Mat 10:1-42 When Christ sent the twelve apostles out to preach, he said not to go into pagan territory but go instead after the lost sheep of the house of Israel. This statement is sometimes interpreted falsely to mean Christianity was supposed to have been limited to Jews and not extended to non-Jews. But the purpose here was not to define the scope of Christianity but to limit the task of twelve persons to something they could manage. Elsewhere, Christ indicated that his teaching and salvation apply to everyone, such as a centurion who was a Roman rather than a Jew (Mat 8:11,12).

Christ's instruction to the twelve then drifted into a more general description of the future, where Christians would be persecuted. Then he said, "Do not suppose that my mission on earth is to spread peace. My mission is to spread, not peace, but division" (Mat 10:34-39). It would be foolish to assume peace can be produced where satan makes the decisions. Truth is the only way evil can be dealt with. But truth is hated by corrupt persons, so the result is not peace—not in the world. Truth creates peace in the moral world, but not in the sin world.

There is a major element of Christianity which focuses on peace, positivism and spirituality, as do numerous other groups which are not Christian. It's so phony that most persons can see through it. It requires promoting the status quo and seeing no evil in order to reduce conflict; and then all it does is sell out the victims of injustice for a fun time with satan and crew. (See web page on peace and unity.)

Reconciliation follows a similar line. The only burden of reconciliation is on the victims of injustice. They have to stop complaining, while the perpetrators have less truth to contend with.

Sabbath Rules

Mat 12:1-15 There are two sabbath stories here. In one, the disciples ate standing grain on the sabbath. In the other, Christ healed a person's shriveled hand in a synagogue on a sabbath. Superficially, it might appear that Christ was teaching the details of what can be done on the sabbath. But there is an underlying message which is much more important.

When the Pharisees protested the picking of grain on the sabbath, Christ made a comparison to David and his men, who did the same, and to priests in the temple who can ignore the sabbath. This is about equality vs. the usual bigotry, elitism, etc. Christ said, "...there is something greater than the temple here...It is mercy I desire and not sacrifice" (Mat 12:6,7). He was saying common people and their needs are as important as the generals and priests, which is saying elitism and bigotry are sin.

When the Pharisees questioned Christ's healing on the sabbath, Christ made a comparison to pulling a sheep out of a pit on the sabbath and said a human is as important as a sheep. Why would it be ok to pull a sheep out of a pit but not cure a human on the sabbath? Because dominating persons set up inane rules as a method of controlling people by manipulating and degrading them. The problems are always about the same old sins based on domination through degradation.

It's important to notice in these teachings of Christ's that he is using the lessons of life to show what supports life and what destroys life, because the theology of Paul is nothing resembling this. It lacks any logic or relationship to life. It's nothing but witchcraft, where a sinful deed atones God and supposedly fixes everything.

Satan's Work

Mat 12:22-37 When Christ cured a possessed person, the Pharisees said he expels demons only through Beelzebub, the prince of demons. Christ said that if satan is expelling satan, he must be torn by dissension. Such a kingdom torn by strife and dissension cannot stand.

This exchange shows the difference between fraud and logic. The corrupters were so driven by the motive of degrading Christ that they made the absurd statement that satan would be expelling himself. Christ explained the consequence of such an absurdity. This shows how corruption is a driving force which contradicts realities, while life is sustained by logical relationships between realities.

Then Christ says, "How can anyone enter a strong man's house and make off with his property unless he first ties him securely...He who is not against me is with me" (Mat 12:29,30). Why would satan be helping Christ, when he needs to subdue Christ to defeat him? Look at the total picture. Satan and his cronies rob the lower classes before destroying them, because the victims have to be penniless to prevent them from solving their problems. Satan ties the lower classes through the bonds of oppression, so he can cannibalize on their spiritual blood. A war that total and complex isn't as frivolous as the Pharisees describe it.

When some scribes and Pharisees said they wanted to see some signs, Christ said an evil generation wants to see signs. He said what will happen to the evil generation will be like a demon leaving and then coming back again (Mat 12:38-45).

What this means is that a society which does not improve its moral standards will keep getting overrun by evil, even after it tries to tidy things up. Superficial tidying up doesn't do it. Resistance to evil requires a real foundation of moral standards and truth. This requires real human responsibilities, not the "born again" bliss which fundamentalists promote.

Here's another very important perspective on evil in society. There is a line of Christian rationalizations (including Paul's theology) which says to focus on God and nothing else. The "nothing else" (the same as looking for signs in the sky) is what Christ was addressing above. It allows satan to do as he pleases in the human society.

The getting saved by faith without works, which Paul promoted (Eph 2:8,9)(Rom 11:6), is the "nothing else" which allows satan to control a society. Then Christ said, "Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is brother and sister and mother to me" (Mat 12:50). Doing the will of God is works with faith, not faith without works.

Looking and Seeing

Mat 13:1-23 Christ taught a parable where a farmer went out and planted some seeds. Some landed on a footpath, where the birds ate it up; some fell on rocky ground; were it dried up; some fell among thorns, which choked it off; and some fell on good soil, which yielded many fold. Of course, the seed was his teaching which fell on different ears.

Then Christ said to his followers, "But blest are your eyes because they see, and blest are your ears because they hear. I assure you, many a prophet and many a saint longed to see what you see but did not see it, to hear what you hear but did not hear it" (Mat 13:16,17).

Fundamentalism is sweeping Christianity including Catholicism. Fundamentalists quote Paul only, and never Christ, beyond trivia. The most important words ever produced—the wisdom of the universe produced by God—is trashed by them in favor of the snake root oil of a murderer. They don't see, because they have motives for not seeing. They want snake root oil which cures everything for pennies instead of truth which carries responsibilities.

The realities of corrupt persons follow the lines of their motives, and truth is the only reality they cannot tolerate. Seeing is a question of motives.

The Weeds

Mat 13:24-30 Christ taught a parable where an enemy sowed weeds in a field of wheat. He said not to remove the weeds until harvest time. Then the weeds will be bundled to burn, and the wheat will be gathered into the barn. It shows that evil persons are in the human society, and they end up in hell. Satan creates evil spirits, as do other corrupt spirits with sufficient power.

The book of wisdom describes the same bunch of evil persons and shows their thought patterns (Wis 1,2). They say in their own minds that they are going to end up in hell anyway, so they live wantonly. "Let no meadow be free from our wantonness...let us leave tokens of our rejoicing" (Wis 2:9). Who do you supposes liters the highways with bottles and rubbish? That bunch. The bottles are tokens of their rejoicing and wantonness.

They say, "Let us oppress the needy just man; let us neither spare the widow nor revere the old man..." (Wis 2:10). Oppression and persecution are schemes of evil persons, not accidents, as atheists and exploiters claim.

Reign of God

Mat 13:31-35 Christ said the reign of God is like a mustard seed which is sown in a field. The growing of the mustard seed shows that God's work is something that evolves toward an end point, just as technology evolves, and knowledge increases over time.

This is important to realize, because corrupters of Christianity portray life as a meaningless static, and salvation as an instantaneous fix with no human responsibilities. Corrupters are opposed to the concept of evolution in all of its forms, because if there is evolution, their must be goals and responsibilities, and all of morality becomes relevant to meeting those responsibilities. Corrupters want to pretend that they have no responsibilities, as indicated by Paul's theology which says people are saved by faith without works (Rom 3:27, 11:6)(Gal 2:16)(Eph 2:8,9).

Yet corrupters are driven to take over all power sources and put everyone under their feet. Whose work are they doing, if it's not God's work? They then say that taking over power is God's work. They supposedly create God's presence through power mongering, which requires strife, sin and wars, while they have no human responsibilities for being moral.

Notice this: power mongering is not something that grows (like the mustard seed). Growing requires all elements of constructivity, which means morality and human responsibilities. Power mongering requires destructivity, fear and intimidation.

Hypocrisy

Mat 15:1-20 When the Pharisees complained that Christ's disciples ignore traditions such as washing hands, Christ pointed out their hypocrisy. The Pharisees wrote rules where people could give money to them instead of supporting their parents. They replaced important and basic rules with superficial trivia which they could exploit.

The whole significance of corruption is that it starts with motives which are destructive, and therefore the results are destructive. Then corrupters need to justify the corruption; so they contrive fraudulent realities claiming that the destructivity is virtue. Hypocrisy is the difference between the claims and the results. Therefore, all corruption has such hypocrisy with it. For people to accept the hypocrisy is to support the corruption that it justifies.

It's the motives that define corruption and its results. Much of the results are invisible, and they are all lied about. But the motives are obvious in the character of the persons and their history. The motives tell the whole story about corruption.

But satan created a social standard in his world where motives are not supposed to be questioned. It goes so far as to often deny that there could be such a thing as corrupt motives. Weren't all humans created in God's image? Supposedly, there could be no such thing as corrupt motives if they were. And if there are no such things as corrupt motives, then those who question motives must be "conspiracy theorists"—a new type of crazy to fill the void left by communists and hippies.

Notice this bit of hypocrisy: Only the perpetrators of corruption were perfected by being created in God's image, while their enemies got corrupted some how.

Genesis says this: "let us make man in our image, after our likeness" (Gen 1:26). But notice the comment which follows. "God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27). Genesis is about creating bodies, not spiritual beings. The spiritual beings in the human society have a history which goes back billions of years, where they acquired their corruptions in the spirit world before entering material life.

In the spirit world, forms are used like bodies for identifying, locating and communicating. The human form is the usual, which God and some persons around him use. Angels often use the form of an animal body, because they developed their souls in animal bodies, where they could not be touched by sin.

Special Purposes

Mat 15:21-31 Christ went down by the coast near Tyre and Sidon, where a Canaanite woman pleaded with him to heal her daughter. But he refused saying his mission was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then he said, "It is not right to take the food of sons and daughters and throw it to the dogs" (Mat 15:26). But then with more pleading, he gave in and healed her.

First, to make a simple point, Christ's purpose was quite limited. It was not to solve the world's problems. He was defining theology in terms of the Jewish context which he was building upon. Healing the pagans was not the same as healing the Jews. But why then did he heal the centurion's servant; and why not equality for everyone? There is a lot of complex moral philosophy here which does not get discussed. So here's a stab at it:

Objectivity and uniform standards apply to basic rights and justice in the common domain of social realities. But there is another domain of special realities and concerns. This domain includes personalized realities and special purposes. Moral truth does not deny special realities and purposes. But this inescapable fact becomes the half truth for corruptions related to elitism. So where is the line between "special" and "elitist?"

The moral lines are very simple. Is the result based on constructive motives or forces of corruption in subconscious minds. As usual, this difference is easy to observe, but not so easy to define. One of the differences is necessity. Another is cost and effectiveness directed toward a purpose. For example, if there were five people lost someplace, and two were going to get help; you might give the last bit of food to the two who were going to look for help. More food for the special purpose. Here's another example. If important dignitaries need chauffeured limousines to function effectively, it would be moral to use them. This is why Christ allowed expensive perfume to be poured over him in preparation for his burial (Mat 26:6-16), in spite of protests by Judas the moralizer.

In other words, equality is a moral requirement at a base-line level of existence, but there are inequalities which go beyond that level. This situation is obvious in society, and it is not, in itself, immoral.

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