Strange Fire Isn't Strange on a Strange, Strange Planet :)

7/1/2008

Can we process this, Biblically?

Let’s see. What are you NOT allowed to do, without being called names: Loving, serving, helping, encouraging, sacrificing for, praying with each other, daily. This is NOT okay. Try it, and you’ll find out how quickly you will be lied about and name called, with nothing more “unusual” than what Jesus INSISTED His church would be—“a HUNDRED MOTHERS, BROTHERS, SISTERS” laying down their lives for Him, together, daily. This is NOT okay with the world, or its cultural religions. It is considered heretical. Try it and you’ll see. : )

(See graphic below) What IS okay in this world, worthy of praise in a large newspaper? Strange ritual, freakish dress, massive wealth and real estate holdings, unBiblical bizarre controlling hierarchy, and worldly living... Such as this is “normal, acceptable” religion, says the world.

Now, if folks want to embrace religions that are nowhere in the Bible, wear strange clothing, have a holy man to approach god for them, live anyway they choose—or even believe their souls go to Neptune when they die... THAT IS THEIR RIGHT. Jesus Christ may disagree with their sentiments, and that would be dangerous on the Last Day of course, Biblically speaking, but HE GIVES THEM THAT CHOICE in this lifetime. Everyone gets to decide themselves. And that’s a GOOD thing. Everyone OUGHT to decide themselves—they must! And consequences in this age and the Age to Come are associated with our choices. Of course.

But, if you really, like the Pearl merchant, do it JESUS’ WAY, the way described in the Bible, you will find the “Your soul goes to Neptune” folks, or the magic pants, fairy dust, medicine man religions, or the religions that change no one’s life for Jesus, more readily embraced and excused (even “protected class”)—than those who love and pray and sacrifice and desire to obey Jesus and live for Him with all of their hearts.

It’s a Spiritual Principle, I reckon. If you don’t challenge satan’s turf, you can do whatever you want. If you leave him and his seductions and destructions unchallenged, you can do whatever you want.

But, if you represent Jesus and His “ever-increasing” Life, then loving your children and caring for the poor and praying are enough to get you attacked or imprisoned, as happened to Jesus.

Difficult planet we inhabit, eh? But fun.