THE FORGIVENESS LIE
So now we are to the forgiveness lie. It
seems to me Christians have been telling me for a long time now how I should
have forgiveness in my heart, and how we should forgive all. Is that the way it
is? Do all Christians forgive? It seems to me if we look through history it is
not!
First before I go on let me say something here that put an impression on me. As
my wife and I were watching a show on cannibalism, different scenarios were
brought up as some justified eating other human beings because they were
stranded and starving. We also saw where men raped, child molested, and
murdered then ate their victims body parts. Then from my wife’s lips came
"Do you think that the people who do these things here on earth when they
leave this life it will be different for them because they seem to be in hell
here and now?" This to me was a strange statement coming from my wife's
lips. You see she hates child molesters with a burning passion, but there was a
passion in her heart for forgiveness, one of tender mercies for these men. WHY?
All I can say is GOD'S LOVE was in her heart, not her love, but GOD'S love!
Only GOD can put that forgiveness in our hearts, but as I saw my wife's tears
and trembling for these men, I told her that GOD in HIS perfect LOVE will make
it even out, as in HE is the POTTER and we are the clay, meaning that GOD makes
vessels of honor, and vessels of dishonor, Rom. 9:16-23. In the next life it
will be that they are not responsible, because GOD made them this way, but they
are and will be accountable for what they did. This accountability is that they
must be shown where they were used in GOD’S plan and why they are not held
responsible. Their error will be shown them, whether they thought they were
doing right or wrong.
Now
for you who believe that Christians love and forgive, lets look at some of
these stories, starting with one from Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
"The
Inquisition of the church of Rome was, in its days, one of the most terrible
engines of tyranny ever created by man. It may be said to date from about the
year 1200, when Pope Innocent III sent his inquisitors among the Walderness and
others differing from the church, and continued until 1808 running its course.
They totally crushed Protestants living in Spain. The final count numbered
31,912 people burned alive and 291,450 imprisoned. In the eighteen years that
the Dominican monk Thomas of Torquemada led the Inquisition, 10,220 people were
burned and 97,322 punished with the loss of property or imprisonment. Although
its main victims were citizens of Spain, there were others who became its
victims, too." I hope all who read this article will read such books as
this.
I'm not going to write much about John Calvin, other than I hope you take time
to read about how Mr. Calvin burned a man with slow burning wood for his
beliefs. His name was Michael Servetus. Here is a small excerpt on Mr.
Servetus:
"To rescue Servetus from his heresies, Calvin replied with the latest edition of his 'Institutes of the Christian Religion,' which Servetus promptly returned with insulting marginal comments.
Despite Servetus's [sic] pleas, Calvin, who developed an intense dislike of Servetus during their correspondence, refused to return any of the incriminating material."
"Convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic authorities, Servetus escaped the death penalty by a prison break. Heading for Italy, Servetus unaccountably stopped at Geneva, where he had been denounced by Calvin and the Reformers. He was seized the day after his arrival, condemned as a heretic when he refused to recant, and burned in 1553 with the apparent tacit approval of Calvin."
In the course of his flight from Vienna, Servetus stopped in Geneva and made the mistake of attending a sermon by Calvin. He was recognized and arrested after the service.
"Calvin had him [Servetus] arrested as a heretic. Convicted and burned to death."
From
the time that Calvin had him arrested on August 14th until his condemnation,
Servetus spent his
remaining days: " ... in an atrocious
dungeon with no light or heat, little food, and no sanitary facilities."
Let it be noted that the Calvinists of Geneva
put half-green wood around the feet of Servetus and a wreath strewn with sulfur
on his head. It took over thirty minutes to render him lifeless in such a fire,
while the people of Geneva stood around to watch him suffer and slowly die!
Is this what our GOD meant by forgiveness?
I
could go on and on about how Christians killed Christians in history, but this
is about the forgiveness lie. Although it seems to me maybe Mr. Calvin, being a
good Christian, must have forgot to forgive his enemies.
Is it in our nature to
forgive, can we forgive without GOD'S perfect love within us? I say NO! JESUS
said in Lk. 23:34, "FATHER, forgive them, for they do not know what they
do." Did John Calvin know what he was doing? Do any of us really know what
we are doing?
I find when I'm in that GODLY loving SPIRIT I have no problem in forgiving my
fellow man. But what seems to be my problem is when I'm in traffic, not only do
I forget forgiveness, but I forget to hold my tongue as well. Then there are
those times when us believers can't agree to what we believe. I have seen venom
dripping from the teeth of believers because I believe GOD can and will SAVE
ALL MEN!!! (For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust
in the living GOD, who is the Savior of ALL men, especially of those who
believe, 1 Tim. 4:9-11). Why wouldn't you want to believe this?
The one that really is
strange to me is we can't even forgive our own families, the ones we are to
bond with and learn to love, or at least that’s what I used to think before I
read the Bible (Matt.10:34,35; 12:47-50). This is another story though.
It seems to me
the forgiveness I have seen in this world is wonderful until you piss the ones
that forgave you off, then its back to the same old BS until they need you
again.
Then I have heard
about believers who want to fuel the fires of hell with the unbelievers and in
some cases believers, like John Calvin as mentioned above. It reminds me of the
words of JESUS in Lk. 9:54-56, "...and when HIS disciples James and John
saw this, they said, LORD, do YOU want us to command fire to come down from
heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did? But HE turned and rebuked them
saying, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the SON of man
did not come to destroy men's lives but to SAVE THEM."
Where is the
forgiveness, is it of GOD or of man? Does GOD expect us to forgive, and yet HE
burns us for eternity? Ask yourself is GOD a hypocrite, and does this ring true
to your heart? Why can't HE forgive us, if HE is the LOVING ALL POWERFUL GOD?
What force, or powers keeps HIM from having mercy to forgive us of our sin? Is
it satan? Is satan a GOD? I thought there was only one GOD. It seems religion
(check out the link) http://www.tentmaker.org/Dew/Dew1/D1-EtymologyOfReligion.html has two GODS, one for good and one for evil,
fighting it out to see who will have us for eternity. The last time I remember
reading my bible it said we only have ONE GOD!!! Does this sound close to
blaspheming? It makes you wonder since GOD, JESUS, and the SPIRIT are ONE, as
Christianity teaches, are we in unforgiveness? How about blaspheming the HOLY
SPIRIT, as mentioned in Matt.12:31,32? JESUS said in vs. 31, "Therefore I
say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy
against the SPIRIT will not be forgiven men." It sounds permanent, but
lets read vs. 32. "Anyone who speaks a word against the SON of man, it
will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the HOLY SPIRIT, it will not
be forgiven him; either in this age or in the age to come." (NKJ). But
that isn't how the Greek is written. The Greek in vs. 32 says, ".. and who
ever says word against of the SPIRIT of the HOLY not be forgiven to him in to
the now age or in to the coming one." (NKV-GREEK). So pray about
this, for those two ages will end and there will be forgiveness afterwards.
JESUS forgave us when HE was
hanging on that cross, as GOD sent HIM here to SAVE the world (Jn.4:42). If HE
fails and loses just one person HE hasn't saved the world, just the ones HE did
save and that would make HIM the sinner (as sin means "to miss the
mark"), but we know that HE isn't.
We hear HE won't force HIMSELF on
us, but HE is the FORCE of the universe, as it's GOD'S work for you to believe
in whom HE sent, not yours!!! (Jn. 6:29). So again do you think GOD has the
power, the love, the grace, and the almighty wisdom to forgive us, if HE asks
us to forgive each other? Matt. 7:7-12 says if you being evil know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your FATHER in heaven know how
to give good things if you ask HIM? Like maybe forgiveness?
We will never see the kingdom
if we don't learn to forgive!!!
When you see a transformed hitler,
homosexual, rapist, child molester, or murderer in the kingdom you will thank
GOD they were here on earth for us to learn this forgiveness of one another,
for if you can't forgive and have LOVE in your heart for all, then you can't
inherit the kingdom of GOD until you do, and this will be GOD'S work in us.
How many people do you
think are going to inherit the kingdom of GOD without HIS mercy or forgiveness?
NONE!!! So its back to GOD'S responsibility, HIS WORK!!! The first shall be
last, and the last shall be first, and you can keep reversing that saying on
and on, for we are all the same in GOD'S EYES (Matt.9:12-13).
This is what our FATHER desires of us!
Mercy not sacrifice. We can't forgive as we should for we live in this flesh
that holds us down, but living in the SPIRIT is what free's us from the sin
problem. By the way I see no way for me to live totally in the SPIRIT as long
as I have this flesh, so THANK GOD for GRACE!!!
The harder I try to live in the SPIRIT the more I
fall, and the more I learn of GOD the more vulgar I see my flesh. There is
nothing good in us but what GOD is shaping in us.
We will be able to
rejoice when GOD has finished shaping us ALL INTO HIS IMAGE. Then and only then
will we be able to forgive and have that GODLY love that is required to be in
HIS presence, so that HE can be ALL IN ALL (1Cor.15:28).
So the next time you
can't forgive as you really want to do, go to THE SOURCE that has freed us from
sin and death, that has given us grace freely, the ONE who has forgiven you,
and give HIM glory for HIS work is finished! (HEB.4:3, 12:2).
You can't add to HIS work, not even
your best effort at forgiving people.
So the forgiveness lie
is thinking your own efforts at forgiving will get you into the kingdom of
GOD!!!
Tramp
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