Month: May 2021

Biblical but bogus

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Even when the holy book is in  hand or on the lectern a lot of biblical speech is historical and political revision without the facts.  Only extreme malice and deceit can result from people wanting kingdoms with no king, doctors that do not heal and saviours that do not save.   We should not be too surprised to see holy things in the service of evil.  There is no  explanation of twisted wisdom and folklore becoming truth except that biblical can be entirely bogus.

Time boundaries

The first thing to notice – let us call it a key – about the term biblical is that it refers to two collections of writings or books written in two distinct eras.  Deny that and a fall is bound to happen. Ignore the distinction in original languages too and  the climb turns on to slide down a muddy slope. One is old and the other is new.

Narrative lines

The second key is that the storytelling takes two routes. One focuses on a people and their journey, and the other tells the story of a man.

Unity of messsge

Taking the message about kingdom and priesthood literally and as final can end in sterility and distortion if the lines are not separated.  The same is true of promise and inheritance.  Aaronic priesthood as the ruling component of a society is not compatible with the divine regard for all human beings.  People cannot be at the same time acceptable to God and unfit for fellowship with His people (see Acts 15)

Who can serve as priest

The science of foundation stones

A people and a building share both process and end result.  The foundation of the Aaronic kingdom on one tribe in one country in the 2nd millennia BC pales in comparison to the global and eternal priesthood of God’s anointed.

We have never seen Christ selling anything. We have not seen him condemn a soul to death. It is not because he cannot or has no choice. “Biblical”, as ling as it means being in the Bible, can no longer be a reason to believe or act.

America: “there was nothing here” is froggy rubbish

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Committed Catholic, former GOP Senator, and CNN contributor, Rick Santorum, falsifies American history with his statement that “when we came” there was nothing here, and he displayed his rank ignorance with his opinion that not much native culture is in First Nations’ culture. Black people cannot relate to that wise junk. When we came we saw First Nations, Jews, and a host of residents, all immigrants, under the malicious boot of people we suppose were Christians. We do relate to a long overdue repentance and some action from America’s foolish virgins. The only fact in Santorum’s blurb is that when Europeans came to Turtle Island they found no people – water in the prediction of Revelation 13 – with whom they could carry on their froggy traditions. There were no people that they could turn into a mindless mob.

The Marine Beast – European kingdoms in the grip of the devil

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.

Revelation 13:1

The Marine Beast – European kingdoms in the grip of the devil

Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 13:11

The two entities worship the devil. One has kingdoms (that includes royal families). America is an avowed anti-monarchy nation. Its two horns are not kingdoms.

Heaven addresses “earth” and “sea” not land and water

Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!” Revelation 12:12

The duplicitious and deadly froggy deal

All cultures that depend on mobs, whether we find them in places of worship, in service agencies, or in the official squads of governement operatives, are duplicitous and deadly. Three demons like frogs, needing water and thriving on land or in water, are the identifiers of this alliance.

And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. Revelation 16:13 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

Revelation 16:14

Santorum is not a guide to any place good. I would not be surprised to find that he supports the January 6, 2021 insurrection and attempt to overturn the election of President Joe Biden. We are not sure that he can continue as an expert for a trusted provider like CNN. His froggy voice matters little to me and has for a long time.