Theocentric Musings

Whenever I see American Christians™ supporting war, speaking about how their enemies deserve to be destroyed, praying for God's covering on those dropping bombs on innocents, praying for the deaths of those of other religions, saying that there is a point where you don't forgive, that people should be caged for their sexual orientation, and even going so far as attacking those of us who preach the non-violent, all inclusive, forgiving, Love filled, message of Jesus, I hear on their voices... "Give us Jesus Barabbas! Give us Jesus Barabbas! Give us Jesus Barabbas! Give us Jesus Barabbas! Give us Jesus Barabbas! Give us Jesus Barabbas!*" We must break free from this destructive belief system that has infected those that should intimately know Him. *Barabbas's name appears as bar-Abbas in the Greek texts of the gospels. It is derived ultimately from the Aramaic בר-אבא, Bar-abbâ, "son of the father". Some ancient manuscripts of Matthew 27:16–17 ha...

  God is angry, He is judging America, He supports violent retributive acts, He endorses genocide, He gives you cancer, He took your job, He destroys families, He supports political parties, He supports legislation to force morality on people, He hates gay people, He hates Muslims, He hates atheists, He only loves a chosen group, He is foaming at the mouth to fry up a few billion worthless humans? Excuse me as I wipe up this nonsense and put it where it belongs.

    Something to think about. When Jesus walked the earth the biblical scholars at the time witnessed Him healing and accused Him of healing by the power of darkness. That's their first thought, it must be darkness. Their "god" kills and destroys sinners, commits genocide and various acts of wrath, according to them, so it can't be God loving on sinners. Their perception of God was so warped they truly believed the most delusional things. Yet, people refuse to believe that the writers of scripture in the OT had a warped perception of God as well, which influenced their writings and we should use Jesus as the litmus test for what God would or wouldn't do. We have members of the body that believe He chops off His own limbs for some greater purpose. A shepherd never abuses sheep, they are much too valuable. Don't be brainwashed into the same warped perception people currently have.

Many times I get accused of "following man" due to what I share, and my beliefs. The interesting thing about that is that almost 100% of the time it's an accusation from people who's core beliefs have only been taught by "man" the last 100-150 years or so. If you study history you would find that most modern beliefs were taught only by man and usually they served a purpose, 9 times out of 10 a ne gative purpose, fear, oppression, control, superiority complex, judging, hypocrisy, us against them, slave/master relationships, man on a pedestal, etc.   My beliefs are actually historically in tune with the church fathers, the ones who wrote scripture that people have placed on the highest pedestal, yet when you espouse the beliefs of those that wrote that worshipped bible, you get told you are not biblical. Confused yet? Yeah, I don't get it either. My beliefs, and what I share from wise men and women of God, empower people, they guide them into heali...

I  think Caleb Miller does a good job at describing what the church and many Christians have turned the wonderful story and attributes of our wonderful, loving God, into: "bipolar god creates man to serve him man screws up angry god wrathfully kicks them out of eden man screws up vengeful god destroys every living thing man screws up hippie god becomes peace loving human wrathful god kills hippie ... son hippie son redeems man through taking the father's abuse man has an opportunity at salvation, but only less than 1% will get it. bipolar god laughs and laughs while billions burn." [END QUOTE] This is why I share things that I write, and from men and women who have received wisdom from the Lord to help teach how we can get our interpretations wrong, and place the blame at the wrong Feet, as well as teach how historical beliefs affected writings in the past and currently. One of the first places to start in proper interpretation is knowing just who steals,...

Yes, what about all the wrath in Revelation? My friend, Richard Murray , answers your questions, please take the time to read and learn. The search for Truth should always be worth a few minutes of your time: WHAT ABOUT ALL THE WRATH IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION? by Richard Murray The purpose of this discussion is not to explain ALL the mysteries of Revelation. Rather, I want to highlight the key dynamics of how to read, interpret and understand the book in light of what we now know about God's goodness. Revelation is the "final exam" for understanding the goodness of God. If we don't already know the nature of God, we will never understand the book of Revelation. As Revelation 5 clearly shows, ONLY the divine nature and wisdom of Jesus is WORTHY and ABLE to unseal and open the mysteries of the book. People usually advertise Revelation as revealing a God who is incredibly violent, wrathful and destructive. Yet, is this true? Is this violent image the true ...

I've always found it interesting that those who believe God kills, steals, and destroys to teach us or train us, wont practice what they preach and teach or train their children that way. Hmmmmmmm... Prove me wrong... I dare ya... Or... Be humble enough to realize and admit that those negative things were attributed to God by a people that didn't have a full revelation of who He is and Christ showed with crystal clarity the character of God and His desire to heal, set free, and give life to the world, not a chosen few, and His manner of doing that was through love.

Christians miss the fact in scripture that Old Testament Saints were only equipped to fight against people, they were not equipped to fight against their true enemy, the forces of darkness. So that's what was recorded, and influenced their beliefs, they didn't see the fingerprints of darkness influencing people so they fought only who they were equipped to fight. God in covenant with the Israeli tes protected them from destruction when He could. Their enemies who had been seduced by darkness and quashed and pushed away any amount of God's covering by their flirtation with sin, were led into battles they could not win by satan. satan, who despises God's favorite creation, man, also was successful at times in seducing the Israelites. At times he would seduce them into sin and quash or remove God's covering, and would lead them to destruction as well. In the NT Jesus reveals who our true enemy is, the forces of darkness, He then equips us to fight a spiritual ...

  God is in complete control? If God is in complete control then every "backslider" back slid because He made them do it, anyone that offended you did it because He made them do it, anyone that hurt you did it because He made them do it, any attacks on your health or home is because He made it happen, so why are you so angry? Anything that happens, good, bad, or ugly is due to God doing it or making it happen. So the obvious reaction should be to stop complaining about it, stop fighting it, just let it happen and learn to deal with it. It isn't anyone but God's fault according to you, if you follow this belief. It's not the devil made them do it, its God made them do it according to this prevalent theology. Talk about calling good evil and evil good. It's not like God, Himself, actually began in the first book of the bible saying that He, Himself, decided to give man dominion over the earth... It's not like God, Himself, didn't tr...

Life would be so much easier in dealing with people (read: majority of Christians) if I spoke like an OT prophet. Death, judgment, kill, kill, kill, steal, destroy, fire, brimstone, earthquake taking out the entire left coast of the U.S., Hurricanes killing all your babies, God hates you, He really hates you...... I may in fact give up the good fight and start doing that. Bwaahhhahahahahahaaaa ... Who am I kidding, I never choose easy. I'm gonna keep sharing TRUTH, got that, TRUTH, unashamed, unabashed, and completely shockingly scandalous TRUTH, capitalize all the letters, TRUTH, also known as GRACE and known by His most wonderful name, JESUS. And if you can't see the love in that, maybe it's time for you to take off the religious glasses. If I didn't love ya, I'd regurgitate the same crap that would make me a heck of a lot more popular in Christian circles.

I don't understand why many Christians get mad when you proclaim a good God that is so very good all the time. A God that came to heal, not cause, sickness. Came to calm, not cause, storms. Came to set free from, not place into, prisons. And, you even show scriptural proof that He is gooder (I like that word) than the God they think He is, as well as historical proof that those who wrote about Him before He walked the earth had limited revelation of the difference between Him and darkness and were looking through the glass darkly. It's like to them He's only allowed to be a certain level of good and if He gets gooder, He somehow now becomes bad. Unfortunately their version of good includes Him doing what those not blinded know factually to be bad eg. steal, kill, destroy. I just don't get it. My God is gooder than I can even imagine. He's got to be to have died for the world while the world was still sinning. ‪ ‬