Chapter 12

            PACIFISM AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IN QUESTION                                                             

For everything I say and the way it's phrased, it's not fair for anyone to blame me when all the while they should blame created destiny that we may have all created, which God is using through me and others, to relay and hopefully restructure and set things straight.

Many have died for what they believed in, because of their love, mercy and compassion for others, with the qualities and hallmark of love your neighbour as yourself.

The future for Christians on the whole is not going to be as easy in these present times because living as Christians within all that they assume or are conditioned to believe is not quite right and true.

There is more to living a Christian life from the gospels than the majority of Christians manifest.

If anyone is a true Christian this is the overwhelming question that they need to ask themselves, are they pacifists?

Jesus said love your neighbour and forgive your enemy, if he strikes you on the cheek then also give him the other cheek, if he steals your coat then also give him the other one.

Are you comfortable with this?
Are you a real Christian?

Please let’s be honest about this without creating the need for misunderstandings.

If you are a real true Christian and adhere to its values, you should then no longer promote or partake in any kind of warfare.

The nature of Jesus was love at all cost and at all times he was hoping that love would win the day as the bible further goes on to explain that love conquers all.

The Christian life requires no aggression, full stop, unless Christians want to continue as they are doing and be called Christians by default.

Love and kindness does work but not in all instances because it can be seen as a kind of weakness and many do play on this and take advantage of the fact. So therefore, real Christianity must now be questioned if the balance of all that it represents within the struggle for life and survival of the fittest, the reality of living in an evil world is the uncomfortable but nevertheless accepted norm.

No one can then escape the fact that a perfect Christian from north to south, east and west, from all that the bible teaches, would without hesitation for a fellow brother, sister or another human being, share everything that they possess and not war against anyone, because in real terms they are pacifists and would willingly succumb under the rule of those more evil than themselves by not using any form of weapon against them.

A true real pacifist would not raise their hand against anyone as Mahatma Gandhi demonstrated and won until assassinated with also many, many untold others and this is not what is being taught by some of the evangelicals that I have listened to in sermons, both out of television and on satellite TV.

Jesus with the one exception in the temple I am sure would not resort to the same method over and over again.

How many as Christians today would do the same?

Are you a Christian in name only, but not in deed?

What have you learnt from the overall combined scriptures and your experiences?

Are you on the true road of salvation, if this is right as it's made believe and is it properly taught by you being the living proof and example like all those that gave everything in every way possible to be classified as Christ-like?

If you are, you are then a formidable example of love and charity at all times, but unless led in the process every time you give, you are then not fully obeying God as regards to when it should be done, as some people don't deserve it if their destiny does not approve it!

In the real world that we live in, Christians not only promote war with the support of other Christians, but they also because of greed take what belongs to other people or fellow Christians, and this because the present system is allowed to operate in this way.

Would Jesus or the writers of the gospels if with us today condone and allow the practice to go on by being part of it? And would they say, obey your governments unless conveniently added as I have said before?

Are the church fathers also not guilty? Because they do live in a lap of luxury and they are players or gamblers for another word of the financial stock markets. Is this the example that Jesus or the apostles would have set?

Do they realize how many have committed suicide, divorced or separated from friends and other family members because they have become destitute, due to the financial crash and are either in mental institutions or wander the streets aimlessly lost and afflicted in so many ways.

If we measure the overall depth of evil that the financial markets generate, how big a pit would it fill? Is it not more catastrophic than actual wars by being an unseen enemy and when we don’t realize or reflect on its capacity to kill and destroy?

Would Jesus or the apostles have the portfolio and amount of real estate that religious institutions possess, with so many starving and destitute in the world? Are they really Christians? And those that are part of them by giving financial and active every day practical support, will not God judge them in varying degrees, within their factual capacity and functional contribution?

Would Jesus or the apostles have blessed both armies going to battle against one another as Christians have done and are the stock markets any different because just the same from another principle, angle or point of view, it all adds up to the same thing when we understand and consider that they are a continuous never-ending raging battle and when we count the cost and toll. What do we see?

Judge and meditate on this and see the blatant disregard for anyone, which amounts to nothing else but daylight robbery and indirect murder within the law, contrary again to Christian values. Libor not excluded when it can be manipulated!

Are you still creating war today by being part of the financial systems that create death, strife and turmoil amongst society? Should they not be abolished and replaced with something else more worthy of a merciful and caring society? Do you want to live in a better world or not? Are you just spouting in church that god is going to change the world for the better, not realising that it's you and the systems that you support, that need to change the way they do business for a fairer balance and not all the while you stay at home with pleasurable pastimes while others slave for you for a pittance!! Don't you know that what goes around goes around and nothing is free but at a price and cost of everything we do!!

We must be careful though that when change happens, that nothing is created that adds up to the same thing, as generally this is the case.

If you keep believing that god forgives, you will then not change. Please very carefully understand though! That he will shorten your life or send afflictions! The scripture is specific in showing that god can shorten or give length to life.

Will those involved who have participated in some way by making money from the proceeds of these financial markets after all the evil they recently generated be totally forgiven as they presume?

This is the question you must raise in your heart and amongst other fellow believers if devotion to a belief or way of life is to be practiced, without being hypocritical about it and by no longer trying to fool the people that you profess to be helping when they are no longer naive.

 
It is terrible to think and true that Christianity or other Religions can help on the one hand and destroy with the other. It can take care of people and also at the same time destroy them.

If we want respect from the community around us we can then no longer be insensitive and continue to act irresponsible.

Offering help when sympathy and comfort is needed is a very noble thing to do but it would have been better if we had led by examples and taught the true facts of life and what happens when we stray from the narrow path that leads to salvation and eternal life and not the wide one that leads to perdition and then in this way the people would not have found themselves in their present predicament.

The scripture does say that everything is permissible but that not everything is beneficial. What a picture when we look at how the majority of Christian leaders live today.

Is there hope for us by saying that the church fathers will abandon this evil practice and also lead the fight to abolish it?

It is becoming more obvious and elementary as time progresses that individuals, banks, corporations, etc, that Christians support through bonds and shares or other capital investments, can no longer keep taking for themselves resources from other nations and in the process leaving the people in gross penury and squalid living conditions, without anything done about it. Are these the principles that we should continue to live and abide by, and what would Jesus, Buddah, or Muhammad have done about it?

Would Jesus not have gone in there and tipped all their tables over, smashed up all their computers and turned the power off as he did in the temple with the money lenders and changers, the banking system of those days calling it a den of thieves?

Are we still not surrounded by thieves?

Two thousand years on and Christians and their useless in part religion is still letting the people down because they are the thieves. 

God at this stage wants to put the flies in the ointment, out of my hands because of the spirit at work through me in total control, allowing me no other alternative or solution but use this definition or metaphor.  

The "holy" father and pontiff the Pope if we can believe it because we are all sinners as he said himself and none perfect, did say some time ago that capitalism should decline without actually anyone having taken any notice when nothing has changed including the institution that he leads and this does not exclude the Church of England because they are also culpable  and if anything the climate has made things worse for the common man because those with real wealth and capital make money or acquire commodities and property whether in good or bad times that exist. This is because it’s in their personal interests to know how to control markets and without doubt use the law for their own ends regarding taxes and other loopholes and they not only know the judges that make the law but also the politicians who know how to make use of it and regularly hold sessions with them to be kept in the know and at the forefront so that they can be at the best place, at the right time to amass more wealth as plans are made and realeased with those in mind through the brotherhood of freemasonry.

No equality in this, no love your neighbour as yourself and total disregard for don’t do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.

We must also not forget that everything is hinged and continues to hang in the balance with great responsibility in the process because God has clearly stated that He is making everything new!

Will it ever happen and when? How long will everyone have to wait, and what will be the real cost of not acting promptly in terms of human life and suffering?

Will God have the necessary men with authority from the conbined multifaiths to do whatever needs to be done to end all inconsiderate, unmerciful practices.

Lives are at stake through the evil that we create without consideration in our nations and other nations in an assortment of ways when people have to resort to immoral ways for then to survive. The then structural sin created through various unchallenged systems will later return the like evil upon the people of the offending nations who are allowing the practice that’s instigating and provoking the unaccepted and unnecessary disorder and mayhem.

Destiny is irrevocable when it has critically gone too far and the walls close in with no way out and politicians will try everything possible to avert the impossible but I personally don’t believe that they will satisfactory succeed in these present times with what I see going on, otherwise the changes that God is talking about would never happen and I can only suggest that they voluntarily succumb gracefully and work together with those that are able and willing to turn the table on those intent on carrying on regardless because of their inbread desires to keep on dominating the human race.

Their continual planning and scheming can no longer be fruitful in a world whereby they show no honour and remorse and this not only amongst themselves but also above the people that they represent, but as long as there are willing volunteers that will educate others less able to see for themselves what is going on and for nothing without cost, we are then in line with the promise that God has made us that He will make everything new.

The question again is, are we sure that we are alive and not dead in sin and will we allow those that are stealing our salvation and longevity of life to continue to do so?

The destruction and wantonness that they believe in, is it affecting everyone, our children and grandchildren included?

It’s tough, but needs to be confronted and may wisdom and understanding prevail before things become much worse, but there is no telling exactly how far destiny will take it before it subsides.

I will further add that to be able to live Christianity as Jesus intended is a most wonderful thing if on the whole it would prove beneficial but not without serious repercussions that would ultimately be no good if we do it on the basis that we would not be prepared to defend our dignity and human values when others pertaining to know God but in effect devoid of God, would then infringe on our God given rights when we are the one's blessed with them.

First of all it’s impossible to give unconditional love in every possible way to every individual when destiny will not allow it if they do not merit it, and secondly by helping everyone when living in a world of evil-intentioned individuals and depleting ourselves of finances unless intended again by our destiny we will then allow those who are set on making money at all cost the upper hand because we will then be under the power and control of their dominion and we will have no alternative or choice then but to do their bidding and serve them at their discretion. Please know and realise that I am not naive enough not to understand the reason for the church fathers involvement in the stock markets and the reason why they have to make money at all costs so that some of it later can be used for good works but what good is it to the people that receive it when the evil that taints it later affects them. Would it not be better if the markets were abolished? A better system of maintaining a level of care in the world will definitely arrive because the present one in use is everything to lose and nothing to gain.

Further and unless voluntarily willing to live submissively under the control of unmerciful individuals more so than we are doing today because it will increase without enough of us protesting, then live as God guides us as "One" in unity when it arrives for the best and do whatever good possible whenever or wherever He says.

Let us not kid and fool ourselves, because only in an ideal world would we ever be able to live a proper Christian life without others being able to take advantage of the fact.

I am being contradictory here but I feel that I have to raise and stress this point for the sake of the combined Christian church family and its values that they manifest and I do know that God cannot help everyone as I have explained above, but I was told by an individual in need whom I was trying to direct and to join our congregation, that not only himself but also others on other occasions on going to the Anglican vicars house where I attended for help were told to go away and no doubt there have been other endless cases in other places and at other times.

Can it continue to exist and is it Christianity?

How can some of the wealthiest religious Christian institutions live in such a lap of luxury and do nothing for the homeless and destitute in the world, especially their own Christian brothers whom they gladly draw into their fold and take their money when they have it, but liable to do nothing for them when the politicians and the democracy that they also have maintained and supported lets them down, by not providing adequately but allow other charitable organization to step in for them when they themselves are exempt from paying taxes on earnings, buildings, or investments. 

Finances given to charities must also be carefully handled because despots and political power can use this aid to fund wars and rebellions for the wrong reasons, as documentaries have shown us.

This is not Christianity at its best and when it cannot be handled or looked after in an exemplary manner as the gospels require or because of destiny and should then either be left well alone or its values explained clearing the matter up as God allows so that it will not rob from those whom I have maximum respect for alive or dead their due honour amongst us especially Jesus "even though he messed up badly within all that he said when it lacked balance and fact. 

False humanity in religion has no real pity or everlasting power, otherwise the world would not be in the plight that it’s in, and those who don’t care enough say to the rest ‘you either take it or leave it, because that’s how it is’.

A great mind shift with an explosion of analytical truths will from now on shower the whole world, providing questions and solutions that many will not want to hear, negotiate or accept.

There is a problem though, not platonic in attitude and the choice is here before us.

We check our conscience and at the same time obey God, or we continue to obey our governments and those who assume that they are in control of our faith and doing nothing to produce the fruit that life requires at intervals as shown by the trees positioned along the biblical river and believe me when I say, that we can fight our way out of this one because otherwise life will become very difficult, not just for those that have arrived at the end of their working lives, but also for their children and future descendants.

Behind the gates that are presently closed to us lies a most wonderful world when we create it and the only thing that can open those gates is the truth that God will give us.

An example of this is found in:

Genesis: Chapter 3 Verse 24 NIV

24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth guarding the way to the tree of life.

As I have explained before, that the Spirit is everything and also in John’s case the angel told him that he was also a servant and in this case the cherubim is no other than the Spirit with the truth symbolic for the flaming sword (Spirit and truth) flashing back and forth meaning everywhere but given to those individuals that face the east because of where the cherubim was placed, meaning again that east is where the sun rises and the sun symbolic for the God of righteousness whom we should follow after for God then to give us truth as the light that the sun gives including water and why the symbolic spring or river instances or references in the bible because it nourishes life.

This does not mean that just by facing towards the east we will hear God because God is everywhere and the truth will come upon those irrespective of where they face as long as they follow after God who will impart all that's necessary for them to act as their destiny wills. The key to the wonderful world that will manifest in the future will be given to those individuals.

The thing that we must also keep in mind is that God will give truth to anyone that through cause and effect has earned the right to receive it, irrespective of whether he is a believer or not and which faith he belongs to and this inevitably means that we must be open to receive from anyone and must also look for and find individuals no matter where they may be and if necessary be prepared to go to a place of ill repute when we are strong if the Spirit directs us to do so, without becoming prey and falling in the clutches of the enemy that is ever ready to destroy us because what we may find there in truth is invaluable for our salvation, which without it the next piece for the jigsaw of life would then be missing.

This will only happen though to those individuals who are ment by destiny to go there and is not a general rule for everyone to obey.

Truth, and the way it can be used by elaborating its many virtues can serve many purposes, and can go as far as fool those less aware of the many facts that surround it, and we only know that it’s right or thereabouts right as we add up the evidence that it presents and represents.

With this I would like to end that the simplistic way religion is taught does not do proper justice to the Bible or other Holy books and fails to open up the mind enough to sustain growth to an extent that we leave our present unrepentant state and acquire a more prestigious understanding with wiser self esteem that would stand us in good stead because of where God needs to take us re-inventing our lives in reinforced exemplary ways with brighter more beautiful aspects.

The seen is not all it seems because the unseen is guarded and those that believe they present the best image for how life should be lived for the best might actually be the worse candidates by teaching and also practicing what is obviously wrong. Not removing but continuing to keep those they represent in the clutches of death and by not allowing God to open their ears enough to hear the truth, will definately not ever be able to open the eyes to see further.

A gangster or anyone else that commits murder is given a life sentence, while those that take other people's resources in every possible way imaginable and people end up hurt and dying in huge numbers by various causes, except for the odd scapegoat carry on doing it. In the case of bankers even though there will be some reforms, they were told by a notable distinct member of society His Royal Highness The Duke Of Edinburgh, not to do it again.

Will the rod of steel that the bible talks about ever be used in all areas of life without exception by not using methods or systems that allow having one law for one and not for the other because stealing within the law and murdering directly or indirectly always adds up to the same thing in the eyes of God? And those that knowingly take advantage and support it even in an ignorant way right down to the least individual will be repaid in full.

The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby head of the Church of England, an expert in the field of finances, commerce and capitalism, has he been appointed this role particularly for these times so that together with the Pope and other religious leaders biblically and scripturally in every sense of the word possibly change the way we all live for the better?