Tonight I am enjoying "The Ten Commandments" with Charleton Heston for probably the 1000th time. I cannot prevent a tear forming in my eye, every time the Red Sea is opened. Or when God speaks to Moses. Even the most ardent non-believer has to be moved, at least somewhat, by the cinematic effects and cheesy drama.
I have been considering this week, a matter of really no concern to me. The question of "Hell" and if it exists. Why, I have every reason to believe (aside of scriptures) to think, we are in the midst of judgment, here and now. This world is filled with many hells, and hell takes many forms.
Few, it seems understand very much at all about their Holy Bible because they do not bother reading it. Just ask them! They defend the Bible as the word of God, yet, have never actually read it. And much less, having faith for the Holy Spirit to reveal the deeper meaning if they did so. They simply regurgitate the creeds and doctrines they were taught since childhood and comfortable in their patent "truth(TM)". They parrot rituals and dogma, without question. They prefer to set under the shadow of the pulpit, a man, instead of the great gift through Jesus Christ, and that supposedly being, God himself teaching them.
A frightening prospect indeed. To face God as your only "teacher" for one may be forced to see themself as they truly are.. their weakness, their faults, their failures, their fallability before the Lord. To have their eyes opened and TRUTH revealed to their mind.
To use one's own brain, to think and question those lies taught to them since childhood may lead to division. Better to be in mother's good graces to continue on in this or that ritual, or be in father's favor by continuing to follow his false religious teachings with those idolatrous relics. Better to follow man's idolatries than follow God! Following Jesus' teachings, to stand alone when all are naysayers to the truth, may put one in a very difficult place. Even the great priesthood accused Jesus to be a consort of Beelzebub, the equivalent of a servent of Satan,
Matthew 10:34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 “For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW;
Matthew 10:36 and A MAN’S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.
Matthew 10:37 “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
Matthew 10:38 “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
Matthew 10:39 “He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.
Believers tend to prefer their the pretended mediators between themselves and God. It is comfortable, living under a shroud of lies, deceiving and being deceived. Apparently, Jesus died in vain.
And, I do know many non-believers who by their good deeds, would make by far, finer Christians than those that claim to be one. All they lack, as the ideal example of Christian virtue would be if they had faith in God, that is, aside of all their good works. There are many who will say "But Lord, we prophesied in your name." Yet told, "Depart, I know you not, worker of iniquity."
I have thought and thought this week, while watching "The Tudors" with Jonathan Rhys Meyers... all the heretics, apostates, the wretched persecutions, torture and burnings in the name of God, the bloodshed, the cruel inhumanity dealt by the so-called "faithful" upon their fellow "faithful". Men, seeking to establish himself to bear dominion over other men, in God's name. Isn't that amazing, since afterall, I presumed, it was to be "Man, a free soul under God, and ruled by God alone." Yet, the burning and torture continued unabated for centuries. The so-called Church which Jesus built, continued to splinter into different belief systems, in a great part due to corruption and false teachings, and today, ten thousands of sects and denominations... all the body of Christ? Or rather, could it be "the great falling away" from the original, simple truth, hinted at in the Bible?
The scriptures say, "God shall teach them". Yet, why doesn't God teach them? Why every Sunday do we still turn on televisions and see preachers? Does the scripture not say that knowledge of the Gospel would reach the ends of the Earth, and one would not run neighbor to neighbor to teach them, because they would already know God. Sinners like me who attend no church, and trust in God with faith to reveal through his spirit of truth, to our hearts and minds, his laws, his will, his answered prayers. Those goodly sheep say, those of us who refuse to be lead to slaughter by their shepherds, can not know God. I ask, what power died and made them God, to know the hearts and minds of others... or the authority to judge. Does not the scripture say, "Judge not lest ye be judged?""
Even sometimes, I have seen the power of God working answered prayers through non-believers which I've made acquaintance with. It is my belief, God is omnipotent, and omniscient and dwells in the heart and mind of all mankind, and he knows all of them.. and can move them, even the most ardent Atheist. Where is the faith of the religionists that in spite of the sacrifice Jesus made, they still seek guidance of a man instead of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and the one on one audience with the Father in Heaven, the Almighty God, the King of the Universe? All of organized religion still insist that a man and only men shall teach them! The few women who teach, are more in the minority and seldom taken seriously by mainstream religionists. And that mankind remains so contrary to God's commands, comes as no surprise since the Bible itself is a collection of many wretched false priests and their false teachings that sprang up from idolatry, evolved and "made holy" by new false priests of the new order of Christendom. In many ways those old idolatries and superstition still do have their stranglehold over the hearts, minds and souls of modern day christian religionists. It is the wayward way of man.
I thought to myself. Hell.... it does take many forms. The modern day Christian fundamentalist browbeats those who do not accept their personal creeds and doctrines, their denomination. Those who will not follow them are "in danger of eternal damnation" or "in a dangerous place with God." (Funny how God is an all loving God - only love -, until these certain people want to use fear to emotionally cripple and spiritually blackmail prospective converts to do their bidding, entering into spiritual bondage with their religion) When seeking converts, God may become a mean, vindictive, nasty god which torments non-believers eternally. Their gods change on a dime... needless to say, these gods created in their own image.
See how they hate those who do not blindly follow them into their church come Sunday morn. Why, what can those who are not setting in the little Sunday School room inside the little church on 3rd and Main, possibly know about God?? Afterall, they hold the monopoly on the one true truth. They are helping Sister Sarah see the light.
However, if a non-believer of their denomination is assertive that, "I do not believe in your religion," it is the greatest personal offense and blaspheme to that religionist and their gods.
Hell exists. Just ask Mr. Religionist, if he will go sit in mass with Mr. Catholic. Ask Mr. Catholic, to sit through just one sabbath service with Mrs. Messianic Jew. Ask Mr. Jew to sit through services with Mrs. Lutheran, or Mr. Lutheran to sit through a sermon at Mr. Baptist's church.
As they shift and squirm from the preaching of falsehoods, untruths, strange ancient, idolatrous rituals and false teachings of false religion that are uttered from the pulpit in the name of God, then they realize, they are in the pit of Hell.
And yet, they ask non-believers to join them this Sunday. "We would love to have you." I'm sure you would, but no thank you.
Much has been said by Christians how Jesus did away with the Old Testament. How little they do understand about their Bible which they refuse to read, yet have the audacity to hold to the face of non-believers to judge and condemn them.
It is clearly written in Matthew 5:17, "Do not think that I have come to revoke The Written Law or The Prophets; I am not come to revoke but to fulfill."
The preachers have failed to explain to their devoted sheep, Jesus knew the difference between the law of Moses which consisted of over 600 laws vs. the simplicity of God's own 10 commandments, upon which all the mosaic law hinged. Jesus did no such thing to "do away with the commandments of God".
However, Moses was one of the first to do so. His priests pressured the prophets and men who lead the people of Israel... it was they who "did away with the law," not Jesus. Jesus came teaching the commandments of God. It was not his fault the mosaic law had been so corrupted by despotic religionists, that it no longer reflected the commandments of God. Here is how they, priests, preachers, the all-wise learned teachers, "did away with the law,"
Matthew 19:3 Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?”
Matthew 19:4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,
Matthew 19:5 and said, ‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH’?
Matthew 19:6 “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Matthew 19:7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY?”
Matthew 19:8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.
Matthew 19:9“And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
Did Jesus "do away with the law and Old Testament?" Indeed no! The hard-hearted followers of Moses, and idolatrous off-shoots of christianity, are they who are solely responsible for "doing away with the laws of God and teachings of Jesus Christ."
As for me, I will not be joining anyone in church this Sunday (which is not, nor ever was the true sabbath but merely a day for idol worshippers to worship the Sun, "the day of the Sun,") to fill my ears with the glorifications of Satan's dominion, and how he rules this world with great power... why, with Satan running to and fro, the almighty God has been reduced to an absentee father, non-existent, unobtainable... a dogma which is much beloved by idolators, who worship that wretched Babylonian myth of Tiamat the Dragon who made war in heaven with Marduk. Inscribed in babylonian monuments, long before the mythology manifest itself in the book of Revelation.
I shall not be in your church, or any other! But the Christian cites his scriptures which were written by mere men, fallable humans, "How shall they learn except a preacher and the assembling of yourselves together?" Do the scriptures not say "They shall be taught by God"? They shall be taught by God! and they shall know the Lord. Did Jesus not warn of the false teachers, whom lead each other like blind men, where they both fall in a ditch? This is why, I will not be in your church on Sunday morning, and probably not Saturday either, for the Kingdom of God is within me. Not in your buildings. Not in your rituals. Not in your uniforms and sacred relics.
As it is written likewise in the Revelation, The remnant who seek God, will honor and keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus Christ. Does your church do that, really?? Keeping the commandments. You will say yes, but I ask you this, "Does your denomination remember the Saturday sabbath, to keep it holy?" Likely, no. Therefore, please keep your little pamphlets. I have a copy of the Bible. I can read it just fine for myself. Jesus is my intermediator. What need have I of your false religion to bring me down deep into hell with you that I should disobey the teachings of Jesus and the commandments of God?
