A Definition

 

Eternity is absolute reality.  

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA

Biden's Burden

 Biden’s Burden has dumped dung on our national expectations this Thanksgiving 2021.  It is impossible to believe positively about our American future since our President, without popular support, has given the crazies the green light for what he and they call fundamental change.  Fundamental it is, hardcore socialism at minimum but sure to lead to a top-down communist takeover of everything and everybody that is American. 

A narrow group of traitors will soon rule over we the people, all the while claiming to be changing America to benefit the people.  It is the lie without equal in American history but has been used to further fundamental change in places like Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and China.  All of these political structures want to call themselves democracies but that is another lie made easier to believe since the first lie was so effectively swallowed.  Gullible we are if all we care about is our own narrow self-interest.

Ninety million voters chose (maybe) this crap in 2020, so we all deserve to wallow and suffer.  Saying I told you so means so little; some say just wait until 2022.  Even if the Republicans take the Senate and the House in 2022, Biden will still be president.  This means no new legislation but he has already proven that he doesn’t need legislation.  Our country will be so trashed inside and out in the four years of his presidency that there will be no going back. We are effectively doomed.  Thanksgiving is now only history.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA

 

 

Hell No!

 The sketchy lie of Christian theology is the doctrinal insistence on the hell scenario.  In the eyes of the church, all peoples who live outside the bounds of their religion will be forever damned by God to reside in the fiery torment of hell.  Over the centuries there have been additions and subtractions from this doctrinal premise but it has remained fundamentally the same for 2000 years in Christianity. The assumption of this theology is that Jesus preached hell so the church, speaking for Jesus, must warn the people of the eternal danger they may soon experience.  The problem is that this assumption is a fraud without biblical support and is merely a top-down religious group think intended to support the power of the Church over the people.  This group think has no scriptural integrity except one possibility.  

The preaching of Jesus consistently encouraged his hearers to activate their God given spiritual potential but he never threated his listeners with the hell scenario.  The exception is the spiritual thrashing he gives to the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees.  These so-called religious leaders were harassing him because the message of Jesus did not fit their narrative.  Jesus said, God is my Father encourager, my mother sustainer, my advocate, my defender and my provider just as he is your encourager, sustainer, advocate, defender and provider.  Any of us can approach God one on one, there is no need to go through the religious hierarchy from Jerusalem to approach God.  This infuriated Jerusalem.      

There are two Greek words for hell that the writers of the Gospels credit Jesus as using.  One Greek word is HADES, meaning the unseen state of being or ghostly world down in the depths.  The other is GEHENNA, taken from the name of a place outside Jerusalem with a ghastly history that became the community dump.  The word HADES was used by Jesus in the Gospels of the New Testament only four times (Matt. 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23).  Gehenna was spoken by Jesus only nine times (Matt. 5:22 & 29; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15 &23; Mark 9:43 & 45 &47; Luke 12:5). One might wonder how such a hellish doctrine could be based on so few scriptural annotations but let’s look closely at these scriptural passages.   

Every usage of these few hellish words by Jesus was in response to attacks by the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees.   The religious law that was given to Moses was never the answer to the spiritual need of the people, it was only a substitute, a temporary fix awaiting the words of Jesus.  Long before the time of Jesus, the spiritual Law of Moses had degenerated into a sadistic legalism that was intended to strip the people of all spiritual courage.  And by doing so, this gave the religious leaders the authority over the people that they craved.  The Pharisees were a radical group of God seekers who believed that the only way to approach God was by the strict performance of every minutia of the Law of Moses that had been continually “improved” by the religious leaders over the centuries.  These folk were legalists on steroids. 

Jesus would have none of it.  An angry Jesus is difficult to picture but he had his moments.  Turning the collection tables in the Temple was one such moment and turning the doctrinal tables on the religious legalists was another.  Consider the response of Jesus toward his antagonists in Matthew 23.  This sermon by Jesus directed at the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees, was devastating.  Talk about an altar call!  It is a seven-point warning or condemnation of their religious practices and presumptions.  Seven times Jesus gives the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees a warning, six times he calls them hypocrites, two times he calls them blind spiritual guides, once blind men, once he calls them blind fools.  This wasn’t just a name calling session, Jesus goes on to tell them the facts, the why of their hypocrisy.  The words of Jesus in verse 15 are especially devastating, “You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and then you make that convert twice as much a child of hell as you are.”  Ouch!

The hell raising theologians are gleeful, see, it is in the scriptural record, Jesus was a hell raiser as we are because he called us children of hell.  In verse 33, Jesus concludes, “You snakes! You brood of vipers!.  How will you escape being condemned to hell?” Jesus was, indeed, angry, we can all agree on that, but are these threats a reason to accept the reality of hell?   You be the judge, was Jesus just reacting to their negativity or are the fires of hell for real?

While you are thinking about the question, I’ll give you, my opinion.  Most of us at one time or another have gotten ourselves into a heated argument that is taken to a personal level by condemning the offender to hell. The retort, “You go to hell”, is common language, at least in my world.  Another retort might be, “when I go to hell, I’ll be riding on your coattail”.  This is a perfectly human response, is it not?  Jesus was not condoning or in any way acknowledging the facts of a possible hell scenario, he was slamming those who would burden others with such a falsehood.  

The proof is in the pudding, Chapter 23 and verses 37,38 &39.  Ever since Moses came down from the mountain a second time with the religious tablets of the Ten Commandments, the people of the exodus from Egypt have been at war fighting other peoples and themselves. In the time of Jesus, the fight could be summed up in one word, Jerusalem.  The religion of Moses fought and killed the many purveyors (prophets) of authentic spirituality sent into their midst by God.  Jesus would only be the latest to die.  Because the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees were passing on the long tradition of killing, Jesus holds them responsible for all the blood, from beginning to end. 

Matthew 23:  37,38 &39.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers he chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.  Look, your house is left to you desolate.  For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. (39)’”

Our gathering God tells it like it is, we are a stubborn people who take spirituality for granted while we do our own thing.  We are not willing so we experience the desolation of our earthly destiny but even the worst of the worst, the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees will, according to Jesus, before or after death, come to be blessed when they and we see aright and then will be willing to be sheltered under the gathering wings of our God.

 G. Goslaw

Landers, CA 

 

 

 

 

 

Safari

 

The Great North American Safari of 2022!

Fox News Huckster

Picture for a moment the old western movies as the huckster wagon rolled into town to sell his magic elixir that he claims will surely cure all that ails you.  Of course, when the demand goes flat for the elixir, the huckster will bring out anything and everything else to sell to the gullible people.  One-hundred-dollar pillows to start and then God is also for sale.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA.

God in Camo

 If you believe in God and if you believe that your reality is somehow within the bounds of his will, then God is everywhere and in all things.  Why does such a powerful pervasive God hide from us behind a cloak of camouflage?  God is hidden, so says Martin Luther who believed God stays hidden to reveal himself in Jesus Christ.  This understanding may speak to his theological musings but could not the answer to the why question be simpler?  God values seekers not necessarily saints.

The best John Wayne movie was “the Searchers”.  For an hour and a half of the movie John Wayne is searching the plains for a girl child captured by the Indians.  He searched for years with laser like focus, never giving up.  The last few minutes of the movie, the girl, now a young adult, is found and a cultural confrontation ensues.  The time numbers may be exaggerated a bit but the point is that the searching was more important to the movie than the finding. 

We, as children of God, are called by God to be searchers first and foremost.  Religion maximizes the finding language giving the new believers a place to land and stop searching and stop questioning.

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA      

 

Liars

 The Biden administration and his progressive directors are EVIL because they are insisting on making all Americans poorer.  They are saying, our green agenda is more important than your financial welfare just as the cost of everything keeps climbing, particularly the oil related infrastructure.  

Biden's Energy Secretary was on the TV shows over the weekend telling everyone listening an abject lye, she said that Biden is not responsible for the extradentary increase in the cost of gas and heating oil for our homes.  Anyone with an ounce of brain power knows that Biden and the green agenda have everything to do with our energy debacle.

Their agenda is more important than yours America, therefore they are evil and you must suck it up!  Really?

 

Yellowstone

 Well, it’s Yellowstone time again, the modern-day Montana, “shoot’em up”, returns for a fourth season tonight.  Over the years we routine and mostly normal viewers have been shocked at the number of violent murders per episode.  There appears to be no guilt or regret and least of all, no justice.  According to the philosophy of the show, killing is a necessary human condition to protect the life interests of your own folk, self-interest personified and radicalized.  The prize always in question, in every episode, is the Yellowstone, a large cattle ranch in Montana that has become extremely valuable today’s market.  The ranch is more than a business to the family owner, the ranch is a family legacy and a promise to those who lived on the land before this present hour.

The show itself gives credit to philosopher Fredrick Nietzsche (1844-1900) for the thinking behind the chaotic storyline. Most of us recognize him as the God is dead theologian.  This moniker is an absolute contradict in terms for how can anyone be a theologian if such a person believes there is no God?  The truth is that Nietzsche was only a philosopher, who espoused a Godless situational ethic based only on the efficacy of relative human circumstances.  According to this ethic, we should ask ourselves when facing a life decision, how will this decision work out for me and mine?  We can expect nothing but chaos if everyone is guided in their decision making by Nietzsche and we get chaos in Yellowstone. 

Nietzsche was right thinking as well as wrongheaded.  The only God he had experienced was the religious God, the top-down authority personified through the established church, that thought of God is indeed dead.  However, to assume that there is no other worldly presence available to we humans is wrongheaded as well as shortsighted.  All well rounded thinkers should be aware of the historical track of the spirit world’s interaction with we humans with varying results.  They are documented in the Bible and secular history books.  The only consistent result is that a spiritual awaking always turns back into a top-down religion within a few short years but when an awaking happens, the me interests take a back seat and God is in control.

Yellowstone struggles at this point by limiting itself to Nietzsche thinking but our modern cultures are just as vulnerable.  The question comes from every corner, in every circumstance, can violence be a righteous option?  Nietzsche would say “yes” but every spiritual awakening that has entered our world has entered on the absolute condition of a “no” answer.  If a spiritual awakening had a voice it would say, “I so believe in God that what happens to me is of no earthly concern.”

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca

 

 

What's?

 What’s it going to take?  Allow me to throw a wet blanket on all the Republican fire over the state wide victory in Virginia and the yet to be decided close election in New Jersey. In both cases, the margin of victory is so incredibly small.  In Virginia, approximately 70,000 more voters chose the Republican future out of the 3.3 million total votes cast.  That is about 2 / 100^th of a per cent margin.  New Jersey is a virtual tie with mail in ballots to determine the winner in the days or weeks to come.  The victory celebrations are pathetic! 

After all that the woke Democratic left has revealed itself to be, how can any American who has the slightest loyalty to God and country, vote for a Democrat?  They are either dumb, asleep of a traitor!

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA