Church

When did churches stop preaching the words of Jesus?  And why are so many Christians falling hook, line, and sinker for outright lies about the teachings of their own God?  Their own Savior even?

Take for instance the hot button topic of abortion.  Did you know the abortion debate was settled in the Old Testament?  If you are unsure about the Old Testament - that is the Father part of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  The Father whom Jesus prayed to and sits at the right hand of.  The scripture I am referring to is Exodus 21: 22 - 25 (CJB):

“If people are fighting with each other and happen to hurt a pregnant woman so badly that her unborn child dies, then even if no other harm follows, he must be fined.  He must pay the amount set by the woman’s husband and confirmed by judges.  But if any harm follows, then you are to give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound and bruise for bruise.”

This tells us how God sees the unborn given that a fine is given for killing a fetus, while capital punishment is required for killing a woman.  God, Himself, sees the unborn as potential life and not actual life.  God says it is ethical for a living, breathing human to take precedent over a non-living, and non-breathing fetus.  It’s in the Bible.  One can deduce from this law that it is actually a sin to do anything otherwise meaning that all of these abortion bans that are doing grave mental, emotional, and physical harm to pregnant women in the name of God are actually sinning against both God and Man.

Another hot button topic these days is the border.  While I am in full support of a strong and healthy border, we also need to make sure the people we do let in this country have our full support.  The Bible is also clear about this.  Both the Father and the Son repeatedly say to treat the stranger in your land with care and do unto them as you would have them do unto you.

Actually, Jesus declares that His people will be known by their love.  That His people will be a people who look after not only themselves, but others. Who show kindness to the poor and the needy, who assist the strangers in the land, and who care for the children.  And this sentiment is not Jesus’s alone, His Father has the same sentiment.  In the Old Testament it was routine for the wealthy land owners to not reap all of their harvest.  They would instruct their workers to leave some in the fields, to not pick up any they dropped or missed, but to leave it for the poor and needy who would come through the area after to obtain food to feed their families.   Yes, the poor had to work, but the wealthy made sure there was enough for everyone.  In the Old Testament, people did not go hungry.  There was a system in place to make sure everyone ate.  As in with more power comes more responsibility, the wealthy took on the role of provider for all.

And of course, I have to talk about all these ideas that in Christianity women belong in the home.  Um, no. The Father and the Son consistently challenged the status quo in this department.  In Numbers 27 we see the Father God, have to tell Moses that if a male dies and he only has a daughter, then the land shall pass to the daughter!  God, the Father, had to tell the ancient Israelites the same thing we are having to tell men today.  God saw women as full human beings with the same rights as men and His laws prove it. In the Book of Ruth, we have Naomi, a woman working in the fields to provide for herself and her mother in law.  Many of the women the apostles encountered and the women Jesus encountered worked.  Women working is nothing new. We’ve been working since we came to this planet and men have been trying to sideline us and God, the Father and God, the Son have been battling for our rights and overturning laws ever since.

I really have to wonder about these so called Christian men like Charlie Kirk, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, Harrison Butker, and Donald Trump to name a few.  They lie about what God wants for men and women.  They repeatedly spread hate and condemnation.  They prevent people who don’t live or look exactly like them from coming to church or wanting to know God at all.  They seem to be doing everything God warned them against.  I recall the scripture in Matthew Chapter 7 where Jesus says, “…Many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! Didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we expel demons in your name? Didn’t we perform miracles in your name?’ Then I will say to them to their faces, ‘I never knew you! Get away from me!…’​

I have to wonder if these men and others like them… are these the men spoken of in Matthew Chapter 7?  Jesus said His church would be known by love.  Jesus said His church would be known by acts of kindness and mercy.  Where is the Church Jesus is speaking of? Where is His Church today?