False Religion

   Everything in life among people in worldly wisdom, especially religious doctrine and dogma, depends upon whatever anyone is compelled to believe – except when an actual encounter with our Father, by His Word of Truth, shines forth into the heart of natural response to Him. The analytical mind accepts trained intellectual interpretation as a substitute for faithful reality in real-time as-need-be connection with God’s intelligence. Intellectual emotionalism plays the untoward balances between spite, and compensation for spite, in an attempt to be God over people and surrounding circumstances.

   False gospel spreads a word of parody that emulates the Light of God’s wisdom with stage lights of suspicion from inquisitive analysis. Encompassing idolatrous intent in profiteering against the debt of sinful resentment, already paid by Christ, brings anguish in yielding our will to God’s superiority. Thus, idolatry is the stage set for acts of indecency portrayed to relay a story of adultery. While the 'good intended' actors engage unwitting treachery, convinced their corrupt arrogant witness transforms the hearts and lives of their audience.

   Preconceived notions based in binding emotional reactions to the knowledge of right and wrong cause projecting interpretations through and from the reading of Scripture. The brain has the ability to function in two arenas. Attentions drawn from our physical practical/imaginative abstract awareness in instinctual flesh realities, and attentions drawn from our spiritual sensible/humble expectance awareness in Christ through faith realities. Extending our trust vulnerability in faith for God's sake, to those who are in violation against better ways, does not make us naïve, rude, or unintelligent.

   In choosing our own clever wit against God’s ever-present wisdom, we focus our work in judging and categorizing ourselves and others by the letter(s) of opinion steeped laws of practical application with regard to religious principles. We do this as if we are demonstrating a witness of Godly purposes to establish goodly concepts by fighting against the evils we recognize as an affront to the safety and welfare of ourselves and others. Our self-indignant pride causes us to conveniently forget the Gospel of God through Jesus Christ is intentionally able, where people do not have the capacity, to bring healing and reconciliation to anyone in any circumstance – through faith, intercession, and active empathy.

   The traditional “Seven Deadly Sins” are thought to have opposite virtues (they do) which practiced will cancel the attractions for the thrills of sinful experiences. But, focusing on the virtuous opposites of any of the particular or collective sins as the answers to finding wholesome endeavors “by the help and grace of God to give to us the strength to avoid temptation” will always increase the pressures and influences of temptation to once again indulge, most likely with more vigorous intensity and abandon, the very troubles we hope to eliminate.

   Using hatred as a psychodynamic behavior augmentation tool of intentional damage to an individual, as an avenue to control and/or protect general social well-being of citizens, causes unfathomed damage to everyone on both sides of the ‘fence’ thought to separate the knowledge of good and evil. Furthermore, various intrusive and fashionable methods of punishment for wrongdoing psychologically restricts the ‘spirit’ of evil temptation and influence in ways that increase a person’s (and therefore a community’s) identity with the wrong by reinforcing right over wrong.

   When the pains of ostracism from avenues for healing and acceptance increase through powers of right standards to “teach the errant the pain of their mistakes”, there is a folding into the pains of isolation and low worth as human beings that led to falling into the wrongs in the first place. Most often the stigmatized example increases the fears in others about being caught combined with a calculating delusional perception that anyone who hasn’t been caught “… gets away with it”.

   In this, the right, as opposed to the wrong, of social discourse as it applies to safety and well being, becomes directly subverted by the right through establishing examples of wrong in identifying fellow human beings as unworthy to be right because of their wrong. This makes the right wrong in its polarized acceptance of any wrong as being identified with who anyone actually is – in the name of protection of anyone harmed by the wrong.

   But, this practice further harms the victim(s), and the productive atmosphere of general society, through the ever present fears that certain people are monsters without recourse to be freed of their difficulties. Wrongs increase through the processes involved by establishing ever increasing intolerance of individuals and groups who commit wrongs. Because they are identified by the holders of right as intrinsically wrong (the rule of law misapplied), we have societies shooting themselves in the foot by ever increasing the divisions that cause social upheaval and a feared criminal underclass of misfits.

   The ‘underdog masses’ thought to be unworthy of uplifting discourse are, in fact, sharing citizens in any legitimately founded social order and/or group. Insert in the mix the public and private distorted logic of humanist reasoning that true Christian living necessarily brings materialistic prosperity, and we have people equating their level of piety according to their wealth – as opposed to “dirty money” stolen from the Godly by and through emotional traumatized limitations placed upon “good people” by “bad people”.

   Being lost to the imaginative fantasies of worldly meanings as if it is reality, as compared to God’s gift of awareness provided by Jesus Christ for the asking, is very much like the differences of understanding we experience after waking from a vivid clear dream. While in the dream we accepted the events and happenings without challenge as if the distortions, confusions, and impossibilities were real. All the information we need to exist in reality is there, but mixed up in ways we do not perceive while dreaming.

   When awake and reflecting on the dream we realize how messed up and unreal the dream’s false reality was. As many millions of people are living their lives in the dream of separation from the reality given by God moment by moment, as we trust in faith in Him through what we say and do, our actions and words will seem out of sorts with the patterns of the dream the world relies in to make their way on their own – in God’s name.

   People, lost in their worldly dreams by their blindness to accept Christ’s leading, depend in and on the religious principles of God in Christ (and other other-than-Christ God centered religions where many claim any religious system of belief in a Supreme Being are various way to be accepted by Him) through their blindness without realizing Who He actually is to them and everybody else.

User Syndrome

   Communications, spoken languages and unspoken expressions and activities, will always be materialistically motivated manipulations unless brought to all situations in reliance through faith awareness in Christ. Who we are in Him is complete for the asking moment by moment as circumstances present themselves. Those around us are usually attentive to materialistic motivations in priority to who they are in Christ. Our words and deeds are mostly misunderstood and mishandled as if we are as opinionated as they – especially if ‘they’ are viewing their intellectually emotional attachments to Godly principles as if human collective wisdom is spiritually manifested by God Himself.

   For example: Handing a business card to a customer and/or acquaintance as a secure reminder is honest salesmanship. Leaving a business card “incognito” where it will be found as a prompt to initiate interest is not. This is why the Bible warns of haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief, a deceitful witness that utters lies, and him that sows discord among brethren.

   Not coincidentally an actual witness of God’s Truth in Christ through the Holy Spirit (because He is the Word) convicts wayward hearts exactly in their misconceptions trusting in communications for self protections and securities. Consequently, the true Gospel becomes considered heresy of disruptive malcontent. One of the apparent signals always present when conflict over faith righteousness ensues is the difference between an ongoing desire to solve issues of conflict and constant postulations pressuring divisions to eliminate the controversy without resolution.

   “Frankly, life is too short to spend your time dealing with toxicity.  If you can, avoid spending much time with people who are indicative of unpleasant behaviors and you'll feel a lot happier.” But, what sort of happiness will eventually result when the Holy Spirit of mercy and grace unto repentance (turning the heart from self-empathy to God’s purposes) is quenched for what is thought to be righteous personal gain?

  Everyone is born a liar and will die a liar without accepting who we are by God’s work in Jesus Christ through the Cross and Resurrection. If anyone were as consistently honest as we all pretend to be in believing our intentions are well placed, we would have no need of God because our own generated words would have the metaphysical power of creation. Not one of humankind’s men or women that has ever lived, or ever will live, has or has had the ability or capacity to generate enough absolute truth to sustain the minutest infinitesimal moment of existence except Jesus Christ Himself.

   Any anarchist collective consciousness of humankind would only serve to eliminate a collective by undermining each of the individual’s God created propensity for finding their personal identity of will founded in God’s active designs for companionship. Each of us has a particular personality; a divinely inspired charismatic character, a focused purposeful individuality, uniquely admirable qualities, an extraordinary persona, and traits like no other person.

   Yet, we all are the same as people where our various and sundry differences are exaggerated by our separateness from God into environmental orientations drawn from a fallen world. When the Bible says we may gain life in Christ by giving up our own life, it is speaking about the distortions of who we actually are that keep us out from realizing our potentials. Most often we believe in an epiphany of emotional purification where our accumulated guilt, and shame because of it, reaches an overload where remorse takes us into understanding the positive light side of the darkness we have been entertaining.

   But, the wisdom of a world deceived by “spiritual wickedness in high places”, falls just short of the infilling of true life in Christ, with its doctrine and dogma and/or experiential entertainment aspects of organized church. Psycho-emotional “cleansing” is an instinctual self-protective mechanism (steps toward salvation, but not salvation itself), many times brought about by a genuine witness of the Gospel and diverted into something else by unconstrained ignorant church practices centering on materialistic results in the name of God.

   The organized church’s subversion of the Gospel happened eons ago by the powers of secular government to control all aspects of commerce via control of free willed self-determination among the people. The church took intrusive authority, through pomp and circumstance, between God and a man and his wife, where families gathered together are the church itself, the Body of Christ. People yearn for outward signs and wonders to feel secure in their deceptions and the devil likes it that way.

   Evil is taught to people as children, and continued to be reinforced, by promoting fears of doing wrong. It focuses a person’s will in the cleverness of self – positional principles – in a way that intensifies internal desires to rebel and/or retaliate against conditions of circumstance that bind one into overbearing rules. Doing right because it is required, fearing ill-willed consequences, by one’s household or community culture gives impressions to purposely ignore better judgment. Egotistical self-determined false intelligence then tempts, taunts, and drives him or her to see wrong as a better right when censure, chastisement, and punishments are avoided through secrecy.

   The fallen nature of the world would be enough of a difficulty to deal with in allowing God to regain our authority in Him in keeping us healthy and well, His way. But, by its separation from the purity of God’s loving-kindness, the fallen world is under control by the one who caused the fall… through the fall. He caused the fall by subverting the authority of humankind over his deception by deceiving people into accepting falsehood – denial of God’s authoritative recommendations generated from His Truth of being.

   So, a liar is a person who, inadvertently through habitually trained self-serving desires for security and rationale in our confusing mess of a world "intends to mislead," "deliberately," without being asked to do so by others in interactive discourse – simply, to get along. Everyone is steeped in responding to the inconsistencies of worldly wisdom, outside mutual ongoing trust in God, because the public domain requires us to be involved to support our needs to participate in life.

   Tact, aversion to frustrations, displeasure with conflict, bottled up empathetic concern for others, resentment over unfair circumstances, and lack of working knowledge about how to function in faith action with others, keeps us in the adversary’s gleefully angry grip as our day to day dependence upon society must keep us. Without realizing it because of our deepest sincere intentions, while knowing it because we feel inadequate inside while outwardly defending our rights, we are members of a culture of calculating manipulating liars.

   We do not think easily of deceit when we are working to protect ourselves from thieves and robbers, but our own consistent propensity to cover our personal weaknesses drops the load of stability onto those around us (starting with our original needs as children to trust our parents with our care) who provide us a witness of possibilities in expecting trustworthy companionship. Deceived into believing our mortal instinct is lifted up into salvation, since we remain in a flesh world with flesh needs and desires, we find escapism vs. industrious endeavor becomes a glorified flight or fight balancing act.

   Our motivations express our self-concern by casting aside others who oppose our wishes and we intermingle ourselves with anyone who seems to support our concepts of peace and prosperity. Through these practices we have learned to emotionally associate industrious production with our definitions of love – as our love for money supplants the love of God. Logically, we assume acceptance and love to be one and the same and use our reasoning to believe proper growth and change has rejection of who we accept we are to be derived from a background of hatred against who we wish not to be.

   Of course, there is a hatred from God Himself for our confusion about our reasons in the moments we live because the time we have is wasted to self-defensive compensation against evil in trying to protect, ‘for His sake’, our right to live. Dishonesty through disrespect for Christ’s victory over our pandering to secret whims, in the facade of innocence to those we are responsible, takes from us our genuine sharing of God’s true love. His ways for us are to be open and honest with our loved ones, in ways that protect our positions of privacy through our commitments of marriage and the various stations each of us hold in our particular families.

   The spirit of mortal instinct we accept as crucified with Christ on the Cross still “lives” as Paul witnesses in I Corinthians 15:31: “I die daily.” Our born again spirit being in Christ’s Resurrection understands our redemption is an ongoing salvation that accepts our faults and weaknesses in a way where we need not hide our indiscretions from those whom we are committed. As Jesus Christ is our absolute substitute through His Holy Spirit of Truth of victory unto life, we bind ourselves to condemnation during the times we hide and cover the errors we make in not trusting those who care for us with matter-of-fact honesty unto repentance.

   The debilitating problem most often faced with trusting another enough to realize forgiveness is our fears about how those we are deeply involved with may handle our sins. This is where people usually take a holier than God approach to condemn people into more sinfulness by onerously identifying them with labels as if they are the faults demonic pressures and meddling are ultimately responsible for causing. This plays upon our natural resident instincts in direct negative attacks, or seemingly positive appeasement, depending on the situation and the motivations.

   It is used to cover, with divisive diversions, feelings of “not measuring up”. Lies come from trying to balance our approaches in dealing with the various conflicting distortions other’s imaginations (assumptions) require. Lies are steeped in past fears and fear of future increased fears. The longer people have been compensating for the mistakes they hold onto through secrecy life, the harder they will fight to keep a false grace of “nothing said means no harm” deception alive. Our entire society is entangled in the horrors of revealed secrets as if the discovery of wrongs is what makes the wrongs wrong.

   Reflection that the wrongs were kept covered, because of reactive fears transferred to anger over discovery, brings realization that most everyone is trying to play God by adeptly covering their errors while being furiously insulted when someone insists to honestly break the ‘code’ of silence. People are gracefully (and not so gracefully) covering their own mistakes in faith they will not be discovered. They make inferences, suggestions, implied persuasions, and most everything they can think of to somehow cause others to do what they want them to do as if it was their own ideas.

   Frustration, anger, and all sorts of resentful retaliations then ensue due to failures to be direct, honest, straightforward, and open about desires to simply ask. This is because they do not want to risk, “No thank you,” so patterns of social order rely on lying for people to force the nature of things to get what they want. There is no punishment for concealed deceptions won out and affection is more pleasantly accepted by an apparently less problematic situation.

   There is a sense of power and control by taking advantage over situations by taking advantage over others. The emotional sense of victory at another’s expense builds a competitive atmosphere where it becomes a game to see how far stealing the life out of others can go. Complicating matters in the most diabolical ways is when there is a deceptive recognition of human frailty in others, exactly where their faith needs bolstering, that fair weather Christians prey upon with 'insight' into condemnation for evil by identifying hardship with what is thought to be intentional disrespect.

   It is a general order of competitive chaos serving to drive successful self-esteem through fear as motivation against failure. Underlying this, and hidden in the midst of confused emotional turmoil, is where our true honesty and dishonesty lies in antagonism to itself. In our own need to make sense, we look to others to find a focus to project our weaknesses so we will feel stronger. The “bully” gets his power from habitually scrutinizing others for his own problems using the same mechanism we all have to indentify where people need our help.

   Compassionate extension of aid to those in need is unjustly turned inside out because of intense anxiety over not feeling useful or wanted. Covering hidden pains and fears of inadequacy and frustration gives a type of social acceptance that emotional reasoning converts and spirals into ever increasing pain to cover. Our traditionally shared obsession with the correlations between word phrasing, intentions, and actual circumstances crosses all boundaries of private, public, business, political, and religious territory.

   Each loses its proper functional capability, with respect to the others, to an ambiguous searching to be served by each in some way that one or more of the others has not. The primary way to ‘combat’ lying; misdirection, misleading, and misrepresentation, is staying aware that only God holds the corner on the ability to transmit absolute truth. This way, we can be genuinely straight forward with those we are privately involved and not fear being rejected.

“Because harassment is most times persistent, persistence is often mistaken for harassment.”

Cardinal Sins and Faith

   Life is all about souls. Our immortal soul’s trust in faith, swayed by mortal desires, is in conflict with reality; while our mortal desires, swayed by our immortal soul’s trust in faith, find true freedom in expressive endeavor. The reasons and purposes for everyone’s mortal instinctual nature, to live in justified fulfillment, work only in unity by faithful submission to God’s intended eternal patterns of positional authorities, positively directing our immortal soul nature. Therefore, defensive risk assessment is relegated to God in Jesus Christ, through His authority within a man with a woman in marriage, as an underpinning for general familial concerns. There are seven traditionally identified cardinal sins.

   They are: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride. There is an eighth called, Loathing. Practicing Chastity and Patience to counteract Lust, Temperance and Empathy to counteract Gluttony, Charity and Diligence to counteract Greed, Consideration and Helpfulness to counteract Sloth, Kindness and Longsuffering to counteract Wrath, Appreciation and Tolerance to counteract Envy, and Humility and Compassion to counteract Pride, will none of them do anything but increase the impulses and compulsions to reengage the passions of the seven deadly sins.

   The reason that is true is works to better one’s self for the sake of self improvement are drawn from instinctual self-perpetuating wisdom. For example: Pride, if not dealt with by God through Christ, will rear its ballooned ego into greater heights of prideful fancy, by and through being proud of successes, in humbly and compassionately extending time, efforts, and resources to help others. God knows the intents of the heart, but people are impressed with works enough to ignore the signs and signals of using the reverse of maladjustments to make it appear as if proper adjustments have occurred.

   The main trouble with vigilantly taking course to overcome sinful habits for Christ’s sake, without honestly allowing Him to make the necessary changes, is Satan works against us to replace another deceptive impulse with the one we believe we have conquered. Meanwhile, the first “defeated” habit is latent in the background yet to be legitimately lifted from our being by the power of God Who gave to us His promises that all things are finished in His will.

   He will never violate our own will concerning our trust in His loving-kindnesses, and the individual and collective will of everyone alive in the world does affect our circumstances and concerns in everyday living. We struggle with difficulties thinking God does not care to relieve us from continuing in our habits because we are not worthy enough to be healed – that we crossed a line somewhere and are bound to eventual condemnation.

   Jesus Christ is a human being Who lived as a human being for the singular purpose to take on Himself the entire sin of humanity (person by person, sin by sin) from the time the world began, until His return to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords, over all. God, in and through Jesus Christ His Word, is the Creator of linear time as we know it. So, this means Jesus Christ took on time itself from the Cross through His Resurrection. Since all history is simultaneous in the realm of eternity, it gives to us an understanding how sins we commit today are folded into Christ on the Cross.

   He lives through the Cross at all times while everyone, and each of us, remains interned in the flesh. It is His life that brings our victory over any obstacles of evil intrusion and we can be sure He understands our personal plight much better than we do, as well as anyone else who may think they know who we are to them. The methods He asks us to use in working out our salvation are quite different from our usual and traditional instructions given to us by most profiteering church organizations and ministries.

   Conversely, the appeal to the lost world for interest in the Gospel of life, and the works of charity for assistance and witness of the Gospel by organized churches and evangelical ministries, should be understood for what they are as inadequate institutions compared to the reality of Christ Himself, but not be diminished in appreciation and thankfulness to God for their concerted efforts. All things operate through the faith Jesus Christ used to face the Cross. He rose from the dead because He said He would.

   The Truth of His Word that created all that is, including the awareness of life we have to know we are alive, is created continually from the measure of the gift of His faith He gives to us. God’s system of reality in faith by a word is an agreement of trust in truth. Only God is capable of absolute truth, so our reliance in Him, through the faith He gives to us as we live, must be in Christ’s way. His way is not haphazard, chaotic, or random. For example: the most often repeated admonition in the Bible is the declaration that a man and woman are one in marriage.

   The reason marriage is the underlying thread throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is original sin (the fall of mankind into accepting authority under beings God designed man to have authority over) was specifically through the chasm Satan caused between Adam and Eve where he stole God’s authority over Adam by taking Adam’s authority in Eve, since she was of Adam. I Corinthians 11:8-10 says, For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

   For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. “Power on her head” simply means the power of protective faith in the authority of her husband in Christ. Faith is based in a word. Trust follows faith in a man or a woman, not because a man or woman are necessarily more honest of themselves in their own personality and deeds, but because honest faith in God will bring trust in one’s husband or wife because God is God and not because of who the man or woman is or isn’t in their attentions.

   If neither one of a married couple is practiced in faithing their attentions in God, their measure of faith in Christ is always complete, though not realized or purposely advantaged for redemption. Multiply this by millions of “relationships” outside the authority of God and one can see why social seats of service to the people suffer under the loads of corruption. When a man and/or a woman rely in a word of “corrective suggestion” from others to compel desired results from their mate, they are denying their own authorities in God to respect Him in their shared commitment.

   When a married man and woman trust their will in each other to God together, in faith through their shared honesty, not only is the power of faith unto salvation active in the man’s response to God for the covering of his wife, and the power of faith unto salvation is active in the woman’s response to God for her husband’s salvation, because the two are one unto God; their combined faith as two, gathered together as one in marriage, has the connective power of creation at hand to do mighty spiritual and physical works.

   The Bible says, “Have faith in God.” “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” “Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?” “Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.” “Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” “Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” “That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” “Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.” “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”