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"The most effective way to close down the
human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A
dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and
repel any alternative opinion
which contradicts its narrow,
solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of
retaining power, and
humanity tends to cling to both until
its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade
different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule"
becomes easy." - David Icke
Sacred texts
have been corrupted by
individuals
believing they were clarifying
conceptual
understanding while in fact
such editing, correcting, redacting, combining, re-editing and re-correcting
corrupted the sacred text even further - moving the
sacred text farther and father away from
the original and real
conceptual
understanding of the
original authors.
Many times, even when the
sacred text itself has not been overtly
corrupted, conceptual corruption occurs when a ‘sacred text interpreter' changes the
conceptual structure of the
sacred text - perhaps from that of a
metaphorical allegory to that of a
literal interpretation.
Mankind's
storehouse of knowledge has been looted
repeatedly over time.In
China when a dynasty fell newly empowered officials went back and
rewrote the history of the
past hundred or more years to shine a more
favorable light on those currently in
power.
The
libraries of the
Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Venetians, as well as countless
others have been
destroyed by religious zealots adhering to the
conquering invader's or to the
usurper's religious or poltical doctrine when such writings were at odds
with accepted religious or
poltical dogma
of the invaders or the
religious or poltical dogma of
the usurper's supporters as was the case in
the Roman Empire of 400 AD.
"From the totalitarian point of view
history is something to be
created rather than learned.
A totalitarian state is in effect a
theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to
keep its position, has to be thought of as
infallible. But since, in practice, no one is
infallible, it is frequently necessary to
rearrange past events in order to show that this or that
mistake was not made, or that this or
that imaginary triumph actually happened."
- George Orwell
In the past politics and religion was not neatly partioned into
two
distinct compartments or
catagories but were one and the same -
both deal with the
structure of
human cultural social
systems. The
culture of a fellowship of
men, a social
unit, will continually change over
time regardless of
attempts to the
contrary and even
without an intent to
change there is still
corruption of original
conceptualizations.
Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths all orginally
believed in a single entity
named God. They also
believe that those that adhere to the
popular and commonly held ideology of their particular
brand of religion are the 'chosen ones' and that
individuals, through their
‘leap of faith' and adherance to the
popular and commonly held ideology or dogma of their cult, will attain an
afterlife.
Conceptual
thinking of afterlife defers from cult to cult. One
expectation never differs and that is the
idea that one must make a "leap of
faith" or in
other words, abandon all reason, to be brought into the 'chosen ones' fellowship or 'circle'.
All religious
dogma requires believers to suspend belief in their senses,
their experience and their
understanding of
natural reality.
This is required because no
person in a
natural state of
mind can accept the myths of the religious fellowship as ‘fitting' with their
own understanding of
natural reality which excludes
miraculous
supernatural events.
The myths of the
religious fellowship seem to point to
existence of
miraculous supernatural
experiences - in Christianity labeled an outpouring of the
Holy Spirit.
People
expect natural reality to conform to their current
understanding of
natural reality. Yet people must constantly reevaluate
their understanding of
natural reality as experience and knowledge are gained, both
consciously and
subconsciously.
literalist zealots
"The doctrine of Biblical inerrancy is the
religious counterpart of the scientific
ambition to axiomatize
reality. Here is certainty! No longer is it
necessary to look within oneself to know
truth - it is all laid out in
black and white!" -
Charles
Eisenstein
To be a
literalist you must reject
reason and believe these sacred texts are written
and copied by
men who will not change the facts, the nuance or the
reality as presented by the original author.
In
other words you must deny the reality of CORRUPTION.
"I have a
question for literalists: If the
Bible is the revealed
Word of God, and God is all knowing,
why did God only reveal "facts" that a primitive
people 3,000 years ago thought were the
truths about the universe?
God certainly knew of the existence of North
America, the structure of the solar system, the
laws of physics and other currently well
known facts. Why didn't he reveal Bernoulli's
Principle so the ancients could fly?
The reason that the only things "revealed" in the
Bible were ancient
myths is because the
Bible was written by men, not
God. The fact that the
Bible is a series of
mythical stories does not diminish in any way the
teachings that are in it. We can still
learn a lot from the Bible on how to
live, but let's not get carried away.
God had nothing to do with it." - Paul Goldman
Literalist
zealots can deliver a moving sermon.
Literalist zealots can quote
scripture.
Literalist zealots
concentrate on certain verse of
scripture to justify their
dogma.
Literalist zealots
claim to be guided by a divine
light.
Literalist zealots
speak of the
rapture that is to come.
Literalist zealots
can paint images in your
imagination that may be an extension of
truth and reality.
Literalist zealots
can also paint images in your
mind that are
nothing more than
fantasies designed to confuse and
contradict.
Literalist zealots
fail to
understand that a literal
reading of "sacred text" is meant for children.
Mature adults
understand "sacred text" as
metaphoric allegory.
Literalist
zealots call themselves
fundamentalists but
the term
fundamentalist as applied to
literalist zealots is a misnomer.
If
literalist zealots were truly
fundamentalist they would go to the
fundamental underpinnings
of their
religion as opposed to accepting
myths as an actual account of
reality.
"The whole
Literalist mode of thinking about all
elements of Christianity extends from there out to the
official Western conception of other
religions as well. The more thoroughly and
radically I rejected Literalist Christianity,
the better I was able to think in the Greco-Roman mode." - Michael
Hoffman
"Once we
understand the condition of
the collective consciousness of the
masses, the power of acculturation and
conformism, and the craving for
simple explanations, we must accept that widespread
self-imposed
ignorance in relation to
religious belief is practically an innate aspect of the
human condition.
Such reductive
faith in the exoteric
literal
interpretation of the
New Testament severs it from
its esoteric roots, thus becoming subject to distortion and
politicized misuse. Let us attempt to overcome
this, which, rather than undermining the Truth of Christ, is like clearing centuries of muck off a
great work of art,
revealing its essential
beauty and meaning." -
Lew Paz
Jesus'
return
  
" I will crush the arrogance of the proud and
humble the pride of the mighty." - Isaiah 13:11
"When He, the Spirit of Truth, comes,
He will guide you
into all truth.
He will not speak on his own;
He will speak only what He hears,
and He will tell you what is yet to
come."
- John 16:13
"There are only two forces in the world, the
sword and the spirit.
In the long run the sword will always be conquered by
the spirit."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
You receive
this "reward" when you accept
reality, as presented by
Jesus, of life on
Earth.
No
man can take Jesus and the inner
light of your joy of living in life with God
away from you
if your faith is based in
reality.
Some may attempt to
destroy your peace
of mind but if you truly are
enlightened and
awakened they will be unable to -
always remember: those that demand obedience and attempt to control others are
neither enlightened or
awakened .
If you have been
taught false religious dogma
your beliefs are probably
conflicted.
God, the Father and Creator, is available to each and every man, woman
and child - no one needs an intercessor - simply look within your
own heart.
This is the definition of a personal
God.When we accept the
reality of Jesus living in our
hearts, spirits and souls giving us immediate and thorough access to
the Father, then we can no longer
live to simply fulfill our flesh centered
selfish
desires.
At this point we are
left with only two choices: reject Jesus/Father while burying our heads in the sands
of spiritual corruption or
except Jesus/Father wholeheartedly.
If we accept
Jesus/Father wholeheartedly then we are
commissioned by Jesus/Father to
awaken those who still
sleep and to overturn the
false reality perpetrated on
humankind by the
evil soulless apostate followers of
mammon.
Jesus liberates us from the
soulless apostate followers of
Mammon who have taken the reigns of
power and who attempt to
control our every thought and deed.
Jesus commissions us to overturn the
institutions of the
soulless apostate followers of
Mammon that have
defiled one of God's
creation, the Earth, and to cast them out of
their positions of power as they have abused that
power to destroy the Earth and
God's
children.
Jesus has brought the
sword of knowledge, giving
us the legal right, to use that
sword of knowledge to cast
the soulless apostate followers
of Mammon out of positions of power.
The
soulless apostate followers of
Mammon are to be stripped of their assets,
their money carts (institutions)
overturned and they are to be driven from the temple (positions of power).
"Leaders of religion, in every age, have hindered their
people from attaining the shores of eternal
salvation, inasmuch as they held the reins of authority in their mighty
grasp." - Bahá'u'lláh
How can one simply identify a false religious
teacher - they will ask for money,
they will call for violence, they will build up a
cult following by con-vincing sycophants that the only way to
heaven is through accepting their
interpretation of scripture and how
scripture meshes with reality as the only
"right" one. (Many false religious teacher start out with
a good heart
and the right intentions but fall into the
transcendental temptation as they
gain pride with their new found
power of molding mens minds.)
False religious
teachers always claim to have been given unique "inside man" position to
God.
False religious
teachers always seem to have unique credentials - they have masters degrees
and doctorate degrees in theology or
psychology and hold
religous leadership positions as did the
Pharisees at the time of
Jesus.
False
religious teachers claim to have a much more profound
understanding of
God than the average man - in short
humanity needs them to function as
intercessors to
God.
Send
in a prayer request and your
chosen
intercessor will be happy to get
all of your prayers fulfiled!
Remember how when you pray nothing seems to
happen?
Leave it to a professional
intercessor!
God knows him/her and
hears his/her prayers because is a
chosen one!
False religious teachers concentrate on certain
thoughts, concepts and ideas in a deliberate intent to excite intense
emotional turmoil and confusion.
Due to
the fact that individuals typically seek religious succor to help cope with
life's tragedies they are more malleable and open
to religious suggestion. As they seek
emotional release from the
emotional burden that they carry they are quite
willing to accept spurious theories and
explanations for such things as: the existence of evil
hearted men; natural
phenomena over which men have no
control and what may seem to be the singling
out of self as particularly damned by
God - think Job.
Repent and your soul will be washed
clean!
{The act of true contriteness does wash your
soul clean but this is done by
God
and the religious teacher does not deserve the credit for
God's act.}
False religious teachers play a victim/initiate like a muscian plays his
instrument.
False
religious teachers use psychology, the power
of persuasion, the power of deception,
cold reading techniques,
Forer effect/Barnum statements, the
techniques of shotgunning and
the rainbow ruse.
False religious teachers use unreasoning
terror and fear as control mechanisms - the
evildoers are possessed by demons and you
will be too as you are guilty of not living
up to your potential in God!
False religious teachers will
interpret your dreams for you and commission you to fulfill their
interpretation of your
dreams for them.
False religious teachers will grant you
supernatural power
through anointment in
the Holy Spirit - for example
speaking in tongues or
the performance of miracles such as
healing.
False religious teachers will tell you that if you just pray
hard enough, have enough faith or are
truly just plain righteous
then you can physically alter the material
world of reality with
your prayers,
wishes and
dreams.
False religious
teachers build elaborate theoretical
complexes of symbolic
archetypes from
popular culture tied together
with literalist interpretation of myths and scripture.
False
religious teachers will suggest that murder
is justifiable, the death penalty
is a necessity and that war is a necessary
condition of human
social cultural
structures.
False religious teachers will claim
that their closeness to God is exhibited in the
material wealth that God showered upon them while they relentless sell you
the latest installment of their prophetic revelations in the form of
conferences, books, CDs
and DVDs. (Make the check out to me or my closely held
non-profit corporation, please! Religious
non-profit corporations are exempt from
reporting income unlike all other non-profits!)
False
religious teachers reject the reality of
existence by replacing
reality with
supernatural
fanatsy - armies
of demonic beings, lead by Satan,
at war with an army of angelic beings, lead
by Jesus.
Are these false religious teachers truly attempting to
save your
immortal soul?
Or do they
crave power(possibly
supernatural
power), riches,
celibrity and to
live the life of an American
aristocrat?
If you follow the lead of these
spiritually corrupt
deceptive false
religious teachers then you have willfully rejected the
reality of God as
presented by Jesus, the
Apostles, the
Hebrew Prophets and by
Mohammed and agreed to
worship a
corrupt form of the vengeful desert
war god,
Yahweh, of the ancient
Israelite cult of
Yahweh.
"Beware of the
teachers of religion! For they love to wear the robes of the
rich and scholarly, and to have everyone bow to
them as they walk through the markets. They
love to sit in the
best seats in the synagogues,
and at the places of honor at
banquets, but they shamelessly cheat
widows out of their homes and then, to cover up
what they really are, they pretend to be pious
by praying long
prayers in
public. It is hard for those who
trust in riches to believe
in God's words. It is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for a rich
man to hear and believe God's
words."
"Beware of
false religious teachers who come. You
can detect them by the way they
act, just as you can identify a
tree by its
fruit. Different kinds of
fruit
trees can quickly be identified by examining
their fruit. A
variety that produces delicious
fruit never produces an inedible
fruit. And a
tree producing an inedible
fruit can't produce what is
good. So the trees having the inedible
fruit are chopped down and thrown
on the fire. The
way to identify a
tree or a
individual is by the
fruit produced. Not all who
sound religious
are. They may refer to me as 'Lord,' but still won't get
to heaven, for the decisive
question is whether they
obey God's Law."
Phineas
Parkhurst QuimbyPhineas Parkhurst Quimby - born in Lebanon, New
Hampshire, in 1802 - generally is recognized as the "Father of
New Thought." Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
was a philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist,
healer, and
scientist. New Thought metaphysics denies objective
material reality. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby transmitted his
views to patients Warren Felt Evans, Mary Baker Eddy, and
Julius and Annetta Dresser.
William Essek
Kenyon was another New Thought
proponent, and Kenneth E. Hagin the founder of
word of faith movement used
William Essek Kenyon's
ideas almost verbatim.
Kenneth Copeland and all other
word of faith proponents trace their roots
back to Kenneth E. Hagin and
William Essek Kenyon.
William Essek Kenyon gave his first sermon at a
Methodist Church in Amsterdam, New York. William
Essek Kenyon desired to be an actor and attended the Emerson School of
Oratory in Boston in 1892. In 1931, William Essek
Kenyon became a pioneer in neoevangelic radio
on the Pacific Coast with his show Kenyon's Church of Air, where
William Essek Kenyon earned the moniker
"The Faith Builder."
William Essek
Kenyon's dogma was that of
Pentecostal
Christian Science.
William Essek Kenyon, founder Dudley
Bible Institute", was influenced by
Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science founder).
"The
only thing Christian Science lacks is the Blood of Jesus" -
William Essek Kenyon.
All the religious movements
arising from New Thought preach the
supremacy of the spiritual over
the material claiming the
material reality is a fantastic "Matrix" like construct and that
true reality
exists only in the
spiritual realm.
New Thought preaches the
human spirit creates
physical health; the human
mind through positive mental attitude and
positive confession has the
supernatural power
to create its own reality - health, wealth
and dominion.
By using the precepts
of New Thought's
spiritual forces
can be manipulated by the will of the
individual.
"I
know that I am
healed because
He said that I am
healed and it makes no
difference what the symptoms may be in my body. I
laugh at them, and in the Name of
Jesus I command the author of the disease to
leave my body." - William Essek Kenyon
"When these truths really gain ascendency
in us, they will make us spiritual supermen,
masters of demons and disease. It will be
the end of weakness and failure. There will be no
more struggle for faith, for all things
are ours. There will be no more praying for
supernatural
power. We are coming into the spiritual
redwoods. We are going to see spiritual
giants, supermen. They have the Lord dwelling in
them. They no longer walk as natural men.
They belong to the love class, the
miracle class. They are
in the Jesus class." -
William Essek Kenyon
William Essek Kenyon's
New Thought followers include
Norman Vincent Peale,
Robert H. Schuller,
Kenneth E. Hagin,
Kenneth Copeland and many others including
Bill Hybels of Willow Creek. {Robert H.
Schuller turned over his Crystal Cathedral mega-church non-profit
corporate empire to his son Robert A.
Schuller in 2006. In 2008, due to declining membership
Robert H. Schuller removed Robert A.
Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral mega-church non-profit
corporate leadership.
Robert H. Schuller promised to replace his
son's lectern position on the "Hour Of Power" television show with the
"greatest preachers in the world."
"You have no
business being sick - everyone of you should get well
and get up and go to work, heh? Get up and go to work and earn some
money and help send the gospel out!" -
Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy
was born in 1890 and raised in rural Ingersoll, Canada.
Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy's worldly pursuits had
drawn the consternation of her a
Methodist father,
James Kennedy who brought Aimee to a tent
revival led by a visiting
Pentecostal, Robert
Semple, in an attempt to curb her licentious behavior. Robert Semple introduced
Aimee to
Pentecostalism and
married her.
On one 150-day tour it is estimated that
Aimee Semple McPherson traveled 15,000 miles and
delivered 336 sermons to audiences totaling more than two million people.
Aimee Semple McPherson pioneered the use of
vaudeville and Hollywood theatrics to attract and hold the attention of her
audience.
Aimee Semple McPherson built
Angelus Temple, an enormous flagship church located in Hollywood which provided
hot meals for thousands of hungry people. Aimee
Semple McPherson neoevangelic radio show
reached millions of people over 45 radio stations
during the Great Depression. In February of 1924 radio station KFSG (short for "Kall Four Square
Gospel") went on the air, with live broadcasts of Sunday services at the
temple. KFSG was the third radio station
commissioned in Los Angeles.
"Aimee Semple McPherson called
her religion the Foursquare Gospel, after a
vision she had in Oakland in 1922. Aimee was
preaching on the prophet Ezekiel's vision of
Man, Lion, Ox and Eagle, when suddenly she began to
shake with
emotion. Aimee
saw in the mysterious
symbols 'a complete Gospel for
body, for soul, for spirit
and eternity.' ... Those four
cornerstones - Regeneration, Baptism in the Spirit, Divine
Healing, and the Second
Coming - upheld the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance, which George Jeffreys
founded in Ireland in 1915. George Jeffreys and his brother Stephen were
England's greatest (neo)evangelists after
John Wesley and George
Whitefield, and Aimee had worked with Jeffreys.
The Elim Foursquare Gospel influenced the American Assemblies of God, which
embraced the same four principles
before Aimee had her vision in Oakland in 1922." - Daniel Mark Epstein
{This Merkabah symbol of the ox, man, lion and
eagle are the same symbols used for
British Israel.
[British Israelism spawned the
Identity movement , which was incorporated
in Los Angeles in 1948. Spawned from the Identity movement are the Posse Comitatus,
Aryan Nations, the Christian Patriot movement, the Committee of the States, the
Unorganized Militia and other white supremacy groups. The central
belief in Identity movement dogma is the
existence of two races on Earth: a godly white race descended from Adam and a
satanic race fathered by Satan.(De' dark cuz
de' done been burned in the Fires of Hell).
KKK members Charles Fox
Parham and William
Marrion Branham, taught this dogma as the
"two seed." In the "two seed"
dogma, Jesus
was not a Jew, but an Aryan. The legend claims that Adamic (Aryan) people were
the lost tribes of Israel,
fled to northern Europe and later became the Christian nations. Richard Girnt Butler, a
Lockheed aerospace engineer and neo-fascist, founded Aryan Nations, a movement
built around Identity movement and the "two seed" dogma.]
Merkabah is envisaged as
secret, obscure or
esoteric
knowledge - what men call
esoteric wisdom - the vehicle for the communication to
human consciousness of the
mysteries of the universe.
Merkabah refers to the
Chariot Throne, the four-wheeled vehicle driven by four
"Chayot", each of which has four wings and the four faces of a man, lion, ox,
and eagle which correspond to the four directions the chariot can go - north,
east, south and west. (Note: In this conceptualization the
god's movement is restricted to two
dimensions).
"As the Master said: The king among living creatures is a
lion; the king among domestic beasts is an ox; the king among birds is an
eagle, but man takes his place proudly above them, and the Holy One, blessed be
He, takes His place proudly above them all, and above the whole world in its
entirety." - Babylonian Talmud, Tract Hagiga, Chapter II
"Having mingled
the Vital Spark from two according substances, Mind and Divine Spirit, as a
third to these He added Holy Love, the venerable Charioteer uniting all
things." - The Chaldæan Oracles of Zoroaster,
translated by W. Wynn Westcott
Kabbalahists use the Sephiroth as the Merkabah
for descending through the various realities
enumerated in the Kabbalah.
Several
movements in Talmudic
mysticism, including the Ma'asei Merkavah of
the late Greco-Roman period following the destruction of the Second Temple, and
later, students of the Kabbalah, have
focused on these passages from Ezekiel, seeking underlying meaning and the
secrets of
Creation in what they argued was the
metaphoric language of the verses. Due to the
concern of some Torah scholars that
misunderstanding these passages as literal descriptions
of God's image might lead
to blasphemy and/or
idolatry, there was great opposition to studying
this topic without proper initiation.
Talmudic commentaries emphasize that
the imagery of the Merkaba is not meant to be
taken literally; rather the chariot and its accompanying
angels are analogies for the various ways that
God reveals Himself on Earth. Hasidic
philosophy and
Kabbalah discuss at length what each aspect
of this vision represents.
In Christianity, the man, lion, ox, and eagle are used as
symbols for the four evangelists (or
gospel-writers), appear frequently in church decorations and appear in the
Tarot card "The World". The creatures are called
Zoë (or the Tetramorph), and continuously surround the Chariot Throne, along with the twenty-four angelic rulers,
the Seraphim, the Cherubim, the seven
Archangels, the Ophanim, and countless angels,
spirits, and saints, where they sing praises to the Trinity, and beg
Jesus to have mercy on
humankind.
Seraphim
angels, flashing of
fire by continuously
ascending and descending, function somewhat like pistons in that they
power the movement of the chariot. In the
hierarchy of these angels,
Seraphim are the highest, that is, closest
to God, followed by the Chayot, which are
followed by the Ophanim. The chariot is in a constant state of motion, and the
energy behind this movement runs according to this hierarchy. The movement of
the Ofanim is controlled by the Chayot while
the movement of the Chayot is controlled by the
Seraphim. The movement of all the
angels of the chariot are
controlled by the
Likeness of Man on the Chariot Throne. (The chariot was used for warfare during the
Bronze and Iron Ages. From a warrior people we would expect the symbology
of a warrior god, Yahweh, on a
Chariot Throne.)
(The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests the
"Likeness of Man" is the spirit
Belial, a mighty and powerful king; Belial was
created next after Satan, Belial is of
Satan's order; Belial appeareth in the
form of a beautiful angel sitting in a Chariot of
Fire.)
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control
Belial
The sages Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai and
later Rabbi Akiva were deeply involved in Merkabah exegesis. The Talmudic
interdictions concerning Merkabah speculation are numerous and widely held.
Discussions concerning the Merkabah were limited to only the most worthy sages,
and admonitory legends are preserved about the dangers of overzealous
speculation concerning the Merkabah.
Without the final initiation into
the Merkabah the study of the Kabbalah will
be ever incomplete, and the Merkabah can be taught only in 'darkness, in a
deserted place, and after many and terrific trials.'
Since the death of
Simeon Ben-Iochai this hidden mythology has
remained an inviolate secret.}
Seen at a Aimee Semple
McPherson Healing
revival:
"A little girl
wore a pair of glasses one-half of which was entirely black. I gathered that
she was totally blind in one eye and almost blind in the other. I sat upon the
stage very close to the whole procedure. While prayer was being made for her,
the little girl, who appeared to be about 11 years of age, wept and sobbed and
writhed in her eagerness to secure the help that she had been led to expect.
She left the platform and public claim was made by one of the workers that she
had been healed, and
the little girl verified the claim by a nod of the head given in reply to the
question of the workers. An hour later, when the meeting was out, I noticed a
small cluster of women near the platform. I thought I saw the blind little girl
in their midst, so I asked my wife to go over and investigate and talk to her
if necessary. She found the erstwhile 'cured' girl flat on her face on the
floor, sobbing, with shattered hopes and a breaking heart. Her disappointment
was complete, and so was her disillusionment. The improved sight that she
seemed to have had in the midst of the excitement on the platform had
disappeared, and with it the hope of the little girl." - Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Biographer Daniel Mark Epstein, though extremely sympathetic to
Aimee Semple McPherson, admitted that those
healed were "mostly
diseases of the immune system, or attributed to hysteria."
"Aimee Semple McPherson built her career by
replacing the 'Gospel of Fear, Hellfire, and Damnation' with the 'Gospel of
Reconciliation and Love'" - Daniel Epstein
Aimee Semple McPherson's mother, Mildred (Minnie)
Kennedy, was a partner in her daughter's successful religious empire but left "after receiving a
broken nose during an explosive
argument" with her daughter.
Aimee Semple
McPherson was twice-divorced and known to
have committed adultery with her radio engineer.
Aimee Semple McPherson died of a illegally
obtained barbiturate overdose.
International Church of the Foursquare
Gospel (ICFG)
Angelus Temple, the International Church of the
Foursquare Gospel, a non-profit corporate
institution, has now grown to include
more than 1,834 fellowships in America, and over 29,973 fellowships worldwide.
There are currently more than 3 and a half million members in 123 countries
around the globe. At the end of the reporting year, there were 48,271
Foursquare employees. International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
presently ranks as one of the three or four most recognized branches of
Pentecostalism.
Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel, had been raised in the International Church
of the Foursquare Gospel, although he states he never met Aimee Semple
McPherson.
"My mother sat under Aimee's
ministry, even played in the band, and later on (after Aimee's controversial
death) worked in the central offices there at Angeles Temple. However, to my
knowledge, she never met
Ms McPherson, and neither did my father…" -
Chuck Smith Jr.
William Marrion Branham
reported supernatural visitations at
ages three and seven.
In 1933
William Marrion Branham
preached to three thousand people in a tent
revival in Jeffersonville
Indiana and later built Branham Tabernacle.
William
Marrion Branham helped birth the entire "physical healing"
signs and wonders
movement which television neoevangelists
have capitalized on ever since.
William Marrion Branham,
in the early sixties claimed that he was the end-times "Elijah" - the "Messenger of the Covenant".
William Marrion Branham,
an original Kansas City "prophet",
became a legend to Pentacostal
Charismatic's by filling the
worlds largest auditoriums and stadiums by demonstrating the "gift of discernment" and the "word of knowledge".(Knowing the
secrets of a
individual's
heart = cold reading)
William Marrion Branham
claimed he was guided by an angel who was
scientifically revealed in a photo image as a
tongue of fire.
William Marrion Branham
taught the "two seed" dogma; mentored
Oral Roberts; proclaimed
himself the "angel of revelation"; preached
Manifest Sons
dogma; claimed to have witnessed a
resurrection due to his intercession and helped
cross-pollinate the entire "positive
confession/word of faith movement"
with Manifest Sons
dogma.
When
William Marrion Branham
died in 1965 many of his followers expected him
to be resurrected.
They are still waiting.
"In
Bible Days, there were men of
God who were Prophets and Seers. But in all the Sacred
records, none of these had a greater ministry than that of
William Marrion
Branham." - 1961 Voice, magazine of the Full Gospel Business Men
International
Kenneth E. Hagin mythology, "RHEMA
logos positive confession" borrowed from
William Marrion
Branham's positive confession
teachings. Kenneth E. Hagin, never received
any formal theological training, although he
received an honorary doctorate from
Oral Roberts University, a
non-profit corporate
institution, in the 1970s. (In 2008
debt ridden
Oral Roberts University
was abandoned by Benny
Hinn and Creflo A. Dollar who were board members when
a spending scandal by Richard Roberts,
Oral Roberts son, came to
light.
Benny Hinn and
Creflo A. Dollar were being investigated in 2007 by
Senator Charles E. Grassley for violating tax-exempt status by living lavishly
on the backs of small donors.)
Kenneth E. Hagin founded
RHEMA (utterance)
Bible Training Center.
RHEMA Bible Training Center is not accredited.
You Tube - Brother William Branham: 20th Century
Prophet
(The Lesser Key of Solomon suggest
William Marrion Branham
was channeling the great duke spirit Eligor.
Eligor
discovereth hidden things and knoweth things to come. Eligor causeth the
love of Lords and great
persons.)
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Eligor
"Then the Lord said to me, "The
prophets are
prophesying lies in my name. I have not
sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are
prophesying to you false visions,
divinations, idolatries and the
delusions of their own
minds." - Jeremiah 14:14
Rodney
Howard-Browne attended RHEMA
Bible Training Center, a non-profit
corporate
institution, in South Africa from where
he graduated in 1983.
"One night I was preaching
on hell, and
laughter just hit the whole place.
The more I told people what hell was like, the
more they laughed." -
Rodney
Howard-Browne
"So began the
so-called Laughter
revival in the United States
... this "laughter anointing"
passed down from Rodney
Howard-Browne to Randy
Clark and from Randy
Clark the "anointing" passed
downwards again to John
Arnott, the pastor of the
Toronto Airport
Vineyard." - Dr. Eddy
Cheong
"What shall we say about
Rodney Howard-Browne's
ministry? It is the result of a deceptive scheme of
manipulation and crowd
control, not the genuine work of God.
Jesus said, "You will
know them by their
fruits." Remember:
supernatural
power, signs and
wonders are insufficient to determine someone's
true nature.
Israel was misled and
deceived in their days, and numerous
Christians are misled and
deceived today. Just look deeper than
what meets the eyes." - Yves Brault
Rodney Howard-Browne's
meetings are a good example of a scripted
performance running to a definite plan and using psychological techniques to
manipulate listeners.
Rodney Howard-Browne's
performance is mesmeric - carefully and minutely staged to best effect.
Rodney
Howard-Browne's openly insults anyone who does not
submit to his
methods. Any individual foolhardy
enough to sit still, read the Bible, and
resist the waves of
laughter is publicly branded "a
religious Pharisee" and when that
individual eventually walks out,
Rodney Howard-Browne
mocks them.
YouTube - I'd rather be soaking with
Rodney
Jimmy Swaggart, television neoevangelist and prolific
showman, was baptized by the
Holy Spirit at the age of eight while
attending an Assemblies of God meeting. Attendance at
Jimmy Swaggart's meetings originally were
boosted by his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis. As head of the
Pentecostal
Bible College, a non-profit
corporate
institution,
Jimmy Swaggart conducted a
television neoevangelist ministry of
national prominence on par with
Benny Hinn and
Jim Bakker.
Jimmy Swaggart was caught one day with a
prostitute in a local motel. Then was found to
frequent prostitutes.
Jimmy Swaggart never repented and was defrocked
by the Assemblies of God in April, 1988.
“If I do not return to the
pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.” - Jimmy
Swaggart
YouTube - 1986 Jimmy Swaggart show
promo
Paul
Cain - a Kansas City "prophet"
"Little children are going to
lay their hands on the
sick and
heal multitudes. We are
going to be just like the Lord. They're
going to say, 'Here comes that dreadful, fearful
army of champions. Here comes those with a word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, the working of
miracles, with a
healing ministry, with
the power to
heal the
sick and raise the dead." -
Paul Cain
"In
February 2004, we were made aware
that Paul Cain had become
an alcoholic. In April 2004, we confronted
Paul Cain with evidence
that he had recently been involved in homosexual
activity. Paul Cain
admitted to these sinful practices and was placed
under discipline. However, Paul Cain has resisted this
process and has continued in his sin." -
Rick Joyner, Jack Deere,
Mike Bickle.
Chuck Smith, founder of
Calvary Chapel, was one of Paul Cain's "Healing
revival" campaign
managers.
The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests
Paul Cain channeleth a
Duke level spirit named Agares who can make the earth quake.
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Agares
Bob Jones - latter day
Kansas City "prophet"
In
1991 Bob Jones was removed from prophetic
practice by Vineyard
proponents following evidence of "sexual
improprieties" involving several female members of the congregation. When
Mike Bickle left
Vineyard becoming
Metro Christian fellowship
Bob Jones was reinstated.
On July 23,
1996 and again on July 23, 1997, Bob Jones was
given visions of a powerful
demonic spirit identified as
Basilisk. In the second
vision given to Bob
Jones in 1997, Basilisk had multiplied
hundreds of times. ( I wonder how
large Basilisk is now?)
Mike Bickle - latter day
Kansas City "prophet"
The harp and bowl prayer model is based around the type of
worship and
intercession as described in Revelation 5:8.
"And when he had taken it,
the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb.
Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which
are the prayers of the saints".
The "harp" used in the scripture
represents praise and worship and the "bowl"
used represents the prayers of the saints rising up before the
Chariot Throne.
Worship around the
Chariot Throne incorporates prayer and
worship - the harp and
the bowl - together to create a new dynamic of
worship often referred
to as intercessory
worship or
corporate prayer led by
prophetic
worship .
This harp and bowl is centered around the "International
House of Prayer (IHOP)", a non-profit corporate
institution, and involves 24-hour
prayer and worship, a
mix of revival
worship led by
musicians, antiphonal chanting of psalms and the "prophetic" singing of
passages of scripture. This continuous prayer and chanting is designed to bring
down the presence of the Holy Spirit in a
new way and create an atmosphere of
revival.
YouTube - Mike Bickle with IHOP on CBN
 . .
An
example of one of the elite, select 'in group' of false religious
teachers is Marion Gordon "Pat"
Robertson, founder of the imperial Christian Broadcasting Network,
CBN, a non-profit corporate
institution.
Marion Gordon "Pat"
Robertson claims to be able to directly communicate with 'God' and 'Satan',
speaks in tongues and
perform miracles such as
healing.
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson
popularized the notion that if "one refuses to believe in Satan then one is
possessed by Satan." Belief grants power to that which is believed in.
Satan grows stronger with every new convert to
the belief in Satan's actual existence.
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a
Zionist Christian who worships at the altar of
the Synagogue of
Satan.
In 2002, Marion Gordon
"Pat" Robertson received the State of Israel Friendship Award from
the Zionist Organization of America for his consistent support for a
Greater Israel.
When Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson ran in
the Republican presidential primary
race of 1988 he stated that 'god' had told him
to run for president. (To teach him humility?)
In August 2005
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson
stated, in response to accusations from Hugo Chavez, president of Venzuela,
that Americans were backing plots to
assassinate him, "If he thinks we are trying
to assassinate him, I
think that we really ought to go ahead and do
it."
YouTube - Pat Robertson calls for an Assassination
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, an
elite American
aristocrat and
imperial Christian is obviously not a follower of the
words of Jesus.
Marion Gordon "Pat"
Robertson preaches that women that do not
submit to the will of
men "leave their husbands,
kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism and become
lesbians".
"I know this is painful for the
ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a
man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the
head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." –Marion Gordon "Pat"
Robertson
One of the stultifying characteristics of
imperial
Christianity is the manner in which women are subjugated. Although
not forced to wear external burkas they are
forced to veil their
emotions with burkas. Women
living under demeaning and
subservient social circumstances
live in a dream of life that is
stultifying in it's rigid adherence to ‘proper' and ‘traditional' manners of
behavior. This mindset is a
direct descendant of a Talmudist worldview and has nothing to do with the
equality of human beings that Jesus taught.
A women's
removal from nature by these
social codes causes her to die inside as see
feels she must crush any
emotion contrary to proper accepted modes of
thinking and
behaving. These dark
emotions must be extinguished as they emanate
from the dark animal side of a
human's soul. By being required to play hostess and having been perched upon a pedestal
as a living breathing
goddess incapable of sinful acts, an
individual women, unfortunately,
can become that which she is ‘seen' as. Impenetrable and unapproachable,
caught in the trap of a dream of
life unfulfilled. (Is that why so many
neoevangelic women fool around?)
On the
other hand she can reject this
spiritually corrupt
dream of life trap
but by doing so she may incur the wrath of imperial
Christianity.
Marion
Gordon "Pat" Robertson turned over control of the
imperial Christian
Broadcasting Network, CBN, a non-profit
corporate
institution, to his son Gordon
Robertson in 2007 who holds a baccalaureate degree from Yale University and a
juris doctor degree from Washington & Lee Law School. The
imperial Christian
Broadcasting Network, CBN employs approximately 2,800 and has
sent out programs in 99 languages to over 225 countries with domestic studios
in Virginia Beach and Nashville, and overseas studios in Manila, Jakarta, New
Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kiev.
John Wimber was the manager
of the Righteous Brothers before becoming "born-again."
John Wimber practiced
intense personal evangelism from 1963 - 1974 as a
Quaker.
John
Wimber left Yorba Linda Friends Church in 1974 to become founding director
of the Department of Church
Growth at the Fuller
Theological Seminary.
Fuller Theological Seminary
was founded in 1947 by Charles E. Fuller, a well-known
radio neoevangelist, Harold Ockenga, pastor of
Park Street Church in Boston, Carl F. H. Henry, Wilbur Moorehead Smith and
Harold Lindsell. Fuller
Theological Seminary was the first academic
institution to be founded by the
neo-evangelical movement. Fuller Theological Seminary
began with the theological
vision of reforming fundamentalism from its
anti-intellectual and socially isolationist
stance of the 1920-40 era. It should be noted that
Fuller Theological
Seminary married the study of religion
with the study of psychology in
the hopes expanding the reach of the neoevangelicalic order.
On May 8,
1977 John Wimber's
Bible study fellowships becomes Calvary
Chapel of Yorba Linda, a non-profit corporate
institution.
Mother's Day,
1980: Lonnie Frisbie says, "Come
Holy Spirit" at Calvary Chapel Yorba
Linda.
John
Wimber, hungry for signs
and wonders, interest in "the miraculous" escalates after
Lonnie Frisbie's exhibitions.
In 1982
John Wimber and
C. Peter Wagner launch
their controversial course, MC510 - "The Miraculous and
Church Growth" at Fuller
Theological Seminary. This course included
hands on "training" in
signs, wonders,
healing, etcetera.
John Wimber's
Charismatic movement teaching
of "truth" based on subjective
experiences was rejected by Chuck Smith of
Calvary Chapel so John
Wimber's fellowship was renamed
the Vineyard.
John Wimber
meets Paul Cain for the
first time.
Paul
Cain predicted his coming to and going from a meeting with
John Wimber would be
confirmed by earthquakes, which did indeed occur. (In California between
1988-1997 earthquakes occured at the rate of 37,283 per year; 3,107 per month;
714 per week and 102 per day.)
John Wimber was
con-vinced.
A very intense
ministry circuit partnership between
John Wimber and the
Kansas City "prophets" culminates in
the Kansas City fellowship becoming
an official Vineyard
Association, a non-profit corporate
institution.
John Wimber publicly calls
for every Vineyard
pastor to be ministered to by the Kansas
City "prophets".
On a trip to Scotland Mike Bickle convinces
John Wimber to change
emphasis of the Vineyard to that of a
prophetic ministry.
Kansas City "prophets"
Latter Rain/Manifest Sons
dogma "cross-pollinates" the
Vineyard.
Vineyard trainers began
to complain that John
Wimber's co-laboring with these "prophets" was changing the core values of the
Vineyard.
John Wimber emphasizes
supernatural
healing,
spiritual warfare, and
prophecies.
John Wimber was
con-vinced that the only way to get
people to believe the
word of God is to startle
them into believing through
healing,
prophecy, and the casting out of
demons which
John Wimber called "supernatural power."
Mike Bickle
submits all
Kansas City "prophets"
fellowships to
Vineyard Association,
non-profit corporate cover.
Mike Bickle parts ways with
John Wimber over
Toronto
revival fall out taking the
Kansas City "prophets" out of the
covering of Vineyard
to become Metro Christian
fellowship, a
non-profit corporate
institution.
The hyper-charismatic
movement within the Vineyard is also known as
"Third Wave," "Signs and Wonders," and "Power " - has grown
to approximately 450 United States congregations and 250 more in other
countries.
Influences
John Wimber cited in his
teachings; Kenneth E. Hagin "father" of the
word of faith movement, mentor of
Kenneth Copeland, and disciple of
William Essek Kenyon.
The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests
John Wimber channeleth
the spirit Vine, a great king and earle,
that discoveth things
hidden, witches, and things present, past
and to come.
Vine also probably visited Ebenezer Scrooge as the
ghost of Christmas past, present and future.
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Vine
"Chuck Smith says it actually was a
slightly built, long-haired Jesus freak named
Lonnie Frisbee who
brought the first ragtag fellowship of
seekers to a
Bible study. "The back door opened and
all these kids with long hair and bells on their jeans came in and sat down,"
Chuck Smith says. "I can remember the shocked
expressions on the faces of the other
people." Chuck Smith calls Lonnie Frisbee the first
(neo)evangelist of the Jesus movement." -
Charisma magazine
Lonnie Frisbee, hippie
Pentecostal
Charismatic and self-described
"seeing prophet" and mystic, packed Chuck Smith's
fellowship with so
many hippies that a large circus tent had to be pitched on a 10-acre plot of
land where Calvary Chapel's present facility is located in Costa Mesa.
Chuck Smith was struck by
Lonnie Frisbee's
charisma, "I was not at all prepared for the love
that this young man would radiate."
Lonnie Frisbee sparked
Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel revival.
"When the
Lord called me, I was going into the desert
and I was taking all my clothes off and I was going ‘Lord if You're really real, reveal Yourself to
me!' And one afternoon, the whole atmosphere of this canyon I was in started to
tingle and get light and started to change and I
was going ‘Uh-oh!' I didn't want to be there!" -
Lonnie Frisbee
Lonnie Frisbee's
religious career began with a pilgrimage of
friends to Tahquitz Canyon outside Palm Springs.
"So we drove out to
Tahquitz Falls and we hiked up - he wanted to go to the very top falls. And
once he got there, he opened his back pack and he spread out - and he had
LSD, and he
had marijuana, and he had all of his oil
paints and he had togas, and he told us to put on togas, so we did. And he
proceeded to paint an image of
Jesus on the rocks, a full-sized
image of Jesus
on the rock. Then he pulled out his Bible and he got into a kinda yoga position
and he says ‘We're gonna read the Bible now.' He was reading about John the
Baptist and how John the Baptist baptized and he
baptized us up at Tahquitz Falls." -
Judy Meston
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was
born-again at the age
of fourteen in the Methodist Church of
Concordia, began preaching in the West at the age of fifteen. Kathryn Johanna
Kuhlman was an adulteress, lived a flamboyant
lifestyle - expensive clothes, precious jewels, luxury hotels and first-class
travel - while her Healing
revival employees worked at
starvation wages. Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman had a weekly
television program in the 1960s and 1970s
which aired nationally titled I Believe In Miracles. Kathryn Johanna
Kuhlman introduced "slain in
the spirit."
YouTube -
Lonnie Frisbee interviewed by Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman.
"Lonnie must have fixed
this one particular room up. There were candles lit and everything. The room
filled up with people and we had taken some
LSD and he was
reading the Gospel of John out loud, and we're goin' through the whole gospel.
And we get to the end of it, it's the crucifixion stuff, everybody's crying,
you know, and not one person left the room. And then it was over.
Lonnie was a planner of
experiences." - Connie (Frisbee)
Bremer-Murray
Lonnie Frisbee mentored
neoevangelist Greg Laurie who established Harvest
fellowship.
Lonnie
Frisbee's attachment to the Charismatic
Pentecostal style
caused some disagreement within the Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel congregation
since Lonnie Frisbee
seemed focused more on gaining converts and experiencing "supernatural manifestations" of the
Holy Spirit than on teaching newer
converts Biblical doctrine.
Lonnie
Frisbee sought out some of the stranger elements
of Pentecostalism,
especially in the practices of dramatic "supernatural manifestations" like being
slain in the spirit,
bizarre miracles, and
ecstatic utterance which Benny
Hinn, Kenneth Copeland and others
attribute to an "anointing" of the
Holy Spirit.
Lonnie Frisbee moved to
John Wimber's
fellowship which
soon saw the Calvary Chapel
fellowship as
Lonnie Frisbee did; as
quenchers of these "supernatural
manifestations" and by implication not conducive to the "supernatural power"
that Lonnie Frisbee and
others were so hungry to see.
John Wimber and
Lonnie Frisbee broke
with Calvary Chapel and started the
Vineyard
fellowship.
"Lonnie Frisbee
asked people 25 and under to come forward, so probably 300 or so go forward. He
just says the words ‘Holy Spirit,
Come'. Almost immediately, everybody just fell on the floor. They were sort of
like trees in a forest falling on each other. It wasn't a clean thing …One
of the kids, Ricky, when he fell to the floor, he pulled the microphone down. A
lot of them started speaking
in tongues, others were
crying. But the sound was shocking and I didn't
know what to do. I stared at this thing. I
didn't know
Lonnie.
John was shocked.
John was trying to
figure out what was going on. A lot of people got up and left." - Bob Fulton,
Vineyard leader
"Though little credit is given to
Lonnie Frisbee, he was
influential in what the Vineyard movement called
"Signs and Wonders"
– a paradigm of teaching that
suggest that all Christians could operate in a
similar manner to Lonnie
Frisbee; that they too could perform
miracles like they'd
read in the New Testament…"
- DiSabatino
"Most assuredly, the counterfeit transferable
anointing
Lonnie Frisbee
practiced was heretical and has nothing to do
with the biblical reality of the
Holy Spirit. Sadly,
Lonnie Frisbee's "Christian" life is
riddled with erroneous belief and what can best
be described as counterfeit signs and wonders
associated with false
revival and the presence of
sexual immorality." - Steve Mitchell Power
Lonnie Frisbee
practiced homosexuality before, during and after
his religious career.
"At the end of
the marriage he told me that he had been staying late in some
gay bars." - Connie Bremer-Murray,
Lonnie Frisbee's
ex-wife
"I got a telephone call one day that this young man who was in
the church here at Laguna Beach was feeling really bad, really convicted,
really guilty and he confided in his pastor
that he had had a six-month affair with
Lonnie." - Chuck Smith,
Jr.
"The kingdom of Satan has stronger demons. I just think that homosexuality is a stronger
demon." - Bob Fulton,
Vineyard spokesman
"Lonnie's misfortune is he
got caught because there are a lot of
Charismatic
homosexual ministers right now. I'm not saying
that it's okay as long as you don't get caught. I'm saying we need to find a
way for them, find a
way within the
Body of Christ to
love and minister and accommodate them." - Chuck
Smith, Jr.(Chuck Smith, Jr. is no longer affiliated with Calvary Chapel. Chuck
Smith, Jr. has aligned himself with the
New Apostolic
Reformation.)
"It was many years I didn't see
Lonnie, and when I did
the thing I was most impressed by was, ‘cuz you're going for the
truth here, how bitter he was.
Lonnie would just come
in and it was almost like a person who didn't have personal restraint.
Lonnie would just go
off on how he had been used and abused and trashed. You know, kind of pathetic
in a way." - Chuck Girard
Lonnie Frisbee said he had
been sexually abused as a child.
Lonnie Frisbee died of
AIDS.
"If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination." - Leviticus 20:13
"Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of
the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what
is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was
due." - Romans 1:27
"No one who lives deeply in Christ makes a practice
of sin. Those who continue to sin have neither seen Christ nor known Christ." -
1 John 3:6
"The Bible
does not allow for both as simultaneous coexistent realities. While saints
still sin, the Bible clearly teaches that they do not
practice sin as a lifestyle." - Steve Mitchell
Power
The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests
Lonnie Frisbee
channeleth the great spirit prince Sitri
who inflames men with
womens love, and women with mens love.
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Sitri
"Matt
was overcome with an anointing that was
similar to that of Lonnie Frisbie back in the
Jesus movement. Lonnie was used
by the Lord in radical ways with
supernatural
power. As this 'fierce'
anointing moved upon
Matt, he jumped up on
the chairs and began to release a corporate
wind and
wave of
the Spirit over the people.
Simultaneously over half of the
conference room fell
under the supernatural
power as a wave of
extreme Glory went over them. A
scroll of fire was
released as the Lord commanded us to 'eat'
the word of God.
Matt's
eyes were then opened to the
spirit realm.
Matt wept as he shared
how he could see the angels swirling over our
heads and a chariot of fire leading the
host of heaven.
Matt began to
prophecy that "there were more for us than
against us!" - Prophetic Report,
Northeast Prophetic Signs
and Wonders Conference
This
year's Northeast Prophetic
Signs and Wonders
Conference hosted by
Matt Sorger Ministries
was a strategic gathering releasing not only
healing and
miracles in the lives
of many, but also a fresh prophetic
revelation.
"We are no longer to be children, tossed here and
there by waves and carried
about by every wind of
doctrine, by the trickery of men, by
craftiness in deceitful scheming." -
Ephesians 4:14
Tim LaHaye & Hal
LindseyBoth Tim LaHaye and Hal Lindsey write as if what they say
in fiction somehow contributes to the promotion of biblical eschatology.
Tim LaHaye, founder and president of psychologically oriented Family
Life Seminars, is best known for the
Left Behind series of apocalyptic
fiction.
"We've fallen in love with
the characters and the people and we're dreaming
about what's going to happen to them.
It's really a fun
experience." - Tim LaHaye
Hal
Lindsey claims that according to Biblical prophecy the European Union is
destined to become a "Revived Roman Empire" ruled
by the "Antichrist." Hal Lindsey, a "Christian Zionist", also wrote Satan Is
Alive and Well on Planet Earth.
Hal Lindsey hosted International
Intelligence Briefing on the Trinity
Broadcasting Network.
"The program this week addressed the
tremendous political upheaval in
Israel – including the
toppling of the government – in the wake of the Gaza withdrawals. It
warned about the peril America faces if we
pull out of Iraq and leave the
perception that
radical Islamic terrorists
defeated the worlds only superpower. A unique and
dynamic exclusive interview that I was fortunate enough to conduct with
Binyamin Netanyahu while in Jerusalem was also rejected from being aired on
this week’s show." - Hal Lindsey
"I didn't ask to be a
hero, but I guess I have become one in the
Christian community. So I accept it." - Hal
Lindsey
"The Tim LaHaye School of
Prophecy convenes its first classes in
January 2002. This Liberty University diploma program will be an
extension of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and will meet at the
Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg. Dr. LaHaye and I share a common
burden to train 21st Century church leaders and eschatological teachers who
fully understand the doctrine of the premillennial, pretribulational coming of
Christ for all of His Church. The first 500 students to enroll in The Tim
LaHaye School of Prophecy will receive
a 90% tuition scholarship worth $8,000. This means the first 500 students will
pay a tuition price of only $1,000-per-semester ($2,000 for the entire year).
Regular one-year tuition cost, without the scholarship, is $10,000." - Jerry
Falwell (Jerry Falwell's sons, Jerry Jr. and Jonathan, took over Jerry
Falwell's megachurch non-profit corporate empire when Jerry Falwell died
in 2007.)
The neoevangelicals that served with Tim LaHaye at
Coalition for Religious Freedom as executive committee and/or advisory
board members were Don Wildmon (founder of American Family Association,
a non-profit corporation with an annual budget of about $14 million, owns 180
American Family neoevangelic radio
stations in 28 states. Marlin Maddoux (Point Of View nationwide
neoevangelic radio talk show host),
Paul Crouch (Trinity Broadcasting Network founder), Hal
Lindsey, James Robison, Jimmy Swaggart, and Dennis
James Kennedy (television and
radio neoevangelist of Coral Ridge Presbyterian
Church).
Beverly LaHaye's Concerned Women for America has long
accepted Adolf Coors' money, which has hindered the Concerned Women for
America from tackling alcohol-related issues. (Alcohol is the nation's
number one "drug problem," accounting for over $100 billion in economic costs
and 105,000 deaths each year.)
Dennis James Kennedy began Coral Ridge
Ministries in 1974, which produces the weekly
television program, The Coral Ridge
Hour, carried on various networks and syndicated on numerous other
stations, and a daily neoevangelic radio program,
Truths That Transform, heard on neoevangelic radio stations in America and also available as a podcast on the
program's website. During Dennis James Kennedy lifetime, Coral Ridge Ministries grew to a
$37-million-a-year non-profit corporation with an audience of 3.5
million.
"Fame, wealth and power are not qualifications
for a spiritual leader!"
- Dalai Lama
William Eugene
ScottAnother example of an elite American
aristocrat and
imperial Christian who was obviously not a follower of the
word of Jesus was
William Eugene Scott. The Festival of Faith was designed by William
Eugene Scott to cow followers into
submission while
increasing his assets. During the Festival of Faith William Eugene
Scott, the son of an itinerant preacher, coaxed, cajoled, exhorted, pleaded and
even whined to get the faithful to send in their hard earned dollars. In
William Eugene Scott's opinion his 'students' owed him
money for his 'teaching'. William Eugene Scott's salary
was $1 per year plus unlimited expenses. William Eugene Scott offered
his followers all the advantages of
Christianity with none of the inconveniences,
and thus became immensely wealthy.
"A
skinflint may get to heaven, but what awaits him
are a rusty old halo, a skinny old cloud, and a robe so worn it scratches.
First-class salvation costs
money." - William Eugene Scott
Contributors were required to sign pledge slips which specifically
stated William Eugene Scott could spend the money they sent him however on whatever he
chose. And William Eugene Scott did - living a celebrity lifestyle with busty models an each
arm while he watched his racehorses run or while traveling the
world. William Eugene Scott's
television shows would sometimes feature
"Scott's Bunnies", a bevy of female followers
in thong bikinis. William Eugene Scott enjoyed a lifestyle that included a
chauffeured limousine, a mansion in Pasadena, 24-hour bodyguards, several
ranches and a stable of more than 300 thoroughbred horses. Some of William
Eugene Scott's expenses included the collection of rare stamps,
art, Biblical
manuscripts and rare coins.
William Eugene Scott's personal
enterprises ran the gamut -
the Bishop Dr. Gene Scott Corporation, Dr. Gene Scott
Incorporated, Dr. Gene Scott Consultants Incorporated, Gene Scott
Travel Incorporated, W. Eugene Scott, Ph.D. Incorporated, Gene
Scott Evangelistic Association, Wescott Christian Center, Los
Angeles University Cathedral, Faith Center, the Faith
Broadcasting Network, and the University Network - among others.
When William Eugene Scott died his third
wife, Melissa*, inherited his position.
Although William Eugene Scott's background and original
affiliation was with the Assemblies of God he broke with them when establishing
the Faith Center. William Eugene Scott wove an exceedingly complex
mythology that included the Pyramids,
Atlantis, Roswell UFO's, Stonehenge, Amityville
poltergeists, Nikola Tesla, the Bermuda Triangle, The
Spear of Destiny and even the Philadelphia Experiment.
"Scott’s appeal was in the promise of access to superior
knowledge.” - Richard Parker, a
lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s
Kennedy School of Government
"The dude was fascinating. I never
wasted too many gray cells on his premises; but, what an example of how
thoroughly you could research something you believed in. And shape and tailor that
information." - Ed Campbell
"Scott has no formal
education in theology, an enormous ego, eccentric personality and extraordinarily
diverse interests. Scott is accountable only to himself, tolerates zero dissent
and exerts a frightening level of control over his
followers." - Glenn F. Bunting
"Scott
surrounds himself with all these sycophants and weaklings who are just looking
for somebody to submit to." - David
Gill, professor of Christian
ethics at North Park College in
Chicago
"A side of him is engaging, warm. He
knows how to make you
feel good. He
is primarily because he really comes
off as a straight shooter. He is the ultimate hypocrite." - Rev. Dale O.
Wolery
Besides William Eugene Scott's love
of the limelight and expensive toys he also rejects
Jesus's call to
treat all humans as we ourselves wish to
be treated. One of William Eugene Scott's favorite songs was "Kill a Pissant for Christ" (William Eugene Scott titled any
heretic to his theology a pissant). During the Gulf War William Eugene
Scott bellowed at viewers "Nuke 'em in the name of
Christ!"
William Eugene Scott's
sycophants were taught that Scott's mythology was
the only truth (theocratic absolutism), that the
greatest sin was questioning Scott's interpretation
of Christianity (creating dissension among the
breathern), that you could buy your way into heaven (by paying for Scott's
secret and superior knowledge)
much as one bought indulgences in the Catholic church of old and that
Jesus did not teach
morality(Scott was a
moral nihilist as he
believed
John Calvin
literal interpretation of
humanities
total depravity and
predestination).
{"Our
moral code is a product of gradual
social evolution, like language, or manners, or the
common law, and that, like them, it has grown and
evolved to meet the need for peace, order and
social cooperation.
Imagine a society in which no
moral code existed, or in which it were the exact opposite
of the codes we customarily find.
Imagine how
long a society (or the
individuals in it) could
prosper or even continue to
exist in which ill manners, promise-breaking,
lying,
cheating,
stealing,
assault,
rape, robbery,
murder, ingratitude,
disloyalty,
treachery, violence, and chaos were the
rule - more highly regarded than their
opposites - good manners, promise-keeping, truth-telling,
honesty, fairness, loyalty,
consideration for others, peace, order and
social cooperation." - Henry Hazlitt
(like in imperial America today)}
"All that is written in the holy
writings comes from the Spirit of God. The holy writings are good for these
things: to teach people, to show them when they are wrong, to make them see
what is right, to teach them to do what is right." - 2 Timothy
3:16
William Eugene Scott's followers replace the worship of
Jesus/God/Holy Spirit with the worship of an
idol - William Eugene Scott. William Eugene Scott
graduated from Chico State in 1952 with a degree in
history, stayed on for a master’s in
social science and earned a doctorate in
education at Stanford University in 1957
according to the Stanford University web site. Near the end of his life William
Eugene Scott fell into the transcendental temptation refusing
treatment for prostrate cancer which ultimately killed the
"Doc".
The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests
William Eugene Scott channeleth the spirit Purson a great king who
knoweth hidden things, can discover treasures and answareth truly of all
earthly things. Note: If an exorcist loses control of Purson then
Purson answers falsely of earthly things like the
Pyramids, Atlantis, Roswell UFO's, Stonehenge,
Amityville poltergeists, Nikola Tesla, the Bermuda
Triangle, The Spear of Destiny and even the Philadelphia
Experiment
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Purson
Creflo A. Dollar
Jesus never
preached on healing, prosperity, success, or
any of the other things that center on man and his material
well-being.Marketing
expert, Creflo A. Dollar, senior pastor
of World Changers Church International, preaches that the
Lord will reward the faithful with
material riches. Using the gospel Creflo A.
Dollar launced a "the Lord will make you
rich" marketing
campaign. Creflo A. Dollar, as a corportist preacher, has amassed a 25,000
strong congregation, 2 Rolls-Royces, a multimillion-dollar mansion and a
private Gulfstream III jet. Creflo A. Dollar business' include a "School of
Prosperity" which sells video and audio products, a bookstore, e-commerce
sites, a television studio, staged
conferences, a private
elementary school, fitness center and a second
institution at Madison Square Garden.
Creflo A. Dollar preaches that if you give wealth to his church you, individually, will
prosper -
"Religious institutions and the hierarchy of people
who run them have reaped the benefit of tax exemption for too long at the
expense of all of us. They are given liberties and latitude regarding holdings,
assets and their distribution that would never be allowed in private
individual or
corporate dealings without at least
some question. Billions of dollars
in real estate are owned by
religious institutions, not necessarily benefitting
congregants but rather the top guns of the particular
institution. Cars, buses, planes,
buildings, homes, television stations and
more can be written off as religious
necessities. Why are religious
institutions exempt from the same tax
laws when they decide to become mega-churches, i.e.
religious corporations? Enough is enough." - J.G.
Peters
YouTube - Televangelist Loot: Creflo
Dollar
George
Otis Jr. probes the labyrinth of the kingdom of darkness to determine the cause
of strong spiritual
oppression in certain geographic areas.
"In virtually every corner
of the world there are certain neighborhoods, cities
(City of God
perhaps?), cultures and
nations that
embrace more
idolatry,
manifest greater
spiritual oppression and
exhibit more resistance to Gospel light. Certain
travelers have described instances in which the prevailing spiritual atmosphere
changed one way or the other at the very instant they crossed a particular
territorial threshold. This new way of seeing I have labeled spiritual mapping.
Negative feelings are related directly to the presence and influence of unseen
territorial spirits. Satan assigns
high-ranking evil spirits to
control nations, regions, cities and
tribes to prevent the
Lord from being glorified in their
territory. The ability to identify these satanic
strongholds is described as spiritual mapping. It should come as no
surprise that spiritual mapping involves investigating locations that have
emerged as centers of idolatry and
demonic attention. This firsthand observation
allows you to acquire valuable insight into religious allegiances and possible
sources of
spiritual oppression.
Armed with this intelligence you can proceed to strip the
enemy of his cover.
Supernatural power
is to be used for deliverance from demonic
bondage, prophesying and divine
healing. Although we
may find it difficult to imagine ourselves
in the role of exorcist, seer or
healer, this is how the
Lord has
chosen to minister to our bound and
broken world." -
George Otis Jr..
The Lesser Key of Solomon suggests
George Otis Jr. channels
the spirit Shax, a great marquize spirit who appears as a dove.
Shax office is to take away ye sight, hearing & understanding of any
man or woman at ye command of ye
Exorcist. Shax
can discover all Things that are hidden & not kept by wicked
spirits.
Exorcists wear this
symbol on their panties to
control Shax
In
2000 new spiritual warfare practices were
introduced in association with spiritual mapping. The most significant of
these, and also the most controversial, was the activation of the gift of
prophecy and the role of
prophets and
apostles.
In a film released by
The Sentinel Group which is titled "Transformations" and which is
narrated by George Otis
Jr., we are presented with a series of four communities that are portrayed
as having been radically transformed by using the method of spiritual mapping
along with deliverance from demonic bondage,
prophesying and divine healing.
"It is
not the matter of whether or not we "accept" Christ but whether Christ accepts
us - that is the crucial issue. Will, indeed, Christ accept us the way we are
as so many today infer?" - George Otis Jr. (Learn something new everyday -
Christ is now rejecting some who seek succor!)
In association with
C. Peter Wagner,
Chuck Pierce,
Ted Haggard and
Cindy Jacobs,
George Otis Jr. of The
Sentinel Group relentlessly pursues the grand cause of the
New Apostolic
Reformation aimed at unifying and controlling Christianity by turning the authority within
Christianity over to the
New Apostles.
George Otis Jr. wrote a
book in 1978 which has become one of the primary books endorsed by the modern
version of the Moral Government movement.
"In effect the Moral
Government teaching had made me into a perfect Pharisee. I was proud,
self-righteous, superior because of
my uprightness and
understanding of the
truth - all in the name of humility,
truth and spirituality!" - Gregory L.
Robertson
"For fools speak foolishness and make evil plans."
- Isaiah 32:6 The last decade has seen a tremendous
explosion of self-proclaimed "prophets", who claim having
fantastic
experiences or
journeys to "heaven", trips to "hell", and lengthy, intimate dialogue with
Jesus.
Purported
dreams and visions
have grabbed center stage, enthralling multitudes to the point where common
sense is overridden in favor of the
sensational.
"Having just exited, after twelve
years, a congregation steeped in false
teaching, I know firsthand the damage it
can accomplish within the Body
of Christ. As a fellowship we had literally ridden every "wave" that came along,
including the one initiated by The Final
Quest by Rick
Joyner." - Kevin Reeves
Rick Joyner asserts he has
an "ability to foresee future events and
occasionally could look at people and know
details about them."(see cold reading)
In The Final Quest,
Rick Joyner presents his
ascent up the mystical mountain. Along the way
Rick Joyner converses
with angels and
discovers doors leading to
secret knowledge that will
revolutionize
Christianity.
Rick Joyner's ascent up the
mystical mountain is reminiscent of Jacob's
Ladder.
"One of the most striking Biblical dreams is that of Jacob and
the ladder. Kabbalistically this “ladder,” or sulam, represents the
ladder of worlds, the Seder Hishtalshalut, and is the connection between G-d
and the ethereal with our physical world." - chabad.org
Rick Joyner journeys to the
'Garden of God' and tastes of the
Tree of Life.
Rick Joyner encounters
many believers, personal friends, Lot, Jonah,
Abel, Paul and Adam. Adam tells
Rick Joyner about the
famines, earthquakes, and wars to be released upon the world by, not God, but
by an elite fellowship of exalted,
last days, overcoming prophets and apostles.
When
Rick Joyner reaches the
summit/top of the ladder he meets Jesus.
Rick Joyner
proposes that there are different levels of revelation.
Level one is
prophetic "impressions".
Level two is
described as "conscious
illumination" which he says was the level
the apostles used when they wrote the New
Testament documents.
Level three is an even higher level which he calls
"open visions" which are viewed externally like
the clarity of a movie screen.
On
level four, the highest level - "the trance,"
Rick Joyner claims to
receive dreams and visions directly from the
Father.
"This book was taught as doctrine in a home fellowship
led by our pastor, heavily promoted within our ranks as "the
word of the Lord", and nearly
required reading if one was in leadership. As an elder of some years standing I
heard no end of praise for this book, but no one was interested in dealing with
specific questions that periodically arose about its content. If an issue was
raised (and it was a rare enough occurrence), the person's concern was
basically dismissed as spiritual immaturity. I had often personally been on the
receiving end of this one." - Kevin Reeves
"If I had taken to
heart every "prophetic word" spoken over me in the past
dozen years, I would be the most "anointed", incredible
believer that I would
know personally, walking in
demon-stomping, (neo)evangelistic,
miraculous supernatural power in
my everyday life. I am ashamed to admit that I
preached it myself before coming out of all this
deception. " - Kevin Reeves
Rick Joyner declares, "I
saw the Father."
Rick Joyner describes
the Father in detail specifically
mentioning the crown on the Father's head.
"What is about to come upon the Earth is not just a
revival, or another
awakening; it is a veritable
revolution. The
vision was given in order to begin to
awaken those who are destined to
radically change the course, and even the very definition of
Christianity. The dismantling of
organizations and disbanding of some works will be a positive and exhilarating
experience for the
Lord's faithful servants. A great company
of prophets, teachers, pastors and
apostles will be raised up with the spirit
of Phineas." -
Rick Joyner
YouTube: The Ramp Colorado
YouTube: DSM
Conference 2007
"I believe it's a
fresh word from the
Lord for us and the phrase that he gave me
was the synergy of the ages and I have been meditating in that ever since
asking the Lord what that means and working
it into the form that it is in now … it is the marriage of the old and the
new and as we do it the synergistic exponential
anointing of the ages
through the decree and the
fullness of the king of the ages is released from generation to generation and
from age to age..." - Dutch
Sheets, National School Of The Prophets, 2000
Dutch
Sheets claims that man has dominion
over the Earth and that
miracles will occur
only through intercessors.
Dutch Sheets pastors a
Vineyard
laughter movement.
Dutch Sheets wrote River of God, endorsed by
Rick Joyner,
Cindy Jacobs and
C. Peter Wagner.
C. Peter Wagner's World
Prayer Center is situated on the property of Ted
Haggard's Charismatic New
Life fellowship,
where people reportedly see angels and where demons go on shooting rampages.
("Forcing your religion down my throat all
these years with your dominionist agenda
... the abuse ends now... I'm just so full of hate" - Matthew Murray. Matthew
Murray was expelled from a Youth with a Mission program
after hearing "unapproved" voices in his head - demonic possession? Matthew
Murray went on a murderous rampage killing four
youths in December 2007.)
"I eventually started to question some
things that were happening. These questions had to do with the practice of
shepherding, which made leaders into "spiritually
advanced," infallible little popes. I
started believing that
Youth with a Mission
leaders were using principles of "discipleship," "submission," "loyalty," etcetera to
control the sheep. When I disagreed with
my flock leader I was labeled "rebellious." He said if he was wrong and
I submitted anyway,
he would be held responsible before god and
I would not." - Gregory L. Robertson
If you have visual
images of heaven,
of God, of Satan's evil
minions loose on Earth disguised as men and performing
evil acts then you
have allowed yourself to become involved in an
eleborate fantasy world the does not exist in reality. see
imperial
Christianity
Each of
these religions has elaborate
moral and social
codes mixed into the religion that were
developed hundreds or thousands of
years ago. At the time these
codes were adopted and adhered to, especially
Judaism and Islam, they were more than just
religious codes
they were as well the social
law that society
lived under.
For
Americans today this would be equivalent to
religiously following to the letter every
municple, county, district, state and federal law
many of which are contradictory and
unlikely to ever be enforced, especially
in this day and age. An example of a few
laws that routinely are not enforced is
laws that limit campaign contributions,
laws that restrict immigration,
laws that protect the environment,
laws that require
government accountability and a
myriad of laws regulating
corporations and
industry.
It is likely that the
economy would come to a screeching halt as
'corners could no longer be cut'. Nearly every man and woman in America could be jailed at some point in their
lives if every law on the books
was strictly enforced, applied equally
across all social and economic classes' and actually applied for every
transgression.
This does not mean that religious moral
and social codes are
to be jettisoned.
On the contrary they should be studied and
applied in spirit as opposed to literally.
Far to many ‘spiritual
advisors' entirely miss fundamental
concepts that are being
expressed by trying to explain
metaphorical analogy as
literal fact.
The
fact that all religions have eleborate
moral codes,
specifically laying out for us proper modes of
social
behavior is very telling
toward the way in which
humanity percieves
God in that nearly all of
humanities religions have remakably similar
moral codes. And all
those moral codes
are designed to keep the
individual from making decisions
that are likely to harm both the
individual and the
social fellowship within which the
individual resides, now or in the
future.
Regardless of your veiws on
religious dogma the simple
truth is this:
Millions of men,
women and children have been
murdered by politically religious zealots in the name of god.
Men, women and children have been burned at the stake in Europe and hung by the neck
until dead in America.
Men, women and
children have been ruthlessly butchered
recently in Africa.
Women have been
convinced to throw them selves on the
funeral pyres in
India.
Men
murder their sister's and cousin's in Islamic
countries for flirting.
Most
genocide has been commited on
Earth in the name
of a god or godlike idea
as
defined by those in control of
religious and social institutions at the
time.
These purportedly
religious individuals are really carrying out
the commands of their false gods.
Yahweh,
Thantos, Mars and their
brethern have nothing to do with
God, Jesus or
Allah.
God, Jesus and
Allah do not ask for
belief behind the
barrel of a
gun!
original sin, the fall or the ejection from
the garden
"As it is imbued so deeply into
our mythology, our
ideology, our culture, and
our economy, the doctrine of original sin is
actually correct - correct insofar as we are immersed in
our culture. It is correct given our
ideological infrastructure and the motivations built in to our cultural
institutions." - Charles Eisenstein
Where the concept of the the ejection from the
garden is false is that humanity left the garden of its own free will and God
sits silently waiting in the garden for us to rejoin him.The
religions of Judaism, Christianity and Moslem faiths were all born from the same seed,
Judaism.
The basic premise that all
men are born into sin is a relatively new
concept.
At the dawn of
human history early thinkers could imagine a reality
free from want but such a
reality seemed
impossible for
mankind to create and it was, given the state of their stone
age agricultural
technology.
Early
thinkers vision
of a reality free from want, seen in the
imagination of the
mind's eye,
came to them in the image of the
Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden would be a wonderful place where all
wants were met, where all desires were
fulfilled and where the ever present desert of
extremes receeded from consciousness, a
return to the dreamtime.
Although
they could 'see' the
Garden in their 'vision' (imagination) they were ultimately frustrated
by the fact that their
vision (imagination) was not one belonging to the
real physical
Earth.
Over time the vision of the
Garden became 'real' in their mind's
eye, exquisitely beautiful perfection, but such perfection was separate
from pysical reality existing only
outside of time and space in a
dreamtime.
Early
thinkers were forced to come up with a
logical reason for
why man was separated from the Garden.
This was necessary to convince
others of the
reality of their conceptualized Garden of perfection.
The
emotions all men feel come
from the natural order.
For example, when a man
was hunting and/or gathering fear was a
very helpful and life saving
emotion. A man that holds
fear, is careful in his pursuit of
game. A man
careful to be aware of his
surroundings when gathering fruit
has a much better chance of
surviving than the
man that does not pay attention to the
fact that on the rock ledge above his head a
lion is crouching. (see
biological orienting
response)
Rational men have
felt guilt ever since the first
moment that they
realized that the life they were ending,
to
survive, was of the same order as the
life that they held
within themselves - a natural empathetic response.
Individual life saving emotions
may work for the
individual and yet hinder
cooperation within the organized
social culture,
the tribe.
Leaders of men
begin to distrust the emotions of their
followers because as time had passed they had changed from being nomads,
hunters and gathers to
herders and farmers, Cain and Able, with a set
of emotions more befitting
wild animals than those of 'civilized' farmers.
Although their
social status had changed from
hunters and gathers to
herders and farmers their
emotional state had not had a
chance to settle down. In
other words although they were gaining
knowledge of the real physical
Earth their emotions were not in sync with their new found
mode of living as
cooperating
farmers and herders.
The only logical and
reasonable explanation to them, of their
animalistic emotions and for their inability to
attain the vision in their
mind's eye, was
that they were spiritually
corrupt. (Emotion, not
seen or heard, was of the
supernatural
realm.) All men understand personal
spiritual corruption in
that they are unable to completely control
their own emotions and live up to
self-expectations.
They
began to imagine not letting primitive
emotions drive decisions. The
eye of reason
dawned upon them.
This same scenario took place across the face of the
Earth within each culture and social
group as they grew and settled down as farmers and
herders. The elaborate religious
theology constructed by each
social culture
depended upon taming primitive emotions and the
type of lifestyle their culture embodied. For
example, the horse people of Genghis Khan
lived on the Mongolian Steppe, an endless grass prairie, practiced a
shamanistic religion quite similar to the
Native American horse people of the
Great Plains. The differences between the two can be traced to
elements of Hindu
and Buddhist religions being different from
elements of Christian religion which Native Americans had been exposed
to.
Without the taming of primitive emotions a social
culture will remain limited in size or die as
the group members destroy one another as
they did on Pitcairn Island.
Only groups working out elaborate commonly excepted
social rituals that keep primitive
emotions in check will be able to grow and
prosper . With primitive
emotions in check
civility reigns within the social cultural
group.
Most religious
theologies divide
humans into at least two opposing
social cultural groups - those who
belong to the social cultural group
or can be tolerated as non-threatening and those who are "other," threatening
evil doers out to
enslave or destroy the group or fellowship.
The Israelites survived as nomads in the
desert and worshiped the harsh
war god of the
desert, Yahweh. To survive as nomads in the
desert the Israelite tribes had to
act together to
survive. Israelite religious leaders had gained a profound
insight into the
nature of the emotional state of
man in a social group by
persevering in the
desert for so many years.
(The Israelites may be banished
Egyptian followers of the
heretic Akhenaten, 14th century BC,
worshiper of the
One True God as symbolized by the
sun disc.)
Guilt, an
emotion only humans are known
to experience, worked
wonders as a social control mechanism. Israelite religious leaders of the cult of
Yahweh solution to the fact that not all their subjects
felt guilt keenly enough was to bestow upon them
Original Sin.
The
Israelite religious leaders of the cult of
Yahweh 'educated' the members of their
tribe that men had been ejected from the
vision of freedom from want, ejected from exquisitely
beautiful perfection, ejected from
Yahweh's
presence because
spiritual corruption was
universal in mankind.
Israelite religious leaders corrupted natural
emotions in their
desire to create and control
Israelite
warriors.
First mention of
Israelites is on the Merneptah which
has a short section at the end of the poem describing a campaign by Merneptah
in the first few years of his reign, 1210 BC. One line mentions
Israel: "Israel is laid
waste, its seed is not." Here we have the
earliest mention of Israel outside the
Bible and the only mention of
Israel in Egyptian records. The
Egyptian record identifies the Israelites as a nomadic people.
The
harsh war god of the
desert, Yahweh would
redeem them.
The fleeing Israelites driven from their nomadic
life by the Egyptians who usurped
Akhenaten's dynasty (Akhenaten was referred to
as 'the enemy' in Egyptian archival records) fell upon and
conquered the city of
Ugarit and the land of
Canaan around 1180 BC.
Canaan had been an Eygyptian protectorate
until 1210 BC.
"The
conquest of Canaan was but one more
instance of a hungry nomad horde falling upon a settled community. The
conquerors killed as many as they could
find, and married the rest. Slaughter was
unconfined, and was divinely ordained and enjoyed. Gideon, in capturing two
cities, slew 120,000 men; only in the annals of the Assyrians do we meet again
with such hearty killing." - Will Durrant
The
Canaanites worshiped a pantheon of gods.
El was the chief god,
the Creator, but El
did not act on Earth. Secondary
gods, who acted on Earth, were Baal, who's name appears
76 times in the
Old Testament, and
Baal's consort
Asherah.
Canaanites worshiped Baal and
Asherah who brought the
Canaanites rain, fertility and
life. The Israelite's
conquered the
Canaanite city of
Ugarit slaughtering every
man, subjugating the
woman and children throughout the land of
Canaan.
The
Hebrew prophets combined and folded several
aspects of the individual
Canaanite gods
into Yahweh. In
Canaanite mythology Yahweh was the son of
El. The Hebrew prophets intent was to
civilize the
barbarous
Israelites by taming the
war god
Yahweh.
At this period in
history Hebrews religious leaders or
priests were the dispensers of
natural, religious and social laws in a
way which was paralleled later in
history during the reign of the
Pope's Roman
Catholic church before the Protestant Reformation of
Martin Luther. At this time in history
civil law and
moral laws, those
laid down by man, were one and the
same.
The earliest cities
of Mesopotamia, "Land Between the Rivers," and the Levant were directed by
priests who established
coherent rules for the society. The temple was erected at the
center of the settlement and was the
most awe inspiring building.
This pattern of a
society with a centralized place of
worship can be seen in the all the ancient cities of
Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Historically the role of
religion in every
civilization was
religion's ability to establish a
common moral order. Priests, or
kings derived their authority from the
gods and they were the ones who devised the
moral and social
codes that kept increasingly
complex societies operating in a 'civilized' or controllable manner.
Babylon derived its
name from Ba-bi-ilani, or "the gate of the
gods," the place were the gods
descended to Earth.
Inca urban
society rested on the
belief that their rulers were gods, their
word law.
Greek and Roman communities shared a
powerful sense of "sacred space" in their central core and each
devised elaborate codes of
social and moral
law.
Islam
fostered the creation of a
coherent
civilization by imposing a
rule of law that
applied to personal and commercial
transactions.
After the fall of Rome, the
Roman Catholics preserved the last vestiges of
civilization in Europe by providing the
legal system
under which European civilization
continued to function.
Today it is
nearly unbelievable that many modern
people subscribe to notions of
reality that are based entirely on
mythical fantasy.
In this age of humanity
we have allowed ourselves to be duped by purveyors of
social control into believing in concepts that has no basis in
physical reality.
For the average
literalist Christian, Jew
or Islamic believer today the only
way to believe in the harsh
Israelite war god of the desert,
Yahweh, is to make a leap of
faith, to abandon
logic, to abandon reason, and accept what the
Hebrew religious teachers had ordained about
mankinds removal from the
presence of God.
psyche
metaphor, literary constructions and the
mystical
"Know verily that the purpose underlying all these
symbolic terms and
abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of God’s holy cause,
hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world;
that thereby the earth of the pure
and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil." -
Bahá'u'lláhEarly sacred religious text writers understood
themselves to be working with
psyche metaphor and
literary constructions.
Early
sacred religious text writers selectively
and strategically cobbled together
mystical literary themes.
Early
sacred religious text writers demonstrate
authorial command over the
texts they revised, redacted, recombined,
borrowed to create, and put forward as "right thinking".
The
initial core origin of religion was based on a
visionary mode of experience, a dissociative state of
consciousness, described
metaphorically. This dissociative state of
consciousness
naturally produces themes of
mystical experience incorporating and
conjoining conscious concerns.
Early sacred religious
text writers recognized and considered dissociative
metaphor to be a major
rule of religiously authoritative and
legitimate writings. Although there are endless
variations the general conceptual modes
remained the same, forming a category of universal
mystical metaphoric language, enabling
initiates who were
familiar with that mode of expression
to readily understand each
other
without taking the
concepts in the
literal sense.
Early
sacred religious text writers recognized
and understood this strategy and
attempted to create
metaphorical ideals that created, in turn,
behavior that they
socially desired.
Early
sacred religious text writers
expected the
audience to
read in the culturally normative manner, as
metaphor hearkening back to the authoritative
dissociative state of consciousness. When
crafting the literary
metaphors to
express political ideas
in terms of mystic
experiencing, they
felt completely
free - not burdened by any restrictive concern
for mere historical
factuality - to utilize available
respected
symbolic archetypes combined in a
traditional universal manner to forward
their own political
philosophy through the
mystic dissociative mode of
consciousness.
The
enlightened thinkers that drafted the
Constitution understood the
power of religion and the power that mystic
religious experience has in controlling social
groups.
The
enlightened thinkers that drafted the
Constitution also understood the
power of orators,
preachers, ministers, bishops, etcetera to tap into the
mystic religious experience and emotionally arouse and manipulate the target
audience,
congregation,
flock, sycophants, proselytizers, disciples,adherents, acolytes, fellows, etcetera.
When I was
a teenager and saw the reality of the
Earth for the first time I was deeply
disturbed. I had
taken for granted that God watched over
us and that men
were essentially good. Man's
inhumanity to other
men caused me to
fall into despair. After flirting with the
idea of just ending it
all in my deep depression
I had a vision, a
revelation and I
felt Jesus's spirit
within me.
I regularly
attended a youth
fellowship at
my church. In charge was a literalist zealot who I
respected. This literalist zealot helped light
my passion for
Jesus. At some point the
light that was shining in me was too
bright for this literalist
zealot. This literalist zealot decided that
I needed to be
humiliated as
selfless behavior is frowned upon by
imperial
Christians.
As I had
trust in him to do right
I was very pliable, I
was only fourteen years of age. The
group was getting ready to go on an field trip
and he asked me to stay for a minute after the
others left. This literalist zealot then pulled out a pair of handcuffs and
asked me to hold out my arms.
I was extremely reluctant but eventually
I gave in to his relentless "trust me!" This
literalist zealot handcuffed me to a post in the basement and left. About four
hours later he returned and uncuffed me.
This literalist zealot taught
me a very valuable lesson!
Never
trust a literalist
zealot or any type of religious
zealot!
You will
know a man by his
fruits!
This
literalist zealot cured me of my
religious fervor and at that point
I realized that
I might as well satisfy the flesh.
This
literalist zealot single
handedly helped me reject all religious dogma,
social laws and
rules of etiquette, that I had been attempting to follow for
Jesus.
Religious dogma
gets in the way of the
truth of all religions - each of which holds valuable moral
lessons.
I believe, as did Rene Descartes, that many
individuals have no
idea what they believe because they know in their soul
that God is real
and that God's Natural Law is
real but something about their
religion is wrong.
No
individual's
conceptual image
of God will be perfectly the same as
another
individual's
conceptual image
of God. And they can not be so because each
human mind is individually formed by it's own unique
experiences
"It takes
real courage to contemplate the
possibility that
your entire faith
could be based on highly questionable, even unlikely premises.
If you
really probe, really dig deep enough through the theological mishmash, through the
history of religious ideas,
past the programs of conforming
belief all clergymen are handed during their
youthful seminary years, past all you have been taught in your church, you will
discover your
religion has no more
reason to qualify as the 'one
true way' than any
other religion humans have constructed over the
ages since the dawn of
consciousness.
Thus you are
free to open yourself to the full mysterium tremendum which
transcends all
religious concepts that confine the soul's need of blossoming, trusting that such opening
creates a deeper
faith which is nourished by the mulch of
newly found wonder and
awe.
There is much that stands in
the way of such open-minded contemplations.
Psychological research has revealed
that behind people's front of certainty and confidence in their
religious belief, lies
bewilderment and
fear they are completely unaware of,
because the subconscious mind, the very
source of intuition, has its own
way of detecting falsehoods contrived by the
ego.
This
intuitive knowledge gnawing at the threshold of
consciousness kindles the heat of
desperation, which the
ego skillfully
represses with the weight of
false confidence. The more intense the
subconscious doubt, the more
zealous the claim of the
believer.
Such a
belief system
will be defended at all costs,
inciting both politically and religiously justified wars." - Lew
Paz
"As a child, I attended a
literalist Christian school in Saint Petersburg, Florida. At
Keswick Christian School, the Bible
was our textbook. We pledged allegiance to it every
morning, and it was a daily subject
of study, like math and English; we
memorized lengthy passages of Scripture and were tested on their meaning. On
the first morning of my fourth-grade
science class, I was told to open my King
James version of the Bible and read from
the book of Genesis:
In the beginning, God created the
heavens and the Earth. It was the early 1980s, and "intelligent design" was not yet in
fashion; instead, we learned creation
science. My
religious teachers taught us that
God had created the
Earth and everything on it in six
days, resting on the seventh, and we learned
that we were all descendants of that first
living, breathing couple,
Adam and Eve. We made
mathematical calculations based on
book of Genesis that proved that
the Earth was not billions of years old but a
mere 6,000, and I learned that the Grand
Canyon had been created by the
biblical Great Flood." - Elizabeth Rosen, fellow Ethics
and Public Policy Center
"Charlotte Allen's
opinion is frightening for its unabashed
rationalization of extremism. She states the
obvious that the stricter the church dogma,
the deeper the adherence - and conveniently avoids mention of the effects of
extremism, such as murdering
gays, firebombing family planning clinics or
flying airplanes into skyscrapers. When was the
last time you heard of a
religious moderate
strapping dynamite around his
chest and walking into a wedding? Or an atheist setting
fire to a cross on someone's lawn? Given the
choice of a world of religious extremists or churches evolving their
moral codes to fit the times it is clear to me which is more
to society at large." - Bill Gervasi
"Pope Benedict the XVI announced that he will reach out
to other religions. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he and the
leaders of all
other religions agreed to set aside their doctrinal
differences and join in worldwide effort to promote ethical
behavior. So much energy has
been spent on enforcing and promoting doctrine that we appear to have lost
sight of a sense
of right and wrong, transcending religion and
sectarianism. Like medicine,
religion should have as its first precept:
Above all, do no harm." - Phyllis
O'Connor"
the selfless example
Jesus set
See John
Steinbeck
See Bertrand
Russel
See Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.
See Separation from
Nature
See Francois Marie Arouet
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