THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY Years ago I joked that God made sheep after He realized how Christians always needed a shepherd or pastor to follow. The Bible relates Jesus as a shepherd and sheep as his flock or in human terms; a pastor (shepherd) and his church members (sheep). We raised a few sheep when my children were in 4H and I had on hand knowledge of a sheep s mentality. Believe me, a sheep needs to be confined or a shepherd full time. A sheep left alone will perish. We had a prize Suffix that managed to get its head through a gate. It kept pulling back and choking until dead. That was 44 years ago and today my thought is Christians are more like Lemmings following a leader to the edge of a cliff and then pushed over by other Lemming following the same leader. I know how unkind this sounds but I am determined to write what I hear from the Lord. Eliminating hell from a belief system is necessary to become a son of God and acquire the mind of Christ. This is the only way to win in a spiritual war or Jihad and to defeat terrorism. Who is the leader in this metaphor? Christianity started as the Catholic Church so the leader must be the Catholic Church. 1. The Catholic Church has its foundation as Peter the first in a line of 20 centuries of Popes who call themselves Vicar s of Jesus. 2. The Catholic s history of evangelistic terrorism began immediately in the 1 st century and escalated with Constantine in the 4 th century. 3. Also early in the 4 th century Pope Damascus commissioned Jerome, a Catholic scholar, to go to Jerusalem and translate the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament into Latin. The translation was called the Latin Vulgate Bible. A thousand years later the Vulgate was translated into English in Douai, Flanders and became the official Bible for the church in Rome. 4. These early Catholic translations did not attempt to make Jewish apocalyptic or Jewish idioms understandable but left them as apocalyptic and idioms to help continue the fear of hell into church members. I have given definitions of Jewish apocalyptic and idioms in my last several articles that correct the wrong perception of hell. 1
5. In case you have forgotten, T he Catholic Church invented hell in order to collect indulgences to escape hell. This deception made the reason for Jesus coming to earth easier to pervert or the wrong perception of why Jesus came to earth makes hell easier to promote. 6. The King James translators were ex-catholics and chose Hebrew and Greek synonyms that supported the myth of hell. The KJV is mostly a translation of a translation and done, sorry to say, by Christians Lemmings following the Catholic Church doctrine of hell instead of Jesus true reason coming to earth. This is also obvious when you realize the KJV made no attempt to translate Jewish apocalyptic phrases or Jewish idioms into understandable thoughts. Since the Catholic Church perverted the truth for being sons of God the translators operated without the mind of Christ and this obscured the intended message God had left. However, a son of God operating with the mind of Christ is able to reproduce what God intended and bypass the perverted translations. 7. The Catholic Church totally ignored what Jesus consistently taught born again and t he kingdom of God. After his resurrection he taught the same message for the forty days before he returned to his Father. 8. The truth of Jesus most regularly taught subjects would allow anyone in the Catholic Church to be born again as sons of God and live in the kingdom of God. This would eliminate the churches lying threats of hell and would stop the flow of money for indulgences. 9. Hierarchy is dominant and controls the church so the real message of Jesus was purposely ignored and perverted to, Jesus came to provide a w ay to escape hell and go to heaven after you die. Christians are spiritual Lemmings and are following the Catholic Church excursion over the cliff by teaching Jesus came for an escape from hell instead Jesus came to allow innumerable sons of God to be birthed by being born again. An examination of the world is evident that Christian Lemmings are not solving any problems that sons of God could easily accomplish. Instead they are threatening citizens of foreign nations with hell for not converting to Christianity; this is just plain 21 st century terrorism and the world continues to hate America. Let examine what Jesus planned for his church: Matthew 16:18, 19 And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And 2
I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. The ex-catholic translators had a perfect chance to be honest by translating correctly, J esus w anted his church built on the foundation of his being the Son of God. Jesus called Peter an agent of Satan in this same conversation. Can you picture Jesus wanting his church built on Peter? Peter is Petros in Greek and means a hollow stone or a stumbling stone. Rock is petra and means a large and stable foundation. Christianity Lemmings have never made an attempt to correct this obvious false church foundation. I ll answer why, before you ask, Christianity Lemmings follow ing the Catholic Church believe Jesus came to earth to make an escape from hell possible. The Christian Lemming church follows the Catholic Church by placing crosses atop the steeples as a reminder of sin that Jesus abolished on the cross. The cross is a sign of death and Jesus abolished death and restored immortality. The cross influences Catholic Church members to feel guilty of some sin and they owe some money for un-confessed sins and reminds Christian Lemmings that Jesus came to save them from hell. Jesus first statement to his church, T he gates of hell shall not prevail against it. H ell in this sentence is Hades or a grave. Jesus said, in my church I have a bolished death and there is no need for graves. Jesus confirms this in II Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Christian Lemmings do not have enough faith to believe what God says about immortality because Lemmings following the leader never have seen anyone live forever. Christian Lemmings live by sight and not by faith. Sons of God believe Jesus abolished death and restored immortality because sons of God live by faith or what God says and not by sight. Jesus added for his church, I w ill give my church the keys to the kingdom of heaven. This is confirmation that his purpose to come to earth was as the human Son of God with a transferable modus operandi to create innumerable sons of God who will be citizens in the k ingdom of God. 3
And lastly, the church Jesus came to establish has authority to bind and loose on earth and God will enforce the binding and loosing where He dwells. Sons of God, just like Jesus, have power and authority to destroy the works of the devil. Christians Lemmings don t destroy the works of the devil they continue to follow their leader over the cliff believing God will destroy the works of the devil. Christian Lemmings are satisfied that Martin Luther made a great protest against the Catholic Church and Protestantism was birthed. If Martin Luther weren t a Lemming he would have protested that the Catholic Church is built on a false foundation and subsequently nothing can be or is right. If you still believe Jesus came to earth to provide an escape from hell then don t look for help when another Lemming pushes you over the cliff. The c liff in these analogies is falling into the circumstances in the coming worlds un-solvable problems. Sons of God living in the kingdom of God escape the circumstances in the coming world un-solvable problems. Is your belief in Hell really that precious? Are you willing to take your children and grand children over the cliff with you? God will be pleased if you join the church Jesus designed. Satan is pleased by your continued Lemming support of the Catholic Church. The Christianity Lemmings have caused millions to turn away from God who has been portrayed as a God of love whose mercy endures forever and sends the majority of humanity to hell. As a son of God let me tell the world, H ELL is probably the most perverted word ever concocted and only the greatest of deceivers, Satan, could have created this myth. There are millions of hurting people who need to hear that God is love and He sacrificed His Son as a cure and solution for sins that causes hurting. Jesus said it best in Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. 1. The truth of the gospel or why Jesus came to earth is a cure for being poor. 4
2. God who is love and never acts apart from love is a cure for a broken heart. 3. Bondage to anything is broken if you hear the true message of Jesus. 4. Your correct sight or perception of God is a solution for spiritual blindness. 5. Your shattered life is repairable by believing Jesus for the right reason. Christians Lemmings tell the world, T he gospel is accepting Jesus for forgiveness of sins so you w ill escape hell and go to heaven after dying. I w onder w hy Jesus never said this? Oh, I remember, Christianity started 3 years after Jesus said on the cross, Everything I came to earth for is finished. Therefore anything Christianity has suggested, created or invented after Jesus said, I t is finishe d cannot cancel what Jesus had previously said. That makes spiritual sense. The Catholic Church and the Christian Lemmings changing hell from a grave to a location for eternal punishment doesn t agree with anything Jesus said therefore it must be a lie. This should make hell disappear in a New York second. Or are you enjoying following the Catholic Church with a false foundation? That is a legal format and when Jesus abolished death and restored immortality automatically cancels the need for a grave or hell. Jesus went to hell or a grave and definitely was not a location of eternal punishment. Acts 2:27 and 31 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer your Holy One to see corruption. He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. The Catholic Church and Christian Lemmings invented hell as a location for eternal punishment after Jesus said everything I came to earth to tell you is finished. Repeated for correcting a 2000 year old myth. Jesus came to create a New Covenant with humanity and the recorded contract starts in Acts and ends in Revelation. Anything that happened before his birth or after Jesus resurrection cannot nullify his teaching or message. Hell is mentioned 8 times in the New Contract and never as a location for punishment. Four times in Revelation hell and death are together which is 5
correct for death needs a grave or hell. Just like when Jesus died he needed a grave or hell. Please understand the only definition of hell has three synonyms and only two of the three are in the New Testament. Hell is used 23 times in the New Testament, 12 times as geena a burning trash dump. 11 times as Hades or a grave 1. Hades is a word for a grave. 2. Geena is a trash dump outside of Jerusalem where unclaimed bodies were burned and also where trash was buried. When Jesus said to pluck out your eye, cut off your hand or foot he was speaking in a Jewish idiom that was saying, If your perception (eye) is wrong and you don t correct it (pluck it out) you will be thrown in the trash. Today we would probably say that guy is so far off he should permanently (everlasting) dumped. Jesus never suggested or mentioned that his visit to earth was to offer an escape from the mythical hell that the Catholic Church and the Lemming Christians invented. There is not a single verse that indicates hell is a location for everlasting torture. It is a location where the dead are buried. Jesus made a statement in Revelation that he personally locked death and hell after he died on the cross and was resurrected. Jesus combined death and hell because he had the mind of God knowing with assurance that death required a grave or hell. Revelation 1:18 I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Have the keys translated correctly means Locked or shut up. This confirms Jesus, as the last Adam, came to earth to abolish death and restore immortality or reverse the first Adam s introduction of physical death. Jesus clearly consistently taught that being born again as sons of God made the k ingdom of God achievable. Jesus consistent message was, Repent or change your perception of sin because the kingdom of heaven is at hand or is in you. Jesus did say the light or truth of the gospel is, I have abolished death, offer an abundant life and have restored immortality. II Timothy 1:10 6
I know it is difficult to admit being wrong about hell as a location for eternal punishment that God managed. After 54 years as a Christian with a sincere belief in hell I came to an opportunity to believe the words Jesus spoke or the words Christianity had spoken my entire life of 83 years. I didn t realize this at the time but my first step in my personal eradication of hell was to believe what God said about immortality. I made a strong commitment to live by faith and asking God for His enabling power to assist me. After I committed, God enabled, and I suddenly accepted immortality as more real than death was previous to my commitment. After my acceptance of the reality of immortality I actually for the first time noticed my being closer to God than ever before and I suddenly knew I was born again as a son of God. My belief in hell fell off like a boulder falling from a cliff. So today, February 03, 2009, I accept immortality as more real than death. I am born again as a son of God and living in the kingdom of God. And my belief in hell is so distant it makes me laugh to think I could have ever been deceived to think hell, as a God designed location for eternal punishment, was real. Instead of judging I love. Because immortality is so far beyond humanistic comprehension it is the most awesome privilege and opportunity to live by faith in God s word and not by sight or what the rest of world believes or Christianity has taught. If you really want to praise and glorify God, you must trust and believe that He raised Jesus from the dead to abolish death and restore immortality. This eliminates the need for a grave or the Hebrew and Greek word hell or Hades. God is attempting to restore the Garden of Eden again by Jesus, as the last Adam, coming to earth to abolish death restore immortality. God had intended for Adam and Eve to live forever. Why is immortality hard to believe? One of my friends said, Chuck you are going to lose your credibility by talking about immortality. I have a web site; www.immortalityclub.info where I post my articles. The world has been looking for the H oly Grail as a restorer of immortality for decades and Christians Lemmings have had the secret of immortality in God s word but have refused to accept it by faith. 7
If your faith can t over rule your sight I would suggest abandoning your Lemming faith that Christianity has taught and look for another spiritual facet where faith always overrules sight. Or to put in another way consider yourself as a Christian Lemming following the Catholic Church who have intentionally perverted the facts that Jesus came to earth to provide a modus operandi for creating innumerable sons of God who live by faith and believe Jesus abolished death and restored immortality. I am starting a new aspect of faith called I mmortality-sanctuary. I am working on the web site now. I have my Father s righteousness more peace and joy that exceeds my greatest expectations as one of God s innumerable sons. Now, when asked, are you a Christian? I answer no, I am a son of God just like Jesus. Ask God for His enabling power to see the truth and be willing to say, I have been in darkness but now I see the light. c.wardman@cox.net February 03, 2009 8