Mat 12:23-27 Christ was asked what his authority was. Guess who asked him? The chief priests and elders of the people. About half of society has some authority over other persons; and Christ needed some authority to produce wisdom and miracles.

So Christ asked them what the authority of John the Baptist was. They could not commit themselves to an opinion, because it might condemn them any way they answered. This point is important, but it never gets discussed. Corrupt persons cannot commit themselves to anything, because the minute any reality is stabilized, it becomes the basis for producing truth; and all truth is interrelated, so it condemns corrupt persons.

This is why the material world is created. Atoms which are extremely stable and difficult to influence allow realities to be stabilized. Realities must be stabilized to allow a large number of complex realities to be related to them. All complex realities which have consistent relationships between them create a unified reality. Unified reality is the essence of the universe. It contains, sustains and defines life. I therefore define life as unified reality. This definition allows the environmental influences which sustain life to be included in the definition of life.

Corrupt persons cannot produce a consistent set of realities. They have to change the starting premise each time they rationalize something, because all of their lies are in conflict with each other. They have to reconstruct a context for each rationalization. This is why they cannot produce simple and straight-forward answers, as the authorities above demonstrated.

Tax Collectors and Prostitutes

Mat 21:28-32 Christ compared the religious authorities to a son who was asked to do something, and he said, "I'm on my way"; but he never went. Then Christ compared the tax collectors and prostitutes to a son who was asked to do something, and he said, "No"; but later he did.

This is their relationship to God. When John the Baptist preached a way of holiness, the religious authorities defied him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes put faith in him (Mat 21:32).

Corrupt persons push their way into everything and take over everything, the minute they see a source of power to be exploited, while others have to stand aside. But the corrupters soon show that they are incapable of doing anything constructive with the power they acquire.

This means that whenever a task is undertaken, it's necessary to first watch satan's corrupters take it over and screw it all up; and then if constructive persons can pick up the pieces, they can try to accomplish something.

This is what happened when satan took over Christianity through Paul. He turned the religion into a sacrilege based on the religion of demon worship which the rest of society had been following for thousands of years. The believers then had to try to reconstruct a religion from the pieces that were left.

Here's my parable for what happened to Christianity: A group of persons went to work on a fifty story sky scraper. They included architects, engineers, craftsmen and laborers who meticulously made sure everything was done right, so the building would stand. Another group of persons sat around the periphery and partied. They threw bottles and garbage around and created a disturbance. They said, "We're the ones who really know what we are doing. Isn't the proof in the pudding? We're having fun, while that other bunch is working their behinds off, because we're the ones who really know what we are doing."

This is like saying knowledge is a corruption of atheists and worldly persons, because faith in God is superior. This is what fundamentalists often say, and they base it on Paul's theology.

Killing the Owner's Son

Mat 21:33-46 Christ used a parable about a vineyard to describe how tenants killed the owners slaves, then killed his messengers (the prophets) and then killed the owner's son. Then he asked the religious authorities who were listening what the owner would do to those tenants. They said, "He will bring that wicked crowd to a bad end and lease his vineyard out to others..." (Mat 21:41). Then Christ said the kingdom of God will be taken away from them and given to a nation that will yield a rich harvest (Mat 21:43).

The ones who will lose the kingdom of God are the religious authorities ("natural heirs") (Mat 8:12). The ones who will be given the kingdom of God are the lowly (Mat 5:3).

Notice that this is not how atonement works. When an ancient Jew such as Job (who hadn't yet learned what's wrong with the pagan ritual of sacrifice) would slaughter an animal to atone for sin, the purpose would be to get forgiveness and God's blessings (Job 1:5). But the persons who killed Christ said in their hearts, "Here is the one who will inherit everything. Let us kill him and then we shall have his inheritance!" (Mat 21:38).

Yet Paul said the purpose of Christ's crucifixion was to atone God (Rom 5:11 KJV)(Rom 5:9)(Rom 8:3)(Eph 1:7)(Eph 5:2), so sin was supposedly taken care of on the cross. Paul said God would bless them for murdering Christ, while Christ said God would take his kingdom away from them.

End Times

Mat 24 Christ described conditions leading up to the end. Many will come attempting to impersonate him (Mat 24:5). There will be wars and rumors of wars (Mat 24:6). Nation will rise against nation, and there will be famine, pestilence and earthquakes (Mat 24:7).

What is the relationship between an economic collapse and a drought? You might say the second causes the first. But that isn't the way it happened during the thirties. Notice that one of the purposes of sacrificing to the demons was to prevent natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanoes. The demons control natural disasters, and often the weather. It looks to me like God usually leaves the weather alone but will intervene if some extreme needs to be corrected.

When satan creates natural disasters nowdays, they stimulate the economy. So satan has trade-offs. But as the end draws near, there is economic collapse, and then satan hits pay dirt with natural disasters, because the problems cannot be corrected. This isin't God's work; it's satan's work.

Christ said, "These are the early stages of the birth pangs" (Mat 24:8). One of the primary results is that the moral world and sin world separate during the apocalypse. There is a choosing up of sides, as corrupters get uninhibited in sin, and their victims are moral persons (mat 24:9).

This builds to a finale, where Christ says, "When you see the abominable and destructive thing which the prophet Daniel foretold..." (Mat 24:15). We know nowdays that nothing is more abominable and destructive than nuclear weapons. "If a man is on a roof terrace, he must not come down...If a man is in the field, he must not turn back..." (Mat 24:17). These points are meant to show how fast the destruction is, which is another indication of a nuclear war. Christ said, "Indeed, if the period had not been shortened, not a human being would be saved" (Mat 24:22).

Christ said that false messiahs will appear at that time, but do not believe them (Mat 24:23-26). Instead, Christ said, "Immediately after the stress of that period, 'the sun will be darkened...the stars will fall from the sky, and the hosts of heaven will be shaken loose.' Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky...He will dispatch his angels...and they will assemble his chosen from the four winds..." (Mat 24:29-31).

The stars falling from the sky are described in the Book of Revelation as a plague of hailstones (Rev 6:13-17, 16:21). This could only be caused by Jupiter exploding. Planets are known to explode. The asteroid belt was assumed to be caused by a planet exploding; but recently, all theories are being scrambled and rehashed in science; so it's hard to say what current theories are.

Judgment Day

Mat 25:31-46 At the end, the saved are separated from the unsaved on the basis of good deeds—who fed the hungry, clothed the naked, healed the sick, etc. This statement of Christ's is the most direct and clear proof of the falseness of Paul's theology, because it shows that people are saved by works and faith rather than faith without works, as Paul claimed (Rom 3:27, 11:6)(Gal 2:16)(Eph 2:8,9).

This point is not a misunderstanding or a minor point that can be ignored. Words can mean anything, but what they mean to the persons who use them is demonstrated in their applications. This is why Christ appeared and demonstrated what he taught in his life. He showed in his life what his characteristics are and what his words mean.

What sort of life did Paul demonstrate? First he was a self-admitted murderer, and afterwards he was nothing but a bickering authority. But the most relevant meaning of Paul's words are in their application by present day fundamentalists. They use Paul's words to justify their sinfulness.

Nowdays, fundamentalists have hundreds of thousands of web sites. They quote Paul endlessly and never Christ, beyond trivia, shamelessly basing their theology on Paul with nothing but contempt for Christ's words. In their lives they promote selfishness, bigotry, elitism and a war against the lower classes, as Christ condemned the scribes and Pharisees for (Mat 23:1-39). They arrogantly claim to be doing the infallible work of the Holy Spirit, because they are supposedly "born again." They base their morality on nothing but opposition to abortions, while they do nothing to prevent abortions.

Women never choose abortions; they have abortions forced onto them by persons around them and circumstances which strip them of the ability to control their own lives. Fundamentalists (conservatives) create more problems for them by destroying welfare, social programs and economies, so abortions become more necessary.

The reason why judgment day is based on good deeds and nothing else is because the ability to do good deeds is dependent upon moral character. Everything Christ taught is how to get to that point.

The Eucharist

Mat 26:26-29 During the "last supper," Christ gave bread to his disciples and said, "Take this and eat it...this is my body." Then he gave them the cup and said, "All of you must drink from it...for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, to be poured out in behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins."

Here a ritual is instituted in a very formal way using few words. Christ used more words to describe it in the Gospel of John 6:48-63. Christ is saying that he provides spiritual food for some of the spirit cannibals, so they can get saved. They don't have to go out and sin to maintain their habit, because Christ provides the spirit substance.

Why then did Christ say his blood is the blood of the covenant, to be poured out in behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins? Paul's promoters claim that shedding blood for the forgiveness of sins is atonement. Christ could not have missed the parallel to atonement. But prophets in the Bible often make parallels to show contradictions and expose errors.

For example, Christ said, "Destroy this temple...and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19). He knew it would be interpreted in terms of a building rather than his body, but he needed to expose the corrupt motives of those who wanted to interpret it in an absurd way.

For this reason, an assumed interpretation cannot be used to prove something. The correct meaning has to be found in the total context of the message. Christ's message was that he was going to allow himself to be crucified to show the characteristics of sin. His crucifixion and resurrection were also a symbolic representation of his rising out of the pit of the ancient spirit world which was controlled by the spirit cannibals. It certainly was nothing resembling the burning of a carcass to please God, particularly after God said that he did not want that method of worship (Isaiah 1:11-20)(Jer 7:22)(Hosea 6:6)(Psalms 40:7, 50:8-15)(Mat 9:13, 12:7)(Mark 12:33).

The Jewish religion prior to Christ's time had the purpose of weaning people away from the pagan ritual of sacrifice, which the demons used to control humans for thousands of years, and replace it with a religion based on morality. Christ did not have the purpose of undoing two thousand years of God's work, but Paul did.

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