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Beware! Bizarro is Bristling

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Forget Solomon as an authority on eternal salvation and all the prophets as having the last word on the operation of God’s kingdom. As long as Christians keep piling up memes and slogans from ancient sources and neglect the root and ground of reality the world will keep getting a picture. If Solomon could have ignored the prevalent and primary tenet of life to which his people subscribed let no one put it beyond a Christian or American evanvelical to respectively speak and act as if the Cross and Resurrection and the declaration of independence and constitution never happened. In the face of all the bizarre things that are being said and done among Christians and by Americans it would appear that like Satan, running out of time, he is angry and is willing to destroy as much as possible of what people call precious faith.

Bizarre for Christ to lose a patient

Thankfully the procedures and outcomes of salvation are not stated in terms of a doctor patient relationships. If they were we would be able to see that Christ loses a patient, or more to the facts of the matter that he never loses a patient. Since salvation is concerned with life and death we are not ever in a position to say that someone to whom he gave life has died, or that someone whom he found was lost.

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

John 10:27-29, NASB

Wanna keep going back to elementary school?

Islam, for example, tells the story of God as if Israel never happened or is irrelevant.

“But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?” (Galatians 4:9, NASB)

The weak ( ptocha, πτωχα,  impoverishing ) and elementary conventions of the world…listed in what follows 

10) You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11) I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.

Galatians 4:10-11

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!” (which all refer to things destined to perish with use)–in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men? These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

Colossians 2:20-23, NASB

All the talk about commandments, revival of the levitical kingdon, and festival observance amounts to a counterfeit, like Bizarro, the Superman with an evil heart.

Word of God and language

Which part of new do we not understand when the scripture says New Creation?

The “people” in legislation is like “language” in documents. One ignores either at great risk and often to one’s demise. Christian leaders are not at liberty to follow personal feelings, individual ideas, or temporal needs when the meaning of scripture is at stake. Even when they call themselves law-abiding or persons of law and order the outcomes of their speeches are usually criminal. The cross can never be irrelevant and law will only be set aside when the privileged feel aggrieved.  The study of words cannot be replaced by miracles and temporal success. We do not know how much time passed from Lucifer’s first rebellious thoughts to his forceful expulsion from heaven, but we know that the time it takes to become a person with the law inside is a few months. Neglected language study is like wanting to overthrow God, and those who will be the enemies of the church are the people who ignored the call to sell everything for the kingdom’s sake and refused to become as children, by grasping the benefit of learning a new language. The counterfeit Christian, the counterfeit superman, the unwise sage, the illiterate scholar, are all about to be exposed and the prospect is extreme anger fueled by the devil

You will never know

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We protest too much. From dawn to dusk there are situations that do not meet with our approval, and the dangerous options we actually have range between avoidance, disregarding what our perceptions tell us, and mounting a hostile campaign against the circumstances. Most of us have never taken a stand against our own crooked generation yet many so-called leaders are thought to be persons of courage and committed to Messianic revelation. Until you get inside their operations you will never know how great a fall (Matthew 7:27) awaits their sandcastles.

Never know due to not wanting to know

We will never know what it is like to be tested as the sons of Israel were. Their test was not a single specific question as was Abraham’s. Their test was given with the failing grade known to the Examiner.

Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.

Judges 3:1

I still take my hat off to Abraham for travelling three days to a mountain to sacrifice his only son. With so much time to challenge questionable instructions it is amazing that “God’s friend” followed through all the way, right down to aiming the knife at his son’s neck. We know how that ended!

Never know due to not wanting to know

What ever happened to “read your Bible and grow”? It has turned into the bogus excellence of a leadership stuck on a 17th century translation of the Bible. How authentic can one person’s reception of the gospel call be when the message is heard in a mangled form? How intimate can such a person’s interpretation of the message be with a sieve for a cup? Translation, even the best efforts, can be shallow business indeed! It is popular to think that one is reading the apostles’ words first hand – this is important, right? – in any of the world’s hundreds of versions (languages). You will never know what you are missing.

Since God has no need to test the ones to whom he has given the Spirit as Helper or try the ones he has sealed how dare we jump into the finer details of life and promise believers deliverance from experiences God has been known to use to elicit our growth? We will never know why we were personally involved in such treachery. We will never know why a person touched by the power of the gospel can insist on carrying the bondage and instruments of guilt, shame and condemnation with pride.

WHY CHEER IGNORANCE

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Shame is a thing we keep private. Things we keep private run the field from things everyone knows we have (like breasts and testicles) to the record or memory of things that make us look less than golden . We therefore wish our friends would simply become complicit in our denial of our own shame (and theirs!). We advocate for people to say nothing as we spin as many lies as all the resources of artificial and hybrid intelligence can muster. There would never have been a nuclear attack on Japan if there were no nuclear bombs. Open season on children in their schools and people we are taught to despise is no cheering matter.

If people want to spend the next decade in litigation over what type of weapons should be banned, let them. If the only weapons of mass murder are in the hands of the 007s it is a good thing since the pool of suspects cannot hide. It is not too late to start a bombing campaign with food and freedom from bigots looking for revolutionary status. Look again if you thought that the right to bear arms and freedom of expression are lifesupport twins.

We need a ban on mindless speculation, on can-do and geewhiz cheerleading in public spaces.  That puts a lot of opining pundits and Bible quotes out of business, but we cannot survive the say-what-we-wish and call in the poopscoopers loop we are in.  It does no good to pretend that our clothes make us exemplary primates. Most animals do way better than the human race. Keeping the private private is still a choice; our neighbours deserve to know as long as they think of us as neighbours and not as competitors and a mystery.

What if your religious leader does not know that God is not a vending machine robot? What if the preacher is at exactly the same distance from God as the King James translation of the Bible and the people who honour God with their lips? I have seen leadership disgracefully bumbling through reading the Scriptures. What are the chances of such a level of literacy resulting in accurate interpretation of the sacred text, even when the crutch of English grammar is in the mix.

Teachers of the Bible are covered with shame when they fail to understand their obligation to get their students in touch with the unadulterated message of Christ as it was written not by the often unreliable and inadequate translations and biased commentaries. What possible reason can anyone have for refusing instruction or for cheering ignorance whether you are Caiaphas the high priest or blind Bartimaeus?