Recently the news was splattered by a story that there was to be an archaelogical documentary on television presented by the "The Discovery Channel " on March 4th, which was to prove they had found the bones of Jesus. As anyone knows this would be impossible to prove and scientifically alone it stands as pure cow manure that anyone could tell whether any bones were from Jesus. First, you would have to subscribe to the Da Vinci Code myth and lies, to find a surviving member from his lineage and this would require the impossibility of tracing, Mary the Mother of Jesus forward to a surviving genetic inheritance that was alive today or worse you would have to find a relative of the direct lineage of Jesus from him and a marriage to some woman. It amazes me how "Jews" like James Cameron could even produce such garbage. I always thought him to be somewhat intelligent yet he proved to me he is ignorant beyond belief to even want to put his name behind this production of mythology.
Second - This is the second time "The Discovery Channel" has been involved in a disputed claim about an ancient tomb, CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips reports. The man at the center of the previous case is now facing trial for forgery.
I do want to mention an excellent book on archaeology and the times of Jesus. This book is called, "Excavating Jesus". The teachings and times of Yeshua ( Jesus) revealed through the most important discoveries of biblical research and archaeological research. This book is authored by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L.Reed. John is professor emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University, Chicago, John L. Reed is a a professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of La Verne, in California.
I absolutely love how they show what the real Kingdom of God meant for early believers and what it''s nature was. It is a far cry from the Kingdom of this world, and they explain both archaelogocally and biblically how, that even in arguing the miracles and all the things we know to be true, back in the times right after Jesus resurrection would had little affect upon the hearers of these proclamations, though true, the hearers of that time, had plenty of their gods doing fantastic things as well, Jupiter rising up from the dead, and creating the Sons of Jupiter, the Caesars of Rome were also often claimed to be seen rising up from the ashes and ascending to the heavenlies, etc. These things are not explained to take from Jesus and Christians but to explain that when Paul and Peter and others debated with the pagans, and the Jews, these things unlike today, were not the grounds from which they won converts.
Though intellectual exercise was a part ot the debate, the thing that set Paul and Peter and all the Apostles apart, was their community of love, and understanding, their love of peace and love expressed to all men in Christ. This alone set the world upside down for Jesus in their times. It also goes to show how scripturally Jesus avoided leaving a place, a home, or a residence that could be exclaimed as the place of the Kingdom of God, and how Constantine thwarted Jesus purposes through the building of the Holy Sepulchre and his insistence on building Temples and buildings for worship in the style of the Romans and the Greeks for their gods for the new state-religion subjects to worship in.
In the chapter entitled "How to Bury A King", I quote,
"We do not ask whether Constantine constructed the Holy Sepulcher on the right spot. Yes, probably. We ask whether his construction was appropriate to Jesus Kingdom of God, to that Jewish ideal of a covental Kingdom on earth as in heaven. No, probably. Above all, we ask and question not so much how Constantine celebrated the sepulcher of Jesus, but how Christianity celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. "
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The truth to be told, Jesus never wanted any place on earth to be called, a holy place, what Jesus sought was to present a holy place, that had no geographical boundaries, no buildings, but a people that would promulgate through their living, their community with one another, outside of buildings, and geographical boundaries the love of God for men and women alike.
Jesus as it is written in the New Testament, went out from Peter's home or his mother in laws home, he did not bid the people "come to me where I am", he went to where they were, the byways, the alleys, the streets, the woods, the gardens, their homes, and told his Disciples the same, GO FORTH, never did he say "come to my house", but he went and made His house "where ever two or more are gathered in his name" without the elaborate ornate buildings that were later created by Constantine, without the authoritarian attitude these buildings contributed to. He went out and was a Servant not a Master. The Apostles did the same. They could have remained at home, went to the Temple and said come here if you want to hear about Jesus. No, we find even Paul seeking a place of prayer alongside a river stream, where there might be others as well seeking the solitude of nature for meditation on the Lord and to be in prayer, and Lydia, was found there. God had already set her heart apart for salvation, and Paul explained the communal - Kingdom of God to her, and not long afterward, we don't find Lydia going to the Temple, but rather prayer beginning in her household at home, and others were reached for Jesus as well. She went forth I imagine just as Paul and Peter and all of the Apostles did, not finding a welcome in the Temples often that men had built, they sought people whereever they were, at work, at play, at debate, at roadside or river side. They found people, whose hearts God had been prepared for the lesson of the Kingdom of God. I imagine she returned many times on the Sabbath day to the river and shared the Good News and then would bring them to her house to explain Our Savior, his love, his sacrifice, his resurrection by lifestyle and community of love one for another. They each came to understand, that God did not dwell in some building, not even Lydias house, but in her heart and the hearts of others like her.
The Apostles knew that a debate over just the miracles of Jesus, or even the resurrection ( though the most important tenant of our belief) would not lead a person to Jesus, they had their own gods who as well, had risen from the grave, they had their miracles and the great heroes of old. The Apostles approached others rather with the community of life that was changed for them, from hater to lover, from killer to a man of peace. Paul was a changed man, and the Kingdom of God was real in his heart, and this heart, not the argument brought people into "the Way".
It was the very reality of Christ alive in his people, their changed lives, their deeds, the actions, their love for one another, that gave precedence and reality over the pagan gods and their stories of their resurrection.
It was life changing - it had to be true this Jesus who went about doing good was really resurrected, for the people could see it in the hearts and lives of the believers. They didn't find it in a building, and I imagine, the seekers by the river side like Lydia had come to some conclusion of that or why else would they not been in their perspective temples worshipping and praying to their gods. Especially Jews on a Sabbath.
We stand in our Sepulchres, and say "come", while Jesus said "Go"!
When will the institutional church so set by Constantine and his followers through the ages, awake to the fact that what they present is nothing more than the same kingdoms the Caesars and Greek gods, and all pagan beliefs present.
The same temples, the same gods, the same priestly grab and authoritarianism.
Jesus wanted us to pray, "Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is heaven". In heaven there is no Temple for his people are his Temple, and his Son is the High Priest, and He is the Light, the Eternal Light that no man will ever see darkeness in. There is no need for sunlight there. He alone provides all the light needed. There is no need for sacrifice there for his compassion is provided instead. There is no need of tithe there, for He is the giver of all things and what could we ever return to Him that is already His in the first place. There are only His people, His priesthood of believers of all races, all nations, all that declare Jesus is Lord.
We live in a period of thought influenced by the Enlighment, these people lived in pre-enlightment times.
Their argument for Jesus was never a place to go, a person to see, or hear, but the very life of the resurrected Jesus within them, this is what brought sinners to grace, this is what saved the worse of pagans and gave them eternal life. This was the Kingdom of God come down to earth.
Not the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem that Constantine built, not any supposed home that Jesus lived in, and surely not found in a building on this earth made by the hands of men. Even Jesus had them all confused and upset when he clarified that the only building he was talking about tearing down was his body to be raised again in 3 days. The Pharisees were so carnal in thinking like the institutional church, they couldnt see beyond the place, the building that Herod built, as anything else being referred to as a temple.
Paul clarified this when he said, the body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Paul was not referring to a local, tax deductible, incorporated, entity of some people, under the State, meeting in a certain building anywhere. God has no other house, but His people and their heart, and the lie has stolen this for so long from His people, they have lost touch with "Christ in you, the hope of the glory".
Acts: 7:47-50 Stephen preaching to those then who still sought a place or a building as the place where God was to dwell. He states with all clarity that cannot be misunderstood. He quotes directly from scripture from the Prophets.
47- But it was Solomon who built a house for Him *(referring to the Creator Yahweh)
48- However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:
HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS THE FOOTSTOOL OF MY FEET;
WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME? says the LORD:
Or what place is their now for my repose?
WAS IT NOT MY HANDS THAT MADE ALL THESE THINGS?
You men are stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just what your fathers did.
It was very short after this, that they stoned Stephen for speaking the truth of the Kingdom of God. These promulgators of Temple worship with their high priest lifted up rocks and just as they killed Jesus and the prophets and all those who came to bring Israels' heart to the Father, they murdered him. They gnashed at their teeth at him, as so often clergymen do that at me, when I tell them in love the truth of the Gospel and how far they have wondered away from this truth.
Constantine in my opinion did the same thing. He commited murder of the truth of what the definition of what the EKKLESIA OF GOD is, but just as Christ would not remain in the grave, the EKKLESIA has been coming out, greater in numbers these days since before the time of the early (KIRKE) church fathers begin to whittle away at the truth of the Gospel and the foundation of Christ and the Apostles. These promulgaters that God lives in a building, have done exactly what the Pharisees did, they replaced the Word of God with the traditions of men.
They gnash their teeth at me, they want me stoned for telling the truth, less they lose their place of power and money, and their very substanance for groceries, debt, fine cars, nice homes, and paid for trips. They would hate the most to lose their title, Pastor, Priest, Bishop, etc. for these things are holy and precious to them and without them, they become mere men, no longer holier or more learned then their subjects.
"The Kingdom of God is within you".
The residence of God is not in some building down the street with a sign outside that says church. God lives in the hearts of His people, and this is the excavating of Jesus, that will never reveal bones, but a living and vibrant resurrected Savour.
Let Easter (the pagan celebration be gone) and let the Resurrection Day of Jesus be alive- come this week as we remember and reflect what Jesus really was all about. Let us repent from our works of darkness we have lived in for too long, and turn to the life of Jesus and the Apostles, and instead of saying come here or there, let's get up and GO to the people as Jesus did. Only love conquers all.
If you want to read about real biblical archaelogical work on excavating Jesus, then I highly recommend reading the book I mentioned earlier.
Now let us excavate the "resurrected Lord and King in our hearts, in our families and in our everyday lives. For HE LIVES!
So Go forth, and take the Gospel unto all nations in Yeshua's name. Don't sit on a pew this week, share Jesus with someone by your life in word and deed, and let it be the resurrected Jesus "excavated from the dead of the building" made alive in your heart, that speaks and acts.
I serve a risen Savour, He is in the world today, you ask me how I know this, for He is in my HEART TO STAY!
Dr. J.
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Friday, April 6, 2007
The Great Heresy Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth
Quoting from "The AnaBaptist Story by Dr. Stan Nelson, senior professor of Theology, it would do the institutional church well to realize how they became what they are, why they are failing and if they truly have anything of the New Testament Word and Spirit left in them, it behooves them to understand Church History. I am by heart a "Radical Reformationist".
Thus were the AnaBaptist when they came about in the time of the Reformation.
Now how did it begin: The Church Fallen - quoted from Dr. Nelson.
There was an almost imperceptible, gradual process that took place in the Patristic era that changed the nature of the church. When one looks at the end-result of this process in the Roman Catholic Church and considers its New Testament starting point, the vast difference becomes apparent.
Two major factors moved the ekklesia (the termed used for the New Testament people of God) to the "church" (the institutionalized organization), and these factors were interrelated. The factors were the development of a formal legal authority and the development of the sacramental view of salvation around the New Testament ordinances.
The sacramental view of salvation developed around both the Lord's Supper and Baptism. The saving grace of Christ would be experienced in these rites controlled by the church. In our discussion I will center only on baptism because of the Anabaptists thesis that baptism is an initiatory rite for entering the ekklesia. If time were available both ordinances would receive scrutiny.
1. The Institutionalizing of the Ekklesia
It was said that "Christianity had two great battles to fight in the Patristic era. The first battle was without--the battle against persecution. The second battle was within--the battle on discipline and purity. It has been said that one battle was won and the other battle was lost, but I want to disagree with that conclusion--I believe that both battles were lost. The church that won the battle over persecution was not the same church as the New Testament ekklesia. The ekklesia had already changed; the church's very nature had been altered. Here are the reasons for this changed nature:
a. Syncretism--The Problem of Growth
In the first three centuries, it is estimated that between 5 and 10 million people were won to Christianity. This was a tenth of the Roman Empire. Gal. 4:4 needed to be understood as more than just the New Testament. Sometimes the church would triple overnight. The need for leaders was great. Early leaders in the church were from Judaism, but later Judaism rejected the Christian message. The Judaic leaders had an Old Testament background and were able to perceive and to interpret the New Testament message, but the leadership that came from the Gentile converts had a pagan background and had understandings that were vastly different.
The Gentile converts, being from a different culture, lacked an understanding and means of communicating the gospel. How long does it take for Christianity to filter into the sub strata of a culture? I don't know. But the resulting syncretism had two emphases--some church rites carried with them magical overtones, and the external signs of church membership were magnified.
b. Purism--The Problem of Discipline
A large number of persecutions transpired in this time period before legality was offered to the church. Most of these persecutions were local, but there were two exceptions which had Empire-wide overtones:
- The Decian persecution in 250, which produced the Novations.
- The Diocletian persecution in 303, which produced the Donatists.
The question that arose from these persecutions was how the church should deal with the lapsed. Should they serve the church as members? Should they be served the Lord's meal? Should they have full membership as if they had never renounced their faith? Suppose one's husband had died because of faithfulness to Jesus Christ and another's husband had renounced Christ under the same persecution, was freed, and later came back to the church proclaiming a faith in Christ? How should the people of God deal with the matter? How will the widow of a martyr feel toward the lapsed? What is the role of the lapsed in the church?
The answers to those questions affected the very nature of the church. Augustine used the wheat and tares analogy (Mt. 13:24-30) as a basis for his solution.
c. Civil Religion--The Problem of Dominance
The Edict of Milan (313) made Christianity a legal religion. When Theodosius I made Christianity mandatory in 380, he required the baptism of every person a rite of citizenship to the Empire. Where at one time no Christian could serve in the military because of their allegiance to a someone greater than Caesar, now every soldier had to be Christian to serve--a remarkable change.
- Leadership in the churches was now based on organizational skills and loyalty to the state, where before Constantine leadership had been based on spiritual gifting.
- The persecuted church becomes the persecuting church. Those not professing Christianity were often debarred from offices.
The statement "the church exists only where the bishop is present" became the teaching of the church, and represented a fundamental difference with the New Testament "where two or three ..." (Mt. 18:20). This position may be traced back to Cyprian, but was actualized after Constantine. Its purpose was to correct and prohibit heresy, and in turn it became a heresy itself, at least from the Anabaptist point of view.
d. Authoritarianism--The Problem of Schism
Two forces were at work here. The first was the modeling of the church after the government, and the second was the development of church leaders having a mode of authority originating in the culture. This use of authority intruded into the spiritual organism and brought a different kind of nature to the church--rank and formal authority of jurisdiction. The church had become a hierarchy.
2. The Sacramentalizing of the Ekklesia
When the ordinances were conceived of as a sacrament, a fundamental change in the structure of the ekklesia took place. I would love to use the word "sacrament" here if it meant what it did when it was first used, an "oath of loyalty" (Tertullian).
- The use of "sacrament" as a conveyer of God is a failure to understand the doctrine of grace. Grace conveyed through specially ordained channels becomes the norm of the church in the post-Constantinian period. This approach suggested an impersonal and quasi-material force or sub-personal pneumatic power conveyed through ordained channels. Grace in the New Testament, on the other hand, was understood as being the initiative of God.
- The use of "sacrament" as a conveyer of God is a failure to understand the doctrine of baptism.
- Baptism as a conveyer of God has Christ's baptismal waters filled with a sanctifying potency.
- Bishops began praying over water before baptism so the waters would have the same potency for those they baptized.
- Infant baptism developed next. Baptism in the New Testament and in much of the Patristic period had a required catechism, but this cannot be done with infant baptism.
Infant baptism obscured the New Testament doctrine of baptism. Water baptism was viewed as a cleansing from original sin and confirmation as a means to conveying the Holy Spirit. Division between catechism and baptism developed as a way to handle the problem. Augustine fleshed out the doctrine, relating it to original sin. Under the impetus of Augustine infant baptism spread throughout the church. From the fifth century on, infant baptism became the general practice of the church. It was only challenged by a few isolated communities.
Baptism, through its application to infants, progressively lost its New Testament significance until it could be used as a mere outward sign without any inward spiritual significance. At the time of the Anabaptists, it was primarily a mark of citizenship.
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I have and still continue to oppose the institutionalization of God's Ekklesia (his called out one's) to what it has become and has been for 1900 years, every since Constantine.
The earliest (institutional) church Fathers, such as Origen and Cyprius and more became the great downfall of everything Christ set to establish within the heart of men - not in a building, an organization or any institution. First, there was the setup of the Nicolations ( Clergy over Laity) The declaration that the Bishop was equal to God, then their was the church-state union to form the "City of God", then the sacraments - Baptism, Communion and anything that was to practiced became only the right of the bishop to perform. Then there were the qualifications to be a Christian, a complete year of catechism training and on and on- until you had Popery at it's height. Then the reformation came along, and all that was provided out of this was the right for people to read the Bible for themselves, and determine what the Lord had to say to them. But less, the laity get too smart, the Pope was exchanged for a Pastor - the same power structure as that of the Bishop/Pope. Martin Luther did nothing to change the heresy of popery but to add a Bible that could be read by the people, but the Pastor still held the magic wand in his hand for it's interpretation, the giving of sacraments, etc.
Thus the AnaBaptist were born- not only a people that could see clearly where all of it came from but a people that wanted to return to the teachings of Jesus and hold onto the traditions of the Apostles rather than that of men. There were sitters rights where upon any meeting, anyone could speak- because they were all of the priesthood of believers. They would only Baptize converts, they believed in the revelation of the Word to each believer. They stood but not for long, for just as the Judaizers, and the Church-State union had destroyed the very teachings and love of Christ with the conquering under the sign of the cross, these people were soon totured and killed by the reformers themselves. Calvin and Luther hated them. They especially hated them for sitters rights doctrine. The AnaBaptist believed in the Sermon on the Mount, they were non resistant and believed not in war or fighting back with their enemies just as Jesus did, so it made it easy for the Babylonian institutional church reformers to destroy them as easy as it was for Origen and Cyprius, Augustine and all the other supposed church fathers to change and distort the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to begin to whittle at the truths laid down by the foundation of Christ and the building of the Apostles.
Today, the same heresy continues and I speak out about it constantly and I am persecuted as they and the early Christians were. I am made to be a second citizen Christian and even a Cultist for my strong belief in the Word of God over the traditions of men. Isn't this what the Lord said, would happen, "if they persecuted me, they will persecute you".
Who was he talking about but nothing less than those same Temple and High Priest worshippers then that persecuted Him, the institution of Judaism. The church folks, their Pastors, etc.
There has been over 1900 years since the church went wayward, why does it seem to continue with it's hypocrisy when church history proves it's origens are pagan, yet they continue to say they are the true EKKLESIA while denying all that Jesus ever taught in truth. Why, because it has always been easier for men to box god up in a building, and place his power in one individual who could interpret or commune with god, while the worshippers recieved their blessings and cursings and instruction from a high priest.
The greatest misnomer has been to call Christianity, Judeo-Christian beliefs.
Paul's fight was constantly against those trying to make it Judeo- Christianity- there is nothing Judeo about it, as presented by Christ. He was as anti-Judeo (the religion of the Jews then as it remains today) as could be. Thus they killed Him- Lord of Lords and King of Kings, the Messiah, was crucified at the hands of the church leaders and church people of His time. I am not being anti-semitic against the race of Hebrews, for we all have come out of the loins of Abraham and that would be counter to my own self preservation. I am branch on the tree. I am telling you, that Paul was well aware and John, and Peter and the rest, knew exactly what would happen when they were dead and gone, so they told the believers to hold onto the traditions they had handed down to them, and not to be swayed by the Judaizers and the Gnostics. The wolves were waiting in the corridors and they rushed the halls the minute the Apostles were dead and created a heresy which is still alive on Planet Earth.
What heresy you ask? The heresy that God still lives in buildings and has a high priest for each one to do the sacraments, interpret the scrolls and speak for God. It is heresy and will remain so.
I speak the truth in love, I know many individuals that are clergymen and I love them with all my heart, and makes me sad, when so many of them, have even admitted to me, they know that what they do is really heretical, because they have studied church history as well as I have, they have studied the Talmud and the Kabbala and the Torah and they have read the church fathers writings, and studied biblical archaelogy and know the truth, but because this is their profession and tithing propagates the system, they can't escape the Temple/Priest role less their familes starve or they are unableto find work with their hands.The money system and the power keeps it all propped up and running, this is why the institutional church will go on, because, it runs like the world and is the world in it's practice and anything that bows down to the enemy will be successful in this world. To come out of her - would be mean sacrificing filthy lucre, and power and recognition. The heart of the evil would have to be cut out first, and that evil is the lie of tithing. Once the money is gone, the leaders will leave, once the building is gone, the people will meet in their homes. God forbid that, that could lead to a bunch of Christians having real fellowship and real communion and real prayer and real exhortation, and real love, and real worship by their lives exemplifying Christ. In other words, ASSEMBLY would become real as it was real for the earliest believers, who went from house to house, breaking bread and fellowshipping, and praying for one another. True elders, teachers and pastors would be revealed with a servants heart and not a postiional title. All with out any human leader ( ruling over others) and the only PRIEST they need is Jesus, our high priest for eternity. As real as it was for the AnaBaptist before the persecutors came along. Yes, the heresy is still alive on Planet Earth. I remain a RADICAL REFORMATIONIST and I am humbled by it, as it took the Father a very long time to make a modern day Baptist into what I am today, and He isn't finished with me yet, but I press on to the goal.
Dr. J
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Mars the god of War Is Now Jesus
In history one can find the beginnings of the mythological god named Mars. This god has not died, he persist even today as the true god of those who though in name claim they are Christian, but in deed and in word, they worship Mars the great god of war.
I quote from an excellent analysis of war from a book entitled, " A Terrible Love of War, by James Hillman. Hillman's analysis is true in so many areas, even though he is a psychologist and former Director of Studies at the Carl Jung Institute in Zurich.
It is clear in biblical truth that he is not a true Christian, but in the reality of what most of those believe and do in deed and word he is "christian", as he explains. Western theology, the way of life and all, most individuals who are in this country lay claim to being christian. Matter of fact, 80% of America claims to be Christian from polls done.
Though in truth I know and anybody who has a true comprehension of Jesus' life, the life of the Apostles, and the martyrs, that until Constantine- the church was founded by the Prince of Peace, but from that point on the god Mars has become our god, superimposed upon Jesus, the Prince of Peace, he is now the War God. These are they that are not biblical Christians, they are what Western idealism has made them, hypocrites! They still since the time of Constantine hold fast the doctrines of a pagan god Mars as their new Jesus.
Western Christianity's god comes front and center when war is in the air. War brings it's god to life. In World War 2, this god was a co-pilot on bombing runs, as one book title declared, and a popular song turned a chaplain into a "helluva gunner". In World War 1, "Clergymen dressed Jesus in Khaki and had him firing machine guns". The bishop of London exhorted his Christian fellows to "kill the good as well as the bad...kill the young men as well as the old...kill those who have shown kindness to our wounded as well as those fiends..."
Let me quote from a prayer in his book which so typifies the prayers of the Babylonian church (Kirke) today. These have become the prayers of the faithful - those Christian Nationalist and Pro- Zionist just before battle.
O Lord Our God,
help us
to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us
to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriotic dead;
help us
to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded writhing in pain;
help us
to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;
Ah! war has such a sweet sound to the faithful, herein is their chance to prove their god Mars overall is god of all gods. To put this in place they declare this when by mere defeat of an enemy through bloodshed and violence, that American truth and American Christianity is the only truth and that we shall rule the world whether you like it or not.
To ask the question: here is what James Hillman ask, and I do the same.
"The retreat to love leaves untouched the important question that each of us as Christians must pose: why is Christianity, which entered the world as a religion of love and has distinguished itself from other world religions by the message of love in it's founder and it's apostles and exemplified in its martyrs and saints, also so martial (lovers of war)?
Its notion of love has not coverted the god of war, and in fact the Christian culture has inspired the greatest long lasting war machine of any culture anywhere. Does this not demand from our educated Christian minds a sharper examination of Christian love?
I still marvel how those who prefer the New Covenant of grace and forgiveness for themselves offer none to others. What surprise they will have on Judgement Day by the Supreme Judge, who shall look at them, and say " I knew you not".
Until then Americans will continue with their pagan god Mars re-created into the image of the former Prince of Peace to now be called their great King of War and their "justified wars" so that the great "City of God' the United States and Israel may continue in their hypocrisy of the lie they live in, and live with.
How perverted the Gospel of Jesus has become, what shirking there shall be in shame when the Prince returns.
How Americans love their god of war Mars, and until the real Jesus stands up, and shouts no more, there will be wars and rumor of wars, until He comes.
As for me and my household, we are going to serve the living Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace and true love. Who said emphatically in word and deed, "Love thy enemy".
If love is pointing guns at another and blowing his head off, then I will choose the opposite of this definition of love. I will choose true love, that looks down from a cross and says "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do".
The hardest words ever spoke by anyone that could only come from our Father who forgives those who forgives others.
How we have forgotten the truth of Christianity and bought into the babylonian baloney, the church of Constantine and his warriors, proclaiming visions of conquering under this sign, the cross. The cross symbolizes everything in Christianity of a submissive Savior but we in America have turned the cross as Constantine did, into a sword.
God have mercy on us, for we have bought the greatest lie of Satan ever, that we are superior over all others, and we are the soldiers of Jesus with our WMD's and our biowarfare and our super bombers, and our future weapons, we have come to believe conversion means to beat the pagan over the head until he bleeds, as the wounds bleed profusely and splatter blood onto our Bibles, and then we can shout, " I have made a new convert". Ah! When in truth we will be doing just what Jesus reprimanded the Pharisees for, making a more of a child of the devil, then they were in the first place.
This lie has continued since the times of Constantine and can be studied by any and all in church history. Why because the church of America, is not the EKKLESIA, called out ones of Christ, but a mix bag of Judeo- altered truths, jewish myths, satanic lies, american ideas of patriotism, manifest destiny and a false gospel of purintee.. BUNK!
Come out of her!
She has perverted the truth of Christ into a mythological god named MARS!
The god of War.
I am sickened by knowing the truth. It makes my stomach turn when I hear others who claim to know Jesus, while loving war and supporting it, and proclaiming it holy.
I Thessalonians 2:13-16
4 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus:for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews; 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always:but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Paul knew what to expect and it is here!
2 Timothy 4:3-4
1 I charge thee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto (fables).
or (myths) some translations say-
the mythological god of Mars - the war god is the myth they have turned to.
So, I hear the Word and act on the Word.
Titus 1:10-14
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. 12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. 13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. 15 To the pure all things are pure:but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
So here ye, here ye, ministers of unrighteousness, I reprove you sharply, so that you may become sound in the faith. Less, you are truly Satan who has appeared even as an angel of light.
Satan does have his ministers as well. War and the love of war are from the dredges of his bottomless pit. It was Satan who authored the first real war, when he rebelled against God, and the first human followed soon afterward with the murder of Abel.
I invite you to know the REAL JESUS - PRINCE OF PEACE, who said "my Kingdom is not of this world".
Dr. J.
I quote from an excellent analysis of war from a book entitled, " A Terrible Love of War, by James Hillman. Hillman's analysis is true in so many areas, even though he is a psychologist and former Director of Studies at the Carl Jung Institute in Zurich.
It is clear in biblical truth that he is not a true Christian, but in the reality of what most of those believe and do in deed and word he is "christian", as he explains. Western theology, the way of life and all, most individuals who are in this country lay claim to being christian. Matter of fact, 80% of America claims to be Christian from polls done.
Though in truth I know and anybody who has a true comprehension of Jesus' life, the life of the Apostles, and the martyrs, that until Constantine- the church was founded by the Prince of Peace, but from that point on the god Mars has become our god, superimposed upon Jesus, the Prince of Peace, he is now the War God. These are they that are not biblical Christians, they are what Western idealism has made them, hypocrites! They still since the time of Constantine hold fast the doctrines of a pagan god Mars as their new Jesus.
Western Christianity's god comes front and center when war is in the air. War brings it's god to life. In World War 2, this god was a co-pilot on bombing runs, as one book title declared, and a popular song turned a chaplain into a "helluva gunner". In World War 1, "Clergymen dressed Jesus in Khaki and had him firing machine guns". The bishop of London exhorted his Christian fellows to "kill the good as well as the bad...kill the young men as well as the old...kill those who have shown kindness to our wounded as well as those fiends..."
Let me quote from a prayer in his book which so typifies the prayers of the Babylonian church (Kirke) today. These have become the prayers of the faithful - those Christian Nationalist and Pro- Zionist just before battle.
O Lord Our God,
help us
to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us
to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriotic dead;
help us
to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded writhing in pain;
help us
to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;
Ah! war has such a sweet sound to the faithful, herein is their chance to prove their god Mars overall is god of all gods. To put this in place they declare this when by mere defeat of an enemy through bloodshed and violence, that American truth and American Christianity is the only truth and that we shall rule the world whether you like it or not.
To ask the question: here is what James Hillman ask, and I do the same.
"The retreat to love leaves untouched the important question that each of us as Christians must pose: why is Christianity, which entered the world as a religion of love and has distinguished itself from other world religions by the message of love in it's founder and it's apostles and exemplified in its martyrs and saints, also so martial (lovers of war)?
Its notion of love has not coverted the god of war, and in fact the Christian culture has inspired the greatest long lasting war machine of any culture anywhere. Does this not demand from our educated Christian minds a sharper examination of Christian love?
I still marvel how those who prefer the New Covenant of grace and forgiveness for themselves offer none to others. What surprise they will have on Judgement Day by the Supreme Judge, who shall look at them, and say " I knew you not".
Until then Americans will continue with their pagan god Mars re-created into the image of the former Prince of Peace to now be called their great King of War and their "justified wars" so that the great "City of God' the United States and Israel may continue in their hypocrisy of the lie they live in, and live with.
How perverted the Gospel of Jesus has become, what shirking there shall be in shame when the Prince returns.
How Americans love their god of war Mars, and until the real Jesus stands up, and shouts no more, there will be wars and rumor of wars, until He comes.
As for me and my household, we are going to serve the living Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace and true love. Who said emphatically in word and deed, "Love thy enemy".
If love is pointing guns at another and blowing his head off, then I will choose the opposite of this definition of love. I will choose true love, that looks down from a cross and says "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do".
The hardest words ever spoke by anyone that could only come from our Father who forgives those who forgives others.
How we have forgotten the truth of Christianity and bought into the babylonian baloney, the church of Constantine and his warriors, proclaiming visions of conquering under this sign, the cross. The cross symbolizes everything in Christianity of a submissive Savior but we in America have turned the cross as Constantine did, into a sword.
God have mercy on us, for we have bought the greatest lie of Satan ever, that we are superior over all others, and we are the soldiers of Jesus with our WMD's and our biowarfare and our super bombers, and our future weapons, we have come to believe conversion means to beat the pagan over the head until he bleeds, as the wounds bleed profusely and splatter blood onto our Bibles, and then we can shout, " I have made a new convert". Ah! When in truth we will be doing just what Jesus reprimanded the Pharisees for, making a more of a child of the devil, then they were in the first place.
This lie has continued since the times of Constantine and can be studied by any and all in church history. Why because the church of America, is not the EKKLESIA, called out ones of Christ, but a mix bag of Judeo- altered truths, jewish myths, satanic lies, american ideas of patriotism, manifest destiny and a false gospel of purintee.. BUNK!
Come out of her!
She has perverted the truth of Christ into a mythological god named MARS!
The god of War.
I am sickened by knowing the truth. It makes my stomach turn when I hear others who claim to know Jesus, while loving war and supporting it, and proclaiming it holy.
I Thessalonians 2:13-16
4 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus:for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews; 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always:but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Paul knew what to expect and it is here!
2 Timothy 4:3-4
1 I charge thee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto (fables).
or (myths) some translations say-
the mythological god of Mars - the war god is the myth they have turned to.
So, I hear the Word and act on the Word.
Titus 1:10-14
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. 12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. 13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. 15 To the pure all things are pure:but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
So here ye, here ye, ministers of unrighteousness, I reprove you sharply, so that you may become sound in the faith. Less, you are truly Satan who has appeared even as an angel of light.
Satan does have his ministers as well. War and the love of war are from the dredges of his bottomless pit. It was Satan who authored the first real war, when he rebelled against God, and the first human followed soon afterward with the murder of Abel.
I invite you to know the REAL JESUS - PRINCE OF PEACE, who said "my Kingdom is not of this world".
Dr. J.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
The Parable of the Home and Land
There was a home that had been owned for over 100 years by the same family. They enjoyed where they lived because the land around the home was plentiful for growing their own food, and making a life for themselves and their future generations. Now many years ago, previous to the land and home being bought and owned by the present owners, there was a different family that had owned the land, but because they had failed to keep the land and the home and it was sold at auction because the one who had sold the land to them, told them how it was to be zoned, and what kind of home had to be built, etc. and they didn't listen, so the home and it's land went to the present owners.
These same former home and land owners decided they wanted the land and home back, though it rightfully had been sold to it's new owners. So one day they decided with the help of a different land owner, in a different country, to take the land by force. Now, you must understand they had no right to this land, as they once did, before they failed to listen to the seller , the King and they were removed from the home and land they once owned.
So, they forcefully moved back into part of the land and part of the home. Though they had broke all laws, the country from far away who had helped them take it by force, continued to supply the thief with all the arms and force it needed to steal away the home and farm. They even convinced these land owners from far way that they would be very blessed by their King, if they would go along with their trickery. The owners now having their land and home partially taken from them, were doing the best they could to hold onto what little they had. However, the country far away was much more powerful and had lots of arms and they begin to threaten the home owners as well with direct interdiction if they didnt keep moving out little by little so the former land and home owners could continue to steal away from what was their own. They also decided the best way to go about this was to tell them they could have no weapons to protect themselves, or else. Yet, while the new home owners were listening out of great fear to the threats made, the old home and land owners, who had stolen part of their home and land were still acquiring the same weapons they the rightful owners were denied to own.
Matter of fact the thieves were daily aiming these weapons at them and firing them and killing them within their own homeland. Every now and then one of the home owners would fire back at them, but this only made things worse for them, because the country from afar would take the side of the attackers and threaten them again with not only their great weapons, but these weapons were also in the hands of their enemy- the home and land thief.
Now, across the world many kingdoms had come together in unison to try to maintain peace across the world, and they had even declared what the old land and home owner was doing was in violation of their laws. The ally of the thieves, cared not for their laws or their enforcement of them, so they went right on giving arms to the thieves, and threatening the people who truly owned the land and home now.
The worst part of it all, the ally to the thieves now claimed that anyone that was kin to the rightful owners of the land, no matter where they lived in the world also couldn't have these weapons to protect their home and land. For those that were kin feared these people and their ally, for they knew how they could come and steal what was rightfully theirs, so whatever they could do to hold on to what they owned this they would do, though the ally of the thieves made threats and fired their weapons at them as well.
Now along comes the King of the people who had given their land to the new owners and declares they are wrong, The thieves didn't care, they wanted the land so bad, that they killed the king and then told a lie, to their allies as well, that before the King died, (at their hands unknown to most), that he had declared the land and home was rightfully theirs and to not help them acquire it and protect it, they would be going against the King himself who had been the most powerful King of all Kingdoms. However, the King was so great that, he came back to life, and all those that placed their loyalty to him were his subjects, in no matter what land or home they lived in. He decided to get out of the land business into the heart business. The thieves would still not proclaim him King even after His resurrection, they were so bent on owning the land and the home they had lost, that nothing mattered more, and even those in the land they had stolen and the home they had invaded, were thought their enemy, as many in these lands had given their allegiance to Him. These who had went into the heart business as well in the land and home they truly owned, but the great land owner from far away, was so convinced that the people who stole the land were right and they believed the King was crazy now for changing his ways from land owner to heart owner, they continued to persist in helping the evil thieves in their taking from all the kinsmen their land and yet proclaiming at the same time an allegiance to the risen King.
They even convinced many of those who proclaimed this same allegiance to think they were serving the King if they would help in their goal to own all the lands and all the homes of the kinsmen who rightfully held ownership to the land. That they would be serving the King's wishes if they only changed his ideas back from heart to land ownership. They did well at this. They so convinced these that allegiance to the King and His rule over all men, that they contributed millions of dollars and speeches and wrote laws to allow the ally of the evil country to continue to break the Kings true purposes and that was to win the heart of all people in all lands, of all races.
Now, when the king asked of his subjects what they would do, if someone came to them and told them that He had given them a right to their home and their land, and forcefully removing them, while all the time lying and proclaiming His kingship to them, what would they do?
Of course, they held so tightly to the idea what was theirs was theirs, they said, they would fight back and keep what was theirs. Yet, while out of one part of their heart they understood their ownership of what was theirs, they went right on acting the opposite and contined to be disloyal to the King and His purposes. Then one day these same liars and hypocrites came and stole their land and homes as well, but they did it with subtleness, they convinced them that they really still owned it all, but giving them the rule over them would protect them from the kinsmen of the rightful owners of the land and home farway. They needed their protection as well so, the ally begin to serve the evil land and home takers every wish. While the King the true King was left with very few subjects, and when they spoke out against the thieves and the lies, they too were considered to be kinsmen to the rightful owners and were persecuted awfully and then came the day, they were killed by many who laid claim to their own personal ownership, and that of the thieves, but no one elses.
Now unto you it is given to understand the Parable.
Dr. J.
These same former home and land owners decided they wanted the land and home back, though it rightfully had been sold to it's new owners. So one day they decided with the help of a different land owner, in a different country, to take the land by force. Now, you must understand they had no right to this land, as they once did, before they failed to listen to the seller , the King and they were removed from the home and land they once owned.
So, they forcefully moved back into part of the land and part of the home. Though they had broke all laws, the country from far away who had helped them take it by force, continued to supply the thief with all the arms and force it needed to steal away the home and farm. They even convinced these land owners from far way that they would be very blessed by their King, if they would go along with their trickery. The owners now having their land and home partially taken from them, were doing the best they could to hold onto what little they had. However, the country far away was much more powerful and had lots of arms and they begin to threaten the home owners as well with direct interdiction if they didnt keep moving out little by little so the former land and home owners could continue to steal away from what was their own. They also decided the best way to go about this was to tell them they could have no weapons to protect themselves, or else. Yet, while the new home owners were listening out of great fear to the threats made, the old home and land owners, who had stolen part of their home and land were still acquiring the same weapons they the rightful owners were denied to own.
Matter of fact the thieves were daily aiming these weapons at them and firing them and killing them within their own homeland. Every now and then one of the home owners would fire back at them, but this only made things worse for them, because the country from afar would take the side of the attackers and threaten them again with not only their great weapons, but these weapons were also in the hands of their enemy- the home and land thief.
Now, across the world many kingdoms had come together in unison to try to maintain peace across the world, and they had even declared what the old land and home owner was doing was in violation of their laws. The ally of the thieves, cared not for their laws or their enforcement of them, so they went right on giving arms to the thieves, and threatening the people who truly owned the land and home now.
The worst part of it all, the ally to the thieves now claimed that anyone that was kin to the rightful owners of the land, no matter where they lived in the world also couldn't have these weapons to protect their home and land. For those that were kin feared these people and their ally, for they knew how they could come and steal what was rightfully theirs, so whatever they could do to hold on to what they owned this they would do, though the ally of the thieves made threats and fired their weapons at them as well.
Now along comes the King of the people who had given their land to the new owners and declares they are wrong, The thieves didn't care, they wanted the land so bad, that they killed the king and then told a lie, to their allies as well, that before the King died, (at their hands unknown to most), that he had declared the land and home was rightfully theirs and to not help them acquire it and protect it, they would be going against the King himself who had been the most powerful King of all Kingdoms. However, the King was so great that, he came back to life, and all those that placed their loyalty to him were his subjects, in no matter what land or home they lived in. He decided to get out of the land business into the heart business. The thieves would still not proclaim him King even after His resurrection, they were so bent on owning the land and the home they had lost, that nothing mattered more, and even those in the land they had stolen and the home they had invaded, were thought their enemy, as many in these lands had given their allegiance to Him. These who had went into the heart business as well in the land and home they truly owned, but the great land owner from far away, was so convinced that the people who stole the land were right and they believed the King was crazy now for changing his ways from land owner to heart owner, they continued to persist in helping the evil thieves in their taking from all the kinsmen their land and yet proclaiming at the same time an allegiance to the risen King.
They even convinced many of those who proclaimed this same allegiance to think they were serving the King if they would help in their goal to own all the lands and all the homes of the kinsmen who rightfully held ownership to the land. That they would be serving the King's wishes if they only changed his ideas back from heart to land ownership. They did well at this. They so convinced these that allegiance to the King and His rule over all men, that they contributed millions of dollars and speeches and wrote laws to allow the ally of the evil country to continue to break the Kings true purposes and that was to win the heart of all people in all lands, of all races.
Now, when the king asked of his subjects what they would do, if someone came to them and told them that He had given them a right to their home and their land, and forcefully removing them, while all the time lying and proclaiming His kingship to them, what would they do?
Of course, they held so tightly to the idea what was theirs was theirs, they said, they would fight back and keep what was theirs. Yet, while out of one part of their heart they understood their ownership of what was theirs, they went right on acting the opposite and contined to be disloyal to the King and His purposes. Then one day these same liars and hypocrites came and stole their land and homes as well, but they did it with subtleness, they convinced them that they really still owned it all, but giving them the rule over them would protect them from the kinsmen of the rightful owners of the land and home farway. They needed their protection as well so, the ally begin to serve the evil land and home takers every wish. While the King the true King was left with very few subjects, and when they spoke out against the thieves and the lies, they too were considered to be kinsmen to the rightful owners and were persecuted awfully and then came the day, they were killed by many who laid claim to their own personal ownership, and that of the thieves, but no one elses.
Now unto you it is given to understand the Parable.
Dr. J.
Monday, April 2, 2007
The Puritan, The Hebrew and America Revisioned
I have written before how, there are those in this nation, who lay claim to the idea that we are a "Chosen Nation of God" and they are doing their best to make their vote be the most important vote that a candidate can obtain. We are in essence taking dog's and having them to pretend they are holy Christians just so they can obtain votes. All one has to do as portray the idea that you are Christian, pro-life (which is baloney anyway, most of the prolifers I know are like Bush Pro-War- which is far from being Pro-Life), you believe in the Ten Commandments and on the list goes, depending on which denomination you are from.
The Christian Zionist and Christian Nationalist forget we have already had the experience once in this nation of a society that was driven by the conception of Christian law.
They were called the Puritans.
They dicatated everything about your life.
The people as a whole were liberty-loving in the extreme, but the individual was restrained at every step by laws that no free people of today would tolerate for an hour. Paternalism in government was the rule in the other colonies and in Europe, but nowhere was it carried to such an extreme as in New England.
Here the civil law laid its hand upon the citizen in his business and social relations; it regulated his religious affairs, it dictated his dress, and even invaded the home circle and directed his family relations. One law forbade the wearing of lace, another of "slashed cloaths other than one slash in each sleeve and another in the back." The length and width of a lady's sleeve was solemnly decided by law. It was a penal offense for a man to wear long hair, or to smoke in the street, or for a youth to court a maid without the consent of her parents. A man was not permitted to kiss his wife in public. Captain Kimble, returning from a three-years' ocean voyage, kissed his wife on his own doorstep and spent two hours in the stocks for his "lewed and unseemly behavior".
How far will the new Christian Nationalist take us down this road of their revisioned history to gain power in politics rather than power over sin in their own individual lives?
Will we become a people that will drag homosexuals out into the street, and hang them or stone them. Or will we be a people that presents the forgiveness and love of God to them and offer them an opportunity for repentance and faith in Jesus Christ? Will we brand those that are caught in adultery? Will we put people back into stocks on the courthouse yard? Will we take prostitutes out into a field and stone them. Perhaps we will do as the Puritans did, even hang those we think are practicing witchcraft or burn them at the stake. Those that even think they can rule this nation through laws they want to define as Christian are guilty of breaking these laws. Yet, they persist. They call themselves, Pro-life, well I am Pro-Life- I believe all life is precious to the Father, and therefore I am also truly Pro-life in that I am pro-anti-resistant to war, any war for any cause - creates death and destruction. So, out of one side of your mouth you proclaim - Thou Shall Not Murder, yet we back a candidate who has been responsible for more murders than you can count. He began as Governor of Texas, more people died under his governship from capital punishment then any other governor, even one who claimed to be a sister in Christ was murdered by the State by his decision.
Pro-Life- that is a joke.
I would like to provide you with a website to read, something written which is the simple Gospel for Pro-Zionist, and all those who get on the Ten Commandment band wagon. I recommend you read below his article from http://www.apuritansmind.com/Tracts%20and%20Writings/KeepingTheLaw.htm
In the end, would you like to have every aspect of your life from what you wear, to what you do on Sabbath or the Lord's Day dictated by a few and the powerful, as the Puritans did. We have already realized once in this country the terrible results of this kind of thinking, do we have to relive it again. Study history, what the Christian Nationalist, and Pro-Zionist are pushing for in this country has already happened once in this country and many times throughout history and the world. The results were not freedom or liberty as found in Jesus Christ but a very narrow conscriptive way of life for all involved.
There is nothing greater that threatens religious liberty and the freedom of men than a government that is religious.
Dr. J.
With all this in mind - ask yourself again - How well do "I" keep the Law?
This was the summation of Dr. C. Matthew McMahon and his writing if you read it, on his web site called a Puritan's Mind.
The Christian Zionist and Christian Nationalist forget we have already had the experience once in this nation of a society that was driven by the conception of Christian law.
They were called the Puritans.
They dicatated everything about your life.
The people as a whole were liberty-loving in the extreme, but the individual was restrained at every step by laws that no free people of today would tolerate for an hour. Paternalism in government was the rule in the other colonies and in Europe, but nowhere was it carried to such an extreme as in New England.
Here the civil law laid its hand upon the citizen in his business and social relations; it regulated his religious affairs, it dictated his dress, and even invaded the home circle and directed his family relations. One law forbade the wearing of lace, another of "slashed cloaths other than one slash in each sleeve and another in the back." The length and width of a lady's sleeve was solemnly decided by law. It was a penal offense for a man to wear long hair, or to smoke in the street, or for a youth to court a maid without the consent of her parents. A man was not permitted to kiss his wife in public. Captain Kimble, returning from a three-years' ocean voyage, kissed his wife on his own doorstep and spent two hours in the stocks for his "lewed and unseemly behavior".
How far will the new Christian Nationalist take us down this road of their revisioned history to gain power in politics rather than power over sin in their own individual lives?
Will we become a people that will drag homosexuals out into the street, and hang them or stone them. Or will we be a people that presents the forgiveness and love of God to them and offer them an opportunity for repentance and faith in Jesus Christ? Will we brand those that are caught in adultery? Will we put people back into stocks on the courthouse yard? Will we take prostitutes out into a field and stone them. Perhaps we will do as the Puritans did, even hang those we think are practicing witchcraft or burn them at the stake. Those that even think they can rule this nation through laws they want to define as Christian are guilty of breaking these laws. Yet, they persist. They call themselves, Pro-life, well I am Pro-Life- I believe all life is precious to the Father, and therefore I am also truly Pro-life in that I am pro-anti-resistant to war, any war for any cause - creates death and destruction. So, out of one side of your mouth you proclaim - Thou Shall Not Murder, yet we back a candidate who has been responsible for more murders than you can count. He began as Governor of Texas, more people died under his governship from capital punishment then any other governor, even one who claimed to be a sister in Christ was murdered by the State by his decision.
Pro-Life- that is a joke.
I would like to provide you with a website to read, something written which is the simple Gospel for Pro-Zionist, and all those who get on the Ten Commandment band wagon. I recommend you read below his article from http://www.apuritansmind.com/Tracts%20and%20Writings/KeepingTheLaw.htm
In the end, would you like to have every aspect of your life from what you wear, to what you do on Sabbath or the Lord's Day dictated by a few and the powerful, as the Puritans did. We have already realized once in this country the terrible results of this kind of thinking, do we have to relive it again. Study history, what the Christian Nationalist, and Pro-Zionist are pushing for in this country has already happened once in this country and many times throughout history and the world. The results were not freedom or liberty as found in Jesus Christ but a very narrow conscriptive way of life for all involved.
There is nothing greater that threatens religious liberty and the freedom of men than a government that is religious.
Dr. J.
With all this in mind - ask yourself again - How well do "I" keep the Law?
This was the summation of Dr. C. Matthew McMahon and his writing if you read it, on his web site called a Puritan's Mind.
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