For the record
For the record.
All the problems in the world stems from several choices many people do not know they have. There are several concepts that are missing from the collective thinking of society. They are not really hidden as much as they are obscured. It is often the meaning or redefining of words which can hide the truth from our understanding rather than reveal 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[1] and weakened society.[2]
One simple doctrine of the prophets of God that is not taught in churches today is that you are to love God of heaven with your whole heart mind and soul which means you are not to make covenants[3] with any other god nor bow down nor even serve them.[4]
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”[5] 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 and make common 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. The granting of rights to rulers and ruling judges is usually accompanied by an application for benefits offered by those rulers. When the benefits are provided by debt individuals are entangled[6] in the rudiments of the world and become surety for debt. The people become little more than merchandise, human resources.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag 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.[7]
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?
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,[8] 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.”[9]
If you change the meaning of a word like religious then the term 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 incorrectly 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[10] 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 has been pursued either through systems of free will offerings or or sacrifice 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 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.
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.
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.[11]
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 a benefactor 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.
Footnotes
- ↑ 12 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
- ↑ 4Exodus 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;
- ↑ 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 9:45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr1SBMbK5Aw
- ↑ 6Exodus 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.
- ↑ 9 κόσμος kosmos 1) an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government
- ↑ 10 Festus, entry on ritus, p. 364 (ed. Lindsay).Sextus Pompeius Festus a Roman grammarian in the 2nd century AD
- ↑ 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,"
- ↑ 12 Priest, is derived from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for "elder" or eldest head of a family
- ↑ 13Adventures of Artifice in Languageland http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/sacrifice.php