On My Sin and Theology

I'm like a hybrid Protestant and Catholic. I get my Old Testament from Baptists, my New Testament from Lutherans, and my Creativity and Aesthetics from Catholics. My aunt was a Catholic, and she taught me the value of beauty (but so did my school, when they brought in paintings to look at). I [...] don't answer to a church authority. I'm kind of like a monk, that I detail a lot of interesting proof the Bible is true. I don't fit well into systems. I'm not a Rogue Priest, as my authority comes from Christ. But, I'm a friend to Catholics and Protestants, and would like the religion to be strong into the future, which I have a feeling if it takes certain directions that's not going to happen. I'm afraid the great falling away will be in my lifetime, and I'm called to preach against sin. Like Christ called Herod a fox, like you said in another sermon, we have to hold our governments accountable for the evil they do. But, we cannot accept LGBTQ as a church. We just cannot. We also have to understand Jesus wasn't necessarily someone who was fascinated with high ritual, or doing everything according to the book. And Christ liked to use insignificant losers like me. Paul was a murderer, so was Moses, David committed three unpardonable sins in the world's eyes, rape, adultery and murder. I mean, the whole world can be against me, but I know God is for me. I didn't do anything like that. But, in the world's eyes I did awful things. Like, I think if there's going to be a Bible verse written about me, it's that my sins were exposed, so the world rejected me, but they were none of them uncommon among men. It's just the flamboyant nature of some of them... it's like, I know what my sins are. I know I sinned. It's just, most people's sins nobody knows about. How much murder is in the average person's heart or adultery? It's just mine could not be hidden.

Why I Believe

For me belief in God is an acceptance of a proposition of descriptive facts. 1. The Moral Evidence that Jesus taught, 2. The Physical Evidence that proves the Bible, 3. The textual evidence within the Bible itself that predicts Jesus and 4. The natural conscience of man. And 5. The coherent nature of our universe--which is what Newton described, and when he discovered Gravity everyone thought was proof God exists, because the universe had actual laws that determined it. 6. The light that shines off of a person who has God, as that's called Shekinah Glory (וְשָׁכַנְתִּי) in the Bible. And 7. The fruits of the Spirit.

Morality just is. Like Thales' Theorem. Morality exists, it's on our consciences and obeying it produces the best quality life not only for you, but for everyone around you. However, there've been societies where rape and murder was perfectly legal, that lasted for at least a millennia. That's not why Rape and Murder are wrong.

Why Rome Fell

Rome fell for a number of reasons, [homosexuality] being one of them. I wouldn't say it's the cause of the fall, but it's definitely a correlation. Probably, you can read in Horace that women were getting promiscuous, and that's usually the first sign toward social failure, which Rome's was a long winding spiral downhill for about three hundred years, ever since Augustus. Like, under Tiberius they literally crucified God, and put a Pear Tree on Trial. And in the time of Horace, we see the women are beginning to be predatory, and are starting to not have fidelity, which that stirs up a lot of problems in a culture. Probably that's the root cause of why societies fall, is men lose faith in women and the fidelity of marriage as a binding social contract, and begin to be androgynous as a result. And that leads to weak ethics, and men who can't bear the weight of society, so another society comes and conquers them.

Homily on Fortune

I don't think Faith is a means to getting rich. Paul wasn't rich. Neither was Jesus. Neither was Onesimus or Polycarp, or Titus, or Ignatius. Lydia was rich, but she happened on her riches before she became saved.

Fortune's a lot. God gives people riches according to their work, not their level of obedience. Which, if you're in obedience to the LORD, and doing the work He's given you faithfully, you'll be made rich, and will come the added effect of having not one sorrow attached to it, or even a hindrance to your faith.

But the reverse is also true, if you work evil, and wrought destruction for yourself, your riches will add many sorrows, both worldly and spiritual.

Why the Church is Falling Away

This is why so many are losing their faith. "I believe." What exactly? Do you believe in evolution, creation science, Islam, God, the universe, alien space demons, empathy? What exactly do you believe in?

I see so many Christian artists lose their faith, because they hadn't a deep knowledge of the LORD. It may not be entirely their fault, either, because I've seen a lot of Christians lose faith over Evolution because someone taught them God wasn't omnipotent. That He had to play by the rules of our cosmos. I've seen Christians lose their faith over LGBTQ---because they had no foundation of understanding right from wrong.

Unfortunately, this is the world we live in. Where not many have the Gospel preached to them in power, but rather church is a fun place we go, and hop up and down, go to the tattoo parlor down the street, get Jesus' name scribbled on our arm, then go to the coffee shop and Christian book store, and draw up enneagrams and anoint ourselves with magic waters. Get taught how to feel good about ourselves, and how to succeed in this vain life.

The fire of the LORD is about quenched in our youths, as they didn't learn the Gospel truth. Which is repentance from sin.

On Vulgarisms and Taboos in Christianity

"And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected."

"Fox" was a curse word in Roman times. While I agree with everything you're saying--and notice He's not preaching a sermon here, or in congregation and communion with God--sometimes you need to use harsh language to get the point across. Like, a Christian can kill in war, can he not? I think in some contexts---and most serious Christian authors have used foul language in literature---it's necessary to speak harsh words. Just saying...

I'm not saying Ray should start cussing in his videos--by all means--but sometimes a vulgarism is needed to add emphasis, especially when dealing with a sin. Like, again when sin is called a "Filthy Rag" we don't have an equivalent in English, but it'd be the same as calling sin "Shit".

And I'm certainly not telling anyone to make a habit out of it. Simply, though, to express disgust at a sin, sometimes you need to use words that can accurately describe it. But, Ray, don't start doing that in your video. I'm just speaking, as someone who writes literature, I do that because I'm not expressly calling what I write "Holy". It's just literature. But you should never blaspheme. That's something you ought not do. Or use filthy language. It's used in this context, to address a man who was pure evil, and it cut for that reason. There's a season to use swear words, and a season not to.

The Rebellion of the Pharisees and Sadducees

Pharisees

Oh my! This man has found all the evidence
And yet he is a miserable sex offender!
If the world knows about him, that he found all these things
Oh that rascal, the whole world would stop believing!
For why would God give prosperity to a letch like him!
Why is he so creative with his thoughts?
He rebukes us at the dinner table for saying what the Bible says
That Jephthah murdered his daughter, and God's silence is aught!
To die, means one descends to the grave, and only afterward
Do they rise and meet their maker! Yet he said 
"To be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD!"
Oh, this offender! This letch, this terrible letch
Undoing all our Religious Dictatorship! Paul said "And" not "Is".
His evidence is 100 years different than what is spoken by Paul!
And, then, he rebukes a good man about the man whom
Jesus healed, and asked if he wanted water!
We know that man is a sinner, for why would God
All knowing, ask such a thing? We understand God's thoughts.
This letch, we must steal his bread, and fortune, and prosper ourselves
For if he is known among the peoples, they shall all laugh at him and lose faith.
He even has the audacity to say God's law is self evident
And need not He to be true! Why must aught be true
Unless God makes it? Why? All things are only  known
Because the Bible tells us so. And nothing else can be known at all.

Sadducees

Oh my, this person preaches on sin!
And he is a miscreant!
Oh, we love our God Sin, that is God
The brazen bull, and he wishes to break it to pieces!
We shall have our Abomination set up in the temple
And Theophilus never heard one true word about our God.
We shall let the sodomites be married!
There is not one shred of evidence that God exists
And we know Zoroastrianism was the first Monotheistic faith.
The Jews were Pagans, and Polytheistic
And worshipped at the altars of sin,
This we know because of much evidence;
Until that miscreant Josiah changed the religion.
No, their books were not written
Until after the exile, this we know---
(Despite it clearly being established on evidenced not to be the case.)

Freedom

A poet's freedom, is they can preach
On battles never fought, and cities never breeched.
For in that year of Eighteen Hundred and Three
England was not invaded by French, and there was no victory.
Yet, Wordsworth boldly prophesied, of victory that day;
No English soil was spilled with blood,
But in October of 1803 he did say,
In anticipation of British guns
To defend the Isles of Arthur
He had declared Britain a victory won.
No prophetic power, no fulfilled truth
It was only an idle boast...
Yet where the poet is not free to say
That brings on a mighty host.
For, illiberal are the times, and olden victories sore
Even if no armies assail, or come upon American shores
We have lost our right to speak and buy
And have lost our rights to privacy.
The poet's not free because the citizenry
Wish him to be fettered to their zeal.
For freedoms hard fought are gone
And the opposition against it childish.
For if peace lasted like so a thousand years
It would be the utmost vilest.

When the Armies Surround Jerusalem

The sleeping slumber, slipped     My startled soul 
When the Phalanxes fell     Fated upon the frail faults 
Where they beat perfectly brazen     Beasts on the first battle. 
But, the great horsemen came harrowing    Harrowed upon the hills 
And the Phalanxes could not turn     For, though Cyrus fought in those Phalanxes 
Alexander the Great aligned himself     With the all coming animals 
Who would feast upon flesh     In battles gross and bald. 
Thus, the Phalanxes could not furnish     Their foes, for Alexander's rush attacked 
Them from the port guard, and grueling     Gore spilled over the gargantuan gorges. 
Cyrus' numbers were no more.     Alexander had numbered them with the null. 
Who will assay Alexander though?    The Abomination surrounded Ariel  
And who, but Christ, will Christen the victor won?    Can anyone but He defeat and pay the cost? 
Therefore, Jeshurun, flee to the hillocks and dales     And don't come down, even if he says "I am David".