False religion

I wanted everyone to know that false teachers have been around for some time getting better at spreading falsehoods about the gospel. There is the Gospel of Christ who was accepted by thousands of Jews and also by gentiles like the Roman centurion and Samaritans and people all over. Paul preached the gospel of Christ and his "good news" was no different than Christ's Gospel.

These kinds of drawing and the philosophies of deception they spread have been around for some time and are full of distortions and twists of what the Bible really says.

Like most lies it uses bits and pieces of the truth but distracts people from the real message Christ came to share with you. It is fond of using Paul out of the context of Christ and even out of the context of Paul, history and language of the time.

Peter was right that Paul would talk about things that many would find hard to understand back then. Now with the poor knowledge of true history and the language of that time in relationship to what people were doing as real Christians many have become easy victims of these distractions posing as gospel correct eschatology.

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These types of Cartoon type flow charts are promoting several of those "damnable heresies" Peter talks about that has been propagated by a number of "false prophets" that have crept in teaching distortions about the gospel of the kingdom that are deceiving many with their vain philosophies. You want to stay away from this kind of stuff or you may hear Christ say to you some day something like... "... I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity."

Pure religion was a religion of doing rooted in charity alone which is the love of Christ which is not the same as a love for your idea about Christ.

Some Questions

• What was the bondage of Egypt, and why were we to never go back there again?
• Have people given consent to a social compact that might enslave them, like in the days of Egypt?
• Why would the slothful be under tribute?
• Why did the Corban of the Pharisees make the word of God to none effect?
• Why did Jesus say "Call no man Father upon the earth"?
• Why did Jesus say not to be like the rulers who called themselves Benefactors?
• Why did Peter say covetous practices would make us Merchandise and curse children?
• What did Jesus list off as the Weightier matters?
• Why did Jesus command that the people sit down in Tens?
• What is Religion and what is Pure Religion?
• What was Public religion and the imperial Cult of Rome? How did it differ from Pure Religion practiced by early Christians?
• Why did the Church have a Daily ministration?
• How do the Modern Christians differ from the early Church who followed The Way of Christ?
• What were the deeds of the Nicolaitans, and why did God hate those deeds?
• What was the Christian conflict with Rome?
• Are modern Christians actually workers of iniquity?
• Do people today make covenants with the gods of this world because they love the wages of unrighteousness?
• What is the difference between the Baptism of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Herod or Constantine or Rabbinical Baptism?
• Israel was not to have a golden calf but what did that mean?
• What were the altars of earth and stone?
• What are lively stones?
• Was the Sabbath a way or a day?

More Questions

• Were those rituals of ancient societies merely mindless acts of superstition, or were they metaphors?
• What are the rituals of the Church, and do they point to The Way of Christ and God?
• Could Welfare systems of the world be Snares and Traps?
• And what does this all have to do with Nimrod, Cain and Caesar who called themselves Benefactors but exercise authority one over the other?
• What was the Mark of Cain and the Mark of God and even the Mark of the Beast?
• Did Constantine start a different Church not of Christ?
• Why did the people have to sew Breeches for the Levites?
• What was early Israel like before the Voice of the people rejected God?
• Why were they organized by Tens?
• How was the Early Church funded, and what did they use the funds for?
• Did it operate by force or Freewill offerings?
• Do all governments of the world operate according to the ways of God?
• Or do they operate according to the ways of Cain and Nimrod?
• Who were the Nicolaitans, and what did they do that included the error of Balaam, and why does God hate their deeds?
• What was Christ trying to tell us about the Fathers of the earth and who are they?
• And who is The Beloved Anarchist?
• What do you want to do about all this?

To find the answers, we must seek and strive to do what Jesus said the way He said to do it... Including attending to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.

The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.

The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.

The modern Christians are in need of repentance.

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You Keep Using That Word?

Several people approached me last week about their personal efforts to fight the erosion of liberty in the world today. They were soliciting our help in spreading their plan to return to the freedoms they believed the Constitution afforded America at one time in our history. They wanted the aid of our existing network, radio broadcasts and articles to promote their efforts to return to liberty and even wanted copies of some of our books to spread amongst their people because they believe the information contained in them is vital to the success of their own quest for freedom.

While they believed that understanding the contents of my books, like The Covenants of the gods, is essential to groups like the Tea Party and other patriot organizations for educational purposes they expressed concerns that most of them did not want to hear anything about - religion.

I thought that was funny and immediately thought of the line from the movie The Princess Bride where Inigo Montoya comments to Vizzini, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

I understand why people seeking liberty do not want to hear about “religion” and I would not want to spar with them concerning the stuff posing as religion today. The real reason for their mental taboo of the term is that today the word religion does not mean what they think it means.

The definition of the word religion has changed in the minds of modern society since the Constitution was written and even more so since James defined pure religion in the Bible. It is important to understand the meaning of words at the time they are used. There is power in words because “the generality of mankind is wholly and absolutely governed by words and names”.

If you are going to study the words of older documents like the Constitution of the United States you need to use the dictionary used at the time men wrote that document. Modern dictionaries often cite much different definitions. The most common dictionary used for the Constitution is John Bouvier's Law Dictionary but that is not where most of you get the definitions you have in your mind for the words you use every day. When someone uses the word religion today they might think the word means “a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs or a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects...”

But if you look up the same word in a dictionary published just a hundred years before, when many words we commonly used today were being changed, you will see that the word “religion” according to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) meant, “The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and over ruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies..."

In these two definitions we see that “religion” in a hundred years went from meaning, “The outward act or form ” to meaning "a set of beliefs.” Changing the meaning of the word religion from an “act” to a “belief” was no small step to say nothing of the rest of the definition. But the change did not begin there. If we go back just a little over fifty years before that to John Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary adapted to the Constitution of the United States we find that religion was first defined:

“Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men.”

Do not be confused or put off by the word piety. While the word “piety” has come to mean “making a hypocritical display of virtue” it use to mean duty especially to your parents and specifically to your father. Duty to your natural father was the origin of the original patriotism before the state became your father.

The critical point of this definition is that religion was the acts by which you tended to your duty to your fellow men not just what you believed about God or gods. So there are many words and their meanings that have changed over time and when dealing with history or your future it is essential to know what words meant in the past as well as what we think they mean today if we are to learn from history because:

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Knowing the original meaning of words at the time of the writing of old or ancient documents can increase our understanding of what the authors were trying to say and even trying to get us to do. By changing the meaning of words - without altering the original documents - you can deceive people about the author's intent. This is certainly true in relationship to constitutions but probably most obvious in the research of sacred scripts used by modern religions where people are often bound to a way of thinking by their faith, not in the original author or teacher or in God, but in their priest, pastor, rabbi, monk, swami or imam that is telling you what the original blessed, wise, holy or enlightened teacher or prophet was trying to impart to us in their writings or those who wrote about them.

You may begin to see that the changing of the meaning of words, which often goes unnoticed by the procession of new generations, can shape and mold the mind and alter the thinking of whole societies. Through the use of lexicographers a great power and influence can be exerted over the minds of the people. Once people accept ideas as true they will often defend their newly established beliefs in the face of clear and even overwhelming evidence that they are in error and what they have come to believe to be true is completely false. This is even more true when it comes to religions and politics.

If you want a lively discussion at your next party invite an informed iconoclast to get things going. I am one of those iconoclasts because I am not afraid to talk about religion or the politics of religion. I do not get invited to a lot of parties because most people can’t handle the truth.

The next question to be answered is can you handle the truth? Around 1913 the relationships of the people and their governments and their churches were changing. The governments of the world were getting into the social welfare business just as the churches were getting out of providing for their members in time of need and into the just-believe business.

Governments were starting to take care of the needy of the world through tax contributions during the birth of their New Deal and Great Society's search for the utopian welfare state while churches were moving farther from being the providers of daily ministration of the needy of their congregations. Churches became more interested in helping people feel good about what they thought or the doctrines they believed, while striving to fill their pews with contributing members. Denominations grew in number as world domination of the democratic socialist states became a reality.

A synonym of totalitarian is undemocratic but when everyone become a little dictator ruling over their neighbor through their desire for more benefits social democracies became the throne of totalitarian beasts that go about devouring who they will.

People pick the denomination that makes them feel the best. No one wants to get out of the comfortable mindset offered by what their religion has told them to believe. But what they often think is the comfortable blessings of the proverbial hot-tub of faith is actually a boiling cauldron of superstition that eventually cooks the mind one degree at a time. The only way to protect your mind from being cooked as society constantly changes the meaning of words is to learn the original meaning. This will require a willingness to accept the possibility that what you think know for sure just ain’t so. That willingness to accept the fact that you may be deceived already is called humility.

Edwin Howard Armstrong once said “They substitute words for reality and then talk about the words.”

So what is the significance of the word religion being the practice and performance of our duty to God and our fellow man and not merely our belief in a superhuman agency?

Since religion at the time of the writing of the Constitution meant in part how you provided or performed all known duties to your fellow men then your real religion is how you accomplish that obligation. There seems to have been two ways throughout history by which we can fulfill our duty to our fellowman in societies. One way was by force and the other was by the perfect law of liberty. The way you choose to fulfill that obligation to society will determine if you are to be free or not. When you talk about forms of government and economy like socialism and capitalism or any type of welfare or entitlement obligations that provides for the needs of the people you are talking about religion, at least as it was defined at the time of the writing of the Constitution of the United States.

If the word religion has changed so much in the last 200 years how much more has it changed in the 2000 years since documents like the Bible were written? Well it has changed a great deal and we go through those changes step by step in radio broadcasts and articles. I am sure much of what we have to say will upset the religious establishments of today who still think religion is what one believe or says and not what one does.

Part of that confusion is from what we are taught words mean but part of that is from what we want to believe. Most people do not want to know that religion is how you take care of, help and aid your fellow man when he is in real need. We should know that pure religion is when you provide that care and benefit of society without the forced contributions of governments that exercise authority one over the other. The amazing thing is that early Christians did take care of each other through charity alone and refused to take the benefits of rulers who forced the contributions of the people. They provided these benefits through free will offerings which was according to the perfect law of liberty spoken of by James in reference to that pure religion and all that was central to the activities of early Christians.

Modern Christians readily apply for those benefits from these men who call themselves benefactors, which is contrary to the Christ who they say they believe in. They simply take from your neighbor through the superhuman agency or agencies of their governments. These benefits of modern Rome, once refused by early Christians, are pervasive in modern religions. Modern Christians remain oblivious to the fact they have more in common with the religion of ancient pagans, the Pharisees and the temples of Rome than they have with the early Christian Church where people gathered.

The point of all this is that there are two ways to take care of the needy of your society. There are two ways to practice and perform our duty to our fellow man. There are two religions in the world today. One is dependent upon free-will offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people, and the other is established by people electing men who call themselves benefactors but force the contributions of society by exercising authority one over the other. Both are forms of religion. One sets you free while the other may promises you liberty yet leads many people away from truth and freedom.

Such covetous systems makes the people merchandise, collateral for debt and human resources.

If you want to be free you need to talk about real religion.

Next we will take a look at why real Christians were persecuted back in the Roman Empire and what Christ was really saying and doing that restored liberty and why you have lost that liberty because you thought liberty had nothing to do with religion.

Audio Broadcast Files

Christian Religion Audio 7
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Christian Religion Audio 8
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Christian Religion Audio 9
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Christian Religion Audio 10
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