Social bonds
The treasures of the kingdom Jesus was talking about in Matthew[1] was the unrighteous mammon and "reward of unrighteousness" versus the social capital created by the righteous practice of "pure Religion" of early Christians rather than the legal charity of world. The kingdom of God which is at hand operates according to the perfect law of liberty spoken of in the Gospel of the kingdom.[1]
"The love and respect of your neighbors must be gained by a long series of small services, hidden deeds of goodness, a persistent habit of kindness, and an established reputation of selflessness" (Alexis de Tocqueville 1840, 593).
The "Legal charity" of FDR's New Deal and LBJ's War on Poverty were the greatest destroyers of liberty which was well known 2000 years earlier according to Plutarch and Polybius.
The American people have robbed themself of the essential "social bonds" of a free society by indulging in the "covetous practices" of social welfare state of modern democracies.
The treasury of the Kingdom is not found in vaults of dead stone nor a golden calf but God's treasury is stored in the hearts of a peculiar people who live by faith, hope, and charity through a perfect law of liberty.
Each family is linked through free assemblies in patterns of Tens by ministers of charity and love. Those who "seek", "strive", and "persevere" through faith and hope in the name of Christ gather together forming an impenetrable body of righteousness in which the grace and miracles of God may abide.
During the Exodus Moses sought to lead the people out of the bondage of Egypt into communities under the perfect law of liberty to be governed for, of, and by the free souls gathering under the Ten Statements of God as an Intentional community
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Call to recreate Social bonds
"We’re sick as a society and we have to heal ourselves. And one of the things we have to do is come together. We have to recreate our social bonds; we have to buy into integrity, the importance of human dignity, and the importance of community. That’s how we get out of this.”[2]
Social bonds of liberty
The social bonds of liberty are the Righteous Social bonds of a free society. Those bonds are what has held free societies together throughout history, from Abraham to Moses and all the prophets. When those bonds of society degenerate into the bands of the unrighteous by taking away the free choices of the people those members[3] of the societies began to degenerate and will eventually collapse under the power of tyrannical and destructive rulers.
The removal of choices begins not with a central ruler but with your relationship with your neighbor. There are social practices that can bring society together and can tear them apart or at leas degenerate those bond necessary for a free society.
Manner of conversation
We must remember the way in the manner of are conversation as explained in the context of Luke 6:31 "... And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them... 35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful."
Colossians 3:12 "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness."
Man was not meant to be alone. Ecclesiastes 4:9 "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
Proverbs 12:"26 The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray"
Throughout history there is a clear evidence of these practices that cause the social bonds of society to degenerate. Eventually the masses, because of their appetite for benefits and wantonness at the expense of their neighbor allow the people to become accustomed to oppressing one another.
Over time people were willing to take choices from their neighbor and their own eyes are darkened. When we say we love our neighbor as ourselves but choose or vote to force are neighbor to contribute to what we want we are trying to hold two ideas that contradict each other at the same time.
The cognitive dissonance of holding any two contradictory ideas at the same time is conducive to a "Mass Formation Psychosis". This psychosis alters the way the people think, the way they remember history.
- "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth." [4]
When people are willing to deny the truth about one thing it becomes easier, almost compulsory to deny another.
The moral character of the people declines as they become accustomed to take from their neighbor by force and by default social virtues become so debilitated amongst the people until many become perfect savages while in their own imagination they are the righteous.
"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”[3]
Who is to blame
The election interference and discrimination through censorship by Twitter, which may be a private company, including banning and shadow banning candidates while running for office, cannot legally be done even without government involvement and is evidence of a deeper and more wide spread corruption. When done at the governments request it is aiding and abetting a violation of the first amendment.
The Democrats are too immoral to admit it. The Republicans are too immoral to do anything about it and the media is to self-righteous and bias to be outraged and report it. But worst of all the people are too scattered and weak as a community or nation because they lack the social bonds necessary for a free society to do anything effective to counter that corruption.
The same success of the government's unwarranted usurpation through the unproductive shutdowns that injured the people, their mean and mendacious mandates and their pervasive violations of free speech is made possible because the "moral majority" is not as moral as it would like to think.
The reason people cannot prevent the rise of tyranny and it's sting is they are both little tyrants with an appetite for benefits and they have the habit of recieving them at the expense of others.
This makes the masses a scattered flock because they have degenerated the natural social bonds of a free society.
Bonds of choice
For over a hundred years in America and much of the world people have chosen to abandon what was once called the perfect law of liberty and accept ideas that suggest it is okay to take from your neighbor if the voice of the people determine it is for a good cause. (see Democracy vs Republic)
What was the underlying bonds of a free society in the past and why did many of them decay and fall into captivity like the bondage of Egypt?
While the Bible mentions Religion only five times it mentions governments and liberty over a thousand times and according to John_Wycliffe who was at times held in contempt by orthodox churches and the governments:
What is actually in the book that makes governments work so hard to keep it from being translated into English?
Why did the orthodox Churches originally started by Constantine and supported by the governments of the world?
Is there something the Modern Church is leaving out of their doctrines that is clearly in the Doctrines of Jesus?
Moses and Christ actually set people free in spirit and in truth. Has the definition of Religion changed in the past 200 years? What were they doing and what is the difference between Religion such as public religion and Pure Religion?
Christ was talking about those social bonds that are established in society when people interact with each other through voluntarism equated with faith, hope, and charity in the process called seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness. All the reference to forgiveness and love, sacrifice and charity spoken of in parables to the people are the keys to the kingdom and Liberty under God.
Jesus explained all this to those he called out to be his disciples and even commanded them to make the people organize themselves in groups of tens in order to establish those social bonds which He counted as righteousness.
While the early Church practiced pure Religion the modern Churches seems to have failed to do so but instead sought what used to be called public religion.
Americans lost the means of maintaining the social bonds required to create and maintain a free society decades ago. Until they have the humility to examine their own altered practices and become more willing to see what they have been doing wrong and repent things will not get better, but far worse.
People of the world have sent those who congregate under the new doctrines of men to men who exercise authority one over the other for their daily bread through the practice of that public religion and legal charity which makes the word of God to none effect like the Corban of the Pharisees which Christ condemned.
We need to realize the importance of cultivating the righteous bonds of a free society and the degeneration of the character of people if we bind society through fealty and force. If we are to allow our minds to be changed we must honestly address the fundamental questions of what is good and bad social bonds.
What works and what does not work to produce liberty and why?
Coming to terms
Social bonding is the manner and degree to which an individual is integrated into society and connected to the functional elements and institutions of society.
Social bonds existed since ancient times and in every culture. Social bonds are social relationships which accumulate as "social capital" to strengthen and enrich societies.
The meaning of Social capital is dependent upon the values held by individuals and the means by which social networks are established. Societies may bond through varying processes and combinations of cultural interaction based on similar social virtues or vices. Social virtue is said to be " morally good behavior or character" of individuals which produce "the good result" in society which is needed to sustain healthy individuals from "generation to generation".
The "Social Bond Theory" is also known as "social control theory".[6] Seeing social bonds as a product of relations within society was being theorized based on the assumption that individuals are inherently self-interested and therefore assumes that some people will refrain from activities that harm others (criminal) within society for fear of injuring or losing those relationships within society.
Before we continue there is another term we should mention and that is "Social exclusion". Social exclusion was defined in France in 1974 as a rupture of social bonds. But Social exclusion will be experienced in "the lack or denial of resources, rights, goods and services, and the inability to participate in the normal relationships and activities, available to the majority of people in a society, whether in economic, social, cultural or political arenas."
We already see this in social credit scores controlled by central governments like China but also in Europe. Many things will produce a bad score and create Social exclusion. This is where the Mark of the Beast will develop its sting for those who have not already taken it.
Social exclusion will include the inability to obtain food and services when there are any type of shortage. Anyone not having the proper numbers, identification or vaccine passport will be excluded from the market place, jobs, banking, or even the grocery stores.
Criminalizing self
Mankind was endowed by God with the right to choose and the power to choose is what makes a man a man.[7]
Individuals are endowed by their creator with rights, while the collective endows its members with privileges. Privileges can be taken away by the collective. The endowed rights of God can only be taken away by God. Individualism is often considered the enemy of Collectivism, at least by the collective.
The approach of condemning "self-interest" made all people guilty of a social sin against society until they proved their innocence. The truth is "self-interest" is a primary value not a weakness. Without it their is no endeavor, no pillar upon which goals of virtue and enterprise may stand. More important, without the presence of "self-interest" their can be no tempering of the soul with compassion and mercy. Without "self-interest" and the love of self there can be no loving your neighbor as yourself.[8]
By the 1960, if not long before, the idea of controlling society was a lot more appealing to some than to setting society free. The "self-interest" of the individual was not a sin against society but a sin against the collective.
American society had been moving quickly toward socialism where the the individuals property and personal means of production were more and more in the control of government. In socialism eventually the people become so weak and degenerated the more aggressive creatures with greater appetites seize control from a degenerating population and like in the Paradise policies of John Calhoun[9] or the collective Masses of Polybius society collapses in chaos.
The primary unit for leveraging most social bonds within society. The sexual revolution centered in the 1960 drove a dagger in the heart of the family. there was already the plague amongst society spread by the apostasy of the modern Church and false religion which had crept into society[10] which literally returned the people to the Bondage of Egypt.[11]
The pervasive practices of uncommitted sexual relationships are known to precipitate low self-esteem, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, divorce, and single parent families. It was a major contributing factor to the fall of Rome.
Without the family social capital articulation of social bonds and the transmission of values to the next generation declines and with that a decline in overall Social capital.
Social capital theory contends that social relationships are resources that can lead to the development and accumulation of human capital.The term social capital can only be defined as any reproductive long term benefit of a social relationship which enhances the fruitfulness and health of society.
Gibbon knew that Romans under the Antoninian emperors were forced to console themselves with “image of liberty” and free bread of the Roman welfare State. He also knew that the once great republic had devolved into "an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed."
The Caesars like FDR and his New Deal or LBJ and his War on Poverty along with other programs, presidents and politicians knew that great swelling words[12] of liberty from the responsibilities of humility and service, and "pure Religion" which builds the social bonds and capital of a free people.
"Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom."[13]
this is a Writing in progress. We will show that the early church re established those social bonds Dr Malone is speaking about. Hope to have it done by showtime on keys of the kingdom broadcast Saturday.
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
- Matthew 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
- Matthew 13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe [which is] instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that is] an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure [things] new and old.
- Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go [and] sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come [and] follow me.
- Mark 10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
- Luke 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
- ↑ The most significant comment of Dr. Malone in his interview on Joe Rogan. Because of suppression and censorship by whole countries and the media of the Joe Rogan Experience #1757 – Dr. Robert Malone, MD Congressman Troy Nehls, who stated, “When we stray away from our core principles of freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of debate, democracy is lost", has entered the transcript in the Congregational Record.
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https://nehls.house.gov/posts/joe-rogan-experience-1757-dr-robert-malone-md-full-transcript
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Video on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT
See Dr. Malone's "our social bonds" and quote 2:39:00 to 2:43:00 Dr. Mattias Desmet Matthias Desmond's Mass Formation Psychosis ref. - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "archy" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
- ↑ This quote is attributed to the General Prologue to the John Wycliffe Bible translation of 1384, as quoted in Lincoln at Gettysburg : An Address (1906) by Clark Ezra Carr, p. 75. [1]
- ↑ "Social Bond Theory" was developed by American criminologist Travis Hirschi in the late 1960s, and is sometimes referred to as social control theory.
- ↑ "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish
- ↑ Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.
- Zechariah 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the LORD.
- Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
- Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and [thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Matthew 22:39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Mark 12:31 And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
- Mark 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- Luke 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
- Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
- Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- ↑ John Calhoun's NIMH experiment model removed the natural strive component of society, and disrupted the need for a pursuit of happiness by providing a guaranteed income, health care and literally all the benefits of socialism. They removed the strive factor.
- ↑ Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
- ↑ Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
- ↑ 2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
- Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
- ↑ Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 3