INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Only as Good as the Spirit
The use of Information Technology runs up against the issue of the ends justifying the means. After all, such technology comes out of the stream of consciousness that puts its faith not in God's spiritual power over all of creation but rather in human kinds own will. It gets stuck in the experimental mode, the testing mentality, rather then ever letting go into God's hands even if it means facing atoning persecution as Jesus faced.
Apostasy brings on what is then mundanely perceived as necessity such as all the human engineering and building, the science and technology.
In the absence of all doubt, humanity could live by the free provisioning of God in a state of perfection. At the same time, when one looks at the interactions of Jesus with his disciples and others, one may see that human souls are brought along over time into a state of no doubt. Jesus and God do not snap their fingers so that instantly every soul will have no doubt. It must be freely accepted. To be appreciated, it must be learned.
Information Technology is both evil and good.
The ends of the spirit of the new commandment and the means of the spirit of the new commandment are necessarily consistent. Jesus came down to this fallen state. He went to the places frequented by publicans, harlots, murderers, thieves, etc. Yet in so doing, he was not sinning. He was saving those who would be saved.
The Internet is a place likewise frequented. It can be, and is, the instrument of depravity, greed, violence, and the spirit of evil.
At the same time, failure to go into the center of the world to shine the light is the failure of a wicked and slothful servant who had a bit of light entrusted to him thinking he would only preserve it and not risk spreading it and losing it, thereby pleasing God. God already has the light though.
Sure God doesn't want the slothful servant going further over into darkness committing the most egregious sins against his fellow servants. However, hiding the light is selfish fence-sitting by those who are not even lukewarm in their hearts.
It is within this understanding that we employ what otherwise is a wicked tool that is technology such as the Internet.
Understand here that this does not open a paradoxical door excusing delving into all manner of places. Jesus did not rush into every bedchamber of every harlot in the midst of sexual iniquity with an adulterer or fornicator.
Where the line is drawn is something that the Holy Spirit moves one to feel at the time. The conscience informs one who is really paying attention.
The Church will use technology in a way that is appropriate to its mission. The Church will be guided in this by the Holy Spirit, by the working conscience informed by God and Jesus Christ.
Some Areas of Information Technology
Hardware
Move to equipment that is as environmentally friendly as possible
Services
Move toward using the services of those who are most compatible with the Christian mission
Of course, interacting with others no matter their station in this life will afford opportunities for spreading the mission.
Software
This will be dealt with in Policies and Procedures, planning, and purchasing, etc.
We are using software now, of course. It is how we have developed this website. As the need arises for more software, we will make that need known to our membership whose generosity of spirit emulating Christ will allow their Church to bring forth.
Back-ups
We will back up our work on an on-going basis.
Copy the website to CD and DVD, etc. Print it out. Store the contents of the site. Remember that investigations are carried out ostensibly to uncover subversive activities but are actually used to harass and undermine the Church.
Remember also that history is rewritten by oligarchs who purchase sellout historians.
Security
This is another area where doubt is a huge issue.
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." — Jesus. (Matthew 10:16).
The real Christian will not be engaged in anything the exposure of which would bring a bad reputation to the name of God amongst the heathen. Nevertheless, the serpent is a devouring spirit, the destroyer of worlds, who will thrash about in an attempt to wreck the Church, to divide it, to infiltrate it to get the members to turn to the dark side even unawares.
"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." — Jesus. (Matthew 24:24).
"If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." — Deuteronomy 13:1-3.
"And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live." — Revelation 13:13-14
"For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." — Revelation 16:14.
"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." — Revelation 19:20.
If the Church begins to fight internally it is the cause of one of the two types of division. Either it is exposing the false-hearted or those who would otherwise be the elect of God are momentarily blinded by the dark spirit of Satan. In truth, these are the same. This is why Jesus said, "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." — Matthew 7:14.
In reality, with or without taking any of the commonly understood security measures against criminals and invaders of the privacy advocated in the Gospels, those who turn the other cheek are Christians. "And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also." — Jesus. (Matthew 5:40).
Those who trust in God to provide in the eternal life are Christians.
Computer Scientists
Computer Science often attracts mundane libertarians. Libertarians can believe they are Christians but aren't until they bring themselves to understand that true liberty, the real freedom, comes of giving and sharing all freely and in holding all things in common as the rightful inheritance of all of God's children.
We know that God has people God will give to the Church — give their gifts of computer abilities. They will give according to their abilities and not for the sake of recompense but for the sake of righteousness, for the sake of the poor and downtrodden, and for love, peace, and truth to displace evil.
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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.
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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.