The Priesthood changed, so of necessity so must the Law. Every dispensation, there's New Laws. Like in the time period between the restoration of Babylon and Jesus' ministry, they were granted permission to eat the fat and drink the sweet. But the moral law remains consistent. Not just about Sex and Masterbation, but about all of it. [...] And Jesus did say, "Do not sew onto an Old Garment New Patches" and "Do not pour new wine into old bottles." He meant not to mix the testaments.
[The forsaking of the Ceremonial Law,] it's part of God's way. Every dispensation, there's a new religious economy. In that particular season of the Old Covenant, it was a different priesthood in Levi. We have a priesthood in Christ.
[The Religion...] would have spread just as easy, being like Judaism. Probably better, as Islam does the same thing, and spread hundreds of miles in two decades. In fact, I'd argue people like those kinds of rituals because it seems like you're making progress. What's harder is to just be a good person, because of conscience's sake. It's very easy to think because you don't eat Pork or Shellfish, you rest on Saturdays, and you get circumcised you're better off. That's more in line with human understanding.
Trust me, I was there when I was young. It's very easy to spread a religion like that. All the doctrine is for the body, and none of it for the Spirit. Christ is saying something specific. That we need Him to be righteous, and cannot be on our own. We need to be grafted into Him, as a vine, and we being branches, will produce fruit. Or we won't, and thus we'll be sheared off and thrown into the fire. That's all the religion says. Is by faith we're saved, and not of works.
[But to contend with a mocker,] Islam reached Spain and Portugal, [therefore it would have still converted Europeans if Christianity retained the Dietary and Sabbath Laws]. It wasn't just for advertising. It was just a new priesthood, so they received a new law. Even Jesus said it. "Do not sew new patches onto old garments." and "Do not pour new wine into old bottles." The Law hadn't passed away, the new Priesthood was in Melchizedek, another priesthood beside Levi. This was before the Law was given, during the time of Abraham, when Abraham was still an Amorite. As the Law said, "Through Abraham's seed, all the nations will be blessed." So the Law was not annulled. It was fulfilled in Christ.
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Prisca Theologica
This may be true [that there is an ancient theology], but we don't know it without a teacher. And that's why Christ is Rabbi. Christ leads you to that universal theology, and then gives the solution to it. Which is His bodily death and resurrection. As, you see with Natural Religion, moral truths are objective, and since they're objective, they require divine punishment and reward. And since no man is righteous enough for a reward, and all must be punished, God came down to Earth as a Man, and lived a perfect life with no Sin. And then He demonstrated to us through His life and teachings, the way we ought to follow, showing us how far we lack, but also giving us the final proof of that objective moral standard. So, that's why Christ is Rabbi. And He died, and substituted our sin with His righteousness, and gave us His righteousness, and died and was buried with our sin. And then He raised, which cleansed us, as our sin was dead with Him.
Also, Moses was revealed this Prisca Theologica in the Exodus of divine punishment and reward, while Christ satisfied it in His life and ministry. Showing, that God must reveal Himself if He is truly God. And He did three times, with the Deluge, the Exodus and His Life and Teachings, and Bodily resurrection.
God’s Economy
So... the best way to explain God's economy, is looking at a balance. You pay the right amount for a thing as it balances on the scale, and no more or less; and you pay for work the right amount, no more or less. And you forgive debts after 7 years, and you rest your land every 7 years to help the soil stop eroding; you give everyone the proper amount of vacation, one day a week and also mandatory holidays, and you give 10% of your money to the Church or the Poor. And the poor are rehabilitated and cared for by the King. Also, people are allowed to own private property, and what is yours cannot belong to someone else.
Why Do I Believe?
That’s actually a very good question. And I’ll tell you exactly why.
So, let’s just take it back to “I think therefore I am.” Like Descartes. And what I think, can be either true or false. I can look at a fact on the internet or in a book… what establishes said thing as a fact? Could be the book or internet are lying to me. You know? I can also be wrong about what’s on page 7, or even that the book has a page 77. So, my mind is not capable of holding together reality. And whose is? A cadre of really smart people, or extra terrestrials? They just establish the laws? Well, what if I don’t trust them to establish the laws? What if science is wrong? Or what if everything we know now is wrong, but 20 years ago it was all correct? So that’s the first reason, is to have a bedrock of reality, independent of some being that isn’t entirely good. God is Light, and God is Good and God is Love. I’d rather have Him hold together my reality, than a couple of random scientific studies or peer reviewed papers.
Another thing, the moral law that God proscribed is better than anyone else’s. What I read in Jesus, is better than ten sages, and what I read in the Old Testament, seems to be solid, and built our very first civilizations. The fact that it kills everyone is good, as God’s Ark kills by the touch. Even touching perfection, kills us. So, you have two testaments, of the Conqueror and Sentence in the old, and the Rescuer and Defender in the new. And that balance in life, of having breath, so always being enabled to cross the threshold into a righteous person, or making the decision to be bad. It makes sense. Either trusting God for our righteousness, or trusting in ourselves. Either agreeing with the Moral Law that is higher than us, or creating our own moral law, which is insufficient.
Then, I’ve seen the religion as it is authentically expressed. I’ve felt the Holy Spirit in me, and move me. I’ve known myself with the religion, and without it. And I got to say, knowing God is good, and has dominion over all things, including the evil… that nothing evil happens without God’s word, it is a comfort to me. Because it gives sense to the world, and it doesn’t just throw it all into the blender of human judgment. It doesn’t leave things under the power or jurisdiction of people who are fallible. It doesn’t leave right and wrong up to a bunch of men to create or decide upon. It’s built in nature, and designed by God, and Evil is what destroys the things that cause man to suffer, and Good is what helps those who abide in God’s authority, and choose to accept grace.
As, without Grace or Mercy, we starve. And we lose what is good in us. Like a Vine or Rootstock, it gives sap to the Scions. We need that sap, or we grow weak in doing what’s good, and we die. And that’s what happened to you. You grew weak in righteousness, because you rejected God’s law. So, it will sap you, and soon God’s divine order will be stripped from you. As for me, I hold onto that order, so I can be taken to a better world, where suffering and sin make an end. As without that new world, life is utterly pointless, and dejected, and feral. And there is no true justice because there is no truly good power to uphold it. Only man and his callous judgment.
We need a teacher. Otherwise we're lost in the weeds of our own thoughts. And my teacher is Jesus. I am also no one's teacher. Just trying to interpret what my Rabbi said.
I always say, I would be agnostic if not for Jesus. I would never be an Atheist, because I don't find their arguments satisfactory. Just everything is so contrary to good reason, that you'd have to annihilate every shred of wisdom, and never build up to a single principle again. It'd be pimps getting run over in the street, and their carcas decaying into a mass of flesh if Atheism were true. Which, it's not for that reason. I would be Agnostic, but would be a lot like my character Marc in The Fifth Angel's Trumpet.
But, it's Jesus and Jesus alone, gives me satisfactory answers to life's biggest questions. Not even Buddha, he's a little spooky and self centered and denies reality a bit. And Muhammad isn't very good. And Moses would have every man, woman and child killed down to the letter.
On Goodness and God
I believe in goodness without God. Although, it's impossible to prove good without Him. It's kind of a conundrum Nietzsche trapped the whole atheist community in, and also Hume. But, generally, they force the argument, that if you prove there's good, there ha to be a God. Because if there's good without God, then it remains subjective, and determined by human opinion, which then it can't be called good, can it? But, I think good is so self evident, that we can move up to God's existence.
But, generally, I think atheists can indeed understand it. I would be doubtful to say that they can't. We all do, that's written in the Bible. And Christ aligns with that natural conscience better than anyone else. But the danger here... and here is the true danger... is saying good is not self evident. And that's a trap both Atheists and Christians fall into. When, I'm aware that both good and evil are self evident, and necessarily proves God exists. Because it relies on superior judgment, existing outside of human consciousness. It's a Law of Nature, not a Law of Human Choice. And since nature proves what's ethical and moral, based on what will create the most beneficial society for all, and naturally create patterns of healthy attachments and material prosperity, which God's grace will achieve, and has achieved, we move to Christ Jesus.
Censorship and The Plight of True Christians
It's both sides. Both sides do it [censor], otherwise I'd be making a living as an author.
Again, the Left uplifts Charity and Licentiousness and the Right uplifts Chastity and Greed. You can't pick a side in this. As Jesus also says, "Lean not either to the left or right, but stay on the narrow way."
Greed is opposed to Charity, and Licentiousness is opposed to Chastity. So, this is the whole issue, a true Christian holds onto Chastity and Charity and also forsakes Licentiousness and Greed. So, we're not liked by either side.
Christianity and Paul
{}"Do not sew onto an old garment a new cloth" and "Do not put new wine into old bottles," Lest "They tear and burst." I think Paul is right on track for what Christ was getting at.
Peter lived as a Gentile, that's why Paul reprimanded him for not eating with them when the judaizers tempted him. As Hebrews says, "With a change of priesthood comes a change of law."
No, because Romans is saying how yoking yourself to the Law, cannot save you. In fact, it causes you to act on the flesh, instead of the Spirit. We're to have no Judaism yoked to us, as is said by Ignatius. But, it's what Paul's epistles really mean, that covenant is over. We're not to follow it anymore, as it can't save us, and rather leads to us committing sin, because of its reliance on the flesh.
Ignatius Letter to the Magnesians Chapter 8. "Be not deceived with strange doctrines, nor with old fables, which are unprofitable. For if we still live according to the Jewish law, we acknowledge that we have not received grace."
The entire message of the Gospel, is you need to be grafted into the vine to be saved. If you're not, you'll be sheered off, and wither. You can't be righteous apart from Christ. He's the rootstock; we're the branches. By living by the letter, we'll be condemned, but by living by the Spirit we'll be free to do good, because the Spirit will cause us to do it. It will be like rest. Christ is the Sabbath, and we're to rest on Him for our righteousness, not our own works.
Moral Objectivity
That morals and ethics are concrete, and can be observed.
You might ask them, “Well why do you need God?” Well… that’s a good question.
Humans are exceptionally bad at forming moral systems. They fail in ever so many ways, and there’s the written ordinance, and what actually is, that makes things even more difficult.
So, I’d think at the establishment of man’s first laws—which are in the Bible, in the Torah, in books like Leviticus and Deuteronomy—we have a record of man trying to form a basis for morality. And we see in the Torah, a rigid morality that would kill every man, woman and child on the Earth. But, then we also have the Ten Commandments. Which were scribed by God’s fingers. So, Moses broke the first tablet, and the second were made out of Sapphire, or Lapis Lazule, out of God’s heavenly temple… and God gave these Laws, the only Laws we’ve received directly from God to that point. Maybe the other laws and commandments were created by Abraham in Mesopotamia, through committee, but the Clean and Unclean were given by God’s command to Adam and Eve, but then was abolished in Christ’s death and resurrection. So, then, God in the Flesh came to Earth, and lived a perfect example for us to follow. And He taught a perfect law.
So, why do we need this example? It’s so people are capable of understanding right from wrong. Without God’s living example, or without God’s finger scribing the Law in the Ten Commandments, we couldn’t know right from wrong.
Why? Because man is a very bad authority. We confuse the most basic things like Gender, and we turn rudimentary moral laws that should be like counting, into abstract algebra and Transcendental equations.
So, this fact remains… we need God to order and provide the world with a bedrock of truth. Without which, we cannot have truth, unless God established it. Which He did twice, with Moses and the Ten Commandments, and came in bodily form through His son Jesus Christ.
Maybe it’s because, like in Trigonometry, there’s no algebraic way to get Sine and Cosine without already having the measurements and angles. You just have to have the right measurements, to do the formulas. And Christ is that measurement. He's the standard. That without, we can’t do the rest of the math. And God had to set that measurement in place, for us to do all the other more complicated things. As God had to be the measurement, so we could do the more complicated logic. Without which, we’d have nothing to measure it with, and therefore, would be without knowledge on how to do the more complicated logic.
Errata: You can use calculus to find Cosine and Sine, through Euler's Formula, by working through a Unit Circle, and making e^i*Radian = Cosine (Radian) + i Sine (Radian). In fact, that was Euler's work. Which coincidentally, makes e^iπ=-1 if you set the equation to equal it will be equal to (-1 + 0i). Now, equations work like this, where you set the equation to equal, it molds the shape into and equality, and can be worked through that, which is why when doing geometric constructions, you must have an equality, for it to produce correct results. As the equality molds the shape into a useful tool.
Yet, also, the Cosine and Sine still need to have a valid measurement, in order to work, so the point is still valid, there must be a physical presence of God on Earth, to give a measurement for how we are to conduct ourselves. And also a written moral law, divinely given by God.
Errata Secundo: The formula for Euler's assumes Sine and Cosine already, therefore, it must still be measured. The formula, it simply places the values of Sine and Cosine on the perimeter of the unit circle, on a Cartesian plane.
On Christ and Moral Clarity
You kind of do need God to have a foundation for morality. And here's why.
Friedrich Nietzsche said that good and evil didn't exist. Hume said morality was made precedent on Law, and not universals.
So, in the world today, "Moral" just means what society agrees upon. That's kind of its little catch all, you're an immoral person, if you divert from the social norm. You're a moral person, if you don't.
So, this is a problem, because in societies such as Rome or the Aztecs, it wasn't uncommon for people to do the most horrific crimes, and that was a matter of custom. People did it, as often as we watch TV or play video games. And such things involved every capital offense imaginable. Even the worst ones you can imagine. Things that if someone did today, they'd be locked in jail, and the key would be thrown away. And everyone did it. So, that's kind of the problem with Hume's Argument.
The problem with Neitzsche's, is that you can objectively see patterns in the world, that affirm the good. So, like a geometric proof, the good becomes self evident, where we can observe and measure it. Things like peace, and love, and joy and kindness, and gentleness, and goodness, and self control, and patience and reliability.
So, you generally find in this, evidence for the Good, so if there's Good, that exists outside of human judgment, there must be a God. Because it's not precedent on human judgment, but something self evident, which is established in a higher orderer and establisher.
And I move to Christianity, because Christ's law is self evident. He spoke the most truth, and the gospels can be corroborated as witnesses, and He raised from the dead, and fulfilled 300 messianic prophecies or more. So, obviously, this is the true religion, based on Christ being witnessed, His deeds and moral teachings which give us clarity on what's right and wrong, and His fulfillment of Prophecies.