I often wonder why Christians are so unforgiving, often they are more unforgiving then others, of others sins against them. It seems that it must be that somehow they still have the idea, that they somehow stand before God on their own righteousness.
In the book of Matthew, we read of a story that Jesus uses to illustrate, not just how He is, but how our heavenly Father is, and how much more if we have the Spirit of Christ in us, we should be.
It is a story that you don't often here in today's "feel good about yourself" sermons or the hell fire and damnation sermons of judgmental preachers of doom.
I would like to repeat that story exactly here as Jesus tells it as written by Matthew, who understood this most of all. See Matthew was a tax collector, one of the most hated by the people of his time, as often they are in our time.
The point is not about money though, the point Jesus is making here is about our Father's relationship to us, and how much more our relationship should be with others. My quote is from the NIV Bible.
Matthew 18:20-35
21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
22Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
23"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. 25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
26"The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' 27The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
28"But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded.
29"His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'
30"But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
35"This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."
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We see here Peter trying to be gracious, when he ask Jesus should I forgive SEVEN times? See for the Rabbi's taught that you only had to forgive someone only three times, and then that was it- your out.
Not so much different then the Noahdic laws we have adopted for society, most States have adopted this as the - "three times and your out law". This is defined as that once a person has committed a criminal act and been found guilty of one should they commit an act, any act a third time, they get life imprisonment.
This recently happened to a man who stole a candy bar, it was his 3rd time for a crime, and now he is serving a life sentence for that. Just? Justice?
Christians have adopted this thinking, just like the rest of the world. We seek to punish, to extract vengeance, to see that someone pays for their life of crime or harm they have done us.
Yet, here Jesus has just got through teaching on "whatsoever we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever we loose shall be loosed in heaven". Here we think this gives us the power to bind and loose others, which in essence is what our Savoir is saying, but in a much more meaningful way then we consider.
So now he extrapolates even further his teaching with Peter's question.
Peter thought he was being gracious, using the complete number of "seven" times, but watch what Jesus does with his graciousness, which is limited, like our own at most times in this life in our dealings with others and even our laws of our land.
The body of Christ, His bride, His "church" is to be separate from the world's thinking, separate from the world's ways of doing things. This is why even Paul in his teaching in the book of Corinthians, corrects the Christians who would sue one another for not bringing it before the body of Christ instead of the world. How often are Christians doing that these days, in direct contradiction to a clear directive from Paul. Where did Paul get such a teaching from? Did Paul just make it up as he went along. Did Paul develop some new church doctrine? I tell you, no, he did not.
We will see that he got it from Jesus teaching. For Paul who once sought to kill and murder and destroy, what he considered "the chosen nation of God's" enemy, Christians, his heart had been changed by an encounter with the "real Jesus Christ", not the fictional one of tradition and mens teachings as we have so much of today.
Does Jesus apply this to the whole of governments of the world? Most often not. This teaching will never be understood by the world or it's governments. It's very simple to know the reason why, because we know, no matter what government, it is not God's government, it is not His Kingdom. This is not to say he doesn't allow men to govern, he does, but He has not chosen them as representatives of Himself, history proves otherwise.
All governments which are merely made of people, fall under the same condemnation we all do- "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Yes, even the United States, no less and no more then others.
Once again Jesus shows that those in His government, His kingdom are Kingdom people, that we are to be separate from the world, in all our dealings with others, and how we perceive individuals should be treated. Christ doesn't limit the forgiveness that God give us, nor that which was given to us, when He looked down from the cross and said, "Father forgive them".
Christ tells Peter, "I tell you, not seven times; but seventy times seven."
Why does Jesus give this number? Seven is a complete number under Jewish belief, but even Seven has an ending to it, though what was considered a perfect number. Seventy times Seven is an infinite number, meaning there is no end to it. Thus Jesus says, "Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is" in His Sermon on the Mount.
Oh! how the body of Christ kicks this one out the door because of our religiosity at times. most often as individuals, we have forgotten who we were and who we are, a forgiven people.
We are a people that deserve no less than the death sentence for our sins.
Eternal spiritual separation from our Father in heaven, if He thought and acted as we do that would be all of our fates. But the Good News is: He doesn't!
Jesus emphasizes this again, the forgiveness for which we have been given, and in Matthew 6:14, where He has once already spoken this explaining once again to us what we like to repeat together as the Lord's prayer with little attention paid to it's words.
14"For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." Jesus speaks to us, again from the heart of our heavenly Father.
Previous to this, Jesus has again painted not only a very clear picture for the body of Christ as to the will of our Father in heaven, but He give us more insight to the way our Father deals with us and all mankind, whether just or unjust.
Let us read this together- Matthew 5:43-47
43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?
There it is in a nutshell. "Do not even pagans do that?" He tells them in regards to their treatment of others, do you only treat those that are good to you that treat you good, do you only treat those that you consider just with goodness? If so, then I will say it no clearer then He did, how can you call yourself sons of the living God?
You say, " I am a Christian", yet are your thoughts the same as that of the world when it comes to justice, or the treatment of others who have offended you? Think again. What makes you any different then they?
When 911 happened, I was sure that President Bush who claimed to be a Christian would call for prayer and only prayer. Instead I heard him cry for vengeance!
I heard then tens of thousands of Christians following right behind him and saying the same.
It wasn't until the teachings of a Catholic monk, Augustine that the body of Christ even considered nullifying the Word of God for the traditions of men, with his concept and teaching of "justified war". No disciple of Christ had even considered such until Augustine, they didn't take up sword, except the one time, Peter did, and Our Lord, told him to put it away. Those who live by the sword, die by the sword, so here we are again, with thousands of young men coming home in caskets from abroad.
The body of Christ has given precedent to this Monk, more then the Word of God, or even considering who they are, and just how, they were saved. Too often the false doctrine of men having a "free will" has pervaded the "church", rather then the Word of God, that reveals it is the Father that draws us and that we couldn't save ourselves if we tried!
Jesus makes this clear when Peter tells Him that He is the Son of God, Jesus in turn tells Peter, that is the Father who has revealed that to him! His body, are the people that the Father has revealed himself to.
The world will never fathom who Jesus Christ is, until His people, those claiming that the very resurrected life of Christ through the Holy Spirit is alive in them, begin to think and act, as Jesus did and does. As long as we sound like the world, look like the world and act like the world, they will never see Jesus Christ for whom He is the "Prince of Peace."
There can be no peace in this world even among believers as long as each one has been harmed by another, and they find no forgiveness for one another. There can be no love, in a world that hates and is at constant war with others. We pray, " thy kingdom come, thy will be done", but then in the next breath, we express words of hatred, and discord against anyone, any nation, any group of people that we perceive that have harmed us.
Once again, just like the Pharisees, we have nullified the Word of God, for the traditions of men!
When will the body of Christ ever get it right?
When I ask, when?
I will tell you when, when the body of Christ opens their hearts and their ears to truth, inexplicable truth and the Word of God, the living Word- Jesus Himself. No greater love can one have...
We even have erroneously converted the act of God, as one of punishment, on Christ for us. God is not angry folks, he is not the God of the shadowy Old Testament, but the revealed truth in that one person, that loved the unloved, and brought salvation to all of us, who did not deserve it. If God was a God of the justice that men portray Him to be, He would never have allowed His Son, to go to the Cross, rather each one of us would get what we deserved individually and directed at us as such, not at His only begotten Son.
We each of us right now, would still be " dead in sin and trespasses", and God wouldn't lift a finger to deliver us from the death which we were in.
See, "Christ died for us, while we were yet His enemies!"
How willing are you to love others, forgive others, act differently from this world. Justice, Our Father in heaven's "justice" is compassion and mercy to those who have offended Him how much more if we claim to have God as our Father should we show compassion and mercy to all men.
BTW- there is a payment for not doing so- Jesus warned- we shall be treated as we treat others for sure by our Father, He will allow this, to drive out the hatred in our lives, to bring us to his compassion and mercy, so that in seeing it, we too will become "perfect like our Heavenly Father is."
Read again the end of the story of the "Unforgiving Debtor". It's time for those who desire to call themselves by His name, to quit using His name in vain, and I am not talking about the proverbial curse word either. If we are who we claim to be, then forgiveness is the heart of God, mercy and compassion are the acts of God.
Will you forgive today, someone who has harmed you, done you wrong, or will you have to be tormented until you pay the last dime? I pray that you will forgive, not seven times, but infinitely as our Lord has taught us. God is love, we love because He first loved us. This is what will set us apart from the world, and the world will see we are the light of the world and the salt of this earth. Do we want to appear as a "Christian Nation" to the world, then perhaps we should exemplify rather then nullify, the life of Christ in our dealings with our neighbors, our family, our friends, and most of all with those that we perceive as our enemies! Believe it or not, there are those who do call themselves Christian who have done just that, just look to our Quaker and Anabaptist brethren, who have heeded the Word of God, and not twisted it like most American Protestants have. May the Lord give you the heart of Christ, and may He most of all teach you forgiveness and what true justice is.
Doctor J.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
An Article That I Just Can't Title
For whatever reason, I just can't come up with a title on this article, perhaps for the best since I can't seem to think of one anyway. How do you give something a title that so effects you in the deepest recesses of your heart.
I was telephoned earlier today by my wife who asked me if I had called Mickey Stevens back. Mickey's a friend of mine who had called a few times here lately when I wasn't home. I haven't talked to Mickey perhaps for 6 months now, we just kind of both got lost in our own concerns in this world, and had not been in contact with one another like we use to be. She asked me if I had seen the Tyler Morning Telegraph yet, I said, no, I asked why, then she asked me, there is an article in the paper on the front page with a Mickey Stevens mentioned in it. I said, what about, then she informed me. I was shaken and taken back. The article was entitled, "By His Mother's Hands". It is the worst kind of news we can hear about or read about, the shocking news that a baby has had it's life taken by it's mother. Yes, my friend, Mickey's wife, Kathy had strangled their 2 year old child to death in the night while my friend Mickey had slept. He awoke to find her missing from bed and when he got up to go find her back was turned to him in little William's room. Mickey took little Williams body into his hands and tried unsuccessfully to use CPR to resuscitate his only child, just 2 years old. Kathy admitted to investigators she had strangled to death little Will.
When I talked to Mickey, I could tell he just didnt know what to say, but to ask me for prayer for him, but what struck me the most were the words that he said, and "pray for Kathy,please, she is not a bad person".
How right he is. It will be easy for criminal justice and the religious to speak horribly about Kathy but they don't know her, I did and most of all her husband did. He apologized to me that he wasn't there for when my wife died in a tragic car accident back in 2001. He was reaching out to say I need you as a friend and "we" need your prayers. There was nothing selfish or condemning about his tone or speech when it came to his wife, though shocked, hurting, in wondering in dismay, he could ask that I pray for her, as he said, "I haven't just lost my child I have lost my wife as well, as she will be locked up probably for the rest of her life.
How sad, but true. For you see, Mickey waged a war with her mental illness since the day I have known him. He has lovingly taken her back after each and every committal to an institution where the so called experts were to have healed her of her plague of oppression that she has suffered so horribly for years. A system of shrinks and pharmacuetical witch doctoring that has had Kathy on every known psychiatric medicine known by men, to try to cure her desperation, her paranoia, her hallucinations, her voices, her visions, her imaginations. To which this tragedy is a testimony to the witch doctoring that continues in America alongside the pharmacuetical companies who readily sale their goods to the public, that often much later, usually much, much later, we find that the drugs were worse than the sickness, and often result in what has happened here. No different than the recent drugs shoved into a super star wrestler that we have read about and heard splattered all over the news, who murdered his whole family. The witch doctors of today are no different than the witch doctors of yesterday, still proclaiming that their magic works when in fact it does not.
Most people haven't even read up on the facts that most of the boys involved in the Columbine murders were on psychiatric witch doctor brews as well. Most of the horrible tragedies that seem crazy to us, can be traced often to a drug the person was prescribed to. The facts are the facts. I don't know if that is for sure is the case in this case but I promise it contributed.
The sad thing is the pharmaceutical companies will never face justice at the hands of man, Kathy will. Man's justice is never justice, no matter what you think. Only God is a just God. I know Kathy, I at least understood her problem and Mickey did as well, that's why he loved her, and continued to love her and remain married to her through all their trials because of her illness. That's why Mickey, could ask me to pray for her most of all, "she isn't a bad person". Now, it's too late for all the psychiatrist and clinicians whoever talked to Kathy to say I'm sorry, Kathy, I am sorry, Mickey, but most of all, I am sorry little Will.
Don't judge her, don't condemn her, pray for her and Mickey and the family and friends that do not go untouched by this tragedy. There is more to the story than what you read in the newspaper, they love to sensualize and blow stories up like this. The truth be told, my heart is broken for Kathy who desperately so cried out a thousand times for help in her mental condition. Mickey did his best, he did his best to protect her, himself and little Will, but in a fallen world, full of fallen creatures, we are reminded that - all of creation groans inwardly, awaiting the revelation of the sons of God. Come, Lord Jesus come!
I ask that my readers do just what Mickey ask me to do. Don't judge, only God is the judge, but pray for Kathy, Mickey and all the family as they sort through the evil in this world it is nothing we can do alone. But for the grace of God, we must remember, goes ourselves. We are all subject to this evil and without God's grace, compassion, mercy and love, we would all deserve His justice of death. So go easy my friend, when you read stories like Mickey and Kathy's and the death of little William, we all have a day coming, "for it is appointed once for men to die, and then after this the judgement". So I ask, please pray for Kathy, that she will find deliverance from these demons that have for so long persued her, driving her to insanity, driving her to do, what we think we could never do. We live in the same world she does, and are subject to the same insanity, if we don't give thanks to whom our sanity comes by- the grace of God.
Mickey, Kathy, my heart is broken and I will miss little Will but he is in the hands of Jesus now, and so aren't you, Kathy. God loves you, and He is still there and has not left, He will heal you, I know, for He still is the Great Physician, who doesnt offer any medications, no magic, - He offers the only cure for the sickness in all of us - sin -and he offers it freely through Jesus Christ. I love you and I pray for you.
Dr. J.
Some link referrals for my readers.
http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/19863
http://www.cchr.org/files/14552/Violence%20White%20Paper.pdf
http://psychdata.blogspot.com/2007/05/think-psychiatrists-dont-know-drugs.html
I was telephoned earlier today by my wife who asked me if I had called Mickey Stevens back. Mickey's a friend of mine who had called a few times here lately when I wasn't home. I haven't talked to Mickey perhaps for 6 months now, we just kind of both got lost in our own concerns in this world, and had not been in contact with one another like we use to be. She asked me if I had seen the Tyler Morning Telegraph yet, I said, no, I asked why, then she asked me, there is an article in the paper on the front page with a Mickey Stevens mentioned in it. I said, what about, then she informed me. I was shaken and taken back. The article was entitled, "By His Mother's Hands". It is the worst kind of news we can hear about or read about, the shocking news that a baby has had it's life taken by it's mother. Yes, my friend, Mickey's wife, Kathy had strangled their 2 year old child to death in the night while my friend Mickey had slept. He awoke to find her missing from bed and when he got up to go find her back was turned to him in little William's room. Mickey took little Williams body into his hands and tried unsuccessfully to use CPR to resuscitate his only child, just 2 years old. Kathy admitted to investigators she had strangled to death little Will.
When I talked to Mickey, I could tell he just didnt know what to say, but to ask me for prayer for him, but what struck me the most were the words that he said, and "pray for Kathy,please, she is not a bad person".
How right he is. It will be easy for criminal justice and the religious to speak horribly about Kathy but they don't know her, I did and most of all her husband did. He apologized to me that he wasn't there for when my wife died in a tragic car accident back in 2001. He was reaching out to say I need you as a friend and "we" need your prayers. There was nothing selfish or condemning about his tone or speech when it came to his wife, though shocked, hurting, in wondering in dismay, he could ask that I pray for her, as he said, "I haven't just lost my child I have lost my wife as well, as she will be locked up probably for the rest of her life.
How sad, but true. For you see, Mickey waged a war with her mental illness since the day I have known him. He has lovingly taken her back after each and every committal to an institution where the so called experts were to have healed her of her plague of oppression that she has suffered so horribly for years. A system of shrinks and pharmacuetical witch doctoring that has had Kathy on every known psychiatric medicine known by men, to try to cure her desperation, her paranoia, her hallucinations, her voices, her visions, her imaginations. To which this tragedy is a testimony to the witch doctoring that continues in America alongside the pharmacuetical companies who readily sale their goods to the public, that often much later, usually much, much later, we find that the drugs were worse than the sickness, and often result in what has happened here. No different than the recent drugs shoved into a super star wrestler that we have read about and heard splattered all over the news, who murdered his whole family. The witch doctors of today are no different than the witch doctors of yesterday, still proclaiming that their magic works when in fact it does not.
Most people haven't even read up on the facts that most of the boys involved in the Columbine murders were on psychiatric witch doctor brews as well. Most of the horrible tragedies that seem crazy to us, can be traced often to a drug the person was prescribed to. The facts are the facts. I don't know if that is for sure is the case in this case but I promise it contributed.
The sad thing is the pharmaceutical companies will never face justice at the hands of man, Kathy will. Man's justice is never justice, no matter what you think. Only God is a just God. I know Kathy, I at least understood her problem and Mickey did as well, that's why he loved her, and continued to love her and remain married to her through all their trials because of her illness. That's why Mickey, could ask me to pray for her most of all, "she isn't a bad person". Now, it's too late for all the psychiatrist and clinicians whoever talked to Kathy to say I'm sorry, Kathy, I am sorry, Mickey, but most of all, I am sorry little Will.
Don't judge her, don't condemn her, pray for her and Mickey and the family and friends that do not go untouched by this tragedy. There is more to the story than what you read in the newspaper, they love to sensualize and blow stories up like this. The truth be told, my heart is broken for Kathy who desperately so cried out a thousand times for help in her mental condition. Mickey did his best, he did his best to protect her, himself and little Will, but in a fallen world, full of fallen creatures, we are reminded that - all of creation groans inwardly, awaiting the revelation of the sons of God. Come, Lord Jesus come!
I ask that my readers do just what Mickey ask me to do. Don't judge, only God is the judge, but pray for Kathy, Mickey and all the family as they sort through the evil in this world it is nothing we can do alone. But for the grace of God, we must remember, goes ourselves. We are all subject to this evil and without God's grace, compassion, mercy and love, we would all deserve His justice of death. So go easy my friend, when you read stories like Mickey and Kathy's and the death of little William, we all have a day coming, "for it is appointed once for men to die, and then after this the judgement". So I ask, please pray for Kathy, that she will find deliverance from these demons that have for so long persued her, driving her to insanity, driving her to do, what we think we could never do. We live in the same world she does, and are subject to the same insanity, if we don't give thanks to whom our sanity comes by- the grace of God.
Mickey, Kathy, my heart is broken and I will miss little Will but he is in the hands of Jesus now, and so aren't you, Kathy. God loves you, and He is still there and has not left, He will heal you, I know, for He still is the Great Physician, who doesnt offer any medications, no magic, - He offers the only cure for the sickness in all of us - sin -and he offers it freely through Jesus Christ. I love you and I pray for you.
Dr. J.
Some link referrals for my readers.
http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/19863
http://www.cchr.org/files/14552/Violence%20White%20Paper.pdf
http://psychdata.blogspot.com/2007/05/think-psychiatrists-dont-know-drugs.html
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.
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