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A SIMPLE
NONCONFORMIST FAITH
I would speak of that which is in me to believe
knowing that any response in thought, word, or
even deed is apt to be negative.
In the days before the
rise of democracy and republics royalty and
nobility made slaves of their own people. In God's
Old Testament book enslaving one's own people was
a crime, even punishable by death. According to
that book an Israeli man was not to rule over
another Israeli with rigor. If an Israeli man sold
another Israeli man into slavery he was to be put
to death.
Yet, the established
church justified the medieval system by which
elites made slaves of their own people. And in
abusing scripture verse or verses in effect even
made gods out of kings. If a man did not obey the
king, right or wrong, that man was guilty of
disobedience to God. Thus making an idol, a god,
out of a king. This teaching has even been given a
name. It's been called the doctrine of the divine
right of kings.
Based on what I believe
is a fair take of the scriptures I believe that
God's idea of justice this world wise is every man
under his own vine and fig tree (his own land). In
the medieval days the kings, nobility, and
established church saw to it that that did not
happen. Even though Jesus did say that if we are
unfaithful, untrue in the things pertaining to
this world who shall commit unto us the true
riches; that obviously did not matter to them.
Today, and for a long
time now, the kings, nobility, and the authority
in the world of an established church have been
supplanted by other entities. Today, it is the
bank-man,the rent-man, and the pagan priesthood of
pagan idol republic and pagan idol democracy.
Through these practices and mediums men are still
enslaving their own peoples. And if any
practitioners of these things consciences are
bothering them why they can go to just about any
preacher they wish and have their consciences
assuaged by convenient interpretations of
scripture. Many commercial corporations get on
board the conformity bandwagon in order to gloat
over their workers and their millions, if not
billions of dollars, while they strive to
continually drive down even lower their slave
wages to them.
If these things be true
(and I believe they are); if justice is important
to God; if every person shall give account to God
for how they have dealt with the things pertaining
to this life; then there are an awful lot of
people who have got a lot to be ashamed for; who
have been willfully ignorant a whole lifetime
long.
But no. That would be too
hard. They have a better answer. All this
aforementioned stuff simply ain't true. That
settles that.
But I say this. This
aforementioned stuff is true. And those who
continually stop their ears at the cry of truth
will one day find themselves haunted by it. Even
if God has to one day pull them up out of their
graves to give them according as they have sown.
Once saved always saved.
But if you abuse that grace it will be as it were
by fire. (1 Corinthians chapter 3) |