The SPIRIT of the Ten Commandments

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Roughly half the world’s population follows Bible-based religions, made up of 2.1 billion Christians, 1.5 billion Muslims and 14 million Jews (www.pewforum.org).  They all claim to believe in the Ten Commandments, so then why are their histories filled with religious separatism and warring and why does it continue?  The answer is human selfishness that is largely enabled and sanctified by literalism, which is the love of the literal substance or interpretation of scripture more than the spiritual substance of scripture.  Christianity, Islam and Judaism are all built upon the massive lie that scripture is the literal word of God, but scripture teaches the absolute opposite, revealing that literalism is not only dead (the ‘dead letter,’ Romans 7:6), but that it kills the spiritual message (the ‘living spirit,’ Second Corinthians 3:6).  See how the Ten Commandments are transformed when we look beyond the literal and into the spiritual substance of the matter.

The First Commandment instructs us to love God before all else, having no other gods.  When scripture is interpreted literally, it is easy for religions to assign God to their group over all others.  Jews insisting that only they are the “Chosen Ones” are effectively teaching that the God of the Bible is their God.  Christians insisting that only they are the “saved” ones are guilty of doing the same thing, teaching that God is their God.  Muslims insisting that only they shall have Paradise are also teaching that God is their God.  Christianity, Islam and Judaism are infected with this religious separatism because of their select literal interpretations of scripture “fitted” to define God as being exclusively theirs.  They all deny that God is the invisible Spirit of Selfless Love that lives and grows within all that live and grow in the Spirit.  Their religious separatism would disappear and peace would reign over them if they embraced the spiritual substance of God by LIVING IT.

The Second Commandment is about not making graven or worldly images of things that are of Heaven or of Earth, an instruction to turn away from the worship of idolatrous imagery.  Overall, idolatry is when we love something, anything more than the Spirit of God—the Spirit of Selfless or Brotherly Love.  The most common idolatry among Bible-based religions is the insistence that only members of a certain religion are “holy” and shall have Heaven and everyone else is “unholy” and shall go to Hell.  As long as there are people who love judging themselves to Heaven and everyone else to Hell, the big businesses of selfish or false religion will thrive.  It is precisely this holier-than-thou idolatry that is at the heart of the discord and warring between the Abrahamic religions.  When people are raised to believe that God is their God and that only they get Heaven then it is no mystery when we see them judging, fearing, blaming, hating, persecuting, brutalizing and even killing outsiders or non-members.

The Third Commandment tells us not to speak God’s name in vain or without worthiness.  Those that say “I believe in God” but do not give life to the substance or Spirit of God are those that use His name in vain.  It is not by the voice from our mouth that justifies our belief—like saying “I believe in God”—but rather the “voice” from our hearts and motivations (Matthew 15:17-20)—or by actually personifying the Spirit of God.

The Fourth Commandment to honor the Sabbath Day is about pouring out the Spirit of God every day.  In the Old Testament, the Sabbath Day is the seventh day, following six days of labor.  In the New Testament, Jesus Christ is called the “Lord even of the Sabbath day” (Matthew 12:8) indicating that He is the Lord over every day of the week, even Sabbath Day.  Let us examine this further.  The name “Jesus Christ” is dead literalism until we know the spiritual definition of that name.  “Jesus Christ” by any name is The Way, Truth and Life of God’s Spirit of Selfless Love over human selfishness.  Jesus even reveals that the entirety of scripture or “all the law and the prophets” does not boil down to literally believing in Him, the person, but boils down to loving the Spirit of God and applying it (Matthew 22:36-40).  Though Judaism and Islam do not believe that the literal person, Jesus Christ, is the Messiah, it is of no consequence ultimately.  The spiritual substance of the Fourth Commandment to honor the Sabbath Day is a revelation that, regardless of one’s worldly religion, every day is the Lord’s Day in the lives of those treading the Lord’s Way—The Way, Truth and Life of Selfless Love over Selfishness.

The Fifth Commandment tells us to honor “father and mother” so that we shall have eternal Oneness with God or that we do not “die the death” or be eternally separated from God (eternal damnation; Matthew 15:4).  Honoring “father and mother” is not about our physical parents, but about our spiritual Father and Mother—the Male-Female Spirit of God (Genesis 1:27).  For more about the masculine/feminine nature of the Spirit of God, please watch my video from January 22, 2010 titled, “Who Is God and What Is His Plan” at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEKHeswJT7Y.  Furthermore, if honoring “father and mother” is ultimately about biological parents then Jesus would not have revealed that those who are His “mother” are those that do His Father's Will (Matthew 12:50).  Honoring “father and mother” is about putting the invisible or unseen Spirit of the Creator before things seen or created things.

The Sixth Commandment tells us not to kill.  While some scholars argue over the word “kill,” this commandment is not firstly about the act of literally killing or murdering, but about not killing the Spirit of Selfless Love within us by denying it.  If the world’s Christians, Muslims and Jews stopped killing The Way of Selfless Love with their greater love for selfish, separatist, fearful, superstitious religion then peace would reign among them, naturally.

The Seventh Commandment tells us not to commit adultery.  There are two end-all marriages in the Bible.  There’s the marriage supper of the Lamb or Oneness with God (‘Heaven’) for those “married to” or bound in companionship with The Way of Selfless Love (‘Lamb’; Revelation 19:9), and then there’s the supper of the great god or separation from God (‘Hell’) for those “married to” or bound in companionship with selfishness (Revelation 19:17).   We humans are married or bound to every moment in our lives—to our jobs, friends, experiences, etc.  We are to be married to the Spirit of Selfless Love before all worldly marriages.  To deny our bond to Selfless Love, instead choosing selfishness is to commit adultery.

The Eighth Commandment tells us not to steal.  To take of the Spirit that gives us life without giving life to the Spirit is to “steal” the Spirit.

The Ninth Commandment tells us not to bear false witness, an instruction to be truthful.

The Tenth Commandment tells us not to covet, which is about not building selfish thoughts and desires, as doing so tempts us to give life to those thoughts and desires, actually producing fruits of selfishness.

When we understand the spiritual substance of the Ten Commandments, we see that Commandments Two through Ten are reduced to the First, that is, if we live by the First Commandment we will not break the rest.

How would Judaism, Christianity and Islam developed differently had they embraced the Spirit of Selfless Love over selfish dogma?  The Bible tells us that selfish religion is in bed with world politics and that humanity is drunk upon the fruits of this union (Revelation 17:2).   If the leaders and nations led by Judaism, Christianity and Islam want peace, truly, then they shall have to REPENT, dropping their corrupted religion for the incorruptible Spirit of their beloved God.

When shall these great religions come to know and embrace the Spirit of the Ten Commandments?

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How I Came To Write My Books and Why I Am Not A Prophet

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Though my blogs provide links to my publisher’s site so that you may purchase my last 2 books, I have repeatedly said that no one needs to buy my books, as nearly every critical subject is covered in my blogs.

In my teens, I realized I was burdened by unreconciled anger over the abuses I suffered during my 5 years in Catholic school, being the only nonreligious, “heretic” child in my class.  I kept having thoughts of killing priests and I knew that if I did not try to heal myself I might end up putting those thoughts into action, so I decided to try to understand my abusers by reading the Bible.  It was a slow start, over a period of years, reading the New Testament here and there, and its many revelations about goodness and loving others was comforting, as it proved, as far as the Bible was concerned, that what those Catholics did to me was not at all true to the Message of their beloved Jesus.  I also began reading books about Edgar Cayce, popularly known as “The Sleeping Prophet,” who, in fact, never claimed to be a prophet but rather a clairvoyant or clear seer.  In my mid-thirties, I began to study the entire Bible, filling several notebooks with summaries of scripture.  It was around that time that I began volunteering as an aide to the activities director at a nearby home for the elderly, where I played the piano and conducted sing-a-longs and held Bible study classes.

One day, an eighty-year-old Catholic woman named Alma spoke to me after our Bible study session and began crying, telling me she had seen her priest, who told her that her husband, who had died ten years earlier, was in Hell because he was not a Christian.  She was heartbroken and told me that her husband was a wonderful man and that I would have loved him if I had known him.  I told her that, well, of course he was a wonderful man and surely I would have loved him, and that her priest should be ashamed of himself for lying to her and being so cruel.  I immediately took her aside and opened the Bible to show her what Jesus revealed in His Parable of the Good Samaritan.  I reminded her that Samaritans were considered heretics and going to Hell and that Jewish priests were considered Chosen by God and going to Heaven.  I explained that in the Parable of the Good Samaritan it was the heretic Samaritan and not the Jewish priest that stopped to help the injured man, and that Jesus instructs us to be like the heretic, not the priest, a revelation indicating that The Way of God has ultimately nothing to do with one’s worldly religion or lack of, but is entirely about one’s character personifying The Way of unselfish goodness.  She had stopped crying.  I saw a wave of relief come over her face and we hugged and I headed for home.  That was Thursday, June 9, 1994, just days before the infamous murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

I thought about Alma all the way home and reflected upon my own experiences with the cruelty of holier-than-thou Christianity.  The moment I walked into my home, something extraordinary happened.  I have never said this before publicly, as I have feared losing friends and being judged a nutjob.  I have come to a point where I don’t fear this anymore, because what happened did happen and it is THE REASON why I began writing my first book.  Prior to this moment, I never had any intention or desire to be a writer.  After walking into my home—and I hadn’t even shut the front door yet—I heard a voice, a voice like no other, a voice that was not audible, coming from an outside source, but coming from within.  It was not a loud voice, but a strong, deep commanding voice, booming with a resonance that seemed to vibrate throughout every part of my body.  I do not remember the exact words I heard and never did write them down, but the message was clear.  The voice instructed me to write a book showing the spiritual message of the Book of Revelation.  I sat down and, within minutes, began writing, and five years later I self-published Revelation Earth, based upon Edgar Cayce’s 24 clairvoyant discourses about the Book of Revelation’s spiritual meaning.  I explain all 404 verses of the Book of Revelation individually, presenting both the standard or general interpretation of each verse alongside the spiritual interpretation.  This book is no longer available and I have been slowly reworking it with the intent to, one day, publish it once again.

I do not and never will claim that God spoke to me that day, as to do so is to claim I am a prophet.  I am not a prophet, but I do believe we humans simply do not know the full potential and wonder of our minds.  I believe my mind, troubled by experiences with cruel religion, was speaking to me, providing an open door to finding greater healing for myself and to help others.  I did not question the command from the voice, but followed it.

I am well aware that by telling this story I may lose readers and even friends that may think I am a nutjob.  So be it.  I am no longer afraid to reveal this truth, because it happened and it is the reason why I began writing books presenting the spiritual message of the Bible.  The Bible Message is not about religions that teach selfish, separatist, fearful, superstitious, holier-than-thou, idolatrous, mystery-filled, hellfire-and-damnation dogma.  Let my work be a testament unto itself.  If my work is good and worthy and true then it is because the Bible’s spiritual message is good and worthy and true.

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Defining Extremist Christians, Muslims and Jews and How They Are No Different Than Racists

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The Bible and Qu’ran offer perfectly beautiful messages that instruct followers to rise above human selfishness and personify Selfless Love, treating others as they would want to be treated.  The greatest sickness within Christianity, Islam and Judaism is literalism.  Scripture reveals that the literal word or literal interpretation of scripture also known as the letter of the law is dead and kills the spirit or spiritual message also known as the spirit of the law (Romans 7:6; Second Corinthians 3:6; Qu’ran 3:50, 61:06).  The reason why these religions teach that only their religion is truer to God and holier over the others is because of their exclusive literal interpretations of scripture.  It is precisely this self-exaltation or what I like to call “holier-than-thou-ism” that is used to justify their blaming, hating, persecuting, brutalizing and even killing people not of their religion.

What is central belief of extremist religion?  It is the self-exalted, separatist belief that only conforming members of the religion are “holy” or “saved” or “of God” or “doing God’s will” and everyone else on Earth is not and shall suffer for eternity.  Religious extremists dehumanize those not in their exclusive group by labeling them with such terms as “unsaved,” “infidels,” “secularists” and “heretics.” 

What is the difference between racism and extremist or holier-than-thou religion?  Substantively, nothing.  The heart of racism is self-exaltation, where only people of a certain race are better or superior to all other races.  In America, racists are socially ostracized, because racism is unacceptable.  Why is it unacceptable to teach that Whites are superior to Blacks yet it is completely acceptable to teach that Christians are superior to non-Christians, which is what Glenn Beck and a whole host of Christian preachers propagate?  Why is it acceptable to teach that followers of “traditional religion” are superior to “secularists,” which is what Bill O’Reilly teaches?  Why is it acceptable to teach that only true Jews are the Chosen Ones of God and everyone else shall not be chosen, which is what separatist Jews teach?  Why is it acceptable to teach that only conforming Muslims shall enjoy Paradise and everyone else shall suffer the wrath of God, which is what holier-than-thou Muslims teach?

Every religious group in America that teaches that only its group is “holy” and superior and that everyone else is “unholy” and a lesser human being should be defined “extremist” and socially ostracized and rejected, just like racists.  The United States government needs to set an example for the world and put its foot down and identify these religious groups and, furthermore, take away their tax-exempt status.

Let us not forget that the vast majority of extremist or holier-than-thou Christians, Muslims and Jews are nonviolent.  Make no mistake—it is precisely from this cesspool of self-exalted religion that violent extremists rise up.

Scripture reveals that God is an invisible Spirit that is Love and All-Good (John 4:24; Colossians 1:15; First John 4:16; Mark 10:18), and that God is the Source or Selfless Giver of the Spirit (Revelation 22:1), and that the governance of God’s righteous justice is as you sow, so shall you reap (Galatians 6:7-8).  In other words, God is the Spirit of Selfless Love that lives and grows within all that live and grow in the Spirit, regardless of one’s worldly religion or lack of (Matthew 7:21, 12:31-33; Luke 10:30-37; John 5:29; Romans 2:25-26).

There is no excuse for Christians, Jews or Muslims to self-exalt, because their scripture repeatedly instructs them to exalt only God (Exodus 15:2; Psalms 34:3) and reveals that self-exalters are rebellious and wicked (Psalms 66:7; Psalms 140:8).  The Qu’ran repeatedly instructs Muslims to honor Jesus’ Gospel (Qu’ran 3:44-59; 5:46; 42:12-13; 57:27; 61:6) and Jesus comes right out and tells us that all that self-exalt shall be abased (Matthew 23:12).  Furthermore, Jesus makes it clear that the entirety of scripture boils down to loving the Spirit of Selfless Love and applying it (Matthew 22:36-40).

Self-exalted Christians, Muslims and Jews cannot shut up about their love for God, but they are greatest deniers of God in the most fundamental way, because they usurp the Judgment Throne of God, that is, they kick God off His Judgment Throne and sit their holier-than-thou butts down and proceed to judge this one to Heaven and that one to Hell.  Do not be deceived, these people may speak of God till their tongues fall out of their heads, but they could not be further from God by their greater love for separatist, fearful, self-exalted religion.

I have just presented many revelations from the Bible and Qu’ran.  If you would like to know the exact scripture to which I am referring, you will find it by going to this videoblog on my site on MySpace, where I not only provide the text to what you have just heard, but also the scriptural references.

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Part 2 - The Vile Lie That The Jews Killed Jesus DISPROVED

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Thank you for coming to Part 2 of this video examining the Christian lie that the Jews killed Jesus, a vicious lie that exists to this day.

Did Jesus have to be crucified?  No.  The Roman Empire had the sole authority to crucify and did not have to approve His crucifixion.  The Bible reveals that a crowd of Jews accepted responsibility for His crucifixion, saying that His blood would be on them and their children (Matthew 27:25).  It is that revelation upon which Christian anti-Semitism took root.

Sounds like a strong argument that the Jews killed Jesus, except for one critical fact that remains denied by Christianity, and that is the Biblical revelation that literalism or literal interpretation is dead and kills the spiritual message (Romans 7:6; Second Corinthians 3:6).  Once we understand that the Bible is not firstly the literal word of God, but rather a spiritual message that we are to know and embrace, the Bible’s Message is transformed, especially the definition of what a Jew is to God and what a Gentile is.

In Romans 2:27-29, we learn that God’s Jews are not defined outwardly, by way of one’s ancestry or religion, but are defined inwardly, by way of their love for the living spirit over dead literalism.  By knowing the definition of God’s Jews, we know the definition of Gentiles.  Gentiles are those that love the selfishness of dead literalism over the living Spirit of God—the Spirit of Selfless or Brotherly Love.  Just as there are literal Jews that are spiritually Gentiles, there are literal Gentiles that are spiritually Jews.  Everyone that personifies the Spirit of God no matter if they are literally Jew or Gentile is a spiritual Jew or one of God’s Jews.  They are the Chosen Ones of the Spirit of God, because they are the ones that have chosen the Spirit of God, for as you sow, so shall you reap.

Let us not forget that literalism is dead and that we are to move beyond the literal and into the spiritual substance of the matter.  It is true that the crowd of people that took responsibility for Jesus’ death were outwardly or literally Jews, but they were inwardly or spiritually Gentiles.  It was not the Jews that killed Jesus, but the Gentiles, the ones that deny the Spirit of Brotherly Love.  Of course, you will never convince a literalist of this revelation.

I am just a “heretic” non-Christian, yet I figured out the revelation about who killed Jesus within my first year of studying the Bible.  How is it that centuries upon centuries of popes and priests and preachers and evangelists have never taught this revelation when it is quite evident in scripture?  How can we ever measure the weight of Christian brutality and bloodshed upon the Jews?  And all because of what?  Because of a big, fat, easily-disproved Christian lie.  How might this world be different today if Christianity—the self-proclaimed Church of Jesus Christ—had only ever taught and exemplified Jesus’ Spirit of Selfless Love instead of selfish, separatist, superstitious, fearful, holier-than-thou religion?  Are we really to believe that Christianity is the Church of Jesus Christ?  How can that be when Jesus Christ Himself tells us that His Church is not of this world, but of the Spirit (John 8:23, 15:19, 17:14, 17:16, 18:36)? 

The true Church of Jesus Christ does not have walls made of wood or brick or stone, but made of the Spirit of Brotherly Love.  The true Church is YOU when you walk The Way, Truth and Life of the Spirit, no matter your membership in worldly religion or lack of.  Either you live to personify The Way of Brotherly Love or you don’t.  It is as simple as that.  

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The Vile Lie That The Jews Killed Jesus, With Glenn Beck, Barbara Walters, Mel Gibson - Part 1

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On July 13, 2010 Glenn Beck, who hosts the second biggest show on the Fox News Channel, explained that if Jesus had been a victim instead of a Messiah He would have (quote, unquote) “come back from the dead and made the Jews pay for what they did.”  Clearly, Beck believes the deep-rooted Christian lie that the Jews killed Jesus—a vicious lie that has been used to justify the persecution and killing of Jews for many centuries, and that is still used by anti-Semites to this day. 

Recently, on October 21, Barbara Walters, of the morning talk show, The View, addressed the topic of people fearing groups of other people, saying that (quote, unquote) “At its extreme, we went for thousands of years saying the Jews killed Christ and it took a long time for people to understand what portion of it, what the history was… what the whole argument was about.”  Why does Barbara Walters, a world-famous reporter, explain away the Jews killing Jesus as having something do to with the history and whole argument of the matter?  If she is going to bring up this subject why doesn’t she or any of her co-hosts make it clear that the Jews did not kill Jesus?  All the ladies of The View have received multiple copies of my last 2 books so, from my perspective, they have no excuse for their ignorance. 

Back in 2004, Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ taught the world, once again, that (quote, unquote) “the Jews killed the Lord Jesus.”  Consequently, the controversy over the Jews killing Jesus was reignited internationally and not one media mouthpiece ever put this issue to rest by showing how the Jews did not kill Jesus. 

Before I show how the Jews did not kill Jesus, understand that Christianity used that vile lie to justify persecuting and killing Jews for the greater part of its history, building anti-Semitism throughout the world, especially in Europe.  Here is just a partial list of the long, brutal, bloody history of Christian anti-Semitism (from Bernard Grun’s The Timetables of History and from websites http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/timeline.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies).

In the year 325, the First Council of Nicaea met in order to institutionalize the Catholic creed, that it should be the true representation of Christendom.  It was agreed that Catholic clergy were forbidden to even talk to Jews.  Later, it was decreed that Jews could not marry Catholics or hold public office and that Catholics converting to Jews would be put to death.  The Catholic Saint Gregory claimed Jews were “murderers of the Lord,” and Saint Ambrose defined a synagogue was a “refuge of insanity” and “damned by God.”  Saint Augustine taught that the Jews killed Jesus and were cursed.  In the year 413, Catholic monks invaded Palestine to destroy synagogues and kill Jews at the Western Wall.  A year later, Jews in Alexandria, Egypt were expelled by Catholic Saint Cyril.

In the 7th century, Catholics in Toledo, Spain burned Jewish books.  In the 8th century, Pope Stephen IV condemned Jews, saying they were “rebellious against God.”  In the 9th century, the Archbishop of Lyons, France called Jews “sons of darkness.”  In the 10th century, Pope Leo VII encouraged parts of Germany to expel Jews.  In the 11th century, Jews were either converted by force or expelled or slaughtered in parts of Germany and France.  Pope Urban II sanctified religious terrorism when he ordered the First Crusade to free Christendom of Jews and other “heretics” in Europe, Palestine and Egypt.  Those who refused to leave or convert were massacred.  In the 12th century, Jews were kicked out of France and their property confiscated.  In the 13th century, Jews were kicked out of England and Southern Italy.  In Spain, they were ordered to become Christians or leave.  In the 14th century, thousands of Jews were killed, having been accused of spreading the Black Plague.  Jews were expelled from Hungary and parts of Germany.  In the 15th century, Jews were expelled from Austria and Portugal.  The Spanish Inquisition began and Jews were ordered to leave Spain or become Christians.  In the 16th century, the Portuguese Inquisition began, which was even worse than the Spanish Inquisition.  In Germany, Protestantism was in its infancy and its beloved German founder and priest, Martin Luther, called Jews “a whoring people” that are “full of the devil’s feces.”  In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Catholic nations of France, Portugal and Spain finally ended their Inquisitions.  In the 20th century, anti-Semitism reared its ugly head again in Germany, a country that had once been the northernmost portion of the Holy Roman Reich or Empire for 844 years, until 1806.  From 1933 to 1945, Germany became the Third Reich, a term indicating that the Nazi State was the successor of the Holy Roman Empire (German’s Second Empire extended from 1871-1918).  The resurgence of anti-Semitism in Germany during this time led to the genocide of Jews that we know as the Holocaust.

For over 15 centuries, generations upon generations of Europeans were saturated with Christianity’s anti-Semitism.  When the Inquisitions finally stopped there was still a seething undercurrent of anti-Semitism in Europe.  Is it any wonder that only a century later the Nazi Third Reich was able to tap into this well of hatred to commit the Holocaust?  To this day, European Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant, take no responsibility in the staggering extermination of the Jews by the Nazis.  Do you think for one moment that Christian anti-Semitism bred into the minds of over 15 centuries of Europeans had absolutely nothing to do with the Holocaust?  If Christianity had not justified anti-Semitism upon the horrible lie that the Jews killed Jesus, but had instead accepted and embraced Jews with Brotherly Love throughout all those centuries and denounced any notion of anti-Semitism, would the Holocaust have happened? 

This is the end of Part 1.  Thank You.

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The Vatican's Selfish Saint-Making

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I am in the process of finishing the work for my next video, which will examine comments made by both Glenn Beck and Barbara Walters regarding the easily-disproved Christian lie that the Jews killed Jesus—an atrocious lie that has been used to justify anti-Semitism since the third century.

In the meantime, I decided to present this quick video because of something that happened recently, on October 17.  The Vatican officially created 6 more saints.  I ask you, Is there one among us that is so perfect as to rightfully kick God off His Throne of Judgment and sit down instead, to judge this one to Heaven or that one to Hell? 

The Catholic Church has been in business for nearly 17 centuries.  During its first six centuries it is thought to have created over 7,500 saints, but no one really knows the exact number because canonization or saint-making did not become an official process until the year 993. Since then, more than 2,500 saints have been created, bringing the total to over 10,000 (www.americancatholic.org).   

www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/faqs.aspx

The history of the Catholic Church is filled with the worship of saints and angels, though the Bible teaches the opposite.  We are instructed not to worship angels and told that those who do are vainly puffed-up by their fleshly or carnal minds (Colossians 2:18).  It stands to reason that if we are not to worship angels, all of which are created by God, then we are certainly not to worship saints that are created by man.

At no time does God instruct us to deny Him in the most fundamental way by kicking Him off His Judgment Throne so that we can sit down instead and judge certain people to Heaven and other to Hell.  On the contrary, scripture reveals that the time of judgment will come at the very end, when God will do the judging (John 5:28-29).

Lastly, for those of you new to my site that might think that I hate Catholics or Protestants or Mormons or Jews or Muslims, that is untrue.  Let us not forget that the Institution is not the Individual.  Did you know that there is only one place in the Bible where we learn that Jesus hates?  He hates the (quote, unquote) “deeds of the Nicolaitanes,” meaning that He hates the selfish works of those with power and control over the religious masses or laity (Revelation 2:6).  Why does He hate them?  Because they deny teaching and exemplifying The Way, Truth and Life of Selfless Love for their greater love of selfish dogma in order to further secure their power and control over the people.  Do not be deceived by lovers of selfish religion, but follow the Spirit of Selfless Love alive within you.

Thank you.

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