, go astray in their minds, and lose all
understanding in regard to righteousness; for if they hear of
righteousness, their minds are occupied with their business, and they
give no heed at all. Those, on the other hand, who have the fear of God,
and search after Godhead and truth, and have their hearts turned to the
Lord, quickly perceive and understand what is said to them, because they
have the fear of the Lord in them. For where the Lord dwells, there is
much understanding. Cleave, then, to the Lord, and you will understand
and perceive all things”.
The message that is very clear from this early Christian writing is
that it is impossible to mature spiritually, while attempting to divide
oneself between the two worlds. In our present day culture we are
living proof as to the validity of the wisdom that is portrayed in this
writing -- i.e., one cannot perceive the true meaning of the parables
and the inner significance of the historical narrative of the
scriptures, while one devotes their lives to their
“business, and wealth, and
heathen friendships, and many other actions of this world”
-- which would include an addiction to television, computer games,
internet pornography, and all the many leisure’s and entertainments that
captivate and control our every-day lives. Fundamentally, what this
universally accepted first century writing conveys is that, contrary to
what is being preached in our pulpits, the Sunday go to church people
who live culturized lives over the course of the rest of the week, are
incapable of fulfilling the requirements of the Word of God.
In the Shepherd of Hermas a reference is made to a tower, of which it
is written: “And the tower, I asked,
what does it mean? This tower, he replied, is the Church. And these
virgins, who are they? They are Holy Spirits, and men cannot otherwise
be found in the kingdom of God unless these have put their clothing upon
them: for if you receive the name only, and do not receive from them the
clothing, they are of no advantage to you. For these virgins are the
powers of the Son of God. If you bear His name but possess not His
power, it will be in vain that you bear His name”.
In
understanding what is written, it is most important for us to be aware
of the continual message found in the words:
“If you bear His name but possess not His power,
it will be in vain that you bear His name”. Thus, if
you call yourselves Christian, but fail to purify and develop your mind
and body from the defilements of this world -- and do not possess the
Sacred Knowledge of the
True
Prophet that Jesus said to exclusively seek out and learn from --
and have not yourselves inherited the same higher powers of mind that
the Son of God promised all his followers would possess -- then
“it will be in vain that you bear His name”.
A sincere believer would only
want to embrace what would be portrayed as spiritually valid doctrines
of belief. In order to be spiritually valid, the person's call upon
the name of the Lord must be within the context of the parable of The
Call to the Wedding Feast (see
The Call). Thus,
Jesus confirmed the validity of this spiritual fact in the words:
"Hypocrites! Well
did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 'These people draw near to Me
with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far
from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men' " (Matt 15:7-9 NKJ).
In view of the above, the Christian doctrine of forgiveness of lives of
perpetual sin by merely calling upon the Lord with one's lips, is very
much "...in vain
they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men".
Paul warns not to associate
with unclean sinners -- not even to eat and have dinner with i.e.,
"But now I am writing you that you must not
associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually
immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler.
With such a man do not even eat" (1 Cor 5:11 NIV).
Therefore, calling upon the name of the Lord with one's lips, while the
heart remains attached to the ways of this world and culture, defiles
the person regardless of what they proclaim with their lips -- i.e.,
"And
he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For
from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,
lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these
evil things come from within, and defile the man" (Mark
7:20-23 KJV). And that we are measured by the thoughts of the heart,
is clearly presented in the example of adultery:
"You have heard that
it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say
to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already
committed adultery with her in his heart" (Matt 5:27-28 NKJ).
It is therefore not only
meaningless -- but an even greater sin -- for those who call upon the
name of the Lord, while continuing to live according to the culture of
this world in the manner that the Church teaches today -- i.e.,
"...in vain they worship
Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men".
In the parable of The Call,
those who were invited to the wedding feast were those who had called
upon the name of the Lord. In the parable, the called ones continued
to embrace the ways, the thinking and lifestyle of this world, and did
not live their lives from the perspective of the requirement to pick up
their own cross and follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Thus, Jesus
commanded and said:
"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the
things which I say?" (Luke 6:46 KJV). And this is why Jesus
warned those who would call themselves his followers and believers:
“And he who
does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who
finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will
find it”
(Matt 10:38-39 NKJ). The requirement that has been set forth is that
“ye shall
therefore be holy, for I am holy”
(Lev 11:45 KJV).
In the words of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa: “…it
is imperative on all those who have an equally earnest desire for the
Good as He has, to be followers by the path of an exact imitation of Him
Who leads the way to salvation, and to carry into action what He has
shown them. It is, in fact impossible for persons to reach the same goal
unless they travel by the same ways”. And this is why the
requirement was set forth by Jesus with respect to his disciples and
followers: “You, therefore, must be perfect,
as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48 RSV).
Only those who become the
"good ground" in the parable of
the
Sower and the Seed,
are able to fulfill the
requirement set forth in the parable of The Call -- or the wedding feast
(see The Call).
While those who were called,
but remained living in The Way of this world, inherited the fate that
Paul portrays above -- i.e.,
"...there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful
prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the
adversaries."
-- and this is confirmed in the parable where those who are portrayed as
the chosen in the parable of The Call to the Wedding Feast, met with the
above promised fate of destruction (Matt 22:7). Which means that not
only does the requirements of calling upon the name of the Lord mean
something entirely different than what is preached by the Church, but it
is further a fact that even those who did come to The Call, and failed
to have put on the required "wedding garment"
of purity, were cast out into the "outer
darkness" of mind and being -- i.e.,
"'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer
darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' For many are
called, but few are chosen" (Matt 22:12-14 NKJV). Thus,
there can only be one rational conclusion -- i.e., that the Church has
been putting dogmatic words in the mouth of Jesus, in order to bolster
the mammon deposited into the collection plates.
It is in this
"outer darkness" of mind and being that
Jesus warned about, which is the Spiritual Diaspora of ignorance in
which the modern Church presently dwells, that inhibits them from
acquiring the knowledge of the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures,
as well as the knowledge of the soul and what Paul portrayed as the
higher Mysteries of the Kingdom (see
Mystery) that could only
be known by those who fulfilled the requirement of
the "good
ground" in the parable of the
Sower and the Seed,
and therefore put on the
required "wedding garment" in the
parable of The Call. That the modern Christian world which is founded
upon the dogma of Pagan Rome, bases their whole concept of the Gospel on
calling upon the Lord with their lips -- while ignoring all of the above
teachings and warnings -- makes applicable the words of Jesus:
"Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as
it is written: This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is
far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men'" (Mark 7:6-7 NKJV).
The Fate Of Most Christians Worse Than
That Of The Unbelievers: Christians have been programmed
by the counterfeit shepherds of the Church to think in a pagan and
subjective manner -- sinners remain in subjection to their sinful lower
natures, and utilize pagan sacrifices to justify their sinfulness.
From the pagan sacrificial perspective, there simply is no place in
their dogmatic thinking for the words: "For it
is impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and
hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).
That the statement by Paul and the other
biblical authors that the fate of most Christians is worse than that of
the unbelievers, simply cannot even be imagined from the Church's pagan
dogmatic perspective. Why? Because the original Gospel focus became
so altered under the domain of Pagan Rome -- and the original Gospel
objectives became suppressed and even portrayed as heresy -- that the
modern Christian is simply spiritually disenfranchised to the degree
that the present Gospel teachings can no longer support the original
intended purpose of the very core principles of the New Covenant. Yet,
what we see portrayed in these important words is the original meaning
of the doctrine that Jesus made himself a sacrifice for sinners -- i.e.,
"...that they might return to the truth and sin
no more"!!!
On the other hand, the great
truth that is clearly presented in the reality that those who continue
to sin after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel,
"...commit apostasy" [and]
"...crucify the Son of God on their own account
and hold him up to contempt"!!! And contrary to the pagan
doctrines adopted by the fourth century Church, Paul warns that
"...there
no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of
judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries."
And while Peter warns in the above that the fate of complacent believers
who continue to sin after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel is worse
off than before they learned of the Good News, the modern Christian
world has become so spiritually disenfranchised, that they are incapable
of understanding these original foundational Gospel teachings and
concepts. Why? Because what
is preached in the Churches today, has relatively little in common with
what Jesus actually taught. And in truth, modern Christian doctrine is
founded upon the religious principles of Pagan Rome (see
The Christian Judas), than what Jesus actually
taught. How can this be? A person will ask?
Quite contrary
to modern Christian doctrine where all believers are saved, it is very
clearly demonstrated in the scriptures that believers who do not live in
accordance with the Commandments of the Lord will be punished more
severely than the non-believer. This truth is demonstrated in the words:
“That servant who knows his
master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master
wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and
does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From
everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the
one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked”
(Luke 12:47-48 NIV). What Jesus is stating to the reader is that
believer’s who do not fulfill the Commandments, will be punished more
than those who do not know the will of God. This whole line
of teaching simply has no place in the dogma of the modern Church.
Sin No More:
Once properly understood it is
seen that an important aspect of the original Gospel teachings is
founded upon the foundational construct of Jesus' statement to the
person he healed and made whole:
"...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
thee" (John 5:14 KJV). These words never would
have been spoken, if there was any validity to modern Christian dogma
that Jesus is the sacrifice for the sins of fallen mankind.
And once understood, the
whole of the Gospel message has become perverted in the worship of the
pagan Jesus-god (see
The Ten Words). In the subheading
The
Solution To Man's Dilemma are two important quotations that modern
Christianity can't even begin to come to terms with:
"Therefore 'Come out from among them and be
separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will
receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and
daughters, says the Lord Almighty'" (2 Cor 6:17-18 NKJ).
If Jesus was the one time sacrifice for the sins of mankind -- and
salvation is founded upon faith and belief apart from one's own actions
-- then there would have been absolutely no reason for Paul to express
the need for the follower of Jesus to be separate from those who can be
portrayed as being unclean and of this world. Further, with
respect to the need of maintaining this wall of separation, Paul went as
far as to command believers to have nothing to do with sinners -- i.e.,
"I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral
people... But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone
named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater,
or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- not even to eat with
such a person. For what have I to do with judging those also who are
outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are
outside God judges. Therefore 'put away from yourselves the evil
person'" (1 Cor 5:9-13 NKJ).
The Key To The
Commandment To Sin No More: While many in the Christian world have
perpetually made excuses for their sinful actions -- promoting the dogma
of St. Augustine that fallen man is a congenital sinner. The problem was that the carnal Christians
who portrayed themselves as Orthodox were incapable of understanding the Apostles words when he wrote:
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue
in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead
to sin, live any longer therein?” (Rom 6:1-2
KJV). The ideas they developed that man was genetically incapable of
not being a sinner, and that even after becoming a Christian continued
to sin, negated the words of Paul when he wrote:
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
(Rom 6:16 KJV). One of their paramount errors was their failure to
perceive the words of Paul in their true spiritual sense -- i.e., when
Paul spoke of death he was not indicating the death of the body, but
more appropriately, the severing of the natural man from his spiritual
nature. Thus, as sinners, and men of the flesh, the essence of New
Covenant theology -- which was the spiritual perfection of the believer
-- was simply beyond their comprehension.
The political leaders of the church -- men
such as Augustine -- waged great battles with those of an opposing
viewpoint such as Pelagius, who championed the cause that
“Man is able, if he likes, to live without
sin and keep the commandments of God, in as much as God gives him this
ability”. Before we become offended by the early
Christian idea that man can live a life free of sin, it is important for
us to recognize in the words of Pelagius that he did not say that man
has the power to live without sin -- but rather,
“God gives him [man] this ability”.
What believer today would disagree with this statement?
With respect
to the folly of Augustine in his doctrine of Original Sin, there is
another element to the equation that remains totally ignored by the
post-Nicene Church. Quoting from the subheading
Original Sin:
In what was allegorically portrayed as the Fall of Man, part
of the soul became lost and entangled in the lower worlds which
correspond to the lower aspects and realities of mind and being. This
was not due to any fault of our own -- but was a natural exploration of
self as both God through us, began to explore the reality of Self. An
important statement of Paul remains ignored, because the whole Christian
understanding of Creation, the concept of original sin, and the need for
salvation, simply does not fit into the picture that Paul presents when
he writes: "For the earnest expectation of the
creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the
creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him
who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be
delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of
the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and
labors with birth pangs together until now" (Rom 8:19-22 NKJ).
Notice that when Paul portrays the Fall of Man, he states that this fall
was forced upon the soul by Creator God -- i.e.,
"...For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but
because of Him who subjected it". In the beginning Gnosis
did not exist, because no experiential knowledge existed -- and the void
in the Laws acting upon the souls like a great vacuum, drew part of our
souls into the void, and that part of us became lost in the lower worlds
in an attempt to begin to know self -- and God is Knowing Self through
our higher soul-selves -- and our higher soul-selves is coming to know
self through us.
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The Ten Minute Test |
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Fallacy Of Salvation By
Faith Alone |
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Gospel Of Sin? |
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Fate Of Christians Worse
Than Unbelievers |
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Sinners Cast Out Of The
Bosom Of Christ |
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Drinking The Cup Of The
Lord Unworthily |
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Fate Of Those Who Call
Upon The Name Of The Lord Unworthily |
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Sin No More |
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The Folly Of Collective
Salvation And Social Justice |
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The Gravely Flawed Surf -
Peasant - Subject Mindset |
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Jesus The Demiurge |
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Biblical Foundational
Mindset |
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Perpetual Redemption? |
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The Folly Of Martin
Luther |
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The Pre-Nicene Church |
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Christian Source Of
Apostasy |
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The Complacent Christian
Believer |
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The Great Void In
Christian Doctrine |
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The Answer To The
Doctrine Dilemma |
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Spiritual Vs Shadow
Church |
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The Spiritual Diaspora
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The Journey Of The Soul
Into The Kingdom |
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The Law - The Plight Of
The Prodigal Sons |
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God Uses The Error Of
The Church For The Greater Good |
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The Fatal Dogmatic Flaw
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Collective Salvation/Social Justice:
In the article,
Marriage: America's Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty, it is
demonstrated that those who live in poverty are in fact poor, because
under the Secular Progressive domain, they have abandoned biblical
morality and marriage. Thus, their poverty and the conditions under
which they live, are the direct result of their own choices and actions.
Yet, in this culture of entitlement, they expect others to provide for
them, regardless of the fact that they have brought their lifestyle upon
themselves by the choices they have made and the leaders they have
elected to follow (see The
Folly Of Social Justice - The Counterfeit Dogma Of Jim Wallis And The
Marxist Left). Yet, Paul correctly states:
"But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a
brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner — not
even to eat with such a person" (1 Cor 5:11 NKJV) -- and the
Gospels present the cause of their poverty and turmoil in the words of
Jesus: "...sin no more, lest a worse thing come
unto thee" (John 5:14).
What Paul is stating is that it is of
course a sin to support the immorality and sinfulness of those who
choose to dwell in sin. If Christians are commanded by Paul to have no
part in the sin of those who have abandoned biblical morality -- to the
degree that a Christian should "...not even
to eat with such a person" -- and Jesus warns the person who
he healed to cease from sin, lest a worse thing such as even greater
poverty come upon them -- then when Christians use their money and
resources to indiscriminately support and promote lives of sin, then
they have in fact cast themselves in the role of the servant who
squandered away his God-Given
Talents on the things of this world -- which is in reverse of Barack
Obama's interpretation -- i.e., quoting
The Abomination Of Obama's Prayer - The Folly Of Social Justice:
At this years National Prayer Breakfast, Barack
Obama confirmed to the American People why the First Amendment inhibits
a secular interpretation of religion (see Washington Post). In his
typical ideological promoting of Socialism under the banner of Marxist
Social Justice, Obama quoted the parable of the talents and stated:
“But for me, as a Christian, it also coincides
with Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be
required’” -- but is Obama's rendition
of this parable valid? What Obama is preaching from the bully pulpit
of the presidency, is that Jesus wants you to support those who have
reaped the rewards and effects of a sinful life.
Paul writes at 1 Timothy 5:20:
"But those elders who are sinning you are to
reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning."
Which of course means that the complacency of Christians to ignore the
sin of the people in their congregations, is a bogus spiritual fraud.
In the Epistle of James it is written: "My
brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and
someone should bring that person back, 20 remember this: Whoever turns a
sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover
over a multitude of sins" (James 5:19-20) -- which of course
confirms the teaching that the price of sin is death. And again
Paul writes: “The Lord knows those who are His,
and Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity”
(2 Timothy 2:19). From a biblical perspective, people are slaves
to sin, because they are of this world -- and they are therefore subject
to the disease of sin as seen in the words:
"Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient
slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to
sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to
righteousness?" (Rom 6:16). Paul never would have written
these words if he took the position that believing in Jesus exempted the
person from sin -- i.e., "...whether you are
slaves to sin, which leads to death" -- or, that one's
actions should not be the words of righteousness: "or to obedience,
which leads to righteousness?"
The solution to the dilemma is found in the
words of Benjamin Franklin who correctly stated: "I
am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I
think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in
poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled
much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public
provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for
themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less
was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
The poor and disenfranchised in this
country is the direct result of the failed Secular Progressive
agenda they have embraced. Author, and one time welfare mom Star
Parker, portrays the poor as the victims of Uncle
Sam's Plantation.
God-fearing people are in no manner obligated to support the
lifestyle of those who abandon morality and biblical standards.
While it is good to provide food and clothing to those in need, to
take away from those who are living by spiritual standards, to give
to those who have abandoned spiritual standards, is in and of itself
sin. The objective of Marxism and their doctrine of Social Justice,
is to make the whole of the population dependent upon the
government. The idea that Jesus wants Christians to support those
who have abandoned Gospel First Principles, and have openly embraced
lives of immorality -- those who have rejected the institution of
marriage and brought forth children out of wedlock -- those who have
squandered away their lives on alcohol, drug abuse and addictions --
is so adverse to the Gospel teachings, that Barack Obama should be
embarrassed to promote his doctrine of Social Justice as being
biblically ordained. But then again, when it is realized that
Obama's idea of the balance of church and state is to give the
Catholic Church an extra year to abandon their teachings on
reproduction and abortion, the whole idea of Obama as a
constitutional law professor must be questioned. If the state can
enact a law that inhibits the religious positions of the Church,
then the whole concept of First Amendment Religious Protection is a
bogus fraud. The history of
what has been portrayed as the War on Poverty, has proven the wisdom
of Benjamin Franklin to be correct. And just as important is the
fact that if you use your God-Given resources to make those who have
abandoned the biblical teachings comfortable in their sin, then you
are in fact yourself promoting a life of sin which is portrayed as
unforgivable apostasy to the Gospel in the scriptures (see The
Lie). While you should
provide food and necessities to those in need, when you give
indiscriminately -- and make lives of sin easy and comfortable --
then you make yourself a proponent of sin.
A wise servant will provide greater
assistance to those who sincerely strive to embrace and live in
accord with Gospel teachings and a biblical lifestyle. Therefore,
to even promote the idea that Jesus wants you to reward those who
have abandoned the Gospel teachings -- providing them comfort in
lives where the Laws of God has brought tribulation upon them --
i.e., "...sin
no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee"
--
is to make yourself an instrument of sin. While it is good to feed
the hungry, your greater assistance should be reserved for those who
repent, and seek to change their ways.
While it is
fine to donate food and clothing to the poor people of this world -- but
by Paul's reasoning, anything more than this will cause you to be
unclean -- and this is especially true of women and children. And
as can be seen in the second quotation, you are to have nothing to do
with a sexually immoral or carnally bound people -- not even to break
bread and sit at the same table with them. Yet, in
this time-frame when man's very limited understanding of the Gospel has
been reduced to supporting government social programs under the
counterfeit cloak of Social Justice and the doctrine of Collective
Salvation promoted by the modern Marxist Church, the whole of the Gospel
message has become perverted and rendered worthless.
What is the
primary obligation of the believer and community? The resources of
the family should be used in the proper rearing of the children --
creating a consecrated environment within the immediate community -- and
bringing about the higher spiritual objectives. To use family
resources in order to support drug addicts -- those who live a sexually
and otherwise immoral lifestyle -- to squander away family resources to
the degree that your own children are enrolled in government schools
where they learn to engage in every form and variety of abject
immorality -- an environment where higher and spiritual standards are
totally rejected -- from the perspective of Paul and the disciples of
Jesus, renders such a parent as being unworthy of the obligation of
serving the needs of the children/souls who have been placed in the
parents care and dependent upon the parent to raise up their children in
TheWay. Which means that the quasi-Marxism and the
redistribution of the wealth in order to provide for the lifestyle of
the degenerate and immoral, is in and of itself a sin against God.
And this is especially true when you are funding their abortions.
While from a Constitutional perspective there should be school choice
(see
Reply: Public Schoolers - How's That Indoctrination Working Out For You?),
it is the absolute apostasy of the Church that inhibits the freedom of
choice (see
Separation Of Church & State - School Choice).
There is
absolutely no concept in the Gospels where you give your money to the
government so that you are directly supporting a degenerate and immoral
lifestyle -- while depriving your own family and (spiritual) community
of the necessary resources to raise children and the people to their
highest spiritual standards and potential. The modern
Christian dogma that evolved out of the Reformation and Martin Luther
and later promoted by Billy Graham that a believer is saved from the
moment that call upon the Lord, is not only contrary to all the above
New Covenant quotations, but is in direct conflict with the statement of
Paul that the Gentile believer should
"...be afraid” (Rom 11:20 ) of
being cut off from their path of salvation.
In speaking of the relationship of the Jews and the Gentile believers in
Jesus, Paul warns:
“For if God did not spare the natural Jewish
branches, he will not spare you either… Otherwise, you also will be cut
off” (Rom 11:21-22). Thus, there is
simply no basis for the modern Christian dogma that is prevalent in the
Church that salvation is the free gift of proclaiming one's faith and
belief in the one time sacrifice of Jesus. And that one's
actions after this proclamation of faith does not in any measure impact
what Christians see as the free gift of salvation, is totally rejected
by Paul himself.
The True and
Original Gospel message has been in a downward spiral as it has been
passed through the hands of each group of believers into the present.
While the Key of Knowledge and the important esoteric Truth that was
revealed to the inner core of disciples was thrown away by the early
Gentile Church -- and then paganized under Imperial Rome -- in the
Reformation the need for spiritual actions became negated, and the dogma
of faith became the only requirement for salvation. Then,
under Billy Graham, the requirement for eternal salvation was to repent
and call upon the name of Jesus -- i.e., "A born-again Christian is
someone who has repented of their sins and turned to Christ for their
salvation,
and as a result has become part
of God's family forever. All this takes place as God's
Spirit works in our lives" (see
Billy Graham's My Answer). Yet, such modern
commonplace statements ignore the statement of Paul that if the Gentile
Christians violate the terms of their own covenant, that they
should
"...be afraid”
because
"...he will not spare you either [and]
…Otherwise, you also will be cut off”.
And while there are many New Testament statements in the above that are
totally ignored in the dogmatic position of Billy Graham and the modern
clergy, the bottom line of Gospel reality is found in the statements of
Paul:
"For it is
impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and
hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).
In the
degenerating spiral downward, in the same way that Martin Luther opened
the door for Billy Graham, what Paul himself portrays as dogmatic
apostasy that was preached by Billy Graham, opened the door for the
modern quasi-Marxist dogma of promoting socialist government programs as
the fulfillment of the Gospel message. And this has further
degenerated the Gospel Message in the very Marxist philosophical
doctrine of Collective Salvation and Social Justice -- which is not only
being preached by many Mainline Churches today, but is also being
promoted as the foundation of Pres. Barack Obama's hope and change
agenda. Thus, under the heading of
Collective
Salvation the Wikipedia states: "Collective
salvation is a quasi-contract religious concept that is the antithesis
of individual or personal salvation. It is a mandate of social justice
which projects rights not normally given by the laws of a country or
state. Its premises are based on dialogue, not accepted doctrine. It
supports the perpetual Marxist class struggle for the self-claimed
'divine' purpose of a socialist nirvana under the concept of progressive
millennialism. Those that believe in collective salvation often
claim Christianity and other religions as their base religion, but see
all religions as one of many paths toward salvation. They stress that
any form of salvation must be first a collective action of society
becoming one in equality by overturning the past sins of human society
and the pillage of the environment."
In essence
what we have is Marxism adopting Christianity in order to promote its
own agenda which is neither supported by the Gospels, and is in fact the
antithesis of what Jesus taught. In the same way that the
Church has been co-opted by Marxist adversaries who have taken the dogma
of Evangelists such as Billy Graham and created an entirely new
religion, there merely parallels the takeover of the Church by the
Emperor Constantine in order to promote the Imperial Pagan Rome.
What is important to understand is the fact that the universal religion
of the Roman Empire was Mithraism -- and in the third century, Mithraism
was failing in its purpose as a means for the government to control the
people. In the fourth century Christianity was adopted by
the Roman Imperial Government as the official religion of the empire.
Why? Certainly not because the Roman Emperors and politicians wanted to
become Christ-like! ”When artificial
religions have thus failed to provide the imperial regime with the
effective religious sanction that it needs”, writes Arnold
Toynbee in his An Historians Approach to Religion,
”there is only one alternative left to an Imperial Government. It
must place itself under the aegis of some living religion that has
arisen spontaneously and cannot be discounted by the Imperial
Government’s subjects as being a cult manufactured by the imperial
authorities. In the Roman Empire both these necessary conditions were
filled conspicuously by Christianity...” The Empire was
not converted over to the religion of Jesus -- but rather, the Gospels
were corrupted (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ) and the true Christians hunted down as
heretics in order to convert the religion of Jesus to an acceptable
version of quasi-Mithraism. At its essence, Mithraism was
the worship of the sun-god that was born on Dec. 25, and resurrected on
Easter. The day of religious observance was changed from the
Sabbath, to Sunday which is the day of the sun -- i.e., sun-worship. The
Mass was an integral part of Mithraism.
Quoting the
article Christianity, a
Plagiarised Version of Mithraism: The
worship of the God Mithra became common throughout the Roman Empire,
particularly among the Roman civil service and military. Indeed,
Mithraism and Christianity were competitors until the 4th century.
Mithra was believed to have been born on the 25th of December, whose
birth was witnessed by shepherds and Magi bearing gifts, the Three Wise
Men. His Birthday was celebrated as the Dies Natalis Solis
Invicti (The Birth of the Unconquered Sun). Followers
believed that Mithra was born of a virgin. During his life,
Mithra performed miracles, cured illnesses and cast out demons.
Mithra celebrated a Last Supper with his 12 Disciples. He
ascended to heaven at the time of the Spring Equinox, around March the
21st.
1. Mithra was sent down by the Father, God, to confirm his contract with
Mankind. The Persian word Mithra literally means 'Contract'.
2. Mithra was born of a virgin, called Anahita.
3. Mithra was born in a stable on December 25th.
4. Mithra was visited by wise men bearing gifts.
5. Mithra had 12 disciples.
6. Mithra was worshipped by Darius, conqueror of Babylon .
7. Mithra celebrated a last supper with his disciples before his death.
8. Mithra died to atone for the sins of Mankind.
9. Mithra was resurrected on a Sunday.
10. Mithra ascended to Heaven to rejoin his Father.
11. On Judgment Day, the dead will be resurrected and judged by Mithra.
12. Mithra will send sinners to Hell and the faithful to Heaven.
13. On Judgment Day there will be a final conflict between Good and
Evil. The forces of Evil will be destroyed.
14. Mithra is part of a Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) that
took human form.
15. Mithra is depicted as having a halo.
16. Mithra’s followers ate bread and drank wine, representing his flesh
and blood.
17. Mithra’s followers were baptised.
18. Saturday and Sunday were days of rest.
The stories of Mithra and Jesus are very much
alike. Even the gifts brought by the wise men were the same.
Christianity appears to be a plagiarisation of the much earlier cult of
Mithraism. Even the bread disks that the worshipers of Mithra ate during
their Mass, symbolizing the flesh of their God, was marked with a cross
hundreds of years before it became a Christian symbol.
Who is
the author of the dogma that is promoted by the modern Church -- a dogma
that Paul portrays as apathetic to the True Gospel Message?
Thus, Gibbon writes in the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
”Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute
his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd
and criminal obstinancy... Not a moment was lost in excluding the
ministers and teachers of the separated congregations from any share of
the rewards and immunities which the emperor had so liberally bestowed
on the orthodox clergy. But as the sectaries might still exist under the
cloud of royal disgrace, the conquest of the East was immediately
followed by an edict which announced their total destruction”.
Thus, in the same way that whoever did not embrace the religion of the
emperor met with the sentence of death, whatever scriptures did not
conform to the approved version, was immediately destroyed (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ).
Whoever rejected the religion of the emperor, became a part of the sweep
of those who Constantine declared to be heretics -- i.e.,
e, the
conquest of the East was immediately followed by an edict which
announced their total destruction”. After that,
genuine Christian doctrine became whatever Constantine and a series of
Roman Emperors declared were valid. While there are
countless examples, the easiest to prove beyond all doubt is the
corruption of the Gospels to re-create Jesus from a man who became the
Anointed (Messiah/Christ) at his baptism, into the Trinitarian god of
Mithraism (see The
Ten Words). Yet, modern clergy has perpetually ignored
the reality that all the pre-Nicene Church authorities all quoted their
scriptures which all confirm the original Ebionite Nazirene position
that Jesus was a man who became one with the indwelling Logos/Son of
God, by fulfilling the Law within himself.
It is important to recognize the fact that if
a person bases their thinking on a counterfeit foundational doctrine of
belief, then it will be virtually impossible to move beyond that
self-imposed obstruction that the person has imbued their thinking
with. As an example: The original Ebionite Nazirene disciples of Jesus
stated that he became the Messiah/Christ and adopted Son of God at his
baptism in the Jordan -- and he achieved this Enlightened state by
fulfilling the Laws within himself. Originally, prior to the take-over
of the Church by Pagan Rome in the fourth century, the Gospels confirmed
the position of the Ebionites in the words spoken to Jesus:
"Thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten thee"
(see The Ten Words).
In recognizing the differences between the doctrine of the Trinity which
was imposed upon the Church by the Roman Emperor Constantine,
The Adam Clark Commentary
stated that if the above words which represents the original text of the
Gospels is true, that the Christian religion is
“vain and baseless”
(see The Ten Words).
Why? Because the doctrines that were imposed upon the Church by Pagan
Rome, corrupts the foundational teachings of Jesus, and causes the
Gospels to be spiritually impotent and unable to fulfill their intended
spiritual objectives. If Jesus was indeed God in the flesh
-- and mankind is sinful flesh -- then the idea that sinful and carnal
man can imitate God would be the epitome of human folly.
But, if Jesus was as portrayed by the original uncorrupted Gospels, a
man who fulfilled the Law within himself and became the Anointed
(Messiah/Christ) adopted Son of God, then the dogma of the Church is not
only
“vain and baseless” --
but is a diabolical obstruction to the seeking of Truth and the Kingdom.
In the annuls
of time, apathetic error has continued to give birth to even greater
error -- arriving at the doorsteps of the modern Church in the form of
Marxist-Christianity that preaches the dogma of Collective Salvation and
Social Justice. These very Marxist ideas has evolved
out of the Jesus-god doctrine that once you say your prayer accepting
the Lord as your personal savoir, that you are saved regardless of your
own actions and lifestyle. The idea is that, since you are
guaranteed salvation, then you ought to use your resources to support
government programs which provide for the poor and those in need -- even
when those in need are representative of the absolute epitome of immoral
degeneracy and a wholesale rejection of the Gospel Message.
The Church has
taken a couple of statements by Paul -- most either corruptions or
totally out of context -- and they have built an institution of
immorality upon there dogmatic perversion of the Gospel, where Jesus has
been cast in the role of a license to live in a state of perpetual sin
and immorality in any manner of the people's choosing. Yet,
when the Bible is actually consulted, it would be impossible to promote
the idea that Paul stated that you are saved from the moment you say
your Jesus-prayer regardless of your actions, when you recognize that it
was the same Paul who commanded believers to
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:
sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is
idolatry" (Col 3:5). And as apostate counterfeit
believers, the Church ignores the statements that their fate will in
fact be worse than the unbelievers (see The Ten
Minute Test).
You will know
them by their fruits! One look at the modern culture that
the Church has brought forth makes a mockery of Paul's words that the
sincere believer must flee "...sexual
immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed".
Sexual immorality, impurity and lust not only permeates every aspect of
our culture, but is actually taught in government schools that the
majority of people who claim to be believers, send their children to.
In recent surveys it was concluded that up to 25% of Evangelical
Christian men are addicted to pornography -- and yet, it was Jesus who
warned that even looking upon a woman with lust, constituted the act of
adultery -- i.e.,
"You have heard that it was said to those of
old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that whoever
looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her
in his heart" (Matt 5:27-28 NKJ - see
Divine Pattern).
And to the woman who was caught in adultery Jesus stated:
"...go and sin no
more" (John 8:3-11 NKJ).
He did not say: Profess your belief in me, and your sins will be
perpetually forgiven. In complete opposition to Church
dogma, he told the woman:
"...go and sin no more".
And when this command is understood to the degree that those who
continue to sin after professing their belief, that it will then be
"...impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and
hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV), then
it must be recognized that the whole foundation of modern Church dogma
is a total fraud.
One of the
many original teachings that became suppressed by the sect of Christians
who portrayed themselves as Orthodox and entered into a covenant
relation with Pagan Rome, was the important teachings on Preordination
and Predestination (see
The Early Church
On Predestination). And it is the
suppression of this most important original teaching and higher
soul-reality, that causes modern Christians to remain totally ignorant
of the application of the Laws that invoke the biblical teachings on
Predestination and Preordination -- which in turn causes the modern
believer to remain totally ignorant with respect to the Conditions of
Birth that affect each and every man who has ever walked the face of the
earth (see
Conditions of Birth). Quoting at this link:
The God of the Old Testament proclaims with
respect to the source of what man calls evil:
"I form the light and create darkness, I make
peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.'"
(Isa 45:7 NKJ). And in his ignorance of the Laws, man condemns what he
does not understand, and fails to understand the true source of what to
his own demise he proclaims to be evil -- i.e.,
"Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the
people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath
not done it?" (Amos 3:6 KJV). Thus,
there is nothing that exists in this world, that has not been
orchestrated by the Laws of God -- i.e.,
"The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so
it shall come to pass, and as I have purposed, so it shall stand"
(Isa 14:24 NKJ). And until a man begins to
understand the true source and purpose of what he calls evil, he cannot
know anything of any true substance.
If, as Jesus confirms, that not even a single
sparrow can fall to the earth apart from the Will of God, then the
source and calamities of evil that befall mankind, are the result of the
Laws that return to each person the fruit of their own previous
actions. Thus, Jesus warns the man who he previously healed by making
him whole: "Behold, thou art made whole:
sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee"
(John 5:14 KJV). We must therefore ask: If our
own actions can and do cause "...a worse
thing [to] come unto [us]", how is this
tribulation brought about? The answer is that there were Laws put into
action at the very beginning of Creation which returns to each person
the fruit of their own actions --
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows”
(Gal 6:7 NIV).
Without an enlightened understanding of the Laws
that orchestrate and bring all events about in this world, man continues
to dwell in the abyss of profound ignorance. Further, it is because
the people follow their religious, political and philosophical leaders
into Hell (see
Why Is There Evil
In The World? ), that they continue to invoke
the very Laws that bring great suffering upon them.
The Gospels
proclaim that the believer must pick up their own cross and travail in
TheWay in imitation of the example and pattern of Jesus.
This factual Gospel teaching can only come to pass in the life of the
believer, if the original Gospel narrative was correct, and Jesus became
the Anointed who was One with the Indwelling Logos (Logos
Means Mind of God) at his baptism in the Jordan
(see
The Ten Words).
Which confirms
the original teaching that Jesus was a man who had so perfectly
fulfilled the Law within himself, that he became the Anointed (see
How Jesus Became The Son Of
God). Which confirms the assertion by the
pre-Nicene Church authority Origen when he stated that
“Every soul... comes into this world
strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous
life” (Origen, De
Principiis). Which confirms the factual position of the
Ebionite Nazirenes that Jesus was able to manifest a condition of
Absolute Godliness, by virtue of the victories achieved in his own
previous lifetimes. Which reality is presented in the
many verses that proclaims:
“Do not be deceived:
God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows”
-- i.e., “Even as I have seen, those who plow
iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” (Job 4:8 NKJ);
“Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their
own way, and be filled to the full with their own fancies” (Prov
1:31 NKJ); “But you have planted wickedness,
you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception”
(Hosea 10:13 NIV); “God will give to each
person according to what he has done” (Rom 2:6 NIV);
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A
man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature,
from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the
Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life” (Gal 6:7-8
NIV); “If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He
who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the
sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith
of the saints” (Rev 13:9-10 NKJ);
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in
the image of God has God made man” (Gen 9:6 NIV);
“His disciples
asked him [Jesus], Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he
was born blind?” (Jn
9:2 NIV).
In the
subheading The Chickens
Come Home To Roost, it is demonstrated that the very people who the
are poor and suffering in this life, have been born to those conditions
because of their own past actions (see
Conditions of Birth). That the historical man Jesus
inherited a life of great spiritual potential that enabled him to arise
to the absolute pinnacle of human accomplishment, was brought about by
the countless victories where he prevailed over the course of many
previous lifetimes. And the fact that the original Gospels
all confirm that Jesus was a man who became the Anointed Son of God,
means that he became the pattern of salvation for all those who desire
to enter into Life.
It was
impossible for the original Gospel teachings of Jesus to support the
Mithraic dogma on the Trinity and the proverbial sun-god that is reborn
on December 25th. So, not only were the Gospels sanitized in
order to make them support Mithraic dogma, but so too were the Spiritual
Christians and Ebionites who refused to accept the religion of the
Emperor. Quoting
http://BibleCorruption.com :
The truth and the
facts to the matter is very clearly expressed in the words of Prof. Bart
D. Ehrman in his book, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture,
where he warns us that:
"...theological disputes, specifically disputes
over Christology, prompted Christian scribes to alter the words of
scripture in order to make them more serviceable for the polemical task.
Scribes modified their manuscripts to make them more patently ‘orthodox’
and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of orthodoxy"
-- which
orthodoxy was to bring the text of the Bible into conformity with the
doctrines and tenets of the Church of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
To close our
hearts and minds to the facts, and ignore the truth, is from a New
Covenant perspective synonymous with relinquishing any claim whatsoever
with respect to being a follower of Jesus.
With regard to the condition
of the Bible we presently use: The surviving Greek texts of the book of
Acts are so radically different from each other, that it has been
suggested that perhaps there were multiple versions written. In his book
The Text of the New Testament, Dr. Vincent Taylor writes that
"The
manuscripts of the New Testament preserve traces of two kinds of
dogmatic alterations: those which involve the elimination or alteration
of what was regarded as doctrinally unacceptable or inconvenient, and
those which introduce into the Scriptures proof for a favorite
theological tenet or practice".
To put Dr. Taylor's words in
perspective: What Dr. Taylor is stating is that, whatever doctrine Jesus
taught which the Church of the Roman Empire did not agree with, there is
overwhelming evidence that the church corrupters removed what was
objectionable from their perspective. In like manner, whatever
doctrines the Church regarded as being true, regardless of whether that
belief was supported in the scriptures, the Church inserted this belief
into the Bible in an attempt to make it authentic. What Dr. Taylor
is warning us is there is good reason to conclude that our scriptures
have been rewritten by the Church of Constantine. Now the question that
is being posed here is whether you believe the theological tenets of
Rome, or the disciples of Christ -- because the two are not the same.
And this is
why the Church remains in absolute denial with respect to the many
warnings pertaining to continuing in sin that are presented throughout
the above, that are rejected by the modern Church. With
respect to that part of the Revelation that is known as the
Epistles Of Christ,
it was stated and confessed by the Archbishop of the Church of England
that “...it is impossible, if the canons of the
Church be followed, for these epistles ever to be read in the public
services” (see
Epistles Of Christ
). Why? For the very same reason that the
dogma of the Church which was forced upon Christianity by the emperors
of Pagan Rome, cannot be rectified with the original Gospel teachings as
presented in the forgoing verses -- including the teaching in direct
opposition that is presented in the words that the fate of the
complacent believer is worse off than that of the unbeliever -- i.e.,
that it is
"...impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and
hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries."
With respect to the modern Marxist version of
Christianity which promotes the dogma of Collective Salvation and Social
Justice, it is the offspring of error born from error, which gave birth
to even greater error under a long succession of errors that brought
forth the modern Franken-Gospel promoted by Marxism.
And in this respect, if
you are wildly successful and rich, then there is nothing wrong with
using your money in a beneficial way to free the poor from despotic
government control that immerses the people in a new version of the
traditional slavery (see
Uncle Sam's Plantation). In the words of Pres. John
Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a
moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of
any other.” By destroying the family
foundation (see
Marriage: America's Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty), the
Secular Progressives in our modern society who are Marxist to the core
of their thinking, are merely forcing the people into subjugation to the
elitists in the world. By destroying the moral fiber and
framework of the people, dependency upon government is then maintained.
That the Church has made the people virtual slaves to what Paul
portrayed as the god of this world, is seen in the reality that first
the very moral and spiritual foundation of the Church was undermined,
and then the congregations of believers were made indentured servants to
the very forces of immorality, perversion and depravity that has
shackled the people to lives of suffering, hardship and ignorance.
And this, those who Jesus warned were wolves in sheep's attire who would
fool and seduce the very elect, have instituted this perversion of the
Gospel message in order to undermine the whole spiritual fabric of both
the Church and the Constitutional government that was instituted to
provide essential God-Given Rights to all the lost prodigal sons and
daughters of the Most High.
Peter writes
to the Gentile believers:
"I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the
world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul"
(1 Peter 2:11 NIV). Thus, while these words totally support
the commandment of Jesus to
"...go and sin no more" (John
8:3-11), they also reject the Marxist ideology that Christians should
integrate their children with a culture of immorality, and they should
hand their family resources over to a government that not only supports
this culture of immorality, but promotes the death and destruction of
the unborn as a means of birth control. One of the earliest
of writings known as the Didache (a.k.a. The Teaching of the Apostles),
which is said to have been written by the hands of the Apostles of Jesus
where it states at Section 2:2 states: "...thou
shalt not murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born..."
-- and at 5:2 it states: "The Way of Death is
filled with people who are...murderers of children and abortionists of
God's creatures."
When it is recognized that abortion is merely the fruit of ungodliness
-- i.e., "Put to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil
desires and greed, which is idolatry" (Col 3:5) -- then to
support the ungodly who reap the fruit of their own idolatry that has
immersed them in lives of hardship and suffering of reaping what they
have previously sown, is in and of itself supporting what is diabolical.
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The Gravely Flawed Serf/Peasant/Subject
Mindset: One of the most important elements to the core
New Covenant Gospel teachings is the brotherhood of all of mankind --
not in a philosophical manner -- but rather, that each and every one of
us are equally the prodigal sons of our Heavenly Father.
But because of the great void that existed in the manmade dogma of Pagan
Rome which controlled what Christians were permitted to believe, the
folly of the doctrine of Original Sin had to be invented by the man
known as St. Augustine (see
Folly
Of Original Sin). From a pagan perspective, Jesus
represented the eternal sacrifice for what Augustine portrayed as the
Fall of Man. And it is the adoption of this redemptive
mindset that has so alienated the Christian world from the true
spiritual objectives of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay, that they
remain spiritually sterile and bound by their own self-imposed
ignorance.
With respect to the doctrine of the
Fall of Man that is presented by Paul -- he confirms that it was God
that forced mankind to wander in an almost lost state of mind in order
to bring about the next stage of birth: "For
the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing
of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not
willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the
creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the
whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now"
(Rom 8:19-22 NKJ) -- i.e., all of mankind is equally the offspring or
children of God as seen in the words:
"...because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."
And this is why after completing the journey from the Alpha to the
Omega, the historical Jesus portrayed all of mankind as his brothers in
the words: “Go instead to my
brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to
my God and your God’” (John 20:17 NIV). The original Gospel
message teaches that the historical person of Jesus was a man, just like
all of mankind, who overcame and fulfilled the Law of God within himself
to the degree that he became One with God -- or, the First Prodigal Son
to return to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination (see
Gate Of Eden).
What does the scriptures state:
"Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your
law, 'I said, You are gods '?" (John 10:34 NKJ). If Jesus
confirmed the Law which declared that we are gods, then what is our true
nature? When the first century Christian Justin Martyr quoted the 82nd
chapter of Psalms from his scriptures, the sacred writings that he used
did not read as ours does today. “God standeth
in the congregation of gods”, Justin wrote,
"I said, Ye are gods, and are all children of
the Most High...” (Dialogue of Justin). In addition to
Justin, this verse is also found translated in this same manner in the
works of Tertullian, Origen and Cyprian. Thus, we have the witness of
four of the earliest of Christians that “God
standeth in the congregation of gods”, when the scriptures
are speaking about us. Justin then goes on to explain that all men were
made like God, “free from suffering and death,
provided that they kept His commandments, and were deemed deserving of
the name of His sons, and yet they, becoming like Adam and Eve, work out
death for themselves... thereby it is demonstrated that all men are
deemed worthy of becoming ‘gods’, and of having power to become sons of
the Highest; and shall be each by himself judged and condemned like Adam
and Eve”.
Even our very own Bibles at one time more
clearly taught this same concept. In the third century 1 John 3:2 read
somewhat differently than it does in our present translations. Quoting
from Origen’s Contra Celsum we read that “it
doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall
appear, we shall be like God, and shall see Him as He is”.
With regard to our becoming like God, Origen then writes regarding
Matthew 5:48 that “...the virtue of man and of
God is identical. And therefore we are taught to become ‘perfect,’ as
our Father in heaven is perfect”.
The great truth that has been continually
expressed by both Jewish and Christian visionaries is that the knowledge
of the mysteries of God and the Divine Plan begins with the knowledge of
ourselves as the Prodigal Sons of our Heavenly Father. It is for this
reason that the second-century Church Father Clement of Alexandria said
that it is “…the greatest of all lessons to
know one's self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing
God, he will be made like God… and that man becomes God, since God so
wills”. In his treaties on The Soul and the Resurrection,
St Gregory writes that “the Resurrection is no
other thing than 'the re-constitution of our nature in its original
form’”, and states that there will come a time
“…when the complete whole of our race shall
have been perfected from the first man to the last”. This
statement should provoke great thought in the reader who is under the
misconception that our Heavenly Father would destroy or forever cut off
one of his sons or daughters who are lost in this world. If the whole
of our race will one day be perfected from the first man to the last,
then there are many grave misconceptions on the part of believers today.
The reason these great
truths are no longer the focus of the modern church is best captured in
the words of
A. Powell Davies:
“Biblical scholars”,
he writes,
”were not disturbed
by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all
along that the origin of Christianity was not what was commonly supposed
to have been”
(quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on
the Dead Sea Scrolls). What Davies was referring to was the fact that
in the fourth century, the Church of Constantine so altered the focus of
the teachings of the New Covenant, that what we call Christianity today
has its doctrinal legacy of birth in Pagan Rome, and has little in
common with the religion that the Son of God revealed to man at the
beginning of our Common Era.
Unlike
the 4th century church of Constantine that declared Jesus to be God, the
original disciples and first followers of Jesus saw him as a man who
lived such a holy and consecrated life (see
Ebionite HomePage),
that he became At-One with God -- and thus became the Divine Pattern
that all men must emulate. Their view of him was that he was the
firstborn -- or the first resurrected to the Kingdom -- the first of the
prodigal sons to return home from among us, his brothers. This is
especially seen in the words of the Lord where he said:
“For whosoever shall
do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and
sister, and mother”
(Matt 12:50 KJV).
It is plain in
the scriptures that Jesus is
“a pattern to them
which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting”
(1 Tim 1:16 KJV). A pattern is not
something that you casually believe in -- but rather, something that you
mold your life after. Moreover, if Jesus is the pattern, then Jesus is
the very standard by which all men are to be judged. Why? Because if
Jesus was a man who was able to perfect himself by fulfilling the Royal
Law within himself, and be resurrected into the Kingdom, then all our
excuses for leading carnal and immoral lives are without merit -- i.e.,
because this same standard would then be expected of us -- the Lord's
brothers and sisters.
The
Apostle tells us:
“Therefore be
imitators of God, as beloved children”
(Eph 5:1 NAS). If we were created as
inferior beings who were nothing more than the natural offspring of Adam
and Eve, as Christians believe today, then the Apostle would never have
told a race of inferior beings to imitate God. The basis of Paul's
words is seen in the fact that man is created in the image and likeness
of God, and is God's own offspring. If we were inferior beings,
neither would God command us:
“ye shall therefore
be holy, for I am holy”
(Lev 11:45 KJV), if we did not possess
this innate ability. What is written here is no different than what
St. Gregory said when he wrote that we must walk the
“path of an exact
imitation of Him Who leads the way to salvation”
-- which path in the words of St.
Nazianzen, reveals to us our true nature and makes
“us like God”.
When
a child becomes an adult, is he inferior to his parent? In like
manner, when the prodigal son returns home to the Edenic Kingdom of
Origination, and matures to his full spiritual potential and stature, is
he inferior to his father? What is important is for us to realize that
we do not know our true potential, and neither do we understand the
process that gives us the ability to
“imitate God”,
and makes us
“like God”.
The undeniable Christian Truth that no one who claims to be a believer
should deny, is that we don't know the answer to these questions. How
can we? As Christians, we have faith that Jesus meant what he said
when he promised that he would teach us -- and reveal to us all the
Mysteries of God -- if we become his faithful disciple.
This great truth
is seen in Origen's reply to Celsus where he wrote:
“By participation in
the Son of God one is adopted as a son…
by participation in the Holy Spirit is a man rendered holy and
spiritual…”. The problem is seen
in the fact that the Church totally alienated themselves from the
knowledge and awareness of that principle called the Son of God that
dwells within each of us (see
The Logos).
Neither can the Church comprehend the reality that this Indwelling Logos
or Mind of God, is the One Teacher that Jesus commanded to seek out and
learn from (see
The
Search For The True Prophet). And that this innate ability to
seek out and learn directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God/True
Prophet, is the only means for the lost prodigal sons and daughters to
acquire the knowledge of TheWay -- which will free them from enslavement
to the ignorance of what Jesus portrayed as the Citizen of this, the Far
Country -- which Paul portrayed as the god of this world.
The power of the Citizen of the Far Country
which totally controls the organic people of the earth, is in his
ability to shackle the individual in the abyss of ignorance -- portrayed
by Jesus as the "outer darkness" of
mind and being (see
Outer Darkness) -- also portrayed as Plato's Cave (see
Cave) -- and the means
to escape the shackles of ignorance can only be revealed to those who
seek to learn directly from the True Prophet (see
The Spiritual Disenfranchisement Of The Mind). Paul makes
reference to the wisdom of the wise of this world coming to naught --
and this is because man's own higher soul and spiritual reality is
simply inconceivable to his "natural"
organic physical consciousness (see
Mystery Of
The Gospel).
The Gospel of
Thomas declares:
"But
if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who
are that poverty... Whoever
finds himself is superior to the world".
It does not say to Know God -- because it is impossible to Know God,
without first knowing one's self. Those who have not themselves yet
uncovered their true spiritual nature as the Sons and Daughters of God,
perceive sacred truths in forms, types, and allegories -- because they,
being carnal,
“cannot comprehend” the mysteries
of God that awaits them. When God, in the words of St. Nazianzen, no
longer is an
“object of wonder”,
but rather an
“object of desire”
-- and we, desiring to be purified from
the defilements of this world, make ourselves fit vessels for the Lord
to indwell, the Spirit, according to St. Nazianzen, reveals to us our
true nature, and the revelation of this manifest Sacred Knowledge makes
“us like God; so
that when we have thus become like Himself, God may, to use a bold
expression, hold converse with us as Gods, being united to us, and that
perhaps to the same extent as He already knows those who are known to
Him”.
St. Nazianzen then writes that
“the Divine Nature
then is boundless and hard to understand”
by those who are yet carnal and think
as natural beings of this world.
Who among us has
attained to such a level of Godliness that God will
“converse with us as
Gods”?
It is for this reason that Origen admits that the disciple of Christ
knows full well that growing to spiritual maturity is not a simple
chore. In the same way that a fetus and infant cannot grow to maturity
in the cycle of a day, neither can the soul grow to its Godly potential
in the cycle of one lifetime. In the same way that a child grows to a
man in steps, Jesus taught (see
The Unanswerable Question) the soul
has transmigrated and inhabited many bodies of flesh in its quest for
this necessary level of Godliness. It is also the true disciple of
Christ who knows that the Lord Jesus came to save us from our fate of
being lost in this world -- in subjection to the Law, ever reincarnating
in useless lives of suffering and spiritual depravation -- but carnal
man, refusing to follow in Jesus' footsteps, continually chooses the
darkness of this world over the Light of the kingdom.
The question the
modern believer must ask is this: Do you truly believe the words of our
Lord when He said:
“I am the
way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me”
(John 14:6 NIV)? Yet,
because the Church has spiritually castrated itself by its adherence to
(pagan) manmade doctrines of imperial emperors and priests of the shadow
church of Pagan Rome, the people are incapable of comprehending that
while their brother the historical Jesus is representative of the
pattern, it is the Indwelling Logos/Son of God that is the Source of
both all Truth and Life. That this fact was declared in the original
Gospel message, is proven in The Ten
Words.
If you believe these
words, then you have only one option: You must be ready to cast off the
manmade doctrines of error that have become infused into modern
Christianity, and become a genuine disciple of the Light. If you truly
believe, then you must begin your search for the real Jesus. The true
Christians are not those who believe in the antichrist of Constantine or
the very carnal and Pagan doctrines of the Roman Church -- but rather,
those who realize that they must have Jesus the Nazirene, and no
other. True Christians know that it is not enough to believe, they
must believe the Truth -- which Truth can only be received directly from
the Lord. Further, you must receive and become your true self -- i.e.,
the Being of Light, while you are
still alive in the physical body -- as demonstrated in the words from
the Gospel Of Philip:
"If anyone
becomes a child of the bridal chamber, he will receive the light. If
anyone does not receive it while he is here, he will not be able to
receive it in the other place. He who will receive that light will not
be seen, nor can he be detained. And none shall be able to torment a
person like this, even while he dwells in the world. And again when he
leaves the world, he has already received the truth in the images. The
world has become the Aeon (eternal realm), for the Aeon is fullness for
him. This is the way it is: it is revealed to him alone, not hidden in
the darkness and the night but hidden in a perfect day and a holy
light."
It is impossible for most Christians to
succeed in the manifestation of the pattern (of Jesus) within
themselves, because they are of a peasant/serf/subject mindset. They
attempt to worship God as if he were a worldly ego-driven king --
telling him how wonderful he is. Thus, they see themselves as subjects
that must appease and glorify the king -- in contradistinction to
imitating the pattern that that the historical man Jesus perfected in
his own life and return as the first prodigal son to totally fulfill the
Law within himself -- which fulfilling of the Law enables each prodigal
son and daughter to learn directly from the Indwelling Son of God, and
grow to their own full maturity in Messiah/Christ. Thus, Paul writes
to the congregation at Galatians: "My dear
children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is
formed in you" (Gal 4:19-20 NIV) -- and if a believer
fulfilled the requirements of second birth by the mere profession of
words as Christians believe and practice today, then Paul never would
have stated these words to the Galatians. And that because of the
modern Church's subject/peasant mindset of appeasement with their lips,
that fails to embrace the necessary pattern that enables them to fulfill
the Law within themselves, they fail to understand and bring about the
Spiritual Birth from the Virgin (see
Virgin
Birth). Thus, they fail to understand that both the wives of
Abraham are an allegory -- as well as the account of the Virgin Birth of
Jesus -- and they remain totally ignorant of the meaning of Paul's words
when he wrote: "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not
hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by
a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which
things are an allegory..." (Gal 4:21-24 KJV) -- an allegory which
portrays the first stage of birth which is of the flesh, and the second
stage of birth which is of the promise and the Spirit -- and is
presented in the allegory of the Virgin Birth (see
Virgin
Birth). Further, it is impossible to bring about this next stage
of birth apart from what is portrayed in the name of Joseph (see
Joseph - The Generative Power Of The Kingdom). And because the
Church as in their adoption of pagan dogma and systems of belief totally
alienated themselves from the spiritual meaning of the Gospels, the
words of the Gospel of
Philip presents their spiritually disenfranchised fate -- i.e.,
"Those who say that first they shall die and
(then) they shall arise are
confused. If they do not first receive the resurrection (while) they
live, they will not receive anything (when)
they die"
(see Gospel Of Philip).
In not understanding how the ancients
used the term Demiurge, modern man has fallen into the trap of
worshipping false gods. While the term Demiurge was
used by Plato and the Gnostics, its most well known usage was in the
portrayal of the Jews as worshipping a Demiurge instead of the true
Creator-God. But in the failure to apply what Jesus
portrayed as the Key of Knowledge
-- and that each person or group of believers fashion the world in which
they dwell through the filter of their mindset and doctrines of belief
-- modern man remains both ignorant of who and what he worships.
The meaning of the word Demuirge which is often portrayed as a lesser
god, indicates "one who fashions, shapes, and
models" -- and when the
Key of Knowledge is applied, it is understood that each person of
group of likeminded people all ascribe to a vision of the world that is
perceived through the filter of their system of beliefs.
When the Church was converted over to a system of redemption under Pagan
Rome, Jesus ceased to be the example and pattern for all of mankind to
follow and imitate -- and began the role of a pagan mojo that was a
perpetual sacrifice for sin -- which transitioned the believer into the
subject (see Subject Mindset) which was common
among the heathen population of the Roman Empire.
And while the whole belief system of Jesus the redeemer that permits the
body of believers to dwell in what can be an environment of perpetual
sin is openly condemned and rejected by the biblical authors (see
The Fallacy Of Salvation By Faith Alone), the
great void in Church dogma and the flawed foundation of modern Christian
doctrine of belief has so alienated the body of believers from the core
Gospel teachings and spiritual objectives, that the Church has exiled
itself to a condition of profound blind ignorance in a Spiritual
Diaspora. Worshipping a manmade god which they
call Jesus.
If it was Paul's intention to create a
religion where salvation is by faith apart from the person's actions,
then he would not have warned that if the believer sins after coming to
the knowledge of TheWay, that there is no longer a sacrifice for them --
and they are very much an abomination and apostate to the Kingdom of God
(see Fate Of Christians Worse Than Unbelievers).
But because Roman (pagan) philosophy which was Mithraic in its core
concepts, was built upon the foundation of sacrifice for perpetual sin
-- which philosophy has little in common with the original Gospel
teachings of TheWay -- the prediction of Paul has come to pass in his
vision that the Church which called itself Christian, would worship the
Anti-Christ as God (see
Church of the AntiChrist).
You Will Know Them By Their Fruit: The
Christian today dwells under the illusion that because of their belief
in Jesus, they are exempt having to live in accord with the Law and the
Commandments of God. thus, they are themselves a lawless
people who claim to possess a license to live in any manner of their
choosing. Thus, they have exempted themselves from the
Gospel requirements that declares:
“But why do
you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say?”
(Luke 6:46 NKJ). And, they wrongly believe that the
very words of the Gospel do not apply to them:
“Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will
enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father
who is in heaven”
(Matt 7:21 NIV).
The modern mindset and culture
of the western world which has become associated with the Church, has in
practice taken the abomination and immorality of Sodom and Gomorrah to a
new level. In a world where young girls and boys casually
hook-up, marriage has become virtually null and void.
And with statistics demonstrating that over 25% of Evangelical
Christians are addicted to pornography, does the words of Jesus have any
meaning to the modern believer -- i.e.,
"...But I tell you that anyone who looks at a
woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart”
(Matt 5:28 NIV).
That the modern Christian remains totally ignorant of the true purpose
of sex and marriage with respect to the Divine Pattern with the
environment of a
Spiritual Marriage. There is a reason for every
spiritual precept in the scriptures -- and thus, the article
Lilith - The Demonic Reality Of
Feminism, opens with the statement:
To engage in a behavior that you are
totally ignorant of the consequences -- is to walk blindfolded
into freeway traffic -- to play Russian Roulette with a fully
loaded revolver -- is to walk barefoot in a pit of poisonous
vipers. While this present article (Lilith)
was written many years ago, there is a section in the newly
authored article
The Three Lies
entitled Man And Woman as the
Cosmic Ovum And Sperm, that will present to the
reader important knowledge that has been censored -- and that is
generally unknown to our modern culture. Why does the Bible
reject unmarried sex? Why did Jesus even condemn visual lust
played out in one's mind? Why is casual sex prohibited in the
scriptures? Not to know the answers to these questions, is to
walk blindfolded into heavy freeway traffic. Knowledge is
Power -- and when proper knowledge is applied to one's life, the
person becomes empowered to prevail over all forces in
opposition to one's success. The informed mind can succeed,
where the uninformed and ignorant will fail.
Not only does modern man not
understand the underlying reasons that the scriptures reject
casual sex, but our modern culture which is based upon junk
science -- a junk science that is not only easily demonstrated
to be counterfeit -- but is also the cause of the suppression of
scientific findings of fact that would force informed people to
immediately reject the folly and tenets of our modern culture
which enslaves the ignorant. While freedom and choice is good
-- anytime that we act blindly without knowing the consequences
of our actions, we are putting ourselves in great danger. And
in many ways the prevailing ignorance of most young women in our
modern culture, can very much be likened to a blind date with a
serial killer who is in search of his next victim. Not to
understand the scientific and spiritual principles presented at
the link which holographically demonstrates that man and woman
is very much a Cosmic
Ovum And Sperm that is endeavoring to bring about the
next level of birth within the mind and being of the individual
-- is to remain in the abyss of self-ignorance. |
The worship of the Jesus
Demiurge of Pagan Rome has not only spiritually disenfranchised the
modern believer from the core and objectives of the Gospels, but has so
spiritually castrated the congregation of believers, that they have been
rendered impotent with respect to bringing about the necessary spiritual
maturity that would enable them to even begin to understand the essence
of the Gospel purpose with any depth in their lives.
The Biblical
Foundational Mindset: Christians are faith-based, simply
because both the essence of the Gospel and the objectives and higher
realities of life make absolutely no sense to their limited thinking
which is inhibited by a foundational mindset that is pagan and
manmade. It is impossible for them to comprehend the reality of the
foregoing Gospel teachings that they continually ignore -- and how these
important teachings can possibly apply to them in the manner that they
appear to -- because the very foundation of their thinking is manmade
and counterfeit. And this fact is especially seen in the question
asked by the disciples:
"Now as Jesus passed by,
He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him,
saying, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born
blind?'" (John
9:1-2 NKJ). Thus,
what Christian today would ask the forgoing question? Not a single one
would. Why? Because modern Christians have been totally alienated
from the biblical foundational mindset, by the very doctrines adopted
while the Church was ruled over by Pagan Rome. Thus, we must pose the
question: What prompted the disciples of Jesus to even ask such a
question? Turning to the historian, this ultra important element to the
equation of life is made reference to by Edward Gibbon in the footnote
regarding the question of the disciples at John 9:2:
"The disciples of Jesus were
persuaded that a man might have sinned before he was born, (John, ix.
2,) and the Pharisees held the transmigration [reincarnation] of
virtuous souls, (Joseph. de Bell. Judaico, l. ii. c. 7;) and a modern
Rabbi is modestly assured, that Hermes, Pythagoras, Plato, etc., derived
their metaphysics from his illustrious countrymen"
(Gibbon; Decline & Fall) -- metaphysics that
embraced the concept of the pre-existence and transmigration of the
soul.
Again, let me pose the
question as to what this statement means to us from a modern-day
perspective? It means that the mindset and doctrinal thinking of the
modern believer is so alienated from the original biblical foundational
mindset and thinking, that the modern believer has been rendered
spiritually sterile. The original mindset and thinking with respect
to the events of life from the perception of the disciples is explored
in the Wycliffe Commentary where it is written:
"The question of the disciples
(v. 2) was grounded in the belief that bodily infirmity or suffering was
due to sin, whether of parents (Exo 20:5) or of the man himself,
presumably on the basis of the soul’s pre-existence, which some Jews
held".
Thus we must ask: Is
this some Jewish fable that the disciples of Christ conjured up
themselves? Or is this belief a foundational element of the Gospel
that Jesus taught to them? Once properly understood the position of
the disciples is founded upon the construct of Jesus' statement to the
person he healed and made whole:
"...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
thee" (John 5:14 KJV). And what this means is that those
who sin -- especially after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel
message -- inherit a fate even worse than before they were healed from
their sin. To the degree that Paul warned the congregation of
believers: ,
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows”
(Gal 6:7 NIV).
What does it mean that
"...God cannot be
mocked -- [and that each person] reaps what he sows”?
To the degree that Jesus warned the man:
"...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Yet,
to their own spiritual demise, the vast majority of Christians promote
the belief that they are exempt from having their own sin and misdeeds
come back upon them in the manner that is portrayed in these verses --
and that somehow they have been exempted from the fruit of their own
ways, while everyone else is held in judgment. In fact, Christians
promote the doctrine that because they attempt to appease the Lord with
their lips, they virtually have a license to live in sin. And they
cling to this doctrine even though the Gospel warns that their fate will
be worse than the unbelievers (see
Fate) -- and that
because of their infidelity to the Gospel wherein they crucify the Son
of God afresh, even the opportunity of salvation by virtue of the
sacrifice on the cross has been denied to them (see
Sacrifice).
And because of their infidelity to the Gospel, they have been rendered
spiritually blind to the degree that they fail to perceive that they are
dwelling in what Jesus portrayed as The Prison and the
"outer darkness" of mind and being
(see Blindness)
-- incapable of understanding the core meaning of the Gospel and the
scriptures.
When Jesus warned the man
"...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
thee" -- he confirmed the doctrine that all the calamities of
life is caused by man's sin and disobedience to the Royal Law of God.
On the question itself
that the disciples of Jesus asked -- i.e., Master, who did sin? -- the
commentary Barnes’ Notes writes that:
"It was a universal opinion
among the Jews that calamities of all kinds were the effects of sin. The
case, however, of this man was that of one that was blind from his
birth, and it was a question which the disciples could not determine
whether it was his fault or that of his parents. Many of the Jews, as it
appears from their writings (see Lightfoot), believed in the doctrine of
the transmigration of souls; or that the soul of a man, in consequence
of sin, might be compelled to pass into other bodies, and be punished
there. They also believed that an infant might sin before it was born
(see Lightfoot), and that consequently this blindness might have come
upon the child as a consequence of that".
On the question of who did
sin, this man, or his parents, and the pre-existence and reincarnation
of the soul, the Adam Clarke Commentary tells us:
"The doctrine of the
transmigration of souls appears to have been an article in the creed of
the Pharisees, and it was pretty general both among the Greeks and the
Asiatics. The Pythagoreans believed the souls of men were sent into
other bodies for the punishment of some sin which they had committed in
a pre-existent state. This seems to have been the foundation of the
disciples’ question to our Lord. Did this man sin in a pre-existent
state, that he is punished in this body with blindness? Or, did his
parents commit some sin, for which they are thus plagued in their
offspring!... The Jewish rabbis have had the same belief from the very
remotest antiquity. Origen cites an apocryphal book of the Hebrews, in
which the patriarch Jacob is made to speak thus: I am an angel of God;
one of the first order of spirits. Men call me Jacob, but my true name,
which God has given me, is Israel: Orat. Joseph. apud ORIG. Many of the
Jewish doctors have believed that the souls of Adam, Abraham, and
Phineas, have successively animated the great men of their nation. Philo
says that the air is full of spirits, and that some, through their
natural propensity, join themselves to bodies; and that others have an
aversion from such a union. See several other things relative to this
point in his treatises, De Plant. Noe-- De Gigantibus-- De Confus.
Ling.-- De Somniis, etc.; and see Calmet, where he is pretty largely
quoted".
It is important in our
assessment of genuine biblical foundations of thought to recognize the
fact that the pre-existence and what some call the reincarnation of the
soul was a universally accepted belief among the people who Jesus taught
the Gospel Precepts -- and in the case of the Disciples, the higher
reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Once this
fact is acknowledged, then we are forced to conclude that if this belief
about the nature of life was in error, and the journey of the
pre-existent soul is not a viable part of the teachings of Jesus, then
Jesus would have had to condemn it -- or, we must recognize that it was
removed by the later Gentile Church.
That the Pharisees understood
that a man is born blind from the misdeeds of a previous life is seen in
their words to the man:
"You were born entirely in
sins, and are you teaching us?"
(Jn 9:34 NAS).
Moreover, it is well documented that the Essenes -- who with the
discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now understood to be the
foundation of New Covenant teachings -- also believed in the
pre-existence and transmigration of the soul.
In his
Antiquity of the Jews, the Jewish historian Josephus, who had lived
among the Essenes, and was a contemporary of the man Jesus, stated that
the Essenes: “…resigned up their souls with
great alacrity, as expecting to receive them again. For their doctrine
is this, that bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made
of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for
ever; and that they came out of the most subtle air, and are united to
their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain
natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of
flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount
upward...”.
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Modern Christians fail to realize that
their religion evolved out of Judaism, and Spiritual Jews have always
founded their system of beliefs upon the concept of the pre-existent
soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes.
The following quotation is taken from The Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia, under the heading of Souls, Transmigration of:
“The doctrine of transmigration of souls, which
was especially accepted by the Karaites… is generally attacked by Jewish
philosophers, but is defended by Isaac Abravanel and Manasseh ben
Israel. It appears often in Cabala; it is found in organized form in
the Zohar, it is further developed in the teachings of Isaac Luria
(1534-1572), and in Hasidism it becomes a universal belief. According
to these teachings, all human souls have a common origin in the
spiritual unity of the primordial man, sparks of which form the
individual souls... The sin of Adam brought higher and lower souls into
confusion; as a result, every soul has to pass through a series of
incarnations... The soul itself has no sex, which is determined by the
body and may vary from incarnation to incarnation”.
In the Zohar, the foundational doctrine of Jewish Mysticism, it is
written that: “All souls are subject to the
trials of transmigration; and men do not know the designs of the Most
High with regard to them… The souls must re-enter the absolute substance
whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this end they must develop
all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they
have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence
another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition
which fits them for reunion with God”. This reunion with
God is the rebirth that was spoken of by Jesus to the Pharisee
Nicodemus, “a ruler of the Jews”.
While Christians attempt to interpret the parable of the Prodigal Son in
fragmented piecemeal, when taken as a whole, and understood as a
universal reality common to all of mankind in the manner it was intended
to be understood, it is recognized to be in total conflict with modern
Christian doctrine. Once it is understood that each of us is the
Prodigal Son/Daughter of our Heavenly Father, then it must also be
recognized that each of us at one time dwelled in the Kingdom prior to
journeying out into this, the "far country".
Thus, we see this parallel concept in the above quotation from the Zohar
where it states that each of us, like the Prodigal Son that we are, must
return to our Source -- i.e., "The souls must
re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged...."
In the
parable of the
Wedding Feast, those who come to TheCall, must have put on the
required Wedding Garment -- and thus, we see the parallel concept in the
Zohar in the words with respect to the required perfection of each soul:
"But to accomplish this end they must develop
all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them..."
To the degree
that Jesus stated in the Sermon on the Mount at Matthew 5:48 that each
soul must be as perfect as their Heavenly Father -- i.e., again parallel
to the Zohar:
"...and if they have not fulfilled this
condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so
forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them for
reunion with God”.
To even begin
to comprehend this higher reality of the perfection of the soul over the
course of many lifetimes, the person must understand the cycle of the
Prodigal Son/Daughter as presented in the words:
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,"
says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My
ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as
the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there,
but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give
seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes
forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall
accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I
sent it" (Isa 55:8-11 NKJ). God cannot fail -- and nothing
in Creation can be void -- and as the Prodigal Sons of the Most High,
each of us emanated from the Edenic Kingdom of Origination -- and each
us us must fulfill the requirement of perfection as presented at Matt
5:48 -- and if this required perfection is
"...not fulfilled this condition during one
life, [we] must commence another, a third, and so forth, until [our
souls] have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”
And as the Prodigal Sons/Daughters of the Most High, each of us was
forced to leave the Kingdom and venture out into this world which is
portrayed in the parable as the "far country"
-- not by our own choosing, but by the Will of God who brought this
world which is a realm where each of us is able to grow and evolve to
perfection -- i.e.,
“For the
creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the
will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will
be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious
freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been
groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time”
(Rom 8:20-22 NIV).
What the Apostle states in the above quotation is that it was the
Creator God that subjected mankind to the frustration of what we
perceive as the fall of man, in order that “the
creation itself will be liberated from its bondage” through
the process of the soul-evolution in this world which is God's Spiritual
University that perfects and brings about our eventual spiritual rebirth
into the Kingdom -- i.e., “We know that the
whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up
to the present time”.
The Church - In Crisis
In
the same way that it was said of the
Jews who rejected Jesus:
“Even
after Jesus had done all these
miraculous signs in their presence,
they still would not believe in him…”
Christians can
progress no further in their own walk in
TheWay
until
they first understand why these people
did not believe in Jesus, as seen in the
words:
“For
this reason they could not believe,
because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
‘He
has blinded their eyes and deadened
their hearts,
So
they can neither see with their eyes,
Nor understand
with their hearts’”
(John 12:37-40 NIV).
The
Apostate Church
Because of their apostasy, even if
Jesus himself was to come and speak to
the Christians today, their eyes would
remain blinded, their ears deafened, and
their hearts deadened. Why?
No amount of facts presented to the
Church can open the eyes of their
leaders. No amount of Truth
can persuade them that they are walking
down the proverbial broad-way of
self-destruction. Because
they judge themselves, by the standards
of this world, their vision of what
Jesus required has become clouded and
gravely misguided. Having
been turned from TheWay by the apostles
of the evil one in the more distant
past, they presently dwell in a
Spiritual Diaspora that Jesus portrayed
as the "outer
darkness" of mind and being
-- and because of their wholesale
disenfranchisement from the original
spiritual essence and purpose of the
Gospel Message, while it is true that
while they call upon the Name of the
Lord with their lips,
"...It would have been
better for them not to have known the
way of righteousness, than to have known
it and then to turn their backs on the
sacred command that was passed on to
them. Of them the proverbs are true: A
dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow
that is washed goes back to her
wallowing in the mud"
(2 Pet 2:20-22 NIV).
Their own Bibles witness that
they are apostates who
"...who crucifies the Son
of God afresh -- holding him up to
contempt."
And because they dwell in a Spiritual
Diaspora, there is nothing that anyone
can say that will save them from the
hell they have imposed upon themselves.
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While The Teachings Of Yeshua/Jesus Are The
Truth
The Way Of The Churches Bring Spiritual
Death
Because They Share A Common Doctrinal Flaw
Liberal And Conservative Churches
Are Merely Opposite Polarities Of The Same
Flaw
It is not a sin to have been misled by the
god of this world
Yeshua warned that even the elect would be
seduced
It is only a sin not to seek Truth, when it
has been presented to you
When the leaders of one Church oppose the
leaders of another Church, the equation is
not truth opposing error -- but rather, it
is as one polarity of error opposing it's
opposite polarity of error.
Why? Because it is their flawed
foundation that not only causes all the
opposing opinions that consume and divide
the Christian and ultimately the religious
world, but causes each group to
remain alienated from the Truth.
If, what Paul refers to as the god of this
world, can invoke disputes and factional
polarizations -- to the degree where
fragments of truth are mistaken for the
Whole Truth -- then the Truth has been
overcome by the power of darkness.
Yeshua warned that a House that is divided,
cannot stand -- and Christianity remains a
religion of mass confusion and opposing
opinions, because the god of this world has
prevailed in his endeavor to induce
Christians to ignore the warning of Paul on
the sin of sects (see
No Sects). Yeshua did not
come to promote doctrines of opinion and
belief -- but rather, he came to teach
TheWay that each person must walk, to Know
The Truth and the Kingdom. In
the parable of the good seed and the field,
the enemy sowed tares among the good seed --
and it has been these tares that had divided
believers and alienated them from being
nourished by the Sacred Manna of the Kingdom
that can only be received by those who pick
up their own cross and follow in the
footsteps of Yeshua and TheWay. Fix the flawed foundation, and all the
opposing opinions that divide the Christian
and religious world will very quickly disperse.
And while Christian's claim to rely upon the New
Testament -- it is the very
scriptures they champion that rejects their
doctrines of belief as being turned out of TheWay.
Why do they fail to see this fact?
Because they are blinded by their flawed
foundation which causes them to perceive in
error.
The Flawed
Doctrine Of Perpetual Redemption:
Church doctrine had become strongly
influenced and defined by carnal believers
who were converted in name only from the
paganism of Rome by the Emperor
Constantine. The pagan mindset
appeases a God that it cannot know, because
the thinking of the people are immature and
undeveloped. In the same way that the
Pharisees sacrificed animals for their sin,
the pagan Christians used Jesus as a
sacrifice for their sins. And in the same
way that Jesus condemned all animal
sacrifice -- stating that he was the
one time sacrifice for the sins of the faithful flock
-- the pagans of Rome who called themselves
Christian, turned Jesus into a perpetual
sacrifice for lives lived in continual sin, immorality
and often spiritual depravity.
Contrary to the paganism and idolatry of the
Church, the New Testament openly condemns those who
sin after embracing the teachings of Yeshua
and TheWay -- stating that they crucify the
Messiah/Christ afresh, and they forfeit any
and all hope
of salvation. Thus, in direct
opposition to Church doctrine, Yeshua/Jesus
taught that his followers had to keep the
Commandments and the Law in a spiritual
manner -- rather then the carnal manner of
the Pharisees -- and they had to be more
righteous: "Think
not that I am come to destroy the law, or
the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but
to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all
be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall
break one of these least commandments, and
shall teach men so, he shall be called the
least in the kingdom of heaven: but
whosoever shall do and teach them, the same
shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven. For I say unto you, That except
your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom
of heaven" (Matt 5:17-20 KJV).
To
the man who was healed by Yeshua he warned:
"Afterward Jesus
findeth him in the temple, and said unto
him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no
more, lest a worse thing come unto thee."
(John 5:14 KJV).
And once again this same reality is
portrayed in the words of Paul:
"But if, while we
seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves
also are found sinners, is therefore Christ
the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I
build again the things which I destroyed, I
make myself a transgressor."
(Gal 2:17-18 KJV).
These words mean absolutely nothing to
the leaders of the Churches, because to them
religion is a commercial business which they
peddle -- and for them to remain in
business, the prevailing spiritual sickness
must remain fully in effect.
While ignorance and spiritual
disenfranchisement is the cause of the
disease, sin is the outward effect of the
spiritual sickness that Jesus came to
cure. The disciple who was healed of this
congenital sickness, by virtue of the blood
of the Lamb, was granted the Power to be
healed from this sickness. Once
cured he did not remain sick -- but was
healed from the malady that was the cause of
his ignorance, suffering and spiritual
disenfranchisement. The Church,
on the other hand, thrives by promoting the
disease that afflicts mankind -- and it is
necessary to keep the people ignorant for
the prodigal sons and daughters to remain
shackled to lives of suffering in this, the
"far country"
where they are bound to the
"outer darkness"
of consciousness, mind and being.
As the Gospel
became corrupted by the pagans who called
themselves Christian, the degeneracy of the
Church was opposed by men such as
Pelagius who wrote that:
“Man is able, if he
likes, to live without sin and keep the
commandments of God, in as much as God gives
him this ability”. It is
important to recognize that Pelagius did not
say that man has this inherent ability --
but rather, God grants him this ability --
but this ability can only be bestowed upon
those disciples who are truly faithful to
the very spiritual essence of the teachings
of Jesus and TheWay. Pelagius vehemently
opposed the corruption of the clergy and
priests of the Roman Church -- the idolatry
of the Pagan Christians -- and this
statement was written against the dreadful
moral standards of the church which had
thoroughly embraced the doctrine of St.
Augustine that all events of life was
totally controlled by Divine Providence.
To the reasoning of Augustine, it made no difference if man committed
sin, because he did not possess freewill.
Under the doctrine of predestination
promoted by Augustine, man could do nothing
on his own -- and whether he was saved or
not, was predestined from before the world
was created. This doctrine was of course
used by the Roman Church because it
conveniently established the Church in the
role of the singular determining factor in
man’s search for salvation. Being a member
of the church was the only qualifier that
saved mankind -- and since man was morally
challenged because of the Original Sin of
Adam and Eve, it did not matter how defiled
or sinful a life he lived. From a
doctrinal perspective, all of mankind was
morally challenged -- man was a congenital
sinner, and could do nothing
on his own -- and since no deeds either good
or bad could save him -- it was doctrinally
reasoned that mankind could therefore live
in accordance with any moral standard he
desired, so long as he lived under the
protective umbrella of the Roman Church.
That Christians are in fact required to test
what they believe is seen in the commandment
of the Apostle to
“prove and test all things” --
and it is the claim of the original
teachings of Jesus that we have this ability
-- not by virtue of our own powers of carnal
reasoning, but because God has given us the
ability to carry out the commandment of the
Apostle. But Christians remain
shackled to ignorance, because they choose
to blindly believe in the carnal doctrines
of men. The very name Christian conveys a
person who is of an Anointed and Illumined
mind and understanding -- a state of mind
that our modern-day faith-based doctrines
represent only a very incomplete
understanding of the true depth of the
original Gospel message.
In the process of what is known as reverse
osmosis, man has the power to purify
contaminated water -- and he does so through
the process of removing the impurities that
became infused into the water as it flowed
from its source to the point where he is
able to receive it. In the case of what we
believe today, the filter that we use to
purify what we have received is knowledge --
and that knowledge can only be realized when
it is built upon the same foundation as that
which was found at the waters source.
History easily demonstrates that under the
rule of Roman Authority, the church fell
into such carnal degeneracy that it embraced
every sort of political and materialistic
corruption -- a corruption that brought the
level of the church so low, that it even
ordained sexual orgies for the priests.
To further
“illustrate the condition and character of
the times”, Gibbon writes in the
Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, that
“Simony”,
or the buying and selling of ecclesiastic
positions within the church,
“was not unknown in
those times; and the clergy sometimes bought
what they intended to sell. It appears that
the bishopric of Carthage was purchased by a
wealthy matron, named Lucilla, for her
servant Majorinus”. Regarding
the wholesale immorality and depravity of
the churches, Gibbon writes that:
“Fraud, envy, and
malice prevailed in every congregation. The
presbyters aspired to the episcopal office,
which every day became an object more worthy
of their ambitions”.
This morally bankrupt lifestyle was
justified under the Augustinian doctrine
that, by nature, man is incapable of doing
good, and he is saved by virtue of his
membership in the church. Those
who opposed the Pagan Church of Rome, were
condemned as heretics -- hunted down and
murdered (see
The Death Of The Teachings Of Jesus). Because Constantine was not only carnal, but
in every way a ruthless conscienceless
despot who embraced evil in everything he
did, the Church that he formed was born in
the image of its creator. The question
that every believer must ask today is how
corrupted and contaminated has the message
of Christ become after it had been placed in
the hands of mankind? In a letter to Pope
Leo X on September 6th, 1520, Martin Luther
wrote of the Christianity of his day, that
the church, “…once
the holiest of all, has become the most
licentious den of thieves, the most
shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of
sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even
Antichrist himself, if he should come, could
think of nothing to add to its wickedness”
(Quoted in: The Great Thoughts; compiled by
George Seldes).
That many Christians who remained carnal in
their understanding twisted the doctrine of
faith over the rituals of the Law which Paul
promoted among the Gentiles, is readily seen
in the statement of Peter where it is
written:
"Nevertheless we, according to His promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth in
which righteousness dwells. Therefore,
beloved, looking forward to these things, be
diligent to be found by Him in peace,
without spot and blameless; and account
that the longsuffering of our Lord is
salvation -- as also our beloved brother
Paul, according to the wisdom given to him,
has written to you, as also in all his
epistles, speaking in them of these things,
in which are some things hard to understand,
which untaught and unstable people twist to
their own destruction, as they do also the
rest of the Scriptures. You therefore,
beloved, since you know this beforehand,
beware lest you also fall from your own
steadfastness, being led away with the error
of the wicked; but grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. To Him be the glory both now and
forever. Amen" (2 Pet 3:13-18
NKJ).
If all that was necessary was to call upon
the name of Jesus and be saved, then Peter
never would have made notice that
"...as also in all
his epistles, speaking in them of these
things, in which are some things hard to
understand, which untaught and unstable
people twist to their own destruction, as
they do also the rest of the Scriptures."
If all that was necessary was to
have faith and call upon the name of the
Lord -- saying a prayer accepting Jesus as
the believers personal Lord and Savior --
then Peter never would have stated that many
of the believers who were reading Paul's
Epistles were ignorant of the essence of the
teachings of Yeshua who were
"...untaught and
unstable people twist to their own
destruction, as they do also the rest of the
Scriptures."
It is their flawed foundational doctrines of
belief that not only cause all the opposing
opinions that consume and divide the
Christian and ultimately the religious
world, but causes each group to remain
alienated from the Truth. Fix the
foundation and restore Wholeness, and the
Living Vine which the Church once was, will
again be able to supply the spiritual manna
that will heal the Nations. Yet, if that
power that Paul refers to as the god of this
world, can continue to invoke disputes and
factional polarizations -- seducing people
into lives of blind belief in the carnal
doctrines or men -- to the degree
where fragments of truth are mistaken for
the Whole Truth -- then the Truth as it is
manifest in this world will continue to be
overcome by the power of darkness. Yeshua
warned that a House that is divided, cannot
stand -- and Christianity remains a religion
of mass confusion and opposing opinions,
because the god of this world has prevailed
in his endeavor to induce Christians to
ignore the warning of Paul on the sin of
sects (see
No Sects). Yeshua did not come to
promote doctrines of opinion and belief --
but rather, he came to teach TheWay that
each person must live, think and walk in
this life, to Know The Truth and manifest
the Kingdom within them. In the parable of
the good seed and the field, the enemy sowed
tares among the good seed -- and it has been
these tares that has divided believers and
alienated them from being nourished by the
Sacred Manna of the Kingdom that can only be
received by those who pick up their own
cross and follow in the footsteps of Yeshua
and TheWay. Fix the flawed foundation --
restore Wholeness -- and all the opposing
opinions will disperse. And while
Christian's claim to rely upon the New
Testament -- it is the very scriptures they
champion that rejects their doctrines of
belief as being turned out of TheWay. Why
do they fail to see this fact? Because
they are blinded by their flawed foundation
which causes them to perceive in error.
Truth can only be revealed and received in
accord with the disciples sincere
willingness to live the Truth that has been
imparted to them from the Holy Spirit in
word, thought, desire and deed.
In refusing to live in the Life and Light of
TheWay, the Christian world has been
conquered, and they dwell in the abyss of
darkness and confusion. But what
is truly pitiful and sad, is the fact that
the people choose lives of suffering and
ignorance, when it is within their power to
Know the Truth that breaks the shackles of
the god of this world.
The twisting of the scriptures by a vast
multitude in the modern Church is
demonstrated in a recent Christian's
condemnation of someone in a forum who used
the name Eternal Seeker -- and the Christian
bases his allegations of heresy, on the
belief that Eternal Seeker is in error.
Why? Why was the person using the name
Eternal Seeker condemned by the Christian?
Because from his doctrinal Church
perspective, Christians dwell under the
deceptive belief that they have found Jesus --
and their belief is all that is required. So from
his very limited reasoning, the Christian
proclaims: What is there to seek? You
simply believe, and that is the end of it.
The fact that a man would call himself the
Eternal Seeker, in the limited understanding
of the Christian, proves to him that such a
man is lost and of Satan. Yet, the Bible
states that just the opposite is true -- and
it is in fact this very mindset that keeps
Christians spiritually ignorant, and
destroys even their opportunity to become a
Disciple of Yeshua and TheWay. Speaking of
the false shepherds who had been twisting
both the Epistles of Paul and the scriptures
to their own destruction, Peter writes:
"These men are springs without water and
mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness
is reserved for them. For they mouth empty,
boastful words and, by appealing to the
lustful desires of sinful human nature, they
entice people who are just escaping from
those who live in error. They promise them
freedom, while they themselves are slaves of
depravity -- for a man is a slave to
whatever has mastered him"
(2 Pet 2:17-19 NIV).
When Peter makes reference to the
"...people who are just escaping from
those who live in error",
he is speaking of those who are trying to escape the
clutches of the culture of this world,
by becoming what Paul called
"babes in Christ". And yet, what Peter is stating is the
fact that the very doctrines of the false
shepherds who they are following, are conveying to these
entry-level believers that they have
found freedom in the Gospel, when in fact they have
only just begun their walk in TheWay. The depravity that Peter speaks of is in
fact parallel to the warning in the
Epistle of James that
"faith
without works is dead"
-- i.e., without the works of the
spirit,
"...they themselves are
slaves of depravity -- for a man is a
slave to whatever has mastered him".
We must ask: Why would the
counterfeit clergy-shepherds promise the
people
"freedom"
in the Gospel and the Good News -- and
yet, Peter warns that they
"...themselves are slaves of
depravity"???
Because these shepherds of the simple
faith do not understand the words that
Yeshua said to the man who he had
healed:
"Behold, thou art made whole:
sin no more, lest a worse thing come
unto thee" (John
5:14 KJV). Having themselves never been
"WHOLE" -- or even remotely understand
the reality of Wholeness -- the
shepherds of the simple faith attempt to
use Jesus as a sacrifice to live in a
state of perpetual sin. And thus, these
blind guides are not only
disenfranchised from the very spiritual
essence of the teachings of Yeshua and TheWay, but they have themselves never
experienced Wholeness -- or even
understand the reality that is conveyed
in these words.
Perhaps the key to understanding the
false shepherds of the Church is found
in the words:
"Do not think that I came to
destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did
not come to destroy but to fulfill. For
assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and
earth pass away, one jot or one tittle
will by no means pass from the law till
all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore
breaks one of the least of these
commandments, and teaches men so, shall
be called least in the kingdom of
heaven; but whoever does and teaches
them, he shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven. For I say to you,
that unless your righteousness exceeds
the righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees, you will by no means enter
the kingdom of heaven"
(Matt 5:17-20 NKJ). Thus, while Yeshua
and his Ebionite (
http://Ebionite.com ) disciples
condemned the rituals and traditions of
the Pharisees, they openly acknowledged
the Royal Law that remains completely in
effect and binding upon all people's of
the earth.
Peter's next statement is not
only in direct opposition -- and
runs contrary to what is preached in
the Churches today -- but should
literally haunt every person who
calls themselves a Christian
believer:
"If they have escaped
the corruption of the world by
knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ and are again entangled in it
and overcome, they are worse off at
the end than they were at the
beginning. It would have been better
for them not to have known the way
of righteousness, than to have known
it and then to turn their backs on
the sacred command that was passed
on to them. Of them the proverbs are
true: A dog returns to its vomit,
and, A sow that is washed goes back
to her wallowing in the mud"
(2 Pet 2:20-22 NIV)
Where the modern Church promotes
the doctrine that they are saved by
Grace regardless of the manner they
live their lives -- and they have
made Jesus into a Pagan idolatrous
sacrifice as a cloak for immorality
and spiritual depravity -- Peter not only
states that this doctrine is in
grave error, but correctly states
that:
"It would have been better
for them not to have known the way
of righteousness, than to have known
it and then to turn their backs on
the sacred command that was passed
on to them."
Every Christian should ask
themselves:
How Can This Be???
Christians promote the doctrine that
only those who believe can be saved
-- and here Peter is stating the
opposite is true, and that those
people who claim to believe, may be
worse off after they have
come to believe, than before they
began to believe. The shepherds and
blind guides that Peter is making
reference to, are those who preach
the modern doctrine of perpetual sin
that is promoted in churches today
-- i.e.,
"This is especially true
of those who follow the corrupt
desire of the sinful nature..."
(2 Peter 2:10 NIV). Because these
false shepherds fail to understand
the reality of what Yeshua meant
when he used the terms Whole, and
Complete, they preach the
"...promise [of] freedom [in
their doctrine of salvation by faith
and grace alone], while they
themselves are slaves of depravity."
In what can only be in total
opposition to what Christians today
believe, Peter states that it would
have been better for the entry-level
believers to have never heard of the
Good News of the Gospel message, than to have heard, and then
fall prey to the false shepherds who
promise freedom but blindly lead the
believers into the proverbial ditch. And there is simply no means for the
modern Christian who believes the
doctrines of the Church, to even
begin to understand what Peter is
making reference to. Why? Because
what is preached in the Churches
today, has relatively little in
common with what Yeshua actually
taught. And in truth, modern
Christian doctrine is founded upon
the religious principles of Pagan
Rome (see
The Christian Judas),
than what Yeshua actually taught. How can this be? A person will ask?
Quite contrary to modern Christian
doctrine where all believers are
saved, it is very clearly
demonstrated in the scriptures that
believers who do not live in
accordance with the Commandments of
the Lord will be punished even more
severely than the non-believer. This
truth is demonstrated in the words:
“That servant who knows his master's
will and does not get ready or does
not do what his master wants will be
beaten with many blows. But the one
who does not know and does things
deserving punishment will be beaten
with few blows. From everyone who
has been given much, much will be
demanded; and from the one who has
been entrusted with much, much more
will be asked” (Luke 12:47-48 NIV). What
Yeshua is
stating to us is that believer’s who
do not fulfill the Commandments,
will be punished more severely, than those who
do not know the will of God.
That many Christians who remained
carnal in their understanding
twisted the doctrine of faith over
the rituals of the Law which Paul
promoted among the Gentiles -- as
they continue to do today -- is
readily seen in the statement of
Peter where it is written:
"Nevertheless we, according to His
promise, look for new heavens and a
new earth in which righteousness
dwells. Therefore, beloved,
looking forward to these things, be
diligent to be found by Him in
peace, without spot and blameless;
and account that the longsuffering
of our Lord is salvation-- as also
our beloved brother Paul, according
to the wisdom given to him, has
written to you, as also in all
his epistles, speaking in them of
these things, in which are some
things hard to understand, which
untaught and unstable people twist
to their own destruction, as they do
also the rest of the Scriptures.
You therefore, beloved, since you
know this beforehand, beware lest
you also fall from your own
steadfastness, being led away with
the error of the wicked; but
grow in the grace and knowledge of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To
Him be the glory both now and
forever. Amen" (2 Pet
3:13-18 NKJ).
If all that was necessary was to
call upon the name of Jesus and be
saved, then Peter never would have
made notice that
"...as also
in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things, in which are
some things hard to understand,
which untaught and unstable people
twist to their own destruction, as
they do also the rest of the
Scriptures."
If all that was necessary was to
have faith and call upon the name of
the Lord -- saying a prayer
accepting Jesus as the believer's
personal Lord and Savior -- then
Peter never would have stated that
many of the believers who were
reading Paul's Epistles were
ignorant of the essence of the
teachings of Yeshua who were
"...untaught and unstable people
twist to their own destruction, as
they do also the rest of the
Scriptures."
Proof of the above -- and proof
that when Paul was speaking of
faith, he was not speaking of a
faith that permits the believer to
continue to sin after embracing the
Gospel -- is confirmed in the words
in the Epistle to the Hebrews where
it is warned that if a believer sins
willfully after becoming a believer,
that they have crucified the Christ
afresh, and no sacrifice
(Jesus/Grace) can have any effect on
their destiny of judgment as an
apostate to the teachings of Yeshua
and TheWay:
"For it is impossible to
restore again to repentance those
who have once been enlightened, who
have tasted the heavenly gift, and
have become partakers of the Holy
Spirit, and have tasted the goodness
of the word of God and the powers of
the age to come, if they then commit
apostasy, since they crucify the Son
of God on their own account and hold
him up to contempt.. For if we sin
deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment,
and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries."
(Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27
RSV).
Christian Apostasy
The Legacy of Martin Luther
Christians Hold Yeshua In Contempt:
What is Paul, the alleged author of
the Epistle to the Hebrews, saying
in these important words?
Very clearly, he warns that
repentance from a life of sin is a
one time thing -- reserved for those
who are entry-level Christians --
because if after repenting the
believer
"...sins
deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment,
and a fury of fire which will
consume the adversaries."
Why? Because a believer
who willfully sins after repentance
and coming to the knowledge of
TheWay, is a counterfeit believer
who is an
"apostate... who crucifies the Son
of God afresh -- holding him up to
contempt."
Martin Luther who is the
father of the modern Church
doctrine that believers are
saved solely by faith
irrespective of their actions
and the way they live their
lives,
recognized that he couldn't
explain the above words of Paul
that very clearly opposed
everything that Luther believed
to be true, and he therefore
rejected the Epistle of the
Hebrews -- as he did also with
over half of the New Testament.
But did Luther understand the
spiritual essence of the
teachings of Yeshua and TheWay
in their original form?
In view of the fact that Luther
could not come to terms with
this and many other scriptural
statements that he rejected, it
is easy to recognize that
because Luther was himself a
priest in the spiritually
disenfranchised Church of Rome,
that Luther did not at all
understand the very First
Principles of the Spiritual
Gospel that was taught by Yeshua
and his Ebionite Disciples of
TheWay. While the
above words of Paul are
impossible to understand from a
modern Christian perspective,
they remain totally faithful to
the foundational teachings that
the modern Christian has been
alienated from due to the
limitations of manmade Church
doctrine.
Can Christians even hear and
acknowledge the Truth? How
can I even begin to portray reality
to those whom Paul states are
apostates to the teachings of
Yeshua and TheWay? Holding
him in absolute contempt?
Paul states that those who
willfully sin after repentance
are in fact crucifying the Son
of God afresh -- which means
that their leaders in the faith
are Judas' who betray
Messiah/Christ.
And in teaching believers that
they are saved by their faith
regardless of the mindset or the
lifestyle they embrace --
regardless of their actions and
deeds -- the reality is that the
believers of the simple faith
are following the least, from
the perspective of the Kingdom
-- i.e.,
"...Whoever therefore
breaks one of the least of these
commandments, and teaches men
so, shall be called least in the
kingdom of heaven; but whoever
does and teaches them, he shall
be called great in the kingdom
of heaven. For I say to you,
that unless your righteousness
exceeds the righteousness of the
scribes and Pharisees, you will
by no means enter the kingdom of
heaven"
(Matt 5:17-20 NKJ).
Thus, Paul writes of these
counterfeit clergy
who
"...promise them
freedom"
in their idolatry of
using Yeshua/Jesus as a license
to continue to sin, that they
are Apostates to the Kingdom.
The faith of Paul in no manner
promoted a coverture of sin in
the manner that Christians
preach today -- and this is
especially seen in Paul's
proclamation:
"What
shall we say then? Shall we
continue in sin that grace may
abound? Certainly not! How shall
we who died to sin live any
longer in it? …knowing this,
that our old man was crucified
with Him, that the body of sin
might be done away with, that we
should no longer be slaves of
sin… Therefore do not let sin
reign in your mortal body, that
you should obey it in its lusts.
And do not present your members
as instruments of
unrighteousness to sin, but
present yourselves to God as
being alive from the dead, and
your members as instruments of
righteousness to God. For sin
shall not have dominion over
you, for you are not under law
but under grace. What then?
Shall we sin because we are not
under law but under grace?
Certainly not! Do you not know
that to whom you present
yourselves slaves to obey, you
are that one's slaves whom you
obey, whether of sin leading to
death, or of obedience leading
to righteousness?”
(Rom 6:1-16 NKJ).
Thus, it is important to see
that Paul portrayed those who
lived in sin as being dead --
i.e., as when Yeshua said:
"Follow
me; and let the dead bury their
dead" (Matt
8:22 KJV). And this is
why the prodigal son who was
lost in the
"far
country", was
portrayed as being dead.
From a biblical perspective,
once a disciple of the Lord has
been cleansed and made whole,
they are to
“sin no
more” (John 5:14;
8:11) -- and,
“Whoever abides in Him does not
sin. Whoever sins has neither
seen Him nor known Him”
(1 Jn 3:6 NKJ).
In surviving excerpts of what
has been historically known as
the Gospel According to the
Hebrews, which was reported to
be the
"original
version of Matthew"
that was composed in the Hebrew
language, of which our present
day gospel is a Greek
translation of, it was written:
"If ye be
in my bosom and do not the will
of my Father which is in heaven,
out of my bosom will I cast you
away". In the late nineteenth century a
library of scriptures was
uncovered which is today known
as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
-- wherein this verse is found
reading:
"Though ye
be gathered together with me in
my bosom, if ye do not my
commandants, I will cast you
forth".
And to the horror of modern
Christians who reject the Gospel
of the Nazirenes (see http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org
) and all its strange readings,
we once again find this same
verse: And I say to you,
"Though you be gathered
together in my bosom, if you
keep not my commandments I will
cast you forth. For if you keep
not the lesser mysteries, who
shall give you the greater."
This same
verse of scripture is quoted in
what is historically known as
the 2nd Epistle of Clement,
where it is written:
"Let
us, then, not only call Him
Lord, for that will not save us.
For He saith, 'Not every one
that saith to me, Lord, Lord,
shall be saved, but he that
worketh righteousness' …For this
reason… the Lord hath said,
'Even though ye were gathered
together to me in my very bosom,
yet if ye were not to keep my
commandments, I would cast you
off, and say unto you, Depart
from me; I know you not whence
ye are, ye workers of iniquity’"
(see
http://BibleCorruption.com
). And this same teaching is
also confirmed in an alternate
ending of the Gospel of Mark
which is quoted on the Ebionite
web site (
http://Ebionite.com ):
"This Age of lawlessness and
unbelieving lies under the sway
of Satan,
who
will not allow what lies under
the unclean spirits to
understand the truth and power
of God;
therefore, they said to Christ,
reveal your righteousness now.
Christ answered them, The term
of years for Satan's power has
now expired, but other terrors
are at hand. I was delivered to
death on behalf of sinners,
that they might return to the
truth and sin no more,
that they might inherit that
glory of righteousness which is
spiritual and imperishable in
heaven" (Moffatt,
quoting Gospel Of Mark in Codex
W - Also quoted by St. Jerome as
being the authentic ending of
the Gospel of Mark).
And in perfect agreement with
this alternate ending to the
Gospel of Mark, John writes:
"Whoever abides in Him does not
sin. Whoever sins has neither
seen Him nor known Him. Little
children, let no one deceive
you. He who practices
righteousness is righteous, just
as He is righteous. He who sins
is of the devil, for the devil
has sinned from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God
was manifested, that He might
destroy the works of the devil.
Whoever has been born of God
does not sin, for His seed
remains in him; and he cannot
sin, because he has been born of
God. In this the children of
God and the children of the
devil are manifest: Whoever does
not practice righteousness is
not of God, nor is he who does
not love his brother."
(I Jn
3:6-10 NKJ)
To the man who was healed by
Yeshua he warned:
"Afterward Jesus findeth him in
the temple, and said unto him,
Behold, thou art made whole: sin
no more, lest a worse thing come
unto thee."
(John 5:14 KJV).
And once again this same reality
is portrayed in the words of
Paul:
"But
if, while we seek to be
justified by Christ, we
ourselves also are found
sinners, is therefore Christ the
minister of sin? God forbid. For
if I build again the things
which I destroyed, I make myself
a transgressor."
(Gal 2:17-18 KJV).
And in total
agreement with Paul, Peter warns
that the the believers who
continue to sin
"...are worse off at
the end than they were at the
beginning. It would have been
better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness,
than to have known it and then
to turn their backs on the
sacred command that was passed
on to them. Of them the proverbs
are true: A dog returns to its
vomit, and, A sow that is washed
goes back to her wallowing in
the mud"
-- which is also expressed in
the words:
"...For if we sin
deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for
sins, but a fearful prospect of
judgment, and a fury of fire
which will consume the
adversaries."
And this reality that the people
of the Churches fail to
comprehend, is further confirmed
in Paul's letter to the
Corinthians:
"Therefore whoever eats
this bread or drinks this cup of
the Lord in an unworthy manner
will be guilty of the body and
blood of the Lord. But let a man
examine himself, and so let him
eat of the bread and drink of
the cup. For he who eats and
drinks in an unworthy manner
eats and drinks judgment to
himself, not discerning the
Lord's body. For this reason
many are weak and sick among
you, and many sleep"
(1 Cor
11:27-30 NKJ).
Pre-Nicene Christianity:
While the above New Covenant
concepts which on the surface
appear to conflict with the
doctrines of the Church, unless
the believer comes to understand
that modern Christianity has
little in common with the
original teachings of Jesus and TheWay, then they are destined
to remain spiritually
flat-lined. The
original Ebionite Nazirene
disciples of Jesus did not at
all believe that he was God --
but rather, the first of the
prodigal sons to so fulfill the
Law within himself, that he
became One with the indwelling
Logos/Son of God.
It can easily be proven that the
original scriptures portrayed
Jesus as becoming the Anointed
(Messiah/Christ) at his baptism
in the Jordan -- wherein, prior
to being edited to support the
Pagan doctrines of Rome (see
http://BibleCorruption.com
), the words spoken to Jesus by
the Father was:
"Thou
art my Son, this day have I
begotten thee" (see
http://TheTenWords.com ).
And this original statement is
further confirmed in both the
Book of Acts, as well as the
Epistle to the Hebrews --
wherein, with
regard to the passage at Hebrews
1:5, The Adam Clark Commentary
writes:
"This most
important use of this saying has
passed unnoticed by almost every
Christian writer which I have
seen; and yet it lies here at
the foundation of all the
apostle's proofs. If Jesus was
not thus the Son of God, the
whole Christian system is vain
and baseless..."
And in the same way
that Christians ignore this
important foundational teaching,
they continue to ignore the
above warnings that portray
those who continue to sin after
coming to the knowledge of
TheWay, as apostates who not
only have no hope of salvation,
but whose end is even worse than
the unbelievers.
Moreover, the above original
biblical baptism verse confirms
that the original Ebionite
Nazirenes were correct, and
faithful to the teachings of
Jesus, while the later doctrines
of the Church were founded in
the Paganism of Rome.
Which is why it was openly
stated:
“Biblical scholars were not
disturbed by what they found in
the Dead Sea Scrolls because
they had known all along that
the origin of Christianity was
not what was commonly supposed
to have been”
(A. Powell Davies
quoted by Millar Burrows in More
Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls).
If we pose the question as to
just how different the
pre-Nicene Church was from the
later Church of the Roman
Emperor Constantine?
The answer is, profoundly
different! In the
second century the Church was
accused of being a
"secret
system" -- teaching
the multitudes a totally
different doctrine than the
inner spiritual core (see
The Secret Doctrine).
And the official answer of the
Church was that:
“For
there are in the divinity of the
Word some helps towards the cure
of those who are sick”,
meaning the sinners who had
yet to submit themselves to the
healing of the Living Word which
enabled them to live a sinless
Consecrated Life.
And while the doctrines of
belief that are embraced by this
outer core of believers are
noted, their doctrines are
portrayed as being
“preached in the Churches… for
the simpleminded and for the
ears of the common crowd who are
led on to live better lives by
their belief.”
How closely aligned the
pre-Nicene Church was with the
original Ebionite Nazirene
teachings in the 2nd and 3rd
century, can be demonstrated by
quoting the book Gnosticism
and Early Christianity by
R.M. Grant where he writes:
“What
do we know about Roman
Christianity in Marcion’s time?
Admittedly the evidence is
rather poor in quantity. But
most of it points toward the
presence of a strongly Jewish
Christianity in the Roman
church... the basic concern...
is with ethics, Jewish ethics…
indeed the moral teaching.. is
so Jewish, and so similar to
that of some of the Dead Sea
Scrolls, that a modern scholar
has argued that… [it] cannot
possibly represent the
mainstream of Roman Christianity
in his time. Moreover, his
theology, such as it is, is
thoroughly Jewish… Presumably
the coming of the Spirit made
Jesus become Jesus Christ.”
And this fact is further
demonstrated by quoting the most
used and popular scripture in
the early Gentile Church, which
was known as the Shepherd of
Hermas. Quoting the article:
In the
Introduction of the
early Christian writing
known as the Shepherd of
Hermas, it is written:
“The Pastor of Hermas was
one of the most popular
books, if not the most
popular book, in the
Christian Church during the
second, third, and fourth
centuries..."
A. D. Howell-Smith writes
concerning the Shepherd of
Hermas (Jesus Not a Myth,
pp.120-121): "The
Shepherd speaks of a Son of
God;
but this Son of God is
distinguished from Jesus.
'That Holy Spirit which was
created first of all, God
placed in a body, in which
it should dwell, in a chosen
body, as it pleased him.'
This is Martini's
translation. F. C. Conybeare
renders the passage: 'God
made His Holy Spirit, which
pre-existed and created all
creation, to enter and dwell
in the flesh which He
approved.' In this text the
Holy Spirit appears to be a
divine substance. But we
must not suspect
Patripassionism.
The
'flesh' is spoken of as a
person who 'walked as
pleased God, because it was
not polluted on earth.'
'God, therefore, took into
counsel the Son and the
angels in their glory, to
the end that this flesh
might furnish, as it were, a
place of tabernacling (for
the Spirit), and might not
seem to have lost the reward
of its service. For all
flesh shall receive the
reward which shall be found
without stain or spot, and
in it the Holy Spirit shall
have its home.'
This
passage appears to make the
'tabernacling' of the Holy
Spirit in Jesus a reward for
the purity of his life.
Jesus then becomes divine
through the power of God,
after consultation with the
Son of God, who elsewhere in
The Shepherd is identified
with the Holy Spirit. 'The
most venerable angel,' 'the
glorious angel,' 'the holy
angel' are titles that
Hermas gives to Jesus in his
allegory; but it is
understood that the angelic
status of Jesus is not his
by nature. His labours on
earth to save and to cleanse
have gained him a
co-inheritance with the Holy
Spirit, God's primary Son,
so that Jesus now is the
second Son of God."
Notice the points in RED.
The modern Church can't at
all come to terms with the
reality that Jesus was not
God -- or the manifestation
of the Son of God -- but the man
Jesus became
One with the Son of God at
his baptism in the Jordan -- i.e.,
"...but
this Son of God is
distinguished from Jesus".
One becomes in unity with
the Son of God, through the
purity of their life --
i.e.,
"...The
'flesh' is spoken of as a
person who 'walked as
pleased God, because it was
not polluted on earth.'"
And the most important is
seen in the fact that Jesus
became the Messiah/Christ,
by walking in TheWay --
i.e.,
"...This
passage appears to make the
'tabernacling' of the Holy
Spirit in Jesus a reward for
the purity of his life."
And
in ignoring what I have portrayed as
The
Ten Words, the
Christian Church is in
denial of the Truth -- and
this is their folly that has brought
about their continued decline.
What does this important
scripture that was portrayed as
the most popular among the early
Gentiles say, that caused it to
be rejected by the later
post-Nicene Roman Pagan Church?
It confirms the above biblical
warnings that are ignored by the
modern Church:
"But
after they entered in together,
and became one body, some of
them defiled themselves, and
were cast out from the society
of the righteous, and became
again such as they were before,
or rather even worse. `How,
Sir,' say I, `did
they become worse, after they
had fully known God?' `He
that knoweth not God,' saith he,
`and committeth wickedness, hath
a certain punishment for his
wickedness; but
he that knoweth God fully ought
not any longer to commit
wickedness, but to do good. If
then he that ought to do good
committeth wickedness, does he
not seem to do greater
wickedness than the man that
knoweth not God? Therefore
they that have not known God,
and commit wickedness, are
condemned to death; but
they that have known God and
seen His mighty works, and yet
commit wickedness, shall receive
a double punishment, and shall
die eternally."
This teaching and concept simply
has no place in the Church today
-- where those who call
themselves Christians, use the
Jesus-god of Constantine, as a
perpetual pagan sacrifice that
licenses their lives of sin.
In the words of Paul:
"Therefore whoever eats
this bread or drinks this cup of
the Lord in an unworthy manner
will be guilty of the body and
blood of the Lord. But let a man
examine himself, and so let him
eat of the bread and drink of
the cup. For he who eats and
drinks in an unworthy manner
eats and drinks judgment to
himself, not discerning the
Lord's body. For this reason
many are weak and sick among
you, and many sleep"
(1 Cor
11:27-30 NKJ).
As demonstrated in the many
of the above biblical verses that Christian
perpetually ignore, Paul
goes as far as to say that if a
Christian knowingly sins after
coming to the knowledge of the
Truth, that there is no more
sacrifice for him -- only the
greater damnation and judgment
-- i.e.,
"For it is impossible
to restore again to repentance
those who have once been
enlightened, who have tasted the
heavenly gift, and have become
partakers of the Holy Spirit,
and have tasted the goodness of
the word of God and the powers
of the age to come, if they then
commit apostasy, since they
crucify the Son of God on their
own account and hold him up to
contempt.. For if we sin
deliberately after receiving the
knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for
sins, but a fearful prospect of
judgment, and a fury of fire
which will consume the
adversaries."
(Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27
RSV).
When Yeshua overcame the Laws,
what he became was the author of
salvation by enabling the lost
prodigal sons and daughters to
enter through the inner Gate,
into the Kingdom of God (
http://GateOfEden.com ).
This is presented in the
Shepherd of Hermas in the words:
"`But the gate, why is
it recent, Sir?' say I. `Because,'
saith he, `He was made manifest in
the last days of the consummation;
therefore the gate was made recent,
that they which are to be saved may
enter through it into the kingdom of
God."
Those who fail to follow in
TheWay, and enter into Life
while still in the body, are
portrayed at the end of the
Revelation as such:
"Blessed are those who do His
commandments, that they may have
the right to the tree of life,
and may enter through the gates
into the city. But outside are
dogs and sorcerers and sexually
immoral and murderers and
idolaters, and whoever loves and
practices a lie"
(Rev 22:14-15 NKJ).
Those
outside, are those who dwell in
the "outer darkness" of mind and
being (
http://DivineStrategery.com#OuterDarkness
) -- and remain imprisoned by
what is portrayed as the Citizen
of the Far Country in the
parable of the prodigal son, or
what Paul described as the god of this world.
What is the source of the modern
day Christian Apostasy? While it was
initiated by a misunderstanding of
Paul's faith over the rituals of the
Law as practiced by the Pharisees, in many
respects the doctrines which were
born under the umbrella of
Protestantism took the doctrine of
faith irrespective of one's actions
to a new level of ungodliness --
which were in fact reactionary
doctrines to the corruption of the
Church of Rome. But that
the Church would be ruled over by
the AntiChrist was predicted in the
Bible (see
The Church Of The AntiChrist). By embracing the
doctrine of faith regardless of
actions which was instituted by
Martin Luther, the Christians have
totally failed to maintain the
necessary biblical standards which
are required. And while Christians
are critical of the thinking and
lifestyle of others, Christians
continue to promote the doctrines of
Martin Luther -- a Roman priest who
embraced the Augustinian doctrine of
Original Sin who failed to understand the doctrine of
Divine Providence, and Luther went
as far as to actually promote a
life of sin as evidence of faith. Luther rejected over half of the New
Testament -- and in total opposition
to the teachings of Yeshua, Martin
Luther actually promoted sin as
proof of salvation. In Luther's own
words:
"Be a sinner, and let
your sins be strong, but let your
trust in Christ be stronger, and
rejoice in Christ who is the victor
over sin, death, and the world. We
will commit sins while we are here,
for this life is not a place where
justice resides... No sin can
separate us from Him, even if we
were to kill or commit adultery
thousands of times each day."
('Let Your Sins Be Strong, from 'The
Wittenberg Project;' 'The Wartburg
Segment', translated by Erika
Flores, from Dr. Martin Luther's
Saemmtliche Schriften, Letter No.
99, 1 Aug. 1521.) Luther believed
that man is a congenital sinner
because of the Original Sin of Adam
and Eve, and that only those who God
saves, will receive salvation. This
void in Christian thinking which
seduced both Luther and Calvin to
embrace the doctrine of Original Sin
and Divine Providence, was the
result of the corruption of the
scriptures (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ) --
and was directly caused by the
removal of the doctrine of the
Journey of the soul over the course
of many lifetimes (
http://Ebionite.com/reincarnation.htm
). And only when this fact is
understood, can the above words be
understood that a complacent
believer is worse off, than someone
who has never at all believed the
Gospel message. And thus, Christians
today remain ignorant of this fact,
because the teachings on the journey
of the soul was condemned by a
circus prostitute who gained
political power (
http://ChristianReincarnation.org
), and the Church no longer has the
doctrinal means to understand why
some people are created vessels of
honor, while others are created
vessels of dishonor (Rom 9:21-22).
Thus, because of the corruption of
the scriptures, modern Christians
totally lack an understanding of the
words of the Church Father Origen:
“For God the Creator makes a certain
vessel unto honor, and other vessels
to dishonor; but that vessel which
has cleansed itself from all
impurity He makes a vessel unto
honor, while that which has stained
itself with the filth of vice He
makes a vessel unto dishonor. The
conclusion from which, accordingly,
is this, that the cause of each
one's actions is a pre-existing one;
and then every one, according to his
deserts, is made by God either a
vessel unto honor or dishonor.
Therefore every individual vessel
has furnished to its Creator out of
itself the causes and occasions of
its being formed by Him to be either
a vessel unto honor or one unto
dishonor. And if the assertion
appear correct, as it certainly is,
and in harmony with all piety, that
it is due to previous causes that
every vessel be prepared by God
either to honor or to dishonor, it
does not appear absurd that, in
discussing remoter causes in the
same order, and in the same method,
we should come to the same
conclusion respecting the nature of
souls, and (believe) that this was
the reason why Jacob was beloved
before he was born into this world,
and Esau hated, while he still was
contained in the womb of his mother”.
The only means for a person to have
"...cleansed [themselves] from all
impurity"
is to seek to live a pious and
Consecrated Life in TheWay that
Yeshua/Jesus taught and ordained. Yet, Luther went as far as to state
that those who attempt to live a
pious life, have themselves rejected
Christ:
"Those pious souls who do
good to gain the Kingdom of Heaven
not only will never succeed, but
they must even be reckoned among the
impious; and it is more important to
guard them against good works than
against sin."
(Wittenberg, VI, 160, quoted by
O'Hare, in 'The Facts About Luther,
TAN Books, 1987, p. 122.). Like
Calvin, Luther did not understand
the doctrine of Divine Providence
because key teachings had been
removed from the scriptures by the
Church (see
Bible Corruption), and in their
reactionary doctrine to the
corruption of the Roman Church, the
fathers of the Reformation plunged
Christianity into an even greater
apostasy to the true teachings of
Yeshua and TheWay. Thus, Christians
condemn the Knowledge of TheWay, in
order to remain apostates to the
Kingdom by holding fast to the
doctrines of Martin Luther. In the
same way that Luther condemned those
who attempted to live a pious life
to be sinners, someone who is an
Eternal Seeker from their
perspective, rejects the free gift
of salvation in the Jesus-god of
Constantine.
Christians claim that Jesus was
God, because the claim was made that
he was One with God. Yet, they fail
to even consider the fact that
"being One with God",
is not the same as being God. This
reality is parallel to that of a
Divine Marriage (
http://DivineMarriage.org )
where the husband and wife are
"one flesh"--
yet, that does not mean that the
wife is the husband, and the husband
is the wife. It means that they
dwell in oneness and perfect harmony
in the Higher Third-Force Soul
reality that causes the vital
life-force of each to flow freely
through both bodies -- and it is the
manifestation of this is spiritual Etheric reality that makes the
"two one
flesh". Further, the
Gospel of John also states that the
Disciples were One with both Yeshua,
and the Father -- so does that make
them God also? Thus, what we have is
the prevailing Christian ignorance
preached by a clergy who
"...promise [of] freedom
[in their doctrine of salvation by
faith and grace alone], while they
themselves are slaves of depravity"
In order to be a believer and
follower of Yeshua/Jesus and TheWay,
the person must make themselves the
"good
ground" in which the
Living Word has been implanted (see
http://SowerAndSeed.com ) --
Christians promote the
doctrine that they attribute to Paul
with respect to being saved by faith
apart from one's actions. And if
Paul had meant this in the manner
that they imagine, he never would
have told them to
"be afraid"
that if they are unfaithful to their
Covenant, that they will be cast
away (see
http://ebionite.com/#purescriptures
). Thus, Paul warns the
Christians:
“Do not be
arrogant, but be afraid”
(Rom 11:20 NIV). Why? Why would
the Apostle warn the Christian they
should be afraid? Evidently he
didn't know anything about the
modern Christian doctrine attributed
to him that once you say your prayer
accepting Jesus as your personal
Lord and Savior, you are saved
regardless of the manner in which
you live your life. And this
warning is an important question for
the modern believer to understand.
They should be afraid because of the
violation of the covenant with God
when the Gentile converts ignored
the warning of the Apostle:
“For if God
did not spare the natural Jewish
branches, he will not spare you
either… Otherwise, you also will be
cut off” (Rom 11:21-22
NIV). And cut off they were -- and
cut off and in bondage they have
remained to this very day! And
when they open their Bibles, their
hearts and minds are hardened, and
they remain spiritually blind to the
true meaning of the scriptures.
Moreover, because they have never
repented from teaching others the
doctrines of men in place of the
Truths of the Gospel, they remain
forever apostates to the Inner
Kingdom.
In the same way that Yeshua
taught that with respect to the
teachings on the sin of adultery
that his followers would be held to
a higher standard than the Jews,
this is confirmed in Paul's warning
to
"Flee sexual immorality.
Every sin that a man does is outside
the body, but he who commits sexual
immorality sins against his own
body" (1 Cor
6:18 NKJ). If the author of these
words agreed with the doctrine that
man is saved by faith apart from his
actions, then he would have said
that once you accept Jesus Christ as
your personal Lord and Savoir,
sexual immorality no longer matters.
Yet, it is clear that Paul did not
promote the doctrine of faith which
was championed by Martin Luther and
the modern Church. Paul
never once espoused the doctrine of
Luther to
"Be a sinner, and let your sins be
strong..."
-- because a life of sin is a total
rejection of Messiah/Christ.
When Paul wrote that man cannot be
saved by the works of the Law, he
was making reference to the outward
rituals of the Jews -- something
which even modern Judaism has
rejected (see
http://TheThreeLies.com ). Christians are blind to the true
meaning of their own scriptures,
because to even begin to walk in TheWay, one must Repent. Yet,
as Paul himself warned, there
can be no repentance, so long as
Christians continue to embrace the
culture and mindset of this world. Moreover, without true repentance,
there can be no Law of Grace -- only
the disillusion of being possessed
by the Powers of the Left Hand (see
http://DivineManna.org ) --
which possession by the god of this
world was confirmed in the
alternative ending of Mark where it
wars that those who continue to sin
lie
"...under the sway of Satan,
who
will not allow what lies under the
unclean spirits to understand the
truth and power of God".
Thus, it is impossible for
Christians who promote the doctrine
of perpetual sin and redemption to
understand the true meaning of the
Gospel, because they are ruled over
by satanic forces which Yeshua
portrayed as the
"citizen of
the far country".
If the
beginning of one's walk in TheWay is
initiated with repentance, then
there must be a total severing with
the sins of one's past in order to
be faithful to the teachings of
Yeshua and TheWay. To have
compassion and make excuses for the
ways of this world -- attempting to
portray the path of ignorance as
being OK from the perspective of the
teachings of Yeshua and TheWay -- is
merely the product of a defiled mind
that Satan whispers to -- often
telling you his name is Jesus
Christ. So long as you keep
following counterfeit shepherds who
promote the doctrine that you are
saved by Grace regardless of your
actions, mindset and lifestyle, then
you will continue to be apostates to
the Kingdom and the Living Word of
God.
Complacent Believers Worse Off Than
Unbelievers: Until the believer is able to come to terms
with why Jesus and his disciples openly warned of the reality that the
fate of the complacent believer is worse than the unbelievers, they will
remain spiritually impotent and unable to grasp the very First
Principles of the Gospel and the Good News to mankind that Jesus taught.
And while Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformers who instituted the
exodus from Rome in the Reformation may have been sincere, there were a
number of truly important teachings that had been suppressed by the
Church of Rome that totally inhibited their understanding of the
original spiritual essence of the Gospel message. And for
the most part the error of their thinking, remains an integral flaw in
the doctrines of the Church to this very day.
Before a person can go beyond
this point, they must first come to the realization that they do not
understand why the unbelievers who have sinned and deserving of much
judgment, will receive less judgment than the complacent believer.
In the Revelation it is warned: "I know your
works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or
hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,
I will vomit you out of My mouth" (Rev 3:15-16 NKJ).
What works are being made reference to? Someone who is cold
to the Gospel, is an unbeliever -- while someone who is hot, is on fire
as a true Disciple of TheWay. But someone who is lukewarm,
is very clearly a member of the Church who is complacent, and fails to
bring about the works of the spirit that is required to walk in TheWay.
Thus, Jesus warned: "And that servant, which
knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to
his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and
did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to
whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more"
(Luke 12:47-48 KJV). Thus, the modern Christian simply
has no means to understand why and how the lukewarm believer will be
beaten with the stripes of greater judgment, than the unbeliever.
So what is the fate of those who "...did commit
things worthy of stripes"
-- but they shall clearly receive far less
than those who knew the masters will, but did not properly prepare
themselves? This is in opposition to everything that modern
Christians believe.
When Jesus said to the chief priests and the
elders that the “…tax collectors and the
harlots go into the kingdom of God before you” (Matt 21:31
RSV), such a statement simply has no place within the present day
understanding of Christian doctrine. Because we are without a means to
explain Jesus' words, most Bible commentaries simply ignore the
implications of this passage of scripture. One widely used commentary
attempts to correct the text by changing the words to
“instead of” -- which would then
make the meaning doctrinally correct and read:
“The tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God instead
of you”.
But this is not what Jesus stated. And this reality is
further confirmed in the case of sinners and those who have been judged
by the Law are portrayed as having been cast into a type of prison,
Jesus stated: "Assuredly, I say to you, you
will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny"
(Matt 5:26 NKJ).
All three
synoptic Gospels contain the passage of scripture which states:
“And when he was gone forth into the way, there
came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what
shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” (Mark 10:16
KJV). The more we consider the reply of Jesus to this question, the
more we comprehend that his answer undermines our whole modern-day
understanding of the Gospel: “And he said unto
him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God:
but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments”
(Matt 19:17 KJV). Why would Jesus tell the man seeking
eternal life to go and "...keep the
commandments” ? If, as modern Church
doctrine proclaims, there is no salvation apart from faith and belief in
Jesus -- and no works or actions are a part of the equation -- then why
wouldn't Jesus simply tell the man to believe?
In the modern
Christian’s search for a higher understanding of the Gospel message,
what is presented in this passage of scripture is of the greatest
importance, as seen in the Adam Clarke Commentary which writes:
“Much
instruction may be had from seriously attending to the conduct, spirit,
and question of this person.
1. He
came running (Mark 10:17), for he was deeply convinced of the importance
of his business, and seriously determined to seek so as to find.
2. He
kneeled, or caught him by the knees, thus evidencing his humility, and
addressing himself only to mercy. (See Matt. 17:14).
3. He
came in the spirit of a disciple, or scholar, desiring to be taught a
matter of the utmost importance to him -- Good teacher.
4. He
came in the spirit of obedience; he had worked hard to no purpose, and
he is still willing to work, provided he can have a prospect of
succeeding -- What good thing shall I do?
5. His
question was the most interesting and important that any soul can ask of
God -- How shall I be saved?”
As was the
case then, the question that was asked by this person remains valid in
our own time -- i.e., in the words of the Adam Clark Commentary, the
most “...important that any soul can ask of God
-- How shall I be saved?” In fact, the question is so
important to us in our present time that it could be said that if we do
not possess the genuine answer, it is as if we are playing Russian
roulette with our lives. When each of us stands before the judgment
seat of the Lord, our ability to answer this question will be of a
paramount importance. The problem is that the nature of the question
itself demands our utmost attention, and cannot be answered in a casual
manner. At stake is your very life and future existence. Why?
Because a true understanding of life and the Gospel is dependent upon
what you see, perceive and comprehend in this all-important story that
is contained in each of the three synoptic gospels.
The time will
come -- the event is imminent -- regardless of what you do, you cannot
evade your destiny -- everyone must come to terms with the question that
this man asked the Lord. If you have listened to the wrong people or
religious authority -- believed the wrong doctrine -- or squandered your
opportunity in life -- then everything that you have labored to acquire
and achieve will be forever lost. Regardless of how religious you are
-- how often you attend church -- how much money you donate to the
church -- if you fail to answer this single question correctly, the
result of your life could be as spiritually stagnant as the Sadducees
and Pharisees who worshiped the Lord in vain!
From the
perspective of the Gospel message, it is of the greatest importance that
we understand what is being presented here. Moreover, it is important
to recognize that from our modern day perception of the Gospel message,
we would conclude that the person who approached Jesus would be saved,
and he would be counted as being faithful by today’s concepts of New
Covenant teachings. In fact, by today’s standards, this man could be a
pillar of the church. He came to Jesus -- falling on his knees --
declaring his faith -- calling upon the name of the
“good master” -- desiring to be
saved.
Yet, in total
opposition to our understanding of what we believe is the preaching of
Paul and the doctrine of the modern church, Jesus replied that the man
has to do more than believe and have faith, fall on his knees to Jesus,
and acknowledge him as the “good master”.
Not only did the man have to observe the Commandments of God, but he had
to relinquish all that he owned in this world, and follow the Lord:
“Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go
and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have
treasure in heaven: and come and follow me” (Matt 19:21 KJV).
If our
modern-day perception of the gospel was correct, and the good news that
is presently being preached from the pulpits of our churches represents
the true revelation of the Lord to mankind, then Jesus would have told
the man that his faith (in Jesus) has saved him. In opposition to what
is commonly believed today, we can see clearly demonstrated here that
belief and faith in Jesus, without the observance of the Commandments as
found in the Law, and without the relinquishing of the things of this
world, cannot save us -- as expressed in the words of the Matthew
Henry’s Commentary which concludes: “Though
many that call themselves Christians, do not act as if they believed it;
it is certain, that, when we embrace Christ, we must let go the world,
for we cannot serve God and mammon... we must devote ourselves entirely
to the conduct and government of our Lord Jesus; Come, and follow me. It
seems here to be meant of a close and constant attendance upon his
person, such as the selling of what he had in the world was as necessary
as it was to the other disciples to quit their callings; but of us it is
required that we follow Christ, that we duly attend upon his ordinances,
strictly conform to his pattern, and cheerfully submit to his disposals,
and by upright and universal obedience observe his statutes, and keep
his laws, and all this from a principle of love to him, and dependence
on him, and with a holy contempt of every thing else in comparison of
him, and much more in competition with him. This is to follow Christ
fully”.
What was the
fate of this man? When he asked about eternal life, Jesus
did not tell him to believe and be saved -- but rather, Jesus told him
to go and keep the commandments. How can one be saved
by keeping the commandments? And when the man stated
that he had kept the commandments, and he desired to become a follower,
Jesus would not find him acceptable unless he gave up all his worldly
possessions. Further, another element of this biblical
account that the modern believer must seriously consider is the rebuke
of Jesus when the man called him “good master”.
In our churches today we can observe people who feel they are right with
the Lord by praising His name. What Jesus said to the man is that
what you say with your lips means absolutely nothing -- and it is what
you do with your life with respect to fulfilling the Commandments, and
being in the world and not of it, that will save you. And it
is important that we be continually cognizant of the words of the Lord
when he warned: “For many are called, but few
are chosen” (Matt 22:14 KJV)! And when we ask who are those
who are called? The answer can only be: Those who have had the Gospel
preached to them -- and those who are complacent or lukewarm, will
clearly receive the greater judgment than those who are not even
believers. Yet, by today's doctrinal teachings, Christians
simply have no means to answer the many questions that these many
ignored verses of the New Testament raise? And when it
is realized that the true test of belief is to the degree that each
person picks up their own cross and imitates the pattern of the life of
Jesus, then a great number of Christians today will despise those who
call themselves teachers and shepherds today. Thus, the
words of the Brother of Jesus: "Not many of you
should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who
teach will be judged more strictly" (James 3:1 NIV).
The Void In Modern Church Doctrine:
Using the Bible I have demonstrated a great void in modern Church
dogma that is the result of the doctrines of Constantine and other
emperors imposing their will upon the Church when a body of carnal
Christians entered into a covenant with Rome. In their
typical pagan mindset, they promoted a doctrine and lifestyle where
Jesus was used as a perpetual sacrifice and crucified daily, so that
people who called themselves believers could live in accord with the way
of the heathen. And to insure compliance with their form of
Christian Paganism, these emperors and their armies then murdered all
believers who refused to accept the approved doctrines of the religion
of the Roman Empire. Yet, contrary to Church doctrine, in
the above it has been demonstrated that the fate of a complacent
lukewarm believer, is worse off and brings greater judgment than that
received by those who were never at all believers.
And if we add into the equation the clearly defined biblical doctrine of
predestination and Divine Providence, the void very quickly becomes an
expansive abyss of unanswered questions that inhibits all thought and
reasoning beyond a very limited certain doctrinal point. And
when Martin Luther was confronted by this abyss of doctrinal limitations
and ignorance, he simply condemned the use of the mind and the God-Given
Gift of reason that sets man apart from the beasts and brutes of the
earth -- i.e.,
“Reason”,
writes Luther, “is the greatest enemy
that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but -
more frequently than not - struggles against the divine Word, treating
with contempt all that emanates from God” (Quoted in: The
Great Thoughts; compiled by George Seldes).
From a strictly dogmatic perspective, the only option open to modern
believers is to embrace what has been called blind faith and belief.
Regardless of the facts and realities that are presented to the faithful
flock of believers, they perceive it as necessary to as Luther states,
reject both reason and the use of man's intellectual facilities of mind.
History easily
demonstrates that under the rule of Roman Authority, the church fell
into such carnal degeneracy that it embraced every sort of political and
materialistic corruption -- a corruption that brought the level of the
church so low, that it even ordained sexual orgies for the priests.
This morally bankrupt lifestyle was justified under their doctrine that,
by nature, man is incapable of doing good, and he is saved by virtue of
his membership in the church. Because Constantine was not only carnal, but in every way a ruthless
conscienceless despot who embraced evil in everything he did, the church
that he formed was born in the image of its creator. The question that
every believer must ask today is how corrupted and contaminated has the
message of Christ become after it had been placed in the hands of
mankind? In a letter to Pope Leo X on September 6th, 1520, Martin
Luther wrote of the Christianity of his day, that the church,
“…once the holiest of all, has become the most
licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the
kingdom of sin, death, and hell. It is so bad that even Antichrist
himself, if he should come, could think of nothing to add to its
wickedness” (Quoted in: The Great Thoughts; compiled by
George Seldes).
In total disregard of the admonition of the
scriptures themselves, the greater majority of Christians believe that
the church is beyond the reach of Satan -- that God somehow drew a line
that Satan cannot cross over -- that God intervened when man by virtue
of his gift of freewill, chose evil over the good. And
while God did not in any manner save the Jews from their own iniquity,
Christians arrogantly believe that they are exempt from the judgment.
Thus, Christians totally reject the warning of Paul who stated:
“Do not be arrogant, but be afraid”
(Rom 11:20 NIV)
-- stating that if they failed to keep the foundational
requirements of the Covenant, that they would be cast away in the manner
of the Jews -- i.e.,
“For if God did not spare the natural Jewish
branches, he will not spare you either… Otherwise, you also will be cut
off” (Rom 11:21-22 NIV).
And naively,
Christians choose to ignore the most important lessons of both history
and the Bible, and they reason that because of this force of Divine
protection, Satan has not immersed himself in every aspect of their
lives! Yet, to their own detriment, the leaders of
the modern church ignore the warning of the Apostle:
“let no man beguile you in any wise: for (it will
not be,) except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition, he that opposeth and exalteth himself
against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth
in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God” (2
Thes 2:3-4 ASV).
What the Apostle is herein
very clearly predicting is that there would come a time when the god of
the Christian Church will be a false god.
Historically speaking, it has been almost universally recognized that
the period in time that the Apostle could have been referring to was in
the fourth century when the church made a covenant with the Roman
Emperor Constantine. With regard to this falling
away, the Adam Clark Commentary writes of this passage of Paul's
Epistle: “[Except there come a falling
away first] We have the original word apostasia in our word apostasy;
and by this term we understand a dereliction of the essential principles
of religious truth, either a total abandonment of Christianity itself,
or such a corruption of its doctrines as renders the whole system
completely inefficient to salvation. But what this apostasy means is a
question which has not yet, and perhaps never will be, answered to
general satisfaction” (from the Adam Clarke Commentary).
Not to depreciate or make
less the significance of any one of the individual statements presented
in the above words, what the modern believer must recognized is the
far-reaching totality of the statement: “But
what this apostasy means is a question which has not yet, and perhaps
never will be, answered to general satisfaction”.
Ultimately, what this means to the modern believer is that
each and every church authority from the fourth-century to the present,
as well as every single preacher of the gospel, speaks from the position
of concession -- which concession is that there is a great void in their
knowledge of the truth. Thus, one of the core
presumptions upon which our present-day doctrine of faith is based, is
that these words of the Apostle Paul are not true.
One of the major
causes of the present state of doctrinal chaos is the failure of modern
pastors and church authorities to recognize that the key to their
dilemma is found in the prediction of the Apostle that there would come
a time of total abandonment of the Gospel with respect to the desolation
of all genuine spiritual Christian ideas and concepts.
What this means is that the
Apostle predicts that in the near future,
the true religion of Jesus would cease to exist in
this world. In this
respect, the words of the Apostle are quite clear in their assertion --
i.e., from the time period of the first century of our Common Era when
it was written by the hand of Paul, it prophetically speaks of a time in
the near future when the teachings that Jesus placed in the hands of
mankind would cease to exist -- and it is the correct assertion of many
Christians that this in fact took place in the establishment of an
institutionalized church under the control of Pagan Rome in the fourth
century.
What the modern
Christian fails to realize is that the total corruption of the doctrine
of the church which the Apostle speaks of was in fact brought about by
the adoption of the AntiChrist of Constantine, which resulted in the
rejection of the Messiah Yeshua/Jesus of Nazareth.
While it is true that believers use the name Jesus, and call themselves
his followers, what Christians have lost sight of is that the essence of
the religion of the New Covenant is spiritual -- and where the physical
body of Messiah/Christ was crucified by the carnal Jews in the first
century, the spiritual body of Messiah/Christ was crucified by those who
called themselves Christians in the fourth century.
In further explanation with
regard to this crucial prediction of the Apostle, the Adam Clark
Commentary then goes on to provide us a vivid description of Constantine
and the formation of his new church:
“[Who opposeth and exalteth] He stands against and exalts himself above
all divine authority, and above every object of adoration, and every
institution, relative to divine worship, sebasma, himself being the
source, whence must originate all the doctrines of religion, and all its
rites and ceremonies; so that sitting in the temple of God -- having the
highest place and authority in the Christian church, he acts as God --
taking upon himself God's titles and attributes, and arrogating to
himself the authority that belongs to the Most High”
(from the Adam Clarke Commentary).
That these
events came to pass is well documented from a historical perspective --
i.e., the church was ruled by Satanic forces that dictated every aspect
of Christian doctrine. And while it is true that
many faithful believers, clergy, pastors and religious authorities today
have recognized the defilement of the church that took place beginning
in the fourth century, what could not be revealed until now was the
absolute certainty that, because the Church has never fully recovered
from the darkness and corruption that was imposed upon the teachings of
the church by the ruthless political despots of the past, essential
foundational principles, as well as indispensable elements of New
Covenant knowledge of what is constantly referred to in the Bible as the
Mysteries of God, is presently absent from the thinking of the body of
the faithful believers to this very day.
Many Protestants -- or non-Roman Catholics
-- will readily admit that the Church had become thoroughly corrupted
during its long residence upon the earth. One of the problems is that,
even though Luther and the reformers knew this fact, this knowledge
alone did not mean they possessed a clear and pure vision of the essence
of the original teachings of Jesus. In fact, it can easily be
demonstrated that they did not, and this was the true reason why Luther
rejected over half the New Testament as being inferior and even
spurious. For Luther to call the Epistle of James -- the Brother
of Jesus who was the first leader of the New Covenant Congregation -- a
man who was known as the James the Just -- the Righteous one who
communed with the Holy Spirit in all matters -- who Luther condemned his
Epistle as one of straw -- demonstrates Luther's inability to even
understand the First Principles of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay.
Moreover, every quotation in the above by both Peter and Paul, confirms
the position of James who Luther rejected.
In acknowledgement of the massive
corruption of the Church under Pagan Rome, many church authorities today
will counter that these things do not really matter, because they have
the Bible -- God's Word -- as a foundation for their beliefs.
Fundamentally, their doctrine is that, even though God did not protect
the Church from becoming corrupt, He somehow stood vigilant guard over
the scriptures in order to insure their purity.
Yet, in contradistinction to what Christians
want to believe by virtue of blind faith and the suspension of reason, what
we must also recognize is the fact that the Bible also flowed down into
our present time through the same cultural streams and byways as did the
doctrines of the Church itself. Thus, none of the present-day
religious authorities who proclaim the purity of the Bible have the
slightest idea as to what the scriptures looked like in their original
form. They have never seen the original scriptures, and they reject
many of the oldest copies of the scriptures that we possess today.
What they say, then, must be understood as a profession of faith --
blind faith -- rather than what is factual. As a statement of faith,
they confess to us that they believe God stood sentinel over the
scriptures in order to safeguard them from the most corrupt church known
to modern man. It is a statement of faith when they affirm that this
church which Luther calls the church of the antichrist, did not also
defile the written word in the manner that it corrupted every other
aspect of Jesus’ teachings. What they fail to tell you is that in
making this profession of faith, they ignore the warning of many
biblical scholars who openly claim that the original text of the Bible
was lost in what appears to be a conspiracy which coincidently took
place in the fourth century -- which is the era in history when the
Church became institutionalized, and came under the direct control of
the Roman Imperial Government.
Is it true that God stood sentinel over the
scriptures? Based upon what we do know regarding the purity of the
Bible, Christians today should be greatly alarmed. Quoting Prof.
Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Prof. Burrows
writes: “There are those who believe or assume
that the Greek and Hebrew texts from which our translations are made are
infallible. No person who has studied textual criticism at all could
believe that. The most conservative scholars in the most conservative
churches recognize that the text has become corrupt at many points in
the course of its transmission. If that were not already well known and
universally admitted, the Dead Sea Scrolls would demonstrate it
conclusively.” And to take this rather profound
statement one step further, these same Dead Sea Scrolls have forced many
biblical scholars to totally re-examine what they at one time accepted
as factual and historical truths. Thus the of biblical scholar A. Powell Davies takes on a whole new
meaning when we begin to understand what truly happened:
“Biblical scholars were not disturbed by what they
found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all along that the
origin of Christianity was not what was commonly supposed to have been”.
If our scriptures that we depend upon as
the foundation of our beliefs have many points where they are
“corrupt”, -- and the origin of
Christianity is
"...not what was commonly supposed to have
been” -- then we
had better be concerned! Why? Because if the Bible has been altered
from its original form, then it was altered to support the tenets of
belief of a very Pagan and corrupt Roman Church. What this means is
the most essential points of the scripture that support the foundation
of a Spiritual Church, rather than a secular institutionalized church
under Roman pagan rule, were the first to be removed or edited out of
the scriptures we possess today. Moreover, the implications from a
religious perspective are horrific -- i.e., if this is true, then the
Jesus that we believe in today might not be the same Jesus whose
revealed teaching of The Way could save the soul of man.
The Answer To The Doctrinal Dilemma:
If the Lord was to raise up a prophet in our time and send him forth to
speak to the people, and this prophet attempted to convey to believers
what biblical scholars already know -- i.e.,
“that the text has become corrupt at many points in the course of its
transmission” -- and that
"...the origin of Christianity was not what was
commonly supposed to have been”
-- his message would be rejected and condemned by the greater number of
believers today. Why? Because such a thing would be incomprehensible
to them. They would reason that God would never permit this to happen
to them! After all, from their very limited three-dimensional
perception of life, if God permitted both the Church and then the
scriptures to become corrupt, then man would have no means of knowing
the truth. They would then reason that mankind would therefore not
know what to believe, and he would possess no means of salvation. From
their very limited perspective of both the Gospel and the higher reality
of man's soul and spiritual natures, they of course have a valid
argument -- but this is only because they lack a fundamental
understanding of the spiritual reality beyond our three-dimensional
limitations. Yet, the answer to their spiritual and doctrinal dilemma,
is found in the very biblical verses which they ignore -- biblical
verses some of which are explored above. When the man
approached Jesus and asked him about eternal life, Jesus replied that he
should keep the Commandments -- and if the modern believer would begin
to keep the Commandments and observe the Royal Spiritual Law throughout
every aspect of their lives, they would begin to find their way out of
the abyss of the doctrinal quagmire within which they are presently
immersed. If these same people were to in fact totally
surrender to the Word in all its fullness, and pick up their own cross
and travail in TheWay as Jesus Commanded, they would know by virtue of
their own experiences that their reasoning and rational is in grave
error.
From the perspective of life itself, it is
also easily confirmed that in the greater vision of man's existence upon
this earth it can be demonstrated that God ordains a life that is rarely
fair from our point of view. When we ask why God permits bad things to
happen to good and faithful believers, and our clergy can only answer
with the words: “You have to have faith”
-- this is an acknowledgement that the Church does not understand the
manner in which God moves. Yet, the truth lies in the fact that part
of our inability to understand why God would permit such horrendous
things as is commonplace in our world today to happen, lies in the
differences in the core beliefs and perceptions of life that we
presently hold, in relation to the spiritual foundational environmental
thinking from which our New Testament scriptures originally emerged.
Yet, like the prodigal son, anytime that we desire truth over accepted
doctrines of belief -- and we are willing to re-examine our dogmatic
positions in light of the biblical verses that are presented in the above
-- then we will begin to find the answer to the dilemma of blind faith
in mysteries we do not understand, and the suspension of reason when we
are confronted by the facts which the vast majority of modern Christians
simply refuse to examine and seek the truth.
The Spiritual Church vs The
Institutionalized Shadow Church: It was a promise of the Lord
regarding the New Covenant Church: “And I say
also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”
(Matt 16:18 KJV). Is the promise of Jesus correct? In view of the
fact that the church became one of the most corrupt institutions known
to man -- and in the words of Luther
"...It is so bad that even Antichrist himself,
if he should come, could think of nothing to add to its wickedness”
-- and those men known as
priests and bishops were seen in the role of apostles of the Devil,
rather than Christ, we would be forced to acknowledge the fact that the
“gates of hell” did indeed
“prevail against it”! We must then
conclude that either Jesus was wrong, or the fault is our own vision of
the Church. This would indicate the existence of still another
possibility that few people today would understand -- i.e., the first
century vision of the Church of Christ was very different than our idea
of a church today. If this is true, then Jesus was not wrong, and the
genuine Church remained pure throughout all time regardless of the
corruption that the church of this world was immersed in.
Moreover, this same reality also applies to the scriptures -- and while
the Bible that was given to the modern believer by the hands of the
Roman Church has been corrupted, it is also true that pure scriptures do
exist, and they can only be accessed by believers who embrace the
teachings of Jesus and TheWay in the purity that was intended.
A great truth we must come to terms with is
the fact that because man says a certain thing, that does not make his
assertion valid. In the same way that anyone can proclaim they are
followers of Christ, and claim to be Christian -- unless Christ is in
agreement, our assertion is invalid. We can call ourselves the people
of the New Covenant, but if in our application of the Word it is found
that we have rejected the very essence of New Covenant thought, then our
assertion is again invalid. In this respect, the first century
followers of Jesus were of Christ, and a New Covenant Church unto
themselves, because the Lord himself affirmed these things to be true,
and they maintained the spiritual essence of the teachings of TheWay.
The very fact that later Pagan Christians of the fourth century
condemned the Church that Jesus himself ordained -- and the fact that
our thinking is alien to the original Disciples of Christ, while we hold
many beliefs in common with the fourth century Church of Pagan Rome,
should be sufficient reason for us to question many of our own
foundational concepts of religion which we have received directly from
the hands of the fourth century church.
The Church that Jesus Ordained and stated
that
"...the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” -- is not
of this world, and can only be accessed through the inner
"narrow gate" within us.
As the prodigal sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, the vast
majority of mankind dwells in the "far country"
which Jesus portrayed as being controled by the
"citizen" of this world -- i.e., the fallen angel we call
Lucifer. The Book of the Revelation when properly
understood, portrays the Kingdom coming within the body, mind and life
of the Disciple of TheWay. And only those who live in the
manner that Jesus taught and ordained, can enter therein -- i.e.,
"Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor
will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful"
(Rev 21:27 NIV). This same truth was expressed by
Isaiah where it is written:
"And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The
unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that
Way; wicked fools will not go about on it"
(Isa 35:8 NIV). And this same truth is expressed
in the words of Yeshua/Jesus when he warned:
"Enter through the narrow gate.
For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction,
and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road
that leads to life, and only a few find it"
(Matt 7:13-14 NIV). The
"narrow gate"
that Jesus speaks that we must open in order for
us to be born into the Kingdom, has its parallels in the birth canal
that serves as the gate that each of us has emerged through when we
physically entered into this present world. That the next stage of
birth has its similarities, is merely the result that all realities are
designed in accordance with the same Divine Pattern of Creation.
What is truly important for
us to see in these solemn words spoken by the Lord, is that only those
who
"enter through the narrow gate"
will enter into Life -- i.e., it is not those who
believe, but those who follow in the footsteps who are the Genuine
Christians. In order to enter into the Kingdom, the disciple must be
bathed in the healing waters of consecration that cleanses them of all
defilements of this world. Thus, there are countless
commandments in the New Testament that Christians close a blind eye to
and ignore. Jesus said:
"But I say unto you, That every idle word
that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of
judgment"
(Matt 12:36 KJV). And what words are not considered
idle? Paul tells us to "Pray
without ceasing"
(1Thes 5:17 KJV).
Why? Why would Jesus warn us
that we will be judged for merely speaking an
"idle word"?
It must be understood that to be consciously aware of
"every idle word"
requires one to be in total control of their
mind. That this total control of one’s words begins with a total
control of one’s mind can further be seen in the commandment of the
Apostle to
"…take captive every thought to make it
obedient to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5 NIV).
Moreover, how can the same Apostle who states that we are saved by
faith, rather than works, expect those who call themselves Christians to
"…take captive every thought to
make it obedient to Christ"?
Thus, we begin to see that in the religion that
was preached by both Jesus and Paul, there can be no meaningless idle
expressions that are easily seen plaguing the lives of the modern
Christian.
As Jacob/James, the brother of
Yeshua/Jesus, the man who was the first leader of the New Covenant
Church and was known as a true holy man, wrote that in order to fulfill
the vision of the Gospel, one had to
"…bridle the whole body"
(James 3:2 KJV). While this may appear totally alien from the
perspective of the modern Christian who fully indulges in the unbounded
excesses of our present-day cultural lifestyle, the Apostle Paul
confirmed the validity of these words from a New Covenant perspective
when he wrote of the necessity to
"…beat my body and make it my slave..."
(1 Cor 9:27 NIV). Moreover, that faith meant an
entirely different thing to the Apostle Paul than what is being preached
from our pulpits today, can be seen in Paul’s commandment to all who
would call themselves a Christian to
"Put to death, therefore,
whatever belongs to your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV). To the degree that Paul warned:
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV). To mortify
the deeds of the body takes work -- a great amount of work -- and this
work cannot be accomplished through a static faith.
The problem is that these biblical commandments have
absolutely nothing in common with the doctrine of faith that was
developed by Martin Luther in the Middle-ages.
These biblical verses are rarely used
today because they represent concepts that would be considered extreme
and fanatical from the perspective of both believers and non-believers
in our modern-day culture. In fact, everything in our present-day
society has been engineered by what the Apostle calls the god of this
world, to inhibit the fulfilling of these necessary ingredients in the
process of the next stage of birth that the Bible states is absolutely
necessary if we are to enter into Life.
Therefore, the people
who embrace the culture and thinking of this world, even when they call
themselves Christian, are those who walk the
"broad… road that leads to destruction".
What Jesus warns us is that we cannot walk two paths -- it is either the
one or the other -- and philosophical complacent Christians will neither
go to Heaven, to Glory, or inherit eternal life -- without entering
through the narrow gate that is the entrance to the Kingdom. Moreover,
if this is not accomplished while we are alive in the physical body in
which we presently dwell, then we will have failed.
The Bible continually warns
us that the path or the second birth and entrance into the Kingdom is
not easy. The strife of the inner war within ourselves as embodied in
the symbols of Armageddon is seen in the words:
"We must through many
tribulations enter the kingdom of God"
(Acts 14:22 NKJ). Thus, in the same way that
a woman travails in labor to bring a child into this world, we must
ourselves endure the "…many
tribulations"
of spiritual labor to be born into the Kingdom of God.
Since the Kingdom is within us, and Armageddon is therefore not an
historical event -- but more factually, a spiritual event in the life of
the disciple in search of Truth -- we must then totally re-evaluate
everything we think we know about both the Gospel Message, and the life
we are presently living. In fully comprehending these biblical
statements in relation to the whole purpose of the teachings of The Way,
let us again examine the definitive statement which conveys to us the
very essence of the Gospel -- and especially the Revelation of John:
"Blessed are those who do His
commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may
enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and
sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever
loves and practices a lie"
(Rev 22:14-15 NKJ).
If the text of the
Revelation represented the end of the world, as is commonly believed by
the majority of Christians today, then why are those who remain outside
the city portrayed as "dogs and
sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever
loves and practices a lie"?
Armageddon, then, indicates the disciples personal
tribulation described as the "pangs of birth",
as he endeavors to overcome his own lower
carnal nature through the crucifixion of what is symbolized by the
flesh, in order that he can possess the Knowledge of the fruit of the
Tree of Life, transcend the natural barriers of this world, and
"enter through the gates into
the city".
This is the return from this, the
"far country... outer darkness", by
the prodigal sons and daughters who arise from the thinking, mindset,
culture and ways of this world, and are able to enter the Inner Kingdom
(Luke 17:20-21). And it is this Living Temple within --
where the scriptures have been preserved in absolute purity -- that is
the Church that Jesus Ordained and stated that
"...the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it.”
Fortunately, for the complacent Christians
who Paul portrays as
"apostates... who crucifies the Son of
God afresh -- holding him up to contempt"
-- the word translated destruction with
respect to the broad-way, does not mean what most people think it does.
Thus, the footnote on this word in the Schofield Reference Bible reads:
“There is no thought in these various words of
annihilation but of something that is ruined and thus unsuitable or
unable to fulfill its original purpose”.
But to understand the reality of what is truly
being portrayed, you must also understand why complacent and lukewarm
Christians receive the greater judgment than those who never knew of
the Gospel message.
The Christian Diaspora: Because
the Church has made itself the Christian Judas -- i.e., the betrayer of
Messiah/Christ who crucifies the Lord daily in the abomination of their
thinking, mindset and lifestyle -- the Church itself has been cast into
the "outer darkness" (Matt 22:11-13 NKJ)
of mind and being. Because the Church worships in a
Pagan mindset born out of Rome, where they crucify Messiah/Christ daily
on their altars of sin -- making the Gospel an abomination -- they have
been driven by the very Hand of God into the abyss of ignorance.
Thus, their eyes have been blinded to the higher realities of the soul
-- and they know not the Kingdom which can never come upon the earth in
the carnal manner they predict -- because they make a mockery of the
Lord, their minds have been hardened so they cannot understand the true
meaning of the scriptures -- and they are an abomination who is the
blind, leading the blind.
Contrary to
what Christians want to believe, it has already been demonstrated in the above that
the complacent lukewarm believer will suffer a greater fate and judgment
than even the unbeliever. Thus, what is
portrayed in the allegory of hell, the Bible itself warns will be the
fate of the Christians, even more so than the unbelievers who the
Christians condemn as sinners who have been turned out of TheWay. And one of the
realities which few believers are willing to face, is the fact that if
the Christians had a Covenant with God, then it has been revoked.
In the same way that it was said that the Jews were exiled from the
Promised Land -- their temple despoiled -- taken captive -- and made
slaves in the cultural Babylon of the "outer
darkness" -- and all this was orchestrated by the Hand of God
against the Jews --
the same fate has befallen the Christians. And in a similar manner as
the Jews who rejected Jesus, because the hearts and minds of the vast
majority of Christians has been hardened by the very Hand of God --
blinding them and inhibiting them from the Truth, the Light, and the
Kingdom -- they will remain incapable of embracing the True Teachings of
Jesus and TheWay regardless of the facts that are set before them.
The Hand of God has taken away
the freewill of Christians in the same manner as the fate that befell
the Jews at the time of Jesus. The Bible does not state that the Jews
rejected Jesus -- but rather, that God forced them to reject Jesus. In
the same way that it was said of the Jews who rejected Jesus:
“Even
after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they
still would not believe in him…”, because the
Christians rejected God in a parallel manner as when the Jews were
carried off and made slaves in ancient Babylon, the hearts and minds of
the mainstream Christians have been hardened and blinded to the Word of
God and the Kingdom. Why did many of the Jews reject Jesus? Because
their hearts were hardened, and their eyes blinded, and the Hand of God
working upon them did not permitted them to see and understand the
Truth. And this is easily demonstrated in the words:
“For this reason they could not believe,
because, as Isaiah says elsewhere: ‘He has blinded their eyes and
deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor
understand with their hearts’”
(John 12:37-40 NIV). Paul warned the Christians to be afraid -- i.e.,
“Do not be arrogant, but be afraid”
(Rom 11:20 NIV)
-- stating that if they failed to keep the foundational
requirements of the Covenant, that they would be cast away in the manner
of the Jews -- i.e.,
“For if God did not spare the natural Jewish
branches, he will not spare you either… Otherwise, you also will be cut
off” (Rom 11:21-22 NIV).
In the above part of this article it was demonstrated using the
Bible that the complacent lukewarm Christians will receive the greater
judgment than even the unbelievers -- that the Church under Rome became
the Synagogue of Satan -- that the prediction of Paul came to pass, and
the AntiChrist was worshiped where it is written that
"...the son of perdition, he that opposeth and
exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped;
so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God”
--
that the scriptures were corrupted and
edited to make them support the doctrines of Pagan Rome (see
Bible Corruption) -- but these facts
mean absolutely nothing to the flock of blind believers.
Why? Regardless of what I write -- or the Truths that are
revealed -- the mainstream of Christians will not be able to embrace
these Truths, because the Laws of God working upon their hearts and
minds, will not permit them to perceive and understand -- as was the
case with the Jews before them when Jesus walked the earth. And in the
same way that the leaders of the Jews vehemently opposed Jesus --
condemning him as a heretic and demon possessed -- the leaders of the
mainstream Christians have done the same -- and will continue to condemn
and oppose the Truth and the teachings of TheWay. Why? Because their
Covenant has been revoked -- and like the salt that lost its taste and
power to preserve, the Church has been cast out to be trodden under the
feet of the Nations (Mt 5:13).
TheCall:
In the same way that there is
always a forerunner who is sent to warn the people -- and even John the
Baptist was said by Jesus to be Elijah who returned to sound TheCall --
Jacob who is known as James, the Brother of Yeshua who is known as
Jesus, has been sent into the world to make TheCall to those who have
the ears to hear, and the eyes to see that the Kingdom is at hand. And
as a servant of the Kingdom, a shepherd of TheWay, and an emissary of
what is to come, those who are predestined to hear the Living Word at
this time, will experiencing an opening of their hearts and minds to the
Truth, TheWay, and the coming of the Kingdom. In the same way that
Jesus taught "that no man can come unto me,
except it were given unto him of my Father" (Jn 6:65), the
same truth and reality remains in effect in our own time.
If you want to know the Messiah/Christ who cannot be known by the people
of this world, then you must live and embrace the Truth and TheWay in
the manner that Jesus taught -- letting go of the doctrines of men that
lead the people astray -- and setting one's self apart from the
lifestyle of the people who are servants to the god of this world. Only those
who the Father permits to hear the Living Word, can come to TheCall.
Why Jacob/James?
Peter is quoted as saying with respect to
James: "Our lord and prophet, who has
sent us, declared to us that the Evil One, having disputed with him for
forty days, but failing to prevail against him, promised that he would
send Apostles from among his subjects to deceive them. Therefore, above
all, remember to shun ANY APOSTLE, TEACHER
OR PROPHET WHO DOES NOT ACCURATELY COMPARE HIS TEACHING WITH JAMES...the
brother of our Lord...and this, even if he comes to you with
recommendations" (Clementine Homilies 11.35). Thus,
we are able to see where the present-day doctrines and lifestyle
associated with the Christian Church today, is merely the work of the
apostles of the Evil One.
Martin Luther, founder of the Protestant
Reformation, referred to the Epistle of James as an
"epistle of straw." Frustrated by
religious leaders who claimed this book supported their mistaken ideas
that people could buy their salvation through monetary gifts to the
church, Luther uttered his ill-advised phrase. Consumed in the debate,
he went beyond a proper understanding of the Scriptures and dismissed
James's statements that works are a necessary evidence of faith.
Christians today misapply Luther's words, not understanding the
circumstances behind them, and his words and arguments are promoted by a
Church which often use saved by faith to condone a spiritually
undisciplined lifestyle that denigrates the Gospel Message.
Jesus warned: "Not everyone who says to Me,
'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
will of My Father in heaven" (Matthew 7:21).
To do the Will of the Father, we must seek Truth and the Kingdom, and
live in the manner that Jesus taught -- i.e., to be in the world and not
of it!!! At the same time Jesus is also described as our
merciful High Priest (Hebrews 2:17). Works and grace go
together. Jacob/James, the Brother of Yeshua/Jesus, wrote
his epistle in harmony with Jesus' teachings and instructions.
He not only wrote about works (James 2:14-26) but addressed grace (James
4:6) and Christ's "compassionate and merciful"
nature (James 5:11). The Bible is consistent and plain in
its teaching that salvation is a gift from God. But, even
though it is a gift, something we cannot earn, we are expected to obey
God if we are to receive that gift. Paul wrote,
"For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith," and we are "created
in Christ Jesus to do good works" (Ephesians 2:8 NIV). James
summarized this concept simply and concisely, telling us that
"faith without works is dead" (James
2:20).
By embracing the doctrine of faith regardless
of actions which was instituted by Martin Luther, the Christians have
totally failed to maintain biblical standards. While they are
critical of the thinking and lifestyle of others, Christians continue to
promote the doctrines of Martin Luther -- a Roman priest who failed to
understand the doctrine of Divine Providence, and promoted a life of sin
as evidence of faith. In Luther's own words:
"Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ
be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death,
and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is
not a place where justice resides... No sin can separate us from Him,
even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day."
('Let Your Sins Be Strong, from 'The Wittenberg Project;' 'The Wartburg
Segment', translated by Erika Flores, from Dr. Martin Luther's
Saemmtliche Schriften, Letter No. 99, 1 Aug. 1521.) Luther believed
that man is a congenital sinner, because of the Original Sin of Adam and
Eve, and that only those who God saves, will receive salvation.
Luther went as far as to state that those who
attempt to live a pious life, have themselves rejected Christ:
"Those pious souls who do good to gain the
Kingdom of Heaven not only will never succeed, but they must even be
reckoned among the impious; and it is more important to guard them
against good works than against sin." (Wittenberg, VI, 160,
quoted by O'Hare, in 'The Facts About Luther, TAN Books, 1987, p.
122.). Like Calvin, Luther did not understand the doctrine of Divine
Providence because key teachings had been removed from the scriptures by
the Church (see Bible Corruption), and
in their reactionary doctrine to the corruption of the Roman Church, the
fathers of the Reformation plunged Christianity into an even greater
apostasy to the true teachings of Jesus and TheWay. Thus, Luther
writes:
"...with regard to God, and in all that
bears on salvation or damnation, (man) has no 'free-will', but is a
captive, prisoner and bondslave, either to the will of God, or to
the will of Satan." (From the essay, 'Bondage of the
Will,' 'Martin Luther: Selections From His Writings, ed. by
Dillenberger, Anchor Books, 1962 p. 190.)
"...we do everything of necessity, and
nothing by 'free-will'; for the power of 'free-will' is nil..."
(Ibid., p. 188.)
"Man is like a horse. Does God leap into
the saddle? The horse is obedient and accommodates itself to every
movement of the rider and goes whither he wills it. Does God throw
down the reins? Then Satan leaps upon the back of the animal, which
bends, goes and submits to the spurs and caprices of its new
rider... Therefore, necessity, not free will, is the controlling
principle of our conduct. God is the author of what is evil as well
as of what is good, and, as He bestows happiness on those who merit
it not, so also does He damn others who deserve not their fate."
('De Servo Arbitrio', 7, 113 seq., quoted by O'Hare, in 'The Facts
About Luther, TAN Books, 1987, pp. 266-267.)
All these passages
come from a tract Luther penned, titled, 'De Servo Arbitrio ,' or
'Bondage of the Will,' in which the father of the Reformation works
hard to present the case that free will does not exist.
In many respects, Luther was as diabolical
as the despots in the Church he opposed. In fact, his prescribed
treatment of the common man closely resembles that of the Islamic
terrorists who torture those who oppose their religious tents of
belief. Thus Luther writes:
"Like the mules who will not move unless you
perpetually whip them with rods, so the civil powers must drive the
common people, whip, choke, hang, burn, behead and torture them, that
they may learn to fear the powers that be." (El. ed. 15,
276, quoted by O'Hare, in 'The Facts About Luther, TAN Books, 1987, p.
235.) Further stating: "A peasant is a hog,
for when a hog is slaughtered it is dead, and in the same way the
peasant does not think about the next life, for otherwise he would
behave very differently." ('Schlaginhaufen,'
'Aufzeichnungen,' p. 118, quoted ibid., p. 241)
Luther even permitted polygamy:
"I confess that I cannot forbid a person to
marry several wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture. If a man
wishes to marry more than one wife he should be asked whether he is
satisfied in his conscience that he may do so in accordance with the
word of God. In such a case the civil authority has nothing to do in
the matter." (De Wette II, 459, El. ed. 15, 276, quoted by
O'Hare, in 'The Facts About Luther, TAN Books, 1987, pp. 329-330.). And
in his spiritually disenfranchised ignorance of the true meaning of the
scriptures, Luther blamed women for the fall of mankind:
“God created Adam master and lord of living
creatures”,
Luther writes,
“but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set
himself above God's will. Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices,
that lead men into error” (Quoted in: The Great Thoughts;
compiled by George Seldes).
His hatred of the Jews is legendary:
"Jews are young devils damned to hell."
('Luther's Works,' Pelikan, Vol. XX, pp. 2230.) Even condoning
Islamic type violence against them: "Burn their
synagogues. Forbid them all that I have mentioned above. Force them to
work and treat them with every kind of severity, as Moses did in the
desert and slew three thousand... If that is no use, we must drive them
away like mad dogs, in order that we may not be partakers of their
abominable blasphemy and of all their vices, and in order that we may
not deserve the anger of God and be damned with them. I have done my
duty. Let everyone see how he does his. I am excused."
('About the Jews and Their Lies,' quoted by O'Hare, in 'The Facts About
Luther, TAN Books, 1987, p. 290.)
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The
Journey Of The Soul
Into the
Kingdom
The Great Paradox
And Enigma
Can Only Be Revealed
To Disciples
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Both Luther and Calvin -- as
well as modern-day Christians -- remain thoroughly confused about the
doctrine of Divine Providence and Predestination, because one half of
the necessary equation was removed from the New Testament.
Luther believed that man is a
congenital sinner because of what he perceived to be the Original Sin of
Adam and Eve -- and that only those who God saves irrespective of their
actions in this life, will receive salvation. This void in
Christian thinking which seduced both Luther and Calvin to embrace the
Augustinian doctrine of Original Sin, was manifest in their total failure to understand Divine
Providence which is a paramount theme throughout the scriptures, and was the
direct result of the corruption of the scriptures (see
Bible Corruption ). And
the prevailing ignorance which continues to this day, is directly
caused by the removal of the doctrine of the Journey of the soul over
the course of many lifetimes (see Journey Of
The Soul ).
What is perhaps even more
confusing is the fact that the Eastern and New Age belief in
reincarnation, is no more factual than the common Christian belief that
man only lives one life and is judged -- and thus, because of the
paradoxical nature of the two doctrines where both possess a degree of
truth, while reality is manifest in the higher third-force that merges
the conflicting paradoxes into a single abiding higher truth and reality
-- few people understand this reality that is absolutely
necessary to comprehend what Jesus called the Mysteries of God and the
Kingdom.
While it is true that many of
the more straightforward teachings were removed from the New Testament
--
others such as why the complacent lukewarm believer is subject to the
greater judgment which have been explored in the above, were retained
because the scribes and correctors of the Church did not understand what
was being presented with any depth. And only when this fact is understood, can the above
teachings be understood that a complacent believer is worse off, than
someone who has never at all believed the Gospel message.
And thus, Christians today remain ignorant of this fact, because the
teachings on the journey of the soul was condemned by a circus
prostitute who gained political power (see
Journey Of
The Soul ) over the doctrines that Christians were permitted what to
believe.
Without understanding the
pre-existent causes of not only all the events of life, but the very
lives that people are bound to live based upon the Law that each of us
reaps what we have ourselves sown in the past, it was impossible for
Luther and Calvin to understand the doctrine of Predestination which is
paramount throughout the scriptures. Because many important
teachings were removed from the scriptures, the reader is only getting
one part of the picture that is almost impossible to understand with and
depth or clarity. Like the remaining verses which present
the reality that the complacent Christian will receive the greater
judgment than the unbeliever.
When the question of Divine
Providence and good and evil was set before Paul, he answered in a
manner that would be shocking to the average believer -- i.e., the
question is asked:
“You will say to me then, Why does He still
find fault? For who resists His will?” (Rom 9:19). Calving
wrote that the only difference between an evil man, and a good man, is
that God causes the man to be evil by virtue of withholding His Light.
And if evil men are evil, because God, in the words of Calvin, withholds
“the communication of his light”,
and good men are good ONLY because God bestows upon them the
“communication of his light”, then it
would appear that we are nothing more than play people -- mere
playthings -- in the hands of God, in much the same fashion as a child
playing with his toys?
The Apostle affirms this when he states in response to the question of
“For who resists His will?” and
writes: “On the contrary, who are you, O man,
who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder,
Why did you make me like this, will it? Or does not the potter have a
right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable
use, and another for common use? What if God, although willing to
demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much
patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?” (Rom
9:19-22 NAS).
When the question is asked: “Who resists His
will?” It is important for us to recognize the fact that
the Paul does not reply in the manner that our present-day church
authorities would, and respond that each of us has choices to make in
our lives. From the mindset and perspective of the Paul, it is easily
observed that choices are not even part of the equation -- but rather:
“O man, who answers back to God?”
The Apostle then goes on to explain that, in the manner of a child
playing with his toys, it is God's right to make some people
“vessels of wrath
prepared for destruction”, while He makes other people a
“vessel for
honorable use”. In other words, there are some people who
were created for the express purpose of destruction -- not because they
chose such a fate -- not because they had done anything wrong -- but
because in God's predestination, this fate was chosen for them prior to
even the creation of the world. Therefore, what the Apostle very
clearly conveys to us is that the role in life they lived, was not by
their own choice, but was brought about solely by the Hand of God.
Regarding these very controversial verses and the teaching on
predestination, the Apostle writes: “It does
not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy”
(Rom 9:16 NIV). If you desire Christ, it is because God has permitted
you to be a believer, and has ignited within you the desire for
Christ. The Bible affirms the position that the choice was not yours
to make.
As an example of this Divine Providence in the life of the individual,
the Apostle gives the example of Jacob and Esau, and writes:
“For though the twins were not yet born, and
had not done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose according
to His choice might stand, not because of works, but because of Him who
calls, it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. Just as it
is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated” (Rom 9:11-13
NAS).
What the Apostle is stating here is that before either of the twins had
been born, before either had “done anything
good or bad”, God not only decided their fate in life, but
for no apparent reason, He hated Esau and loved Jacob. Why? Paul
offers no explanation other than God does what he wants to do -- and man
does not have the right to question God's choices in these matters.
This is especially seen in the words: “Does not
the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one
vessel for honor and another for dishonor?” (Rom 9:21 NKJ).
In the Epistle to the Romans the Apostle confirms that we are as mere
toys in the hands of God -- and like a child playing with his toy people
-- God will have “…mercy on whom He desires,
and He hardens whom He desires” (Rom 9:18 NAS). Mankind is
subject to this reality without any reason other than the fact that God
wants to create and sit back and observe the dramas of life that we
experience -- and ultimately, have fun with His play toys in any manner
that He chooses. Moreover, it would appear that those who are destined
to what has been described as the eternal sufferings and tortures of
Hell, have received such a fate only because God enjoys watching such
carnage and suffering.
As toys, then, the Apostle tells us that we have no rights -- and this
is confirmed in the words of the Paul when he wrote:
“On the contrary, who are you, O man, who
answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, Why
did you make me like this, will it?” (Rom 9:20 NAS). Thus,
the Apostle states to the believer that whether we are saved or judged
to eternal damnation, it is not of our own doing -- our fate was decided
prior to the creation of the world -- and we have no right to question
the motives of God -- which motives include the total annihilation of
innocent women and children for no other reason than God desires the
carnage to come upon those who have done nothing to deserve such a fate.
From a modern Christian perspective, the doctrine of Divine Providence
and predestination gets really scary when it is realized that God chose
who would believe and who would disbelieve prior to the creation of the
universe: “For he chose us in him before the
creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he
predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in
accordance with his pleasure and will” (Eph 1:4-5 NIV).
What is being stated is that when God was still in the stages of
contemplating Creation -- prior to what we would relate to the events
written in the very first verse of Genesis 1:1 -- God decided that He
would make a certain group of people who would inherit all the good that
He could imagine, and another group would be plunged into eternal
suffering. Why? Because God wanted all people to know that He was
superior to them -- that they were weak and inferior beings -- and He
wanted them to know that there was absolutely nothing they could do in
order to alter their destiny. Thus, God created Satan as an instrument
to bring about the defilement of Creation. Why? In order that all
mankind would equally be drowning in a sea of inequity. In this way
God could choose from among the race of sinful man --
“in accordance with his pleasure and will”
-- those who He would permit to inherit the good.
With the corruption of the
scriptures, the the Church no longer has the
doctrinal means to understand why some people are created vessels of
honor, while others are created vessels of dishonor (Rom 9:21-22). Thus,
because of the corruption of the scriptures, modern Christians totally
lack an understanding of the words of the Church Father Origen:
“For God the Creator makes a
certain vessel unto honor, and other vessels to dishonor; but that
vessel which has cleansed itself from all impurity He makes a vessel
unto honor, while that which has stained itself with the filth of vice
He makes a vessel unto dishonor. The conclusion from which, accordingly,
is this, that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and
then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel
unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel has furnished
to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being
formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor. And
if the assertion appear correct, as it certainly is, and in harmony with
all piety, that it is due to previous causes that every vessel be
prepared by God either to honor or to dishonor, it does not appear
absurd that, in discussing remoter causes in the same order, and in the
same method, we should come to the same conclusion respecting the nature
of souls, and (believe) that this was the reason why Jacob was beloved
before he was born into this world, and Esau hated, while he still was
contained in the womb of his mother”.
The only means
for a person to have
"...cleansed [themselves] from all impurity"
is to seek to live a pious
and Consecrated Life in TheWay that Yeshua/Jesus taught and ordained.
Yet, Luther went as far as to state that those who attempt to live a
pious life, have themselves rejected Christ:
"Those pious souls who
do good to gain the Kingdom of Heaven not only will never succeed, but
they must even be reckoned among the impious; and it is more important
to guard them against good works than against sin."
(Wittenberg, VI, 160, quoted by O'Hare, in 'The Facts About Luther, TAN
Books, 1987, p. 122.). Like Calvin, Luther did not understand the
doctrine of Divine Providence because key teachings had been removed
from the scriptures by the Church (see
Bible Corruption), and in their reactionary doctrine to the
corruption of the Roman Church, the fathers of the Reformation plunged
Christianity into an even greater apostasy to the true teachings of
Jesus and TheWay. Thus, Christians condemn the Knowledge of TheWay, in
order to remain apostates to the Kingdom by holding fast to the
doctrines of Martin Luther. In the same way that Luther condemned
those who attempted to live a pious life to be sinners, someone who is
an Eternal Seeker from their perspective, rejects the free gift of
salvation in the Jesus-god of Constantine.
Christians claim that Jesus
was God, because the claim was made that he was One with God. Yet, they
fail to even consider the fact that
"being One with God", is not the same as
being God. This reality is parallel to that of a Divine Marriage where
the husband and wife are "one
flesh"-- yet, that does not mean that the wife
is the husband, and the husband is the wife. It means that they dwell
in oneness and perfect harmony in the Higher Third-Force Soul reality
that causes the vital life-force of each to flow freely through both
bodies -- and it is the manifestation of this is spiritual Etheric
reality that makes the "two one flesh".
Further, the Gospel of John also states that the Disciples were One with
both Jesus, and the Father -- so does that make them God also? Thus,
what we have is the prevailing Christian ignorance preached by a clergy
who "...promise
[of] freedom [in their doctrine of salvation by faith and grace alone],
while they themselves are slaves of depravity"
In order to be a believer and
follower of Jesus and TheWay, the person must make themselves the
"good ground" in which the Living
Word has been implanted (see Sower And Seed
) -- Christians promote the
doctrine that they attribute to Paul with respect to being saved by
faith apart from one's actions. And if Paul had meant this in the
manner that they imagine, he never would have told them to
"be afraid"
that if they are unfaithful to their Covenant, that they will be cast
away. Thus, Paul warns the Christians:
“Do not be arrogant, but be afraid”
(Rom 11:20 NIV). Why? Why would the Apostle warn the Christian they
should be afraid? Evidently he didn't know anything about the modern
Christian doctrine attributed to him that once you say your prayer
accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, you are saved
regardless of the manner in which you live your life. And this warning
is an important question for the modern believer to understand. They
should be afraid because of the violation of the covenant with God when
the Gentile converts ignored the warning of the Apostle:
“For if God did not spare the natural Jewish
branches, he will not spare you either… Otherwise, you also will be cut
off” (Rom 11:21-22 NIV). And cut off they were -- and cut
off and in bondage they have remained to this very day! And when they
open their Bibles, their hearts and minds are hardened, and they remain
spiritually blind to the true meaning of the scriptures. Moreover,
because they have never repented from teachings others the doctrines of
men in place of the Truths of the Gospel, they remain forever apostates
to the Inner Kingdom.
In the same way that Jesus taught that with
respect to the teachings on the sin of adultery that his followers would
be held to a higher standard than the Jews, this is confirmed in Paul's
warning to "Flee sexual
immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who
commits sexual immorality sins against his own body"
(1 Cor 6:18 NKJ). If the author of these words agreed with the
doctrine that man is saved by faith apart from his actions, then he
would have said that once you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord
and Savoir, sexual immorality no longer matters. Yet, it is clear that
Paul did not promote the doctrine of faith which was championed by
Martin Luther and the modern Church. When Paul wrote that man cannot
be saved by the works of the Law, he was making reference to the outward
rituals of the Jews. Christians are blind to the true meaning of their
own scriptures, because to even begin to walk in TheWay, one must
Repent. Yet, as Paul himself warned, there can be no repentance, so
long as Christians continue to embrace the culture and mindset of this
world. Moreover, without true repentance, there can be no Law of Grace
-- only the disillusion of being possessed by the Powers of the Left
Hand -- which possession by the god of this world was confirmed in the
alternative ending of Mark where it wars that those who continue to sin
lie "...under the sway of Satan,
who will not allow what lies under the
unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God".
Thus, it is impossible for Christians who promote the doctrine of
perpetual sin and redemption to understand the true meaning of the
Gospel, because they are ruled over by satanic forces which Jesus
portrayed as the "citizen of the far country".
If the beginning of one's walk in TheWay is
initiated with repentance, then there must be a total severing with the
sins of one's past in order to be faithful to the teachings of Jesus and
TheWay. To have compassion and make excuses for the ways of this world
-- attempting to portray the path of ignorance as being OK from the
perspective of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- is merely the
product of a defiled mind that Satan whispers to -- often telling you
his name is Jesus Christ. So long as you keep following counterfeit
shepherds who promote the doctrine that you are saved by Grace
regardless of your actions, mindset and lifestyle, then you will
continue to be apostates to the Kingdom and the Living Word of God.
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The
Law
The Plight And
Strugles Of The
Prodigal Sons and
Daughters In The Far Country
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"Be not deceived; God
is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that soweth to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting"
(Gal 6:7-8 KJV)
These words represent the Universal Laws that bring about every experience in
the trials and lives of the prodigal sons and daughters of the Most High, while
they are struggling in what Jesus portrayed as this, the
"far country". Every event in the life of mankind, is
initiated and brought about by pre-existent causes. This world is
God's School House where his Offspring mature and evolve to fulfill the required
maturity that Jesus noted in the words: "You, must
therefore, be Perfect, as your Heavenly Father is Perfect" (Matt
5:48). And the parable of the prodigal son portrays the journey of
the soul as he travails in this, the "far country"
-- and it is impossible for him
to return to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination, until he has put on the required
"Wedding Garment" that is required in the
parable of TheCall: "But when the king came in to see
the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. So
he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?'
And he was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand
and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth'" (Matt 22:11-13 NKJ)
While the prodigal sons and daughters of the Most High are travailing in their
struggles in this, the
"far country", they are bound
hand and foot by the Laws which immerse them in the lives that they are living
in this world. They are mentally and spiritually shackled to the
limitations of the organic flesh -- blind to not only their own higher soul and
spiritual natures and realities -- but incapable of perceiving anything beyond
the lessons of life that has been initiated by their own past actions -- and
this is the meaning of being cast "...into outer
darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'"
And Jesus portrayed the judgment of the Laws as being cast into a prision, and
warned:
"Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out
of there till you have paid the last penny" (Matt 5:26 NKJ).
And this is why Jesus said to the
chief priests and the elders that the
“…tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of
God before you” (Matt 21:31 RSV). He did not say that
they will never enter the Kingdom -- only that because they failed to pick up
their own cross and follow in TheWay, that they will remain bound in this, the
"far country" -- struggling with the Laws
that must be overcome, in order to enter into Life.
Thus, Jesus warned:
"And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and
prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with
many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes,
shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him
shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will
ask the more" (Luke 12:47-48 KJV). The stripes with
which each person is beaten, is in direct relation to their own past actions.
That those who know the Masters Will, as in the case of the Christians, will
receive the greater judgment of the Law and beaten with many more stripes than
the common sinners who do not know the Lord's Will, is because they failed to
live in accord with the knowledge that was given unto them. Thus,
Peter warns the complacent Christians:
"If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they
are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known
it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to
them. Of them the proverbs are true: A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that
is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud"
(2 Pet 2:20-22 NIV).
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus taught
the multitudes the mindset and lifestyle necessary to begin the process of
breaking the shackles of imprisonment -- the lifestyle necessary to reverse the
Laws -- and permit the prodigal sons and daughters the freewill to seek the
Kingdom. Thus, Jacob who people call James, the Brother of Yeshua
who people call Jesus, warns the believers:
"If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not
keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is
worthless... The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of
the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on
fire, and is itself set on fire by hell... With the tongue we praise our
Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My
brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a
salt spring produce fresh water" (James 1:26;3:5-6;3:9-12 NIV).
With the tongue we invoke Laws that imprison us. And thus, Jesus
warned that
"But I say unto you, That every idle word that
men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment"
(Matt 12:36 KJV). Yet, Christians treat these
words as an anomaly that does not apply to them -- when in fact, it applies to
them even moreso than the unbelievers.
While Paul correctly states that there is no salvation in the outward rituals
and traditions of the written Law of the Jews, he warns the believers of the
need to
"…take captive every thought to make it obedient
to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5 NIV). Why?
Because the Laws which control this world are imbued with the power to interact
and respond to our every word, thought, desire and deed. And thus,
every idle word invokes the Laws -- as does
"...every thought... [that is not] obedient to
Christ." To prevail over the Laws,
the Brother of Yeshua tells us to
"…bridle the whole
body" (James 3:2 KJV). Paul commands that
each believer must "…beat my body and
make it my slave..."
(1 Cor 9:27 NIV). Moreover, that faith meant an entirely
different thing to the Apostle Paul than what is being preached from our pulpits
today, can be seen in Paul’s commandment to all who would call themselves a
Christian to
"Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to
your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV). To the degree that Paul warned:
“For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:
but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV).
By virtue of the Laws which return to
each of us the fruit of our words, thoughts, desires and deeds, Peter warned the
flock of believers about the counterfeit shepherds who are wolves in sheep
clothing:
"These men are springs without water
and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they
mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful
human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in
error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity
-- for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him"
(2 Pet 2:17-19 NIV). The depravity that
Peter speaks of is in fact parallel to the warning in the Epistle of James that
"faith without works is dead"
-- i.e., without the works of the spirit,
"...they themselves are
slaves of depravity -- for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him".
Because of their own ignorance of the Laws that respond
correctively to each of us, the counterfeit clergy-shepherds promise the people
"freedom"
in the Gospel and the Good News -- and yet, Peter warns that they
"...themselves are slaves of
depravity"??? Because these shepherds of the simple
faith do not understand the words that Jesus said to the man who he had healed:
"Behold, thou art made
whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee"
(John 5:14 KJV). The counterfeit shepherds attempt to use Jesus as a
sacrifice to live in a state of perpetual sin. And thus, these blind guides
are not only disenfranchised from the very spiritual essence of the teachings of
Jesus and TheWay, but they have themselves never been imprisoned by the very
Laws that they preach to the flock of believers that they are exempt from
observing. Perhaps the key to understanding what Peter portrayed as
the false shepherds of the Church is found in the words:
"Do not think that I came to
destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For
assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle
will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore
breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be
called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless
your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you
will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt
5:17-20 NKJ). Thus, while Jesus condemned the rituals and traditions of the
Pharisees which used animal sacrifice to promote the doctrine of perpetual sin,
Jesus openly acknowledged that he was the one time sacrifice, and the Royal Law
remains completely in effect and binding upon all people's of the earth.
One only has to open the pages of
the Bible to see that the whole of the New Testament teachings is concerned with
ethics, morality, and the manner in which each of us treats our brothers and
sisters. The requirement is that we must be perfect, as our Heavenly Father is
perfect (Mt 5:48). This state of perfection is referred to as the fulfillment of
the Royal Law of God, and is measured in our forgiveness, acceptance and love of
our fellow man. From a New Covenant perspective, whatever is divisive, and not
in accord with the Royal Law, is of this world, and is an obstacle to our birth
into the Kingdom. It is from this perspective that the requirement in the Book
of the Revelation is set before us in the words:
"Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor
will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful"
(Rev 21:27 NIV). This same truth was expressed by Isaiah
where it is written:
"And a highway will be there; it will be called
the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those
who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it"
(Isa 35:8 NIV). And this same truth is expressed in the
words of Yeshua/Jesus when he warned:
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that
leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and
narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it"
(Matt 7:13-14 NIV). The
"narrow gate"
that Yeshua speaks that we must open in order for us to be
born into the Kingdom, has its parallels in the birth canal that serves as the
gate that each of us has emerged through when we physically entered into this
present world. That the next stage of birth has its similarities, is merely the
result that all realities are designed in accordance with the same Divine
Pattern of Creation.
What
is truly important for us to see in these solemn words spoken by the Lord, is
that only those who
"enter through the narrow gate"
will enter into Life -- i.e., it is not those who believe,
but those who follow in the footsteps who are the Genuine Christians. In order
to enter into the Kingdom, the disciple must be bathed in the healing waters of
consecration that cleanses them of all defilements of this world. Therefore,
the people who embrace the culture and thinking of this world, even when they
call themselves Christian, are those who walk the
"broad… road that leads to destruction".
What Yeshua warns us is that we cannot walk two paths --
it is either the one or the other -- and philosophical Christians will neither
go to Heaven, to Glory, or inherit eternal life -- without entering through the
narrow gate that is the entrance to the Kingdom. Moreover, if this is not
accomplished while we are alive in the physical body in which we presently
dwell, then we will have failed.
The Bible continually warns us that
the path or the second birth and entrance into the Kingdom is not easy. The
strife of the inner war within ourselves as embodied in the symbols of
Armageddon is seen in the words:
"We must through many tribulations enter the
kingdom of God"
(Acts 14:22 NKJ). Thus, in the same way that a woman travails in labor to bring
a child into this world, we must ourselves endure the
"…many tribulations"
of spiritual labor to be born into the Kingdom of God. Since the Kingdom is
within us, and Armageddon is therefore not an historical event -- but more
factually, a spiritual event in the life of the disciple in search of Truth --
we must then totally re-evaluate everything we think we know about both the
Gospel Message, and the life we are presently living. In fully comprehending
these biblical statements in relation to the whole purpose of the teachings of
The Way, let us again examine the definitive statement which conveys to us the
very essence of the Gospel -- and especially the Revelation of John:
"Blessed are those who do His
commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter
through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually
immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie"
(Rev 22:14-15 NKJ).
If the text of the Revelation
represented the end of the world, as is commonly believed by the majority of
Christians today, then why are those who remain outside the city portrayed as
"dogs and sorcerers and sexually
immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie"?
Armageddon, then, indicates the disciples personal
tribulation described as the
"pangs of birth",
as he endeavors to overcome his own lower carnal
nature through the crucifixion of what is symbolized by the flesh, in order that
he can possess the Knowledge of the fruit of the Tree of Life, transcend the
natural barriers of this world, and
"enter through the gates into the city".
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus taught
the people how they must treat their brothers and sisters -- i.e., fellow
prodigal sons and daughters who are themselves imprisoned in this the
"far country" -- bound by the ignorance of
the "outer darkness" of mind, consciousness
and being -- and they must be Lights to their brothers and sisters who are
imprisoned by the Laws and ruled over by the
"citizen... of the far country" which Paul called the god of this
world. Jesus had great compassion on the common sinners, because
they were being misguided by the false shepherds of the Jews who engaged them in
rituals of the written Law which Paul correctly called the
"letter that killeth". And in the same way that the
carnal Jews promoted animal sacrifice, the Pagan Christians used Jesus in a
similar vein as a perpetual sacrifice for the sins of the people.
Proof that when Paul was speaking of
faith, he was not speaking of a faith that permits the believer to continue to
sin after embracing the Gospel, is confirmed in the words in the Epistle to the
Hebrews where it is warned that if a Christian sins willfully after becoming a
believer, that they have crucified the Christ afresh, and no sacrifice
(Jesus/Grace) can have any effect on their destiny of judgment as an apostate to
the teachings of Jesus and TheWay:
"For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once
been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers
of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the
powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the
Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin
deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains
a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire
which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27
RSV). Therefore, the Christian who willfully sins after repentance and coming
to the knowledge of the teachings of the Lord, is worse off than those who have
never at all believed or even heard the Gospel message and the Good News.
The
clergy and the shepherds of Jesus and TheWay must guide the faithful flock into
a life of spiritual transformation -- and it is this transformation that frees
the people from the constraints and shackles of the Law -- releases them from
the prision -- opens their minds from the limitations of the
"outer darkness" -- and permits them to
receive the revelation of the Mysteries of the Kingdom that can only be imparted
to those who are true Disciples of TheWay and in picking up their own cross,
undergo the Alchemical Spiritual Transformation that permits the prodigal sons
and daughter to put on the required Wedding Garment:
"Nothing impure
will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful"
(Rev 21:27 NIV). By living the life ordained by Jesus,
this permits the Disciple to walk upon TheWay of Holiness -- i.e.,
"And a highway will be there; it will be called
the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those
who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it"
(Isa 35:8 NIV). And by manifesting the Light
to the lost prodigal sons and daughters, the Disciple will experience the inner
narrow gate opening unto them: "Enter
through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads
to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the
road that leads to life, and only a few find it"
(Matt 7:13-14 NIV). Jesus does not say that
the Kingdom is entered after you physically die and pass from this life -- but
rather, it must be entered while still alive in the body-vessel. And
this is why in the recently rediscovered Gospel of Philip which was suppressed
by the Pagan Church of Rome, it confirms the above warning and states:
"Those who say that first they shall die
and
(then) they shall arise are
confused. If they do not first receive the resurrection (while) they live, they
will not receive anything (when) they
die." That those who
walk what is portrayed as the broad-way reap what they have themselves sown in
their own past, is what is expressed in the proper translation of the word
destruction as
correctly
interpreted in a footnote on this word in the Schofield Reference Bible reads:
“There is no thought in these various words
of annihilation but of something that is ruined and thus unsuitable or unable to
fulfill its original purpose”.
And thus, those who fail to bring about the next stage of soul-birth while in
the body by putting on the required Wedding Garment of purity, are returned to
this life in accord with their own past deeds -- i.e., "Then
the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast
him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth'"
(Matt 22:11-13 NKJ). And Jesus portrayed the judgment of the Laws as
being cast into a prison, and warned:
"Assuredly, I
say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last
penny" (Matt 5:26 NKJ).
And this is why Jesus said to the
chief priests and the elders that the
“…tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of
God before you” (Matt 21:31 RSV). He did not say that
they will never enter the Kingdom -- only that because they failed to pick up
their own cross and follow in TheWay, that they will remain bound in this, the
"far country" -- struggling with the Laws
that must be overcome, in order to enter into Life.
These spiritual realities are all controlled by the Law -- i.e.,
"Do not think that I came to
destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For
assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle
will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore
breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be
called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless
your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you
will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt
5:17-20 NKJ).
And in the same way that the Ebionite Disciples understood that Jesus became the
Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling the Law, if they are to inherit the
Salvation of the Promise, then they must do the same. They asserted
that Jesus "was justified by fulfilling the Law. He was
the Christ of God, since not one of the rest of mankind had observed the Law
completely. Had any one else fulfilled the commandments of the Law, he would
have been the Christ." Hence, when the
followers and disciples of Jesus in like manner
"...thus fulfill the law, they are able to become Christs, for they assert that
our Lord Himself was a man in like sense with all humanity."
(Hippolytus, Refut. Omn. Haer. vii. 34).
Jesus became the first of the prodigal sons to return to the Kingdom of the
Father from which all of us in the beginning left, and traveled into this, the
"far country", and that he is the Author of TheWay -- the Only Way -- is because
he was the first to complete the Journey of the Soul by totally fulfilling the
Law. Thus, each of us must imitate and embrace the Pattern within
the construct of our own lives. The Law that evolves each of us, and
brings us to a state of Spiritual Maturity and Completion, is a Law of
Corrective Action that we ourselves initiate through our words, thoughts,
desires and deeds -- i.e.,
"Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that
soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to
the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting"
(Gal 6:7-8 KJV).
Whatever is the conditions of our birth, that is the result of our own past
actions. And it is for this reason that when the Apostle writes
about the conditions of one's birth, he states in
response to the question of “For who resists His will?”
and writes: “On the contrary, who are you, O man, who
answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, Why did you
make me like this, will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay,
to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use, and another for common
use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His
power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for
destruction?” (Rom 9:19-22 NAS).
When
the question is asked: “Who resists His will?”
It is important for us to recognize the fact that the disciple does not reply in
the manner that our present-day church authorities would, and respond that each
of us has choices to make in our lives. Your life at the present time, is the
result of the choices you made in the past -- and your future will be the result
of the limited choices you make in the present. And in the words of
the Apostle that are basically not understood and rejected by the modern Church,
it is easily observed that choices are not even part of the equation -- but
rather: “O man, who answers back to God?”
The Apostle then goes on to explain that, many people are born into this life as
“vessels of wrath prepared
for destruction” -- while other people are born into this life as a
“vessel for honorable use”.
In other words, because of their own past actions, the Laws returned back to
them the fruit of their own past, which Paul portrays as “vessels
of wrath prepared for destruction”. -- and they are the author of
their own fate by virtue of the choices and actions of their own past. As
an example of this Divine Providence in the life of the individual, the Apostle
gives the example of Jacob and Esau, and writes: “For
though the twins were not yet born, and had not done anything good or bad, in
order that God's purpose according to His choice might stand, not because of
works, but because of Him who calls, it was said to her, The older will serve
the younger. Just as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated”
(Rom 9:11-13 NAS).
In the words of the third century Church Father Origen
-- the man St. Gregory of Nyssa called “the prince of
Christian learning in the Third Century” When Origen speaks of
the scriptures, he not only used the scriptures before the massive corruption in
the fouth century, but he lived among the Ebionites and saw the originals in
Hebrew Characters: “We have frequently shown”,
writes Origen, “by those declarations which we were
able to produce from the holy Scriptures, that God, the Creator of all things,
is good, and just, and all-powerful… But since those rational creatures
themselves, as we have frequently shown, and will yet show in the proper place,
were endowed with the power of free-will, this freedom of will incited each one
either to progress by imitation of God, or reduced him to failure through
negligence… Now God, who deemed it just to arrange His creatures according to
their merit, brought down these different understandings into the harmony of one
world, that He might adorn, as it were, one dwelling, in which there ought to be
not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay (and some indeed
to honor, and others to dishonor), with those different vessels, or souls, or
understandings. And these are the causes… why that world presents the aspect of
diversity, while Divine Providence continues to regulate each individual
according to the variety of his movements, or of his feelings and purpose. On
which account the Creator will neither appear to be unjust in distributing (for
the causes already mentioned) to every one according to his merits; nor will the
happiness or unhappiness of each one's birth, or whatever be the condition that
falls to his lot, be deemed accidental; nor will different creators, or souls of
different natures, be believed to exist” (De Principiis, Bk 2 Ch 9).
What Origen is stating is that, in the beginning, each
soul was created equal and the same, and their place in life is not the result
of an accident, or the indiscriminate manifestation of God's Will in the form of
Divine Providence -- but rather, each soul's lot in life is the result of the
exercise of their own freewill, and consequently is arranged
“according to their merit”. This merit is
not the result of some unknown condition -- but rather, is imposed upon each
individual in accordance with what they have accomplished in their previous
lives.
Origen then goes on to demonstrate this truth by using
the very example which the Apostle Paul gave with regard to Esau and Jacob, and
writes: “‘What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God?' And that he might furnish us with an opportunity of
inquiring into these matters, and of ascertaining how these things do not happen
without a reason, he answers himself, and says, 'God forbid.' For the same
question, as it seems to me, which is raised concerning Jacob and Esau, may be
raised regarding all celestial and terrestrial creatures, and even those of the
lower world as well. And in like manner it seems to me, that as he there says,
'The children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil,' so it
might also be said of all other things, 'When they were not yet' created,
'neither had yet done any good or evil, that the decree of God according to
election may stand,' that (as certain think) some things on the one hand were
created heavenly, some on the other earthly, and others, again, beneath the
earth, 'not of works' (as they think), 'but of Him who calleth,' what shall we
say then, if these things are so? 'Is there unrighteousness with God? God
forbid.' As, therefore, when the Scriptures are carefully examined regarding
Jacob and Esau, it is not found to be unrighteousness with God that it should be
said, before they were born, or had done anything in this life, 'the elder shall
serve the younger;' and as it is found not to be unrighteousness that even in
the womb Jacob supplanted his brother, if we feel that he was worthily beloved
by God, according to the deserts of his previous life, so as to deserve to be
preferred before his brother”.
God did not hate Esau and love Jacob for no reason!
Neither does God make people who are vessels of wrath fitted for destruction
indiscriminately, as Augustine, Calvin and Luther believed. To even
believe such a preposterous concept of Divine Wisdom is to affirm Peter's
assertion that the Gentiles believe these absurdities because
“their minds are accustomed to take in things spoken
against God." Respecting the Divine Order of Creation, Origen then
continues referring to the Epistle to the Romans, and goes on and explains:
“For God must be believed to do and order all things and
at all times according to His judgment. For the words which the apostle uses
when he says, ‘In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver,
but also of wood and of earth, and some to honor and some to dishonor;' and
those which he adds, saying, 'If a man purge himself, he will be a vessel unto
honor, sanctified and meet for the Master's use, unto every good work,'
undoubtedly point out this, that he who shall purge himself when he is in this
life, will be prepared for every good work in that which is to come; while he
who does not purge himself will be, according to the amount of his impurity, a
vessel unto dishonor, i.e., unworthy. It is therefore possible to understand
that there have been also formerly rational vessels, whether purged or not,
i.e., which either purged themselves or did not do so, and that consequently
every vessel, according to the measure of its purity or impurity, received a
place, or region, or condition by birth, or an office to discharge, in this
world. All of which, down to the humblest, God providing for and distinguishing
by the power of His wisdom, arranges all things by His controlling judgment,
according to a most impartial retribution, so far as each one ought to be
assisted or cared for in conformity with his deserts. In which certainly every
principle of equity is shown, while the inequality of circumstances preserves
the justice of a retribution according to merit. But the grounds of the merits
in each individual case are only recognized truly and clearly by God Himself,
along with His only-begotten Word, and His Wisdom, and the Holy Spirit”.
Origen again demonstrates that our lot in life is the
result of our own deserts, and writes: “For God the
Creator makes a certain vessel unto honor, and other vessels to dishonor; but
that vessel which has cleansed itself from all impurity He makes a vessel unto
honor, while that which has stained itself with the filth of vice He makes a
vessel unto dishonor. The conclusion from which, accordingly, is this, that the
cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according
to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore
every individual vessel has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes
and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one
unto dishonor. And if the assertion appear correct, as it certainly is, and in
harmony with all piety, that it is due to previous causes that every vessel be
prepared by God either to honor or to dishonor, it does not appear absurd that,
in discussing remoter causes in the same order, and in the same method, we
should come to the same conclusion respecting the nature of souls, and (believe)
that this was the reason why Jacob was beloved before he was born into this
world, and Esau hated, while he still was contained in the womb of his mother”.
In
all things, "If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who
leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must
be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints"
(Rev 13:9-10 NKJV). Whatever you do unto others, the Laws will bring
upon you in the future. Those who inflict harm of any unloving act
towards their brothers or sisters, will receive the same in return.
As with all condition in life. If a person is poor and destitute,
then the life they are living is the result of choices they made in their own
past. If a person is born a homosexual, this this is the result of
their own past choices and actions. In the Sermon on the Mount the
people are told that as they judge their brothers and sisters, they will in turn
be judged. An example of someone who has invoked the Laws in his own
judgment, and will be born a homosexual in the future when he reaps what he has
sown, is the Rev. Fred Phelps (see
Wikipedia Article).
This is not to say that homosexuality is good -- only that it is a plight that
man brings upon himself. In the case of those who persecute
homosexuals in the manner of the Rev. Phelps, the Laws make them a vessel of
dishonor and they are born into the same conditions in which they judged others.
Every aspect of life that people are born into and experience, is the result of
their own past.
"Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that
soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to
the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting"
(Gal 6:7-8 KJV). Those people who immerse
themselves in the thinking, culture and lifestyle of this world, inherit the
corruption of the flesh -- i.e.,
"...For he that soweth to his flesh
shall of the flesh reap corruption"
-- while the few who fulfill the mandate to be in the world and not of it, and
seek the Truth and the Kingdom over the doctrines and ways of this world, are
vessels of honor who having in their past
"...soweth to the Spirit shall of
the Spirit reap life everlasting."
And
that the Christians use the sacrifice of Jesus to live in a state of sin and
perpetual redemption, is the reason why Peter warned that
"If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they
are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known
it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to
them. Of them the proverbs are true: A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that
is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud"
(2 Pet 2:20-22 NIV) -- and is the reason why Paul called the apostates to
TheWay: "For it is
impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened,
who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to
come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their
own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after
receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for
sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume
the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).
And this is why Jesus warned that the complacent Christian who is lukewarm, will
receive the greater judgment than even the common sinners and unbelievers:
"And
that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did
according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not,
and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For
unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men
have committed much, of him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:47-48
KJV).
Thus, in the same way that Jesus spoke
of the Mysteries of God only in parables to the people -- allegorical portrayals
of Universal Spiritual Truths which concealed the inner meaning from those who
in the words of Ignatius were still of a natural mind and were not yet
“able to receive
their weighty import” -- in order for them to contemplate and
permit the Universal Symbols in the parables to begin the process of
enlightening the minds of the hearers. And while the believers of
the simple faith are under the illusion that they see and understand the
meaning, they only perceive to the depth of their own spiritual transformation
as presented in the parable of the Sower and the Seed. In Truth,
Only those who have become a Disciple -- who have picked up their own cross and
walked in TheWay -- are able to comprehend not only the Mysteries of God, but
the inner spiritual meaning of the scriptures that Paul correctly called the
literal letter of the written word the
"letter that killeth... Jewish fables". The
key to understanding this reality is seen in the parable of the talents where
those who knew not the Truth, were not held to the same standards as those those
who did know the Truth -- i.e., "And that servant who
knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will,
shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things
deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is
given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of
him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:47-48 NKJ). What
this means is that Christians will be held to a higher standard than
non-Christians -- and those who have the capacity to perceive the inner
spiritual meaning of the written word, will be held to an even higher spiritual
standard. And in part this is the basis of when Jacob/James wrote:
"My brethren, let not many of you become teachers,
knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment" (James 3:1 NKJ).
Why would those who teach "...receive a stricter
judgment"? Why would those who know the Master's will be
not only held to a higher standard, but be beaten with many stripes, while those
who do not know the Master's will who are deserving of many stripes, will be
beaten with only a few?
What are the requirements that are
being used in the judgment of the people?
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God Uses
The Church
God uses the modern
Church, even though it remains spiritually disenfranchised
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God Ordains Error For The Good Of
The Prodigal Sons
Quoting
from: Why Would God Permit
The Gospels To Be Corrupted
http://BrotherOfJesus.org#WhyGodPermittedTheCorruptionOfTheGospels
With respect to the statement of reality as
to why God would allow the Gospels to be
corrupted? If the Gospels had not been
corrupted -- thereby making them relevant
and applicable to the lives of a much
greater number of people -- then this large
body of people would never have been
converted to a quasi-form of Christianity
that they could relate to and embrace, and
make spiritual gains as they began to
incorporate the basic Gospel teachings into
their life. Which provokes the question:
Why was it necessary to convert a large
number of people to a corrupted form of the
Gospel which they could embrace in their
carnal condition of mind? In order for a
change in consciousness to come upon the
earth while preserving mankind's choice and
freewill, it was more important to convert a
large number of people to a series of Gospel
teachings that they could accept and
embrace. Paul did this same thing when he
taught the Gentiles what he called the
"traditions"
of the Gospel (see Animal-Soul
http://AnInconvenientTruth.org#animal ),
but was unable to reveal to them the
spiritual meaning of these traditions
because of their mental and spiritual
immaturity.
Original
Gospels Still Exist: The above could
work ONLY because when the immature
believers were ready, a time would come when
the Original Gospel Teachings could be
restored. With the corruption of the
Gospels that made them both acceptable and
useable to a massively larger number of
people, in the fourth century important
more pure copies of the scriptures were
hidden away and preserved for those who were
able to make use of them. It was therefore
the foundation of the Gospels that was
necessary to -- when the time was right --
be in a position to enable a higher level of
spiritual maturity to be brought about in
the lives of a great number of people (see
Can I Get An Original Pure Copy Of The
Scriptures
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com#PureCopyOfScriptures
). Further, the same Soul who was not
only present in the first century and
authored the Original Core Gospels, would be
able to incarnate again and restore the
Original Gospel Teachings that were
suppressed by the fourth century Church as
has been accomplished at The Reality Of The
Original Gospels
http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com .
Which means that when the time was optimum,
the large group of people who had been
reared on what Paul portrayed as
“milk intended for
babes in Christ” (1
Cor 3:1), could then be mentally and
spiritually nourished with the Divine Manna
which enables them to travail on path into
Life.
In the writings of Clement, the 2nd
century Bishop of Alexandria, it is
explained that:
“But among the lies, the false
prophets also told some true things.
And in reality they prophesied ‘in
an ecstasy,’ as the servants of the
apostate”.
Using the early Christian writing
known as the Shepherd of Hermas
(see http://nazirene.org/shepherd_of_hermas.htm
), Clement then explains:
“And the Shepherd, the angel of
repentance, says to Hermas, of the
false prophet: ‘For he speaks some
truths. For the devil fills him with
his own spirit, if perchance he may
be able to cast down any one from
what is right.’ All things,
therefore, are dispensed from heaven
for good, ‘that by the Church may be
made known the manifold wisdom of
God, according to the eternal
foreknowledge, which He purposed in
Christ.’ Nothing withstands God:
nothing opposes Him: seeing He is
Lord and omnipotent. Further, the
counsels and activities of those who
have rebelled, being partial,
proceed from a bad disposition, as
bodily diseases from a bad
constitution, but are guided by
universal Providence to a salutary
issue, even though the cause be
productive of disease. It is
accordingly the greatest achievement
of divine Providence, not to allow
the evil, which has sprung from
voluntary apostasy, to remain
useless, and for no good, and not to
become in all respects injurious.
For it is the work of the divine
wisdom, and excellence, and power,
not alone to do good (for this is,
so to speak, the nature of God, as
it is of fire to warm and of light
to illumine), but especially to
ensure that what happens through the
evils hatched by any, may come to a
good and useful issue, and to use to
advantage those things which appear
to be evils, as also the testimony
which accrues from temptation”.
Within these words are contained
a profound truth that all believers
today must realize. The Power of
God is so all-encompassing, that
even the apostate teachers and
prophets still serve the Lord. So
is the present Christian Church the
Church of God? Yes -- But not in
the manner that most Christians
would understand. Is it not
forewarned and written that:
“Many will say to Me on that day,
‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in
Your name, and in Your name cast out
demons, and in Your name perform
many miracles?’ And then I will
declare to them, ‘I never knew you;
depart from Me, you who practice
lawlessness’”
(Matt 7:22-23 NAS). Therefore, it
is established that even among those
who prophesy, cast out demons, and
perform many great miracles in the
name of the Lord, they are as Simon
Magus, and have not part in the
teachings of TheWay and the
Kingdom. This means that from your
perspective as a believer, for you
to be faithful to the scriptures,
you must question everything -- and
that includes every word that myself
or anyone else writes for you to
read. A true disciple of the Light
is one who proves the truth; not one
who believes something because it
sounds good to his carnal mind.
Why would you listen to a man
who tells you that you must
believe, when the Lord himself
told you not to blindly believe
even what he taught; as can be
seen where it is written:
“If any of you really
determines to do God’s will,
then you will certainly know
whether my teaching is from God
or is merely my own”
(John 7:17 TLB). As
demonstrated in the above
http://TheLie.org , the
Christians not only have no part
in the teachings of the New
Covenant, but in the worship of
Jesus as God, they are merely
idolatrous pagans who are using
Yeshua as an excuse for their
heathen mindset and lifestyle.
Yet, when you understand that
Paganism is the product of an
immature and undeveloped
mindset, only then can you begin
to understand the absolute
necessity of the Church.
Because the symbolism of the
scriptures are true when turned
within self (see The
Application Of The Key
Of Knowledge
http://KeyOfKnowledge.org#ApplicationOfTheKeyOfKnowledge
), the Christians are
being used as a vehicle or type
of mule that is
necessary to preserve these
important symbols and
concepts. Which means that if
anyone seriously embraces the
symbols -- and truly begins to
do God's Will -- i.e.,
“If any of you really
determines to do God’s will,
then you will certainly know
whether my teaching is from God
or is merely my own”
(John 7:17) -- that these
symbols will act as a catalyst
that will begin to bring about
the necessary transformation.
Like the Pharisees, the
Christians have ritualized and
worship the symbols, and fail to
turn them within and live
them. Further, they lack the
necessary knowledge of self, and
they fail to seek the Inner
Kingdom by living
a Consecrated life where they
make their body-vessel into a
Living Temple.
Clement is correct when he
states that all people serve the
Will of God -- and the evil of
man is used by the Left Hand of
Correction (see
http://DivineManna.org ) to
bring about necessary change in
the experience of mankind in
this world. As stated, because
the Pagan Romans and Greeks were
incapable of embracing the
purity of the teachings of
TheWay, it was necessary to
corrupt the scriptures in order
to improve the condition (
http://BibleCorruption.com )
of the people. In many ways,
the Epistles of Paul were
themselves an important
corruption that made these
essential teachings available to
the Gentiles. So the Laws
raised up Paul for this purpose
-- and what evolved into a
multitude of Gentiles who wrote
under the name of Paul -- not
because he knew the Truth, but
because he
sufficiently corrupted the Truth
in order to make it acceptable
to the Gentiles. And the same
is true of the Church of
Constantine.
The key to this higher
reality that is far beyond the
comprehension of organic man, is
found in the words: "For
My thoughts are not your
thoughts, nor are your ways My
ways," says the LORD. For as
the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are My ways higher
than your ways, and My thoughts
than your thoughts. For as the
rain comes down, and the snow
from heaven, and do not return
there, but water the earth, and
make it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the
sower and bread to the
eater, So shall My word be that
goes forth from My mouth; it
shall not return to Me void, but
it shall accomplish what I
please, and it shall prosper in
the thing for which I sent it"
(Isa 55:8-11 NKJ). Everything
has a purpose beyond man's
perception -- every action of
mankind is turned by the Laws
for the greater good that man
can't conceive of -- and nothing
can remain void of fail to
fulfill it's higher intended
purpose as set forth by God
through the Laws at the very
beginning of Creation.
If you are going to even
begin to embrace higher Truth
and Reality, you are going to
have to cease to eat the fruit
of the Tree of Duality that
brings spiritual death, and eat
the fruit of the Tree of Life.
The Left and Right Hands of God
work in conjunction for the
eventual good of mankind (
http://DivineManna.org ).
Thus, you must begin to embrace
paradoxical thought in order to
embrace this higher reality.
While on one hand it can be said
that the Church is satanic (see
http://ebionite.com/AntiChrist.htm ),
on the other hand the Church is
necessary for the greater good
of man (see
http://ebionite.com/Necessity.htm ).
The prodigal sons and daughters
who are lost in this, the
"far
country... outer darkness",
are incapable of knowing the
Truth and walking in TheWay --
so it is necessary to fragment
and corrupt that Truth in order
for carnal man to grasp
important teachings and
principles, and begin the
process of making change and
seeking the Knowledge of self
and the Inner Kingdom. So
while for the masses the Church
is a good and positive force, in
a forum such as this the Church
is the embodiment of evil and
spiritual depravity. And both
realities are not only true, but
are necessary in the experience
of mankind. At present the
Religious Right in many respects
is the epitome of ignorance and
evil -- but they are a force for
Good that is Ordained by the
Laws and the Hand of God, in
order to oppose the secular
Marxist Left that is attempting
to wipe out the belief and
knowledge of God. In the same
way, while Islam has become
diabolical in its murder of
innocent people in the name of
their satanic god, the evil
force of Islam is being used by
the (Left Hand of) God in order
to balance and oppose the Sodom
and Gomorrah of the secular
Marxist un-liberal left. And
if it weren't for the Sodom and
Gomorrah left, I would not be
able to publish these web sites
that offend the Religious
Right. What this means is that
all evils are used to balance
corresponding opposite evils --
all evils are necessary -- and
all evils serve the greater good
of mankind and the Will of
God.
One of the most important parts
of the equation of the
perfection of man is freewill --
and in order for man to be both
tested and perfected, the
illusion of freewill must be
maintained. If a man murders
another -- or rapes a hundred
women -- it must appear to the
unenlightened observer that he
can get away with it -- i.e.,
that the Will and Laws of God
are a fallacy -- and that man
reigns supreme. If immediate
action was brought against the
evil of man, then this world as
God's University would
be totally undermined. The
aggressor must be in the
position of victim --
under similar circumstances of
his own victims -- in order for
the learning lessons to be
effective.
From one paradoxical perspective
the Fundamentalist Christians
are a necessary force for good
-- yet they embody all that is
evil from an opposite
paradoxical perspective -- which
in and of itself serves the
forces of both good and evil.
And this is why the answer and
higher reality of all paradoxes,
are always in the third-force
that exists on a higher plane in
the manner of the point of the
triangle that exists on a higher
plane than the opposite points
which oppose each other. In a
recent post I demonstrated where
the primary fruit of the Tree of
Duality that brings death is
organic male and female thoughts
and mindset -- and it is
this duality that must be
overcome in the
Divine Marriage.
The Divine Pattern of Creation
is Male and Female in all
realities -- and while on one
level this duality is necessary in the evolution
and perfection of the soul and
the Ultimate Destiny of
mankind -- this Duality must be
restored to
"one
flesh" on all levels
of being -- i.e., Adam and Eve
must be restored to Adam/Eve. And these
things represent some of the
reasons why the organic mind of
man is incapable of perceiving
the higher reality of the soul
and the Kingdom. All forces of
good in this world, are all evil
from the opposite reality of the
Tree of Duality -- all serve the
Higher Will of God -- and
because they all are the fruit
of the Tree of Duality, they all
bring spiritual death. Only
when you can evolve the
paradoxes into the higher
third-force that is not of this
world, are you able to eat of
the Tree of Life and find
Permanence in the Kingdom.
What this means is that while
the Evangelical Christians
champion the concept of the need
to be Born Again, their words
are meaningless rhetoric from
the perspective of Higher Soul
Reality. So are they serving
the Higher Will of God? Most
definitely!!! But not in the
manner that they think they
are. And so too is the New Age
-- the Sodom and Gomorrah
un-liberals -- the diabolical
Muslims -- and all movements and
realities that are manifest in
the earth. And because of his
failure to understand this
higher reality, this is one of
the important lessons of life
that inhibits the development of
organic man.
Paul,
the man known as the Apostle of
Faith, commanded the believers:
"Put
to death, therefore, whatever
belongs to your earthly nature"
(Col 3:5 NIV).
The
vast multitude of believers totally
ignore this command, because it is a
truly difficult thing to achieve.
In like manner, the Apostle of Faith
warned:
“For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall
die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live”
(Rom 8:13 KJV).
What
does it mean to mortify the deeds of
the body? Is this what Christians
are striving to do today? If all
that was required was to believe,
and call upon the name of the Lord
as one's personal savior as taught
today, then why did Yeshua/Jesus
warn believers:
"But
I say unto you, That every idle word
that men shall speak, they shall
give account thereof in the day of
judgment"
(Matt 12:36 KJV).
How can we be saved by faith apart
from our actions, and yet we are
commanded to put to death our
earthly nature, mortify the deeds of
the body, and never to even speak an
idle word? Christians attempt to
ignore these commandments -- and to
their own demise, they attempt to
make believe they do not exist.
From a purely
elementary perspective, one only has
to open the pages of the Bible to
see that the whole of the New
Testament teachings is concerned
with ethics, morality, and the
manner in which each of us treats
our brothers and sisters. The
requirement is that we must be
perfect, as our Heavenly Father is
perfect (Mt 5:48). This state of
perfection is referred to as the
fulfillment of the Royal Law of God,
and is measured in our forgiveness,
acceptance and love of our fellow
man. From a New Covenant
perspective, whatever is divisive,
and not in accord with the Royal
Law, is of this world, and is an
obstacle to our birth into the
Kingdom. It is from this
perspective that the requirement in
the Book of the Revelation is set
before us in the words:
"Nothing impure will ever enter it,
nor will anyone who does what is
shameful or deceitful"
(Rev 21:27 NIV).
This same truth was expressed by
Isaiah where it is written:
"And
a highway will be there; it will be
called the Way of Holiness. The
unclean will not journey on it; it
will be for those who walk in that
Way; wicked fools will not go about
on it"
(Isa 35:8 NIV).
And this same truth is expressed in
the words of Yeshua/Jesus when he
warned:
"Enter through the narrow gate. For
wide is the gate and broad is the
road that leads to destruction, and
many enter through it. But small is
the gate and narrow the road that
leads to life, and only a few find
it" (Matt
7:13-14 NIV). The
"narrow gate"
that Yeshua
speaks that we must open in order
for us to be born into the Kingdom,
has its parallels in the birth canal
that serves as the gate that each of
us has emerged through when we
physically entered into this present
world. That the next stage of birth
has its similarities, is merely the
result that all realities are
designed in accordance with the same
Divine Pattern of Creation.
What
is truly important for us to see in
these solemn words spoken by the
Lord, is that only those who
"enter through the narrow gate"
will enter into Life -- i.e., it is
not those who believe, but those who
follow in the footsteps who are the
Genuine Christians. In order to
enter into the Kingdom, the disciple
must be bathed in the healing waters
of consecration that cleanses them
of all defilements of this world.
Therefore, the people who embrace
the culture and thinking of this
world, even when they call
themselves Christian, are those who
walk the
"broad… road that leads to
destruction".
What Yeshua warns us is that we
cannot walk two paths -- it is
either the one or the other -- and
philosophical Christians will
neither go to Heaven, to Glory, or
inherit eternal life -- without
entering through the narrow gate
that is the entrance to the
Kingdom. Moreover, if this is not
accomplished while we are alive in
the physical body in which we
presently dwell, then we will have
failed.
The Bible continually
warns us that the path or the second
birth and entrance into the Kingdom
is not easy. The strife of the
inner war within ourselves as
embodied in the symbols of
Armageddon is seen in the words:
"We
must through many tribulations enter
the kingdom of God"
(Acts 14:22 NKJ). Thus, in the same
way that a woman travails in labor
to bring a child into this world, we
must ourselves endure the
"…many tribulations"
of spiritual labor to be born into
the Kingdom of God. Since the
Kingdom is within us (Lk 17:20-21),
and Armageddon is therefore not an
historical event -- but more
factually, a spiritual event in the
life of the disciple in search of
Truth -- we must then totally
re-evaluate everything we think we
know about both the Gospel Message,
and the life we are presently
living. In fully comprehending
these biblical statements in
relation to the whole purpose of the
teachings of The Way, let us again
examine the definitive statement
which conveys to us the very essence
of the Gospel -- and especially the
Revelation of John:
"Blessed are those who do His
commandments, that they may have the
right to the tree of life, and may
enter through the gates into the
city. But outside are dogs and
sorcerers and sexually immoral and
murderers and idolaters, and whoever
loves and practices a lie"
(Rev 22:14-15
NKJ).
If the text of the
Revelation represented the end of
the world, as is commonly believed
by the majority of Christians today,
then why are those who remain
outside the city portrayed as
"dogs
and sorcerers and sexually immoral
and murderers and idolaters, and
whoever loves and practices a lie"?
Armageddon,
then, indicates the disciples
personal tribulation described as
the
"pangs of
birth"
(see
Gate Of Eden), as he endeavors
to overcome his own lower carnal
nature through the crucifixion of
what is symbolized by the flesh, in
order that he can possess the
Knowledge of the fruit of the Tree
of Life, transcend the natural
barriers of this world, and
"enter through the gates into the
city".
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