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All the problems in the world stem from several choices many people do not know they have.
== For the record ==


There are several concepts often present in the collective thinking of society which are misleading. This brings the people into error because of the lack of knowledge.
All the problems in the world stem from several choices many people do not know they make, or how they make them.
 
There are several concepts often present in the collective thinking of society which are misleading the people. This brings the people into error because of the ''lack of knowledge''.<Ref>Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.</Ref>


It is often the redefining of words which may lead to our confusion or misunderstanding rather than reveal a more obvious truth.  
It is often the redefining of words which may lead to our confusion or misunderstanding rather than reveal a more obvious truth.  


Even if we are shown the truth of what we are missing we will not understand it if we are not willing to see the whole truth and provide for it.  
Even if we are shown the truth of what we are missing we will not understand it if we are not willing to see the ''whole truth'' and provide for it.  


Almost every doctrine and or eschatology of the modern Church is missing some of the essential elements of the teachings of the prophets and even Christ. This has made the [[Church]] impotent<Ref>12 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.</Ref> and weakened society.<Ref>2Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.</Ref>
Almost every doctrine and or eschatology of the modern Church and Religion in general are missing some of the essential elements of the teachings of the prophets and Jesus Christ. This has made the modern [[Church]] impotent<Ref>12 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.</Ref> and has  weakened society in general.<Ref>Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.</Ref>
Before you proceed you may need to reexamine words like [[Religion|religion]]<Ref>Religion is not your opinion about God but how you perform your duty to God and your fellowman</Ref> and [[Faith|faith]]<Ref>Faith is probity</Ref>.
 
===Snare===


What should have been for their welfare has become a snare to entangle us again in the bondage of the [[World|world]], through the sin of covetousness.<Ref>Psalms 69:22  Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.  
What should have been for their welfare has become a snare to entangle us again in the bondage of the [[World|world]], through the sin of covetousness.<Ref>Psalms 69:22  Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.  
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2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:</Ref>
2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:</Ref>


===No agreements===
Some simple doctrines of the prophets of God that are not always taught in churches today are that you are to love the God of heaven with your whole heart, mind and soul which includes the directive that you are not to make covenants<Ref>Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.</Ref> with any other [[Gods|gods]] nor bow down nor even serve them.<Ref>Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;</Ref>


Some simple doctrines of the prophets of God that are not always taught in churches today are that you are to love the God of heaven with your whole heart, mind and soul which means you are not to make covenants<Ref>Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.</Ref> with any other god nor bow down nor even serve them.<Ref>Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;</Ref>
===gods Many===


Making covenants with other gods is simply giving the power of choice that God endowed man with to other men by making contracts with the gods many of the world.  
Making covenants with other gods is simply giving the power of choice that God endowed man with to other men by making contracts with the [[Gods|gods]] many of the [[World|world]].  


Who are these gods many Paul and the prophets talked about?
Who are these ''[[Gods|gods]] many'' Paul and the prophets talked about?


They are the “ruling judges”<Ref>5 0430 ^םיהלא^ ‘elohiym is translated God 2346 times but also god 244 times and judge 5 times in Exodus 21:6 and 8 and verse 9, 1 1 Samuel 2:25, Psalms 7:11, Psalms 82:8 and could have been translated rulers and judges or ruling judges hundreds of times. Because that is the definition of the word. [[
They are the “ruling judges”<Ref>5 0430 ^םיהלא^ ‘elohiym is translated God 2346 times but also god 244 times and judge 5 times in Exodus 21:6 and 8 and verse 9, 1 1 Samuel 2:25, Psalms 7:11, Psalms 82:8 and could have been translated rulers and judges or ruling judges hundreds of times. Because that is the definition of the word. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr1SBMbK5Aw gods Many SS Video Series 9-10]</Ref> of the [[World|world]] who make choices for you. They are men and women who have been given the power to decide good and evil for you and regulate or make common or natural choices about what you can do and what you can't do for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr1SBMbK5Aw|gods Many SS Video Series 9-10 9:45]]</Ref> of the [[World|world]] who make choices for you. They are men and women who have been given the power to decide good and evil for you and regulate or make common or natural choices about what you can do and what you can't do for yourself.


Giving up to other men your rights to choose, rights which God originally endowed each man and women with, was recorded in sacred texts as a violation of the commandments of God. It was called a ''rejection'' of God.<Ref>1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.</Ref>
Giving up to other men your rights to choose, rights which God originally endowed each man and women with, was recorded in sacred texts as a violation of the commandments of God. It was called a ''rejection'' of God.<Ref>1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.</Ref>


The granting of rights to rulers and ruling judges often includes the waiving of rights endowed by God. It is usually accompanied by an application for benefits offered by those rulers. When the benefits are provided by debt individuals are entangled<Ref>Exodus 14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
The granting of rights to rulers and ruling judges often includes the waiving of rights endowed by God. It is usually accompanied by an application for benefits offered by those rulers. When the benefits are provided by debt, individuals are entangled<Ref>Exodus 14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Peter 2:20 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.</Ref> in the rudiments of the [[World|world]] and become surety for debt. The people become little more than merchandise, human resources.<Ref>2 Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” </Ref>
2 Peter 2:20 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.</Ref> in the rudiments of the [[World|world]] and become surety for debt. The people become little more than merchandise, human resources.<Ref>2 Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” </Ref>
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The resulting bondage under these other men is what Abraham, Moses, Samuel and the prophets of old warned us of and sought to free men from. It is also what John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, the Apostles and Paul sacrificed themselves to set you free from so that you might be saved. They all sought to free men from the elements of the [[World|world]] if we would repent and seek the righteousness of God instead of the self-righteousness of men.  
The resulting bondage under these other men is what Abraham, Moses, Samuel and the prophets of old warned us of and sought to free men from. It is also what John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, the Apostles and Paul sacrificed themselves to set you free from so that you might be saved. They all sought to free men from the elements of the [[World|world]] if we would repent and seek the righteousness of God instead of the self-righteousness of men.  


So what are the rudiments of the [[World|world]]?<Ref>Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the [[World|world]]: Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,</Ref> All society offers benefits to its members so that bonds of community are formed so that out of many people they may become one nation under God or under the gods many of the [[World|world]].<Ref>kosmos κόσμος 1) an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government</Ref>
===Rudiments of the World===
 
So what are the rudiments or elements of the [[World|world]]?<Ref>Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the [[World|world]]: Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,</Ref> All society offers benefits to its members so that bonds of community are formed so that out of many people they may become one nation under God or under the gods many of the [[World|world]].<Ref>kosmos κόσμος 1) an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government</Ref>


The system of social welfare run by many societies or their governments was called [[Corban]] in Israel and also in Judea but they were not the same. Similar systems were called Qorban in Rome and Korban by others but there were two basic types which produced different results.  
===Corbans===
 
The system of social welfare run by many societies or their governments was called [[Corban]] in Israel and also in Judea but they were not the same. Similar systems were called ''Qorban'' in Rome and ''Korban'' by others but there were two basic types which produced different results.  


These systems of social welfare all required sacrifice or contributions of the people where what they contributed for the needs and welfare of society was managed through some form of private or public servants. So what was the difference which altered the outcome of these systems?  
These systems of social welfare all required sacrifice or contributions of the people where what they contributed for the needs and welfare of society was managed through some form of private or public servants. So what was the difference which altered the outcome of these systems?  


Both the Church and the State have ministers or administers and both have rituals and rites. The word "ritual" is from the Latin ''ritualis'' meaning “that which pertains to rite (ritus)” which was used by the Romans in both a ''juridical'' and ''religious'' context. The word “rite” was simply the customary way of doing something,<Ref>10 Festus, entry on ''ritus'', p. 364 (ed. Lindsay).Sextus Pompeius Festus a Roman grammarian in the 2nd century AD</Ref> The original concept of ritus had to do with "the lawful and regular order of the normal, and therefore proper, natural and true structure” of a society or "the prescribed order of performing religious services.”<Ref>11 Religion in the Making: The Emergence of the Sciences of Religion (Brill, 1998), p. 278. Barbara Boudewijnse, "British Roots of the Concept of Ritual," </Ref>  
===Ministers and Religion===
 
Both the Church and the State have ministers (administrators) and both have rituals and rites. The word "ritual" is from the Latin ''ritualis'' meaning “that which pertains to rite (ritus)” which was used by the Romans in both a ''juridical'' and ''religious'' context. The word “rite” was simply the customary way of doing something,<Ref>10 Festus, entry on ''ritus'', p. 364 (ed. Lindsay).Sextus Pompeius Festus a Roman grammarian in the 2nd century AD</Ref> The original concept of ritus had to do with "the lawful and regular order of the normal, and therefore proper, natural and true structure” of a society or "the prescribed order of performing religious services.”<Ref>11 Religion in the Making: The Emergence of the Sciences of Religion (Brill, 1998), p. 278. Barbara Boudewijnse, "British Roots of the Concept of Ritual," </Ref>  


If you change the meaning of a word like [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWordnwv.php religion] then the term ''religious service'' will be altered too. The rituals and rites by which society fulfills its obligation or duty to the fellow members of society use to mean their [[Religion|religion]].  
If you change the meaning of a word like [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWordnwv.php religion] then the term ''religious service'' will be altered too. The rituals and rites by which society fulfills its obligation or duty to the fellow members of society use to mean their [[Religion|religion]].  
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Religious services were simply helping people of society through rites and rituals. These services were either funded by free will offerings or they were based on compelled offerings. The former may be called a free society while the latter is something less than free, although it is often falsely labeled a free society.  
Religious services were simply helping people of society through rites and rituals. These services were either funded by free will offerings or they were based on compelled offerings. The former may be called a free society while the latter is something less than free, although it is often falsely labeled a free society.  


Those servants who managed the contributions of society for its benefit in fulfillment of that duty were often called ''kohens'' or ''priests''<Ref>Priest, is derived from Greek, via Latin ''presbyter'', the term for "elder" or eldest head of a family</Ref> at one time but are more often called bureaucrats today. A priest is “a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion” but [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWordnwv.php religion] use to be defined as “the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman”. That is duty has been pursued either through systems of ''free will offerings'' or they were provided through compelled offerings directed by men who rule over the people; in other words either through church or state.
Those servants who managed the contributions of society for its benefit in fulfillment of that duty were often called ''kohens'' or ''priests''<Ref>Priest, is derived from Greek, via Latin ''presbyter'', the term for "elder" or eldest head of a family</Ref> at one time but are more often called bureaucrats today. A priest is “a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion” but [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/ThatWordnwv.php religion] use to be defined as “the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman”. That is duty which has been pursued either through systems of ''free will offerings'' or they were provided through compelled offerings directed by men who rule over the people; in other words either through church or state.
 
The word priest is also defined “as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.” Ancient altars of Abraham and Moses was part of their welfare system that bound the nation together. Through sophistry those sacrifices turned into mindless religious rituals which provided little services for the people.


The priests were not mediators between God and the people but mediatory agents. An agent was “a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:” While mediatory is merely “ to serve as a medium for causing (a result) or transferring (objects, information, etc).” Israel was a theocratic republic where God was to rule through the hearts of the people. The Levites as priests of that society served the “tabernacles of the congregations” which is just the same as saying they served the ''tents'' of each family in free assemblies. Those assemblies donated to the minister of their choice who acted as a voluntary health, education and welfare agency to help care for the needs of society through a network of ministers supported entirely by free will offerings.  
The word priest is also defined “as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.” Ancient altars of Abraham and Moses were part of their welfare system that bound the nation together. Through sophistry those sacrifices turned into mindless religious rituals which provided little services for the people.


The [[Elders]] of each family were both priests and kings within their own family but to come together as a nation required some one to act as as priest on a national level. The people were gathered in congregations of ten but they shared what the produced with the national priests of their society to help maintain the community and strengthen its natural bonds.  
The priests were not mediators between God and the people but mediatory agents. An agent was “a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:” While mediatory is merely “to serve as a medium for causing (a result) or transferring (objects, information, etc).” Israel was a theocratic republic where God was to rule through the hearts of the people. The Levites as priests of that society served the “tabernacles of the congregations” which is just the same as saying they served the ''tents'' of each family in free assemblies. Those assemblies donated to the minister of their choice who acted as a voluntary health, education and welfare agency to help care for the needs of society through a network of ministers supported entirely by free will offerings.  


Such systems of voluntary assistance in society require the people to be diligent in their practice of virtue and their duty to their fellowman. The Levites as a national priesthood were not originally meant to burn up animals on piles of dead stone but the were a government institution designed serve the public as a medium for causing the transfer of the offered sacrifices to those truly in need as the deserving poor.
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The Pharisees had it wrong but other religious groups reading the exact same Torah at the time of Christ would have little or nothing to do with the bloody mindless rituals of the Pharisees. The considered the Pharisaical interpretation of the sacred scriptures to be a fiction and a fraud.<Ref>Adventures of Artifice in Languageland
===Church===
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/sacrifice.php</Ref>


The [[Church]] and the Church in the wilderness were always required to perform a duty to the needy of their society but provided those benefits by free will offerings, while civil institutions provided those benefits and services by compelled offerings imposed by the ruling judges of those societies.  
The [[Church]] and the Church in the wilderness were always required to perform a duty to the needy of their society but provided those benefits by free will offerings, while civil institutions provided those benefits and services by compelled offerings imposed by the ruling judges of those societies.  
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This was the central division line between Christians an other welfare systems of the world. This was the key element between the [[Christian conflict]] with the world governments.  
This was the central division line between Christians an other welfare systems of the world. This was the key element between the [[Christian conflict]] with the world governments.  


We believe that one of the reasons the politically established religious faction of the day at the time of Christ wanted to crucify Him was because of the conflict between those who promoted a socialist welfare system run by a government that called themselves [[Benefactors]] but exercised authority one over the other and the appointed Church of Jesus the Christ who operated by faith, hope, and charity through the perfect law of liberty.
We believe that one of the reasons the politically established religious faction of the day at the time of Christ wanted to crucify Him was because of the conflict between those who promoted a socialist welfare system run by a government that called themselves [[Benefactors]] but exercised authority one over the other and the appointed Church of Jesus the Christ who operated by faith, hope, and charity through the perfect law of liberty.


His Holy Church was to be a benefactor in the [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php world] but not of the [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php world] who did not exercised authority one over the other but operated by faith, hope, and charity through the perfect law of liberty.
His Holy Church was to be a benefactor in the [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php world] but not of the [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php world] who did not exercised authority one over the other but operated by faith, hope, and charity through the perfect law of liberty.


His Holy Church is one form of government<Ref>CHURCH In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances.<Br>
His Holy Church is one form of government<Ref>CHURCH in its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances.<Br>
A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies.<Br>
A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies.<Br>
[[Church_legally_defined|Black's Law Dictionary 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th... eds.]]</Ref>  appointed to His disciples by a sovereign king, Jesus Christ. His ministers must forsake all and depend upon His grace alone teaching in word and deed His [http://www.hisholychurch.org/doctrines.pdf doctrines]. They must come out of the [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php world] and be separate with His set apart spirit to do his will and fulfill his appointed [http://www.hisholychurch.org/mission.php mission].
[[Church_legally_defined|Black's Law Dictionary 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th... eds.]]</Ref>  appointed to His disciples by a sovereign king, Jesus Christ. His ministers must forsake all and depend upon His grace alone teaching in word and deed His [http://www.hisholychurch.org/doctrines.pdf doctrines]. They must come out of the [http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/world.php world] and be separate with His set apart spirit to do his will and fulfill his appointed [http://www.hisholychurch.org/mission.php mission].




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Latest revision as of 21:09, 8 August 2023

For the record

All the problems in the world stem from several choices many people do not know they make, or how they make them.

There are several concepts often present in the collective thinking of society which are misleading the people. This brings the people into error because of the lack of knowledge.[1]

It is often the redefining of words which may lead to our confusion or misunderstanding rather than reveal a more obvious truth.

Even if we are shown the truth of what we are missing we will not understand it if we are not willing to see the whole truth and provide for it.

Almost every doctrine and or eschatology of the modern Church and Religion in general are missing some of the essential elements of the teachings of the prophets and Jesus Christ. This has made the modern Church impotent[2] and has weakened society in general.[3] Before you proceed you may need to reexamine words like religion[4] and faith[5].

Snare

What should have been for their welfare has become a snare to entangle us again in the bondage of the world, through the sin of covetousness.[6]

No agreements

Some simple doctrines of the prophets of God that are not always taught in churches today are that you are to love the God of heaven with your whole heart, mind and soul which includes the directive that you are not to make covenants[7] with any other gods nor bow down nor even serve them.[8]

gods Many

Making covenants with other gods is simply giving the power of choice that God endowed man with to other men by making contracts with the gods many of the world.

Who are these gods many Paul and the prophets talked about?

They are the “ruling judges”[9] of the world who make choices for you. They are men and women who have been given the power to decide good and evil for you and regulate or make common or natural choices about what you can do and what you can't do for yourself.

Giving up to other men your rights to choose, rights which God originally endowed each man and women with, was recorded in sacred texts as a violation of the commandments of God. It was called a rejection of God.[10]

The granting of rights to rulers and ruling judges often includes the waiving of rights endowed by God. It is usually accompanied by an application for benefits offered by those rulers. When the benefits are provided by debt, individuals are entangled[11] in the rudiments of the world and become surety for debt. The people become little more than merchandise, human resources.[12]

The resulting bondage under these other men is what Abraham, Moses, Samuel and the prophets of old warned us of and sought to free men from. It is also what John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, the Apostles and Paul sacrificed themselves to set you free from so that you might be saved. They all sought to free men from the elements of the world if we would repent and seek the righteousness of God instead of the self-righteousness of men.

Rudiments of the World

So what are the rudiments or elements of the world?[13] All society offers benefits to its members so that bonds of community are formed so that out of many people they may become one nation under God or under the gods many of the world.[14]

Corbans

The system of social welfare run by many societies or their governments was called Corban in Israel and also in Judea but they were not the same. Similar systems were called Qorban in Rome and Korban by others but there were two basic types which produced different results.

These systems of social welfare all required sacrifice or contributions of the people where what they contributed for the needs and welfare of society was managed through some form of private or public servants. So what was the difference which altered the outcome of these systems?

Ministers and Religion

Both the Church and the State have ministers (administrators) and both have rituals and rites. The word "ritual" is from the Latin ritualis meaning “that which pertains to rite (ritus)” which was used by the Romans in both a juridical and religious context. The word “rite” was simply the customary way of doing something,[15] The original concept of ritus had to do with "the lawful and regular order of the normal, and therefore proper, natural and true structure” of a society or "the prescribed order of performing religious services.”[16]

If you change the meaning of a word like religion then the term religious service will be altered too. The rituals and rites by which society fulfills its obligation or duty to the fellow members of society use to mean their religion.

Religious services were simply helping people of society through rites and rituals. These services were either funded by free will offerings or they were based on compelled offerings. The former may be called a free society while the latter is something less than free, although it is often falsely labeled a free society.

Those servants who managed the contributions of society for its benefit in fulfillment of that duty were often called kohens or priests[17] at one time but are more often called bureaucrats today. A priest is “a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion” but religion use to be defined as “the performance of your duty to God and your fellowman”. That is duty which has been pursued either through systems of free will offerings or they were provided through compelled offerings directed by men who rule over the people; in other words either through church or state.

The word priest is also defined “as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.” Ancient altars of Abraham and Moses were part of their welfare system that bound the nation together. Through sophistry those sacrifices turned into mindless religious rituals which provided little services for the people.

The priests were not mediators between God and the people but mediatory agents. An agent was “a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:” While mediatory is merely “to serve as a medium for causing (a result) or transferring (objects, information, etc).” Israel was a theocratic republic where God was to rule through the hearts of the people. The Levites as priests of that society served the “tabernacles of the congregations” which is just the same as saying they served the tents of each family in free assemblies. Those assemblies donated to the minister of their choice who acted as a voluntary health, education and welfare agency to help care for the needs of society through a network of ministers supported entirely by free will offerings.

Laity

Someone wrote that "Neither the word clergy nor the word laity appears in the Bible." That is certainly not true in the case of laity. For laity are people.

The term Laity has come to represent the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy[18].

The laity has played not only an important role in the function of the church it duties are an essential element of the kingdom of God. As a free people seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness, they do not hold any office in the institution of the appointed Church for they are returned to their family and their possessions as free souls under God.[19]

The clergy and the laity must both participating in what was called The Way in order to bear fruit. As Christ appointed them they do not exercise authority one over the other. Unlike the benefactors of the world who are the Fathers of the earth, the natural fathers who are the elders of every family with the guidance of the Holy Spirit must choose The righteous way of the perfect law of liberty.

Unfortunately, many damnable heresies have crept into the modern Church that has lead many to become workers of iniquity while still claiming to be followers Christ.

The Elders of each family were both priests and kings[20] within their own family and the Christian community but to come together as a nation[21] required someone to act as a priest on a national level.

The people of the early Church were gathered in congregations of tens as commanded by Moses and by Christ but they shared what they produced with the national priests of their society in charity to help maintain the community and strengthen its natural bonds of society in a daily ministration of welfare by freewill offerings instead of by force.

The table of rulers which should have been for the welfare of the people was a snare and a trap but the living altars of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus help set the people/laity free.

Such systems of voluntary assistance in society require the people to be diligent in their practice of virtue and their duty to their fellow man in what James calls Pure Religion.

In the ancient text, we see terms like Altars of clay and stone which represented councils of friends and the people or laity they served. Together in love, they provided social welfare needs which strengthened the community without electing a ruler or falling prey to the error of the Balaam.[22]

The Levites as a national priesthood were not originally meant to burn up animals on piles of dead stone but they were a government institution designed to serve the public as a medium for causing the transfer of the offered sacrifices to those truly in need as the deserving poor.

The Pharisees had it wrong but other religious groups reading the exact same Torah at the time of Christ would have little or nothing to do with the bloody mindless rituals of the Pharisees. They considered the Pharisaical interpretation of the sacred scriptures to be a fiction and a fraud.[23]

The deeds of modern Christians today are hated by God and Christ because they have let themselves be conquered by greed and wantonness. As Nicolaitans they are entangled again under the elements of the world into the bondage of The Mire through covetous practices which makes them merchandise and curse children.

Church

The Church and the Church in the wilderness were always required to perform a duty to the needy of their society but provided those benefits by free will offerings, while civil institutions provided those benefits and services by compelled offerings imposed by the ruling judges of those societies.

This was the central division line between Christians an other welfare systems of the world. This was the key element between the Christian conflict with the world governments.

We believe that one of the reasons the politically established religious faction of the day at the time of Christ wanted to crucify Him was because of the conflict between those who promoted a socialist welfare system run by a government that called themselves Benefactors but exercised authority one over the other and the appointed Church of Jesus the Christ who operated by faith, hope, and charity through the perfect law of liberty.

His Holy Church was to be a benefactor in the world but not of the world who did not exercised authority one over the other but operated by faith, hope, and charity through the perfect law of liberty.

His Holy Church is one form of government[24] appointed to His disciples by a sovereign king, Jesus Christ. His ministers must forsake all and depend upon His grace alone teaching in word and deed His doctrines. They must come out of the world and be separate with His set apart spirit to do his will and fulfill his appointed mission.


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
  2. ↑ 12 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
  3. ↑ Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
  4. ↑ Religion is not your opinion about God but how you perform your duty to God and your fellowman
  5. ↑ Faith is probity
  6. ↑ Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. Romans 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
  7. ↑ Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
  8. ↑ Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
  9. ↑ 5 0430 ^םיהלא^ ‘elohiym is translated God 2346 times but also god 244 times and judge 5 times in Exodus 21:6 and 8 and verse 9, 1 1 Samuel 2:25, Psalms 7:11, Psalms 82:8 and could have been translated rulers and judges or ruling judges hundreds of times. Because that is the definition of the word. gods Many SS Video Series 9-10
  10. ↑ 1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
  11. ↑ Exodus 14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2 Peter 2:20 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.
  12. ↑ 2 Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
  13. ↑ Galatians 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
  14. ↑ kosmos κόσμος 1) an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government
  15. ↑ 10 Festus, entry on ritus, p. 364 (ed. Lindsay).Sextus Pompeius Festus a Roman grammarian in the 2nd century AD
  16. ↑ 11 Religion in the Making: The Emergence of the Sciences of Religion (Brill, 1998), p. 278. Barbara Boudewijnse, "British Roots of the Concept of Ritual,"
  17. ↑ Priest, is derived from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for "elder" or eldest head of a family
  18. ↑ Clericus is a Latin term for clerk associated with scriba, scriptor, scrivener who were known to make, keep, or record important records and communications. Clericus "meant 'a person ordained to sacred functions' or 'a man of learning'".(The Legacy of Rome).
    Klerikos (κληρικός), meaning appertaining to an inheritance, in reference to the fact that the Levitical priests of the Old Testament had no inheritance but held all things common for the Lord. It came to mean a "churchman," and among some churches evolved to meaning a priest or religious leader.
    Clerus is the Latin term that has been translated in to the word clergy. There is no reason to expect to find it in the bible. We see it in Latin liturgy as in the Statement, "Plerumque clerus erravit." "Basically the clergy was wrong." Ambrose, Expositio in psalmum David CXVIII, SERMO XVII, Saeculo IV, v17.
  19. ↑ Return to family
    Leviticus 25:10 "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family."
    Leviticus 25:41 "And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return."
    Exodus 20:2 " I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
    John 8:32 "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
    Matthew 23:9 "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
    Romans 8:14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together."
    2 Corinthians 6:18 "And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
    1 John 3:1 ¶ "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."
  20. ↑ Priest and king
    Hebrews 5:6 As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
    Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;... 17 For he testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.... 21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
    Psalms 110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
  21. ↑ Priest to nations
    Exodus 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
    1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.... 1 Peter 2:9 But ye [are] a chosen generation(genos 1085), a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
    Hebrews 7:24 But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
    Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
  22. ↑ The way of error
    2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
    Jude 1:11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spots(not "unspotted" like Pure Religion) in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;"
    Revelation 2:14-17 "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication ("to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry"). 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]."
    Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
  23. ↑ Adventures of Artifice in Languageland http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/sacrifice.php
  24. ↑ CHURCH in its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances.
    A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies.
    Black's Law Dictionary 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th... eds.

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