The basis of life is rationality, not publishing and quoting. Frauds are trying to impose their corruption onto everyone on the basis of ultimate authority by quoting Scriptures. There are basic laws of existence which define their standard as fraud.

Life is unified reality. It does not exist without proper relationships between realities, which means rationality. There is a difference between the origins of rationality in objective reality and the reproduction of rationality in imperfect minds. Truth defines that difference. This is why Christ described his purposes as testifying to the truth (John 18:37).

When a normal human says something, he intends for it to be a starting point for something. It's value and meaning are expected to be improved upon through evidence, and the process of reality improvement to be endless and never complete.

When a corrupter says something, he assumes it is the beginning and end of the subject, to rest upon his authority, borrowed or original (quoting or decreeing), and never to be questioned.

The normal standards are determined by the requirements for sustaining life. The corrupt standards are shaped by the purposes stemming from domination, including degradation and exploitation, all of which destroy life.

Returning to the starting point, life is defined by objective reality. This means objective reality is a reference for life. Constructive persons attempt to sustain life by using objective reality as a reference. Corrupters prevent objective reality from being used as a reference by overriding the process with anything else. Basically, some authority is contrived to replace objective reality with a different source of reality. Whether that authority is the Bible, God or satan, it destroys the reference which life is based upon.

Corrupters of Christianity go to a lot of trouble to convince people that there should be other references for life than objective reality. First, they try to shoehorn God into that position by describing him as all-powerful and all-knowing. This is supposed to mean that he is the reference, not objective reality. No one can define or describe what all-powerful and all-knowing means. They don't even try; they just state it as unquestionable fact, because the only purpose is to erase something, not create something. It erases objective reality as the reference for life.

The test that God is not a replacement for objective reality as the reference for life is that there is no difference between God and satan without the objective reality which defines the difference between sustaining life and destroying life. If any god is the reference, then satan and any number of any other destroyers can be decreed to be God and the source of everything. Their destruction of life proves them to be destroyers, not gods.

It is assumed by mindless corrupters that everyone does the same thing. Did not Christ put God above everyone and everything? If their mindlessness were to ever extend beyond their stupid assumptions, they would soon find the difference between the truth and lies of the subject, but they aren't that analytical. Satan teaches them not to be. To question is hubris. It is to be the nail which stands up to be pounded back down. The nail which proclaims authority to be unquestionable never gets pounded down, because satan likes to see a lot of those types of nails, and corrupters get to know what is expected of them. Satan roams and patrols the earth to make sure everyone stays well informed of what is expected of them (Job 1:7).

What then did Christ say about the reference for life in objective reality vs. God's authority? He said that he is the truth, life and way (John 14:6). It might almost look like authority to the corrupters, since they only have enough space in the brains for about ten words. When you combine way and truth with life, you end up with quite a bit more than authority. He also said he is the teacher (Mat 23:10). Teacher means alignment upon objective reality; otherwise, there is nothing to teach. What he taught endlessly was to look and listen to acquire knowledge from the lessons of life, which means objective reality is the source, not authority.

Rationality in Religion
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