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The Corruption Of The Church: That the
Bible has been corrupted by that segment of the Church which portrayed
itself as Orthodox, is an easily provable fact (see
http://BibleCorruption.com ).
That modern Church dogma which is derived from fourth century Pagan Rome is
openly condemned as spiritual apostasy in the New Testament, is also easily
proven (see http://TheLie.org ). That the
original promise of ultimate spiritual success is still present in the
scriptures, is also a factual reality. But that the teachings on how to
bring about the transformation which fulfilled the original objectives of
"...the
heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” has
been removed in the name of promoting the dogmatic dispensations of
charlatan priests whose primary motive was the accumulation of mammon and
political power, has in effect totally undermined and alienated the
modern-day congregation of believers from attaining the original goals and
objectives of the teachings of TheWay. When the Gospels were given over
into the hands of the Gentile Church, when disputes arose between different
groups, the scribes altered the text of their scriptures in order to make
them support their doctrines of belief. The truth
and the facts to the matter is very clearly expressed in the words of Prof.
Bart D. Ehrman in his book, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture,
where he warns that: "...theological
disputes, specifically disputes over Christology, prompted Christian scribes
to alter the words of scripture in order to make them more serviceable for
the polemical task. Scribes modified their manuscripts to make them more
patently ‘orthodox’ and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of
orthodoxy." And this fact is
confirmed to us by Dr. F. H. Scrivener where he writes that:
"In the second century we have seen too many
instances of attempts to tamper with the text of Scripture, some merely
injudicious, others positively dishonest".
Scrivener states
that "it is
no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions
to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within 100
years after it was composed: and that Irenaeus and the African Fathers, and
the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church"
used inferior manuscripts (F.H.Scrivener,
Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament). Dean Burgon
quotes Gaius (AD175-200) who speaks of the source of corruptions that
survive in the early papyri: "The
Divine Scriptures these heretics have audaciously corrupted. Laying violent
hands upon them, under pretense of correcting them."
(Burgon, The Revision Revised, p. 323). Eusebius (Eccleastical History),
citing the second century Church Father Clement of Alexandria:
"The worst corruptions to which the New
Testament has ever been subjected originated within one hundred years after
it was composed."
In the words of Colwell (What is the Best New
Testament Text?, p.119) "The first
two centuries witnessed the creations of the large number of variations
known to scholars today. In the manuscripts of the New Testament most
variations, I believe, were made deliberately."
G.D. Kilpatrick (Atticism and the Text of the Greek New
Testament, pp 125-131): "Deliberate changes
in all text types appear to antedate A.D. 200..as distinct from errors...
all categories of deliberate alteration... are present in both groups.
Tatian is the last author of make deliberate changes. The vast majority of
deliberate changes were older then A.D. 200. They came into being in the
period A.D. 50-200."
That anyone can open any Bible today and observe the extent of the corruption, is easily demonstrated. Quoting from the article on Bible Corruption from the subheading on the removal of the verses on the children (see http://ebionite.com/BibleCorruption.htm#children ): In the case of Luke, the blatant editing and rewriting of the scriptures is even more apparent. There are presently eight chapters separating the initial reference to the children in Luke 9:47-48, with the remaining verses pertaining to the children which now are found in the seventeenth chapter of Luke. Without any discussion whatsoever regarding the children, Luke 17:1-2 reads: "Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones". What few Christians realize today is that during the second century the Gospel of Luke was put though an extensive rewrite in order to obscure certain teachings of Jesus and create an anti-Jewish environment. Under the heading of Marcion (c.100-160) in the Encyclopedia Britannica we read that he was the "...founder of a Christian sect, born in Sinope, Pontus (now Sinop, Turkey), and probably the son of the bishop of that city. He went to Rome about 140", where he was for a time received as orthodox in his beliefs. It is important to realize that Marcion received his anti-Jewish sentiment from his father who was an authority in the Gentile church, and that Marcion himself was viewed as being orthodox by many Christians. The Britannica then goes on to write that "The Marcionite sect, highly ascetic and celibate, grew rapidly until it was second in strength only to the original church; it had churches and an Episcopal hierarchy and practiced the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist… Marcion rejected the Old Testament and almost all of the New Testament… basing his teachings on ten of the Epistles of St. Paul and on an altered version of the Gospel of Luke… Marcionism flourished in the West until about the 4th century…"
What is very important for us to recognize today is the fact that Marcion in some ways was a predecessor of Martin Luther -- in that, both embraced Paul, and rejected the disciples of Jesus as being too Jewish. What we also must understand is that the core reason that Marcion was eventually rejected was not because of his doctrine with regard to the acceptance of Paul and the rejection of the disciples of Christ, but because of his asceticism and celibacy that could not be universally embraced by the Gentile converts. The Marcionite Churches, who are said to be "second in strength" to the original church, called themselves Christian, and enlisted under the banner of Christ. Marcion, the son of a first-second century Christian Bishop, was said to have used an "altered version of the Gospel of Luke" -- and, like Luther, used the Epistles of Paul exclusively. In the case of the Gospel of Luke, Marcion, as well as Irenaeus and Tertullian who attacked him on doctrinal grounds, each accused the others of altering the scriptures to support their own point of view.
Christ Before Jesus: In the Gentile
world prior to the time of Jesus, the word Christos or Christian was used in
reference to an enlightened initiate in the Greek Mystery Religions -- which
was basically Mithraic. Those who authored the Epistles that came to bear
the name of Paul, were drawn from Mithraic (Christian) Initiates.
Fundamentalist Christians who promote the King James Version of the Bible as
being written directly by God, reject many of the newer translations.
When the Spiritual Christians who were called Gnostics pointed out that when
Paul made reference to the Christ he was not speaking about the historical
man Jesus, the Christians who called themselves Orthodox edited their copies
of the scriptures by placing the name Jesus either before or after the word
Christ. It is easily demonstrated that in the original Gospel
account, the man Jesus became the Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling
the Law of God within himself (see
The Ten Words).
A reality that the Christian world neither understands or wants to admit, is the fact that what came to be called Christianity existed before the time of Jesus -- as demonstrated at this link ( http://nazirene.org/unfaithful2.htm ). Quoting the foregoing link: Today we call ourselves by the Greek word Christian -- but have we ever questioned where the term originated? And what does it mean? The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge confirms that the name "originated outside of Christian and Jewish circles". The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible states that: "By the late first and early second centuries the name ‘Christian,’ which early believers avoided using of themselves, was beginning to be accepted". Why? Because of the direct influence of the Mithraic initiates who called themselves Christian. The Mithrac clergy adopted the Gospels -- corrupted them to make them support the tenets of this Greek Mystery religious system -- and portrayed the original disciples of TheWay as heretics who were too Jewish to understand the teachings of Jesus. Then they created what has been called Replacement Theology -- which parallels that of Islam in many ways -- which states that Jesus was born among the Jews to condemn them, and then took his rightful place as the leader of the Christians (enlightened Mithrac initiates) -- which, according to their dogmatic mindset, meant that the Gentile Church was always the true Church. Again, quoting the above link: With regard to the historical people who were called the people of Christ before the time of Jesus, it did not mean anything to an enlightened Christian that the masses of people worshiped the sun, moon, stars or idols. What is now Christmas is the rebirth of the sun-god -- and what is now Easter was the worship of the moon goddess Ishtar and the resurrection of the sun-god (see Easter vs Passover).
That the initiates of the ancient mystery religions were called Christians prior to the time of Jesus is demonstrated in a letter from the Emperor Adrian to Servianus, written in 134 A.D., wherein it is stated: "Egypt, which you commended to me, my dearest Servianus, I have found to be wholly fickle and inconsistent, and continually wafted about by every breath of fame. The worshipers of Serapis are called Christians, and those who are devoted to the god Serapis, call themselves Bishops of Christ". What is confirmed is that, with the advent of Jesus, the Christ or Christos was not a new term, and there were people throughout the empire who were called Christians prior to the time when the name came to be associated with the followers of Jesus. More important, though, is the fact that they brought their ideas and beliefs pertaining to Christ into the religion of Jesus -- which teachings in their original form possessed an essence and spiritual reality that few of these Pagan Christians could perceive. It wasn't that the original disciples were too Jewish to understand the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- but rather, that a whole segment of the Gentile Church was too pagan and heathen to understand the teachings and objectives of the Gospels.
Archaeologists have demonstrated that the word Christos, which we render Christ, has been found not only on Pagan temples, and used in relation to those who were said to be the sons of the Pagan gods, but the term was also engraved on tombstones and other Pagan artifacts prior to the time of Jesus. In the Greek and Roman mystery religions of the time, the Christos was the Anointing of the Logos, and the Christian was the follower of the Anointed. In the writings of Clement of Alexandria we find it explained that: "Those who lived according to the Logos were really Christians, though they have been thought to be atheists; as Socrates and Heraclitus were among the Greeks, and such as resembled them" (Strom. bk. i, ch xix). Eusebius, the great historian of the early Church, admits that the religion that is called Christianity was known to the ancients (Eccl. Hist., 1, ch iv) and writes that the religion of Jesus had "...been known among all nations, nevertheless our life and our conduct, with our doctrines of religion, have not been lately invented by us, but from the first creation of man, so to speak, have been established by the natural understanding of divinely favored men of old... What then should prevent the confession that we who are of Christ practice one and the same mode of life and have one and the same religion as those divinely favored men of old? Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion".
Modern Christians who erroneously believe that what is today called Christianity started with Jesus, will be unable to relate to the words that "our doctrines of religion... have been established by the natural understanding... and [is] the same religion as those divinely favored men of old". The early Gentile Christians knew this fact, and it was for this reason that a copy of Plato’s Republic and other such writings was contained among the writings preserved in the recently discovered Nag Hammadi Library of early Christian writings. St. Augustine wrote: "That, in our times, is the Christian religion, which to know and follow is the most sure and certain health, called according to that name, but not according to the thing itself, of which it is the name; for the thing itself which is now called the Christian religion, really was known to the ancients, nor was wanting at any time from the beginning of the human race, until the time when Christ came in the flesh, from whence the true religion, which had previously existed, began to be called Christian; and this in our days is the Christian religion, not as having been wanting in former times, but as having in later times received this name" (Opera Augustini, vol. i, p.12). What this means is that the Jesus in the existing Gospels was converted by the Church to support the tenets of Mithraism, which was the universal religion of the empire. The problem is that the original teachings of TheWay had absolutely nothing in common with what came to be called Christianity under Pagan Rome.
Those teachings in the scriptures that supported the original objectives of "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” (see Original Gospels Objectives) were removed by the scribes of that segment of the Church which called itself Orthodox -- and the verses of the scriptures which supported the original spiritual objectives, were then portrayed and condemned as Gnostic interpolations. Resulting in the reality that the modern congregation of believers have been spiritually disenfranchised by the dogmatic dispensations that became ingrained in the doctrines of the Church -- which dogmatic dispensations was necessary in the creation of a secularized religion where the "...political implications ...[were] crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion" (see Pagles, The Gnostic Gospels). That modern Christianity is faith-based, is the result of being deprived of the most important spiritual teachings and concepts which was removed from the tradition of scriptures which they received through the hands of the Church of Rome. And that their doctrines of belief are openly condemned and rejected as spiritual apostasy by the original New Testament authors as demonstrated in the 10 Minute Test of The Lie, remains incomprehensible to the disenfranchised congregation of believers today. In the same way that educational dropouts can't perform and function at the level envisioned in the creation of our system of schools and universities, neither can the spiritual dropouts even begin to perform and function at the level envisioned in the Gospels. For their own worldly desire for mammon and political power, the charlatan priests moved the goal-posts of the original Gospel objectives, and peddled spurious dispensations that seduced the congregation of believers to imagine that they could dropout of the process at an elementary school level, and achieve the degree that is equal to that of a university graduate. And in the same way that in Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution he turned upon and executed the intellectual leaders who voiced opposition once he didn't need them anymore, so too did the Orthodox priests turn upon the spiritual core of the Church, once they achieved their desired positions of political power within the Church of Pagan Rome.
The Spiritual Castration Of The Church - The
Removal Of The Teachings On The Preexistent Soul: Where the 4th
century Church of Constantine put to death the Spirit of the Church (see
above The
Corruption Of The Church), it's Spiritual Castration which totally
alienated the congregation of believers from comprehending even what was
left of a corrupted and spiritually sanitized New Testament (see
Bible Corruption), was
implemented in the 6th century. As an example of how the
Christian world was literally forced to adhere to the dogma of the secular
priests and emperors, when the doctrine of the pre-existent soul was
outlawed by the Emperor Justinian, the Britannica confirms that the emperor
then forced his will upon the Church when he
"...banished the pope to
What the Bible states is that the lives of each person is orchestrated and scripted by the Laws -- and yet, without an understanding of the Laws that the scriptures states controls all events in this world, the very purpose and meaning of life itself will remain a perpetual enigma -- as will the scriptures. Jesus himself taught that not even a sparrow can “...fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father” (Matt 10:29 NIV). And in the very next verse Jesus applies this same reality to man and states that every hair is accounted for -- i.e., "And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered" -- and yet, the Christian world remains totally ignorant with respect to the workings of the Laws that orchestrate and brings about all events that transpire in this world.
Why Does Bad Things Happen To Seemingly Good
People:
Questions: The
proverbial question that is asked and not understood is this: Why is there
evil in the world? Atheists often point to the sufferings of believers and
ask: If there is a God, why does bad things happen to
seemingly good people? What about when tragedies involve
nice people? Or seemingly innocent people suffer? And even people who
seemingly don’t deserve suffering? A thirteen-year-old girl dies of
leukemia. A tornado kills a husband and wife in their home. A young pastor
is murdered by his wife. A tsunami kills thousands of unsuspecting
vacationers. Why do "good people" become victims of a disease or a
natural disaster? Why do "good people" get caught in the crossfire
of acts of "random" violence? Why do otherwise innocent children get
abused - mentally, emotionally and physically by an older person who is in a
position of authority over them? Why are children kidnapped and raped?
Why does the seemingly innocent suffer?
What does the scriptures state? Nothing in the universe happens by luck, chance, fortune, or accident, or by blind fate. Everything that comes to pass in time was purposed by our God in eternity, and is brought to pass by his wise, adorable, good Providence. Nothing comes to pass in time that God did not purpose in eternity, in sovereign predestination. Nothing comes to pass in time except that which God sovereignly brings to pass in his Providence. And that which God predestinated in eternity and brings to pass in his Providence is for the good of his elect, and the glory of his name. This is clearly and incontrovertibly the teaching of Holy Scripture (Ps. 76:10; Pro. 16:4, 9, 33; 21:1; Dan. 4:34, 35, 37; Isa. 46:9-11; Rom. 11:33-36). Further, when rightly understood, what man portrays as natural selection, human nature, animal compulsion and/or natural occurrences, is merely the unfoldment and manifestation of the movement of the Laws which were brought into being in the Alpha of Creation (see Spiritual Americans and the Laws of Nature and Nature's God).
While an immature faith-based believer who has yet to begin to seriously embrace the teachings of TheWay will remain ignorant of the forces and construct of the Laws that bring what appears to be evil and bad things into the world, a spiritually mature Christian would be able to immediately answer the above questions with a resounding rationale and detail, that even the most discerning critic would be amazed by the completeness of the explanation. But herein lies the crux of the problem -- i.e., because the congregation of believers have been robbed of the knowledge of the Laws and the higher objectives of life itself by a series of secular rulers and emperors and their pseudo-clergy and priests, it is impossible for the mind to attain the necessary state of maturity that the Gospel was intended to bring about in the lives of the believers. So mankind continues to dwell in an abyss of ignorance that has wrought needless suffering and hardships upon even the most innocent of lives.
The Biblical Code: It is important to
understand the reality presented in the Gospels when Jesus spoke to the
multitudes in parables -- a system of allegories designed to conceal the
inner meaning from the multitude of hearers, while permitting only a select
group to understand the esoteric truths that were being revealed (see
Mystery Of The
Gospel). And when his disciples asked Jesus why he spoke in enigmatic
parables, and did not speak plainly to the people? Jesus said of his
disciples:
“The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to
you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that,
they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never
understanding” (Mark 4:11-12 NIV). And
that the word translated secret, is the same word
translated mystery at the foregoing link, and makes reference to an esoteric
knowledge that is beyond man's organic "natural" comprehension, is a
reality that few modern believers or the critics of religion have been able
to come to terms with (see
An Inconvenient Truth).
Yet, in a
state of spiritual denial, the modern Church attempts to ignore the
implications of what these words convey. In explanation of the above
words of Jesus, the Wycliffe Bible Commentary writes that:
“…the initiate was instructed in the esoteric
teaching... which was not revealed to outsiders… The mystery of the kingdom
in its ultimate development is the full-orbed message of the Gospel (Rom
16:25-26). The purpose of parables was to instruct the initiates without
revealing the items of instruction to the ones who were without. This is in
keeping with the Biblical principle that spiritual understanding is
restricted to those who have become spiritual...”
What is not at all understood today is the fact that the symbolism employed within the parables and scriptures were designed to act as catalysts which initiated impressions and intuitive knowledge from within the mind of the person -- originating from the other side of the barrier between the person in this physical world, and their higher soul-self that dwells in a non-physical spiritual world (see Man As An Embryonic Soul-Image) -- and those who have developed their mind and being through "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” (see The Heightening And Expansion Of Mind) -- are able to receive and comprehend the spiritual meaning of the symbols of both the parables and scriptures. Which means that everything is dependent upon the necessary development of mind -- and especially those intuitive spheres which enable the person to connect with their soul and inner source of being that exists beyond the barrier of the physical -- and this development through "...the heightening and enlargement of human consciousness” is necessary to fulfill the Gospel teaching on The One Teacher which the disciple Peter portrayed as The True Prophet (see Taught In Parables - The Key Of Knowledge). And that the whole of this world which is blind to the cause and the Laws that bring about and orchestrates all events in this world -- a condition of blind ignorance that Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- is what necessitates the opening the inner door to learn the true meaning of the events of this world, as well as the true meaning of the catalyst symbols used in the scriptures -- i.e., the warning of Peter: "...therefore great care is to be taken, that when the law of God is read, it be not read according to the understanding of our own mind. For there are many sayings in the divine Scriptures which can be drawn to that sense which every one has preconceived for himself; and this ought not to be done. For you ought not to seek a foreign and extraneous sense, which you have brought from without" (see Flawed Human Linear Reasoning). What this means is that no one -- i.e., either believer or unbeliever -- will understand the true spiritual meaning of the scriptures -- a meaning that is beyond organic human comprehension -- unless the individual person has been enlightened by what the disciples portrayed as the One Teacher and True Prophet, as to the true meaning. Why? Because "...spiritual understanding is restricted to those who have become spiritual...” -- and the very purpose of both the scriptures, and the Laws that control all events in this world, is to bring this higher understanding about in the life of the worthy seeker/disciple. @@@
It is this same rejection of human linear reasoning and the quest to learn from the True Prophet the meaning of the scriptures, that develops the intuitive spheres of mind and prepares the seeker/believer to understand the Forces and Laws that bring about and orchestrate all events of this world. In the same way that we have the ability to learn and acquire the ability to read -- and we do so by learning to interpret the symbols of letters and words -- all of life is written in a language that we must learn to interpret the symbols of -- and I often portray this as the language of the soul that the Key of Knowledge must be applied to. Because the Atheist and/or the linear-rational minded person who sees only the outer physical aspects of this material world, remains blind to both the causal factors of what is experienced -- as well as the Laws and Forces which present all events to each person -- and remains ignorant of the choices presented to him/her within the labyrinth of one's scripted life -- the Atheist, the linear-rational, as well as the person who remains undeveloped, believes these encounters are the result of accident, luck, the unknown, human nature, animal compulsion and/or natural occurrences and selection. This is of course a lie promoted by blind pseudo-authorities who have been alienated from their own higher soul-nature -- and as such, they lead the people in the wrong direction. Those few who develop the intuitive spheres of mind are able to not only escape what Jesus portrayed as The Prison and the blind ignorance of the Outer Darkness -- a condition whereby the person sees only what is portrayed as the illusions of Plato's Cave -- but also perceive the causal factors of each encounter -- and the Laws which present to us our choices within the labyrinth. Part of us -- i.e., our higher soul-self that is not manifest in this world -- not only knows the meaning of the symbols of life -- but also the causal factors initiated by the Laws which are presented to us in the manner of a labyrinth that scripts every aspect of our life.
The purpose of this world is the evolution and advancement of the soul of man -- and one of the primary objectives that is necessary to bring this evolution about in the reality of the individual, is to develop the intuitive spheres of mind that permits one to perceive and comprehend what lies beyond the curtain of the "outer darkness", and begin to develop the ability to understand the whole encounter of life that the individual experiences. The scriptures are written in a series of allegorical symbols (see An Inconvenient Truth) that act as a catalyst which has the potential to bridge the inner divide between the person we are in this world, and our higher soul-reality -- and as the person begins to advance beyond the physical organic mind, they begin to perceive that all of material nature is itself imbued with symbols of mind and consciousness impressed into the forums of nature that we interact with (see The Allusion Of The Forms Of Matter). And when it is understood that the Source of all that we see in the material world is in the (un-seen Etheric) Field that modern physicist have now proven surrounds all physical forms in this world (see The Folly Of Darwinism -- and Science Proves Religion) -- then as the seeker begins to unlock the allegorical language of the scriptures which act as catalysts within his own mind and being, the same esoteric reality of nature itself begins to unfold to the mind of the disciple of TheWay -- i.e., (5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you..." (Gospel of Thomas).
Conditions Of One's Birth - Life - And Death:
In order to begin to understand what the seat belt has to do with the
practice of religion, you would first have to answer the question: Why were
you born under the conditions of life that you are experiencing in the
present? Which provokes the question: Is your life the result of chance,
or are you in fact responsible for every aspect of the life that you are
living? Prior to the Dark Ages of Profound Ignorance that the Church of
Rome cast the world into, there were Christians and wise men who could
accurately answer this question from a paradigm of thought that was founded
upon sure knowledge. But these Spiritual Christians were hunted down and
put to death, because they rejected the religion of the emperor. Today,
history has again repeated itself, and mankind has become intellectually
flat-lined and spiritually castrated by an Atheist driven mindset that is
promoted by our culture, and forced upon the people by a government that is
being used to subdue all voices in opposition. In the same way that the
sickle and hammer is a symbol of Communism -- Nero's Cross which was adopted
as the peace symbol, was born out of the Roman hatred of the Christians --
and the pentagram is a symbol of Wicca -- the seat belt is a symbol of the
Atheist mindset that has chained Americans to ignorance, and is in the
process of undermining our Constitutional form of government. In the
same way that the early Christians chose death rather than submitting to the
dictates of the Pagan Roman Emperor, the modern Christian must totally
reject and throw off the tenets and symbols of Atheism and the prevailing
ignorance that is promoted by the religion of Secular Humanism. In truth,
every day those who call themselves Christians deny the Lord, when they
submit to the Atheist agenda and paradigm of thought that immerses the
culture in abject and profound ignorance, moral and spiritual degeneracy.
What is the conditions of your birth and station in life? While many of the pre-Nicene Christians could readily answer important questions that has alienated modern man from a higher reality that he is in denial of, most people who have been programmed with the Atheist Paradigm of Thought will conclude that their birth was fate or chance -- an accident -- or even luck. Yet, in reality, none of these choices are accurate. Whether you were born rich, poor, in a third world nation or with a silver spoon in your mouth -- or, somewhere in between -- your religion, your occupation, your country of origin, whether you are a male or female, your sexual orientation, liberal, conservative, libertarian, Atheist, Marxist, environmentalist, anarchist -- whatever your present station in life is, not only the manner you entered into this life was determined prior to your even being born -- but the Laws of God has scripted and preordained all of your choices and opportunities that have been presented to you -- as if you are walking through a labyrinth where the measure of your freewill is the determination of what choices you will make with the options that are presented to you. Jesus taught that not even a sparrow can fall to the ground apart from the Laws of God that brings about all the events in this world -- and yet, our modern Atheist-driven culture remains totally ignorant of the very Laws that move all things in this world.
Contrary to cultural thought, it is not an accident that I am married to my wife -- we have been together over the course of countless lifetimes. In one previous lifetime, my mother in this life, was my wife -- and she died prematurely so that I would meet and marry my present wife. In that life her death was scripted from before she was born -- as were the conditions of her death -- in order to bring about necessary change in my life that enabled me to fulfill certain objectives. And while I have observed this reality of the movement of the Laws with respect to the scripting of lives -- not only in my self, but in the lives of countless others -- the reality that people's lives are scripted in order to develop them through certain experiences in this world, simply has no place in the thinking of the Atheists and Secular Humanists/Progressives who are the architects of our present-day culture, even though they remain in ignorant denial of man's true reality. And the fact that our modern culture has been built upon a gravely flawed Paradigm of Thought, means that no real progress can be achieved until we are prepared to rethink and fix the foundation.
In the Affidavit submitted to the court by Emmanuel Pohoreski (see Affidavit) which was further confirmed in his testimony before Judge James K. Roberson (see Court Rules Against First Amendment), Emmanuel testified to the fact that he has known me over the course of many lifetimes. Within the context of these lifetimes, the person who is presently named Emmanuel, was born to meet and work with myself and others on the objectives of these lives -- brought together as a group by the Laws that scripted our lives in order to form a Living Syllabus -- presenting us with choices in the manner of a labyrinth that was determined even before we entered those lifetimes -- and these scripted lives included our death and departure from this world. In this present lifetime it was scripted into the syllabus-labyrinth that has controlled each and every step that I have taken, who I would meet, who I would interact with, all the possible outcomes of the choices that have been presented to me, as well as how the choices and outcome of my own life will effect the choices and outcome of those people I directly interact with, as well as those on a larger scale who will be effected by my own choices and accomplishments. Ultimately, the more I can tap into the forces that control the events in my own and the lives of others, the greater my success and ability to positively impact other people. And to accomplish this, I am required to exercise absolute faith in the knowledge that has been revealed to me via the development of my own intuitive spheres of mind that provides me access to the Source. As set forth by the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis - see Chickens Come Home To Roost). As it is written: "In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps" (Prov 16:9 NIV). And if we inquire as to why everyone's life has been preordained and controlled by the Laws of God and Creation, the answer is that you are presently following a syllabus which has totally scripted the life you are living -- and this life-syllabus was all designed and determined based upon your own previous actions, failures and accomplishments. Thus, you have not only created the life that you are presently living out of your own past accomplishments and failures -- and your present life is being strictly orchestrated by the Laws of God -- but you are totally responsible for all events within the construct of the good, the bad and the ugly that you experience -- and how you respond to your choices that have been presented to you, will determine the conditions you will encounter in the future, including your next life. And the reality that those who submit to the Atheist Paradigm of Thought remain totally ignorant of this factual reality of the Laws, is the result of their own mentally narrow and constrained foundation of thinking, mindset and lifestyle.
If we pose the question as to what degree life on earth is predestined? It is at this point where the biblical teaching on predestination conveys a reality that few people are able or willing to come to terms with -- as demonstrated in Jesus' own words when he said: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's will” (Matt 10:29 RSV). Thus, we must ask: Was Jesus wrong? If it is true that not even a sparrow can fall to the ground apart from the Will of God, then we have no other option than to come to terms with the reality presented in the Gospels that every event in this life is directly orchestrated by (the Laws of) God? And that this knowledge can only be imparted to those who are sincere seekers and disciples of TheWay that Jesus taught, is a reality that those in denial must come to terms with.
On the above verse the Adam Clark Bible Commentary states: “The providence of God extends to the minutest things; everything is continually under the government and care of God, and nothing occurs without his will or permission”. In relation to this verse under the heading of Providence in the Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary it is explained that: “Divine government is the continued activity of God by which He directs all things to the ends He has chosen in His eternal plan… He governs insignificant things (Matt. 10:29-31), apparent accidents (Prov. 16:33), as well as man's good (Phil. 2:13) and evil deeds (Acts 14:16). God acts in accordance with the laws and principles that He has established in the world. The laws of nature are nothing more than man's description of how we perceive God at work in the world. They neither have inherent power nor do they work by themselves. Man is not free to choose and act independently from God's will and plan; he chooses and acts in accordance with them. In His sovereignty, God controls man's choices and actions (Gen. 45:5; Deut. 8:18; Prov. 21:1). God's actions, however, do not violate the reality of human choice or negate man's responsibility as a moral being”.
The Church Father Origen who was known as "the prince of Christian learning" in the third century, second only to the Apostles, writes that "...to every one according to his merits; nor will the happiness or unhappiness of each one's birth, or whatever be the condition that falls to his lot, be deemed accidental" (see http://DivineStrategery.com/#predestination ). Why? Why is the conditions of one's birth not be deemed an accident? Because there are no accidents as the Atheist and Secular Humanist mindset promotes. Origen then goes on and writes with respect to each person's station in life "...that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel [person] has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor." And, as stated in the foregoing, each person's birth into this life is determined by that person's own past actions -- i.e., "...either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor". Or, as stated by the Apostle Paul: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV). And this same exact message is being presented to every person today, in our own time, in the very life that they are presently living. When the Labyrinth of the Laws that directs our paths throughout life presents us with choices, it is at this point only, where we are able to exercise freewill and choice.
When the Laws which create a type of Labyrinth in the life that each person is presently living out is understood, it can be said that this world is very much as a Living Bio-Feedback system that invokes and initiates Laws -- and these Laws then return back to each individual -- as well as each group on a primary and secondary level -- based upon the fruit of their own actions, mindset and lifestyle. Which means that each individual person -- as well as each group, religion, school of thought, from small to that of a large nation -- i.e., the plight and struggles that each of us confronts throughout every aspect of the life we are presently living -- is all authored by our own previous actions in our own past. And this is why Rabbi Ovadia Yosefan, the former chief rabbi of Israel -- a religious scholar who was also the spiritual leader of the Shas party -- made the statement that no innocent Jews died in the Holocaust. What Rabbi Yosefan said was that the 6 million Holocaust victims "...were reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things that should not be done.” Rabbi Yosefan explained that these souls who had previously lived lives of sin, “…had been reincarnated in order to atone” (see The Chickens Come Home To Roost). In the same way that the Church Father Origen (see above) stated "...that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one", what Rabbi Yosefan stated was that as many as 6 million souls were born into a life in Germany where, because of their previous actions, both their lives and their death at the hands of Hitler were all orchestrated by the Laws or God, in order to atone for their own actions which are portrayed as sins in previous lifetimes. Thus, when the Laws of God are properly understood, the life of each person in the present has been orchestrated by their own past -- and in the present each person (and groups of people) are creating their future lives that they will inherit based upon their own actions or inaction.
The Spiritual Castration Of The Church - The
Removal Of The Teachings On The Preexistent Soul: Where the 4th
century Church of Constantine put to death the Spirit of the Church (see
above The
Corruption Of The Church), it's Spiritual Castration which totally
alienated the congregation of believers from comprehending even what was
left of a corrupted and spiritually sanitized New Testament (see
Bible Corruption), was
implemented in the 6th century. As an example of how the
Christian world was literally forced to adhere to the dogma of the secular
priests and emperors, when the doctrine of the pre-existent soul was
outlawed by the Emperor Justinian, the Britannica confirms that the emperor
then forced his will upon the Church when he
"...banished the pope to
What the Bible states is that the lives of each person is orchestrated and scripted by the Laws -- and yet, without an understanding of the Laws that the scriptures states controls all events in this world, the very purpose and meaning of life itself will remain a perpetual enigma -- as will the scriptures. Jesus himself taught that not even a sparrow can “...fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father” (Matt 10:29 NIV). And in the very next verse Jesus applies this same reality to man and states that every hair is accounted for -- i.e., "And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered" -- and yet, the Christian world remains totally ignorant with respect to the workings of the Laws that orchestrate and brings about all events that transpire in this world.
Why Does Bad Things Happen To Seemingly Good
People:
Questions: The proverbial question that is asked and not
understood is this: Why is there evil in the world? Atheists often point to
the sufferings of believers and ask: If there is a God, why does bad things
happen to seemingly good people? What
about when tragedies involve nice people? Or seemingly innocent people suffer?
And even people who seemingly don’t deserve suffering? A thirteen-year-old girl
dies of leukemia. A tornado kills a husband and wife in their home. A young
pastor is murdered by his wife. A tsunami kills thousands of unsuspecting
vacationers. Why do "good people" become victims of a disease or a
natural disaster? Why do "good people" get caught in the crossfire of
acts of "random" violence? Why do otherwise innocent children get abused
- mentally, emotionally and physically by an older person who is in a position
of authority over them? Why are children kidnapped and raped? Why does the
seemingly innocent suffer?
What does the scriptures state? Nothing in the universe happens by luck, chance, fortune, or accident, or by blind fate. Everything that comes to pass in time was purposed by our God in eternity, and is brought to pass by his wise, adorable, good Providence. Nothing comes to pass in time that God did not purpose in eternity, in sovereign predestination. Nothing comes to pass in time except that which God sovereignly brings to pass in his Providence. And that which God predestinated in eternity and brings to pass in his Providence is for the good of his elect, and the glory of his name. This is clearly and incontrovertibly the teaching of Holy Scripture (Ps. 76:10; Pro. 16:4, 9, 33; 21:1; Dan. 4:34, 35, 37; Isa. 46:9-11; Rom. 11:33-36). Further, when rightly understood, what man portrays as natural selection, human nature, animal compulsion and/or natural occurrences, is merely the unfoldment and manifestation of the movement of the Laws which were brought into being in the Alpha of Creation (see Spiritual Americans and the Laws of Nature and Nature's God).
While an immature faith-based believer who has yet to begin to seriously embrace the teachings of TheWay will remain ignorant of the forces and construct of the Laws that bring what appears to be evil and bad things into the world, a spiritually mature Christian would be able to immediately answer the above questions with a resounding rationale and detail, that even the most discerning critic would be amazed by the completeness of the explanation. But herein lies the crux of the problem -- i.e., because the congregation of believers have been robbed of the knowledge of the Laws and the higher objectives of life itself by a series of secular rulers and emperors and their pseudo-clergy and priests, it is impossible for the mind to attain the necessary state of maturity that the Gospel was intended to bring about in the lives of the believers. So mankind continues to dwell in an abyss of ignorance that has wrought needless suffering and hardships upon even the most innocent of lives.
Conditions Of One's Birth - Life - And Death:
In order to begin to understand what the seat belt has to do with the
practice of religion, you would first have to answer the question: Why were
you born under the conditions of life that you are experiencing in the
present? Which provokes the question: Is your life the result of chance,
or are you in fact responsible for every aspect of the life that you are
living? Prior to the Dark Ages of Profound Ignorance that the Church of
Rome cast the world into, there were Christians and wise men who could
accurately answer this question from a paradigm of thought that was founded
upon sure knowledge. But these Spiritual Christians were hunted down and
put to death, because they rejected the religion of the emperor. Today,
history has again repeated itself, and mankind has become intellectually
flat-lined and spiritually castrated by an Atheist driven mindset that is
promoted by our culture, and forced upon the people by a government that is
being used to subdue all voices in opposition. In the same way that the
sickle and hammer is a symbol of Communism -- Nero's Cross which was adopted
as the peace symbol, was born out of the Roman hatred of the Christians --
and the pentagram is a symbol of Wicca -- the seat belt is a symbol of the
Atheist mindset that has chained Americans to ignorance, and is in the
process of undermining our Constitutional form of government. In the
same way that the early Christians chose death rather than submitting to the
dictates of the Pagan Roman Emperor, the modern Christian must totally
reject and throw off the tenets and symbols of Atheism and the prevailing
ignorance that is promoted by the religion of Secular Humanism. In truth,
every day those who call themselves Christians deny the Lord, when they
submit to the Atheist agenda and paradigm of thought that immerses the
culture in abject and profound ignorance, moral and spiritual degeneracy.
What is the conditions of your birth and station in life? While many of the pre-Nicene Christians could readily answer important questions that has alienated modern man from a higher reality that he is in denial of, most people who have been programmed with the Atheist Paradigm of Thought will conclude that their birth was fate or chance -- an accident -- or even luck. Yet, in reality, none of these choices are accurate. Whether you were born rich, poor, in a third world nation or with a silver spoon in your mouth -- or, somewhere in between -- your religion, your occupation, your country of origin, whether you are a male or female, your sexual orientation, liberal, conservative, libertarian, Atheist, Marxist, environmentalist, anarchist -- whatever your present station in life is, not only the manner you entered into this life was determined prior to your even being born -- but the Laws of God has scripted and preordained all of your choices and opportunities that have been presented to you -- as if you are walking through a labyrinth where the measure of your freewill is the determination of what choices you will make with the options that are presented to you. Jesus taught that not even a sparrow can fall to the ground apart from the Laws of God that brings about all the events in this world -- and yet, our modern Atheist-driven culture remains totally ignorant of the very Laws that move all things in this world.
Contrary to cultural thought, it is not an accident that I am married to my wife -- we have been together over the course of countless lifetimes. In one previous lifetime, my mother in this life, was my wife -- and she died prematurely so that I would meet and marry my present wife. In that life her death was scripted from before she was born -- as were the conditions of her death -- in order to bring about necessary change in my life that enabled me to fulfill certain objectives. And while I have observed this reality of the movement of the Laws with respect to the scripting of lives -- not only in my self, but in the lives of countless others -- the reality that people's lives are scripted in order to develop them through certain experiences in this world, simply has no place in the thinking of the Atheists and Secular Humanists/Progressives who are the architects of our present-day culture, even though they remain in ignorant denial of man's true reality. And the fact that our modern culture has been built upon a gravely flawed Paradigm of Thought, means that no real progress can be achieved until we are prepared to rethink and fix the foundation.
In the Affidavit submitted to the court by Emmanuel Pohoreski (see Affidavit) which was further confirmed in his testimony before Judge James K. Roberson (see Court Rules Against First Amendment), Emmanuel testified to the fact that he has known me over the course of many lifetimes. Within the context of these lifetimes, the person who is presently named Emmanuel, was born to meet and work with myself and others on the objectives of these lives -- brought together as a group by the Laws that scripted our lives in order to form a Living Syllabus -- presenting us with choices in the manner of a labyrinth that was determined even before we entered those lifetimes -- and these scripted lives included our death and departure from this world. In this present lifetime it was scripted into the syllabus-labyrinth that has controlled each and every step that I have taken, who I would meet, who I would interact with, all the possible outcomes of the choices that have been presented to me, as well as how the choices and outcome of my own life will effect the choices and outcome of those people I directly interact with, as well as those on a larger scale who will be effected by my own choices and accomplishments. Ultimately, the more I can tap into the forces that control the events in my own and the lives of others, the greater my success and ability to positively impact other people. And to accomplish this, I am required to exercise absolute faith in the knowledge that has been revealed to me via the development of my own intuitive spheres of mind that provides me access to the Source. As set forth by the pre-Nicene Church Father Origen: “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis - see Chickens Come Home To Roost). As it is written: "In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps" (Prov 16:9 NIV). And if we inquire as to why everyone's life has been preordained and controlled by the Laws of God and Creation, the answer is that you are presently following a syllabus which has totally scripted the life you are living -- and this life-syllabus was all designed and determined based upon your own previous actions, failures and accomplishments. Thus, you have not only created the life that you are presently living out of your own past accomplishments and failures -- and your present life is being strictly orchestrated by the Laws of God -- but you are totally responsible for all events within the construct of the good, the bad and the ugly that you experience -- and how you respond to your choices that have been presented to you, will determine the conditions you will encounter in the future, including your next life. And the reality that those who submit to the Atheist Paradigm of Thought remain totally ignorant of this factual reality of the Laws, is the result of their own mentally narrow and constrained foundation of thinking, mindset and lifestyle.
If we pose the question as to what degree life on earth is predestined? It is at this point where the biblical teaching on predestination conveys a reality that few people are able or willing to come to terms with -- as demonstrated in Jesus' own words when he said: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's will” (Matt 10:29 RSV). Thus, we must ask: Was Jesus wrong? If it is true that not even a sparrow can fall to the ground apart from the Will of God, then we have no other option than to come to terms with the reality presented in the Gospels that every event in this life is directly orchestrated by (the Laws of) God? And that this knowledge can only be imparted to those who are sincere seekers and disciples of TheWay that Jesus taught, is a reality that those in denial must come to terms with.
On the above verse the Adam Clark Bible Commentary states: “The providence of God extends to the minutest things; everything is continually under the government and care of God, and nothing occurs without his will or permission”. In relation to this verse under the heading of Providence in the Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary it is explained that: “Divine government is the continued activity of God by which He directs all things to the ends He has chosen in His eternal plan… He governs insignificant things (Matt. 10:29-31), apparent accidents (Prov. 16:33), as well as man's good (Phil. 2:13) and evil deeds (Acts 14:16). God acts in accordance with the laws and principles that He has established in the world. The laws of nature are nothing more than man's description of how we perceive God at work in the world. They neither have inherent power nor do they work by themselves. Man is not free to choose and act independently from God's will and plan; he chooses and acts in accordance with them. In His sovereignty, God controls man's choices and actions (Gen. 45:5; Deut. 8:18; Prov. 21:1). God's actions, however, do not violate the reality of human choice or negate man's responsibility as a moral being”.
The Church Father Origen who was known as "the prince of Christian learning" in the third century, second only to the Apostles, writes that "...to every one according to his merits; nor will the happiness or unhappiness of each one's birth, or whatever be the condition that falls to his lot, be deemed accidental" (see http://DivineStrategery.com/#predestination ). Why? Why is the conditions of one's birth not be deemed an accident? Because there are no accidents as the Atheist and Secular Humanist mindset promotes. Origen then goes on and writes with respect to each person's station in life "...that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one; and then every one, according to his deserts, is made by God either a vessel unto honor or dishonor. Therefore every individual vessel [person] has furnished to its Creator out of itself the causes and occasions of its being formed by Him to be either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor." And, as stated in the foregoing, each person's birth into this life is determined by that person's own past actions -- i.e., "...either a vessel unto honor or one unto dishonor". Or, as stated by the Apostle Paul: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV). And this same exact message is being presented to every person today, in our own time, in the very life that they are presently living. When the Labyrinth of the Laws that directs our paths throughout life presents us with choices, it is at this point only, where we are able to exercise freewill and choice.
When the Laws which create a type of Labyrinth in the life that each person is presently living out is understood, it can be said that this world is very much as a Living Bio-Feedback system that invokes and initiates Laws -- and these Laws then return back to each individual -- as well as each group on a primary and secondary level -- based upon the fruit of their own actions, mindset and lifestyle. Which means that each individual person -- as well as each group, religion, school of thought, from small to that of a large nation -- i.e., the plight and struggles that each of us confronts throughout every aspect of the life we are presently living -- is all authored by our own previous actions in our own past. And this is why Rabbi Ovadia Yosefan, the former chief rabbi of Israel -- a religious scholar who was also the spiritual leader of the Shas party -- made the statement that no innocent Jews died in the Holocaust. What Rabbi Yosefan said was that the 6 million Holocaust victims "...were reincarnations of the souls of sinners, people who transgressed and did all sorts of things that should not be done.” Rabbi Yosefan explained that these souls who had previously lived lives of sin, “…had been reincarnated in order to atone” (see The Chickens Come Home To Roost). In the same way that the Church Father Origen (see above) stated "...that the cause of each one's actions is a pre-existing one", what Rabbi Yosefan stated was that as many as 6 million souls were born into a life in Germany where, because of their previous actions, both their lives and their death at the hands of Hitler were all orchestrated by the Laws or God, in order to atone for their own actions which are portrayed as sins in previous lifetimes. Thus, when the Laws of God are properly understood, the life of each person in the present has been orchestrated by their own past -- and in the present each person (and groups of people) are creating their future lives that they will inherit based upon their own actions or inaction.
Christians maintain that they are saved by faith totally apart from their actions and works -- and their salvation is guaranteed from the moment they accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. But is this the original teachings of Jesus? The New Testament portrays this dogma
Reply: The Flawed Doctrine Of Perpetual Redemption totally ignores the many statements by Paul where he warns: "For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who ...then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV). Why did Paul make such a statement? Because the original Gospel teachings in their original form was one of spiritual transformation -- and those who willfully sin after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel message are not only unbelievers and apostates to the teachings of the Gospels, but in Paul's words these counterfeit believers crucify the Son of God afresh -- and, in total opposition to what the Churches preach, "...there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." These, and other such spiritual concepts, were totally unacceptable to the fourth century heathen Church of Rome -- and while these few passages continue to exist, the scriptures were corrupted (see http://BibleCorruption.com ) in order to make the Gospels support the doctrines of a series of Roman Emperors who ruled over the Church from the fourth century onward. That the Church has abandoned the original teachings of Jesus -- to the degree that when it is proven that the fourth century Church even edited and corrupted the very words of God spoken to man (see http://TheTenWords.com ) -- means that until the Church itself repents of this great sin against the Holy Spirit, they will remain under a cloud of ignorance in an exile state in a Spiritual Diaspora. What does the Apostle of faith say? To the Romans he warns: "Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off" (Rom 11:20-22 NIV). Because the Christians entered into a covenant with Pagan Rome -- installing the emperor as the head of the Church -- and in a state of absolute arrogance, hunted down and murdered all who did not accept the religious doctrines of the emperor -- even editing and corrupting the very words of God spoken to mankind -- the Church has not only been "cut off" -- but the Christians themselves dwell in a Spiritual Diaspora under the cloud of spiritual ignorance.
Peter
Warns That Christians Are Worse Off Than The Unbelievers:
How can Peter warn that the fate of complacent Christians is in fact worse off
than those who had never come into contact with the Gospel Message?
Thus, we have a great void that modern Christians totally lack the insight to
understand. An honest Christian would recognize that the words of Peter are so contrary to modern-day belief, that these words should
literally haunt every person who calls themselves a Christian believer:
"If they have escaped the corruption of the world by
knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and
overcome,
they are worse off at the end than they were at the
beginning. It would have been better for them not
to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn
their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the
proverbs are true: A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that is washed goes
back to her wallowing in the mud" (2
Pet 2:20-22 NIV). Where the modern Church promotes the doctrine that
they are saved by Grace regardless of the manner in which they live their lives,
Peter not only states that this doctrine is in grave error, but correctly states
that: "It would have been better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their
backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them." Every
Christian should ask themselves:
How can those who have never known the teachings of Christ, be better off than
those who having heard, and are complacent towards those teachings?
It would appear that Peter is stating that those who had never heard the Gospel
message -- and had themselves committed much sin -- will in the hereafter
inherit a more lofty place in the Kingdom than the complacent believers.
Christians promote the doctrine that only those who believe can be saved -- and here Peter is stating the opposite is true -- and that those people who claim to believe, and fall back to their old ways where they embrace the culture and ways of this world, will in fact be worse off after they have come to believe, than before they began to believe. Moreover, the shepherds and blind guides that Peter is making reference to, are those who preach the modern doctrine of using the Gospel as a license to dwell in perpetual sin that is promoted in churches today -- i.e., "This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature..." (2 Peter 2:10 NIV). Because these false shepherds even if they are sincere, fail to understand the reality of what Jesus meant when he used the terms Whole, and Complete, they preach the "...promise [of] freedom [in their doctrine of salvation by faith and grace alone], while they themselves are slaves of depravity" In what can only be in total opposition to what Christians today believe, Peter states that it would have been better for the entry-level believers to have never heard of the Gospel, than to have heard, and then fall prey to the false shepherds who promise them freedom, but blindly lead the believers into the proverbial ditch. And thus, there is simply no means for the modern Christian who believes the doctrines of the Church, to even begin to understand what Peter is making reference to.
The
Gravely Flawed Serf/Peasant/Subject Mindset: One of the most
important elements to the core New Covenant Gospel teachings is the brotherhood
of all of mankind -- not in a philosophical manner -- but rather, that each and
every one of us are equally the prodigal sons of our Heavenly Father.
With respect to the doctrine of the
Fall of Man that is presented by Paul -- he confirms that it was God that forced
mankind to wander in an almost lost state of mind in order to bring about the
next stage of birth: "For the earnest expectation of
the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the
creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who
subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from
the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For
we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together
until now" (Rom 8:19-22 NKJ) -- i.e., all of mankind is equally the
offspring or children of God as seen in the words:
"...because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." And
this is why after completing the journey from the Alpha to the Omega, the
historical Jesus portrayed all of mankind as his brothers in the words:
“Go instead to my brothers and tell them,
'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God’”
(John 20:17 NIV). The original Gospel message teaches that the
historical person of Jesus was a man, just like all of mankind, who overcame and
fulfilled the Law of God within himself to the degree that he became One with
God -- or, the First Prodigal Son to return to the Edenic Kingdom of Origination
(see Gate Of Eden).
What does the scriptures state: "Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, 'I said, You are gods '?" (John 10:34 NKJ). If Jesus confirmed the Law which declared that we are gods, then what is our true nature? When the first century Christian Justin Martyr quoted the 82nd chapter of Psalms from his scriptures, the sacred writings that he used did not read as ours does today. “God standeth in the congregation of gods”, Justin wrote, "I said, Ye are gods, and are all children of the Most High...” (Dialogue of Justin). In addition to Justin, this verse is also found translated in this same manner in the works of Tertullian, Origen and Cyprian. Thus, we have the witness of four of the earliest of Christians that “God standeth in the congregation of gods”, when the scriptures are speaking about us. Justin then goes on to explain that all men were made like God, “free from suffering and death, provided that they kept His commandments, and were deemed deserving of the name of His sons, and yet they, becoming like Adam and Eve, work out death for themselves... thereby it is demonstrated that all men are deemed worthy of becoming ‘gods’, and of having power to become sons of the Highest; and shall be each by himself judged and condemned like Adam and Eve”.
Even our very own Bibles at one time more clearly taught this same concept. In the third century 1 John 3:2 read somewhat differently than it does in our present translations. Quoting from Origen’s Contra Celsum we read that “it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like God, and shall see Him as He is”. With regard to our becoming like God, Origen then writes regarding Matthew 5:48 that “...the virtue of man and of God is identical. And therefore we are taught to become ‘perfect,’ as our Father in heaven is perfect”.
The great truth that has been continually expressed by both Jewish and Christian visionaries is that the knowledge of the mysteries of God and the Divine Plan begins with the knowledge of ourselves as the Prodigal Sons of our Heavenly Father. It is for this reason that the second-century Church Father Clement of Alexandria said that it is “…the greatest of all lessons to know one's self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God… and that man becomes God, since God so wills”. In his treaties on The Soul and the Resurrection, St Gregory writes that “the Resurrection is no other thing than 'the re-constitution of our nature in its original form’”, and states that there will come a time “…when the complete whole of our race shall have been perfected from the first man to the last”. This statement should provoke great thought in the reader who is under the misconception that our Heavenly Father would destroy or forever cut off one of his sons or daughters who are lost in this world. If the whole of our race will one day be perfected from the first man to the last, then there are many grave misconceptions on the part of believers today.
The reason these great truths are no longer the focus of the modern church is best captured in the words of A. Powell Davies: “Biblical scholars”, he writes, ”were not disturbed by what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls because they had known all along that the origin of Christianity was not what was commonly supposed to have been” (quoted by Millar Burrows in More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls). What Davies was referring to was the fact that in the fourth century, the Church of Constantine so altered the focus of the teachings of the New Covenant, that what we call Christianity today has its doctrinal legacy of birth in Pagan Rome, and has little in common with the religion that the Son of God revealed to man at the beginning of our Common Era.
Unlike
the 4th century church of Constantine that declared Jesus to be God, the
original disciples and first followers of Jesus saw him as a man who lived
such a holy and consecrated life (see
Ebionite HomePage),
that he became At-One with God -- and thus became the Divine Pattern that
all men must emulate. Their view of him was that he was the firstborn --
or the first resurrected to the Kingdom -- the first of the prodigal sons to
return home from among us, his brothers. This is especially seen in the
words of the Lord where he said:
“For whosoever shall do
the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and
sister, and mother”
(Matt 12:50 KJV).
It is plain in the scriptures that Jesus is “a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting” (1 Tim 1:16 KJV). A pattern is not something that you casually believe in -- but rather, something that you mold your life after. Moreover, if Jesus is the pattern, then Jesus is the very standard by which all men are to be judged. Why? Because if Jesus was a man who was able to perfect himself by fulfilling the Royal Law within himself, and be resurrected into the Kingdom, then all our excuses for leading carnal and immoral lives are without merit -- i.e., because this same standard would then be expected of us -- the Lord's brothers and sisters.
The
Apostle tells us:
“Therefore be imitators of God, as
beloved children”
(Eph 5:1 NAS). If we were created as inferior beings
who were nothing more than the natural offspring of Adam and Eve, as Christians
believe today, then the Apostle would never have told a race of inferior beings
to imitate God. The basis of Paul's words is seen in the fact that man is
created in the image and likeness of God, and is God's own offspring. If we
were inferior beings, neither would God command us:
“ye shall therefore be holy,
for I am holy”
(Lev 11:45 KJV), if we did not possess this innate
ability. What is written here is no different than what St. Gregory said when
he wrote that we must walk the
“path of an exact imitation
of Him Who leads the way to salvation”
-- which path in the words of St. Nazianzen,
reveals to us our true nature and makes
“us like God”.
When
a child becomes an adult, is he inferior to his parent? In like
manner, when the prodigal son returns home to the Edenic Kingdom of
Origination, and matures to his full spiritual potential and stature, is
he inferior to his father? What is important is for us to realize that
we do not know our true potential, and neither do we understand the
process that gives us the ability to
“imitate God”, and makes us
“like God”.
The undeniable Christian Truth that no one who claims to be a believer
should deny, is that we don't know the answer to these questions. How
can we? As Christians, we have faith that Jesus meant what he said
when he promised that he would teach us -- and reveal to us all the
Mysteries of God -- if we become his faithful disciple.
This great truth is seen in Origen's reply to Celsus where he wrote: “By participation in the Son of God one is adopted as a son… by participation in the Holy Spirit is a man rendered holy and spiritual…”. The problem is seen in the fact that the Church totally alienated themselves from the knowledge and awareness of that principle called the Son of God that dwells within each of us (see The Logos). Neither can the Church comprehend the reality that this Indwelling Logos or Mind of God, is the One Teacher that Jesus commanded to seek out and learn from (see The Search For The True Prophet). And that this innate ability to seek out and learn directly from the Indwelling Logos/Son of God/True Prophet, is the only means for the lost prodigal sons and daughters to acquire the knowledge of TheWay -- which will free them from enslavement to the ignorance of what Jesus portrayed as the Citizen of this, the Far Country -- which Paul portrayed as the god of this world.
The power of the Citizen of the Far Country which totally controls the organic people of the earth, is in his ability to shackle the individual in the abyss of ignorance -- portrayed by Jesus as the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Outer Darkness) -- also portrayed as Plato's Cave (see Cave) -- and the means to escape the shackles of ignorance can only be revealed to those who seek to learn directly from the True Prophet (see The Spiritual Disenfranchisement Of The Mind). Paul makes reference to the wisdom of the wise of this world coming to naught -- and this is because man's own higher soul and spiritual reality is simply inconceivable to his "natural" organic physical consciousness (see Mystery Of The Gospel).
The Gospel of Thomas declares: "But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty... Whoever finds himself is superior to the world". It does not say to Know God -- because it is impossible to Know God, without first knowing one's self. Those who have not themselves yet uncovered their true spiritual nature as the Sons and Daughters of God, perceive sacred truths in forms, types, and allegories -- because they, being carnal, “cannot comprehend” the mysteries of God that awaits them. When God, in the words of St. Nazianzen, no longer is an “object of wonder”, but rather an “object of desire” -- and we, desiring to be purified from the defilements of this world, make ourselves fit vessels for the Lord to indwell, the Spirit, according to St. Nazianzen, reveals to us our true nature, and the revelation of this manifest Sacred Knowledge makes “us like God; so that when we have thus become like Himself, God may, to use a bold expression, hold converse with us as Gods, being united to us, and that perhaps to the same extent as He already knows those who are known to Him”. St. Nazianzen then writes that “the Divine Nature then is boundless and hard to understand” by those who are yet carnal and think as natural beings of this world.
Who among us has attained to such a level of Godliness that God will “converse with us as Gods”? It is for this reason that Origen admits that the disciple of Christ knows full well that growing to spiritual maturity is not a simple chore. In the same way that a fetus and infant cannot grow to maturity in the cycle of a day, neither can the soul grow to its Godly potential in the cycle of one lifetime. In the same way that a child grows to a man in steps, Jesus taught (see The Unanswerable Question) the soul has transmigrated and inhabited many bodies of flesh in its quest for this necessary level of Godliness. It is also the true disciple of Christ who knows that the Lord Jesus came to save us from our fate of being lost in this world -- in subjection to the Law, ever reincarnating in useless lives of suffering and spiritual depravation -- but carnal man, refusing to follow in Jesus' footsteps, continually chooses the darkness of this world over the Light of the kingdom.
The question the modern believer must ask is this: Do you truly believe the words of our Lord when He said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6 NIV)? Yet, because the Church has spiritually castrated itself by its adherence to (pagan) manmade doctrines of imperial emperors and priests of the shadow church of Pagan Rome, the people are incapable of comprehending that while their brother the historical Jesus is representative of the pattern, it is the Indwelling Logos/Son of God that is the Source of both all Truth and Life. That this fact was declared in the original Gospel message, is proven in The Ten Words.
If you believe these words, then you have only one option: You must be ready to cast off the manmade doctrines of error that have become infused into modern Christianity, and become a genuine disciple of the Light. If you truly believe, then you must begin your search for the real Jesus. The true Christians are not those who believe in the antichrist of Constantine or the very carnal and Pagan doctrines of the Roman Church -- but rather, those who realize that they must have Jesus the Nazirene, and no other. True Christians know that it is not enough to believe, they must believe the Truth -- which Truth can only be received directly from the Lord. Further, you must receive and become your true self -- i.e., the Being of Light, while you are still alive in the physical body -- as demonstrated in the words from the Gospel Of Philip: "If anyone becomes a child of the bridal chamber, he will receive the light. If anyone does not receive it while he is here, he will not be able to receive it in the other place. He who will receive that light will not be seen, nor can he be detained. And none shall be able to torment a person like this, even while he dwells in the world. And again when he leaves the world, he has already received the truth in the images. The world has become the Aeon (eternal realm), for the Aeon is fullness for him. This is the way it is: it is revealed to him alone, not hidden in the darkness and the night but hidden in a perfect day and a holy light."
It is impossible for most Christians to succeed in the
manifestation of the pattern (of Jesus) within themselves, because they are of a
peasant/serf/subject mindset. They attempt to worship God as
if he were a worldly ego-driven king -- telling him how wonderful he is.
Thus, they see themselves as subjects that must appease and glorify the king --
in contradistinction to imitating the pattern that that the historical man Jesus
perfected in his own life and return as the first prodigal son to totally
fulfill the Law within himself -- which fulfilling of the Law enables each
prodigal son and daughter to learn directly from the Indwelling Son of God, and
grow to their own full maturity in Messiah/Christ. Thus, Paul writes
to the congregation at Galatians: "My dear children,
for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you"
(Gal 4:19-20 NIV) -- and if a believer fulfilled the requirements of second
birth by the mere profession of words as Christians believe and practice today,
then Paul never would have stated these words to the Galatians.
And that because of the modern Church's subject/peasant mindset of appeasement
with their lips, that fails to embrace the necessary pattern that enables them
to fulfill the Law within themselves, they fail to understand and bring about
the Spiritual Birth from the Virgin (see
Virgin Birth).
Thus, they fail to understand that both the wives of Abraham are an allegory --
as well as the account of the Virgin Birth of Jesus -- and they remain totally
ignorant of the meaning of Paul's words when he wrote: "Tell me, ye that desire
to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But
he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman
was by promise. Which things are an allegory..." (Gal 4:21-24 KJV) -- an
allegory which portrays the first stage of birth which is of the flesh, and the
second stage of birth which is of the promise and the Spirit -- and is presented
in the allegory of the Virgin Birth (see
Virgin Birth).
Further, it is impossible to bring about this next stage of birth apart from
what is portrayed in the name of Joseph (see
Joseph -
The Generative Power Of The Kingdom). And because the
Church as in their adoption of pagan dogma and systems of belief totally
alienated themselves from the spiritual meaning of the Gospels, the words of
the Gospel of Philip presents their
spiritually disenfranchised fate -- i.e., "Those who
say that first they shall die and
(then) they shall arise are confused. If they do not first receive the
resurrection (while) they live, they will not receive anything (when)
they die"
(see Gospel Of Philip).
The Biblical Foundational Mindset: Christians are faith-based,
simply because both the essence of the Gospel and the objectives and higher
realities of life make absolutely no sense to their limited thinking which is
inhibited by a foundational mindset that is pagan and manmade. It is
impossible for them to comprehend the reality of the foregoing Gospel teachings
that they continually ignore -- and how these important teachings can possibly
apply to them in the manner that they appear to -- because the very foundation
of their thinking is manmade and counterfeit. And this fact is
especially seen in the
question asked by the disciples:
"Now as Jesus passed by, He saw
a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Rabbi, who
sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'" (John
9:1-2 NKJ).
Thus, what Christian today would ask the forgoing question? Not a
single one would. Why? Because modern
Christians have been totally alienated from the biblical foundational mindset,
by the very doctrines adopted while the Church was ruled over by Pagan Rome.
Thus, we must pose the question: What prompted
the disciples of Jesus to even ask such a question? Turning to the historian,
this ultra important element to the equation of life is made reference to by
Edward Gibbon in the footnote regarding the question of the disciples at John
9:2: "The disciples of Jesus
were persuaded that a man might have sinned before he was born, (John, ix. 2,)
and the Pharisees held the transmigration [reincarnation] of virtuous souls,
(Joseph. de Bell. Judaico, l. ii. c. 7;) and a modern Rabbi is modestly assured,
that Hermes, Pythagoras, Plato, etc., derived their metaphysics from his
illustrious countrymen"
(Gibbon; Decline & Fall) -- metaphysics that embraced the
concept of the pre-existence and transmigration of the soul.
Again, let me pose the question as to what this statement means to us from a modern-day perspective? It means that the mindset and doctrinal thinking of the modern believer is so alienated from the original biblical foundational mindset and thinking, that the modern believer has been rendered spiritually sterile. The original mindset and thinking with respect to the events of life from the perception of the disciples is explored in the Wycliffe Commentary where it is written: "The question of the disciples (v. 2) was grounded in the belief that bodily infirmity or suffering was due to sin, whether of parents (Exo 20:5) or of the man himself, presumably on the basis of the soul’s pre-existence, which some Jews held". Thus we must ask: Is this some Jewish fable that the disciples of Christ conjured up themselves? Or is this belief a foundational element of the Gospel that Jesus taught to them? Once properly understood the position of the disciples is founded upon the construct of Jesus' statement to the person he healed and made whole: "...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" (John 5:14 KJV). And what this means is that those who sin -- especially after coming to the knowledge of the Gospel message -- inherit a fate even worse than before they were healed from their sin. To the degree that Paul warned the congregation of believers: , “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Gal 6:7 NIV).
What does it mean that "...God cannot be mocked -- [and that each person] reaps what he sows”? To the degree that Jesus warned the man: "...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Yet, to their own spiritual demise, the vast majority of Christians promote the belief that they are exempt from having their own sin and misdeeds come back upon them in the manner that is portrayed in these verses -- and that somehow they have been exempted from the fruit of their own ways, while everyone else is held in judgment. In fact, Christians promote the doctrine that because they attempt to appease the Lord with their lips, they virtually have a license to live in sin. And they cling to this doctrine even though the Gospel warns that their fate will be worse than the unbelievers (see Fate) -- and that because of their infidelity to the Gospel wherein they crucify the Son of God afresh, even the opportunity of salvation by virtue of the sacrifice on the cross has been denied to them (see Sacrifice). And because of their infidelity to the Gospel, they have been rendered spiritually blind to the degree that they fail to perceive that they are dwelling in what Jesus portrayed as The Prison and the "outer darkness" of mind and being (see Blindness) -- incapable of understanding the core meaning of the Gospel and the scriptures.
When Jesus warned the man "...sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee" -- he confirmed the doctrine that all the calamities of life is caused by man's sin and disobedience to the Royal Law of God. On the question itself that the disciples of Jesus asked -- i.e., Master, who did sin? -- the commentary Barnes’ Notes writes that: "It was a universal opinion among the Jews that calamities of all kinds were the effects of sin. The case, however, of this man was that of one that was blind from his birth, and it was a question which the disciples could not determine whether it was his fault or that of his parents. Many of the Jews, as it appears from their writings (see Lightfoot), believed in the doctrine of the transmigration of souls; or that the soul of a man, in consequence of sin, might be compelled to pass into other bodies, and be punished there. They also believed that an infant might sin before it was born (see Lightfoot), and that consequently this blindness might have come upon the child as a consequence of that".
On the question of who did sin, this man, or his parents, and the pre-existence and reincarnation of the soul, the Adam Clarke Commentary tells us: "The doctrine of the transmigration of souls appears to have been an article in the creed of the Pharisees, and it was pretty general both among the Greeks and the Asiatics. The Pythagoreans believed the souls of men were sent into other bodies for the punishment of some sin which they had committed in a pre-existent state. This seems to have been the foundation of the disciples’ question to our Lord. Did this man sin in a pre-existent state, that he is punished in this body with blindness? Or, did his parents commit some sin, for which they are thus plagued in their offspring!... The Jewish rabbis have had the same belief from the very remotest antiquity. Origen cites an apocryphal book of the Hebrews, in which the patriarch Jacob is made to speak thus: I am an angel of God; one of the first order of spirits. Men call me Jacob, but my true name, which God has given me, is Israel: Orat. Joseph. apud ORIG. Many of the Jewish doctors have believed that the souls of Adam, Abraham, and Phineas, have successively animated the great men of their nation. Philo says that the air is full of spirits, and that some, through their natural propensity, join themselves to bodies; and that others have an aversion from such a union. See several other things relative to this point in his treatises, De Plant. Noe-- De Gigantibus-- De Confus. Ling.-- De Somniis, etc.; and see Calmet, where he is pretty largely quoted".
It is important in our assessment of genuine biblical foundations of thought to recognize the fact that the pre-existence and what some call the reincarnation of the soul was a universally accepted belief among the people who Jesus taught the Gospel Precepts -- and in the case of the Disciples, the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Once this fact is acknowledged, then we are forced to conclude that if this belief about the nature of life was in error, and the journey of the pre-existent soul is not a viable part of the teachings of Jesus, then Jesus would have had to condemn it -- or, we must recognize that it was removed by the later Gentile Church.
That the Pharisees understood that a man is born blind from the misdeeds of a previous life is seen in their words to the man: "You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?" (Jn 9:34 NAS). Moreover, it is well documented that the Essenes -- who with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now understood to be the foundation of New Covenant teachings -- also believed in the pre-existence and transmigration of the soul. In his Antiquity of the Jews, the Jewish historian Josephus, who had lived among the Essenes, and was a contemporary of the man Jesus, stated that the Essenes: “…resigned up their souls with great alacrity, as expecting to receive them again. For their doctrine is this, that bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue for ever; and that they came out of the most subtle air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement; but that when they are set free from the bonds of flesh, they then, as released from a long bondage, rejoice and mount upward...”.
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Modern Christians fail to realize that their religion evolved out of Judaism, and Spiritual Jews have always founded their system of beliefs upon the concept of the pre-existent soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes. The following quotation is taken from The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, under the heading of Souls, Transmigration of: “The doctrine of transmigration of souls, which was especially accepted by the Karaites… is generally attacked by Jewish philosophers, but is defended by Isaac Abravanel and Manasseh ben Israel. It appears often in Cabala; it is found in organized form in the Zohar, it is further developed in the teachings of Isaac Luria (1534-1572), and in Hasidism it becomes a universal belief. According to these teachings, all human souls have a common origin in the spiritual unity of the primordial man, sparks of which form the individual souls... The sin of Adam brought higher and lower souls into confusion; as a result, every soul has to pass through a series of incarnations... The soul itself has no sex, which is determined by the body and may vary from incarnation to incarnation”.
In the Zohar, the foundational doctrine of Jewish Mysticism, it is written that: “All souls are subject to the trials of transmigration; and men do not know the designs of the Most High with regard to them… The souls must re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”. This reunion with God is the rebirth that was spoken of by Jesus to the Pharisee Nicodemus, “a ruler of the Jews”.
While Christians attempt to interpret the parable of the Prodigal Son in fragmented piecemeal, when taken as a whole, and understood as a universal reality common to all of mankind in the manner it was intended to be understood, it is recognized to be in total conflict with modern Christian doctrine. Once it is understood that each of us is the Prodigal Son/Daughter of our Heavenly Father, then it must also be recognized that each of us at one time dwelled in the Kingdom prior to journeying out into this, the "far country". Thus, we see this parallel concept in the above quotation from the Zohar where it states that each of us, like the Prodigal Son that we are, must return to our Source -- i.e., "The souls must re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged...."
In the parable of the Wedding Feast, those who come to TheCall, must have put on the required Wedding Garment -- and thus, we see the parallel concept in the Zohar in the words with respect to the required perfection of each soul: "But to accomplish this end they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them..." To the degree that Jesus stated in the Sermon on the Mount at Matthew 5:48 that each soul must be as perfect as their Heavenly Father -- i.e., again parallel to the Zohar: "...and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”.
To even begin to
comprehend this higher reality of the perfection of the soul over the course
of many lifetimes, the person must understand the cycle of the Prodigal
Son/Daughter as presented in the words: "For My
thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than
your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down,
and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and
make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to
the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not
return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing for which I sent it" (Isa 55:8-11 NKJ).
God cannot fail -- and nothing in Creation can be void -- and as the
Prodigal Sons of the Most High, each of us emanated from the Edenic Kingdom
of Origination -- and each us us must fulfill the requirement of perfection
as presented at Matt 5:48 -- and if this required perfection is
"...not fulfilled this condition during one life,
[we] must commence another, a third, and so forth, until [our souls] have
acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God”
And as the Prodigal Sons/Daughters of the Most High, each of us was forced
to leave the Kingdom and venture out into this world which is portrayed in
the parable as the "far country" -- not
by our own choosing, but by the Will of God who brought this world which is
a realm where each of us is able to grow and evolve to perfection -- i.e.,
“For the creation
was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the
one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated
from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the
children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the
pains of childbirth right up to the present time”
(Rom 8:20-22 NIV).
What the Apostle states in the above quotation is that it was the Creator
God that subjected mankind to the frustration of what we perceive as the
fall of man, in order that “the creation itself
will be liberated from its bondage” through the process of the
soul-evolution in this world which is God's Spiritual University that
perfects and brings about our eventual spiritual rebirth into the Kingdom --
i.e., “We know that the whole creation has been
groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time”.
Reincarnation - The Key To Christianity: Once the above important
teachings are acknowledged, it must also be recognized that the modern Christian
simply has no doctrinal means to understand what the Bible actually states.
So, like an ostrich, they complacently hide their heads in the sand -- not
wanting to even acknowledge what the core Gospel teachings state.
Their manmade doctrines of belief which they promote to the world, simply has no
means to explain many of the most important New Covenant teachings which they
are forced to ignore. Even the profound statement to the
Pharisees who totally rejected the New Covenant teachings:
"I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering
the kingdom of God ahead of you" (Matt 21:31-32 NIV).
Jesus did not say that the Pharisees would not get into the Kingdom -- only that
the tax collectors and prostitutes who believe and repented would enter the
Kingdom before them. Thus, while the Pharisees were those who
had been called in the above parable of the Wedding Feast and TheCall -- and
because they did not come to The Call, they met with destruction -- the common
sinners who were later invited, were permitted in the Kingdom so long as they
had put on the required "wedding garment" of
purity. And thus we again see that the fate of those who
were called, was in fact worse off than those who originally were not -- i.e.,
“That servant who knows his master's
will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten
with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving
punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much,
much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much
more will be asked”.
But without the knowledge of the Mysteries of God that Paul stated could only be
spiritually revealed to those who had left behind the
"elementary" teachings of the Gospel and were
"mature", and had achieved a degree of
"perfection", the student of the Bible must understand the true
meaning of the word destroyed as defined by the
Schofield Reference Bible which reads:
“There is no thought in these various words of
annihilation but of something that is ruined and thus unsuitable or unable to
fulfill its original purpose”. In this instance the word
destruction is being used when Jesus warned that those who believed his
teachings should seek to "Enter by
the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to
destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and
difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it"
(Matt 7:13-14 NKJ) -- and the word translated
"destruction", in no manner represents what is actually being
presented.
And this is how Jesus could state to the Pharisees who
rejected the Gospel teachings that "I tell you the
truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God
ahead of you". And this is also how Jesus
could warn that the unbelievers would receive less judgment than those who were
called, and did not totally fulfill the Gospel requirements -- i.e.,
“That servant who knows his master's
will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten
with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving
punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much,
much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much
more will be asked”.
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While the term reincarnation is often used, the understanding of the word as is commonly believed by most people, is gravely flawed to the degree that it can be said that there is no such thing as reincarnation as being applicable to the people of this world. The problem is that until the seeker of TheWay begins to put on the "wedding garment" of spiritual purity, they will remain bound in either what Jesus portrayed as The Prison, or the Outer Darkness where ignorance and unknowing prevails. Therefore, in the same way that Paul warned that the baptized and committed believers were yet too carnal to understand the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom (see Mysteries), the reality of the soul itself will remain an enigma to them (see Know Thyself). Which is why the Eastern and New Age doctrine of reincarnation is from a higher soul perspective, a fraudulent belief (see Reincarnation - A Counterfeit Doctrine).
The question then becomes: How can a people who Paul warns is too carnal to comprehend anything beyond the most rudamentary and elementary of Gospel teachings, understand with the necessary maturity what Paul warns is beyond their understanding? And, how can the teachings of Jesus and TheWay be limited to the perception and comprehension of those who lack the ability to understand anything beyond an entry-level perception of the Gospel teachings?
Without an understanding of the teaching on the pre-existent soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lifetimes, the example of the historical Jesus and the manner in which he became At-One with the Indwelling Logos/Son of God through the process of overcoming the Laws and bringing about the necessary Completeness and Perfection within himself, renders the Gospel account spiritually sterile. Why? Because the Gospels were not written about Jesus -- so much, as they were written for every other individual for the express purpose of conveying to them their own innate potential. And thus, with the suppression of the original Gospel teachings and the ultra important Words spoken by God to mankind, the Church which should be the Light of the world has spiraled down into the abyss of idolatry. In the original Gospel account of the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, the Words that God spoke to mankind were the most important Words ever spoken to man. These words which were spoken to all people's of the earth, had the power to unlock the door to the Kingdom. Yet, when the later Church of Rome changed the words from their original context, in effect they slammed the door to the kingdom shut -- and it has remained shut, to this very day. Where the Church of Rome desired a hierarchy of secular ordained priests who would dispense salvation in accord with the people's allegiance to the religion of the emperor of Rome -- peddling Christ to the masses for mammon and political power -- rendering unto Caesar what must be given only to God -- the Church threw away the very key of salvation.
Jesus warned those who would call themselves his followers and believers: “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matt 10:38-39 NKJ). The requirement that has been set forth is that “ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy” (Lev 11:45 KJV). In the words of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa: “…it is imperative on all those who have an equally earnest desire for the Good as He has, to be followers by the path of an exact imitation of Him Who leads the way to salvation, and to carry into action what He has shown them. It is, in fact impossible for persons to reach the same goal unless they travel by the same ways”. And this is why the requirement was set forth by Jesus with respect to his disciples and followers: “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48 RSV). Yet, the whole of the Gospel message has been rendered spiritually sterile, because of the manmade doctrines that inhibit the congregation of believers from fulfilling the above objectives and requirements.
It is easily proven that Jesus was not the Mithraic sun-god's latest incarnation as the Church of Rome maintained -- but rather, was a man who fulfilled the Law within himself, and became the Messiah/Christ at his baptism in the Jordan (see The Ten Words). The idyllic worship of a god, simply has nothing in common with the teachings and objectives of the religion of Jesus. They are virtually worlds apart. And their mindset is so radically opposite, that the one is always heresy to the other. And this is why in his Epistles, Paul warned that the Church would very quickly become the Church of the Anti-Christ ( http://Ebionite.com/AntiChrist.htm ) -- “let no man beguile you in any wise: for (it will not be,) except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God” (2 Thes 2:3-4 ASV). What this means is that the Church will worship the Anti-Christ as God. And if we ask why this was predictable? The answer is that the rejection of the core Gospel teachings, in conjunction with the worship of Jesus as a deity, would be instituted because of the heathen mindset and lifestyle of Pagan Rome, which would render the teachings of Jesus and TheWay spiritually sterile and virtually worthless with respect to fulfilling its intended purpose. Once the very Words of God spoken to mankind was altered from their original context in order to revise the Gospel in the endeavor to make it useful to Pagan Rome -- under the control of Roman Emperors and their priests -- the Gospel teachings could no longer support their core original objectives. And in the deification of Jesus, man as the lost prodigal sons would no longer perceive Jesus from the mindset of a pattern to imitate -- but rather, as an idol to venerate. And because the Gospel teachings would no longer be applied to self in a manner that would free the prodigal sons from enslavement to the god (consciousness) of this world -- shackling mankind to lives of absolute spiritual ignorance -- subjecting man to the sufferings and evils of this world which Jesus portrayed as the Far Country.
Without an understanding of how Jesus who was our brother, became the Messiah/Christ by fulfilling the Law within himself, then there simply is no way for man to understand how he must and can accomplish the same within himself. Once Jesus was deified and worshiped -- instead of imitated and made the example for all of mankind to follow -- then the whole of the Gospel message was rendered spiritually sterile. And without an understanding of how our elder brother Jesus came to accomplish what he did, it becomes impossible for man to fulfill the Gospel objectives within himself.
Lawlessness:
Ignorance of the Laws breeds lawlessness -- a condition that Jesus condemns
below -- and even believers who prophesy and work miracles who are lawless,
Jesus rejects. Lawlessness breeds what Jesus portrayed as a type of
imprisonment -- a condition where one is required to repay all debts, before
being released from imprisonment. Jesus portrayed each man as
being in the process of building a House -- i.e.,
"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads
to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the
gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find
it. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but
inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do
men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every
good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree
cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that
does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore
by their fruits you will know them. Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord,
Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father
in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in
Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart
from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' Therefore whoever hears these
sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his
house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds
blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the
rock. Now everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them,
will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain
descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it
fell. And great was its fall" (Matt 7:13-27 NKJ).
The building of a House must be accomplished within the construct of the Laws -- i.e., "...Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'"
Christian Denial of Reality: Christians maintain that if the
doctrine of the pre-existent soul were true, that it would be taught in
their Bibles. Yet, they are in absolute denial with respect to the reality
that the Bible was edited and corrupted in order to make it support the
doctrines of the fourth century Church of Constantine. Absolute proof of
this is overwhelmingly documented in the article on Biblical Corruption (see
Bible Corruption), but
the Christian world continues to remain in denial of the facts.
Modern day Christian
doctrine rests upon the premise that God preserved the Bible in an absolute
infallible and pure state, in order that all men should know the
(historical) truth and believe in Jesus as the Son of God -- and the
Trinitarian Godhead. Their doctrinal position is that if God permitted
the Bible to have been altered, then the present day church could not be
genuine. Based upon this dogmatic presumption that the Christian
Church must be maintained in order for man to be saved, they reason that God
would not allow the written word of the scriptures to be corrupted.
The
Truth is that if the Bible had not been corrupted, it would never have been
adopted by the Greeks and Romans --
so just the opposite is true with respect to what Christians believe.
Thus, modern Christians cling to this doctrine of biblical purity --
ignoring overwhelming evidence to the contrary -- evidence that demonstrates
conclusively that our Bible has been severely altered and edited -- because
they fail to grasp the very foundational principles of the New Covenant
itself -- principles that are not historical, but spiritual. It is not
until we understand that the Bible is a road-map that leads us to the Gate
of the Kingdom (see http://GateOfEden.com
), and the Word and Torah of God is in fact written in our hearts -- rather
than a final revelation from God to man -- that we are able to even begin to
come to terms with the Spiritual Gospel of Messiah/Christ that can never be
corrupted.
What Christians fail to understand is the fact that the most important and spiritual scriptures were never even given into the hands of the Gentiles who were both too heathen to comprehend the spiritual essence of the teachings of Jesus and TheWay, and the fact that even as early as the first century the Gentiles were editing their scriptures to make them conform to the doctrines of belief that they already embraced. An important truth is contained in the Epistle of Peter to James where it is stated: "Hear me, brethren and fellow-servants. If we should give the books to all indiscriminately, and they should be corrupted by any daring men, or be perverted by interpretations, as you have heard that some have already done, it will remain even for those who really seek the truth, always to wander in error. Wherefore it is better that they should be with us, and that we should communicate them with all the fore-mentioned care to those who wish to live piously, and to save others."
Those outside of the original Ebionite/Nazirene core of disciples and followers of Yeshua/Jesus, were quick to corrupt all the copies of the scriptures that were given to them. And this fact is confirmed to us by Dr. F. H. Scrivener where he writes that: "In the second century we have seen too many instances of attempts to tamper with the text of Scripture, some merely injudicious, others positively dishonest". Scrivener states that "it is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within 100 years after it was composed: and that Irenaeus and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church" used inferior manuscripts (F.H.Scrivener, Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament). Dean Burgon quotes Gaius (AD175-200) who speaks of the source of corruptions that survive in the early papyri: "The Divine Scriptures these heretics have audaciously corrupted. Laying violent hands upon them, under pretense of correcting them." (Burgon, The Revision Revised, p. 323). Eusebius (Eccleastical History), citing the second century Church Father Clement of Alexandria: "The worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected originated within one hundred years after it was composed." In the words of Colwell (What is the Best New Testament Text?, p.119) "The first two centuries witnessed the creations of the large number of variations known to scholars today. In the manuscripts of the New Testament most variations, I believe, were made deliberately." G.D. Kilpatrick (Atticism and the Text of the Greek New Testament, pp 125-131): "Deliberate changes in all text types appear to antedate A.D. 200..as distinct from errors... all categories of deliberate alteration... are present in both groups. Tatian is the last author to make deliberate changes. The vast majority of deliberate changes were older then A.D. 200. They came into being in the period A.D. 50-200."
It can be easily understood why the Ebionite/Nazirene disciples of Jesus not only did not give the Greek converts who edited and corrupted the text of their scriptures, but withheld the most spiritual and important to be preserved in their care. Thus, Peter writes to James: "Knowing, my brother, your eager desire after that which is for the advantage of us all, I beg and beseech you not to communicate to any one of the Gentiles the books of my preachings which I sent to you, nor to any one of our own tribe before trial; but if any one has been proved and found worthy, then to commit them to him, after the manner in which Moses delivered his books to the Seventy who succeeded to his chair. Wherefore also the fruit of that caution appears even till now. For his countrymen keep the same rule of monarchy and polity everywhere, being unable in any way to think otherwise, or to be led out of the way of the much-indicating Scriptures. For, according to the rule delivered to them, they endeavor to correct the discordances of the Scriptures, if any one, haply not knowing the traditions, is confounded at the various utterances of the prophets. Wherefore they charge no one to teach, unless he has first learned how the Scriptures must be used. And thus they have amongst them one God, one law, one hope."
The Gentiles not only severely corrupted the copies of the scriptures that they were given, but more importantly what Peter states is true with respect to their ignorance of the "traditions" within which the whole framework of the scriptures are composed, and like the Sadducees and Pharisees before them who Yeshua condemned for throwing away the Key of Knowledge, they did not know the manner in which "...the Scriptures must be used" -- and this remains true even in our present day.
In the case of the Gospel of the Nazirenes which was reportedly hidden away from the corrupters in a monastery (see Intro To The Gospel Of The Nazirenes), we can see an important concept that was removed from the text of John 9:1 when the disciples asked if the man's blindness was caused by the sins he committed in a previous life prior to being born: "And at another time as Yeshua passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Yeshua answered, To what importance is it whether this man or his parents sinned? The rewards of our actions return again to us so that the works of the Lord are made manifest. I must work the works of the Lord while in this season. As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world." And this is exactly the same as stating: "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Gal 6:7 NKJ).
The Walking Dead: In the Revelation we find the phrase
"go out no more" -- as seen in the words:
"He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the
temple of My God, and he shall go out no more" (Rev 3:12 NKJ). What
does it mean that the person who overcomes -- i.e., overcomes what -- will go
out no more? I have never seen a Christian Bible commentary even mention this
important verse. Why? Because if what is being said is true, and we go in
and out (of our inner spiritual soul-reality) until which time we overcome, then
this reality does not support modern Christian doctrine. Yet, in other
scriptures such as the Gospel of the Nazirenes that were not edited by the
Church of Rome, this going in and out is made very clear:
"As Yeshua sat by the west
of the temple with his disciples, behold there passed some carrying one that was
dead, to burial, and a certain one said to Him, Master, if a man die, shall he
live again? He answered and said, I am the resurrection and the life, I am the
good, the beautiful, the true; if a man believe in me he shall not die, but live
eternally. As in Adam all are bound to cycles of rebirth, so in the Messiah
shall all be made alive. Blessed are the dead who die in me, and are made
perfect in my image and likeness, for they rest from their labors and their
works do follow them. They have overcome evil, and are made pillars in the
temple of my God,
and they go out no more,
for they rest in the eternal. For them that persist in evil there is no rest,
but
they go out and in, and suffer correction for ages, till they are made perfect.
But for them that have done good and attained to perfection, there is endless
rest and they go into life everlasting. They rest in the eternal.
Over them the repeated death and birth have no power,
for them the wheel of the eternal revolves no more, for they have attained to
the center, where is eternal rest, and the center of all things is God. And one
of the disciples asked him, How shall a man enter into the Kingdom?" And he
answered and said, If you don't make below as the above, and the left as the
right, and the behind as the before, entering into the center and passing into
the spirit, you will not enter into the kingdom of God."
When we pose the question that is presented to us in the Revelation: If the man who does not “overcometh... shall [again] go out”, then it is reasonable for us to ask what kind of life does he go out into? It is in fact this very question that each of us should ask ourselves which the Church Father Origen, who was a renowned biblical scholar prior to the rewrite of the scriptures in the fourth century under the Roman Emperor Constantine, Origen explained about the process of going in and out when he wrote that “Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life” (Origen, De Principiis).
The Great Christian Quagmire
After Removing The Teachings On Reincarnation
What Is Left In the Scriptures
Makes God Into An Irrational Monster!!!
One of the paramount aspects of righteousness and good, is that one conducts themselves in a fair and evenhanded manner. If the scriptures are correct in the places where it states that “The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him” (Prov 20:23 NIV), wouldn't the Lord himself treat all men with the same fairness? Innately, Christians believe that God is fair and impartial -- but from a biblical perspective, doctrinally they cannot demonstrate the validity of their beliefs. One of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible is that the person you are today was predetermined by God -- not merely at a time before you came into this life -- but at a time prior to creation and the formation of the earth. If the person you are today was predetermined by God prior to even the first act of Creation, you must then ask how much of your own life is of your own choosing?
For those who believe that they have made wise choices in their lives, in the Calvinistic and Augustinian doctrine of preordination -- a doctrine which they are able to demonstrate conclusively by using the Epistles of Paul -- there is no fundamental difference between those who are doomed and those who will be saved, with the exception that God so wills their fate. “The supreme Disposer”, writes Calvin, “then makes way for his own predestination, when depriving those whom he has reprobated of the communication of his light, he leaves them in blindness. Every day furnishes instances of the latter case, and many of them are set before us in Scripture. Among a hundred to whom the same discourse is delivered, twenty, perhaps, receive it with the prompt obedience of faith; the others set no value upon it, or deride, or spurn, or abominate it. If it is said that this diversity is owing to the malice and perversity of the latter, the answer is not satisfactory: for the same wickedness would possess the minds of the former, did not God in his goodness correct it. And hence we will always be entangled until we call in the aid of Paul's question, ‘Who maketh thee to differ?' (1 Corinthians 4:7,) intimating that some excel others, not by their own virtue, but by the mere favor of God”.
From
a biblical perspective of what Calvin wrote, the true statement that totally
escapes his reasoning would be: “…we will always be
entangled until” we come to understand the Will of God with respect
to “who maketh thee to
differ?”. What we see in Calvin's words is the manifestation of a
secular, carnal religion, that bears the name of Christ, rather than a Spiritual
Religion that if the very essence of the Living Word of Christ. Calvin, one of
the foremost authorities in the founding of the Protestant Church, did not
possess the answers to the biblical paradoxes -- and accepts these mysteries as
unknowable, only because he has embraced a static faith that is spiritually dead
-- spiritually dead, because crucial bible verses and teachings were either
removed or corrupted by the Church of Rome. Yet, not only do many Christians
today continue to embrace Calvin's doctrine, but those who reject what he
writes, also reject a major biblical doctrine. Why? Because even Jesus
confirmed that all things are predetermined by the Father -- to the degree, that
not even a sparrow can fall to the ground apart from the Will of God -- i.e.,
"Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not
one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will" (Matt
10:29 NKJ)
With regard to the assertion of the Apostle that it is not of our own choosing
that we believe in the Gospel, but God's, Barnes' Notes on this verse states:
“Had not GOD interfered
and made a difference, all would have remained alike under sin. The race would
have together rejected his mercy; and it is only by his distinguishing love that
ANY are brought to believe and be saved”. What they are saying is
that ALL of mankind would drown in the sea of inequity, if God did not throw a
life-preserver to a select few. In the case of the Apostle Paul -- a murderer
and persecutor of the righteous -- it would appear that sometimes God throws the
life preserver to some of the most sinful and despicable among us, and yet it
would appear that he denies this same opportunity to others who are not near as
sinful.
Christian doctrine states: “God is the foundation of all good; no man possesses any good but what he has derived from God. If any man possess that grace which saves him from scandalous enormities, let him consider that he has received it as a mere free gift from God's mercy” (Adam Clarke Commentary on 1 Cor 4:7). If you are a believer -- it is the position of the Apostle that your belief is the work of God manifest in your life. There is no works that you can do which will earn salvation -- you did not do anything deserving of God's blessings -- you merely inherited the promise because God indiscriminately decided that He would throw you a life preserver. The problem that arises is in the biblical fact that, if you are a non-believer, that too is the work of God -- who chooses not to throw you a life preserver.
The one who is saved is no different than the one who is not -- i.e., quoting Paul: “As it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one… for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:10;23 NIV). Moreover, in view of the fact that God's criteria is not based upon either the works, or the moral attributes of the person -- Paul and many others being an example of this fact -- from a biblical perspective, the one who is not saved, and destined to the sufferings of hell, may even exhibit a higher manifestation of virtue and morality than did the one who is saved. In the words of Calvin, who uses the Apostle Paul as his source of doctrine: “God has chosen to deprive the unbeliever of the communication of his light”, and for no reason other than “He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires” (Rom 9:18 NAS), Calvin admits that “he leaves them in blindness”.
The Bible teaches that if you are a saint, a sinner, a mass murderer, or even the likes of Hitler, your station in life is not of your own doing -- but rather, the work of the Hand of God manifest in your life. If you have not accepted Christ as your savior, it is because God has withheld His Light from you that would enable you to believe and have faith. Therefore, regardless of how good you are, or the moral code you exhibit, or how great your humanity is towards others, from the perspective of the Bible, you are destined to Hell because God has predetermined and chosen this as your fate.
In view of the fact that it has been proposed by many Christians that Hitler was merely doing the will of God by exterminating the heretic Jews -- and there is speculation that Hitler believed that he had himself been anointed by God to complete the task that Jesus never did -- Christian doctrine suggests that Hitler could be enjoying eternal bliss in heaven, while the innocent Jewish children who he tortured and burnt in his ovens -- children who never did an evil act to anyone -- are now burning in the torments of hell because they never accepted Christ into their lives. In view of this biblical fact, ask yourself this question: If you are a Christian, will you then greet Hitler when you go to glory. Imagine for a moment you and Hitler -- together in the Kingdom -- talking about how you were saved -- gazing upon the Jewish children who never even had the opportunity to do any evil as they burn in the lake of fire? Imagine you and Hitler, together, praising the glory of God in the shadow of their innocence and agony. And while you are there you can greet Paul -- a man who killed and persecuted the earliest followers of Jesus. Many Christians today are against abortion -- calling it infanticide and murder. Yet, is this any more of an atrocity of justice than the preordination of children to live lives as “vessels of wrath prepared for destruction” (Rom 9:22)? Will these same anti-abortion people stand by and applaud the sufferings of these men, women and children who were predestined to dwell forever in the lake of fire?
If these things seem outrageous and far fetched, let us not forget the fact that when the Children of Israel were on their way to the land of Canaan, the literal text of the Torah portrays God as showing his power by bringing about the unmerciful destruction of innocent people: “But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day” (Deut 2:30 NKJ). Did King Sihon possess free will, as many of us believe today? King Sihon did not choose to block the path of the Israelites -- God “hardened his spirit” (king Sihon's) and made him do it. Why? In what modern civilized man would consider a detestable act of cruel and senseless barbarism, the God of Israel rejoiced: “And the LORD our God delivered him over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people. We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining” (Deut 2:33-34 NKJ).
Are we supposed to applaud this atrocity -- this example of injustice and inhumanity? Are we to praise the Lord and acclaim His righteousness that He permitted the Jews to slaughter even the “little ones”? The Children of Israel were ordered to slay everything that moved and breathed: “However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them -- the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites -- as the LORD your God has commanded you” (Deut 20:16-17 NIV).
The scriptures tell us that when the Children of Israel crossed the Jordan, the hearts of the inhabitants of the land were hardened by God: “For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses” (Josh 11:20 NIV). The Children of Israel were again ordered to slay every man, woman and child in the land. In view of the fact that the people of Heshbon were not believers in the God of the Jewish Torah -- only because God Himself withheld His Light from their understanding -- the implications are horrific. By human standards, the actions of God as reported in the Old Testament are even more diabolical than Hitler’s! The great question that must be posed: Is this a merciful God who celebrates the destruction of innocent children without any other reason than he enjoys watching the carnage?
When it is realized that at any time that God wanted, he could have unhardened their hearts, and permitted these people to believe, the moral and humanistic ramifications are truly astounding. Why didn't God want to convert these people? The biblical answer is because they were not of the seed of Abraham -- the person God chose -- not by works, according to the Apostle Paul, but for no reason other than “He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires” (Rom 9:18 NAS). Moreover, if God didn't want the people of the Nations in the land of Canaan, He could have willed it, and they would have simply migrated from the land without the loss of one single life. If God wanted them to worship Him, and only Him, He could have willed it, and it would have been so.
From our modern perspective, there is still another twist to this biblical episode: In view of the fact that God not only knew that these same Gentiles would become the chosen people of God when he caused the Jews to reject Jesus, why did he bring death and destruction to women and children whose ancestors would one day be called Christian? If the scriptures are correct, and God has the power to control every aspect of life, then a Supreme Being of Love and Mercy would have just willed them to leave, believe, or anything else He desired, and it would have been so.
If there is any doubt from the perspective of Christian doctrine that we are mere play toys in the hands of God, the proverbial question that mankind should ask his Creator is already contained in the scriptures: “You will say to me then, Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” (Rom 9:19). If evil men are evil, because God, in the words of Calvin, withholds “the communication of his light”, and good men are good ONLY because God bestows upon them the “communication of his light”, then are we not as play people -- mere playthings -- in the hands of God, in much the same fashion as a child playing with his toys?
The Apostle affirms this when he states in response to the question of “For who resists His will?” and writes: “On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, Why did you make me like this, will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use, and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?” (Rom 9:19-22 NAS).
When the question is asked: “Who resists His will?” It is important for us to recognize the fact that the disciple does not reply in the manner that our present-day church authorities would -- who would doctrinally respond that each of us has choices to make in our lives. From the mindset and perspective of the Apostle, it is easily observed that choices are not even part of the equation -- but rather: “O man, who answers back to God?” The Apostle then goes on to explain that, in the manner of a child playing with his toys, it is God's right to make some people “vessels of wrath prepared for destruction”, while He makes other people a “vessel for honorable use”. In other words, what Paul is stating is that there are some people who were created for the express purpose of destruction -- not because they chose such a fate -- not because they had done anything wrong -- but because in God's predestination, this fate was chosen for them prior to even the creation of the world. Therefore, what the Apostle very clearly conveys to us is that the role in life they lived, was not by their own choice, but was brought about solely by the Hand of God.
Regarding these very controversial verses and the teaching on predestination, the Apostle writes: “It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy” (Rom 9:16 NIV). If you desire Christ, it is because God has permitted you to be a believer, and has ignited within you the desire for Christ. The Bible affirms the position that the choice was not yours to make.
As an example of this Divine Providence in the life of the individual, the Apostle gives the example of Jacob and Esau, and writes: “For though the twins were not yet born, and had not done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose according to His choice might stand, not because of works, but because of Him who calls, it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. Just as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated” (Rom 9:11-13 NAS).
What the Apostle is stating here is that before either of the twins had been born, before either had “done anything good or bad”, God not only decided their fate in life, but for no apparent reason, He hated Esau and loved Jacob. Why? Paul offers no explanation other than God does what he wants to do -- and man does not have the right to question God's choices in these matters. This is especially seen in the words: “Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?” (Rom 9:21 NKJ).
In the Epistle to the Romans the Apostle confirms that we are mere toys in the hands of God -- and like a child playing with his toy people -- God will have “…mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires” (Rom 9:18 NAS). Mankind is subject to this reality without any reason other than the fact that God wants to create and sit back and observe the dramas of life that we experience -- and ultimately, have fun with His play toys in any manner that He chooses. Moreover, it would appear that those who are destined to what has been described as the eternal sufferings and tortures of Hell, have received such a fate only because God enjoys watching such carnage and suffering.
As toys, then, the Apostle tells us that we have no rights -- and this is confirmed in the words of the Paul when he wrote: “On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, Why did you make me like this, will it?” (Rom 9:20 NAS). Thus, the Apostle states to the believer that whether we are saved or judged to eternal damnation, it is not of our own doing -- our fate was decided prior to the creation of the world -- and we have no right to question the motives of God -- which motives include the total annihilation of innocent women and children for no other reason than God desires the carnage to come upon those who have done nothing to deserve such a fate.
From a modern Christian perspective, the doctrine of Divine Providence and predestination gets really scary when it is realized that God chose who would believe and who would disbelieve prior to the creation of the universe: “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will” (Eph 1:4-5 NIV). What is being stated is that when God was still in the stages of contemplating Creation -- prior to what we would relate to the events written in the very first verse of Genesis 1:1 -- God decided that He would make a certain group of people who would inherit all the good that He could imagine, and another group would be plunged into eternal suffering. Why? Because God wanted all people to know that He was superior to them -- that they were weak and inferior beings -- and He wanted them to know that there was absolutely nothing they could do in order to alter their destiny. Thus, God created Satan as an instrument to bring about the defilement of Creation. Why? In order that all mankind would equally be drowning in a sea of inequity. In this way God could choose from among the race of sinful man -- “in accordance with his pleasure and will” -- those who He would permit to inherit the good.
In order to demonstrate to mankind God's absolute power and authority, it is observed that God often chose the most morally degenerate men to inherit the good. King David, for example, was a murderer and an adulterer, as demonstrated by The New Unger's Bible Dictionary in their sighting under David for First Samuel 13:14: “How, ask some, could a man after God's own heart have murdered Uriah, seduced Bathsheba, and tortured the Ammonites? An extract from one who is not a too-indulgent critic of sacred characters expresses at once the common sense and the religious lesson of the whole matter. ‘David, the Hebrew king, had fallen into sins enough -- blackest crimes -- there was no want of sin. And, thereupon, the unbelievers sneer, and ask, ‘Is this your man according to God' s heart?’” (Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-worship, 1:277; from New Unger's Bible Dictionary, originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (C) 1988).
It would appear that God chose David -- a true sinner -- over Saul, because Saul possessed a conscience, and did not unmercifully wipe out his enemies, as seen where it is written under the heading of Saul: “But he disobeyed the divine injunction by taking alive Agag, the king, and sparing all the best of the cattle and all that was valuable, destroying only that which was despised and worthless. Instead of pursuing the campaign and finishing the destruction of the fugitives…” (New Unger's Bible Dictionary). Thus, Saul failed in his mission -- which was to totally wipe out all the men, women, children, and everything that breathed among the enemies of Israel.
The Bible teaches that we do not choose God, but rather God chooses those among us who will be saved -- regardless of their moral standing. Thus, Jesus said to his disciples: “You did not choose Me, but I chose you” (John 15:16 NAS). The Bible goes on to confirm that no one can come to Jesus unless God permits them: “All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me” (John 6:37 NAS). On this verse Barnes' Notes writes: “[The Father giveth me] We here learn that those who come to Christ, and who will be saved, are given to him by God… All men are sinners, and none have any claim to mercy, and he may therefore bestow salvation on whom he pleases. All people of themselves are disposed to reject the gospel, (John 5:40). God enables those who do believe to do it. He draws them to Him by His Word and Spirit; He opens their hearts to understand the Scriptures (Acts 16:14); and He grants to them repentance, (Acts 11:18; 2 Tim. 2:25)”.
It is important to recognize the above biblical concept that “All people of themselves are disposed to reject the gospel”, and that only those who the Father has permitted to come to Jesus can be saved: “that to all whom Thou hast given Him, He may give eternal life” (John 17:2 NAS).
The Book of Acts goes on to confirm that the very mind of mankind is so controlled by the Hand of God, that only those who had been predestined and previously appointed to be saved are even permitted to believe: “and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed” (Acts 13:48 NAS). Of this word “appointed” or in some translations “ordained”, Barnes' Notes writes: “The word is NEVER used to denote an internal disposition or inclination arising from one's own self. It does not mean that they disposed themselves to embrace eternal life… it has uniformly the notion of an ordering, disposing, or arranging from without; that is, from some other source than the individual himself; as of a soldier, who is arranged or classified according to the will of the proper officer. In relation to these persons it means, therefore, that they were disposed or inclined to this from some other source than themselves... They were then inclined by an influence from without themselves, or so disposed as to embrace eternal life. That this was done by the influence of the Holy Spirit is clear from all parts of the New Testament, (Tit. 3:5-6; John 1:13). It was not a disposition or arrangement originating with themselves, but with God. This implies the doctrine of election. It was, in fact, that doctrine expressed in an act. It was nothing but God's disposing them to embrace eternal life. And that he does this according to a plan in his own mind a plan which is unchangeable as he himself is unchangeable is clear from the Scriptures. Compare Acts 18:10; Rom. 8:28-30; 9:15-16,21,23; Eph. 1:4-5,11. The meaning may be expressed in few words -- who were THEN disposed, and in good earnest determined, to embrace eternal life, by the operation of the grace of God upon their hearts”.
Regardless of what we have been led to believe by those we look to as religious authorities who attempt to soften the message of the scriptures in the endeavor to make it acceptable to a people who appear to possess more mercy and kindness than does the scriptural portrayal of God, what the Bible very clearly teaches is that the decision as to who would believe and be saved was made by God prior to even the first act of creation. With respect to the beast, the Book of Revelation states that: “all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb” (Rev 13:8 RSV). Thus, all mankind has been predestined to worship the beast unless their name was written in the “book of life… before the foundation of the world”. This is again demonstrated in the words: “The beast that you saw was and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth will wonder, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world” (Rev 17:8 NAS).
According to the scriptures, all people whose name was not written in the book of life prior to the foundation of the world have already been assigned to the fires of hell, as seen in the words: “If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire” (Rev 20:15 NIV). With regard to the coming Kingdom it is written that “Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life” (Rev 21:27 NIV). What these things mean is that, prior to the creation of the world, the hand of God was upon all whose name is written in the book of life, and by virtue of God's Will -- and God's Will alone -- these chosen individuals will not be “impure”, and will not do anything that “is shameful or deceitful”. In accordance with the Will of God, those whose names are not written in the book of life will do evil, and this evil is often said to be also brought about by the Will of God. According to Jude, the brother of Jesus, even the unbelievers in the church were foreordained by God: “For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ” (Jude 1:4 NAS).
When the Apostle Paul addressed the men of Athens he said to them that God “made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation” (Acts 17:26 NAS). He did not say that after giving people life, He (God) permitted the people to live in accordance with their own desires. In fact, it was written in Daniel that: “And all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, but He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off His hand or say to Him, ‘What hast Thou done?’” (Dan 4:35 NAS). That all was predetermined before the Creation is confirmed by Isaiah in the words: “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please” (Isa 46:10 NIV).
If we pose the question as to what degree life on earth is predestined? It is at this point where the biblical teaching of predestination gets really frightening -- as demonstrated in Jesus' own words when he said: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's will” (Matt 10:29 RSV). If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without the Will of the Father, then we have no other option than to come to terms with the biblical fact that everything in this life is directly orchestrated by God? On this verse the Adam Clark Commentary states: “The providence of God extends to the minutest things; everything is continually under the government and care of God, and nothing occurs without his will or permission”.
In relation to this verse under the heading of Providence in the Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary it is explained that: “Divine government is the continued activity of God by which He directs all things to the ends He has chosen in His eternal plan… He governs insignificant things (Matt. 10:29-31), apparent accidents (Prov. 16:33), as well as man's good (Phil. 2:13) and evil deeds (Acts 14:16). God acts in accordance with the laws and principles that He has established in the world. The laws of nature are nothing more than man's description of how we perceive God at work in the world. They neither have inherent power nor do they work by themselves. Man is not free to choose and act independently from God's will and plan; he chooses and acts in accordance with them. In His sovereignty, God controls man's choices and actions (Gen. 45:5; Deut. 8:18; Prov. 21:1). God's actions, however, do not violate the reality of human choice or negate man's responsibility as a moral being”.
This very clearly defined biblical doctrine possesses a great truth -- the ramifications of which no person who calls themselves a Christian can oppose: Ultimately, what these passages of scriptures convey to us is that at any time that man judges, imprisons or executes a fellow human being, man is in essence imposing his judgment upon an innocent person. All sinners -- all evil people since the dawn of time to the present, have all been preordained into the life that they lived by God's all pervasive power over the mind of man. What the Bible states is that the only difference between a good and moral God-fearing man, and one who is a degenerate, is that God chose that life for each individual person.
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One of the gravest of mistakes that man makes is when he confuses the teaching on the pre-existent soul that evolves to perfection, with the Eastern and New Age concept of reincarnation. And while the soul incarnates into many lives as it evolves to perfection, the popular idea of a person jumping from one body to the next, is fiction at best. The Anathemas of the Emperor Justinian against the Church Father Origen did not in any measure even mention the word reincarnation -- but rather, was because of the early Churches teaching on the pre-existent soul which is represented in many of Origen's writings -- which when properly understood, has little in common with the Eastern and New Age teaching on reincarnation. Physicist Niels Bohr said it all when he stated: "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress". And thus, those who come to this web site in order to gain a higher understanding of both Life and the teachings of Jesus and TheWay, should celebrate at their good fortune -- for, having encountered one of the greatest paradoxes of life, you have not become confronted with the door where there is "...some hope of making progress". In coming to understand the Great Paradox that divides the mainstream Christian world from those who embrace the traditional teachings on reincarnation, we are presented with the paradoxical scenario that while both opposing positions possess truth, there is a greater truth on a higher plane that merges and marries the two paradoxical truths which are commonly embraced by man -- and it is in the offspring of this marriage of opposites where the Child of Higher Truth is Manifest that makes the two, "one flesh".
While, when properly understood, the traditional concept of reincarnation has no place in the teachings of Jesus and TheWay -- or for that matter, the reality of the soul -- it is also true that because the Christian world has adopted the beliefs and doctrines of Roman Emperors with respect to the teachings on the soul, the Church has consigned itself to an even greater error than the belief in reincarnation. And it is this greater error which can be defined as being very pagan, and can be portrayed as the abyss of spiritual ignorance. And while the Christian Church should be the Light to the World by virtue of its superior teachings, wisdom, understanding and viable path to Knowledge, in adopting the doctrines of Pagan Rome, the Church has relegated itself to what Jesus called the salt that has lost its purity, and is good only to be cast under the feet of men and be trampled. Jesus taught the concepts of the pre-existent soul that evolves to perfection over the course of many lives. When this teaching of Jesus was forcefully removed by the later Church of Rome, the Christian world was cast into the abyss of spiritual ignorance from which they have yet to climb out of. It is not that reincarnation was an essential part of Jesus' teachings -- it was not! But what it was, was an understanding of the process of soul-growth that permits all people to evolve out of the Alpha of Creation -- maturing through each stage and level of soul-development -- and emerging into the Omega-stage of Creation where the prodigal sons and daughters of the Most High God has returned from this, the "far country... outer darkness" of this world, and entered the Kingdom that each of us must find within ourselves in order to fulfill the requirement set forth at Matthew 5:48 where it states we must be Perfect, as our Heavenly Father. The problem is seen in the fact that, few people understand man's relationship to his soul which does not incarnate into the body in the manner that the Eastern and New Age teachings set forth -- and neither can the Christian go to Glory with the Lord, so long as their own House remains divided -- and they remain detached from the higher reality of their soul. And while Paul warned the confirmed and baptized believers that it was impossible for them in their "natural" organic condition as believers of the simple faith to understand the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom, few people who open their Bibles even comprehend the enigma of the words that Paul openly warned about (see Mystery).
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It was said of the Church Father Origen by St. Gregory of Nyssa that he was “the prince of Christian learning in the Third Century” -- and the Encyclopedia Britannica calls him “…the most prominent of all the church fathers”. But how did he become the man that St. Jerome considered to be “the greatest teacher of the Church after the Apostles”? According to the soul who lived as Origen, he had previously lived as the disciple and scribe of Jacob who people call James, who was the Brother of Jesus. And from that life with Jacob, he learned to write scriptures in Hebrew Characters, and he worked on the original source scriptures which has since come to be called the New Testament scriptures of the Bible. On his web site, Emmanuel Pohorecki reveals not only the accounts of the many lifetimes that he has lived, but also his own journey into the presence of his soul-self -- i.e., his true self who is the Being of Light. And once again Emmanuel has demonstrated that you don't need to physically die to communicate with, and enter into the presence of your soul-self who is the Being of Light in the Near Death Experience. And in his soon to be completed article on the Journey of the Soul and Visions from his Higher Self, he will write about what his soul-self has taught him while in the Realm of Souls. Emmanuel provides other important insights in man's higher reality with his account of his life with Fr. Francis, as a Native American, and as one of the Constitutional Founding Fathers of the United States. |
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Bible itself openly rejects and condemns the tenets of belief promoted
by the Church. What is demonstrated is the fact that the
vast majority of Christians neither understand the Bible -- and those
who do read it, do so through the filter of their dogma and beliefs. re are
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10 words are to Christianity what the
10 Commandments were to Judaism --
i.e., the foundation from which every other aspect of the religion
springs forth! These 10 words prove the
Ebionites correct, and modern Christianity which is founded upon 4th
century Roman doctrines to be in error. These 10
words prove that without a return to the essence of Yeshua's
original teachings, modern Christians are neither
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is a purely spiritual path that enables man to overcome and transcend the limitations of this
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these teachings of the Master of TheWay who has been historically known as
Yeshua/Jesus have come to be associated with a Church of this world -- and
reinterpreted from a carnal perspective to be a religion of faith and redemption
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church -- but rather, in that Principle which is known as the Son of God which
can only be found by the Children of the Light who seek the Truth and TheWay in
the spiritual essence of their hearts and minds. That man has attempted to
build an institutionalized church of this world around the teachings of
Messiah/Christ in the same way that the Sadducees and Pharisees did, is merely
man's inability to perceive and comprehend his own higher spiritual nature and
reality. And while the churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples of this
world are necessary as an out-calling to the prodigal sons and daughters who are
lost in this world of the outer darkness, the True Temple can only be entered by
seeking within one's self in a purified heart and mind. 
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