From a letter to my brother, a Pentecostal Minister.
Real Spiritual people move through society like a gentle breeze. They give spiritual food, not money, power or anything to build up the ego/old nature. They tear down the strongholds of religion, and all their vain imagination's and high doctrines that paganise God. Just like Jeremiah who railed out against the lying pen of the scribes, who falsely declared God instituted the sacrificial System as a substitute for them. God only wants one sacrifice, a broken heart that has come to an end of itself. Only a broken heart can find it's true centre in another God Himself. Of such are His Children. There is only God, there is nothing else except lies and illusions. GOD IS ALL IN ALL. As Paul said from Mars Hill God, this Unknown God is "the One in whom we move live and have our Being."
Religious Leaders, pastors, elders or whatever are the blind leading the blind. They are human ego's representing their own need to convince other's of THEIR BELIEFS, and their need thereby for control and power over other's. They are not representatives of the LOGOS, though they pretend their mortal words are. When people take up theses titles they know others will look up to them and respect them. They therefore can easily hide under these cloaks of deception like wolves in sheep's clothing. Everyone in their congregation puts them on a pedestal, an idol they look up too. They do not want to know about their mortality and lustful habits, and how they behave at home, unless of course through some misfortune they get caught redhanded. Well perhaps the honest one's get caught.
Most ministers have never grown up, they are often in an emotional state of an 8 or 10 year old. By becoming clergy and ministers they often escape the real nitty gritty of making a hard earned living with little recognition from other's.
Let congregations make up a list of vital qualities they want in their ministers. 1. Selfless service, no reward required, no greed, no self righteousness, giving to all equally, no self seeking, no self righteousness, listening and appreciating other's view points.
Most of the Pentecostals, evangelicals and other fundamentalists are led by people who inflict hatred. They all come to their congregations with long list of "dont's" and convince them they are sinners. They still preach to their faithful week in and week out they are all sinners, but always tongue in cheek. The Real sinners of course they all know, "are those that do attend a Christian church particularly their type." They pound words from their pulpit, like they are pounding the very people themselves with very negative ideas about themselves, particularly if they do not give or tithe. Christianity raises more money through this negativity than any other business on earth.
Ministers boast of saving "millions of souls". Yet their is no basis in reality for their claims, only their oratory and emotive words are their salvation's substance. No Preacher can save anyone least themselves. Few are they who know Scripture well enough and without bias, to declare the we need not Saving of "self" but saving from "self." A soul needs not be saved but rather lost, says the Master's voice, to those who would be His Disciples.
See how many Alcoholics who give up drinking for religion, who then beats up his family with the Bible's letter, instead of the Bottle. Of such is the soul of flesh still retained. A former prostitute who stop's using her body to hook people, upon being saved, uses religion to hook others. Of such is the soul of flesh still in service,
People who in a particular crisis in their life, turned to religion and say it saved them, have just forgotten how many other crisis they have already weathered without religion.
How sad that all these preachers cannot even save themselves, but they have done every well at SAVING the hard earned money of their followers who have so miraculously been saved and now attend their Church, and swell their coffers. There is no bigger business than Church Business.
Fundamentalist Christianity and fundamentalists in other religion's, offer nothing but "pearly gates" and "pie in the sky" and a "second coming' that never happens, not even after millenniums of time, when a generation in Scripture is only 40 years. If there was a second coming their waiting game would be up, and they would be forever out of business. Fundamentalists cause nearly all the wars, the famines and religious genocide of Africa. The Middle East and Ireland are constant reminders, not a singular leader in religion has yet resolved them. Religion so taught has damaged the soul's of countless multitudes. Their Salvation is not genuine, but merely a rite of passage into a cult. All religions on earth are a cult, whose only God is the God of this world.
When people join religions of fundamentalist ilk, they are made to feel "special" the "chosen".. They go to these Churches, which really are an exclusive country club that offers out personal rewards. Their membership gives them "personal salvation" and an "eternal reward". Makes no different whether it is a Jew, or a Muslim. All these exclusive club's offer salvation and a ticket to heaven. Even the Communists have their bible written by Karl Marx. Comradeship is worshipped the same way as fellowship is by Christians. These communists believe like Christians they too are saved, if they follow the teachings of Marx. While Communist do not have the ego personal salvation of themselves, they do for their whole society. Their salvation is collective.
There are Anglican Club's Roman Catholic Club's, Protestant Clubs, Assembly of God Clubs. They all have their little boxes, with their own bars of inescapable beliefs, that they are happy to hide behind..
I will be brief, this an enormous and complex task to which I could never give thorough dissertation as I have not the time. Each major world religion has been founded on the suffering and damages inflicted on the original founders. Each Religion best attracts those leaders who can continue this damage. All their rituals are designed around the need to glorify and perpetuate this damage. They also need to make sure the original founder is forever booted upstairs and well out of their reach. They would not want the Real Saviour to come back and expose their game. After all it was this very same type of Person who put Him on the Cross in the first place, hardly the Publican.
The Jews were the first group of people who were severely psychologically and socially damaged people. By modern psychiatry they would have been considered seriously mentally disturbed. They had lost all connection with the Land. They had given up 'tilling the soil" and through their lack of connection with the earth, failed to establish correct relationships with each other. They were nomads and wanderers without a home, strangers to their country, dispossessed and in enforced slavery. It was this extreme psychological damage that made them form the first Semitic religion, an exclusive club to try and lift themselves out of their pain. They soon attracted other proselytes who were similarly afflicted. Soon their hurt and pain was to be celebrated in rites and rituals that would perpetuate this suffering and psychological pain. Each day millions of Jews still act out this pathology in a bizarre attempt to make it Holy. Such is the wailing wall. Such is the separation of man and women by so called Holy Rites. Women sit back, men can touch the Torah but not women. And so it goes on. I will leave it to your own imagination how this same thing has crept into Christianity and disturbed the divine Order.
I hope I have not disturbed you to much. I am not complaining just explaining. I have not changed, I am still turning tables over the same way as my Master, as he instructed me back in 1979.
Real Spiritual people move through society like a gentle breeze. They give spiritual food, not money, power or anything to build up the ego/old nature. They tear down the strongholds of religion, and all their vain imagination's and high doctrines that paganise God. Just like Jeremiah who railed out against the lying pen of the scribes, who falsely declared God instituted the sacrificial System as a substitute for them. God only wants one sacrifice, a broken heart that has come to an end of itself. Only a broken heart can find it's true centre in another God Himself. Of such are His Children. There is only God, there is nothing else except lies and illusions. GOD IS ALL IN ALL. As Paul said from Mars Hill God, this Unknown God is "the One in whom we move live and have our Being."
Religious Leaders, pastors, elders or whatever are the blind leading the blind. They are human ego's representing their own need to convince other's of THEIR BELIEFS, and their need thereby for control and power over other's. They are not representatives of the LOGOS, though they pretend their mortal words are. When people take up theses titles they know others will look up to them and respect them. They therefore can easily hide under these cloaks of deception like wolves in sheep's clothing. Everyone in their congregation puts them on a pedestal, an idol they look up too. They do not want to know about their mortality and lustful habits, and how they behave at home, unless of course through some misfortune they get caught redhanded. Well perhaps the honest one's get caught.
Most ministers have never grown up, they are often in an emotional state of an 8 or 10 year old. By becoming clergy and ministers they often escape the real nitty gritty of making a hard earned living with little recognition from other's.
Let congregations make up a list of vital qualities they want in their ministers. 1. Selfless service, no reward required, no greed, no self righteousness, giving to all equally, no self seeking, no self righteousness, listening and appreciating other's view points.
Most of the Pentecostals, evangelicals and other fundamentalists are led by people who inflict hatred. They all come to their congregations with long list of "dont's" and convince them they are sinners. They still preach to their faithful week in and week out they are all sinners, but always tongue in cheek. The Real sinners of course they all know, "are those that do attend a Christian church particularly their type." They pound words from their pulpit, like they are pounding the very people themselves with very negative ideas about themselves, particularly if they do not give or tithe. Christianity raises more money through this negativity than any other business on earth.
Ministers boast of saving "millions of souls". Yet their is no basis in reality for their claims, only their oratory and emotive words are their salvation's substance. No Preacher can save anyone least themselves. Few are they who know Scripture well enough and without bias, to declare the we need not Saving of "self" but saving from "self." A soul needs not be saved but rather lost, says the Master's voice, to those who would be His Disciples.
See how many Alcoholics who give up drinking for religion, who then beats up his family with the Bible's letter, instead of the Bottle. Of such is the soul of flesh still retained. A former prostitute who stop's using her body to hook people, upon being saved, uses religion to hook others. Of such is the soul of flesh still in service,
People who in a particular crisis in their life, turned to religion and say it saved them, have just forgotten how many other crisis they have already weathered without religion.
How sad that all these preachers cannot even save themselves, but they have done every well at SAVING the hard earned money of their followers who have so miraculously been saved and now attend their Church, and swell their coffers. There is no bigger business than Church Business.
Fundamentalist Christianity and fundamentalists in other religion's, offer nothing but "pearly gates" and "pie in the sky" and a "second coming' that never happens, not even after millenniums of time, when a generation in Scripture is only 40 years. If there was a second coming their waiting game would be up, and they would be forever out of business. Fundamentalists cause nearly all the wars, the famines and religious genocide of Africa. The Middle East and Ireland are constant reminders, not a singular leader in religion has yet resolved them. Religion so taught has damaged the soul's of countless multitudes. Their Salvation is not genuine, but merely a rite of passage into a cult. All religions on earth are a cult, whose only God is the God of this world.
When people join religions of fundamentalist ilk, they are made to feel "special" the "chosen".. They go to these Churches, which really are an exclusive country club that offers out personal rewards. Their membership gives them "personal salvation" and an "eternal reward". Makes no different whether it is a Jew, or a Muslim. All these exclusive club's offer salvation and a ticket to heaven. Even the Communists have their bible written by Karl Marx. Comradeship is worshipped the same way as fellowship is by Christians. These communists believe like Christians they too are saved, if they follow the teachings of Marx. While Communist do not have the ego personal salvation of themselves, they do for their whole society. Their salvation is collective.
There are Anglican Club's Roman Catholic Club's, Protestant Clubs, Assembly of God Clubs. They all have their little boxes, with their own bars of inescapable beliefs, that they are happy to hide behind..
I will be brief, this an enormous and complex task to which I could never give thorough dissertation as I have not the time. Each major world religion has been founded on the suffering and damages inflicted on the original founders. Each Religion best attracts those leaders who can continue this damage. All their rituals are designed around the need to glorify and perpetuate this damage. They also need to make sure the original founder is forever booted upstairs and well out of their reach. They would not want the Real Saviour to come back and expose their game. After all it was this very same type of Person who put Him on the Cross in the first place, hardly the Publican.
The Jews were the first group of people who were severely psychologically and socially damaged people. By modern psychiatry they would have been considered seriously mentally disturbed. They had lost all connection with the Land. They had given up 'tilling the soil" and through their lack of connection with the earth, failed to establish correct relationships with each other. They were nomads and wanderers without a home, strangers to their country, dispossessed and in enforced slavery. It was this extreme psychological damage that made them form the first Semitic religion, an exclusive club to try and lift themselves out of their pain. They soon attracted other proselytes who were similarly afflicted. Soon their hurt and pain was to be celebrated in rites and rituals that would perpetuate this suffering and psychological pain. Each day millions of Jews still act out this pathology in a bizarre attempt to make it Holy. Such is the wailing wall. Such is the separation of man and women by so called Holy Rites. Women sit back, men can touch the Torah but not women. And so it goes on. I will leave it to your own imagination how this same thing has crept into Christianity and disturbed the divine Order.
I hope I have not disturbed you to much. I am not complaining just explaining. I have not changed, I am still turning tables over the same way as my Master, as he instructed me back in 1979.
