Let The Cards Lie (eBook)

A Biblical Memoir

Mike Tovar (Autor)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
318 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
979-8-3509-2625-5 (ISBN)

Mike Tovar's second and he says, final book presents his website essay exposing biblical errors underlying Christian fundamentalist fanaticism. Scores of readable stories like his mom chasing down an airliner or Mike trying his hand at hunting backwards mix lots of pleasure with the business. As a new parent, Mike had questions about spanking or smacking or hitting with a stick. Discoveries online of manipulated bible translations were eye openers. Wanting to contribute to world peace, Mike started a mailing list to share what he'd learned about children's rights and teen guidance. A fun loving person but getting the work done, author Mike Tovar mixes both well. A campfire's array of stories under the starry canopy of one book is Mike's to show and tell. Mike says children's lives matter as much as adults. Teen stories are included to demonstrate what Mike perceives as the innate nobility of youth.

INTRODUCTION

I will show you especially how it never entered God’s biblical mind to tell us to spank one of his little ones. The so-called ‘rod’ rule was for rebellious young men, never young women and children. And the rod was used once-and-for-all on Jesus Christ. The Spirit of Christ now maturely advises ‘Urge the young men to control themselves.”

‘When push comes to shove, try pulling, per the little sign on the door’. I thought that liner up after struggling with the entry door of my local newspaper. Check out the article about my booklet that the Lewistown Sentinel kindly wrote on Dec. 31st.

Fallen man is violent, not God. Look at Jesus chasing the merchants out of his heavenly dad’s temple-house. Of those selling doves, he merely told them to pick the cages up and get them out of there. Jesus Christ was frequently assertive, but he was never aggressive. In other words, he never hit anybody. So why are we spanking?

Regular archaeology is correct to show us how both local-Canaanite and Egyptian-influenced Israelite upbringing was violent. God told Moses and Joshua that he’ll send hornets to vacate the villages of the people of the land to avoid violence. If you know, hornets are enormous stinging bees the size of large grasshoppers.

There is much studied evidence to prove Moses and Joshua exaggerated a lot when they wrote the biblical reports of their aggressive exploits.

The people already living in the land, like the Israelite rabble, were morally corrupt with no sense left of social freedom and individual respect, you know no golden rule. And God clearly told the Israelites that it was no quality of character on their part that entitled them in any way to possession of the Land of Canaan.

Remember how the Israelite people had already debauched themselves while Moses was up on the mountain of Sinai. And God then told Moses to stand aside so he could wipe them out. God had told Moses he’ll start everything over with him, but Mo successfully begged him off the idea.

God soon informed the Israelites with whom he had resumed working that if they persisted in their lack of appreciation, then he would drive them out of the land also. He did that very thing using Nebuchadnezzar to exile them to Babylon to recoup seventy years of missed sabbaths, then later by the Romans worldwide until recently.

Moses messed up too, having already disobeyed God one time too many and thus forfeited his own opportunity to enter the promised land with everyone else. And you do know, the entire generation that came out of Egypt, God let them die off in the desert for their own unloving and disrespectful attitude.

I do explain in this essay that many Jewish people have been learning the way of peace, a social story most of Christendom would do well to heed, including the so-called ‘peace churches’.

Moses did correctly pass on the fact from God to the people that God was pointing them all to someone totally better than Moses. God humbly reserved the crucial detail from Moses until later prophetic writers that, that totally better person was going to be an incarnation of himself, Emmanuel meaning ‘God with us’.

This is the same personal God who used to check in on his creations, Adam and Eve once a day in the Garden of Eden to see how much fun they were having there. It was a respectful relationship as I’ll explain further later on.

God as Jesus Christ then stood in the woodshed for the licking all self-conscious people, not brand-new children have evidently earned for themselves. Jesus as God incarnate gave absolutely no indication when he was living here, that children before the age of reason transgress as sin.

Even the prophet Isaiah wrote ahead of time of the Christ Child, “Butter and honey will he eat before he is able to discern between the good and the evil”. Of course by age 12 Jesus was very focused.

And Jesus was the seed of Eve that God told Satan would bruise his head, totally.

In the meantime for example the original picture-writing of the Chinese peoples is replete, positively full of direct graphic recall of the events of the Garden of Eden (later the brilliant full-spectrum encyclopedia carried by the Chinese commercial fleet and given to merchants of Venice, Italy—the ancient New York City of Europe—would be the foundation of the western cultural renaissance. Note, the practical Arabians had a canal east-west connecting the Nile River with the Red Sea; see the recommended book ‘1434’ for the full story).

So what-to-do? All we have to do is be ‘Nice or nasty, kind or cruel, wise man or fool’, simply looking to God the creator of beauty on the earth and in the cosmos, loving him and each other as a way of life, really the way of life. For ‘the golden rule is the real rod of correction’. But, it’s God’s niceness and kindness and wisdom he fruits in us upon our act of repentance, not any spiritual fruit of our own. Jesus called this being born again.

Understand, apostle Paul twice in the new covenant or new testament, same thing personally articulated the difference between the old system of general coercion and the new one of individual persuasion (which God has always prioritized if people’s wills are conducive to it.) Now watch as God goes with the flow of a positive accumulation of honest individual response to him over the years, slightly crystallized by Jesus.

The two instances are for all of our dumb-brain-joggling benefits. To the Corinthians, in whose community among other hootenanny shenanigans Paul had justly suggested an ostracization of one of the men who was in the dubious habit of fucking his mother, if it was his mother-in-law, fucking/fornicating, the informal/formal words for it. Paul then stands back with a bird’s-eye view and challenges them with the question, “What will ye, shall I come unto you with a rod or with a spirit of love and a spirit of meekness?”

The other instance is something he said to the Jewish-Christians, in which Paul compares the rod whoopings they received as young men from their ticked-off dads to the new idea of seeking peace with all men, including cantankerous young men. While Paul is wonderfully wordy in the entire letter to ‘the Hebrews’, his meaning here in chapter twelve is clear. “Now, no discipline for the present seems to be joyous but rather miserable.” ‘See? Divine chastening is circumstantial for everyone now by God’s hand in Jesus.

In a nutshell, the ecclesiastical bully pulpit of Christendom, both corporately and individually is significantly based on the wrongly translated Mosaic ruling of a rod of corporal punishment for rebellious and disrespectful young men. Otherwise what’s the value of innocence?

And further, this slyly connects to the also wrongly translated phrase in the new testament of ‘obey them’, instead of the correct translation from the Greek ‘be ye persuaded’ of your loving and more experienced older sisters and brothers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you see the difference ?

My dear readers, we who are truly Jesus’ little ones of his for-ever-love have evidently accepted candy from strangers. ‘Poisoned candy where hand holding metastasizes into arm twisting. A couple, professional statue makers back in communist Russia, got to asking each other about the amazingness of the human hand, especially the thumb. They said privately with each other despite their secular upbringing, that because of the existence of the thumb a wise spirit creator must exist. They soon learned of ‘Christ Jesus’ to put thumb and pointing finger together.

God’s social guidelines, the ten commandments are totally non-violent. God had no logical choice but to put down the rabid animal that were some, not all of the Canaanites. Rabies is a non-negotiable disease, hornets notwithstanding. Put yourself in God’s shoes for a moment.

Cain kills his little brother and donates his own cold-blooded attitude to his children. Who violently dominate the world they make, and so God drowns all but eight decent people. Of these the bad attitude still gets passed on until the first Babylon. Who again stop worshiping the creator and start worshiping the creation.

The people of the post-flood world cluster themselves up at Babylon. God must intervene to get them going in his intended direction. He confuses their single language into the seventy original groupings that modern ethnology and linguistics are aware of.

Next, Israel’s intended exercise is to share with the rest of the world what the almighty god had shown them of his real personality. The refugee years in Egypt as strangers, and before that the pioneer years of Abram and Sarai were supposed to furnish a humble perspective. This is the reason God told them to eat the passover meal once a year standing up.

God later had someone write, “To the law and to the testimony”. This tells us to look both back to the 10 commandments and forward to the testimony of Jesus. Lastly, an angel told the apostle John “…for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy”.

Life is one fun game of Clue, and life is God, who is spirit and in truth has created will-filled matter to reflect himself. And if matter reflects himself, then it...

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.10.2023
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
ISBN-13	979-8-3509-2625-5 / 9798350926255

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