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The World (John 17:14,16) "I gave them your word, and the world has hated them for it... They are not of the world, any more than I belong to the world." The word that Christ taught and the world rejects is the truth about morality based on social justice (Mat 25:31-46). The subject of morality was rewritten by Paul, who reduced sin to a problem with God, based on flesh, not social justice, and a correction which resulted from crucifying Christ. Social justice has nothing to do with Paul's version of morality. The world then quotes Paul in contradiction to Christ's teaching. They justify their version by saying there are no errors in the Bible. In fact, they say they are free from errors themselves, because when they are true believers who have repented, everything they do is the work of the Holy Spirit, even though they disagree with each other on numerous issues. The purpose in replacing Christ's teaching with Paul's is to justify persecution of vulnerable persons at the bottom of society. About three billion persons or more live in abject poverty including starvation, disease, war and slavery. There is no sin in that result according to Paul's version of morality, but there is according to Christ. Of course, the world does not say it in the same terms as I do. There is a retoric involved. It needs to be looked at in specific terms. For example: They say God saves from sin and death all who come to him through Christ. Those concepts should apply to the future, but the world applies them to the present as a method of self-justification. Present time justification is demonstrated by saying that God produces perpetual intercession for his people. It means God is supposedly interceding for "his people" right now. If you have problems, you are not among God's people. They say the Holy Spirit came (past tense) to sanctify and empower all who believe in Christ. It means privileged persons have been sanctified and empowered. The lowly victims of injustice are not among such privileged persons. The persons who promote that theology repel moral criticism and do not consider themselves to be responsible for the human misery at the bottom of society. But they also promote right wing conservativism which bankrupts the third world and promotes wars against the victims. They also operate at a personal standard which is sinful. After falsifying Christ's teaching and producing lies in all of the professions and power structures of society, they insult, ridicule and destroy their critics. Christ taught what is wrong about that standard, but the world uses Paul's teaching to contradict what Christ taught. |