21 September 2024
I'm okay with the mainstreamers thinking I'm delusional. Their opinion doesn't count for much. I'm walking in the Spirit and you are free to find your own path. But this one thing is sure: I'm utterly certain I'm where God wants me, and nothing any human can say will shake that faith.
In that vein, one of my favorite delusions is the image of God reestablishing His revelation after a global catastrophe destroys all the digital records, and maybe an awful lot of paper records, too. What will His people do when they have to start from scratch? How far back into the Stone Age will God throw them? I'm utterly certain this is not the End Times; there will be some portion of the human race that survives this thing. And if there's one thing that will continue forward, it's the dispute in Heaven between God and His Divine Council. I want the knowledge of that to survive.
By no means would I suggest that Christ will have to come back again, but I'm not wholly convinced the Bible we have now will be so easily available after the catastrophe. Since I don't worship the Bible, that doesn't bother me too much. The Spirit and the Covenant will still be around, and that's what the Bible is all about in the first place.
How do I get it across that there is a position between the two extremes of ignoring the Bible and worshiping it? What does it take to declare that God can bring about a fresh written record of revelation that isn't exactly a copy of the one we have now? The written record we have now is not His Word in itself. It's just a record of His Word. His Word is His Son, not a book.
At this point, I'm sure the churchian ideologues are all pissed off. Good; go away. You don't matter. You don't have any part in this. As John the Fool has said to me in our private conversations: When you are confronted with debate from ideologues, you aren't even talking to a person any more. All you get is a hollow shell of a person; it's a rational position that has been drained of moral truth. And I say it's a lie from Hell.
I'm working with a few others in preparing something that help people keep their faith alive through the disasters and out the other side. We are working on being able to share the gospel message into that unknown future context. And the biggest point of all this is building a living gospel message in people who will survive. They will be an incarnation of the Word, Christ living in His people.
On a related note, I'm not going to entertain too many questions about the technical response we have to the perceived censorship hassles this blog faces. You can ask me privately, but I'm not going to bog down the message here in computer chatter. There's a tactical issue here called "OpSec" -- operational security. Do you want me to give it all away so the problem people know what we are doing? Don't ask me to post about that. Ask me privately if you are interested.
What is not secret is that we are praying and working on ways to keep the message going on the Net until it's truly impossible. We intend to resist censorship and make the oppressors have to work very hard and spend a lot of money on silencing us. We won't make it easy for them. We'll be a big pain in the ass (PITA) for them.
So, if you find my writing a little disturbing, you are in good company.
Comments:
John Providence
There is no use talking to ideologues who confuse their abstract knowledge of the Bible or theology with genuine, New Testament faith, which is by definition above and beyond human reason... something the Bible actually says and illustrates over and over again, but the ideologues conveniently dismiss or ignore those scriptures along with all the ones about the Holy Spirit that threaten the authority of their own mind and expose the poverty of their own spiritual lives.
If your instinct is to automatically deny or suspect the Holy Spirit as an active and reliable agent in another believers' life, then I have news for you: You do not know the Holy Spirit. You may be saved by the skin o' your teeth, but as Ed Hurst would say, you are a 'stillborn' Christian. Less than an infant. You are not living the NEW life that Yeshua secured for us, which is LIFE in the Spirit. Life is not a thought, it is an experience and a power that is in fact more real than the senses and beyond the mind. I have no time for you other than to state the truth that I already know will only hurt your little bum (read: wound your pride) when, in fact, my motive for speaking thus is entirely in love. Grow up, and if/when you do, then the things CRez and other say will edify rather than rile you up.
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