You know, the feminists are upset because of a doll that when you pull the string says, "Math is hard". This is somehow supposed to be a putdown of women. It isn't really. The big things that are really worth doing are going to be challenging. John Kennedy said upon deciding upon our space program said, "We're not going to the moon because it's easy; we're going to the moon because it's hard". Enter Jesus of the K F I show. Some of these people who talk about the "original Hebrew" can't always be relied upon. We are told the original Hebrew in the injunction "Thow shalt not kill" is in fact the word for murder. This would certainly make it easier for people to follow. It would have all sorts of implication about making war and such. Let me now squash this whole theory like squashing a bug on a wind shield. Isaiah 7 says "A young maiden shall conceive in her womb". Nobody translates it that way even though that's what it says in the Hebrew. The word in just about every translation you'll see is pronounced "Virgin". Christianity would collapse like a house of cards, otherwise. Jesus spoke this morning of war being necessary. This doctrine of necessity seems to pre-empt Jesus' thinking. In philosophy they speak of a necessary or essential attribute of something. It would seem that war, according to Jesus, is a necessary attribute of Christianity. Gobles or someone once said "The extermination of the Jews isn't a necessary evil, it's just necessary". John Lennon said, "Make love not war" but Jesus' doctrine distilled down seems to be "Make war not love". Jesus then went on this morning to talk about "turning the other cheak". Once Ghandi said this meant that is the Nazis entered England the people should engage in the same passive resistance his people engaged in in India. I remember when Chuck Smith once spoke of having vengence and the people applauded and I thought "Well, this is neat. A religion that supports vengence. This was different from the liberalism I'd been exposed to in my own church. Jesus says "turning the other cheak" means that if someone is verbally insulting you you don't escalate the conflict into physical violence. He says "smiting on the cheek" is an "insult" and nothing to do with any kind of physical assault. Jesus has defined perfection downward. The yoke Christianity imposes on people is a heavy one. In the Bible it says broad is the way that leads to Hell and many go there but the road to rightiousness is narrow and few there be that find it". Jesus also weighed in on the line "He who lives by the sward shall die by the sward". Jesus said that he told the deciples to pick up swards. But Jesus left out the scene later on when Peter drew his sword in self defence and sliced off the right ear of Malchis or whoever. The real Jesus said "Put away your sword". It would seem Jesus had "set Peter up" to make a point about non violence. In fact the real Jesus was so non violent he was prepared to see the whole nation of Isrial destroyed at the hands of Rome rather than take up arms in self defence. Jesus on KFI says "War is necessary" no doubt thinking of the current Iraq war. But in some ways George Bush and Pontious Pilate are alike in that they both occupied far away countries and used military force to "Keep the peace" and keep the land "safe from agitators". Jesus doesn't seem to be against war if it's an oppressor doing it. There is a Yoco Ono song called "There may not be much difference". There may not be much difference between Charles Manson and Pope Paul VI, if we press their smiles. There may not be much difference between Ghandi and Marolyn Monroe, if we bottle their tears. There may not be much difference between Pilate and Bush, if we look at their Imperialist asperations. Every time non violence is even hinted about with Jesus on KFI, Jesus goes into a major eulogy for War and it's virtues. He has defined perfection downward. There are no more Ghandi's allowed.
Jesus was asked by a middle age lady about mental illness. Here you really find out what is on Jesus' heart. The lady said she could understand almost every other malody but not mental illness because mentally ill people can't receive Christ. Jesus chimed in with his usual stock answer. "Mentally ill people have just as much an oppertunity to reveive me as anybody else has". Not so. Jesus also has said "If you're an athiest there must somehow be something wrong with you, you must have issues that are warping your mind", his point being that no "normal person" could possibly be an athiests so if you were one there had to be something "wrong" with you. What Jesus said next was amazing. He spoke of mental illness giving glory to God. He said "If you're a surgon you get glory from the pain and suffering of others in putting them right". His policy seems to deni the idea "Adversity is something that produces greatness, it just reveals it". According to Jesus, evil has to exist for Great people to be great. Otherwise they'd have no purpose. But from there Jesus says, "Therefore God gets glory out of other peoples' imperfections. I am great in that my glory is shown in other peoples' mental illness". It was at that point he totally lost me but his Terry Shibo remarks had been similar. He said "Why can't some people just be allowed to exist as they are". His point was that God gets glory out of someone else living as a helpless vegetable. Whenever there is a choice Jesus will always opt against doing a healing, despite how this flagurantly violates scripture. Jesus said something about "I originally made everybody perfect". His rationalle I guess is that since he's not responsable for their imperfection he's not inclined to do anything about it. Let's look at original sin. We are to believe that when Adam and Eve ate that apple it put the "seeds of evil" in nature. If this is so, why do most depictions of "The Fall" show nature all at once going to pot before the "seeds" even had a chance to work. Here's one for you. Adam and eve lived six thousand years ago. Dinasaurs lived 65 million years ago. They were destroyed by an asteroid that struck the earth. How did "origional sin" get into that asteroid in outer space 65 million years into the past as a result of Adam eating the apple? Romans 8 tells us "All of creation was subject to futility, not of its own will but the will of the one who subjected it". I take this to mean Satan. Satan predestined the Cosmos to evil. Indeed whoever has the power to predestine the Universe is Lord of it, and Satan is called "The lord of this world". So it would seem predestination is Satan's doing, and if it is, it's something we should logically fight and not go along with. Jesus seems to say "If sin caused something, it isn't my problem". This really is defining perfection downward. Jesus then asked the woman if she herself was mentally ill. This made me mad because these people don't believe you can be concerned about others. They assume you're as self obcessed as they are about themselves.
Churchmen define perfection down in another way. Jesus taught "Do not refuse one who would borrow from you". He also said "If someone sues you and takes your coat, give them your cloak as well". This sets the bar mighty high. However in the ditike (?) or apostolic teaching it says "Let the money you plan to give another sweat in your palms till you are sure whether they really deserve it or not". This writing teaches if you're a prophet and decree that a meal be prepared, and if you yourself partake in that meal, you are no prophet". This isn't even Biblical. Elijah came to the widdow of Zaraphath and she was about to eat her last meal before she died, and Elijah had the stones to say "First prepare me a meal, and whatever you have left you can eat". Today the in thing among Christians is to speak of "tough love". And don't give to another because they might be a "swine". Perfection is defined downward. Also when it comes to preaching the Bible scripture says "Be instant in season and out of season". What does Jesus of KFI say? He says don't preach to another unless your own life is perfect and your neighbor can see that. Basically he says to "put on a good act" for your neighbor. According to Jesus- - if you just walk up and start preaching- - - you should stop and seccond guess yourself to death.
In terms of that fraternity where a pledge died of a water overdose, this is just another reason why I hate fraternities. You go through all this humiliation and sometimes your life is in jeopardy if you drink too much alcohol or whatever. And what does it buy you? The loyalty of people who are jerks to begin with. I have at times wondered why God was ignoring all his promises to me in scripture. I thought that maybe I was in some "initiation phase". Of course that wasn't true. But O D ing on water illustrates that you can indeed die from something that's normally good for you, like water, like religion. As the Dylan song says, "I bargained for salvation, she gave me a lethal dose". Fraternities are supposed to be about friendship and fellowship but those brothers wern't showing much of that.
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