The Church of Christ is invisible, it is made up of all those who have heard and listened to the quiet voice of Christ within. Luke 17: 21
There are those among us that would count themselves as Christians but in fact are Augustinians. You can tell who they are as they don’t want you to question, they don’t want you to listen to the voice of Christ. You must listen to only one voice – THEIRS! You must SUBMIT your God given intellect to them because they have all the answers.
You can have a free ticket to heaven, you can avoid condemnation but you can only get it through them! Does that sound familiar? You are a sinner, you are depraved, you have no freewill, it is all ordained by God. He says who is a sinner and who is saved, you don’t have to do anything because you CAN’T do anything – all you have to do is believe.
This crap is not logical and it certainly is not Christianity. It is Manichaeism, a pagan philosophy, introduced into the Church by Augustine and rediscovered by Jean Cauvin better know as Calvin. For perverts like Augustine this rubbish really is a gift from God (excuse the pun) they can blame their own weakness on someone else.
After the Resurrection of Christ and the teaching of the Apostles, the “Way” spread around the empire like wild fire and a lot of self-motivated people started to get in on the act. The owners of this new franchise tried to make sense of Christ’s death and resurrection. They could not; as Christ’s teaching was so nuanced and spiritual it did not lend itself to easy answers so they improvised and introduced Pagan philosophy – human sacrifice, vicarious atonement, one life, physical resurrection and the big one – Original Sin. All of these ideas are un-biblical and contrary to what Christ taught and contrary to the Jewish faith, which is why; there have been so few converts from Judaism to Christianity over two thousand years.
This cancerous view of sin has led all major churches to nurture evil within its walls in the name of maintaining the reputation of the Church itself.
“A US Jesuit order has agreed to pay $166 million (£103 million) to compensate nearly 500 victims of decades-long "horrific" sexual and psychological abuse by priests in five US states, lawyers said on Friday.”
"But then even more shockingly, the Catholic Church had known before they ordained him about his propensity to abuse, that they had received countless complaints over the period of time that he was abusing and they'd done nothing about it. That they'd covered it up."
I won’t go into the detail of why the doctrine of Original Sin is un-Christian and a cancer on the body of the Church as Mike DeSario has done a better job than I could hope to do:
Watch this series of lectures:
The evil that has been done directly by the Catholic Church within living memory on members of the Orthodox Church is unbelievable and strips all churches of any singular moral authority. Only Christ can help us now and we are going to have to start thinking for ourselves:
During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Catholic priests and Muslim clerics were willing accomplices in the genocide of the nations Serbian, Jewish and Roma population. From 1941 until 1945, the Nazi-installed regime of Ante Pavelic in Croatia carried out some of the most horrific crimes of the Holocaust (known as the Porajmos by the Roma), killing over 800,000 Yugoslav citizens - 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews and 26,000 Roma. In these crimes, the Croatian Ustasha and Muslim fundamentalists were openly supported by the Vatican, the Archbishop of Zagreb Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac (1898-1960), and the Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. Many of the victims of the Pavelic regime in Croatia were killed in the war's third largest death camp - Jasenovac, where over 200,000 people - mainly Orthodox Serbs met their deaths. Some 240,000 were "rebaptized" into the Catholic faith by fundamentalist Clerics in "the Catholic Kingdom of Croatia" as part of the policy to "kill a third, deport a third, convert a third" of Yugoslavia's Serbs, Jews and Roma in wartime Bosnia and Croatia (The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican, Vladimar Dedijer, Anriman-Verlag, Freiburg, Germany, 1988).
As a footnote: examination of the history of the Catholic Church in the Balkans is illuminating as it explains why the main churches are more comfortable with the Evil of Islam than they are their own people and do nothing and say nothing as Islam moves to enslave us all in Europe under the black cloud of Sharia law.
So the question I found myself asking was this: was Christ’s teaching deficient in any way? Why is it that the Churches all seem to agree that we can only be saved through them and by believing that Christ died for our sins? Was his Ministry wasted? Was he just kicking his heels for two years, waiting to die – waiting for the real event?
Was his teaching incomplete that only by his resurrection his life had meaning?
My investigations led me to believe that Christ was perfected and that his teaching was perfect. The Church has systematically tried to keep his teaching from the people and has discouraged any investigation of his actual teaching.
The Gospels have all been tweaked to give a spin that agrees with Augustine:
The greatest of the early Church Fathers, for me, is Origen Adamantius 185AD – he kept as true to Christ’s teaching as he could. True to Jewish Teaching, he taught the pre-existence of the Soul and that the soul comes from God and Returns to God in its journey to perfection. As soon as the Augustinians enforced the doctrine of one life and physical resurrection the Church finds that it cannot explain life’s injustice and has to start inventing all kinds of bullshit. The idea of physical resurrection is Zoroastrian and not Christian and, frankly, ridiculous. The Didache was removed from circulation as it is a clear direction for all Christians to follow in order to come to Christ – this weakened the power of the Bishops and was suppressed. The Gospel of Barnabas and the Sheppard of Hermas were removed and Origen declared Anathema. The Gospels of Thomas was destroyed were ever it was found - Ownership could get you killed.
Using my own human conscience - It occurred to me that no one can forgive your sins! If I raped a girl and then found God – it is not for God to forgive me – the only person that could forgive me would be the girl in question but could I ever truly forgive myself? This voice inside that cannot so easily forgive – this is the voice of God not the Bishops. This is the uncomfortable voice that says of every second of your life – Choose!
If we look quietly inside ourselves - and I agree with the Orthodox Church that only through daily prayer and self-discipline can we achieve this and there is no better than the Jesus prayer to start with – if we look inside, we will see that far from all being evil and depraved that all actions are done through love but all evil is done through distorted love. Thus the Mass Murders of Jews were committed by a perverted love of German nationalism. The Devil gets us through the things we love which is why constant Prayer and self-examination are our only defence against his wiles.
Gospel of Thomas: 16 – “Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace on the Earth? They do not know that I have come to cast strife upon the Earth: Fire, Sword and War.”
In the context, it is obvious that the Lord was trying to shock the minds of his students into directly seeing the truth. And to show them how hard the path of the Way is.
By way of conclusion:
Gospel of Thomas 5: - “If your leaders say to you, ‘look, the Kingdom of God is in heaven’, then the birds will precede you, ‘it is in the sea’, then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom of God is inside you and outside you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father.”
This is the teaching that the “Church” has killed to keep from you. It is this truth that you must fight to make your own. Please do not take what I have said verbatim – research and pray on these points and find what, for you, is the truth.
If we go to the leaders in the Church and they cannot give us moral answers then we are forced to find Christ for ourselves. That is not to say that there are not good men within the Church – there are and whilst they would probably not agree with me they have still been great inspirations to me and I thank them humbly.
In my next blog I will examine the nature of the Soul and the Devil.
God Bless
John Sobieski
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