![]() ![]() It doesn’t take much more than a casual reading of either of these verses to realize that, in the words of the fictional character from The Princess Bride, Inigo Montoya, “You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.” Since the warnings of these verses are about death and destruction, it is of the utmost importance that we know what they are really saying. I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means This can be used to promote everything from reading and education to selling the latest self-help, self-achievement programs. ![]() If a lack of knowledge brings destruction, then the more knowledge, the more power one has to succeed. The second props up the notion that knowledge is power. If you cannot, you will perish (usually taken to mean that you will flounder around in the mundane existence of an average person rather than achieving your full potential). The first is used to bolster the notion that if you can only envision it, or if you can communicate such a vision so that others see it clearly also, then you can achieve anything. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Almost always quoted from the King James Version of Proverbs 29:18, as here.) And, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4:6) These two platitudes are used to support, and even lend Christian legitimacy, to two leading aspects of our world’s philosophy today. Two such cliches are similar and often used together. I say, “create them,” despite the fact that we are quoting from something written long ago, because we use them with an entirely different meaning than what was intended long ago. My observations tell me that Christians are often no different. We love snappy sayings and enduring epigrams. He founded The Roman Catholic Church, assembled the Holy Bible, built The New Jerusalem, and ordered Roman Catholicism be the official religion of the world.America has a culture of cliches. Constantine was the second coming of Christ. Two notable exceptions are Mary, mother of Jesus, and Helena, mother of Constantine The Great. Each woman commits it herself, and her children grow old and eventually die as a result. With few exceptions, all mothers commit original sin, causing mutation in the genetic code of their unborn children, rendering them mortal. ![]() What we seek is the way back to the primordial Tree of Life-a return to former glory as the sons of God: genetically flawless immortal God-men in full communion to God Almighty, giving Them an inheritance of all Truth, and the logical derivative: Absolute Power over the physical reality. Christians relying solely on biblical teaching is the antithesis of reason, because almost everything is NOT in the Bible. But we do know there is One Truth, and everything else is wrong. For the purpose of survival, each keeps the other dependent, by perpetrating ignorance to liberation. The blind man can walk, and the lame man can see, but neither can do both, so neither can survive on his own. If either one is healed, the other will perish. But why do we want these things? What is the overall motivation and expected goal? Living under the opacity of petty, trite, trivial differences in the use of terminology is nothing more than the blind man carrying the lame man. The purpose of any faith-based belief system is the preservation of the human race, the advancement of understanding, equity between men, defense of the weak against the mighty, imparting Truth to all men, worship of our Creator, and nurturing development of the soul. All major religious practices have been severed from the Truth each sought to preserve. ![]()
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