THINK WISELY BEFORE VOTING EMOTIONALLY

Years ago, I registered people to vote. Our obligation was to register voters to any party. Many did not even know the names of the parties! Other’s either did not know the current president nor even his party. Basically, Jonathan Gruber was right when he said, “We depended on the stupidity of the American voter.”

Voters need not be stupid. Rather than to vote stupidly, I challenge you to consider, even people you hate, intelligently. Put your antipathy aside of a change and consider doing what is right, not for you alone, but for our country and its people.

Never vote just because of the opinions of the majorities or those who you admire, but for what is right for the nation and its people. If you are not informed it is unfair to yourself and others to even vote! I will not discourage you from voting but encourage you to vote informed and with wisdom.

Election day is nearing. Although I have my own preference among the two, this commentary is not about candidates who do not even know my name as the propaganda machine claims; it is about what is right and what is wrong.

What most people do not know is that Judeo-Christianity throughout is political. It is about who would be king. You see, there was one king but many, many pretenders. Regardless of how many contenders to the throne there was, there was only one “Pretender” — the Devil.

Everyone wanting to rule was the way to usurp God’s rule.

To be honest, there is corruption in all political parties, leaving voters left to vote for the least offensive or the most right. However, even some Christians have cognitive dissonance: “a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a person holds two contradictory beliefs at the same time” (Villines 2024).

For instance, a Christian who accepts the command, “You shall not murder” and yet supports the party whose main platform is murdering the most innocent. If they are truly Christians, if guilt does not ensue, them they suffer from cognitive dissonance and they are not right in the head. Their thoughts are not the Thoughts of God (Isa 55:8).

Christians are encouraged, or even measured, by how much their thoughts parallel the divine Thoughts of God. That activity is what Paul called, “In Christ” wherein the thoughts of Christians are symbiotic with the Thoughts of God. Christians must be in unity with God and with each other… “in accord” (Acts 2:1).

Why, then, do Christians vote differently. Are both party platforms the same, are both candidates the same; or are Christians different. Neither Democrat nor Republican Platforms are perfect. However, they can be tested by scripture. I could do that for you, but only you can get your mind is order with the precepts of God. “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thes 5:22-23). You have the responsibility to inquire, not just to accept promises as if they were already done!

Proving to yourself to the standards of God is testing your own myths. You have a predisposition (bias) within your mind that is natural due to original sin. That is the “scotoma” that blocks you from the truth that is the genetics of the Wicked One in you.

As the “Serpent” indicated, “God knows that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5). In fact, due to sin, people think they know more than God.

Not that abortion is my own litmus test for politics, it is for many. Now, even Christians accept abortion because so many, even church leaders, think that mankind cannot not live without freedom from the precepts of God. Somehow, many have worked into the commandments that you must not kill has exceptions. Abortion essentially punishes the child for the offenses of the mother and father.

Even more examples can be used to excuse people from following the Law of God. For instance, homosexuality is an abomination to God.

The excuse is that Jesus never said anything about homosexuality, so the absence of condemnation rationalizes the sickness of the mind. Many Christians think that they can diminish God yet belong to God. That is not only cognitive dissonance — not right in the head — but spiritual dissonance — not right in the soul. The psyche of the person who thinks that they can have things both ways may cause their own demise in that they are spiritually sick and in need of wholeness with the flesh subject to the spirit.

God calls homosexual behavior “disgusting,” but people condone it. Condoning what God condemns, makes your authority greater than God’s.

The way to hang onto what is good from the body of knowledge (and behaviors) is to test it to scripture (the Old Testament wherein the Law is found.)

There is a cause for both your cognitive and spiritual dissonances; you have two sets of laws in your mind. You must always accept one or the other to be normal, but so many accept conflicting thoughts. Jesus said, “He that is not with Me is against Me” (Mat 12:30). Added to that, Jesus also said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other” (Mat 6:24).

People must make up their minds and go with what is most right. The Word of God is ALL right, but again I write, we are not God. Political parties all come short of the glory of God; and it is up to us to go with the one that comes less short of the glory of God.

One idea that should be examined closely is division. The purpose of Christianity is commanded: to love God and others: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbour as yourself” (Luke 10:27). That is the greatest commandment. It is for us to avoid division and do what is best from everyone. It is putting selfish interests aside and having empathy, not sympathy, for those less prosperous. Equality is empathetic while equity is just guilt ridden sympathy.

Divine love is not emotional; it is having goodwill for God and others. Having goodwill for others is having good laws.

Defying God in any manner at all, as it turns out in scripture, is not good law because mankind is inherently evil.

Admit it; what goes on in your minds would impress the demons. Even if you are a Christian, demonic thoughts enter your mind. That is not for me to say, but Jesus referred to “your father, the Devil” (John 8:44) That is not biological but the content of your thoughts. You think like Satan and the only correction from cognitive dissonance is the Word of God — the “helmet” that shields our minds from deception from anything that can get into our minds. Our minds are our own worst enemies; for so many, it is not so important what God thinks, but what we think, according to the law of sin.

What is it that Satan (Lucifer) thinks? “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High (God)” (Isa 14:14). His thoughts are not the Thoughts of God. When we elevate our own internal moral code above the standards of God, then that is prideful and even arrogant. However, that is the way so many think! For them, it matters not what God thinks but what they think. They have within their foolish minds the fantasy that the world is egocentric wherein it is the people that everything revolves around. Egocentricity is that we are the true God and that the “Ego Eimi” (I AM) is not.

People often ask, “What do you think about whatever?” It matters not what we think but what God said about any topic. Our minds are not the Bible; the Mind of God is the Bible!

Remember that it is not what people say they will do, but what people have done. With the first sin, the Serpent did not sin himself; he got others to sin at his suggestion. He deceived two naïve people, and they took the bait and essentially “voted” for Lucifer to be their “King” over God Himself.

Their sin was violation of the first commandment: literally to have no other gods with my face (Exod 20:3). Lucifer as the “Bringer of Light” had the “face” of God who is Light.

The point therein is that things are not what they appear to be. Lucifer may have appeared to be a star but inwardly he was a creepy, crawly worm. So many politicians wear the face of good, but inwardly, it is power that they want just like the creepy, crawly Serpent.

You must never look at the outward man or woman, but the inward person. You must look into their souls to see who they really are.

King David looked into his own soul and did not like what he saw. He was a murderer like his “father” the Devil and an adulterer like Eve (I believe; Gen 4:1), but as God left the flesh intact He changed the nature of the man within. David became a new person with the same ugly exterior (to God) and so it should be with any political leader.

Voter, you must see into the soul of the candidate. There is a “window” of sorts to see within a person. You cannot look only at outward appearances and status, or even gender or the color of the skin. As Martin Luther King put it, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” It is not the skin, the clothing, the smile, the beauty, the age, or even the status of the person that should be examined. The standard of fairness is the content of their character!

What is character? “It's their motivations, desires, fears, quirks, and personal history that dictate their actions and reactions” (Greene 2023).

Consider two choices; and ask yourself:

 

·         Why do they want the office? Is it for their own empowerment or for the people?

·         What do they want to accomplish? To elevate themselves, or to elevate the lifestyles of the general public?

·         Who or what do they fear? Competition? The Constitution? The other party proving themselves better, or is it the fear of change that may turn out to be downward? Do they really fear the people, or do they fear just the loss of their own power?

·         About quirks: Are they consistent in their ideologies, or do they change when people notice how weird they are to the rest of us?

·         About personal history: Have they done things beneficial for the people or things that constrain them? Do they protect freedoms or regulate behaviors, or even thoughts? Do they want to lead or do they seek to control? Is their history what is best for them or best for the people? Do they always go with the party or with the people?

·         Do they seem rational or are they crazy? Do they behave normally or artificially? Would you want to be like them?

·         How do they react to questions or policies? Do they laugh at good ideas and denigrate the idealist, or do they thoughtfully consider what is best for the most, not forgetting that we are all in this together?

·         Are their actions consistent with their promises? Do they promise prosperity while proposing regressive policies?

·         Is the candidate genuine” Are they able to admit that their party has sometimes failed the people? Do they twist the truth or admit what is true? Do they claim success in the midst of failure? Can they really obtain what they propose? Will they even try to be who they say they are?

 

Hopefully, you get the idea. Elections are not popularity contests or ways to obtain equity. We are not to break glass, or any other ceilings, but do what is right for the most people.

Some need not suffer for the gain of others! There must be ways around that wherein all can prosper without hurting anyone. Does the candidate propose to grow the economy or rather to commit usury by taking away from one to advance the other?

Test all things. Use their history. Which party has ALWAYS been on the side of good?

Hopefully you get the idea, and if you are not motivated to test the candidates, perhaps you should not vote because of a name or any other outward characteristic.

“Ask not what your country can do for you; but what you can do for your country” (John F. Kennedy). Do you not love your country? Or do you despise it so intensely that you would risk the loss of our republic? If you think an amateur can do the hardest job in the country, perhaps you have cognitive dissonance yourselves.

If you test those things and prefer one over the other, then good for you. In your test, test by asking, “Is this only good for me, and people like me, or is it best for everyone.”

Nowadays politicians forget “we the people” and see America as a conglomeration of diverse people wherein each segment of the population must get more for them to prosper.

People deserve to keep what they have worked so hard to obtain… “Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain,” just as Paul said. (1 Cor 9:24). So many do not run the race, but expect others to run the race for them to get the rewards.

The best candidate has a plan for all to run, not just stand there at the finish line with their hands out to receive what the others have worked so hard to obtain. Paul was speaking against Marxism long before Marx was ever born.

With that said, don’t vote your minds but your conscience. The mind can be easily deceived but the conscious is more genuine. Good voters vote with God. Since God is not running this year, or any year, then we must vote for those who best manifest his principles.

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HARLOTS OF MANY MASTERS

When I began reading the book of Ezekiel, it was hard reading and hard to understand. I was about to skip all that esoteric stuff — the mystery of God — and go to simpler things. However, usually the hard to read stuff is where much of the future lies. The Word revealed the destiny of the world, and inquiring readers might want to know how God has planned their future.

The Word (Hebrew: “Dabar”) of the Lord came unto Ezekiel again (Ezek 23:1). Dabar has many meanings; perhaps foremost is the simple word, “cause.” A cause is anything that produces an effect, according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The Word is the Cause of all things, to wit: 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4) 

The “Word” was the “First Cause;” the Cause that we call “God.” The Word is the Power of God that was the Cause of all things.

The “effect” was many things but paramount The Word was the cause of Life itself for all mankind. Another implication is that you are alive because of The Word of God because The Word is life.

However, since The Word made all things, then He made evil, not for our human nature but to test the allegiance or devotion of His creatures, foremostly mankind who had dominion over all the other creatures including the angelic kingdom. Human beings were “elected” to be the ones superior to the other creatures both in this realm and the invisible domain.

So, don’t be so proud. God did not elect you per se, but Adam’s kind before the foundation of the world. Where should a reader go to find the election process? “He (The Word) has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Ephes 1:4). It is not literally “should be” but “am” — us living creatures. And it was not literally before the foundation of this world, but the cosmos.

We were selected as God’s chosen creatures before any other thing was made, either the visible or the visible existence in the universe. The Word made all things for a certain select group, or kind, and as it turned out, mankind was to have “dominion” over both the angelic or animal kingdom (Gen 1:28), regardless of whether they stand upright or even crawl the earth.

Hence, that is reason or the “cause” of the war between prideful angels and prideful mankind. The doctrine of Calvinistic “election” amplifies pride. It is understood that The Word chose who would be Christians or who would be the damned sometime before he endowed them with His Image.

God endowed only mankind — the male and female Adamah — and not angels or animal kinds other than mankind. God did not elect specific people to be His creatures, but all mankind. We should not be proud of that but feel blessed that of all the kinds, God chose man to be blessed by The Word.

Ezekiel was blessed. God revealed to him what it takes to remain favored and not so favored. As such, mankind was subdivided and The Word revealed that to Ezekiel. Mankind had devolved. Over just a few generations on the new Earth, mankind was filtered again between Shem, Japheth, and Canaan; “God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant” (Gen 9:27). Semites were the chosen people, then after they fail with their war against God on the plane of Shinar, The Word chose the Abrahamic peoples, and The Word made the Hebrews favored with the Japhetites sort of “alternates.”

Then Semites were filtered again into the Israelites and Ishmaelites. Each tribe was chosen to inherit the “land of milk and honey” — the land to the Japhetites and the Paradise in Heaven to the Hebrews who were to cross-over, not the river Euphrates nor the River of the Garden (the Jordan), but the Hebrews, under Abraham, according to the Book of Jasher, inherited the “land” in Heaven wherein Abraham was king there (Abraham’s Bosom; Luke 16).

There was a misunderstanding of sorts. The Word knew what He was doing. He caused division time after time to test who deserves a portion of His Estate. In the end, nobody deserves the Estate of God — the one in Heaven — “because all have come short of the glory (Image) of God” (Rom 3:23).

After Abraham, the land was further divided into tribes of Israel, and soon even Israel was separated from the Israelites. Israel had been in sin in Egypt and The Word had cause many to flee the “Satan” pharaoh, but by the time they got to the promise, just a handful of the original Hebrews made it to Canaan to form the nation of Israel.

Jesus, “The Word” said “many be called, but few chosen” (Mat 20:16). The Word, throughout history, called many, but few were chosen. Many walked with The Word when He led them, but few ever finished the course.

Why is that? The Word said to Moses, “Then I will set My Face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people” (Lev 20:5). “That man” in that warning was “the man, when he gives of his seed unto Molech” (Lev 20:4).

What is seed? Semen. Just whose semen was it? Any of mankind. From whom did mankind obtain semen? The Word, God. Dividing the waters from the waters (Gen 1:6) is figuratively, the semen from the semen. That was the “election” before the foundation of the world, when God divided the kinds from the kinds. Mankind were not the “lucky ones,” but all creation was for mankind, and it was planned before much else happened!

Therefore, humility is called for; we are to humble ourselves and let the Lord lift us up (Jas 4:10). The doctrine of election is arrogant! It is as if God made us sovereign rather than Him being the Sovereign. All of Adam’s kind should have retained the seed of God, but Adam threw his seed to the ground as he watched the woman become the harlot-king, “Eve,” with Adam designating her a new kind (Gen 3:20). With original sin, no longer was mankind even chosen, but those who would humble themselves, God would lift them up; indubitably all the way to the bosom of Abraham in Paradise.

You as an individual was not elected. You as the family of Eve — the “mother of all living” — come short of the glory of God. God did not choose you, Eve did that while Adam watched (Gen 4:1).

Adam did not beget Cain; he was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) and we are not “sons of God” but sons of Cain. Original sin seems to have included whoredom — The woman became the “whore” Eve, and she is the source of your mitochondrial DNA whether you be male or female. You are of the Wicked One from the seed of Cain, yet you still proudly proclaim that God chose you and specifically before the foundation of the world.

Just who is mankind now? Are we “sons of God” or bastard children of Eve and the Wicked One? Since we all come short of the glory of God, you fill in the blank. Rather than God, the pretender to the throne of God, Lucifer (Isa 14:13-14), divided the waters from the waters, namely the semen from the semen. From that day forward, it has been Lucifer who divided the waters from the waters as if he is God!

That was revealed to Ezekiel. The Word of God revealed to him how the people would be further divided. Both the city of Samaria, a bastard people, and the city of Jerusalem, God’s people, would become the whore and the younger sister of the whore. Samaria, The Word said, as “Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors” (Ezek 23:5), “And when her sister Aholibah (Jerusalem) saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms” (Ezek 23:11).

Jerusalem saw Samaria go a whoring after the Assyrians and soon Jerusalem went a whoring after the Babylonians. God used Assyria and Babylon to convert the whores to righteousness. It did turn some of the Jerusalemites around but not the Samaritans.

Ahola, the elder sister, was the “tent woman” and Aholibah was the “tent woman in her.” They were both women of the tent; perhaps referring to tabernacle worship in the days of the roaming in the wilderness. They were not women of the temple but specifically of the tents. They were wandering women, so Samaria and Jerusalem both played the harlot, like Tamar who wore a veil to deceive Judah. Tamar was a woman of the “tent’ — the woman who wore a “tent” on her face to conceal that it was she that was the harlot.

Both Samaria and Jerusalem had temples but even then, they were the harlots.

Who would The Word use for His purposes?

The Word revealed to Ezekiel that the sons of Ishmael and Esau would defile them, and that they did; they were the Arab nations — other Semites.

Then the whores would encounter another tribe: 

And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that plays the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. (Ezek 23:42-44) 

I believe that Ezekiel saw the coming of the Muslims — Sabeans that would commit adultery with the two whores: Samaria and Jerusalem. Those two cities would become whores for the Yemeni people.

Yemeni, the contemporary Sabeans at the time of Ezekiel, had an empire that included the Arabian Peninsula as well as modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea in the eastern horn of Africa. It is better known as the “land of Sheba” in biblical times.  

The Arabs during the pre-Islamic period used to practice certain things that were included in the Islamic Sharia. They, for example, did not marry both a mother and her daughter. They considered marrying two sisters simultaneously to be the most heinous crime. They also censured anyone who married his stepmother, and called him dhaizan. They made the major hajj and the minor umra pilgrimage to the Ka'ba, performed the circumambulation around the Ka'ba tawaf, ran seven times between Mounts Safa and Marwa sa'y, threw rocks and washed themselves after sexual intercourse. They also gargled, sniffed water up into their noses, clipped their fingernails, removed all pubic hair and performed ritual circumcision. Likewise, they cut off the right hand of a thief and stoned Adulterers. (Wikipedia) 

The Sabeans were sort of like the Hebrews but not quite. Their lifestyle was pagan and may have set the example for Islam. The hajj is now the required pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The Sabeans had Islamic Sharia Law millennia before Islam.  Since Islam is a synthesis of paganism, Judaism, and Christianity, Ezekiel in 623 B.C. or so is when The Word revealed to Ezekiel the false religion of Islam whose first Hijra was in 622 A.D.

With that said, the cities of Samaria and Jerusalem have become the “harlots” of Islam and have been since 638 A.D. when the Muslims captured Jerusalem. With that background, Jerusalem is surely the “Harlot Babylon” as portrayed in the apocalypse: “Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth” (Rev 17:5). Samaria was the harlot of Assyria, and Jerusalem the harlot of Babylon, and in eventually both would become harlots of the kingdom of Saba’ and in the seventh century A.D., harlots of Islam.

Jerusalem has its seven mountains and Islam its seven pillars. Those should be the seven “heads” of the beast.

Theologians determined the seven heads as kingdoms, including, Babylon, Persian, Greece, and Rome. The first two kingdoms and the seventh kingdom have yet to be identified. However, perhaps the seventh kingdom is a worldwide Islamic Caliphate. The Word as well as said that to Ezkiel. Islam is the last piece of the puzzle, and the cruelty of the great tribulation is very well described by Sharia Law.

We need not fear Rome or Catholicism; we should fear Islam because Muslims have a history of proselytizing by war and with the blade. In the end, it will be little different than that, so the idea that Islam is a peaceful religion goes to Hell! It is the last in a series of very unpeaceful kingdoms that God allows to test His people.

Of course, Roman Catholicism, as well as liberal Protestantism, will hold up their hands and surrender to Islam and it will be finished. The Word revealed that to Ezekiel nearly 2650 years ago.

Chrislam is a symbiosis of Judaism, and Christianity.

The Name “Eve” has several meanings, one being symbiosis: “Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association” (Oxford Language Dictionary).

Eve’s close encounter with another kind (Gen 4:1) made Cain symbiotic (1 John 3:12) as the offspring of the Wicked One and Eve.

Mankind was once glorious like God but are now symbiotic like Eve — the mother of all living (Gen 3:20) and the Wicked One the “father of all living” (John 8:44). Eve and Satan (the devil) still live within human genetics. Humans are “puppets” of them both; they live in symbiosis (to the advantage of both) within our genomes.

In the beginning, the “harlot” was Eve. Her sin was fornication against God by some type of carnal knowledge with the devil, Lucifer, who was inwardly a cunning “beast.” Was the ante-diluvian Adamic empire the first of the seven heads? Maybe.

This background is from the Word, I believe, to warn mankind just who the harlot might be in the end. It might very well be the Sabean harlotry of Chrislam.

Chrislam was ordained in a ceremony just recently, to wit: 

The meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani came as Francis sought to protect his persecuted flock in Iraq by forging closer bonds between the Roman Catholic Church and the Muslim world. (Horowitz and Arraf 2021) 

Islam has been around in Nigeria and east Africa for years, but the Pope and the Ayatollah essentially established it as a religion more recently. That symbiotic religion is perhaps the religion of the Antichrist. Not to put all the blame on them, but the false protestant church is gradually moving toward Chrislam with their wrong idea that Islam is a peaceful religion. Unitarians are the leaders of that movement; itself a pantheon of symbiotic religions.

The end is near. To whom did Ezekiel turn for a vision of the future? The Word. To whom should we turn for the same view? The Word, “Jesus.”

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PRAYERS ANSWERED IN SILENCE

People still pray but express disappointment that their prayers are not answered. Are you just talking to God without reaching out to Him, or are you really reaching out to Him through the Power of Jesus, as you should?

As I wrote in my latest book, An Awesome Quantum God, God answers prayer, not verbally, but by His actions.

For instance, the woman with the issue of the blood, perhaps hemophilia-C was made whole by the loss of virtue from Jesus. “For she said within herself, ‘If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole” (Mat 9:21). She said nothing aloud, she had prayed silently without doubting that her prayer would be answered.

Note that she did not pray a lengthy prayer or even an audible prayer to be heard, but just thought the desired outcome and she would be made whole.

Something within her was amiss and she knew that Jesus could do something the doctors could not do. Jesus knew here thoughts. Jesus knew who had touched Him; He lost Virtue and virtue had gone toward the woman with such immense faith.

He acted as if He did not know, but soon discovered the source of that immense faith and the woman’s fountain of blood dried up. Jesus said, “Somebody has touched Me: for I perceive that Virtue is gone out of Me. (Luke 8).

Jesus discovered the source of that lost Virtue. Her faith was like an arrow that pointed Jesus toward the woman. Her faith had directed the Virtue from Jesus toward her. Her faith had entangled her with the God Genome in Jesus and the two, for a few moments, had become one. Jesus had shared some of the Power of God that was in Him to her. That “virtue,” in the Greek, is “dynamis.”  The “Tekton” Jesus, translated “carpenter,” had shared His inner being — the God within Himself — to her.

Jesus had delivered to the woman the very Dynamic of God… His wondrous creative Power to be shared with her just as Yahweh had made Adam whole so long ago. The woman had sensed the Godhead: the Person of God, the Holy Ghost of God within the Man and the Almighty Dynamics of God in action. She knew the three states of God and because she saw and felt what others could not detect, the understanding of how God works, made it work for her.

She believed that Jesus was God. He did not say, “I AM,” but shared powerful knowledge to her. He was more than just another doctor but a highly advanced Technician who knew all things and had Power over all things, just as John wrote (John 1:1-14).

Do you believe that Jesus created all things? She did. She prayed a simple prayer silently to God and it was received because she had unquestionable faith. She did not question Jesus with, “Can you, or will you make me whole?” She only thought I shall be made whole! That is the simple and powerful way to pray; with the understanding that your faith will make you whole, as Jesus responded: “Your faith has made you whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour” (Mat 9:22).

Jesus audibly said that her faith had made her whole because He was there in the Person of God.

However, only the Virtue of God is with us — His Dynamic. Jesus had said to her “Be of good Comfort.” Within Himself was the “Comforter” that would remain in the world when both Him and the Holy Ghost had gone to heaven, “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever” (John 14:16).

The “Comforter” (“He”) is another substance of Jesus, not material and not a phantom, but the Power of God.

Peter, after Jesus had arisen to His Ghost that had preceded Him to Heaven, said to Cornelius, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with Power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38).

Note therein was God in three substances: Jesus, the Person of God; the Holy Ghost, the phantom of God; and thirdly; the Power of God who goes about doing good (virtue). Peter identified the “Godhead” to Cornelius. God was still with them, not in Person nor Spirit, but in Dynamics — Virtue.

God left His Virtue — His Dynamic and good action, on Earth to Comfort Christians. When a person, like the bleeding woman prayed, Jesus answered audibly and with Power, making her whole again. It is that “Holy Substance” — the Dynamic of God that remains behind to answer our prayers. Jesus called that Dynamic “He” so in a sense, the Power of God is another “Person” that is as real as Jesus, but unlike the invisible substance of God, “He” can be seen by His actions.

Recently, I could have been killed. While riding my bicycle, out of the blue, I hit a rut and was thrown into traffic in the middle of the highway. It took only seconds, but in my mind, I had a great amount of time. I thought about the traffic, my upside-down position in space, and God in heaven. I asked God, not out loud, but in my mind, “God, is this it?” referring to my death.

I was silently asking God if He had no further purpose for me. Shortly, my silent query was answered. The traffic stopped short of me in both directions, I was injured all over my body, but my soul was preserved. I remained whole: I had my person, my soul, and my mobility. I was alive!  I quickly arose and felt immensely relieved. I knew that God would take care of me without even questioning whether He would or not, and my prayer was answered by the Action of God who delivered me from peril.

People complain because their prayers are not answered. Apparently, they are listening for some inner Voice to respond to their every whim. The woman with the blood issue heard both Voices of God: the audible Words of Jesus and the Actions of God.

Jesus is no longer here in Person, but His Dynamic remains here to Comfort (tharso); to be courageous, not with our own power, but the Power of God who remains with us. That “Power” of God is as much “God With Us” (Immanuel) as Jesus Himself. In fact, the Virtue of God is God With Us as much as Jesus is God With Us.

God still speaks to us, not audibly, but with Actions. He does good things if we have the courage to reach out to Him as the woman with the hemorrhage. She did not need to touch Jesus, not even His garment, but when she reached out to God, God responded with the Power to recreate her.

The woman was unclean. She was bleeding. The Law for that was isolation so that Jews would not be made dirty: “If a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. (Lev 15:19).

The woman with the issue of the blood, whether it be vaginal hemorrhaging or anything else, would have made Jesus an unclean Person.

She was courageous but was still Comforted. She could have contaminated the Godhead by getting so close. Her place was not near Jesus, but in isolation.

Jesus may have sensed the issue of the blood and sought out the Person that should have stayed away from Him. Rather than yelling the Law to her, Jesus did better than the Law.

The Law would have carried her away, but Jesus just fixed her discomfort. It was easier for him to fix the breach of the Law than to enforce the Law. That was the Law of Jesus that made the Law workable.

With the Law, she would have remained broken, but with new understanding, the Law could be enforced by fixing the root cause. The woman was not unclean, only her blood, so Jesus fixed the flow of her blood. He did something rather than let her wait it out. That is the visible Dynamic of God; the same Dynamic (“The Word”) that made all things good (John 1).

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THE REBELIOUS CHILD: THE IMPERFECT PARENT

Rebirth (i.e., “born again”) is to make a new creature in Christ, to wit: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17).

The “old creature” is one like Satan. He is pompous like Lucifer (Isa 14:12) who according to Webster is seeing himself as irritatingly grand, deluded with self-importance.

Never challenge anyone’s perception of themselves because they enjoy their insanity.

When I look in the mirror and compare myself to others, it is humbling; I am a “nobody” except for Jesus, and to Satan, I would be a “nobody” not worth the time it would take to come to me.

Job was an important leader and wealthy man. Satan came to him because Job was an important tall, tall man; in a tall, tall land, as the lyric to the song goes in the theme song of Naked Archeology.

Part of rebirth is to humble ourselves and let the Lord lift us up (Jas 4:10). We are to rid ourselves of pomp — that irritating self-aggrandizement as if we are important in the world. The world has no use for us. We are mere tools for Satan, thusly fools!

By now, you may be irritated. I do want to get under your skin, so to speak. I want you to self-examine yourself to do a moral inventory of just who you are. You may say that you are “in Christ” as a Christian, but even the demons believe in Christ (Jas 2:9). So, do you believe in Christ in the manner of demons or in the manner of righteousness?

The evidence is that so many Christians show no evidence of being in Christ. Sure, they believe in Jesus, and that He is God in the flesh, but they behave more like the demons. That type of “Christian” has a high opinion of himself; only his viewpoint is valid, and in their view, they can arrogantly sin with impunity, and if they are called out, anger, or vengeance, ensues. An angry person gets so wrathful that he must get vengeance, usually hating the challenger to his pedestal. Not just mildly angry, but angry, angry — wrathful — extremely angry. Maybe so angry that the wish is that someone is dead… “Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him” (1 John 3:15).

It is not that a wrathful person hates the person but hates the standards of another person. Kids say, “I hate your guts,” but what they mean is they hate who you are within. They hate your authority, and as such, they are little rebels who want the parent to console all the while setting no expectations for them.

Parents expect their children to respect them. So many do not deserve respect and to think we do is arrogant. The commandment is to “Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God gave you” (Exod 20:12).

The biggest rival for anybody is their own father and mother because they have authority over you; they are responsible for your well being — to live a long life here and in heaven. It is the parent who sets the example and exerts authority over you much of your life, so what do they get in return for doing their job responsibilities? Often it is hostility. No maverick likes to be broken, and the reborn child is like a wild stallion that objects to anything on their backs.

Therefore, the natural response of the new creature in Christ is to buck both the standards of Christ and the parents. It is as if the parents have sharp spurs in their maverick child, and it is hard for them to “kick against the pricks” (Acts 9:5). It is hard for the new creature to fight against authority. In other words, rather than giving into those who seem to “gig” them, they find it difficult to accept authority. Mavericks must become docile, and sometimes the reigns must be pulled hard and the spurs gouged in. That is a tough thing for the new creature to accept and for the parent to do.

Indeed, it takes much conditioning to tame maverick ponies. They don’t like it and buck every chance they get. They have been free range so long that any type of cajoling or even corralling may make them mean-spirited. Only after they are tamed are they content being loved and nourished.  

It takes time and persistence to tame the wild beasts that we are. Why would parents take the time to tame their little beasts? Because they were once “beasts” themselves and know that the relationship is much better when the father and son bond. If they cannot submit to the father here, would it be likely that they would submit to the Father in heaven? The ability to submit to those who love you is the humility that is required to submit to God above to even be born again. If a child never submits to the wisdom of the parents, would it be likely they submit to the wisdom of God?

A bucking bronco can be detected by its actions. A bronco is an unbroken or partially broken horse that was once free range. It can be detected by what? Its bucking the one who has authority — the one with the reins.

True, the authority must be gentle or for certain the bronco will buck, but oftentimes the wildness in the horse is persistence, and it just will not relent.

That is the situation in which people have with those they love; they hate to see them still wild and sometimes it is hard for them to kick against the pricks as well.

Broncos buck because they want to remain free range; they buck not because they hate the cowboy, but because the cowboy is on their backs. Humans are no different until the bronco comes to understand somehow that the man on the back is the man who loves them so.

Paul found out that it was hard for him because he did not understand the love of Jesus. Children often never come to understand the love of a parent. They have the responsibility of doing the hard things! It is not a fighting match for them but a way of demonstrating love. Parents who do not do the hard things are parents of mavericks all their lives. Children must be broken young before they are able to kick too hard.

Broncos can be forgiven. They are only protecting the freedom that they have always known, not understanding that there are advantages in being tamed. They get love and care all their days, just like the command implies, so that they live a long life. Why would parents not want rebellious sons and daughters? Because they want them to have a long and productive life. Just look at how untamed children turn out; many are dying of drug usage as they seek dominion in the world of Satan.

Parents admit failure when they allow authorities to control their maverick children using drugs. Parents have failed when their children depend on drugs for comfort and solace. Drug usage is as much a parenting problem as it is a user problem. Humble parents should admit that the usual case of drug usage is due to the laxity of parents that allow their little “ponies” to much free-range to ever break. If parents wait to long, it is hard for their big broncos to kick against the pricks.

What do broncos do? They buck in anger. They will flail about like a squeezed fish seeking comforting waters.

If you think a maverick is broken, you may still have a bronco that seems to be broken but wildness remains their main stay. They may be kept in a barn or corral, but their hearts are still free-range. Many rebellious children do not understand that they have never all the way submitted to their parents nor to their God. They claim both, then buck them both; It is hard for them to kick against the pricks of those in authority. If a child does not respect the parent, chances are he will not respect God.

To be a new creature requires change. The evidence that you are a child of God is a changed nature. Paul gave Christians standards of compliance for a self-check:

 

But now you also put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. (Col 3:8)

 

So, how are you and God getting along? It is measured by how things are going with you and others! Are you an “angry man” rather than a tall, tall upright man? Are you so angry that you seem crazed to others? Do you seem to hate those who you are called to love? Does your behavior put off God? Do filthy words come forth when you are upset? If the answer to any of those is that you still do those things, then you are not in Christ, meaning that you remain an old, wild creature into yourself. That blasphemes God because it makes you, the “bucking bronco,” the real god.

It is so easy to put off filthy communication but those not in Christ cannot just keep their mouths closed long enough to bridle their tongues. The first thing a cowboy does is bridle the bronco before getting on its back. Otherwise, it will whinny and go wherever it wants to go, and nobody controls it. In a sense, a bronco, if it still bucks, is its own master.

You may feel insulted and even angry by now. Many of you Christians still curse and say filthy things. When you talk, you speak what is on your minds. You are still a wild beast inside, all the while acting the part of a tamed child of God.

What need you do to control your filthy mouths? Keep the tongue bridled, and the best way to do that is to keep the teeth firmly clinched and the mouth closed. The easiest thing a Christian can do if they are truly a Christian is to keep the mouth closed. That requires no work at all but people still some are unable to do that! It is a horrible thing; from the same mouth to say filthy things that is used to praise God.

My young friend once said the sh-word. Her twin sister said, “Wanda, I wouldn’t have that in my mouth.” They were both Christians and one could not control her own tongue because she had not been fully broken!

One time long ago, maybe many times, God saw what His creatures were up to:

 

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one. (Psalm 14:2-3)

 

So, you think you are doing good by just claiming Christ? You think that you are without sin as you expect others to think and do as you do? Do you think that it is you that is the last word?

The Lord sees who you are! “There is none that does good, no, not one!” You are not important to anyone unless you are a new and improved you; the one that is tamed by the Power of God. You are the free-range bronco that now has the Holy Ghost astraddle you and are joyful about that. If so, you are tamed. If you cannot take daddy on your back, then it is blasphemy to imply that the Holy Ghost can ride you in peace!

 

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. (Rom 3:12-14)

 

Those who still live in sin (iniquity) are wild, untamed “beasts.” They lie, even about the simplest things, and they are deceptive like the “Serpent” of long ago. Those who express anger mouth off.

Cursing and wrath does not make for a good and rational argument. Those who resort to the bestiality of the Devil are providing evidence that their argument is in vain. Christians would respond to dissension with patience and reasonable words; and only children still of the Devil would curse and be bitter.

Would you go to a doctor with a valid malady if you knew his response would be vile? No, you would expect the good doctor to be reasonable and reassuring. He would not offer anger and vile talk but a proven remedy. Anger and hostility are the absence of any proof. It is the last resort for those who have no reason left in them; their bronco is showing, and it needs more corralling and a little more spurring.

With that said, parents, children, and everybody should consider this commentary. If a parent spurs with too great intensity, it destroys the horse. We too must measure the words that we use because we all have sinned.

The commandment is not for just parents that are pure and righteous, but for parents who fail as well. If a child cannot respect a parent nor the parent respect the child, then the bond is broken, and the broken bond cannot be bonded again.

When I was training my teenagers, they all at one time said, " I hate you!" Later in life all three told me, "Thank you for bringing me up right." It was a tough ride for both me and them. Sometimes I fell off the broncos and sometimes they flailed until they failed. Hopefully, they all, even me, will be tamed by the Authority in Heaven, but before you can get into Ok Corral, we all must submit while we are here. 

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PSYCHOLOGY: RELIGION OR SCIENCE - Final

 The dynamic of guilt is paramount in both psychology and Judeo-Christianity. First, examine guilt: “Guilt most commonly refers to an emotion that occurs when a person feels that they have violated a moral standard” (Wikipedia 2024). Those without a moral standard are emotionless. In psychology, an emotionless, non-caring person is a “psychopath.” Humane people — humans — should feel some type of emotion. If any, a psychopathic person may feel exultation.

Moral standards are required for civilization, or everyone would do what is right in their own eyes and many would be psychopathic. Not by coincidence, in ancient times, about the so-called elect of God, “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Jud 17:6). Israel was no longer a religion but a conglomeration of psychopathic people that were out of control.

Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality, is a personality construct characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited and egocentric traits, masked by superficial charm and the outward appearance of apparent normalcy. (ibid)

In other words, whatever a psychopath chooses to do is the normative; they can hurt others with impunity, believing they will not be punished themselves. They are too smart for the law of man and since God does not exist, in their world, psychopaths are their own kings just as scripture reveals them to be.

Mobs are groups of psychopaths doing whatever they think is right. You often see the outcome of that with the “woke” crowd in big cities.

Their moral standard is their own with regard to society’s standards, let alone any divine standard. They are like the mob that crucified Jesus who were out for blood… divine blood. Anyone would not do; they required the blood of “The Man” with Authority — the Man who lived the Law of Love. It was not Jesus they sought, but they endeavored to “defund the police,” so to speak, by putting an end to oppressive laws.

Mobs are excused nowadays; they are seen as merely the oppressed expressing their anger at anyone, even statues, that differs in opinion. The woke people excuse their behaviors and they are “awake” because of good-meaning psychologists.

Note that psychologists are not mean people. Those in schools of psychology are taught empathy, just like the Christian catechism: “As you would that men should do to you, do you also to them likewise” (Luke 6:31). Christ said to have empathy. It is okay to protest against injustice, but it is not okay to violently, or destructively protest. The woke crowd, conditioned by the DSM, are showing empathy, but the law of the land and the Law of God does not condone violence to show empathy!

In thought, modern-day mobs think they are empathetic. They hold all types of empathetic signs so that those who are sound asleep know just how empathetic they are. Although they think good thoughts their actions speak otherwise; they tear down what good people have made to show their empathy.

With that said, people are like Adam and Eve who were cunningly manipulated to do immoral acts. Just as the cunning Devil used pleasantries to instigate lawlessness, “children of the Devil” (John 8:44) use the same tactics to get the masses to do the unthinkable.

The DSM is a manual with good intentions. It provides standards to identify who needs help to overcome life in this world. (It is the capable giving to those with needs in a Marxist way.) The DSM is meant to be for good just like the Communist Manifesto was intended to be good, but in practice they can harm.

It is not bad to help people, but it is bad to “help” them with bad advice. The problem with the DSM is not the paper, but those behind the standards written on the paper. The writers of the DSM have written their own standards of normalcy whereas the Bible is written by those inspired by God, to wit: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16).

Just what is so bad about sharing doctrine to correct bad thoughts and behaviors to live right and joyful lives? Because the Bible already provides safety, asking its adherents to refrain from dangerous behaviors. Indeed, The wages of sin is death” (Rom 6:23). Doing sinful things leads to death. For instance, insobriety and non-vigilance is dangerous in any doctrine. However stupid those two things are, people will still do them because of enjoyment, just as children do not fear danger because they want to explore.

To keep mankind sober and vigilant for their own safety, God wrote standards of safe behavior. The Bible is His “DSM” in a manner. It identifies abnormal behavior that might be dangerous to you. The problem with the DSM is that their standards are not God’s Standards because their thoughts are not His Thoughts (Isa 55:8). The DSM is not written by righteous men who desire that you live forever, but that you merely cope in this world.

It is not mean to want people to cope! They encourage you to do what they feel is best for you.

Stress is the most prevalent killer of mankind, so it is logical for empathetic people to want you not to have stress.

Is stress from God or is it from Satan? that is the question. Stress is what the world imbues upon its people. Stress, according to scripture, is the outcome of sin, ignoring the standards of God. From where does that come? Genesis 3:16-19 wherein the woman got pain, and the man got toil. Who is to blame for that? Satan, cleverly disguised in some image, did not force Adam and the woman to do anything, and God forbade them to get into trouble with the Law.

In other words, mankind was a free agent to do as he pleased, and both the man and woman chose stress.

God had a plan to alleviate stress: do what is right and avoid stress. So, God wrote down standards; His “DSM” is written on stone to endure forever, and it does include empathy (Commands five through ten) for others and empathy for God (Commands one through four).

So, both psychology and Judeo-Christianity shares the concept of empathy. The contrast is the punishment for failure to be empathetic.

In Genesis chapter three God provided the consequence for coming short of empathy — stresses of all sorts, or “tribulations.” 

The DSM lists no penalties for sinful (abnormal) behavior at all but encourages pride. Rather than ashamed of nakedness like Adam and the woman (Gen 3:10), it is okay to come out of the closet with about any type of trans-behaviors.

Adam and the woman were naked before and were not ashamed. Their nakedness was not their flesh but their innermost being — their two souls with God within them. After sin, they were ashamed of what they had become. Eve was trans-mutated by an alien in the Garden. She was ashamed that her divine chromosomes had become stained by alien actions… behaviors that were alien to God.

God did provide a “pressure valve” to relief the stress of mankind. God is the Author of “guilt.” Satan had not sinned; he (it) had persuaded mankind to sin and when the woman did, she became another kind that Adam named “Eve” (Gen 3:20).

Since “guilt” refers to an emotion that occurs when a person feels that they have violated a moral standard, then eliminating moral standards suffices in the viewpoint of psychiatry. The DSM removes religions viewpoint of morality from their standards; it matters not what God says, but what the APA says. Oftentimes they say the same thing, but increasingly so, they are saying very different things.

Paul wrote to Christians to “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thes 5:1). (I am not implying that all the DSM, nor all the APA, is bad, but to warn people to test all the things in their lexicon and hang onto what is good.

The problem is that the modern Church, and even well-meaning Christians, allow the DSM and psychology to have precedence above God. In a sense, the DSM is a new invisible god in violation of the First Commandment.

Now examine a psychiatric appointment: you talk; they listen, then they direct your thoughts. Their intention is for you to have a ground-breaking repressed thought emerge from your mind.

That is the method of Christianity as well. You speak, God corrects with scripture, and you are guided to a better Way. Finally, the Word speaks to you in the same manner as the psychiatrist.

In whom do you trust… mammon or God? The problem with Christians is that they now trust the therapist more so than God. Sin is not necessarily abandoning God but putting another God before Him (Exod 20:3).

The Jewish problem in ancient days was that they trusted themselves more than God. They preferred to wonder in the wilderness under the pretense of following God all the while their route was chaotic as Moses allowed them to wander wherever they might go. In a symbolic manner, the Israelites were following the “Wanderer” Cain in the land of Nod. In a sense, those directing themselves on the psychiatric couch are going where they want to go, and about anyplace they would rather go than to follow God.

It is important to understand the concept of guilt. It took the Israelites forty years to find their way to sanctity and peace, when if they had followed God, they would have arrived there quickly.

God threw all sorts of tribulations to the Israelites during the exodus from Egypt to serenity. He truly stressed them out. He put up all sorts of stressors to shorten the way to serenity: war, famine, more war, thirst, and on and on. They were pretty much apathetic, even pathetic; they failed to see that God was providing for them the same perils as Adam and Eve. He was testing them to determine to whom their hearts belonged.

On each occasion, the Israelites felt the emotion of guilt. To resolve their guilt, God blessed them for them to understand that they failed with God’s standards. He loved them anyway. God did not empathize with their unrighteous behaviors and thoughts, but that they were worth correcting. It took forty years to correct their dysfunctionality, and God took them to serenity, not in Canaan, but serenity in heavenly Paradise.

If only people would live the standards of God, tribulation would not be required. Stress and the response to it — guilt — is more of a guidance to the Way to sober thinking rather than an impedance. Why would Satan want you to feel guilt for bad behavior? He would not; he would want you to feel free.

That is the same outcome expected of your empathetic therapist. He tries to direct you to shortcut to serenity by traveling his way. The objective of a psychiatrist is not for you to reject stressor-inducing behaviors but to continue on your merry way as you are. Of course, that is not in all cases, but with people that they think are born that way.

We are all “Born This Way” as the song goes. The song itself is a song of pride.

James wrote to “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10). Pride is of the Satan, Lucifer, his “pomp” (Isa 14:12). Flamboyant people are pompous; you must accept them as they are. Their type of love is no different than God’s agape, caring love. You were “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5), you were born this way, coming short of the glory of God in all way!

Sure, we love them, but not their ways because their ways will destroy them. Sincere love is wanting better for them. To cherish them as they are, is condoning their behaviors. To be honest, we want them to change. We are much like them in a manner of speaking — they want us to be like them without a standard, and we want them to be like us... that is to God’s standards.

The argument condenses to whom does your heart belong? Does it belong to Freud, Jung, Maslow, or even Marx; or does your heart belong to God?

Indeed, psychology does some good things, but like the tree of the same name, they can do great evil as well. They are indeed a religion that is cleverly disguised as a science. However, even their name gives them away — psychology — the “study of the soul.” That is the very purpose of reading the Bible, but most people spend a hundred-fold more time studying books of psychology rather than the one good book that covers all normal and abnormal behaviors using the metrics written by God Himself.

When I asked Dr. Fong, "Isn't psychology just another religion?" she responded, "Are you just now figuring that out?" Are you just figuring that out now?

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PSYCHOLOGY: RELIGION OR SCIENCE - Part 2

 I last discussed psychology as a tool for making everyone alike; not equal, but acceptable as if everyone is of the same moral “fabric.” In other words, there is nothing wrong with anyone; some are just different than others. There is no right or wrong, truth is in the mind of the beholder. Nobody is to judge anyone else by their own metric and those with loose moral fiber are as good as those whose minds are tightly knitted.

That there is not wrong extends to the idea that everyone is basically good and that they should not be criticized for having something out of tune with the normative. They believe that to the extent that even hardened criminals should be excused for the crimes they commit. Thus, the laxity of so many prosecutors against the criminal element.

In the religion of psychology, there is no such thing as good and evil. The pedophile even deserves satisfaction as much as the heterosexual. The APA has tacitly approved the degeneracy of man-boy love as just a sexual preference, although, due to the public outcry, a “typographic error,” they said, was made in the DSM-V manual:

The DSM-5 initially described Pedophilic Disorder as a sexual orientation, which caused some members of the public to take offense, and express concern that this would pave the way for reduced criminal culpability (American Psychiatric Association, 2013a). The American Psychiatric Association later indicated the word “preference” was a typographical error, and should have read “interest” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013b). The APA (American Psychological Association) clarified their position on Pedophilic Disorder in response to a statement released by the American Family Association. The APA indicated that they do not “classify Mental Disorders or publish the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as the release incorrectly stated”, the APA holds the position that acting on pedophilic desires is a crime, and adult -child sexually contact is always wrong (American Psychological Association. 2013). However other sources concur that Pedophilic Disorder is a sexual preference, (Harvard University, 2010), and differentiate between deviant desires, and acting them out cognitively or behaviorally. (Porter 2024) 

Typos have become common these days, not fat-fingering and autocorrect, but because people are caught in their unacceptable beliefs. Society still hides the fascination of old men for young men and women. The North American Man/Boy Association (NAMBLA) no longer hides out in schoolyards but executive offices. There is nothing that money cannot buy, and the silence of “professionals” seems to be one!

The APA has a “Bible,” and even fail to admit that the DSM tacitly belongs to them. Judeo-Christians enthusiastically claim their Bible. Perhaps the belief of the APA is not how their fingers do the walking on the keyboard but about how their narrators disregard the stalking.

So far, this commentary has been about the laxity of those in the field of psychology to acknowledge that because so many do whatever, does not make whatever right. Repetition by the many does not make the behavior acceptable.

Somewhere along the way, alcoholism went from uncontrolled behavior to a “disease.” Of course, nobody can help that they have a disease even though behaviors are controllable if enough effort is expended. The disease model for alcoholism forgives alcoholic behavior, thus establishing another class of oppressed people.

Too many good people have been oppressed by the majority. The religion of psychology has a very communistic component: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” (Karl Marx). That alcoholics and others with bad habits are incapable of helping themselves to sobriety, society — the rest of us — must live their lies for them. Alcoholism is not a disease but a series of very poor choices just like any habitual sin. The APA has written an excuse for their failure: they cannot help it, so ignore their insobriety.

Now we are on the way toward making marijuana use the normative just as those with the love of money made tobacco an institution. Finally, some are wising up; they now admit that the continued use of marijuana causes psychosis, but when have you heard that from the media?

Finally, the DSM added cannabis use disorder, but how many young people have they reached? Few, until they have the disorder so strongly that change is unlikely! They are arriving later in the “game” and still expect to win! By indicating that the disorder is limited to only a few prevents the masses from including themselves. Each person is brought to believe that casual use is acceptable, and they surely will not become two very different people in one body!

Any strong desire is dangerous, according to our Bible: 

Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then, when lust hath conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren. (Jas 1:14-16) 

Science has a different definition of death than God. Over the years the scientific definition of death has changed from the cessation of the heartbeat to the decay of the mind’s impulses. In God’s Lexicon, “death” is the dysfunction of the soul.

Now, you might be wondering what the soul might be. It is your inner person that has a compass to direct you through life. Things that disrupt the innate moral compass causes people to die. They may not physically die but just as if dead, and so goes the marijuana, cocaine, and fentanyl zombies. Your name is written on the joint, snort, or pill, so the warning, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).

That is not metaphoric or even symbolic. Carelessness of any sort makes you vulnerable to death, both biological and spiritual death. We all know the “pothead” who is as good as dead and the alcoholic who may even wish that he was dead.

Us sane people cannot excuse the insane ones! Knowing that drugs, alcohol, and even overeating will kill you, and continuing to do so, is insanity.

Lust (in the verse above) is that strong desire for something that satisfies. Nothing that is made is satisfying. The only lust that is efficacious is a lust for God and eternal Paradise. Psychology does not offer that, and their textbooks admit that they have no power to fix anyone.

On the other hand, Jesus (the man who is God) fixed a woman with a big problem: 

A woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind Him, and touched the border of His garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. (Luke 8:43-44) 

The doctors could not heal her of that medical condition, and neither can doctors of psychology heal your abnormality. Sure, they can provide drugs to make you oblivious to the issue and teach you how to ignore what is wrong, but that woman would have bled to death. However, Jesus did not tell her to live with it as if it is normal, but He made her whole (Mat 9:22).

“Wholeness” in Holy Scripture is wellness within both the body and the soul; that the two very different facets of your being live is symbiotic. The body cannot be well and the soul sick, nor the opposite; all can be well with both the body and the soul.

Physicians can often work on the body, but God fixes it. Psychologists can only work on the soul, often messing it up without accountability, but Jesus is the true Fixer of the soul and holds Himself accountable if you only take the remedy.

Psychologists admit they cannot fix anything; only direct you the way to live with it with as little discomfort as possible. For instance, rather than cessation of what makes you feel guilt, many psychologists direct you how to live with your guilt. For instance, that extramarital affair that is stressing you out… learn to live with it if it makes you happy. Why should you feel guilty for only performing the call of nature? Of course, you can get killed doing such a thing, and of course the death of the soul will only come later, if at all in their viewpoint!

Jesus made the woman whole. Whether it was a genetic condition or not is unclear, but even if she had been born that way (hemophilia-C), Jesus made her whole. He dried up her blood by the use of virtue from His own blood.

Psychologists excuse the LBGT+ community as born this way. They were not born queer, bi-queer, flamboyant, nor trans-anything. They were born in inequity like King David (Psalm 51:5), and lusts direct them toward acting out their fantasies. David did not blame his lust on God for being born that way, but himself for behaving that way. The same goes for anyone.

Drug users ar4e generally not born “druggies” but are born with the lust for things to make themselves feel whole. However, drugs and even fornication end making you feel empty; even many times empty enough to make a person suicidal.

Smart people kill others cunningly, even in the manner of the so-called “Serpent.” Lucifer never killed anyone, not even Job. He outsmarted the two non-vigilant humans into trusting him; they ate, and they died, so slowly that they never knew they were dying until they were old.

Drugs work the same way; your drug pusher should not be excused and released either. The pusher is as guilty as his father, the Devil. The “Woke” professionals excuse the infractions of the criminal element because rather than punishment, they should be catered to.

“Wokeness” is “the quality of being alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination” (Oxford Languages 2023). Note that the writers were biased; they wrote of it as a “quality.” For most, wokeness is far from a quality but an impedance to their own well-being. Wokeness is a Marxist initiative, and that narrative comes from operationalizing the DSM.

What is injustice to those who are woke? That things are not diverse, equitable, and inclusive enough. DEI is Marxist. The media, educational, and business sectors, as well as the military and industrial have been convinced, or provoked, into believing that everyone can benefit their organization however bizarre they are and that those institutions have the obligation to make sure that even abnormal people be given, not the opportunity, but the objective, just because they exist. That is the religion of humanism, and its “preachers” are psychologists whose “Bible” is the DSM.  

Who brought wokeness to the world? The religion of the world — humanism — is the agency of human beings rather than by the sovereignty of God. The annunciator and mediator of that new religion is the APA which promotes so many of the woke objectives. However, humanism is as old as time itself, “You shall be as God,” (Gen 3:5), said the Devil. speaking to the first two humans.

Psychology cannot be questioned! Right now, many of you are seething because you only want to help people, and I am criticizing your avenue. Indeed, helping your fellow man is a noble idea, but not the way God had in mind.

The rich young man of the New Testament was a humanist. He did so many things for his fellow man, but he had not done anything for God (Luke 18:18-23). He was an early “Marxist” and his religion, like Marx, was humanistic.

Psychology is a humanistic religion without God as well, or at least some “unknown God” like the philosophers of Athens (Acts 17:23). Psychology is the derivative of humanistic philosophy and in Athens there sat the “doctors” trying to fix the minds of those who were lacking wholeness.

Now for some comparison of sameness and contrast between religions and psychology (to be continued).

WOKENESS ON DISPLAY

IS PSYCHOLGY A RELIGION OR SCIENCE

Some look at me with disbelief. It has been so engrained in everyone since childhood that it is good. Even most parents use it to form the personality of their children. Some of the most persuaded are those who raise their children from birth in this religion. I am not writing of Christianity, but the “religion” of psychology.

Although there is no God in this newfound religion, it remains a bonified religion. If that makes you uncomfortable, please flee from it now. In fact, this religion propagates fleeing from things that make you uncomfortable. By fleeing from the truth, you are operationalizing the religion of psychology.

A religion is, according to Merriam-Webster, “a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith.

Parents raise their children using psychological principles because they have faith that what they have been taught is scientific. With that said, psychology is “scientology,” and in fact, L. Ron Hubbard endeavored to get Scientology accepted as bonified psychology, even using an E-meter to audit emotional reactions. If anything, it would do nothing more than measure stress. In fact, the purpose of psychology is to eliminate stress. For psychologists, if something is stressful, flee from it; not the cause of stress but the stress itself.

The unidentified psychologists of Wikipedia defined stress: 

In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. Stress is a type of psychological pain. Small amounts of stress may be beneficial, as it can improve athletic performance, motivation and reaction to the environment. Excessive amounts of stress, however, can increase the risk of strokes, heart attacks, ulcers, and mental illnesses such as depression and also aggravation of a pre-existing condition. 

Stress can make you perform better in some cases but can kill you in other situations. In fact, the expectation that you must perform better induces stress. Eastern religions are used regularly by psychologists because they allow the practitioners of yoga and such to escape stress for a few minutes each day… not escape the root causes of stress but stress itself!

Stress is the measurement of tension. Just as the stress of metals are measured by their tensile strength, your nerve-strength is measured by how much tension they can take without ripping you apart.

The E-meter is basically a test of the tensile strength of the auditee. In like manner, psychology evaluates the tension in the person, and the “auditors” endeavor to find a manner to relieve the tension. They do so, not by changing the “metal” of the “patient” but by changing the calibration of the tool. The “tool” used by that profession is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). It is the “Bible” of that profession.

Whereas the manual of God was written in stone for perpetuity, the DSM is written on paper and ROM for easy alteration. If some people feel sick because of stress, it is as simple as recalibrating their tool, and voila, the broken spirits are made whole again. In psychology, “wholeness” is broken but content with it. The root cause is not removed but adjusted so that the sick person is no longer defined as or feels “sick.”

The best example of the APA adjusting the tool was in DSM-III: 

Key points:

First published in 1968, DSM-II listed homosexuality as a mental disorder.

In 1973, members of the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from the DSM.

Not until 1987 did homosexuality completely fall out of the DSM. (Burton 2024) 

Note that there was no reason to change. Professional people just changed their minds about it. Whereas most religions have tenets that are foundational to the people, psychology is not founded on principles but what society will accept as normality. 

Homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgment, stability, reliability, or general social and vocational capabilities; Further, the American Psychological Association urges all mental health professionals to take the lead in removing the stigma of mental illness that has long been associated with homosexual orientations. (Conger 1975) 

In this example, psychologists fixed the problem by removing the stress. Note that homosexuality remained a “mental illness,” but their expectation was that society, even employers, just live with mentally ill people. In other words, not to ever fix the problem but make mental illness acceptable. With that said, as they recalibrated their tool, they fixed millions of people who were still mentally ill!

Not only, that, but in subsequent years, laws were passed to prevent anybody from even trying to fix the mental illness. Any counselor who tries to fix the mental illness of homosexuality are discriminated against themselves by virtue of laws around the nation. As such, if you perceive homosexuality as a mental illness, what you think is a crime. Commerce can now be withheld from those who fail to go along with the narrative. So, the psychology religionists use the same tactics as the adherents of Sharia Law. You must either believe their ways or be forbidden commerce.

Those who disagree with the opinion of the APA are ostracized. Note that the APA voted on the resolution. It was an opinion, and now anyone who does not share their “doctrines” is shunned by their religion.

Next, because the LBGT+ community may feel stress, the APA changed their “Bible” again, making those who disagree with their autocracy thought criminals: 

Lesbian, gay and bisexual people who encounter homophobic attitudes experience increases in heart rate, blood pressure and stress hormones, potentially putting them at risk for multiple health problems, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

 

“This study shows the potentially toxic impact discriminatory attitudes can have on lesbian, gay and bisexual people’s health,” said lead author David M. Huebner, PhD, associate professor of prevention and community health at The George Washington University. “This is just one more, among many, corrosive effects of homophobia.” (Huebner 2021) 

The LBGT+ community experiences stress. Others who disagree that their mental state be fixed, now have become the new mentally ill. Now, “homophobia” makes normal people the sick and the sick people the well!\

The APA did not fix the abnormality of the sick but made society so that homosexuality and such are the new “normal.” They did not make the sick whole again as Christianity proposes but made the whole sick as well.

Psychology nearly always fixes the problem of mental illness, not by making them whole again but by changing the environment. Those with rational thoughts are not allowed into their fantasy “paradise” that they have made; only the sick and their enablers can live in their ideological beautiful “garden” wherein all things are acceptable with nobody there to judge in their “judgment free zone,” ala Planet Fitness. ^®

Most religions would go for the root cause of maladjustment. Most religions have a central figure whose standards the religionists must adhere. Basically, psychology has no standards; they merely achieve their goals by making as many sicknesses “normal” as possible to remove stress.

At one time homosexuality was abnormal to the APA. When so many revealed their mental illness, it was easier to change their prognosis than fix that many people.

Why did the APA vote to change the rules for abnormality? Because homosexuals revealed just how pandemic their mental illness had become when they picketed the APA to change their tool. The members of the APA changed their metric to alleviate the stress that they were feeling. They did not fix the sick but relieved their own stress. Now, the APA has lost their courage. They can no longer even try to fix the sick. Thereafter, LBG rights have been extended to include LBGT+ to include any dysfunction that anyone might have. In other words, so that the sick can enjoy their mental illness without any interference from sane people.

In psycho-babble, they have transferred the sickness of the sick onto those who were not sick, and now the DSM has essentially made everyone sick. Is it for the love of money or what? Do they really believe the tenets of the religion that they have established? No, they have just made everyone more comfortable in their depravities.

Next, I will compare psychology — the manmade religion of man for man — to the truth. (To be continued)