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THE INHERENT TREACHERY OF AVARICE (CAPITALISM)
The more avarice, the more treachery.
When this Great Crash of 2008 is over, take a look around to see who owns what and who was able to expand. Then, ask where they got the money to do it.
When the global economy is supposedly interconnected with no one able to control or knowing how and therefore all ships should go down with the tide, why would anyone or any group come out smelling as if he or they didn't go down into the seabed with everyone else?
Yesterday, I did a little post, "PROJECTS CALL."
I've been working on other projects but wanted to take a break from those just to round out and expand upon the concepts in that post a bit more.
Do not put your confidence in the system of avarice. It contains inherent treachery.
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? (Luke 16:11 KJVR)
If G1487 therefore G3767 ye have not G3756 been G1096 faithful G4103 in G1722 the G3588 unrighteous G94 mammon, G3126 who G5101 will commit to your trust G4100 G5213 the G3588 true G228 riches? (Luke 16:11 KJV+)
The numbers are called Strong numbers, after James Strong (1822–1894), who was an American and a Methodist. He created what is called an analytical concordance of the Bible. It has been a great benefit in helping people to learn more Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew connotations. You can see some of the results below. It's fairly self-explanatory. The parts in [straight brackets] are mine.
If therefore ye have not been faithful.
G4103 [Strong number]
pistos [transliteration]
pis-tos' [pronunciation]
From G3982; [peaceful, fair, and reliable...] objectively trustworthy; subjectively trustful: - believe (-ing, -r), faithful (-ly), sure, true.
in the unrighteous
G94
adikos
ad'-ee-kos
From G1 [privation; incomparable cause of deprivation (lack of the basic necessities); privatizing; impoverishing the masses] (as a negative particle) and G1349; [natural, inevitable, punishing consequences of the wrong that is the selfish system] unjust; by extension wicked; by implication treacherous; specifically heathen: - unjust, unrighteous.
mammon,.
G3126
mammonas
mam-mo-nas'
Of Chaldee origin (confidence, that is, figuratively wealth, personified); mammonas, that is, avarice (deified): - mammon. [having confidence in and worshipping the system of greed]
who will [will God] commit to your trust the true?
G228
alethinos
al-ay-thee-nos'
From G227; truthful: - true.
G227
alethes
al-ay-thace'
From G1 (as a negative particle) and G2990; true (as not concealing): - true, truly, truth. [give you authority over matter and spirit; transcendent power; healing; unifying]
Notice the "not concealing." It means not concealing deceitfulness, trickery, temptation to fall to that which will result in painful and suffering consequences. Jesus suffered pain. However, it was the system that he stood against that wrongfully punished him. That system deceived much of the masses. That system's leadership murdered Jesus by proxy and directly (both the certain members of the Sanhedrin and the Roman Empire by it's representative murdered Jesus). They did that to continue the system described above by Jesus.
There is a huge debate on-going in the US and around the world about the economic system. The laissez-faire capitalists argue against what Jesus said in Luke 16:11 characterizing their system. They believe that at its foundation, their system is not inherently treacherous and inherently punishing. They constantly claim that their system is never allowed free rein. Jesus and I know though that such free rein always tempts souls to fall sooner and further. Jesus's and my system does not.
true [authority over matter and spirit; transcendent power; healing; unifying] above is the same as "Real" in our name, Real Liberal Christian Church.
As explained in the page/article about our name, all four words in the name are synonyms for the same concept and more.
I mentioned yesterday that the term "riches" in Luke 16:11 was an unnecessary and distracting emendation added by some scribe(s), possibly at the behest of others. I haven't delved into that to find out what is known or recorded about that particular emendation. As it is used, it is an adjective. As recorded in the original Greek, the term true is a noun. As an adjective, it renders riches as the focus needing the qualifier. Without riches, it causes the mind to consider truth itself first without any qualifier. The distinction here may appear too subtle to matter, but in my experience, it puts people in mind of personal, private material wealth, which is exactly where Jesus doesn't want minds. The minds that did this either didn't understand or deliberately wanted to throw the people off or a combination of both.
Going through the entire Bible this way is no small task. Mistakes happen. They aren't always consciously intentional. They do spring from where we come and where we are attempting to go without being there yet. In other words, we aren't perfect until we're perfect. My point in showing what I have in this post is primarily to set minds to the task of slowing down to grasp more of what Jesus teaches.
He does not teach, ignore, or remain indifferent to, capitalism and for good reason, as you may be able to see from the above. He actually teaches against it. This is something the capitalist who know this do not want those professing Christ to see. Understand though that many people who profess Christ, giving the choice of giving up capitalism or giving up Christ will, and do, choose capitalism. Many continue on professing Christ when they do not believe in him or follow him, obviously. They do that for the sake of acceptance within circles of others to enhance their private gain.
I call for giving up capitalism rather than giving up Jesus. By doing this (giving up capitalism and replacing it with Jesus's system), souls will become free from the negative consequences of the always sneaky capitalist system. Of course, Jesus's system is not Marxism. It is not the Communist Party of the Cold War or now. Don't be confused about that. Capitalist want to confuse Marxism with what Jesus puts forth. Marx's brand of communism is false. It is as false as capitalism is false, unreal, untrue, faithless, etc.
Let me know what you think.
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Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.