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[[File:stoning.jpg|right|250px|thumb| [[Moses]] and [[Jesus]] were in agreement but the [[Pharisees]] had it wrong. Evidently, they misused the words of [[Torah]] and altered the meaning of the text in many areas through [[Sophistry]]. Did God ever prescribe hitting women in the head with rocks as the solution for adultery? ]]

==Living Stones==

The [[Altars]] of [[Abraham]] and [[Moses]] were stones fit together without hewing those [[stones]]. Were those [[altars]] made of dead stones or were the meant to be [[White stones|living stones]]?


<blockquote>'''"The Hebrew word ''rigmah'' (רִגְמָה)''<Ref name="rigmah">{{07277}}</Ref>''  is translated into “council”, but actually means literally “a gathering of stones”. It is from the Hebrew word Regem [רֶ֫גֶם], which is translated “friend” and is the same as ragam [רָגַם], meaning “stone”. Both words have as a common origin [רֶגֶב] regeb, “a clod” (of earth). [[Hebrew]] letters have meanings which define the words."'''<ref>From [[Clay and Stone|Section 2 of Chapter 3]] ''Moses and the [[Altars]] of [[Clay and Stone]]'' of the book [[TKC|Thy Kingdom Comes]]</ref></blockquote>

We  see riḡmāṯām (רִגְמָתָ֑ם)<Ref name="rigmah">{{07277}}</Ref>in [[Psalms 68]]:27<Ref>Psalms 68:27  There [is] little Benjamin [with] their ruler, the princes of Judah [and] their council<07277 riḡmāṯām; רִגְמָתָ֑ם>, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the princes of Naphtali.</Ref> from the same word Regem<Ref name="Regem">{{07276}}</Ref> which is a name meaning ''friend'' which is from ragam (רָגַם‎)<Ref name="rigam">{{07275}}</Ref> which literally means "to stone" as a verb but can be a [[metaphor]] for a ''friend''.

If those original [[Altars]] were composed of living stones which were institutions for the practice of [[Pure Religion]] if left un[[hewn]] then what did it mean to "stone" someone at the ''gates'' or ''against a wall in the city''?

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=== The Essene saw ===

''The [[Essenes]] saw animal sacrifice on [[altars]] of stone in the Torah as a [[metaphor]] for a system of personal sacrifice to and through the [[Church in the wilderness]] who provided living [[altars]], the [[Levites]], to serve the ''tents of the congregations'' of the people. That system of social welfare through [[freewill offerings]] permitted the binding a nation together by [[charity]] and [[love]] rather than by [[contract]] and [[force]] and the tables of rulers which are a [[snare]]. They also generally saw stoning as shunning or excluding certain people and practices from sharing in their system of public social [[welfare]]. The [[Essenes]] saw stoning, especially children and other persons including astrologers and homosexuals, etc, and even slavery as ''false pericopes''<Ref>an extract from a text, especially a passage from the Bible.</Ref> through abuse of the Hebrew text by '''[[Sophistry]]'''. ''


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Taking someone to court before a “council” of men or [[Jury|jury]] of your peers made up of "Living [[Stones]]" was a way of deciding ''Fact and Law''. It was a way a free society could tend to ''"the [[weightier matters]] of law, judgment, mercy, and [[faith]]"''.<Ref>Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.</Ref>

There has been a concerted effort through [[Sophistry]] to keep people from understanding that the [[Altars]] of [[Clay and Stone]] were actually social structures to help keep people free in a [[world]] that seems determined to subjugate people around them, if not robbing or destroying them altogether.

If a ''gathering of stones'' or [[altar]] can be a ''council of men''; and the word for ''liver'' can also mean ''honor''; and the word for ''kidney'' can also mean ''reigns of control''; and the word for ''[[Leaven]]'' can also mean ''cruel and grievous'', then it would stand to reason that the verb for "to stone" can mean something other than ''killing someone with stones''? 

[[Stoning]] did not originally mean to pick up rocks and throw them at someone to execute them. We were told that ''"Thou Shalt Not Kill"'' and ''"not (be) oppressing the stranger"''<Ref>[[Exodus 22]]:21  Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
: Exodus 23:9  Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
: Jeremiah 7:6  If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
: Zechariah 7:10  And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
: Malachi 3:5  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.</Ref> and instead we were to be ''giving drink to the enemy''. We may need to ask the [[Holy Spirit]] what was God and Moses and Jesus Christ really telling us to do? 

=== Stone  SamechKufLamed ===

The first place we see the Hebrew verb '''stone''' (סָקַל‎ caqal)<Ref name="caqal">{{05619}}</Ref> in the sense "to stone" is when [[Moses]] is talking to [[Pharaoh]] about Israel going away from Egypt to do a different kind of [[sacrifice]]<Ref>{{02076}}</Ref> to God. [[Moses]] is concerned that the Egyptians will find this other form of sacrifice so opposed to their own ''sense of ethics''<Ref name="towebah">{{08441}} </Ref> that they would attack the people following [[the way]] of Moses and His God that they would on their own choose to "stone" them.<Ref>[[Exodus 8]]:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?</Ref>

In the Hebrew text we see the words '''stone ''us''''' סָקַל‎ caqal<Ref name="caqal">{{05619}}</Ref> as yisqəlunū (יִסְקְלֻֽנוּ׃) VavSamechKufLamedNunVav. Are we being told to believe the the people of Egypt were so lawless that after Pharaoh gave the Israelites permission to make their own sacrifices that they would take the law into their own hands and start stoning the Israelites with rocks, killing them?

Could these words and letters also actually mean something else?
 
The word  סָקַל‎ caqal and can be used to describe casting stones at someone like the farmer who "cast stones at king at David, and at all the servants of king David" in 2 Samuel 16<Ref>[[2 Samuel 16]]:6  And he cast <05619 waysaqqêl  
וַיְסַקֵּ֤ל> stones<068 bā’ăḇānîm בָּֽאֲבָנִים֙> at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men [were] on his right hand and on his left.<Br>
2 Samuel 16:13  And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw <05619 waysaqqêl וַיְסַקֵּ֤ל> stones<068 bā’ăḇānîm בָּֽאֲבָנִים֙> at him, and cast dust.</Ref>

It can also be used to express the idea of "gathered out the stones" or ''separating stones from a field'' as we see in Isaiah.<Ref>Isaiah 5:2  And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones <05619 וַֽיְסַקְּלֵ֗הוּ> thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.<br></Ref>

In Isaiah 62 we see ''caqal'' translated ''take'' accompanied by the word ''stones''<[[068]] מֵאֶ֔בֶן> in reference to removing the unwanted stones from the road way.<Ref>[[Isaiah 62]]:10  Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out <05619 סַקְּל֣וּ > the stones<[[068]] מֵאֶ֔בֶן>; lift up a standard for the people.</Ref>

The word SamechKufLamed (סָקַל‎ caqal)<Ref name="caqal">{{05619}}</Ref> can mean to ''separate'', ''casting out'' something 
 or some one from something or someone.  Since, stones can be people or just rocks there is again a great deal of room for interpretation in the inspired words of Moses.

=== Kuf Lamed ===

The [[Hebrew]] word ''saqal'' or ''caqal'' [[Samech]][[Kuf]][[Lamed]] is often translated "stone". [[Lamed]] has to do with the Aspiration of the Heart which directs our actions. The [[Samech]] is a symbol of the circular symbolizing fundamental cycles or paths in life. That life should include the [[Tree of life]] and the [[Holy Spirit]]. The tree of knowledge may lead us away from [[The Way]] of God who is the Creator of life, until we find ourselves doing the opposite  of the [[Divine Will]] and calling that grievous [[force]] and [[violence]] which is [[iniquity]] ''good''.

The [[Kuf]] is the paradoxical union of a [[Reish]] and a [[Zayin]] which is associated with ''Service and Valor'', to ''war against or nourish'' and can also suggest to ''cut or cut off'', even ''separateness''. 

[[Samech]] is as a symbol of the circular ''[[cause and effect]]'' process found throughout the [Law of Nature]. Can we drive out the grievous [[force]] and [[violence]]  with more grievous [[force]] and [[violence]]?

Do we drive out darkness with more darkness or with the light?

In Hebrew, the letters ''KufLamed'' spell out the word ''kal'', which is generally translated as “light” in the sense of “easy” or “of minor value” and can literally include the meaning something “unimportant.” 

The Hebrew word for ''foolishness'' is ''sechel'' in the Clem stories, spelled samech-kuf-lamed, which has an identical etymology to the Hebrew word for ''wisdom''. Shin Kuf Lamed ([[07919]], [[07920]]) means to behave wisely.  The same letters are seen in the word that can mean to make childless or bereave ([[07921]]).

The first time we see the verb cakal (סָכַל‎) <Ref> name="cakal">{{05528}}</Ref>SamechKafLamed is in [[1 Samuel 13]]<Ref>[[1 Samuel 13]]:13  "And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done [[foolishly]] <05528>: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever."</Ref> when Samuel calls [[King Saul]] did [[foolishly]] because he [[force]]d a [[burnt offering]].

The true meaning of [[stoning]] has to do with ''separation'' through actions due to the ''aspiration of the Heart''. If our emotion is driven by envy and jealousy our actions may [[degenerate]] into violence. When we read the text to believe God is directing us to stone someone with rocks are we in error?

Many of the things we have been told involve brutal and blood execution may be just a [[metaphor]] for  separation ''within the walls'' or ''at the gate''. Is it a word that is telling us to ''cut off'' someone who is going in a way or doing something that is at war with the cycle of life and [[righteousness]]?

Are we at war with the love of God when we judge to kill others for their sins against the [[Law of Nature]] which is the [[Will of God]]?

Or is our actions supposed to include actions of separation out of love which is the way of ''tough love''?

=== Welfare restrictions ===

[[Stoning]] someone was originally a metaphor in a society that would not allow or support people who undermined [[Social Virtues|social virtues]] with [[sloth]] or neglect. If people within society were conducting themselves in a way that did not strengthen them or the society itself, there was a way of taking them before a court of their peers who would, in turn, notify the ''Living Stones'' of their charitable system of [[altars]] that these people were doing something that was contrary to the [[weightier matters]] or was [[degenerate|degenerating]] society. 

In this way the weak or lazy of the society would receive no more social [[benefits]]. This withholding of the social benefits of their living stones would hopefully strengthen them. This was tough love that strengthens the character of the people. 

The verdict was not about beating people to death with rocks but withdrawing support and shunning them within the imaginary walls of a free society or the banishment of an individual to live outside the gates of that [[community]] and social [[communion]] dependent upon [[fervent charity]]. It was a form of excommunication, by being evicted from the community and the righteous [[Welfare|welfare]] system or 
[[Daily ministration]] of God as if you were dead. 

=== Bonds and benefits  ===

Those social [[benefits]] were a privilege, not a right or an [[entitlement]]. The people in this early form of a [[Republic]] had that right to publicly challenge the [[slothful]] and immoral behavior without violating any natural right or choice. [[Legal charity]] by coerced or [[force]]d offerings was considered immoral because it was seen as [[covetous practices]] that would bring the people back into the [[bondage of Egypt]].

Since their [[Corban|offerings]] to the [[Levites]] who performed the [[religion|religious]] ''duties'' of society were [[freewill offerings]] the people individually held the [[One purse|purse string]] of the government. Their contributions to society remained [[Tithing In Conscience]] and they remained free. Their practice of [[fervent charity]] created and maintained the [[social bonds]] of that free society.

[[Moses]] had originally bound the people together not by [[CCC|Contracts, Covenants or Constitutions]] but by mutual [[love]]<Ref>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.
<br>Matthew 5:43  Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
<br>Matthew 19:19  Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
<br>Matthew 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
<br>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.
<br>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.
<br>Galatians 5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
<br>James 2:8  If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:</Ref> and aid. But when they decided to ''reject'' God in [[1 Samuel 8]] and elect a leader who could [[Exercises authority|exercise authority]] one over the other and then the society began to seek ways to justify [[biting one another]] through compelled [[taxation]], which were [[covetous practices]] and called [[foolish]].

Israel took care of the needy through the [[freewill offerings]] of [[Corban]] without the [[Covetous Practices]] of the modern [[Benefactors]] of the [[Roots of the Welfare State|welfare state]] which has been a [[snare]] that has [[Curse children|cursed children]] with debt and [[bondage]] and made men [[Merchandise]] as surety for that debt.

To be banished from a [[community]] '''could''' be a death sentence. It certainly would be throwing you to the dogs of societies all around you where you would be forced into labor under the rulers of the rest of the [[World|world]].

===Law of liberty ===

Israel originally operated by the [[perfect law of liberty]] with [[freewill offerings]] and the [[charity]] which flowed through the ministers or [[Levites]] of that ''[[church]] in the wilderness'' needed to flow freely from the moral members of [[society]] to the moral and virtuous members of that society.

Their sacrifices, even those of the [[Red Heifer]] had a purpose and value among the virtuous people of societies. While there was no shame in being poor there was no virtue in poverty. If people were to be helped, they needed to meet a moral criteria of righteous behavior or go somewhere else. That left few options that did not include [[bondage]] under a master other than God the [[father]].
[[File:stoningsteve.jpg|right|thumb|[[Socialist]]s hate [[Social Virtues|virtue]] which reveals their [[sloth]] and [[covet]]ousness.]]

The [[early Church]] actually operated much like early Israel in the tradition of a Pure [[Republic]] by way of [[Pure Religion]]. This infuriated the [[Pharisees]] who peddled the [[Baptism]] of [[Herod]] which followed the [[socialist]]'s agenda of the new deal of [[Rome]] and its [[Imperial Cult of Rome|imperial cult]].

==Pharisees==

Studying the [[Christian conflict]], which has been recorded in Roman history, will show that the [[Modern Christians]] are the new [[Pharisees]].

If [[Modern Christians]] have truly [[repent]]ed and [[Whosoever believeth|believed]] Christ then: {{Where}}


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: '''"The Kingdom of God is within you (and all about you), not in buildings of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood and I am there, lift a stone and you will find me."''' Gospel of Thomas saying 77b

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