Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He's now 82 years old and has a new book,

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1 EDUCATION VERSES THINKING Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He's now 82 years old and has a new book, Where Have All The Leaders Gone? Lee Iacocca Says: Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage with this so called president? His concluding remark: LET'S GET THE MUSLIM ROOKIE OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!!! I believe the Industrial Mental Passivity is a reflection of a foundational issue: The continuing current and traditional negative Christian teachings are allowing our nation to physically deteriorate exponentially. Is health care a solvable issue? What does it mean, By Jesus stripes healing is offered? First, there is a spiritual failure, followed by economic failure. History has gone through spiritual failure followed by economic failure before. I believe the economic system is beyond repair unless there is a repairing of the false teaching that Christianity started. The real reason Jesus came to earth was perverted by the Christian hierarchy over 2000 years ago. It is impossible to believe Jesus came to keep Christians from going to hell and believe he came to give life and life more abundantly. This is double mindedness and annuls positive results for anyone. Christianity s leaders keep repeating the same efforts in their comfort zone and expect different results. Three years ago Pope Benedict said the only true church is the Roman Church. There have been 266 Popes and each one was assumed to be infallible. The Roman Church foundation instills fear of God, the opposite of God s love, in order to collect indulgences for sinning. The world s condition is fear based thanks to the Roman Church and its one billion members who were incorrectly taught from birth that God s love is based 1

2 on sinless performance. Faith in Jesus and monetary giving will change God s mind and He will not punish after death for a sin that has been paid for. The Roman Church has incorrectly taught that Jesus came to earth to prepare mankind for life after death. Jesus abolished death with his resurrection. Jesus came to earth to give life and life more abundantly refers to a heaven in earth type of living. Jesus continually said, The kingdom of heaven is in you. Even the Lord s Prayer agrees, Thy kingdom come in earth as it is in heaven. In earth speaks that heaven resides in the flesh of man made from earth or dirt. Unfortunately, the Protestant Church has followed the Roman Church with its unscriptural impartation of fear that only Christians go to heaven and escape hell. Again, there is absolutely not a single scripture to support this. The so called Infallibility of the Pope has been inherited by Christianity to believe their opinions about hell and death is irrefutable. Similarly, as Lee Iacocca asked the secular world, Where are the spiritual leaders pondering the scriptures and wondering why the members of Christianity have no responsibility for the creeds and doctrines Jesus came to impart? Has education replaced Thinking? Are our political leaders highly educated but lack wisdom and the ability to think correctly? These words, Education and thinking sound similar but in reality they have little or no relationship when it comes to doing what is right instead of what is popular. The Catholic hierarchy are well educated but are they thinking, How to keep control over the commoners? The Church in Rome designed a program that others have followed: 1. Create a problem god separated Himself from mankind. 2. Blame someone for the problem god is angry with mankind. 3. Offer a solution join the Church and pay indulgences for sinning. The Italian Mafia followed the same pattern: 1. Create a problem blow up a business. 2. Blame someone for the problem one of your competitors did it. 2

3 3. Offer a solution pay us for protection. Government has also followed: 1. Create a problem money exchangers are corrupt. 2. Blame another political party the Republicans did it. 3. Offer a solution throw money at the problem. None of the three examples above have a chance for succeeding. President Reagan said, Government is the cause not the solution for problems. Generally, secular education is obtained by attendance in a school, college or university, reading, internet learning or by a mentor or just the school of hard knocks. Thinking is an involuntary mental exercise and the Bible best describes the end results: As a man thinks so is he. Ezekiel 18:30-32 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, say the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live. Hebrews 2:14,15 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. II Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. Sunday, January 31, 2010 the Kennedy s family Catholic Church in Massachusetts celebrated Leprosy as one of their official days of observance. The church gave honor to Father Damien and Mother Teresa. 3

4 Why would anyone want to celebrate a disease; the very thing is an enemy? 19 October 2003 His Holiness, Pope John Paul II beatified the Venerable Servant of God, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, at St. Peter s square because of one miracle attributed to her prayers healing Monica Besra that took six years of examination by the Catholic hierarchy to prove and ratify. This much questioned healing happened two years after Mother Teresa died when two Nuns placed a medallion on Monica s abdomen. The priest that gave the sermon on Sunday talked about the sacrificial life of holiness and love that Father Damien contributed in Hawaii in the mid 19 th century. The priest also said that many lepers were healed by the stripes of Jesus that Father Damien prayed for but that there was no manifestation of the healings. The Catholic Church is the largest Christian religion in the world and the Universal head of the Church, the Pope, is considered as an infallible leader. I ll make a speculation, There is not a single record that a Pope has followed the creeds and doctrines of Jesus to do his works and even greater works. As much as Mother Teresa and Father Damien released their love for the lepers there is no evidence they were doing the works of Jesus. Jesus loved and healed lepers. Nuns and Priests of the Church in Rome believe that the Pope is infallible and the doctrine of the Church is infallible. The doctrine of the Catholic Church states you must accept Jesus for forgiveness of sins and become a member of the Catholic Church to escape hell and go to heaven. Protestants protested against the necessity for belonging to the Catholic Church but continue to accept that Jesus must be accepted to go to heaven and escape hell. My question, if Christianity is technically and spiritually accurate why are the results not in place? I believe that the belief in death and hell perverted the true reason Jesus came to earth and it is impossible to believe in a lie and receive the benefits of truth. 4

5 Several years ago I started examining my relationship with God and my analytical mind came up with the some startling facts. And in order to absolve guilt about who I was I had to compare my life with other Christians. This made me feel better. But the nagging thoughts kept coming, Why hasn t Christianity made the world a better place to live? And, is my life a reflection of Jesus? Everything on earth is moving forward at such a rapid speed man himself has been left far behind. New ideas, new facts, new power, new knowledge is flooding upon the world faster than man can use it. And unless he begins to grow, in some degree, to measure up to his surroundings he will be annihilated. Of all things on earth Christianity alone has stood still. It may be true that each church is making a few more converts but what are the creeds and doctrines of Jesus doing for the millions of Christians? Have they become free? Have they lost their burdens, their fears, their prejudices, their darkness and confusion? Have Christians found contact that they can prove that they believe in Jesus by being able to the works that he did and even greater works? If Christians do not have power, if they are not free from all earthly miseries, if they cannot heal the sick, the blind, the lame, the halts, then Christianity is a dead and useless thing in the lives of its followers. At best, Christianity appears to be an impotent, feel good sedative. How can Christianity sell itself to the world or to anyone when Christians are not living the life God detailed in His word? Of all the authors of the New Testament not a single one mentioned or suggested becoming a Christian. John wrote his five books after observing Christianity for over 60 years. The others had all observed Christians for several decades without a single word about becoming a Christian or what good work they were doing. Then the unsettling thought, Jesus was not a Christian and never once suggested to anyone to become one. The immense ego of Christianity is found in their perversion of John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the Christians. Of course everyone knows the verse says, The sins of the world which means of all the inhabitants of the world. 5

6 I have met missionaries that believe they are responsible to keep men from going to hell. This is the highest form of ego I have ever heard. Imagine that God would torture an individual in hell because of another human failing. This is as ludicrous as the belief in hell. Hebrews 2:14,15 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. The false belief in death and the need of a grave, or hell, causes fear and a lifetime of bondage. Look at the world and see the results of believing in a lie. It is not impossible to stop believing in death and hell. The fear of the pain for being wrong is that unknowingly the fear of death is present. This is a vicious circle and can be broken if a willing heart is present. If you believe in death you are a member of the popular majority and as Night follows Day at some point in life, you will get sick, contract a disease or have an accident that will kill you. And, as a side issue, you have followed and fulfilled the purpose of Satan. He came to steal, kill and destroy you. Actually, Satan is the inventor of death and he was able to convince Adam to swallow his lie and Adam died 935 years later. Jesus, the last Adam, reversed Adam s mistake and abolished death or the last enemy when he died on the cross and was resurrected. Many believe the book of Job is the oldest record of God dealing with man. God, in the first stages of man existence, was talking about deliverance from death. Even in Job s life God was teaching escaping death because Jesus would eventually pay the ransom for death. But even then, there was only one in a thousand that would understand and teach the righteousness, as things should be, of man. It is interesting that anyone who called himself a sinner found no profit in his thinking and God still wants to deliver from the pit, or death. The wages of sin is physical death. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. Yea, his soul drew near unto the grave and his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness. Then he is gracious unto him, and says, deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a 6

7 ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; he shall return to the days of his youth. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy; for he will render unto man his righteousness. He looked upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not. He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worked God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. If not, hearken unto me; hold thy peace and I shall teach thee wisdom. Job 33:21-33 c.wardman@cox.net February 07,