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The following Scripture passages are offered to aid beginning fellowships. The readings and commentary for this week are more in line with what has become usual; for the following will most likely be familiar observations. The concept behind this Sabbath’s selection is invisibility. Clickable hymns on this page require RealPlayer to be installed on your computer. The download is free. Possible songs include the following hymns: Weekly ReadingsFor the Sabbath of October 21, 2006
The person conducting the Sabbath service should
open services with two or three hymns, or psalms, followed by an opening prayer
acknowledging that two or three (or more) are gathered together in Christ
Jesus’ name, and inviting the Lord to be with them. The
person conducting the service should read or assign to be read Romans chapter
1. Commentary: What does it mean that the righteous shall live by
faith (v. 17)? The answer to the above question separates
Christians from the world … keeping the commandments, having the true name for the Body of Christ, correctly pronouncing the name of
the Messiah, professing the name of Jesus with one’s mouth, saying the sinner’s
prayer—none of these produce the faith that will be counted as righteousness.
The heart is cleansed by a journey of faith from the land of one’s nativity to
the Promised Land. And since Calvary, this journey has been mental, not
physical. The distance traveled is from the far land of disobedience to
spiritual Judea where the disciple will live by faith as a Judean, keeping the
precepts of the law, doing those things that will cause a person to be holy.
The person will mentally come out of the world while his or her body remains in
the world. Thus, this person will present his or her members [the flesh] to God
as instruments of righteousness (Rom 6:12-14), thereby no longer giving to sin
dominion through presenting his or her members as obedient servants to lawlessness.
By faith, the person will choose to
keep the precepts of the law on the person’s day of salvation. And when having
made this choice of obedience by faith, Christ Jesus will sculpt the person
into a vessel intended for honored usage, effectively removing from the person
the option of returning to the world. Jesus takes control of the person and
assumes responsibility for the person’s salvation. Therefore, the person does
not get credit for anything but choosing life when the promise of entering into
God’s rest was open to the person. Everything else is done to the person, a
clay vessel made from the same lump that could have been made into a vessel of
wrath if the person had chosen death through continuing to live by the social
constructs informing the person’s surrounding world. Most individuals who
will read or hear this message live in the Western World, the cultures that
have developed from Greco-Roman thought. Most are more highly influenced by the
social constructs informing Western cultures than they presently believe. Most
are truly products of not the mindset of Christ Jesus, but the mindset of the
spiritual king of Greece, the great or first horn of the he-goat that flies out
of the west to trample the spiritual king of Persia. Thus, most Christians
today are more influenced by demonic princes than by the Father or the Son—and
this influence is accepted as “natural,” or the way things ought to be. What most American Christians believe is “natural,”
the unalterable behavior of the human species—of behavior patterns created by
God and ordained by God—is actually social constructs originating from the two
legs of ancient Hellenism. These constructs are foundational thought paradigms
that begin outside of, or beyond conscious thought; they are the girders of the
unconscious mind; and the Apostle Paul wrote that disciples prior to conversion
followed the course of this world, “following the prince of the power of the
air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience” (Eph 2:2).
Thus, for Paul, social constructs originate with the prince of this world. They
are the means through which the prince of this world reigns over a humanity
consigned to disobedience (Rom 11:32), and they are in place wherever human
beings dwell so it is though having control over these foundational thought
paradigms that the prince of this world, the spiritual king of Babylon (Isa
14:4-21), actually rules ‘“the children of men”’ as the prophet Daniel told
King Nebuchadnezzar how he ruled over men at the pleasure of God (Dan 2:37-38). It is always error to teach or assume that the
prince of this world reigns or will reign prior to the seven endtime years
through human governments. The prince of this world is not looking to come to
power through a new world order or
through secret societies; he is already in power. He has been in power since
Adam and Eve were driven from the garden of God. The Apostle Paul wrote, “Do
you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you
are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of
obedience, which leads to righteousness” (Rom 6:16). Adam and Eve presented
themselves as servants to disobedience, and were consigned to disobedience
through becoming the bondservants to that old serpent, the defeated but still
reigning prince of this world. And the children of bondservants are the
property of their parents’ master; hence, the child of every descendant of the
first Adam has been consigned to disobedience from birth. Only the man Jesus, the
only Son of Theos (John 3:16), has
been born of woman as a child not consigned from birth to disobedience. Only
the man Jesus was unaffected by the foundational paradigms through which the
prince of this world rules. Historically, the social paradigms of Western
civilization are said to have two legs, long identified as Hebrew and Greek, or
Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman. But such identifications of these legs assume
that Christ Jesus has somehow or at sometime reigned over the subconscious
minds of humankind, and that has simply not been the case: the social
constructs that would have originated from Christ Jesus cannot support
paradigms of disobedience; thus, they must be excluded from the paradigms
undergirding this present world, a convoluted way of saying that Christians are
in this world but not of this world (John 17:11, 15-16).
Christians cannot partake of the things of this world and not succumb to the
lure of this world. Christians cannot participate in the politics of this world
without returning to being a part of this world. Jesus told Pilate that His
kingdom was not of this world and not from this world (John 18:36), and indeed,
it is not—the social constructs of Christ are alien to all that produces
disobedience to the laws of God. Without exception, the constructs of this world
produce disobedience to the laws of God. The Christian Church’s appropriation
of Sunday as its day of worship is pious disobedience through willful
transgression of the Sabbath commandment. As such, the visible Christian Church
is based upon readily identifiable constructs of this world, and reveals itself
to not be of God but to be of the spiritual king of Greece, a vassal king to
the old serpent, Satan the devil. One leg of Western civilization stands on the image or the surface of things—upon the
hard cold line or edge perceived by a piercing gaze. All that is defined by its surface and its form is
of this Apollonian leg that seeks to rule nature through the elevation of human
thought and imagination. It is from this leg that ancient Greek philosophers
assigned to mortal human beings an immortal soul imprisoned in the flesh,
awaiting release at death. It is from this leg that loathing of the flesh and
its weaknesses came; that repudiation of sexual activity even within marriage
entered Christianity. This leg sees an austere black and white world. This leg
elevates death and going to heaven, the domain of the sky-gods that fight wars
without shedding blood. The other leg of western civilization, once
co-joined with the gaze in Egypt where the surface and the interior of objects
were united in honeycombed pyramids that were funeral tombs precisely oriented
with celestial bodies, is the dark, wet, undefined underworld of nature as the eternal womb. This is the Dionysian
world of wine and milk, blood and bodily fluids, grottos and bedchambers. This
is the world of female experience, of female conquest through the recycling of
natural processes, of female deification. Greek converts to Christianity in Hellenist
fellowships left the Apostle Paul while he yet lived (2 Tim 1:15), and with
leaving Paul, these converts left the foundation that is Christ (1 Cor
3:10-11), laid in the heavenly city of Jerusalem by the Apostle. They left
because they could not escape being Greek.
They could not rid themselves of Apollonian and Dionysian constructs that
informed their perception of truth. But it is to the practices and writings of the same
errant Greek fellowships that left Paul that endtime disciples practicing
grammatico-historical exegesis turn when diligently searching for sound
doctrine, a situation that would be comical if the stakes were not loss of
spiritual life through the second death. Literally, the bet every Christian
wages on his or her day of salvation is that God does or doesn’t mean that
disciples are to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt
4:4). Those who bet that He doesn’t enter 8th-day fellowships that
have been constructed on Hellenistic thought; those who bet that He does mean
what He says begin to live as spiritual Judeans, as legalists, that pejorative signifier attached to all Sabbatarian
disciples by the lawless Church. The stakes are entrance into the kingdom of heaven
… Jesus said that the person who keeps the commandments and teaches others to
do likewise will be called great in the kingdom of heaven (Matt 5:19). Thus,
betting that God means what He says about living by every word that has
proceeded from His mouth will cause a person to be called great in the kingdom,
but betting against God meaning what He says will result will result in eternal
damnation, which isn’t separation from God but being tossed into the lake of
fire without the perishable body having put on imperishability; without
mortality putting on immortality. Jesus said not to be surprised when some
disciples (those who have done good) are resurrected to life and some are
resurrected to judgment or to damnation (John 5:28-29); therefore, it should
not surprise disciples that some disciples will by faith keep the precepts of the
law (cf. Rom 2:26; Matt 5:19) while
others will continue to practice the same disobedience or lawlessness they had
pursued before receiving the Holy Spirit (Matt 7:21-23). Those disciples who
continue in disobedience have teachers that today quote from Paul just as those
Greek fellowships that left Paul quoted from his epistles. * The reader should now read Romans
chapter 6. Commentary: Quoting from what has just been read isn’t usual
in these readings, but this is the exception: Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies,
to make you obey their [mortal bodies] passions. Do not present your members to
sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those
who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments
for righteousness.… For just as you once presented your members as slaves to
impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your
members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. (Rom 6:12-13, 19) The person who presents his or her members [the
person’s fleshly body] to sin or lawlessness (1 John 3:4) makes him or herself
a slave to sin … again, the state of every person descended from Adam is as a
slave to sin, for God consigned all to sin so that He could have mercy upon all
(Rom 11:32). But this state changes when the Father draws the person from the
world (John 6:44, 65) through spiritual birth. The person is set free from sin
(Rom 8:2) if the person [the old self] is crucified with Christ (Rom 6:6-7). The
old self dies on the cross, but the person who dies on the cross dies slowly
from suffocation. If the old self dies slowly, continuing to live for years in
the same tent of flesh as the born of Spirit new self, the infant son of God is
“spoiled” by the decay and disbelieve of the old self. This son of God will
inevitably continue to present his members [the flesh] to sin as instruments
for unrighteousness, thereby voluntarily giving to sin what sin had no dominion
over. The liberated person who chooses to transgress the
commandments in even one point breaks the law of God and makes this son of God
a servant of sin and subject to the lake of fire. This new son of God, still in
the womb of Isaac, makes himself into part of the hated son of promise (cf. Gal 4:21-31; Rom 9:6-13; Mal 1:2-3;
Gen 25:21-26) against whom sin is not today reckoned because of Grace and the
possibility that this yet unborn hated son will repent, cleansing himself from
what is dishonorable (2 Tim 2:20-21). Without repentance, though, this Christian will be resurrected to
damnation because he or she voluntarily made him or herself a servant of sin. The liberated person who lives by every word that
has proceeded from the mouth of God will, in trying to keep the precepts of the
law, accidentally transgress the law, but these transgressions are also covered
by Grace, the righteousness of Christ Jesus. This is the beloved son of
promise, deceitful by birth but one who prevails with God through wrestling
with the laws of God in a society that supports and actually encourages
lawlessness. This is, again, the deceitful son of promise that comes to
perfection through much striving against the social constructs that inform
society. Returning to the liberated disciple who chooses to
transgress the least of the commandments, the Sabbath commandment, the Grace
that is today extended to this disciple by he or she presently being in the
womb of the last Eve will be withdrawn when the judgment of this disciple is
revealed: the disciple who has not attempted to keep the commandments remains
under the law and condemned by it, for this person did not present his or her
members to God as instruments for righteousness while the disciple physically
lived. Thus, to be under Grace when the judgment of the born of Spirit disciple
is revealed, the disciple must present his or her members to God as instruments
for righteousness, meaning that the disciple must earnestly attempt to keep the
precepts of the law. By faith, this disciple must mentally leave spiritual
Babylon and journey to spiritual Jerusalem, a city with theological rather than
geographical coordinates. And once in the heavenly city, the disciple must
remain there as a spiritual Levite, part of the royal priesthood, holy to God
(1 Pet 2:9)—again, the disciple must begin to live as a spiritual Judean. Spiritual Babylon also does not have geographical
coordinates, but is the single kingdom of the world that becomes the Father’s
and His Son’s (cf. Rev 11:15; Dan
7:9-14) when Satan is cast from heaven (Rev 12:9-10). So a disciple cannot
physically escape from spiritual Babylon, but must mentally leave when
liberated by spiritual birth—and as Pharaoh went after Israel to recover his
liberated slaves, Satan goes after disciples singularly and collectively to
recover his former mental bondservants. Living by faith as a spiritual Judean means
rejecting the Greek social constructs upon which Western culture is built, and
here is where the greater Church ran into problems in the middle of the 1st-Century
CE: living as a spiritual Judean calls for rejecting what the eye sees. The
Apostle John wrote, Do not love the world or the things in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that
is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and the
pride in possessions—is not of the Father but is from the world. And the world
is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of the God
abides forever. (1 John 2:15-17) In
so doing, John creates a correspondence between desires of the eyes and desires
of the flesh, with the desires of the eyes now corresponding to the surface of
things [and people] and to the gaze that transforms people into objects and
personifies objects, and the desires of the flesh corresponding to the formless
wet interior of nature as womb. The social, literary, art critic Camille Paglia
wrote in Sexual Personae, “There is
nothing less erotic than a nudist colony. Desire is intensified by ritual
limitations. Hence the mask, harness, and chains of sadomasochism … decadence is a disease of the eye, a sexual
intensification of artistic voyeurism” (SP
36) that occurs in the late phase of a culture. She also said,
“Judeo-Christianity has failed to control the pagan western eye. Our thought
processes were formed in Greece and inherited by Rome, whose language remains
the official voice of the Catholic church. Intellectual inquiry and logic are
pagan. Every inquiry is preceded by a roving eye; and once the eye begins to
rove, it cannot be morally controlled” (SP
33). By this criteria, amoral scientific inquiry is high paganism, with
scientists the priests of the objectifying gaze. Paglia further writes [same
paragraph], “Judaism, due to its fear of the eye, put a taboo on visual
representation.… Christianity followed suit, until it drifted into pictorialism
to appeal to the pagan masses.” Thus, eye-intense paganism, “based on cultic
exhibitionism, in which sex and sadomasochism are joined” extends directly from
Roman statuary to Hollywood cinema, a “sexual
showing, a pagan flaunting,” the restoration of “pagan antiquity’s cultic
exhibitionism. Spectacle is a pagan cult of the eye” (SP 33). But returning to the
Apostle Paul epistle to the Romans, Paul anticipates Paglia’s argument: For the wrath of God
is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who
by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.… And since they [those who
suppress the truth by their unrighteousness] did not see fit to acknowledge
God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They
were filled will all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
slanders, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil,
disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they
know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not
only do them but give approval to those who practice them. (Rom 1:18, 28-32) Who
suppresses the truth by their unrighteousness? Not now the world! But teachers
of lawlessness who claim to be wise though they are fools who have exchanged
the glory of God for idols of all sorts, dishonoring their bodies in secret
affairs and in shameless acts of perversion that commonly make newspaper
headlines. It isn’t just the Roman Church with its altar-boy scandals or
Evangelical televangelists with prostitutes, but it is the affair that the
visible Church has with demons which most dishonors the Body of Christ.
Outwardly mild-mannered pastors are inwardly full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit as they divvy up disciples within a city as if tithe-paying members were
gold-bearing ore waiting to be mined and smelted. They know God’s decrees, but they
don’t believe God. They believe, instead, the traditions of men as they approve
divorces and now abhorrent sexual behavior, even to sanctifying gay pastors. What Paul lists are the crimes from which Western
society provides a slim degree of protection by social contract, relegating
these crimes to spectacle on large
and small screens. They are the diseased desires of the flesh and of the eye
that give birth to beauty as power and power as beauty, the apt description of
female and male relationships in modern America. The juxtaposition of a
feminized nature using her beauty as power against capitalist masculine
aggression that sees power as beauty forms the backdrop for Christian political intervention that
attempts to contain the chthonian womb of sexual experience through the erect
church spire, a conceptual phallic symbol that has not yet been “softened” and
made impudent by the silver screen. Both the spectacle and the spire become
pagan extensions of edges and the erect line separated by unbridgeable distance.
Thus, when the spire turns to spectacle as in the Left Behind series of books and movies, the crimes from which
society provided a degree of protection are incorporated into the mores of the
prevailing power, turning the power ugly but also unbelievable. The church spire of the silver screen includes and
excludes through cultic ritual controlled by human beings, thereby imbuing
personal decisions [making a decision for Christ through praying the sinners’
prayer] with the life and death powers of God, making human utterance the
pinnacle of evolutionary nature and transforming Christianity into white
witchcraft. Instead of the spire prevailing over nature, the silver screen
transformed the castrated spire into the visual image of the invisible God, thus
transforming a theology of lawlessness into lawless spectacle. In Evangelical
Christianity’s attempt to appeal to [and convert] the pagan masses, it reveals
to observers its pagan roots that were somewhat concealed through having made the Books its primary idol in the 16th-Century
… Evangelical Christianity is a modern derivative of the ancient Apollonian sky
cult that feared the chthonian underworld of fluids, grottos, bowers, and
wombs, a fear inherent in the invisible fluidity of Pneuma ’Agion [the Holy Spirit] that Christianity thought to
contain through the 5th-Century CE assignment of personhood and
humanlike characteristics to what is like wind. But Apollonian sky cults can
never contain fluids and merriment even though many Evangelical fellowships
forbid any consumption of alcoholic beverages and dancing. These stern
fellowships, however, have declined in cultural significance as spectacle turned to sporting events and
“tailgating parties,” with the annually-played Super Bowl becoming the
spectacle successor to feeding Christians to lions in pagan Rome’s Coliseum. Believing that praying the sinners’ prayer directs
the otherwise hell-bound immortal soul skyward to heaven gives to the person
imagined control over the person’s fate, and transfers to the person the power
to bestow everlasting life onto him or herself, thereby determining ahead of
time (before when judgments are revealed [1 Cor 4:5]) what, according to
Scripture, cannot be known until Christ Jesus returns as the Messiah. In this
pagan belief paradigm, the chthonian underworld is the terrifying default state
of every person; it is the woman’s world of pain and fire, the inner hearth
upon which every soul that hasn’t uttered the exclusionary prayer of white
witchery roasts forever in flames not quite hot enough to consume and destroy.
And God in this belief paradigm is made in man’s image, with His ability to
judge constrained by human utterance of the sinners’ prayer; God is no more
than Apollo was. In a very real sense, this belief paradigm elevates humankind
over God through using Scripture to support God being the servant of men. But in white witchery, God is also the socially
comfortable ruling class, blonde with fair-complexion, that allegedly exists to
serve the darker featured downtrodden by keeping them from being overcome by
the flames of hell. So God becomes the servant that reigns over humanity
consigned to disobedience—in this pagan belief paradigm, the prince of the
power of the air [the prince of this world] is the deity to whom sinners’
prayers are uttered. Greek gods were not beasts as were Egyptian and
Mesopotamian gods, but intelligent men and women who lived forever in
undiminished beauty. They were like Renaissance paintings of the man Jesus, an
androgynous image that probably better represents the Adversary than any Jew so
ordinary in features that he could disappear into a crowd. The prophet Isaiah
wrote concerning the One who would be wounded for Israel’s transgressions,
“[H]e had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we
should desire him” (53:2). Renaissance artists painted their version of Apollo
and called their sky deity Jesus so that the pagans whom they were attempting
to convert would adopt the civilizing constructs underpinning a culture based
on Greek thought. When the Apollonian leg of Western civilization
asserts itself, androgyny prevails. The form of young boys becomes the pinnacle
of beauty. But when the Dionysian leg prevails, transsexual behavior comes out
of the closet and begins to appear as spectacle: life becomes performance art,
with what had been hidden from, or suppressed by the Apollonian leg gaining not
only public acceptable but advocacy with sexual transformation becoming the
theatrical merging of nature with what has been man-made. The cultural dominancy of these separated but once
co-joined Greek legs produces a simultaneous repudiation of, and surrender to
nature, which bestows upon humankind biological attributes of sex that are
physically embraced [Dionysus] and mentally rejected [Apollo]. Homosexuality is
the triumph of the mind [the imagination] over nature, with the mind producing
sterile offspring that only satisfy with lifelessness experience. And such,
male with male homosexuality is of Apollo; is of sky cults and surfaces. But
transvestism that results in the sexual personae of male lesbianism [male as
female with female], an apparent oxymoronic expression, is nature triumphing
over the imagination, thereby imprisoning the male psyche in female experience,
and is of Dionysus. Although the male homosexual as well as the male
lesbian will reject all insistence that anything but nature gave to them the
sexual persona he enacts as biologically contrary performance (both will be
correct in their assertions that they were psychologically created as they
are), each fails to grasp what humanistic psychology has failed to explain: the
mental topograpyy of human beings is the territory over which the asexual
prince of this world and his angels reign. Thus, both sexual personae are as natural as is war, which isn’t of God
but of the old serpent. Greek culture overwhelmed early Christians: the
reviled Circumcision Faction consciously resisted Apollonian image-making and
objectification of the invisible God, but in doing so, these converted Jew
succumbed to the darkness of Dionysian nature that concealed the spiritual
things of God from disciples. The Circumcision Faction required disciples to
bloody what was most hidden from public view in the ritual mangling of the
flesh that fit with the violence of Dionysian sparagmos. The Apostle Paul truly wished that those who caused
Hellenistic converts in Galatia to begin to circumcise themselves would mangle
their own penises [would castrate themselves] (Gal 5:12). Today, Apollonian image-making and Dionysian mother
cults continue to exert control over the Christianity of the Orthodox and
Catholic churches—and somewhat surprisingly, in a moderated form, over the
Arian Mormon church, with its temple rituals that only initiates can observe.
Secret rituals and secret societies begin in darkness and flourish in darkness:
they exist without definition as individuals shrink into faceless groups with
influence undefined by boundaries. They are Dionysian; they are socially
transvestite organizations, female bodies with male muscles and aggression clad
in gray flannel that is transparent in the light of day, leaving nothing to see
and nothing that cannot be imagined. And the greater Christian Church is the
most secret of all secret societies, for even God cannot be certain who is
genuine and who isn’t until He disrobes this woman through empowerment by the
Holy Spirit at the beginning of the seven endtime years. Then what each
Christian is within the person will be revealed by the actions of the liberated
disciple. The empowered mind will rule over nature, thus producing a tripart
Christological schism represented by the geography of ancient Eden, with
Assyria being the domain of Unitarians, Judea the home of Binitarians, and
Egypt the land of Trinitarians. The kings of the North [Assyria] and of the
South [Egypt] shall battle each other for control of the Promised Land—the king
of the North shall prevail until broken by Christ Jesus fighting on a day of battle. The two legs of Western culture stand on shifting
sand: one leg is Apollonian science coupled to the Christianity of icons,
images, image-making, and divisions into denominations. The other leg is
Dionysian spectacle coupled to secret societies, especially the one that
foregrounds reverence for the mother and child cult. The Christianity of the
Apostle Paul ceased having a cultural effect before the 1st-Century
ended: again, with Rome sacking Jerusalem, burning the temple, and taking Jews
into slavery, the so-called Hebraic leg of Western culture was swallowed by
asexual and transsexual Greeks. Within a second generation of Christian
converts, no Christianity remained: prayers to an invisible God were focused
through visible statuary and the fire of lighted candles. In the bowels of
early persecution a new religion emerged, one that appropriated the name of
Christ and the trappings of paganism. This new religion took Christ to the world, and made sure that
the gates of hell would not prevail against a fragile book, seldom read and
even more seldom believed. But this new religion was destined for destruction …
Christ Jesus is the alpha and omega of the Greek language. His
ministry is to the first and to the last of the age. Christianity started well, with the Apostle Paul
laying the foundation for the house of God in the heavenly city of Jerusalem,
but as Paul writes to Timothy, all in Asia left him while he was a prisoner in
Rome. And Christianity will finish well, with the remnant of today’s Church
that keep the commandments and have the spirit of prophecy leading the third
part of humankind into the kingdom of God. But in the centuries between Paul in
the 1st-Century and Philadelphia in the 21st-Century, the
Christian Church has been ruled by the sun-cult’s Apollonian imagery and by the
formlessness of Dionysian darkness that sports well-suckled paps from which
comes milky sola scriptura. What apparently cannot be helped is that most
Christians—by far the vast majority—have never worshiped either the Father or
the Son in truth, but have worshiped instead the trace of Christianity that has
been tracked as mud onto the pure paganism of Apollonian and Dionysian cults.
These Christians will be accepted by God if they do well, what Elohim told Cain (Gen 4:7); they will be
accepted if they keep the precepts of the law by faith. Their hope remains
viable, but only so until they are liberated from indwelling sin and death.
Then, their present lawlessness will send them into the lake of fire, for they
are today the hated son of promise, spiritual Esau, the son who does not value
his birthright enough to strive for it against seemingly impossible odds. These
odds, however, only pertain to what can be seen by the eye and felt with the
hand. Striving against the social constructs of the world
begins with keeping the 7th-day Sabbath. * * * Works Cited Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae. New York: Vantage, 1990. * The person conducting the Sabbath service should close services with two hymns, or psalms, followed by a prayer asking God’s dismissal. * * * * * "Scripture
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