Willie Martin
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 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:21 am Post subject: Argument - 1 |
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Yahshua said:
"Thus, every good tree produces good fruit, but the bad
tree produces bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad
fruit, neither can a bad tree produce good fruit." (Matthew
7:17-18)
Bad fruit indicates a bad tree. Can you point to a time in
all of history when the United States Government wasn't
producing bad fruit? Hasn't it always been run by liars,
thieves, and murderers?
George Washington was one, almost everyone will answer. But
is that the truth, when one considers the Whisky Rebellion,
that Washington sent government troops to kill, capture, and
imprison people for making whiskey without paying a tax in
this land of the free and home of the brave.
MacArthur another will cry out. Well lets look at his
attack on the Bonus Marchers who were trying to get the
government to pay them the money they were owed. He killed,
wounded, imprisoned and maimed many of them.
But the blind Constitutionalist is frozen in his
Constitutional Model and it is unthinkable to consider an
other view. He will say those in the Whiskey Rebellion and
the Bonus Marchers got what they deserved for opposing the
government.
Proverbs 26 states the problem of Model rigidity:
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his
folly." (Proverbs 26:11)
As for as the Bonus Marchers, how did God have his prophet
Elisha deal with the men who had fought in battle:
And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them,
My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them? AND HE
ANSWERED, THOU SHALT NOT SMITE THEM: WOULDEST THOU SMITE
THOSE WHOM THOU HAST TAKEN CAPTIVE WITH THY SWORD AND WITH
THY BOW? SET BREAD AND WATER BEFORE THEM, THAT THEY MAY EAT
AND DRINK, and go to their master." (2 Kings 6:21-22)
People are creatures of habit; they get comfortable in a
rut, and they ignore all the bad things that come along with
that rut. But, wouldn't it be logical to move to a better
place if the rut you are in is shown to be not in your best
interest? Ruts were common in the country in West Texas
where I was born and while I was growing up.
So how do we quit returning to, and wallowing in, our
worn-out Models? First let us understand how a Model works.
A Model is a pattern of thinking: a bias matrix upon which
we build our reasoning and logic. Once established, it
influences and shapes one's thoughts about everything.
The problem with the Model, is that IT IS NOT THE BIBLE. It
is put together by men who live their lives to take
advantage of you and me. It is designed to make you and me
easy to control. In short, it is a theological-political
tradition of men, and in American society it has been given
precedence over God.
Men have invested so much time in the construction and
maintenance of the tradition the American Model that if
someone voices a different opinion BASED ON THE BIBLE,
rather than based on the "sacred tradition," as handed down
by the government or Judeo-Christian churches. It is
dismissed out of hand.
Yahshua encountered this problem with the scribes and
Pharisees:
"Then scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus,
saying, Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of
the elders (now known as the Talmud)? For they do not wash
their hands when they eat a meal (this is not because of the
cleanliness is next to Godliness that the Judeo-Christian
falsely tell you, but because the Jews believe in evil
spirits and that washing will rid the body of them). But He
answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the
commandment of God through your tradition? For God said,
Honor your father and mother, and, He that reviles father or
mother, let him end in death. But YOU (Jews) SAY that
whoever shall say to his father or his mother, that by which
you might have benefitted by me, it is a gift (to God), and
he should not honor his father. Thus have you invalidated
the commandment of God by your tradition. You hypocrites,
well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying. This people honor
me with their mouth, but their heart is far from me. But in
vain they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men." (Matthew 15:1-9) |
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