Lies Preachers Tell #11

As far as I can tell, all Christian preachers, to a man (or woman, as the case may be) say with one voice: “Reincarnation is a false doctrine.” I've heard reports of some going as far as to declare, “Reincarnation is a doctrine of devils,” from their pulpits.

Ironically, it's one of the favorite scriptures of all Christian preachers that tells on their denunciation of reincarnation as a falsehood for the lie it obviously is: and this especially in respect of the sons of God. Christians (and their pastors) have a running love affair with declaring, “the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD;” while the beginning of Job 1:21 seems to escape their attention altogether.

“And [Job] said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither….[ibid.]” Wombs are not tombs. One does not return to the womb of one’s Mother to die, but rather to be reborn, which is to say: reincarnated. It was God who created everything in the beginning, anyway, not the LORD. It was God who gave all the goods and the “very good” in the first chapter of Genesis. The LORD began taking credit for the goods at Genesis 2:4; and taking property when he “took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it [Genesis 2:15].”

It is perhaps true that much of what is recorded in the book of Job is of a questionable nature, inasmuch as “the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right [Job 42:7],” of the things Job’s “miserable comforters” contributed to the forty chapters of the book preceding this statement from the LORD. It is certainly true that the same LORD said, in the final words of the same verse, “my servant Job hath [spoken of me the thing that is right].” Whether or not Job speaks of the LORD in any particular sense when he speaks of reincarnation, Job is the only one commended by the LORD for the words of his mouth in the book of Job.

Saint John the Divine says (in the twelfth verse of the first chapter of his gospel) that, “as many as received him [presumably Jesus of Nazareth], to them gave he power to become the sons of God…” This implies a vacuum, as it were, among the ranks of the sons of God– a void to be filled– regardless of what else it says or doesn't say. The apostle Peter writes of “...the days of Noah… wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water [1 Peter 3:20].” This explicitly implies that Noah, his three sons, and their four wives are not only “saved” by the flood, but the only ones so saved, being the flood's only survivors. What about the rest of us? Were we not involved?

Certainly the text of Genesis 6 - 8 alleges the death of all but those eight souls. Nonetheless, nowhere in the text of Genesis (or any other book in the ‘Holy Bible' canon that I'm aware of) is it stated explicitly that the sons of God all perished forever in the flood– and that simply because their souls perished in the flood. This belief that the sons of God perished forever is implied in explicit language only in the New Testament (as in John 1, above).

However, according to the LORD God, a soul is simply a mud pie inhabited by what He (or Moses) calls “the breath of life [Genesis 2: 7].” Who cares about losing some dirt? There's plenty of it to go around. It doesn't take much dirt to make a soul. Most babies weigh less than ten pounds at birth, and most of that weight is water, not dirt. Perhaps this is why the “ground” of Genesis 3:23 is called dust in Genesis 2:7. It takes what seems like such a small amount of dirt to make a soul, as to make a soul seem like dust in comparison of dirt.

At any rate, Solomon writes of the moment of death: “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it [Ecclesiastes 12:7].” This means that, if God gave you life, the life God gave goes back to God to be done with as God chooses. If your life pleases God (as it should according to Genesis 1:31), why would God not continue to give you to the living creation to be God (in representative form): surrounded by the goodness of God? How else could God be “sanctified” in relation to the creation than to be "all and in all"?

The immaculate conception of Jesus of Nazareth– alleged unequivocally throughout the New Testament canon– coupled with the account of his alleged resurrection, makes tomfoolery of such notions as the belief that reincarnation is a falsehood. Why would the sons of God perish– forever– in a flood, when all they have to do is be reborn (or reincarnated) after the flood for God's creation to continue, in spite of the LORD’s machinations (His curse in Genesis 3:17, for instance)? If the dead can walk out of the tomb as a gollum, why wouldn't the sons of God be reincarnated as Job assumed he would be, according to Job 1:21?

Is not the gospel of Christ– as the apostolic succession represents it– a more fantastical belief, all in all, than the simpler belief in the general reincarnation of the sons of God (and the triumph over death and the Devil this represents)-- if you have God inside of you? It's the spirit God gave– not the soul the LORD takes credit for– which endures. Who but an idolater desires an eternal soul, anyway: in this world of all places? Why do the prophets keep begging for death throughout the ‘Holy Bible' canon, if rest isn't good? Even Job “cursed his day [Job 3:1],” and wished he'd never been born.

The lie that reincarnation is a false doctrine is a campfire ghost story. God is a Pharisee, not a Sadducee.

Lies Preachers Tell #10

Whenever preachers, seminarians, Sunday school teachers, biblical scholars, and Christians in general speak of the birth of Moses: they always tell a certain lie. The lie they all tell is of central importance to the story of Moses' birth (as represented by Moses’ own account of the same) in the book of Exodus.

Inasmuch as Moses’ pedigree is a lie: his entire personal history might be nought but fable. Nonetheless, the lie all preachers tell about Moses’ birth involves an assertion in Exodus which cannot be proved or debunked by the text of the 'Holy Bible' generally, or by any known Egyptian text of that time, or any scientific means I know of (such as archaeology). In fact, this particular lie isn't even told by Moses. It is simply a misrepresentation of Moses' written text.

In the first chapter of Exodus, Moses says there came a time in the children of Israel's alleged Egyptian sojourn when the Hebrews waxed mighty. While nothing is said in Genesis about the number of servants Jacob had when he made the move to Egypt, it is noted (in Genesis 14:14) that Jacob's grandfather, Abraham, had at least 318 servants (perhaps a sizable city all by themselves, for the time and place) who were not only of fighting age but likewise trained to fight: long before Jacob went to Egypt. [Obviously, Jacob's grandfather Abraham had at least a thousand servants– counting children and women– at the time of the rescue of Lot and the cities of the vale of Siddim which is the subject of Genesis 14.]

Nonetheless, Genesis 46 does say the family of Jacob was seventy souls at the time of the move into Egypt, while Moses alleges in Exodus 12:37 that the family had grown to “about six hundred thousand… men” and children at the time of the exodus. [Perhaps women don't count, as far as Moses is concerned. It's a certainty women don't count as far as Moses’ LORD is concerned.]

At any rate, the population of Egypt became so great that Pharaoh found it worrisome. This is a problem every rancher is acutely aware of. In the vernacular of ranching it's called “over- grazing the land” when the herd becomes too large to be sustained on the number of acres being grazed. If this unsustainable condition persists, the herd is lost and the land is ruined. While Moses’ narrative makes no overt mention of Pharaoh's concern for the land or the people of Egypt, unsustainable population growth is implied by the word of Pharaoh recorded in the last verse of the first chapter of Exodus.

According to the ninth and tenth verses of Exodus, chapter one, Pharaoh's sole concern vis- a- vis the children of Israel, was control- retention. Moses writes, “9 And [Pharaoh] said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.”

Moses alleges, in the verses immediately following verse ten, that Pharaoh then ‘concentrated’ the Hebrews in labor camps: much as Adolf Hitler did in the years of the second World War. Moses also alleges in these verses that said concentration was good for the children of Israel, saying (in verse 12) “But the more [the Egyptians] afflicted [the children of Israel], the more [the children of Israel] multiplied and grew.” Finally, post- partem abortion became necessary to control the baby- boom.

Concerning this practice of post- partem abortion, Moses writes: “15 And the king of Egypt [presumably Pharaoh (however, Joseph once served a Pharaoh as the king of Egypt)] spake to the Hebrew midwives… 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women… if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.” According to the account Moses provides in the book of Exodus, the midwives rebelled against Pharaoh's abortion mandate. This much the preachers agree with the text of Exodus one on. The lie the preachers tell about Moses' birth concerns the final verse in the first chapter of Exodus.

The twenty- second (and final) verse of Exodus one reads: “And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive [Exodus 1:22].” Much as anti- Semitism is considered anti- Hebrew, without any thought given to the other peoples of Shem: so preachers take the twenty- second verse of Exodus chapter one to concern the Hebrews only. But that's not what the text says. I don't even take it to be what the text of Exodus 1:22 implies.

The overt implication of Exodus 1:22 is that Pharaoh, worried that his land is being over- taxed by the prohibitive number of people sustaining themselves thereon, mandated abortion of all Egyptian males born therein. Pharaoh, according to this verse, charged “all his people” with the mandated abortion of male children. In the earlier verses of the chapter, Pharaoh's people are understood to be the Egyptians– and that separate from the Hebrews. 

Nonetheless, when Christian preachers come to the final verse of Exodus twenty- two, they lie and say the abortions targeted by Pharaoh's mandate in Exodus 1:22 are those of the Hebrews’ children only. Anyone who can (and will) read knows better. Perhaps Hebrew children were aborted; but they weren't the only ones who were.

Lies Preachers Tell #7

Do preachers lie because they apprehend the Doctrine incorrectly? or do they lie because the lies they tell ensure the contributions to their 'ministry' will be as lucrative as a lie can make them? Do they lie because they know no other way of communicating? Do they lie because they don't believe in the Lord whose name they invoke over all they say and do? Perhaps they simply don't possess the common sense to know the truth, even when it slaps them with iron- fisted gauntlet across the cock- sucker.

Whatever or however the case may be, most preachers do lie, and each most likely for their own reasons in their own time. Those who don't lie are usually milk- sops pouring out 'doctrine' of sugar- water into congregations of cockroaches. Glory be; hallelujah; and pass the mustard gas.

One thing these Protestant preachers are ever- fond of doing is taking a thing spoken to Jews out- of- context to apply it to Gentiles. To a cockatrice-- and in the sensibilities of his 'fiery' baby snakes-- I suppose this seems 'egalitarian' in 'spirit.' In a word: it's likewise simply a lie. One such 'derailleur' which every thundering 'locomotive' of a preacher pushing Protestant 'trains' seems hell- bound to hit in just such a manner is expounded by Christ in his seminole 'sermon on the mount.'

In Matthew 7:1 (et. al.), Christ tells the Jews-- who judged him unclean and worthy of death-- "Judge not, that ye be not judged." He goes on, in verse 2, to describe the judgement they shall receive in response to so misjudging him-- as we know, in fact, they did: "For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again."

Now, a Protestant preacher will tell all who will listen that these verses apply-- not only to the Jews to whom they were addressed, but-- to all men everywhere, throughout all time. But all men are-- we hope-- not hypocrites. If all were hypocrites, everywhere, throughout all time: the Protestant preachers would be justified in laying this finger on us all. Clearly, however, this would be the only set of circumstances which would justify the judgmental mentality and preaching of Protestant preachers. I say this much is clear, in light of the text itself.

Verse 5 of Matthew 7 reads: "Thou hypocrite [there's the target], first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." In Paul's somewhat simpler 'tongue,' this means: "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged [1 Corinthians 11:31]." In the words of the rock 'n' roll prophets: "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself."

.As to the hypocrisy Jesus takes aim at in the first five verses of Matthew 7, perhaps an anecdote will best serve. I was collecting recyclables on my bicycle, with my backpack-- containing all my worldly possessions-- on my back, and a Protestant preacher exited a church along my route to give me a ten- dollar bill. Being subtle, he said something about "a pack of cigarettes." I thanked him, and expressed my chagrin that so many 'holy Joes' only judge one who smokes unworthy of any such beneficence. His response was to inform me-- in a scolding tone more appropriate when addressing an infant-- that I, as a Christian, should not be 'judgemental.' Therefore and thereby, this preacher 'judged' me as 'judgemental.' I later learned the reason he mentioned cigarettes was so he could judge me unworthy of further beneficences, upon discovering my 'vice.' Thus, in one short exchange, this preacher 'judged' me twice: once for being-- like him-- 'judgemental.'

Lies Preachers Tell #5

One of the most pernicious lies which I've heard from too many pulpits is so simple that no one ever utters it more than one way. It is exactly the same, word- for- word, every time I've heard it. It's as if it's written in some scripture which I don't have and have never seen-- because I have no idea where it comes from, but it's always exactly the same. This simple little fallacy is perhaps the most popular of preachers' lies: "We are all God's children."

This lie is not only contrary to sound doctrine: it is decidedly antichrist as well. It was, after all, none other than Christ who told the Jews of his day the "parable of the tares of the field," in which he describes a field of wheat sown with "good seed," which is to say weedless seed, in which it is later discovered that there are "tares" (which is to say weeds) among the wheat. The field hands who discover the weeds come to the householder they work for, and say, "Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this." (Matthew 13:27 & 28)

Later, his disciples come to Jesus and say, "Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field." Jesus then explains the parable thusly: "He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed [the wheat] are the children of the kingdom; but the tares [the weeds] are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil... " (Matthew 13: 37- 39) Clearly, by this evidence alone, we are not all God's children. If we were, Cain would be God's child, as well, but the apostle John (in 1 John 3:12) rebuffs this notion with the following declaration: "...Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother."

Again, Christ told the Jews of his day, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." (John 8:44) It's simply a lie-- and an antichristian lie, at that-- to say "We are all God's children."