Chapter 12: Sorry, You Have To Stay Kidnapped — The Church Buried Your Ransom
No. You do not have to stay kidnapped. Rise up and shine. Jump out of the box.
The Church has allowed us four Gospels to read. There were at least twenty-seven authentic Gospels autographed before the second century AD. Thirteen of these still exist partially or in full. At least another eight were purposefully destroyed by our Church-Fathers. Why? Because the content clearly contradicted the Paul/Constantine/Augustine Agreed-Upon/Decreed-Upon Christian “Belief-System.” To date, no known copies of these missing Gospels exist. We should keep digging up the ground. No telling what we may stumble upon.
To be Alive in this world and yet, to be made PERFECTLY immune to The Knowledge of Good & Evil is what Jesus calls: “Living in the Place of Life.”
Have you ever heard that expression attributed to Jesus? Ever read it in a Gospel? “The Place of Life” or “Living in the Place of Life”? It is not likely that you have. For, way, early on (second century AD) the same Gospel-Burning Church-Fathers edited this phrase from the un-burnt Gospels, including (according to the Holy Spirit) the two times the saying appeared in the autographed text of the Gospel of John. Thankfully, sounder parties prevailed and safely buried the Gospel of Thomas, subsequently found, so that our editorially inclined, lunatic, book-burning Church-Fathers of the second and third centuries could not completely rob us of this sacred phrase.
Gospel of Thomas, Verse 4: “Jesus said, ‘The person old in days won’t hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the Place of Life, and that person will Live.’”
Yep, the Gospel of Thomas. As in, Apostle, First Class, Thomas. The original “Doubting Thomas.” His Gospel has no errors, no deletions, no inserts, no presumptions and no personal commentary of any kind save for an introduction. Instead, his Gospel is filled with Jesus-One-Liners-of-Wisdom — not unlike the Old Testament Book of Proverbs. As genuine a Gospel as any, the Gospel of Thomas dates back to 60 AD. More-rooted to Jesus than the New Testament Gospels of Luke and Mark (who were NOT Apostles of Jesus — actually, Luke was Paul’s apostle and Mark was Peter’s apostle). The Gospel of Thomas is autographed by one of Jesus’ Apostles — same as the New Testament Gospels of Matthew and John. However, due to the scholarly reasoning of Judge Henry T. Fleming (otherwise known as the Judicious Church) the Gospel of Thomas was denounced for inclusion in the canon (the text which makes up what we call “the bible”). Keep in mind, there are scholars who denounce ALL four of The Church’s New-Testament-Gospel-Picks by way of the same academic reasoning.
“Thomas doesn’t read like the other Gospels!”
Really? Well, then. We can toss the Gospel of John into the fireplace as well. Same rationale. Precisely why theologians call Matthew, Mark and Luke the Synoptic Gospels. John being the oddity.
The Church has Judged the Gospel of Thomas to be a work of heresy and a lie!
Oh, my. Well, that certainly carries a lot of weight. The same Church, Judged Copernicus and Galileo as lying, demonic heretics. Judge Fleming’s scholarly reason? Because these “lying heretics” could prove that the Earth “sits not” at the center of the universe... while The Church maintained that it does.
Time and Light are the best Judges of liars and heretics. Ironic, wouldn’t you say? That, time and time again, it is Judge Fleming caught in the Spot-Light, holding on to the lying/heretic end of the stick. The Inquisition. Witch hunts. “Translating” Psalms 58:3 to read as if... “humans”... pop out of the womb, liars — which makes the “little child seven days old who knows the Place of Life” seven days a liar. Making Jesus a liar. Careful, Church. Lying-Jesus picks up another little liar in a Gospel your Honor stamped APPROVED for the canon, adding a specific warning to his lying:
“Unless you become like this little (liar) you cannot get the Kingdom of Heaven.”
How much Time and Light is needed to determine who is doing the lying? Babies? Jesus? Or The Church?
The God’s-Honest Truth? “Original Sin” is a much bigger lie crammed down our throats than “The earth is 6000 years old and sits at the center of the universe.” Granted, it may appear as though the Sun revolves around the Earth; however, there is no evidence in ALL of human history of any newborn to one-year-old ever telling a lie. Not even the appearance of such. Dissimilar to babies, Judge Fleming is exceedingly motivated to lie, infected as he is with The Knowledge of Good & Evil.
The God’s-Honest Truth? It is impossible for anyone to tell a lie without first gaining The Knowledge of Good & Evil. For most of us, the transition — changing over from IT’S-ALL-GOOD to becoming the helpless, kidnapped slave of Master Knowledge of Good & Evil — took place at the age of two.
On that note, the Apostle Thomas quotes Jesus as saying:
Gospel of Thomas, Verse 11: “On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?”
What could you do? You were so young. We ALL were. Most of us were only two years old the day we became kidnap victims. For such a plight, there are only two measures of hope. 1): Make your escape. In this penitentiary? Practically impossible. Your prison is custom-built into, around and throughout your mind. A prison of consequence constructed by the accumulation of human thought empowered and policed by the merciless whips of Master Knowledge of Good & Evil. Or, 2): RANSOM — someone RANSOMS you out of bondage.
See if you can find the Word, “RANSOM” in the most important statement Jesus ever sent to us. Here... I’ll help by putting RANSOM in bold caps for us:
Mark 10:45 (Original Greek) “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his Life as a RANSOM on behalf of many.”
More than a statement, this is Jesus’ Mission Statement. Matthew 20:28 is similar:
Matthew 20:28 (Original Greek) “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his Life as a RANSOM for many.”
RANSOM
What a wonderfully simple word. Simple, in that it has only one meaning. An implicitly unique form of payment.
A RANSOM.
Notice, Jesus does not refer to this payoff in some kind of wide-ranging general way by using a broad, nondescript word for “payment” such as recompense nor satisfaction. Nope. That would be way too nonspecific. Nor does Jesus refer to What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross as a FINE, a FEE nor a BILL that is being paid here. Jesus specifically calls it... a RANSOM. This is the Key-Word that unlocks exactly What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross.
Commonly, in our day and age, a RANSOM is money paid to a kidnapper to buy back the kidnap-victim’s FREEDOM. In Old Testament days, most often, a RANSOM was money paid to a slave’s owner (a very specific kind of restitution) in exchange for FREEING the slave. Throughout the Old Testament, the New Testament and still today, RANSOM has the exact same meaning. Whether in RANSOMING a slave or in RANSOMING a kidnap-victim. Both conditions of bondage are exactly the same; considering, a kidnap-victim is the shanghaied-slave of the kidnapper.
With RANSOM being such a specific and wonderfully simple Word, ALL of humanity should absolutely know exactly What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. Alas, to the contrary, the Word “RANSOM” has been wrapped up and buried to us.
Logic dictates: God’s Word should be simply, clearly and FREELY made available to everyone. However, since the remarkable formation of the Organized Church, Scriptural Word remains its most selected, guarded and best held monopoly. Better than money in the bank. (Ka-Ching!)
There was a time one had to be a top tier Latin scholar merely to have the ability to accurately read the Gospels — Summa Cum Laude doctorate degree required (to us common folk, that’s Latin for “With Highest Honor”). The New Testament was written in Koine Greek (pronounced coin-a) or common Greek. None of the New Testament Gospel autographs (the actual manuscript texts, hand written by the original authors) are known to exist. The Scripture verses referenced within this book as “Original Greek” are the trusted scholarly compilation of historical Greek copies — diligent copies of the autographs, as far as and as far back as anyone knows.
The earliest printed edition of the Greek New Testament was made available to the public in 1516 AD. Let’s think about that for a moment. Fifteen-hundred exclusive years of Judge Fleming acquiring, policing and hording the Good News to himself. Fifteen-hundred exclusive years of Judge Fleming telling the world what the Good News is. Fifteen-hundred exclusive years of Judge Fleming, teaching the world what the Good News means, with no one (save for the Judge himself) to fact-check his rhetoric.
The Gutenberg press came into commercial use in the year 1450 AD. This presented two monumental opportunities concerning “the Word of God.” One: Saving the Word — that is, saving whatever portion (at that point) had been passed down to us intact. Two: Further compromise to the Word by way of even more ecclesiastical monkey business.
As for the saving of the Word: This specific task involved back-rendering an ideal Koine Greek translation out of the Latin Vulgate (4th century Church-Translation) and still-existing ancient Greek manuscripts (manuscripts aging and becoming more and more ancient with each passing year). The task ended up in the relatively good hands of Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536 AD). Unlike The Church (drunk on “morality” and power), Erasmus was a Christian Humanist who regarded universal human dignity, individual FREEDOM and the predominance of human happiness the essence of Jesus’ teachings. Although Erasmus witnessed the start of the Reformation, partly inspired by his own outspoken problems with Judge Fleming, he maintained a neutral and levelheaded view which neither Catholic nor upcoming Protestant camps would ever fully embrace. Erasmus compiled a remarkably accurate rendition of the Word back into its original Koine Greek. Terrific for Greek scholars and Bible-Makers (even to this day). Yet, still, well beyond the lingual-grasp of the common world.
Nevertheless, with so many key players and events converging, Judge Fleming could no longer keep the Word to his Honor’s self and to his Honor’s scholars. It was coming and no one could stop it. The Reformation was at the door — literally, nailed to it.
It seems as though the Living God Himself took an axe and chopped the theocratic beehive in two. Exposing the entire swarm of Church pilots, now livid and lecturing in flight. Workers and soldiers, buzzing about. Struggling for power. Which side would control the future of Christianity? The printing press was like gasoline, pouring fire into this engine. Not unlike tobacco and sugar, the powers could now crank out “bibles” for worldwide mass-consumption.
Why fight it? ALL the pilots and copilots agreed. Let’s take full advantage of this printing machine.
What could be better promotion
For any theological notion
Than mass-production from ocean to ocean?
To our Faith certain Words can be slanted
Eager readers will take it for granted
Come-And-Join in their minds can be planted
And in no time we brethren can sing
We have long counting-tables that ring!
With the glorious sound of...
(Ka-ching!)
As for the ecclesiastical-monkey-business, to slant (even to outright change) certain Scriptural Wording for the advancement of “Church-Faith” was easily justified by these sixteenth century pilots. The most revered pilots before them had already burned and/or discarded a literal ton of Scriptural Word, resulting in a familiar canon long since chosen and “properly” edited.
At this interval — as the Word (for the first time) was about to be communally published into a contemporary, common-spoken language — in many instances, the Words themselves could easily be... MANipulated. A lot of leeway presents itself when a Religion-Inspired panel transfers an entire Biblical canon from its historical language into a brand new one. The result depends largely upon what kind of Religion you like. Elwood Blues asked the pertinent question: “What kind of music do you usually have here?” "Oh, we got both kinds,” quacks the cheery establishment. “We got Country... AND Western.” The Christian-Establishment began to play both kinds of music: Catholic... AND Protestant.
With both legs wobbling (and stinking to High Heaven from gangrene) each competitive side of The Church was determined to prove to the world (and to God and Sonny Jesus above) that a house divided against itself CAN stand. If not in harmony, spiritually, well then, at least, incorporated, financially.
Even should God chop off BOTH our legs!
Cut in half like Lieutenant Dan, shaking his fist from the crow’s nest:
Is this the worst You can do to us, oh Heavenly God? You call this a storm? We’ll make a fortune out of this hurricane! And, call it Bubba-Gump Church if we so wish! We’ll call it whatever we take into our minds to call it! We’ll INVENT words to call it!
What a crossroads. A Church divided against itself and the power of mass-production in the hands of “The Faithful” to promote Whatever-Suits-Us-Best for mass-consumption. Including (but not limited to) The Church itself injecting into the Gospel... a starting place... for The Church itself.
Come again?
I know. It’s a hard thing to hear. Listen closely: The Church wrote “The Church” into the Bible. That’s a fact. You can tell your kids you heard it here first. On second thought, to preserve the family “belief-system,” you may want to corkscrew your kids’ eyes out of their little sockets (to keep them from seeing this) and fill in their little ears with concrete.
Wait just a second, sir. We have ALL been strictly taught that JESUS started The Church!
Yep. That is exactly what we have ALL... been strictly taught. And, whom exactly was and continues to be our strict teacher? (Yikes!) The imperious Judge with exclusive access to the Scriptures for fifteen-hundred years. The Honorable, Henry T. Fleming, no less. The Church.
Just ask any Church-Taught Christian. He or she will smile and gladly tell you: “Jesus started The Church! The Bible says so!”
Well, now, Brother and Sister Sunshine, that is actually quite impossible.
“Why do you say that?” “Why on Earth?”
Because, in the first century, there was no such word as “church” in any language. No such word. No such concept. No such idea. MAN had not... yet... concocted... “The Church.”
(As in capital “C”): “The Church.” Specifically, “The Christian ‘Church.’”
Nor in the first century had such a building nor manmade sub-sect been put together.
(As in little “c”): “a church.” For instance: “I suggest we meet at some ‘church.’”
“Which ‘church’? The Baptist ‘church’ or the Episcopal ‘church’?”
Any Christian apologist worth his weight in peaches will immediately direct our attention to Matthew 16:18, and purport, “Why SURE it had! First century! Jesus said:”
Matthew 16:18 (KJV) “Upon this rock I will build my...”
His What?
Original Greek: £κκλησίαν
Transliteration: ekklesia
The Word has one and only one English meaning: “gathering.” To inject the limiting aspects of “Church” into Jesus’ proclamation (at Matthew 16:18) is an incorrect, purposefully diminishing and repulsively exclusionary translation. The God’s-Honest Truth? Turning “ekklesia” into “Church” is not a translation. It is an outright insertion. One could equally insert “exclusive country club” into Jesus’ statement. After ALL, an exclusive country club is a gathering:
“Upon this rock I will build my exclusive country club.”
Jesus had no such limitation (nor limitation of any kind) in mind. Jesus clearly defines “my gathering” as consisting of every single human being from Adam and onward — ALL of us. (John 12:32) “ALL.”
Martin Luther’s Bible (published 1522 AD) originally translated the Greek Word “ekklesia” at Matthew 16:18 into the German tongue as gemeinde, which, within the circles of Organized Religion, had come to mean “parish.” Precisely along the lines of what Luther had in mind — to have Jesus say:
“Upon this rock I will build my parish.”
Luther could read Koine Greek and knew PERFECTLY well that the Koine Greek word “ekklesia” translates simply as “gathering.” However, Martin Luther welcomed the Catholic insert “Church” stipulating (of course) that the concept of “Church” specifically means, quote: “Not the Catholic Church, but believers holding to Protestant understanding of the Gospel and salvation, or their congregations.”
Making it painfully clear to anyone (but a churchgoer) that Jesus’ Word “gathering” should have never been reduced to mean “CHURCH.” In the immediate aftermath of a split Christian Church, the error proves even more divisive. The Formed Church claims “salvation” exclusive only to members of the Catholic Country Club, while the Re-Formed Church sees Heaven exclusive to Protestant Club Members only. Hardly divine inspiration. Martin Luther’s willingness to translate “ekklesia” to mean “Church” was entirely self-serving to Martin Luther... and... whatever “parish” that would have Luther as a member.
Beyond the limiting and exclusionary factors, the concept of “Church” is an unreserved misrepresentation of what Jesus actually says and a twisted perversion of what Jesus actually means. If the Gospels tell us anything, Jesus despised the entire idea of Organized Religion in its every shape, form and faction.
Wade, a youth pastor and Mature-Christian insists, “The translation is no big deal. The Christian Church IS Jesus’ ‘gathering.’”
No, Wade. It is not. ALL of humanity is Jesus’ gathering. The limiting notion of “Church” — meaning, ONLY humans who identify as card-carrying Christians — is a purposefully exclusionary, manmade invention. It is a self-serving assembly. Wake up, Wade. The fact that “The Church” does not originate from Jesus, IS a big deal. The fact that “The Church” is self-concocted IS a big deal.
Imagine had the NFL exclusive access to the Gospels and their translation for the first fifteen-hundred years AD. When “The Faithful” finally cranked out the King James Bible in 1611, I suppose it would be “no big deal” for the King’s English to tell us at Matthew 16:18 (in raised red letters no less):
“Upon this rock I will build my National Football League.”
“Believers” and “nonbelievers” alike have ALL been fundamentally brainwashed. Now (after two-thousand years) Jesus’ “gathering” remains trampled under a fat, dogmatized, put-to-music, brainwashing Monopoly.
Brothers and sisters, it is in the Bible! The authority of The Church comes to us straight out of the mouth of Jesus!
Worse, “believers” and “nonbelievers” alike perceive “Church” as THE CONNECTION to Jesus. JESUS & CHURCH. It is difficult to express in words... how worse. For this perception is not even one that runs side by side, like PEAS & CARROTS. Much worse. PEAS & PEAS. “The Church” actually proclaims itself as the very Body of Jesus.
No Fundamental Christian during the Reformation could get the “Church/Body-of-Christ” tune out of his head. And, as like-taught Christians, we still can’t. We continue to eat (some of us nibbling, some of us entirely consuming) this stuffed enchilada fed to us by our “trusted teachers.” Who were, in turn, fed-taught by their trusted teachers’ teachers’ teachers. ALL of us, with blinders and dogma-collars set firmly in place. The blind have successfully guided the blind into a corporate ditch. Brainwashed, to such a degree of blindness, we cannot see many of Jesus’ correctly translated Words — even as we read them for ourselves. Instead, what we see is the dogma our Church-Washed brains have come to associate with these Words. Jesus’ wonderfully simple Word “RANSOM” is one of the most pragmatic examples of such slight-of-hand hocus-pocus. No more Latin. Now, ALL we need is a DD degree in Christianeese to make any dangerous sense out of the total and ongoing mess that both the Formed Church-Pilots and the Re-Formed Church-Pilots have made of things... and continue to make of things. It’s a blood sacrifice! It’s a substitution! It’s payment for our sin-debt to God!
Judge Fleming has effectively wrapped up and buried our RANSOM. The birds have turned PERFECT sense into PERFECT nonsense. What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross remains the most confusing and dividing issue between and within ALL Christian denominations. The Holy Spirit refers to it as our:
“New Testament Tower of Babble.”
The birds refer to it as our “Justification.” And, just in case you are in the Dark, where ALL this high-brow terminology tends to keep us (in The Darkness), our “Justification” is Christianeese for What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. As always, this prattle originates with Paul. “We are JUSTIFIED by ‘faith’.” Of sound and sackcloth, and signifying... absolutely nothing.
If ever “The Faithful” should ask, “Justified... exactly... by faith in what?”
Faith in our JUSTIFICATION, of course.
“Uh... okay. Well, I guess The Church understands ALL this... and that’s good enough for me,” replies “The Faithful.”
The disease we bear is not a theological problem. Jesus plainly tells us what kind of a problem IT is. IT is a psychological problem. We need to change our way of thinking. What is Jesus’ prescription for us?
RANSOM
What is our response? Instead of following Jesus to the simple and immediate cure, we have put our confidence in the ongoing, repetitive and never-ending practice of a Paul/Augustine-Guided Church, subscribing a placebo-remedy for a false diagnosis — “the Fall of Man.” We have put our very souls in the hands of authentic savages doing a medicine dance for the repetitive remission of brain cancer that (self-admittedly) “cannot be cured in this lifetime.”
MAN has fallen (and he can’t get up) so he must be “justified by ‘faith’.”
Judge Fleming remains perpetually trapped in this gibberish, trying to make sense of it. Like a crack addict, chasing what can never be found. Hello? The meaning never existed in the first place. It is the dogma, itself, empty and barren, that screams for “justification.” The pilots have spent two thousand years defining, redefining and altering the Word of God, producing a mountain of garble, trying to justify meaninglessness. And, after ALL this, what is the Church-Prescription for us?
REPENT! Repent of your sins and be saved!
Let’s make sure we pass this concocted lie (repent) on to the next generation. Are you certain your kid’s and grandkid’s eyes and ears have been rendered dysfunctional and useless? If so, then your children and grandchildren are ready for yet another news flash. The ancient equivalent of the word “repent” never came out of the mouth of any inspired Old Testament prophet. Likewise, the equivalent of the word “repent” never came out of John the Baptist’s mouth. Most notably, the equivalent of the word “repent” never came out of the mouth of Jesus of Nazareth. The actual Words that DID come out of ALL of their mouths is: “Change your way of thinking.”
In the year 1989 AD, an anonymous Greek scholar wrote an essay about the Christian word “repent” and submitted it to a group of renown Christian theologians. The Greek scholar chose eminent domain over copyright. Why would this well-known Greek scholar choose total anonymity over fame? To keep from being systematically ostracized by the Christian community (of which his livelihood depends). His findings serve as nothing less than an indictment, indicating just how far off-track the teachings of Christianity have derailed us from what Jesus actually taught. You may have already guessed it. The essay fell on deaf Mature-Christian ears. Most remarkably (and again, noteworthy) the contents, to this day, stand entirely undisputed. What a syndrome. The best minds of Christianity remain unwilling to accept the Truth... even as they stand unable to argue against the Truth.
Here is an excerpt from the essay:
“‘Repent’ is probably the most misunderstood word in the Christian vocabulary. The original Greek word does not mean, to ‘turn AWAY from sin,’ to ‘quit sinning,’ to ‘feel sorry for sin’ or to ‘change your sinful ways so you can be saved.’
“To understand the true meaning, one must first learn a bit of history about the Greek language used in the New Testament.
“There have been many types of Greek in the past, most of which are obsolete now, but in the days of Alexander the Great a number of Greek languages existed.
“After Alexander had conquered the known world (around 300 BC) he had a problem communicating with the many Greeks under his rule. Rather than learn ALL the different types of Greek himself, Alexander invented a Greek language called ‘Koine’ or common Greek. It was common in that ALL the Greek-speaking world would be required to learn it in order to resolve the communication problem.
“This new Greek language was very precise and mathematical in its precision. Every word had a four-fold navigational fix. A word could have only one meaning. It could have several applications, but only one interpretation.
“In English, words can have several meanings, but not in the Koine Greek. It was one word. One meaning. In other words, there was no doubt about what a person said in this language.
“Eventually, this language became the dominate language of the New Testament.
“If you look up ‘repent’ in your handy Bible dictionary, you will likely discover that it gives a definition of everything that I said repent is not: to ‘turn AWAY from sin,’ to ‘quit sinning,’ to ‘feel sorry for sin’ or to ‘change your sinful ways so you can be saved.’
“Why is this?
“Dictionaries get their definitions of a word from its common usage without regards to the original language from which it was translated. Historically, the word ‘repent’ is an obsolete English word. The word was not used in the Scriptures until (the King James Bible came along in) 1611 AD. The serious problem is, ‘repent,’ in no way reflects the actual meaning.
“Compound words were very common in the Koine Greek and this brings us to our subject.
“In the New Testament there are two different Greek words which, beginning with the King James Bible, have since been translated ‘repent.’ They are Metanoeo and Metamellamai.”
1. Metanoeo. This is a compound word. “Meta” means change. “Noeo” means thinking. Derived from “nous” which means mind. So, metanoeo means to “change your mind.”
2. Metamellamai. This is also a compound word. “Meta” means change. “Mellamai” means emotions. So, metamellamai means to have a “change of emotions.”
Upon fact-checking his claims, I found everything this anonymous Greek scholar wrote about “repent” to be the undisputable, God’s-Honest Truth. There is no other valid Greek-to-English translation for metanoeo and metamellamai. Keep in mind, according to the anonymous Greek scholar, every word in the Koine Greek has “a four-fold navigational fix.”
Moreover, I found the exact same ecclesiastical-monkey-business (via Christian Bible-Makers) happening with the Church-Inserted word “repent” as it occurs in the Old Testament text.
Original Hebrew: מִנָּחֵם
Transliteration: yin-nā-ḥêm
English translation: “Change their minds” or “Change their way of thinking.”
How did the Catholic bandwagon first translate these Words into the Latin Vulgate? By substituting the Greek metanoeo and the Hebrew yin-nā-ḥêm into the Latin Church-Litany as: paenitentiam agite.
Okay. What does “paenitentiam agite” literally mean in plain English?
“Do penance.”
How does one substitute “Do penance” for “Change your way of thinking”? And, how does one become irreversibly brainwashed into vowing total obedience to this substitution? There are no helpful answers to these questions. Nevertheless... in comes the Protestant bandwagon. Come on Reformers. Wake up. Where are you when we really need you? The Reformer Bible-Makers (Luther and Tyndale) had complete access to the Koine Greek New Testament. Why did these staunch “Reformers” not reform this obvious Church-Error? To this question, there is an answer. The Reformers were victims of the exact same brainwash. Consequentially, none of the Reformers had any opposition to the “do-penance” fundamentals that had already been stamped upon their brains. Thus: The innate problem with religious brainwashing. It closes the door on FREE thought by demanding knee-bowing reverence to religious dogma. To a Paul/Augustinian Church-Taught zealot, fundamental Christian dogma is sacrosanct. The Reformers were so anxious to find a Protestant-Substitution for paenitentiam agite (do penance) — their Protestant heads consumed with not needing priests anymore to do penance — they remained brainwashed-blind to what Jesus originally said. And, so... they simply subbed out the priest-accompanied way to do penance with their own do-it-yourself version:
“Repent.”
This is very important. Do the research. Even though I and others have done it for you, you should not trust us. Learn these facts for yourself. Forget the old adage: Seeing is “believing.” Verification is KNOWING. The word “repent” starts with Tyndale. His “Do-It-Yourself-Penance” “translation” was Protestant-Welcomed and enthusiastically applied throughout the KJV Bible. In every verse of Scripture where the prophets, the Apostles, John the Baptist or Jesus of Nazareth use the Holy Spirit-Inspired Words, “Change your mind,” the Church-Taught publishers of the KJV inserted the word: “repent.” Nearly ALL Christian bible publishers since then have followed suit.
Brace yourself for the God’s-Honest Truth. Are you ready? The Christian practice of repentance actually prevents a person from Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. How can such a thing be true? To continually perform the practice of “repentance” means that our sins have... not... been taken AWAY. They are still very much here. So, we just have to deal with them religiously.
We have had twenty centuries of Christian pilots creating their own Gospel. The first pilot squadron destroyed the cure, replacing “change your way of thinking” with “do penance” and “repent.” The next group of pilots added “of your sins” into the mix, giving us “Repent of your sins!” The next bunch of flyboys added “and be saved” into the cauldron. We now have “Repent of your sins and be saved!”
The birds, who forever have been feeding on this Weed, ask: What’s wrong with this gospel?
You mean besides the fact that it is a boldface lie? Jesus would identify “Repent of your sins and be saved!” as “a runaway Tare” — a theological falsehood that not only destroys Truth, it buries the Truth in a murderous grave. The Knowledge of Good & Evil is our problem. Sin is the result. “The sinner” is a billion-to-one outgunned at fighting sin. The more he tries to fight IT, the more power he gives to IT. The cure is simple. Drain the “& Evil” part of The Knowledge of Good & Evil of ALL power, and (spoiler alert) the result of the problem (sin) will absolutely die and become NOTHING.
Nay, nay! say the Christian Doctors, pilots and flight crew. If we throw out the lie (“repent”) our entire house falls apart. THAT would be *Evil.* The lesser-of-*Evils* is to keep our sacred dogma going by adding truth INTO the lie.
Did you catch that? Adding truth into the lie. Standing orders for how The Church historically operates:
We will hold on to our idiocy and lies until it becomes obvious (to ALL those who know better around us) that we ARE idiots and liars. At THAT point, we have no choice but to find a way to alter and weave our idiocy and lies INTO the fabric of Reality.
Today (from 2018 and onward) when you look up the definition of “repent” on most any Christian internet site, you are likely to discover that the meaning of “repent” has very recently been altered — specifically altered to include the phrase “change your mind.” It only took 30 years from the time the anonymous Greek scholar brought this to light. That seems like wonderful progress. Right? (Buzzer sound!) Wrong. Unfortunately, ALL of these new Christian definitions consist of nothing more than adding “change your mind” into the fundamental 400-year-old Christian definition of “repent”: “Change your mind by turning AWAY from sin.” “Change your mind and quit sinning.” “Change your mind from embracing sin and rejecting Christ to rejecting sin and embracing Christ.” “Change your mind and feel sorry for your sin.” (Hot off the presses) “A change of mind should result in a change of action.” Actually, not so hot. It’s the same old vomit spewing out of the Judge’s pie hole: “Change your mind by changing your sinful ways so that you can be saved.” The worthless call of self-righteousness.
Useless garble. To the babbling Church, What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross will remain “a mystery” lost within its own babble, fed by... guess what? Our thinking disorder. And, what, pray tell, within The Church, is the cause of ALL this disorder?
The Knowledge of Good & Evil.
Judge Fleming (his Honor himself) assesses everything he sees and everything he says in terms of “Good” & “Evil.” And, so... Judge Fleming is not merely EQUALLY trapped within the problem, Judge Fleming is IRREVERSIBLY trapped within the problem. Stupefied to our true enemy (AND to what is seriously at stake), Judge Fleming is sold on the very idea of Good & Evil. Hello, congregation? Do you fully understand? This Knowledge is SPECIFICALLY FORBIDDEN TO US by the Lord God. How can the leaders of The Church possibly justify wallowing in IT?
Well, it was forbidden to Adam & Eve; BUT... ever since the forbidden cat was let out of the bag it’s okay for US to wallow in IT. We wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves if we couldn’t wallow in IT. We’ve split the cat wide-open with our garden shears for the very purpose OF wallowing in IT. Through ITS blood and gore we swim! We ingest IT; we let IT soak into our skin; we take IT into our gills; until we have enough cat gut coming out of every orifice of our bodies to make a billion-trillion tennis rackets! IT is our Biblical World View! IT is what our Religion is ALL about! Don’t take IT AWAY from us! IT is our plot. IT is our story. IT is our Hollywood movie! IT is our... “Good versus Evil”!
Pray for Truth. Put aside the thinking-disorder-infected idea that we are caught in the middle of a battle of “Good versus Evil.” Jesus spoke of “Evil” only so people with Religion coming out of every orifice of their bodies could get an inkling of what he was talking about. And, as always, Jesus spoke of True Evil to these people only in the context of Death, hurtful-falsehood, murder and the plague of Organized Religion. Do you recall the GOOD-COUNSEL God the Father passed on to us a few chapters back? He told us exactly how to step AWAY from the pitfall of Good versus Evil and onto the shores of Truth. The first foundation of solid granite to leap upon is: Light versus Darkness. Did you step onto this stepping stone? Did you ponder what the Apostle John said about The Darkness not comprehending The Light? Did you ponder what the Holy Spirit says to Moses in the first paragraph of Genesis about the Living God of Light dividing The Light from The Darkness? Did you talk with the Living God while resting upon this huge stepping stone? Well then... from that foundational step, you can easily step onto the shores of Reality and see exactly what it is that we are caught up in-the-middle-of... and... exactly... what is at stake.
EVERYTHING versus NOTHING.
*Evil* is entirely relative to each and every individual “belief-system.” *Evil* is whatever one “believes” IT to be. Precisely how the Forces of NOTHING have consistently inspired MAN to wage war against his fellow MAN. The Blue-Team “believes” Red is *Evil.* The Red-Team “believes” Blue is *Evil.* Here is a question for ALL of us. Do you desire True Wisdom or not? Many among us do not. This is the testament of most adult humans these days: I’ve already got “God,” “Jesus” and ALL-things-theological compartmentalized into a nice, pleasant box. Thank you.
Shouting “Amen!” under the proud banner of Christianity is the equivalent of blind men yelling “Right on!” at the bottom of a ditch. We will find no solution to our thinking problem within any religious “belief-system,” because the solution is NOT religious. The solution is entirely psychological.
MENTAL PROBLEM: We cannot get the HORSE out of our minds nor out of our way of thinking.
CURE: We need to change our minds. We need to change our way of thinking.
Humankind had the exact same mental problem in Jesus’ day. The Pharisees and Sadducees were shouting “So be it!” under the proud banner of Judaism. John the Baptist and Jesus (miles apart) began shouting back a Divinely-Revealed and revolutionary solution for ALL of what ails humanity. The exact same solution at the exact same moment in Time. Metanoeo. Hey, humankind. You need to change your way of thinking.
John in the Judean wilderness:
Matthew 3:1-2 (Original Greek) “Now, in those days comes John the Baptist, in the wilderness of Judea proclaiming, ‘Change your way of thinking. And, the Kingdom of Heaven will soon be here.’”
At the same time comes Jesus, a hundred miles AWAY in the city of Capernaum:
Matthew 4:17 (Original Greek) “From then began Jesus to preach and to say, ‘Change your way of thinking. And, the Kingdom of Heaven will soon be here.’”
Word for Word. The exact same revelation.
If the Kingdom of Heaven can come to planet Earth MERELY by us changing our way of thinking; and, mind you, the absolute True Reality of the Kingdom of Heaven is just around the corner (so says Jesus backed up by John the Baptist), the divine revelation becomes only too clear. We need to change our way of thinking... for the better? Ya think? The God’s-Honest Truth? The Holy Spirit is compelling us to change our way of thinking ALL the way back to the very best our thinking ever was. The Place of Life. Our Factory Setting. ALL it takes is a powerful psychological handle. A stronghold. A starting point. A restart.
So why send Jesus? What is his Mission?
To provide that powerful psychological handle. In the form of an outrageous psychological spectacle. Across ALL of Time, the most jaw-dropping, brain-gripping death known to MAN. Crucifixion.
Why crucifixion? Why “the cross”?
The answer can best be expressed in modern-day English: Because we are natural-born rubberneckers. Not unlike the psychological impression of witnessing the twisted wreckage of a once PERFECT car purposefully driven into a concrete divider. At high speed. By a flesh and blood driver. Executing that unthinkable swerve. To save ALL of us. Mind-blowing. Yet, even more mind-blowing than the horrific, bloody mess at the crash site is the official report passed on to us. Not by the state police. By Almighty God Himself courtesy of the Holy Spirit. This was done to buy us our FREEDOM. My FREEDOM and your FREEDOM. A RANSOM... to buy everyone’s FREEDOM. And, ALL anyone has to do is simply accept it. Take it. A special kind of “pay-off” that gives each and every one of us the ABSOLUTE power of KNOWING. A psychological slam-dunk of massive proportion. We can never turn our eyes AWAY from it. Perpetual rubberneck. We no longer see the highway of destruction — shame, guilt, sin and evil. For, our eyes are eternally locked upon the fatality at the crash site — the effect of wood, nail and gravity.
ALL that... for you. ALL that... to RANSOM just one person. One person at a time, that is. It works for any one. It works for every one. You are RANSOMED-PERFECT. PERFECT even as your Father in Heaven is PERFECT. Why would you care what anybody else says or thinks about you? You love you as you are. Your Creator loves you as you are. Quite naturally, it is impossible not to fall completely in love with the Living God, Who included YOU in this amazing thing called “Creation.” You need no pilot telling you what to do. You are in the same cockpit as your Creator on Autopilot. Once you Truly-Accept your absolute 100%, God-Given GOODNESS, it will Truly amaze you how naturally GOOD a creation you naturally are. Then... as you continue onward in such natural GOODNESS, you begin to get a really GOOD look at others. Trust me on this one. You will find yourself automatically (quite naturally) sharing this love outward. What does the Holy Spirit have to say?
“It’s looking GOOD... now that we’ve got a couple miles of Weeds-AWAY behind us. Hey, look over here at what’s written on the ground.”
Wow. It’s a Word actually burnt into the hardened soil.
LOVE
That’s our “X-marks-the-spot.” Bring the shovels, boys. That pickaxe, too! We are half-a-minute AWAY from digging up our RANSOM.
When we get further into the field and concentrate our efforts on digging up “AWAY,” we will address in much more detail the natural phenomenon of Truly loving others (ALL others) AS we have come to Truly love our self. A natural phenomenon that, in due course, comes to PERFECT realization for any person who Truly-Accepts-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross.
How is such a thing possible for anyone and everyone?
Because it works. Your outlook becomes naturally positive... from your in-look being in such PERFECT working order. I for one can Truly see it. ALL we need is for one more of us to Truly see it.
Huh? To see what?
To see our entire species evolving back to the purity we had in Eden. Going forward by stepping back — ALL the way back to before we saw wrong within ourselves. Back to where self-deprecation is entirely nonexistent. Imagine... each and every individual-self finally loving self for what self Truly is.
ALL-GOOD
Oh, look! There are other human beings here in Creation, too!
We ALL have a PERFECT core. As you continue onward in such absolute Self-GOODNESS (and this fact will Truly amaze you) you cannot help but love others... AS... you have come to love your self.
Now, THAT is the difference between Truth and conjecture.
It is almost silly for you to have to hear ALL this from the tiny likes of me. If anyone should know What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross, it should be the huge, ALL-Knowing Church. We are done with generalities. We demand specifics. So, tell us, oh wise and most honorable Judge Fleming. What, in your opinion... exactly... has been done for us on the cross?
The Church has six theories.
