Month: April 2017

CHRISTENDOM’S CHAOS: WATER, WINE, & WAFER.

THE CHAOS OF CHRISTENDOM OVER WATER WINE AND WAFER. (Part 1)
1. The readability of this radical article is dependent upon whether or not the reader is totally captive to any one church, or the Man of the Book, Jesus Christ.

2. The primacy of Jesus’ practice and teaching during his life-time ministry is more sacrosanct than those of flawed human apostles; or early Roman Church Fathers (apostolic fathers) in the post apostolic period of the 2nd C and 3rd C.

3. Whoever thinks that is not the case has been indoctrinated with one form of ecclesiasticism or another, and equates the infallibility of early apostolic practice with that of Christ.

4. The life, sayings and teachings of Jesus Christ during his forty months’ mission was not superseded by others writing after his death in the posthumous period before he rose from the grave.

5. There should be no conflict between his practice before Calvary and the Great Commission to the Eleven. If there are two opposing apostolic commissions in the first five books of the New Testament the only one acceptable is that consistent with the New Testament predictions by John the last prophet of the Law; the Lord Jesus himself, and Old Testament prophets.

6. This position may seem radically wrong to most believers who have been so indoctrinated from birth with the religion of Rome’s water, wine and wafer of any Roman styled sacramental denomination. Whether in the East or the West this position will also appear disturbing to Rome’s ‘separated brethren in Protestant or non Roman churches that comprise Christendom’s 2,800 denominations (Barratt 1970).

7. The reformers exiting from Roman Catholicism did not go far enough. They dumped 5 of The Holy Roman Empire’s seven sacraments added by the Emperor to the Latin Bible, but failed to examine Constantine’s 4th C Greek yet for inconsistencies in reaming two. Those water, wine and wafer rites caused division, disunity and disarray in disparate practices of transubstantiation, consubstantiation, and Zwinglian memorialism.

8. The student researcher of the Scriptures, like the Bereans is urged to ‘search the Scriptures to see if these things be so’. Hasty or indignant rejection of this short thesis as mere ideology is caused by addiction to one apostle or another; saturation by ecclesiastical tradition; pontificating clergy, or dishonest pragmatic intellectualization.

9. Of the five Roman Church’s sacraments the early Reformers from the 14th C Renaissance onwards began to abandon the ecclesiastic traditions, precedents, and practice of the thousand years after Constantine’s compulsory nationalization of Christianity.

10. The Waldensian, Albigensian, Hussite, Lollard, and Huguenot Christians were reformers even before Luther posted his 1517 thesis of ‘the just shall live by faith’. Even humanist scholars like Erasmus became involved with the Reformers’ quest.

TO BE CONTINUED.

CHRISTENDOM’S CHAOS: WATER, WINE, & WAFER.

PRAYERLESSNESS OF OUR CHURCHES. (1)

The role of freewill faith in the demise of prayer.

Jesus predicted the ‘falling away’, or the apostasy of our day at the ‘beginning of sorrows’ in the last days. The time has truly arrived and prayerlessness is part of it.

The cause is that evangelism today has a rationale the very opposite of the saints during the 14th C to the early 19th C. The changes came with New England Theology’s 19th C evangelism of ‘easy religion’.

The influence of the lapsed Jonathon Edwards (“Freedom of the Will’ 1746) and the new concept of faith by psychologist William James, were the roots of change. Both combined to accelerate the old error of Origen’s freewill faith that was later echoed by Pelagius.

James, the father of American psychology, was a closeted agnostic, but his new ideology spread throughout colleges, seminaries and theological halls of learning. He with Edwards previous New England Theology, successfully destroyed the necessity and credibility of radical conversion from previous centuries.

Dramatic 19th C. Changes.
(1) Among them was a new breed of rough and ready evangelists who emerged with the gift of the gab. They were often uneducated but sensational stage performers, who grabbed the quick admiration of the masses. The attraction was their emotional bombast offering automatic unconditional entry pass to heaven that was irrevocable.

(2) D. Moody, B. Sunday, R. Torrey, and a host of zealous evangels offered a magical new method of faith with a fast track to glory. Billy Sunday’s handshake; walking the sawdust trail; lifting a hand; bending a knee; moving the lips, were all ways of rapidly receiving eternal life. These new methods were ratified by the invitee lisping affirmation by rote repetition of the tutors’ words in a ‘sinners’ prayer’, a travesty of prayer itself.

(3) Ironically these persuasive gospel salesmen called the respondent’s actions repentance and faith.
(4) Thus, the parroted response of the invitees was said to be adequate proof of their unconditional, irrevocable eternal salvation because any lisping lip movement was said to be faith, according to Romans 10:9.
(5) Ultra bibliolatry, using one verse twisted from its context, became the new idolatrous fetish that moved masses into the church.
(6) Heightened altar-mania occurred globally after 1948, commencing with concentrated city campaigns of the Billy Graham Crusades and the further developments of mass media that ensued.
(7) The mass conversions over the last seventy years have been most questionable.

(8) Even separatist critics of Billy Graham’s ecumenism, still use the same ideology based on the erroneous ability of universal innate ‘faith’ using Romans 10:9 &13 as catalysts automatic regeneration of the Spirit.
An admixture of modernized faith, freewill theology, and American salesmanship brought 19th C. easy conversion to the masses. Right wing conservatives, evangelicals, and fundamentalists were gulled and soon captivated by the borrowed cliché, ‘revival’. Unlike the spirit of prayer which had generated previous awakening and conversion it was now unashamedly generated by humanist methodology.

PRAYERLESSNESS OF OUR CHURCHES. (1)

WITHIN 30 DAYS WORLD WAR BY U.S. ACCIDENT?

WITHIN 30 DAYS WORLD WAR BY U.S. ACCIDENT?
Is history repeating itself? An incident in the Balkans 100 years ago led to the First World War in just 30 days.

On 28th June a Muslim in Bosnia shot to death the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. On 28th July that empire declared war on Russia and Serbia.

Is Donald Trump breaking his promises not to police the internecine Muslim wars of the Far and Middle East?

Has the new president allowed the ever hawkish Pentagon to push the USA into an untenable position, provoking the Russian bear?

Surely 26 years of refereeing Islamic squabbles of Shias against Sunnis in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Yemen cannot continue unabated without starting another world war? Has not Uncle Sam bled enough from its amassed trillions of dollars’ debt to finance its policing of Arab wars in the Islamic eastern nations?

Where has the indomitable and resilient new Commander’s tenacity gone? Is the manipulator being manipulated by emotion of the moment, or is he succumbing to General Mattis, the chief servant of the Pentagon?

Trump had promised to resist the Pentagon’s endemic bullying of the Oval Office! After the President’s peremptory cruise missile attack on a Syrian Air base will he unheedingly allow his own bluster to quickly usher in a World War III? Should the honourable Mr. Trump instead refuse to be bullied by the Pentagon, which has pressured past presidents since 1990 into internecine Muslim wars?

World War 1 was started by a Hapsburg Commander in Chief overreacting to the murders of the Ferdinand couple. However, the USA, and the UK used chemical weapons responding to German attacks by chlorine and mustard gas.

The 20th C Iraq-Iran War led both sides to use chemical weapons against each other. The USA has more chemical weapons stored on its continent than any other nation. Furthermore, its polluting the atmosphere by leakage and fallout from 1,000 atomic test explosions shames its record. Irradiating its own people, on its own soil testing devices above-the-surface (400), and below-the- surface (600), caused massive fallout and affected its own continent and others abroad. Despite the torrent of world protest the USA turned a deaf ear and would not stop until its planned schedule was completed.

Are chemical weapons as bad as nuclear weapons leaving lasting effects upon generations in terminal plagues of cancer?

The USA is the only country to have ever used nuclear bombs against a hostile nation. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities were obliterated in a far worse manner than chemical weapons. The population of those cities included men, women and children of all ages, just as in its continual, needless and repetitive fire-storm bombings of Tokyo and Hamburg. Yet Mr. World-Policeman unashamedly still dares to morally pontificate, even in nations with which it has not yet declared war.

‘One thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history’. The 57 nation Islamic confederacy (Org. Islamic Co-Op) has been very successful since 1991 in draining U.S. coffers by embroiling it in the orchestrated wars Islam creates.

Will Mr. Trump remember his initial spoken response to the latest Syrian chemical attack?

“I am the president of America! I am not the president of the world.”

Can he keep his word, or will he be just as weak as his predecessors and become another pawn of the Pentagon? After the incident on June 28 it took thirty days for World War to be declared in 1914.

Can Trump gamble with such recent daredevil brinkmanship before his words take the world beyond the point of no return?

Unless he controls or closes his Twitter account, and silences his administration’s loose cannon, his risk of starting apocalyptic devastation is high.

Goodbye any investment in renewal of U.S. infrastructure or reduction of $20 trillion debt! Alas, goodbye to your promises dear Donald. The Pentagon’s Defence Budget of over $3 trillion dollars per year is already way too high a % of GDP, let alone your unbearably new 10% increase.

Remember that the Roman Empire’s demise took only a few short decades in the 4th C. World War I ended the British Empire quite quickly and twenty years after Armistice Day the UK was literally broke.

WITHIN 30 DAYS WORLD WAR BY U.S. ACCIDENT?

9-YEARS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL U.S. CONGRESS

9-YEARS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL U.S. CONGRESS
Tea Party’s Continued Sabotage.

The Tea Party has been bull-dogmatic, contrary and capricious. Its handful of Senators and 20+ Representatives continue to delay confirmations, block legislation, and White House administration. It has had over 90 months of prior practice. With this third and more polarized Congress than ever in 2017 the Tea Party movement again holds the balance of power.

Often on House sit-down strikes in the past, its members had refused to vote. It had regularly killed budgets, aggravated the deficit, and all but paralyzed White House administration.

Is it trying to create another revolution? Have its members ever pondered the ramifications of their Oath of Office? Their uncharitable, but pompous belligerence is said to be in the name of freedom and the right to rebel. This is no more democracy than the French Revolution produced in 1798. Is America going backwards into a more primitive stage?

Tea Party hostility and animosity insanely routes any good Speaker and leads to stalemates and lame duck presidents who ineffectively rule by decree. Its dishonesty is manifest in its nine year campaign to block the previous White House.

Its disaffection has chosen another Commander in Chief, but this time a Republican, under which umbrella the Tea Party ironically claims affiliation. The last eight years of uncurbed deficit brought the loss of national credit rating by Moody’s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The same period brought stagnancy of growth and a president ruling by executive order rather than through Congress. A totally frustrated Speaker of the House inevitably made his exit.

A good many Tea Party rebels owe allegiance to the Black Book they often read. Would it not be untimely for them to read again the sobering exhortation of their hero? “If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

Is there a place for perpetual malice in the Tea Party’s honorable members as endemic malignity weakens the nation? Its fractiousness feeds media madness to the great consternation of sane American citizenry.

Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives…

9-YEARS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL U.S. CONGRESS