Mask Tyrants

People are created in God’s image. I refuse to treat them as if they turned the air they exhale into a biohazard. I refuse to be treated as walking biohazard when I’m not sick. There is nothing in Scripture about thinking that way, and it is evil. That is my religious exemption. I don’t care whether you like it or don’t agree with it. I will not comply.

I refuse to have a cashier or a governor require me to use a medical device. The cashier lady at the sheet metal supply company is not my doctor. My health is my responsibility. Everyone else needs to take care of themselves. I will help them where I can, and take reasonable action, but it makes no sense to wear a mask. I’m not going to wear one to please someone’s desire for a placebo.

If someone wants to wear a mask, that is fine with me. I would say that if you think you might actually be spreading corona everywhere you go, you should self-quarantine. However, it is reprehensible to think that there is any power on earth capable of forcing me to wear a mask against my will. NO AUTHORITY ON EARTH HAS THE POWER TO FORCE PEOPLE TO WEAR A MASK. If you’re in favor of government forcing me to wear a mask, you’re sinning. You should have the guts to hold a gun to my head and force me to wear a mask yourself, rather than calling police to do it for you.

Scripture defines love–not men. 

Merry Christmas!

I have Christian friends who don’t celebrate Christmas because they believe Christmas trees, and other symbols of Christmas have pagan origins. I thought this was a very good refutation of that line of thinking.

From John Andrew Reasnor:

“Pagans believe that there is real spiritual significance to temporal and material objects and symbols. For example, certain animals, signs, words, symbols, trees, figurines, days, dances, clothing, hair styles, and so on all have inherent spiritual value and can be tapped into for certain powers or blessings.”

“Christianity, on the other hand, believes that all creation is good and redeemable if the heart of the individual is pure in regards to the relationship to the material objects. This world was not created by Satan, this world does not belong to Satan, and Satan is not reigning as King over this world. This means that we need not fear objects, but rather we should be wary of our own hearts. We can take and twist any good gift from God, so don’t get me wrong. In that way the material objects do have spiritual value, but ONLY in the context of how man has used those objects. It is man we should watch out for. Not Pokemon. Not other fantastical stories and games. Not Christmas trees. Not hairstyles. Not certain foods. Not shapes. The problem isn’t STUFF, the problem is man making stuff into idols. Even in the most pagan and wicked cultures, their idols had no power, but their hearts were wicked and their hearts gave power over to demons.”

“To connect the dots, to think that children’s games, created objects, nature, shapes, and so on have INHERENT spiritual value is buying into the pagan worldview. It is pagans that connect spirits to stuff. You are seeing the world in the same way as the pagans, but instead of clinging to the “bad spirit stuff” you try to instead cling to the “good spirit stuff”. Either way, you’re living your life as if it’s a game of Dungeons and Dragons, but you’re the good cleric instead of the evil wizard. But that’s not how the world works. In other words, the “everything is pagan” nonsense I see from people on Facebook all the time IS actual paganism. So stop being a pagan and see this world as Christ’s. You don’t have to seek out Christians who like Harry Potter, Pokemon, or set up Christmas Trees to find paganism. Paganism is in your own heart already.”

It’s OK to Kill a Baby in the Womb, When?

This is worth the time to watch.

A Little Project

My friend who preaches at the abortion clinic in Georgia wants to get this video on the first page of results when someone searches for “A Preferred Women’s Health Clinic Augusta Georgia”. It currently has only 37 views, and doesn’t show up on the first five pages. There are at least three ways for you to help.

1. Watch it.
2. You can click on the “Youtube” lettering in the lower right hand corner and go comment on it and give it a thumbs up.
3. Post it wherever you can.

Of course abortion is often dangerous for the mother. But it is fatal for the baby. This mother won’t escape the judgment of God by hiding her face.

Saltless Churches

So Much Wasted Time

There is a big debate raging among Christian reconstructionists over whether membership in a local church is mandatory for Christians. I’ve been thinking about the value of church attendance for a couple of years before this debate even started.

I love my pastor. He is a kind, generous, tough-as-nails guy and he’s a better man than I’ll probably ever be. That being said, I’ve been listening to him preach for about 50 minutes on Sundays about 40 weeks a year (he’s out of town sometimes and I’m out of town sometimes) for the last 11 years. I’ve also listened to him speak many times during Bible studies and Wednesdays. I’ve come to the conclusion that all of that has been a huge waste of time. I learn way more from reading a book or listening to an online sermon or podcast.

We are currently going through Genesis for the third time since I’ve been there, and I guess it’s a Calvary Chapel thing to go through a chapter per week. I’m sure he puts in a lot of time preparing the sermon, but we have these projectors in the sanctuary, and the ability to show videos, with thousands of sermons to choose from. Is my pastor the very best one to deliver a sermon on a certain chapter in Genesis, when there are many sermons to choose from on that very chapter? Like I said, he’s a great guy, but he isn’t a world-class teacher. Is his current rendition of Genesis so much better than his last rendition? Why does it have to be live? Why shouldn’t we just play a sermon from someone who is a world-class teacher?

Do you know all the fascinating topics there are to discuss in Genesis? There is so much stuff about creation, the flood, the tower of Babel. No one man can present that information, and even if he could, it would be a waste of his time to prepare a regurgitation of someone else’s content, and a waste of a perfectly good projector system.

When you’re in college, it’s the worst professors that lecture non-stop for the whole class. Not many people learn best that way. It is much better to have a professor who draws on the chalkboard or provides pictures, graphs and diagrams to illustrate the topic. Why has anyone ever thought that it would be a good idea for one guy to stand at the front of the church and drone on? Even the worst professors probably reference a textbook or something, but Christians don’t even have that luxury. But there are people who not only believe that it is a good idea for it to be done this way, and that anything else is a sin.

There are some who believe in the regulative principal of worship that think that anything out of order in the church service is a sin. But they have pulpits (not in the Bible) and they have one guy who preaches every Sunday (not in the Bible). I admit I don’t know all their arguments, but they ignore the clearest description of a worship service in the New Testament–1 Corinthians 14. There is little correlation between that chapter and their Sunday morning ritual.

I understand that the projector and access to thousands of sermons is a somewhat new phenomenon. But I don’t understand why it hasn’t dawned on anyone that we don’t have to reinvent the wheel every Sunday and Wednesday. Even before there was projectors and free content, there was VCRs and before that, cassettes and records for audio. To have access to the best teaching is a decades-old capability.

Sunday morning doesn’t have to be a waste of time, and it shouldn’t be Christianity 101 forever.

How Many Christian Parents Send Their Kids to This School?

The lamest excuse ever for sending your kids to public school is that your school is different. It’s not.

You heard what he said, right? Connor mentioned Jesus, and the principal said, “This is a public school. We don’t believe in that here.” That is one of the few true things he said. Jesus said the same thing (Matthew 12:30).

Time Will Tell

On August 30, 2016, my pastor said that Christ will definitely return within 20 years. I just want to write it down somewhere so that we can all remember to check back to see whether he’s a false prophet. So mark your 2036 calendar, and we shall see.

Chuck Smith, who in Calvary Chapel fashion also set dates, like 1988, and said that he believed Jesus would return before his own death. He died in 2013.

Thank God, neither of them has lived a life consistent with their professed belief, and have endeavored to leave an inheritance for their children’s children (Proverbs 13:22).

Who’s Not Loving?

My friend, Jeff, who I’ve been able to go witnessing with, is passionate about ending abortion. In this effort he sometimes seeks to persuade Christians to join him in the battle. That seems like a reasonable idea, and I’ve always known him to have a calm and loving demeanor.

As someone who attends a Calvary Chapel, I was extremely disappointed to see the video he posted where he goes to Rocky Mountain Calvary Chapel in Colorado Springs, Colorado and tries to pass out literature to Christians in the parking lot. You would think this would be a receptive audience, and he would meet with rousing success. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. Their assistant pastor, Robert Beech, called the police on him to try to get rid of him. Robert acted very hostile–not loving at all.

Jeff went back to Rocky Mountain Calvary Chapel yesterday, and “pastor” Robert arranged to have vehicles parked in such a way as to prevent Jeff from standing in a safe, effective place to hand out literature.

As Jeff pointed out in the first video, it is biblically unacceptable for Christians to seek resolution of their problems by appealing to unbelieving government officials. 1 Corinthians 6:1-8 says:

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? ² Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? ³ Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! ⁴ So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? ⁵ I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ⁶ but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? ⁷ To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? ⁸ But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!

Here’s the first video from July 17, 2016. The part that is most shocking is at the 15:30 mark.

Here’s a video from July 24, 2016 showing more of Robert’s sinful behavior.

Just to make clear what my thoughts are on the subject, Robert is in sin, and is the one who isn’t loving at all, but is acting hatefully towards Jeff. For Robert to condemn what Jeff does seems to indicate to me that he is more concerned what people think about Rocky Mountain Calvary Chapel than he is about 60 million dead babies.

I used to wonder what the Christians living in Nazi Germany were doing while millions of Jews and others were abused and murdered. I think they were doing exactly what Robert Beech is doing about the slaughter of American babies. There is a death camp within a few miles of this church and Rocky Mountain Calvary Chapel not only does nothing, but puts forth an effort to hinder Jeff in what he’s doing.

I love what my friend said about this:

That so-called pastor is suffering from delusions of grandeur. Jeff is a witness against him… By preaching the word, handing out information, and posters, Jeff is pointing out that man’s apathy and pride. We all know what happens to the proud.
Being a 501-c3 means that it won’t be long before the gov’t tells Rob directly what he can and cannot do. Already he’s under the influence of the beast system. He thinks he has authority- over the building, the land, and the people… That’s his delusion. It’s also part of that greater delusion some “pastors” have that they are the authority in the church, i.e., the parishioners, but they aren’t. Christ is the head of the church!

It’s obvious that the road is a public access road, so the “legalities” aren’t the issue (even if it wasn’t a public access road). The issue is that pastor… His pride and arrogance, his compromise, his dis-honoring of Christ, and his hatred for and violence toward the brethren who are Christ’s Church.

You’ve probably considered sending this to your pastor. I’m going to send it to mine. I know that I would not attend any church or convention, or whatever where this man was “speaking”, or anything that he endorsed. I’ll remember the name, Rocky Mountain Calvary, and I will always be quick to tell people to avoid it.

The Way Things Ought To Be

In yesterday’s article, I demonstrated that America’s system of government has no basis in logic. Everyone cooperates because they believe in it by blind faith, or because they’re coerced. America’s system of government is based on power religion–might makes right.

Christianity is the opposite of man’s law and religion. God is perfectly righteous and just, and His law is a reflection of His character. His law is perfectly righteous and just. Christianity isn’t a power religion but an ethical/covenantal religion.

American government is based on the blind leap of faith that the law applies because the law says it applies. As long as they can keep that scam going, they will, and they will use threats of force to do so.

If I were accused of a crime under a Christian government, that had a valid basis for its existence, and I asked why the law of the jurisdiction applies to me, they would be able to answer: Because Jesus Christ is Lord, and the Bible says that the civil magistrate is a terror to evildoers (Romans 13). That would not be a circular appeal to man’s law, but an appeal to God and His law. Jesus Christ is the only valid basis for civil government. He is the Rock we can build on.

Of course, a magistrate in America claiming authority from Jesus Christ is going to be kicked out of his job. That would be unconstitutional. The only valid basis for government has been ruled unconstitutional.

Our choice as individuals is Jesus Christ or absurdity. That applies to government as well. They’ve chosen absurdity, and Christians haven’t called them on it. We’ve played along with their scam and their idolatry.

American government is based on idolatry, and Christians should be resisting it wherever possible, and calling everyone involved in it to repentance.