Most people can’t tell cow patties from shoe shine, but it is important that everyone learn.
We have to learn to recognize
it when we are seeing things through a filter—-a fact or set of facts
overlaying the actual truth, which then leads us to wrong conclusions.
The most common and deadly filter is a half-truth.
Satan told Eve a half-truth
when he told her she wouldn’t die from eating the forbidden fruit.
Well, she didn’t die, did she? Not right away….
Everyone knows that Cain was
Adam’s son, because he was the brother of Abel, right? Yet, Cain
doesn’t appear in the long list of Adam’s sons.
It’s half-truth to say that Cain was Abel’s brother, because Cain was a half-brother.
The writings of Paul of Tarsus
fill a considerable portion of the Bible and they similarly serve to put
the Gospel through a Roman filter.
Jesus was of the tribe and
lineage of King David, a Hebrew’s Hebrew. He grew up in a matriarchal
world where a man’s estate and social standing come from his Mother, not
his Father. He spoke a language (Aramaic) which has one word (wo)man
for both sexes. Women were freely allowed to follow Jesus and study
with him and were a fundamental part of his entourage.
Who first heard him declare His
identity and mission on Earth? A woman—- and a Samaritan woman, at
that. Who knew and accepted the terrifying misery of His Passion and
anointed Him for it? A woman. Who stood at the cross and suffered with
him while most other disciples ran away? The women. Who were the
first to hear and bring tidings of His Resurrection? The women, again.
And never, ever, did Jesus say
or do anything to condemn women or hold them in any disrespect or
suggest that they were subservient. If anything, He proclaimed that the
servants among us are the masters— a fact which all those eager to
oppress women should finally hear.
Here is my challenge to Tyron
Parsons and all those of his ilk: show me one instance where Jesus ever
taught anyone that women are subservient to men? Or that white men
are superior to black? Or that members of the Ten Lost Tribes—
Israelites—- are superior to the Tribe of Judah — the Jews?
Jesus didn’t teach any of that. That is the truth.
Paul, a Roman who grew up under
Roman patriarchy, is the source of the women are subservient
malarkey—-a Roman filter overlying the Hebrew truth.
Generations of men have grown
up confused, unable to tell the difference between the actual Gospel
taught by Jesus and interpretations of the Gospel taught by Paul and
other Disciples.
In the same way, people mistake
Articles of the Constitution as being the same as Amendments to the
Constitution. They are not. The Articles are the actual stuff and
substance and body of the Constitution. Amendments are just codicils of
the Will established by the People (that is, Militia), adopted by some
members of later generations. Amendments are in no way equivalent to the
Articles, but everyone misses that fact, too.
For a Christian, the actual
Gospel—the words, deeds, and teachings of Jesus— are the only dictum
that matter, the only true authority that exists. All the rest is
interpretations and add-ons, filtered through the prejudices and
experiences of other men.
For an American born on the
land of these United States, the actual Articles of the Constitution are
what matter, not the Amendments. In the same way, the Amendments are
just add-ons, filtered through the prejudices and experiences of later
generations.
If we want the truth, we must
go to the foundation and contemplate it for ourselves. We cannot rely
on Paul or Pastor Phil or Tyron Parsons for our salvation. In the same
way, we cannot rely on Amendments and interpretations by the “US Supreme
Court” to guarantee our freedom.
When we know and act upon the
Truth, the world comes back into focus. Sharpen up your Shinola
Sensors, Campers! Scrape away the filters and look at what the actual
Gospel and actual Constitution say—-and stop being misled and confused.
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