STATEMENT OF FAITH
Preface
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Devices such as "Statements of Faith" may be positive or negative or both, depending upon intention, whether conscious or subconscious, and how the statements are received. They may be positive in intention when the applicable congregation is not attempting to lure anyone into concealed error. They are negative when the façade is flowery and welcoming but inside is temptation to iniquity. They may also be negative when they fail to take into account that those who would otherwise be receptive are turned away for lack of clarification; that is to say, forced and extreme concision is at the expense of revealing divine logic. Forced and extreme concision can stimulate argument rather than provide the necessary path and bridge to the straight and narrow.
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Jesus was constrained to teach in parables for the sake of gathering out the tares, the weeds, from the wheat, for the sake of division, for the sake of the salvation, the freeing of the righteous from the world of gross immorality and injustice that is selfishness. Jesus though explained that the Holy Spirit would come into the hearts of believers and would tell them not in parables and riddles but with clear and plain words what they need to know. Those believers are to shine that light into the world by speaking the words and doing the deeds called for by those words.
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Therefore, we urge all to receive the following confession and testimony with an open heart, mind, and soul, and to seek clarification when they have questions or take exception to anything within the pages of our site or within the scriptures and without fail by consulting God directly.
The Holy Spirit
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The Real Liberal Christian Church has faith in what is given by the Holy Spirit to know and to trust. The Holy Spirit moves individuals. It works upon the conscience. It gives them signs and answers. It provides. The Holy Spirit is God.
Interpretation
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We interpret The Bible in the manner specified in the work, "There Is No Such Thing as a Conservative-Republican Christian: Jesus is a small-c communist." That manner flows necessarily from scripture. It is consistent, which is the circularity of divine logic. It avoids hypocrisy. It reconciles seeming paradoxes.
All the Law and the Prophets
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The New Commandment of Jesus Christ tells us to love each other as Jesus loved, and still loves, his disciples. We say "still," because he lives and dwells with God and within each one of us who truly believes he does and as a necessary consequence, acts accordingly.
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The New Commandment is the summation of the law and the prophets, first Great Commandment, second Great Commandment, the Golden Rule, and all the lesser commandments. It is the call to consistency.
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Jesus's exemplary life is living the real Golden Rule. We must do unto others as we ought to want them to do unto us.
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We ought to want others not to lead us into temptation but rather to call us to get on, and to stay on, the narrow way, the path of righteousness for its sake.
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We ought to want others to take care of our environment.
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We ought to want others to forgive us and to show us mercy.
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If we live the New Commandment, if we live out the kind and degree of love Jesus manifested in the world, if we want to, and actually do, do unto others as Jesus did unto his disciples, all things will finally be ordered correctly on the Earth and in Heaven.
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We Are What We Do
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Bad fruit does not come from a good tree in fertile soil with the right water and light. The revelation of Jesus has been twisted to evil purposes by the enemy of Christ. The churches that are of the worldly empire have defected, are usurpers called Luciferian, rather than in a state of oneness with the Holy Spirit of truth bringing forth the fruits of the kingdom of God on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Church and State
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We believe that the separation of the Church and state (which false-hearted state is now temporarily the worldly, temporal, secular government known in The Bible as the Beast, for its ravenous, global appetite and savage, warring, conscienceless ways) has been only mundanely necessitated due to false Christianity. Under real Christianity, there is no separation of Church and state. The Church is the state. The people are the Church. The people who are in line with God are the true state, the government.
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The New Commandment is the rightful constitution of humanity. It is not arm-twisting. The kingdom of God will come to cover the whole of the Earth when all the people have that commandment freely and lovingly written on their hearts.
Atonement
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Substitutionary atonement does not relieve one of the obligation to take up his or her cross to atone. Substitutionary atonement has afforded each of us the opportunity to also atone.
Spiritual Authority
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We do not believe in the apostolic succession of any apostate church. Spiritual authority comes directly to the believer through the Holy Spirit.
Baptism
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We do not believe that water baptism is the only baptism. Jesus referred to more than water baptism.
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Remission of sin is the gift of God to those who remain softhearted or return to softheartedness.
Christian Commons
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The truly softhearted can not but help loving Jesus once they have been told the truth. Those who hate small-c communism do not love Jesus.
Figurative and Literal
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Scripture contains both the figurative and the literal. Words are understood semantically according to context.
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We are called to become real, which means true, honest, genuine and all of which are one and the same and ideal. Real is perfect. God is real.
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We are called to bring forth real-liberal devices to overcome selfishness in the world.
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We are called to correct the pejoration of the term "liberal." The real meaning does not include libertinism or hedonism.
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Biblical Truth
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We believe that the concept of biblical inerrancy must be viewed in the light of figurative language. For those who require prooftexting, Jesus said that if ye will receive it, this is Elias [Elijah], which was for to come. (Matthew 11:14 KJV) He was speaking about John the Baptist being the Elijah to come before the Messiah as prophesied. This is correct within the full context of the revelation of Jesus Christ and all the law and the prophets. John the Baptist was both figuratively and literally Elijah of the prophecy. This is not a paradox. It is fully reconcilable by the softhearted.
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False paradoxes are a failure of the human mind to reconcile the reality of the nature of God's infinitude and divine logic.
One Path
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Traditional ecumenism and syncretism are misdirecting from the narrow way. A divided house cannot stand. Religions that reject Jesus as Christ cannot unify with Christianity. Denominations that promote greed, violence, coercion, or condone sexual depravity cannot stand with the real Church of Jesus. What can, and will, happen is that others will conflate with the real Church by accepting the truth of the New Commandment in its fullest implications. This is the word real Christians spread.
Full Children of God
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The concept of the triune God has also been twisted to preclude people from realizing that the spirit of oneness makes them full and real children of God, not merely adopted, but returned.
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We also believe that those who put their closest genetic relatives first are in error. The family of spirit is the real family of God. The bloodline family and spiritline family may be one and the same. However, the spirit family is where one's heart needs to be.
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Jesus is duality: God and man. We each have the choice of believing that we too are one with God. Jesus said his disciples are to be one with God and with Jesus. He said his brothers and sisters are those at one with him in spirit. He did not mean adopted siblings. If you will receive it that you are one with God, you are. If you will not receive it, you are not. We are spirit incarnate. This is not usurpation. We can do nothing alone. We can do nothing without God.
Who and Where God Is
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Truth is God. Love is God. Peace is God. Anyone of these is all of these. Wherever there is real love and peace, there is God and justice and mercy and the rest of the good.
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This has been denied to the people to keep the people down in a fallen condition and separated from God, who is the Holy Spirit. God the Father is spirit.
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Where Right and Wrong Lie
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If something is evil, it is selfish. All things truly good come of unselfishness. They lead to wholeness. We are to set priorities accordingly.
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We balance individual and collective needs. What is best for each is best for all and vice versa. Love is each serving all.
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Wrong and excessive appetites devour the soul. Greed, violence, and sexual depravity are all forms of lust unbridled.
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The Earth and universe are the shared inheritance of us all if we will but believe it. Capitalism is selfish competition. Giving and sharing all freely is unselfish cooperation. It is the small-c communism of Jesus Christ. It is holding all things common and the real democracy. It is everyone being everyone's servant. Everyone is both first and last thereby.
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Violence is evil. It must come though to separate out those who will be selfish till the end of time, but woe to those who cave into the temptation to wrath to bring violence, war, destruction, and desolation. There is no such thing as a just war of human being against human being. Jesus was, and is, a pacifist.
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Sexual depravity is to be avoided. If it has been fallen into, it must be overcome.
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Miracles
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We believe in what are called miracles of faith.
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God answers the earnest.
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Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, and did the other miracles recorded in the Gospels, not alone but by the Holy Spirit, our Father. He was resurrected and did ascend.
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We believe that the only things preventing humanity from such healing are hypocrisy and doubt. The world is full of both, and they stymie the benefits of the Holy Spirit. Those who doubt are unworthy. They will not receive what the truly unselfish have coming to them.
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Prophecy
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Prophecy is unfolding. No hardhearted souls, dead in spirit, may read it correctly.
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The Dark Day of the LORD will be the result of the selfishness of human beings.
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Works and Faith
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Even though the Day of the LORD will come, it is right that we aid the downtrodden, poor, and others. It is right that we love those who think of themselves as our enemies. This is to love our neighbor, anyone, anywhere, which is the solution to all that ails humanity and the planet and the whole of creation and existence.
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We must work to bring forth. Faith and deeds go hand-in-hand. To pay only lip-service is to be dead of the spirit. We are to feed the lambs and sheep of God. We are to be good stewards and good shepherds. Those of faith must do the deeds. Those who refuse to do the deeds do not have the faith. There are those also who simply go through the motions of doing some deeds. They cannot bring forth the real abundance. It is not in their hearts.
Science
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We do not believe that the days of creation were twenty-four-hour days — days in the mundane sense. A day to God can be a thousand years or billions. God also stands outside of time, as time is commonly understood on this plane of existence.
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We believe, however, that science is blind beyond a point where the spirit still sees.
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We believe that God designed evolution; however, with God, transformation can also be instant. This is spirit over matter. Christianity is to prepare us.
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We know that God will not be fully shown in an atmosphere of selfishness or doubt. Scientific experimentation stems from uncertainty. God is revealed to those whom have no doubt. The signs are given to them. They know that to test God is to be cut off. It is to be turned into that which is unenlightened by true righteousness that is ultimate unselfishness. Science has also largely become the instrument of greed and militarization. Hence, it renders misguided, and misguiding, results. The real science is completely unselfish. Love is the prime mover.
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Technology
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Human technology only appears necessary because of sin and doubt in the world. Once sin and doubt are gone out of the world, technology, as we know it, will be unnecessary.
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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:
- Will it be twisting my words or taking parts or the whole out of context (the biggest picture)?
- Will it be with an eye to finding out first or attacking without knowing? What are your intentions? Are they good or evil?
- Are you with the takers?
- Are you with the oppressors?
- Are you for greed, selfish hoarding, violence, war making?
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. (Psalms 55:21)
- Are you for depravity and harming others and yourself sexually and psychically, torture, waterboarding, espionage, deceiving, and/or all or any of the rest of the evil spirit; or are you contrite with me toward the real God who is always peace?
- Will you submit your real full name or be cowardly without cause? (Some have some mundane fears? I don't seek anyone's unknowing, unwilling sacrifice.)
- Will you post on the post to which you refer, or will you slip over somewhere else thinking you'll barb me? You won't. You'll barb yourself.
- Will you "instruct" me, or will you look for mutual edification or spiritual growth?
- Will you complain, attack, and seek to come off as offended for others and/or yourself, or will you truly seek ultimate truth and impart real light here and to the world?
- Will you be nothing but an Internet troll?
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.
Saturday, August 18, 2007 @ 2:01:49 AM (Pacific Time)
Shalom,
Blessed be the name of the L-rd our G-d Hashem and blessing unto you there out the riches and the greatness of our G-d the most high amen!
Grace and peace be unto you all from the G-d and father of our lord Christ Jesus amen.
Numbers 6:24-26,Hbr 6:10.
My at most for His highst amen!
Sunday, September 2, 2007 @ 11:25:28 PM (Pacific Time)
Dawit wrote above:
Peace to you also, Dawit.