"You Worship What You Do Not Know"
Exposing False Teachings Part I
Original Sin
The creation stories of Genesis 1 and 2 are very interesting. They are also very, very important in solving the mystery of all mysteries. The Bible is a complex book. It is first and foremost a collection of stories penned by many different authors. The authors were human beings, specifically men. This is not to say that our Creator did not influence the writers in order to have some Truth inserted in this book, but, to say that the Bible was written by "the finger of God" is ludicrous. Let us look first at the event that Christians/Jews say is the single cause of man's fall from grace, Original Sin.

Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
The LORD God made the trees grow. Including the "forbidden" tree.
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt "SURELY DIE".

Not exactly the Truth.

Gen 3:1-6 Now the serpent was more subtil than ANY beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, "God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, LEST ye die". And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God (capitalized) doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods (not capitalized), knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one WISE, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

LORD God did not make the serpent. He was more subtle than "any" of the beasts of the field that he made. Not "any other of the beasts", rather all of them.

God tells Eve not to eat or touch it, "LEST" she die. Lest means "for fear that". God said don't eat or touch it, because I fear that you might die. He did not "guarantee" she would die, as in "surely" she would. And, why would God not want the couple to know the difference between good and evil? So, they could determine or distinguish what was good from bad?....because that is not what the tree represented. It was a "knowledge tree", which would provide the knowledge that would make one "wise", and evidently the LORD God did not want the couple to become "wise". Why not? The reason will surprise many, and I will address this in another post dealing with the prophetic significance of the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”.

So, she is "beguiled" by the serpent, who, despite the popular belief, did not actually "lie" to her. He told her the Truth. She eats, and he eats, and all hell breaks loose. So the LORD God dishes out the punishment to Eve and the serpent, which indicates something that goes completely unnoticed by all these “Lambs of God” who think that they actually can properly interpret the “scrolls”. Christians and Jews are taught that the “serpent” was a literal snake, and the LORD God punished the snake by removing his legs, making him crawl on his belly and eat dust! So, Eve was a victim of a con-job from none other than a talking snake with legs! But, before the LORD God pulls the legs out from under the serpent, he tells him that he is now “cursed more than all CATTLE, and more than EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD”. So, what the LORD God is saying is interesting. He evidently “cursed” all cattle, and every beast of the field before the forbidden tree incident. He cursed the serpent MORE than he had already “cursed all cattle and beasts of the field”! You simply cannot curse something “more” than something else, unless that something else had already been cursed! You cannot ascribe a greater curse, unless you have another curse to use as an example of comparison. The LORD God compared the curse of the serpent to the curse placed on the cattle and beasts of the field. We’ll address this later.

Two things science has proven concerning “serpents”. No evidence has been uncovered that even suggests the possibility of snakes ever having legs. Not even evolutionists claim the notion that snakes ever walked with legs, and losing them through the process of evolution. There is no fossil records which indicate that snakes suddenly became “legless” 6000 years ago. Another thing we know about “serpents” is their diet. Snakes eat small mammals, particularly rodents. Snakes do not eat “dust”. Here is a challenge to the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world. Find me one “walking, talking, dust-eating” snake, and I will concede to you that the Bible is the “literal” Word of God. Actually, let this challenge go out to all fundamentalists who hold to the notion that the Bible can be interpreted “literally” by showing me the evidence of such a creature. You can’t. So, get over yourselves. You are making both yourself and God look silly. The serpent was not a literal snake, period. And, if you would really know what happened in the garden, you would realize that the serpent was the ONE entity in the whole garden debacle who actually told the Truth! Certainly, an “all-seeing, all-hearing, all-knowing” omnipresent God would have heard the conversation, and stepped in to stop the so-called “con-job”. But, the LORD God never saw, heard, or knew about it evidently, unless he was in on the conspiracy. Original Sin could have been thwarted from the start if the LORD God wanted to stop it, right? He can’t be deaf, dumb and blind, can he? He did nothing to prevent it, so that makes him at minimum guilty of something. He stood back and allowed the entire “fall of man” to happen without lifting a finger to stop it. He is guilty of far more than that as we will see. He punishes everyone severely for something he could have stopped. The serpent supposedly tricked the woman, but, as we see, he was spared the “death penalty”.

Christians and Jews are taught that the LORD God punished Eve by making it painful during childbirth. The LORD God punished her with Labor pains! Evidently, the LORD God had never shit out a bowling ball! He would have then known that natural law states that when something the size of a bowling ball comes out of an opening the size of a vagina, uh…..it’s gonna hurt! This is of course, not what the verse means, but Christians are telling us that God’s “literal” Word tells us that the LORD God was hard of hearing, seeing, and evidently has an I.Q somewhere in the range of George Bush. The LORD God also punished her by telling her that “her desire would be for her husband, and he would rule over her”. Who was her “desire” supposed to for, and who was supposed to “rule over her”? For the LORD God to tell Eve that as her “punishment”, her desire would (now) be for her husband, and he would (now) rule over her. We have to assume that this was not supposed to be the case originally. Some different arrangement had to have existed for the LORD God to make this declaration of retribution. He is basically “changing” the situation by making Eve (now) subservient to her husband, and (now) her desire would be for him.

We are given some further evidence in Gen 2:23. After putting the man in a deep sleep, and performing “rib surgery”, the LORD God then takes the rib somewhere to make a woman, and brings her back to the man. We are not told how He did this “magic trick”, but, good magicians do not reveal their secrets, and the Bible is chalk-full of fantastic prestidigitators. Gen 2:23 is the dialogue from the man after the LORD God brings him the woman. It is translated in a variety of ways depending on the source, but, it stresses something interesting, so I will paraphrase. The man says, and apparently he is quite proud of the fact that “finally! Or, at last! This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, and I will call her woman, because she was taken out of man”! The key words are “now”, “finally”, or “at last”, meaning whatever existed as the arrangement or process prior to the “rib trick” was different. The LORD God changed it, and apparently it was much to the man’s liking, because the man was pretty pumped about the new arrangement. I will address the creation stories in detail on another post, but, for now I will stick to the “origin” of original sin.

The LORD God also tells the woman, and the serpent that He would put “enmity between Eve and the serpent, and between her seed and his seed”. And, “she would bruise his head, and he would bruise her heel”. Again, the LORD God declares that he is going to “put enmity” between her and the serpent. Now, “enmity” is a word to describe an intense, and deep-seated hatred. It is better described as an extremely “bitter” hatred. Mortal enemy type hate. And, the LORD God placed this intense hatred between her seed (offspring), and the seed (offspring) of the serpent. So, the woman was going to “bruise the serpents head, and he was going to bruise her heel”. This is pure prophesy, and I will deal with this specifically in another chronicle. But, again we notice that Eve does not receive the “death penalty”, which is ironic, since she was the cause of all hell breaking loose on earth. According to the standard Christian doctrine of Original Sin, the one who should have “surely died” was Eve, after all, it was all her fault, right? If it were True, it would be the world’s first and most obvious case of entrapment. I’ll explain how, but first, let’s examine the man’s punishment.

When the LORD God gets to the man, he really sticks it to him. He was punished for “listening to the woman”, and the LORD God gives him the death penalty! Now, if I were a lawyer, I would argue that the woman did not say a word to the man. The evidence is clear, and indisputable. The Bible says, and I quote, “she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat“. According to the evidence, it looks like she ate, and gave it to her husband, and he then ate. No words were exchanged. She did not ask him to eat, nor did she suggest to him to eat. She simply handed it to him, and he ate willingly. He chose to eat it, she did not force it down his throat, nor did she have to “talk him into it”. There is no evidence that she spoke at all. And, what is the reason the LORD God gives for punishing the man?

Genesis 3:17-19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

What was Adam’s “sin”? The LORD God says that he was being punished because he “hearkened to the VOICE of thy wife”. How? She handed it to him, and he ate. No conversation is recorded. I mean, if the LORD God would have said, “because she handed it to you, and you ate it, knowing that I told you not to,…….” But, the LORD God specifically mentions that Adam “hearkened unto her VOICE” The word “hearken” means “to listen attentively”, or “to give heed”. If the reason the LORD God gives for putting the hammer down on Adam was for “listening attentively, and heeding the VOICE of his wife”, I would certainly think we are entitled to know exactly what she said, since Eve is officially blamed for the act that has plagued humanity for 6000 years! The evidence shows that Adam was not “talked into” eating anything, and he clearly did not “hearken unto her voice”. How would the LORD God know that Eve even spoke to the man? He couldn’t hear so well when Eve and the serpent actually had a conversation, but, now he charges Adam for heeding words that were never spoken.
The LORD God the proceeds to punish the man. First, he “curses” the ground because of Adam. He curses Adam with a dose of depression, as he will then eat of the ground “in sorrow”. He apparently will be eating the “herb of the field”, which included thorns and thistles. He will eat bread “by the sweat of his brow all the days of his life”, and then return to “dust”. Then, evidently he becomes “snake food”, as the serpent is now a “dust-eater”! Adam was told that if he ate of the forbidden tree, he would “surely die in the day that he ate of it”. And, he did. Just not literally “in the same 24 hour day”. Now, the real problem with the story unfolds in a major way.

Gen 3:22-24 presents some Truth that Christians/Jews do not seem to see.
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
What? You mean that all the LORD God had to do was to allow the man access to the Tree of Life, and what?.....He would have "surely lived"! So, the LORD God boots the man from the garden, and places the "flaming sword" to keep the man from being able to even come near that Tree that would have kept him from "surely dying".

LORD God did not want the man to become like "them" (gods....not capitalized according to the serpent). So, the LORD God should have told the man, "don't eat from that tree, for in the day you eat of it, I will SURELY SEE TO IT THAT YOU DIE!.....He lied, he "tempted" them with the Tree. He said nothing when the serpent spoke to Eve, but, allowed them to go ahead and eat. He basically "set them up", because, he was "envious" of the man. Adam did not have to die, the LORD God killed him by denying him access to the Tree of Life. So, they ate from a tree that would not "surely" kill anyone, unless someone stopped them from eating from a tree of life, which was permitted originally.

Now, who "beguiled" who?....But, man continues to believe that all those "Names", i.e. God, LORD God, LORD, LORD thy God, Lord GOD, LORD of Hosts.....ect....are just the different names for the same entity, so, he is going to find out the Truth the "hard way" I guess.
To conclude, the doctrine of “Original Sin” is completely unscriptural, and as we have seen, was not committed by the woman or the man. It was committed by the LORD God. The LORD God planted the forbidden tree, and then stood by and allowed the woman to be enticed into eating from it. He then accused the woman of talking the man into eating, when no words were exchanged. But, the most egregious act was to tell the man that he would “surely die” from eating of the tree, when all the while knowing that the man could then eat from the tree of Life, which would ensure that he would “surely live”. The LORD God did not want man to be immortal, so he took steps to ensure his death.

Those who think that the two conflicting creation stories involve the same entity, and are “complementing” versions of a single creation are terribly misinformed. What God of the entire Universe would curse his own creation? What God would create a man, and then take steps to destroy him? We are taught that God is an omnipotent, all-seeing, all-hearing, all-knowing God of “goodness”. What Truly “good” God even entertains the idea of evil, much less “know good and evil”? And, if God created man in “his own image”, then why would merely “knowing good and evil” be such a sin? Most people even today “know evil”, but, they do not “practice evil”.
Some say that death came into being because man ate from a "forbidden tree". Eating from this tree did not cause man to "surely die". Death came into being because man was "forbidden to eat from another tree", which would have literally saved his life. Adam was murdered, lied to, and set up by an entity who wanted nothing more than to destroy him!
Man was created in the "image of God". Evidence.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:23
For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
So, why did death come into being?
Wisdom of Solomon 2:24
Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it. We are taught that Satan was a "fallen angel". A "good guy turned evil". So, Satan qualifies as one who certainly "knows good and evil". He is also known as "the deceiver", "the destroyer", and "the adversary" who is the "god of this world".
In Genesis 1, we have the "Spirit of God moving upon the waters". In Genesis 2 we have, the "the LORD God walking and talking in the garden".
Now, read John 8, and hear what Jesus is saying. He is trying to clue you in on something. Those with ears will hear.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

What exactly is "Becoming Like a Child"?
Matthew 18:3 - And (Jesus) said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:4 - Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:15 - Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
These are merely a few of the many times Jesus stressed the importance of "becoming as little children". Christians cannot seem to grasp exactly what Jesus was harping on. In fact, Jesus harped on a lot of things Christians cannot seem to understand, but, let's concentrate on one "misunderstanding" at a time.
Matthew 18 is a chapter of some very good information on how and why it was so important to "become as a child". Verse 3 is important. Jesus always clues us in on important Truths by prefacing His message with the Word "Verily". When Jesus said "verily", or "verily, verily", it is His way of letting us know that this was something that He "unquestionably" said. It is Providence's way of telling us to "listen up", because this is absolutely True, and very important. Contrary to popular "false belief", the Bible was written by men, and not everything contained in the Old or New Testament was written or inspired by our Creator, infallible, inerrant with no contradictions. This notion of Biblical inerrancy and infallibilty is one of the most damaging doctrines ever concocted by man. Fundamentalists start screaming "blasphemy" if you like, and I will calmly illustrate how your own Bible tells you that this notion is completely bogus, and very dangerous. I will address fundamentalist ideology, as well as Luther's doctrine of "Sola Scriptura" in great detail in a coming post. For now, all those reading this and condemning me for disagreeing with your "programmed" belief system, simply grab your Bible, wipe the dust off, and turn to Ezekiel 13. Read it, and if you cannot figure out why the LORD was so pissed at all the "prophets who prophesied in Israel", then you are either blind or ignorant, or both. If you have ears and eyes, you will clearly see that some information in the Bible is simply not True, and that is not me saying this, it was none other than Yahweh, aka Jehovah. Man put words in His/Her mouth, and since men never learn or listen, they also put words in Jesus' mouth as well. I'm getting off subject, so enough on that subject for now.
Look at Matt 18:3. Jesus says, and I will paraphrase, "TRULY I am telling you, unless you convert (transform, change), and become as little children, you may as well forget about entering into the kingdom of heaven". Many times in the Bible, there are certain little "Words" that provide important clues, but, they are almost always either overlooked totally, or they are misinterpreted completely. The Word here is "converted". Converted to what? A Christian? Converted Christians are told that they are now "children of God" because they have undergone the standard traditional rituals required for conversion. All Christians know the drill, so I won't detail the process. Because, this is not what this verse is telling you.
Converting to a religion is the process of "gaining" a label, and "gaining" a set of rituals, doctrines, dogma, and a fairly standardized set of beliefs, depending on the denomination. Jesus spoke of another "conversion". The process of converting (transforming), and becoming "as a little child" is not a process of gain. It is the process of loss. Rather than gaining a certain set of beliefs, it involves forgetting about the ones you already have. One does not "fill the mind" to become as a child, one has to "empty the mind" of every learned belief accumulated throughout his or her life. A little child has not formed or been programmed with a belief structure. A little child comes into the world with his or her "house cleaned and swept in order". His or her mind is completely empty of false teachings, and has not yet developed an "ego". The process of converting and becoming as a child must begin by first letting go of the ego. Letting all learned beliefs go, and literally "emptying, and sweeping out the house called the "mind". One literally has to forget everything he or she has ever learned, and completely emptying out forged beliefs. I cannot stress this enough. Jesus further stresses this point when He spoke of the new wine and wineskin. He makes it clear that one cannot pour "new wine into old wineskins, or the wineskin bursts". Likewise, "one cannot pour old wine into new wineskins, or the wine becomes bitter". "New wine (spiritual knowledge) absolutely requires a new wineskin" (an empty mind). There is no other way to become "as a child" but to become an "empty vessel", willing to discard all beliefs, and starting all over just like a "little child".
Christians are always so quick to condemn "eastern philosophy" as being unscriptural, and even demonize eastern religions. This is vanity and ignorance. They fail to realize that the one they call Jesus Christ was extremely influence by eastern philosophy, particularly the teachings of a Chinese sage named Lao Tsi. Hundreds of years before Christ, Lao Tsi wrote something called the "Book of Tao". As he neared the end of his life, his followers literally begged him to write down and record some of his teachings. So, he penned a little scroll of 81 verses, and this is the "Book of Tao". This is very significant in the sense that the word "Tao" is literally translated to English as "The Way". Jesus did not lead a movement called "Christianity". His movement was called "The Way". He referred to Himself as "The Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one gets to the Father except by Him. He did not say "by My authority", He said "by Me", as in by knowing "the Way", "the Truth", and by becoming "resurrected into the Life". He did not teach His discpiples (us) to become "Christians". He clealy taught them (us) to "become Christs" ourselves. Truly I say to you, that a man following the "broad way" becomes a Christian. The "few" who follow the "narrow Way" become Christs. Those with ears had better hear.
So, what does Lao Tsi and Taoism have to do with Jesus telling us we absolutely must "become as a little child"? Allow me to share a few verses of the Book of Tao to illustrate that Jesus was teaching this little-know easten philosophy, however, He illustrated the concept of the Way in symbolic riddles that were meant to relay Truth in a way that most men would be unable to comprehend. I'll address the reason in another blog. Let's take a look at the Tao, and I will share the similarities and hopefully better illustrate the concept of "becoming as a little child".
Tao Te Ching (Book of Tao)
Verse 10:
Pacifying the agitated material soul and holding to oneness:
Are you able to avoid separation?
Focusing your energy on the release of tension:
Can you be like an infant?
In purifying your insight:
Can you un-obstruct it?
The point Lao Tsi is making here can be compared to several of Jesus' teachings.
1. Jesus spoke of becoming "one with the Spirit", He taught us that we must not be a "kingdom divided", although He knew very well that His message would be distored by man, and further "divide and separate the "material soul". He taught, albeit very subtly, the Taoist philosophy of "yin yang". Yin Yang involves a balancing of "polar opposites". The Tao and other eastern teachings stress the importance of this concept of a "unified Spirit", and not "agitating the human soul" by thinking in terms of separateness. Western "religion" has caused the "agitation of man's soul" by the "separation" of polar opposites. The concept of "duality" of Spirit has caused man to believe that he is divided in Spirit by "opposing dual forces". Good and evil are opposing and separate forces who are represented by the names "God" vrs "the devil" who are warring for control of man's soul. As if the Creator of our Universe would create a being almost as powerful as Them, and then have to fight this entity to the death! What Christians fail to realize, and eastern philosphy understands, is that good and evil are dependent on each other. Man cannot understand or appreciate the True "goodness" of Providence, without first thoroughly understanding the concept of evil. Without evil, there would be no good, and vice-versa. The Tao teaches us that we must not get caught up in the duality and regard good and evil as "polar opposites'. A master of the Tao understands this, and as a result does not see the good as good, nor the evil as evil. She centers herself, and realizes these concepts as simply, 'the way things are'. She understands that polarities are not separate, but rather they co-exist, and are dependent on one another. Only when one can "avoid the separate, and dual nature of opposites", then can one begin to focus on the "release of tension". Dualities cause anxiety, embrasing the Tao eliminates these anxieties by staying centered and not seeing the separateness of opposites, but accepting them as interdependent, and not separate "dualities". The philosopy of Yin-Yang teaches that everything in existence depends on the interaction of opposites, and rather than struggle and opposed each other, the opposites compliment each other. Harmony is key in the relationship of polar opposites.
The problem with all this, however, is that once again we see evidence of bias toward man, as the positive (Yin) is masculine principle, and the negative (Yang) is the feminine principle. Here is another example of a religion or philosophy either treating woman as a subordinate creature, or associate woman with the concept of the negative, or the embodiment, or cause of evil in countless male-dominated relgions. You can bet that I will deal with this issue very soon. Original sin in the Bible will reveal some interesting information that shatters the old myths concocted from the first few chapters of Genesis. Man has a bad habit of inventing names, genders, and attributes of the different gods he created. So, when men develop belief systems, which are actually developed for him by others and men end up obstinately defending beliefs that he made no effort to reasonably analyze, nor does man make any effort to look at his faith with a reasonable and objective mind. Man devotes less time researching matters that heis told affect his eternal existence, than he does researching the purchase of a new car!
What exactly then is meant by "one must become as a little child"? It is a process that does not involve gaining something, it involves losing things. Compare the mind to a computer. It is comparable to a hard drive. The hard drive (mind) collects and stores all kinds of information, some True, but, much of it is not. Sometimes virus' will find their way into the hard drive, and the only alternative is to "crash' the computer, which eliminates "all" the data stored in the hard drive. Becoming as a little child is exactly like crashing the hard drive of your brain. Discard and eliminate all beliefs, and all the information that has been "programmed" by the Scribes and Pharisees of the day. What does a little child know? Nothing. He or she has not developed any notions or beliefs. The child's mind is free of all false teachings, and then the child begins to learn things as he grows. Christians claiming to be "born again", do not properly understand what it actually means to be "born anew of the Spirit". Why? Because, these Words of Jesus reflect his tendency to communicate many "eastern philosophies" through the use of allegories, riddles, and metaphors. Commonly known as "parables". All eastern teachings focus on one becoming an "empty vessel", restoring the original mind to its "ego-less" root. The Tao refers to the mind being likened to an "uncarved block of wood", and asks the question, "can you become like an infant in purifying your insight"? Lao Tsi also begs the question, "in purifying your instinct, can you unobstruct it"? Jesus said the very same thing, but, He used different metaphoric language. Jesus called this "empty vessel" of ego-lessness a "new wineskin". A new wineskin does not come already "filled". It is empty. Like the "empty vessel", and the "uncarved block", free of all clutter and programmed belief structures. Just like the mind of a "little child". Free of the "dualities" created in our minds do to the evil creation of man of "polar opposing forces". As for "unobstructing" the purification process of the mind, Jesus also dealt with this cleansing process with His usual style and flair. He simply tells us not to "pour old wine into new wineskins", or "pour new wine into old wineskins". "New wine requires a new wineskin", and the new wineskin is symbolic for someone who has indeed "become like a little child", and discarded the old wine and skin, and this is what one must do to be Truly " born-again". The old wine, and now the new wine Jesus offered have become the "obstructions" referred to in the Tao Te Ching. The Bible refers to these obstructions as "stumbling blocks". The path to Christian "childhood" is inundated with these "obstructions", and there is a very "narrow way" in order to sidestep these numerous obstructions. Children are very nimble, and have tiny little feet; but a full-grown adult has a hard time, and cannot manipulate their way so well. This is a very hard task made more difficult as most Christians are attempting to walk the narrow path while inibriated on all the mixed-up "old and new wine"!
The Truth is this: the only way to ever begin to "become as a little child" is to literally crash the hard drive of your mind. Learn humility, and lose the ego. You have to kill it. It is the "mountain" that must be removed, because it is impossible to Truly acheive the purpose of becoming a "single-minded little child".
I will end by saying this. If you are not willing to totally discard everything you have ever been taught concerning matters of religion, then to claim yourself as a "born-again" Christian is the farthest thing from the Truth. To claim oneself as being "filled with the Holy Spirit" is inaccurate, and based on "false" teaching. The first thing the True Holy Spirit does for one willing, is to "empty" the vessel of the mind, sweeping it out, and putting it in order. Ready to then be fed like a "little child" with Truth. If you do not understand this, or agree, then you will never know that "Truth that sets you free". Because, when the vessel of the mind/ego is filled with a mountain of lies, then you can go to church twice a day, everyday, and never acheive what you claim. And, Jesus makes it clear that God really prefers "little children", and does not have regard for those who cling to false ideas based on ego, vanity, and pride. So, the end result is that you are literally "born again of the flesh", and reap what you have sown based on the word Christians cannot accept and claim it to be a teaching of the devil. The Word is Karma.
We'll discuss this "damnable doctrine" of transmigration of souls, aka reincarnation in detail soon.
Peace

This is a post I wrote for another site last year.

I apologize for the redundancy. I have not been posting much lately. The reason is that I have been ill. I have been fighting a fungal infection of the mouth. It's a condition called "Oral Candidiasis", but, everyone knows it as "Thrush". A simple explanation is that thrush is a yeast infection in the mouth! It used to be that babies would get it from dirty nipples on bottles, and then with the onset of AIDS, we began to hear more about this infection as one of the many opportunistic infections AIDS patients would get as a result of a compromised immune system. That is the story, anyway.

I do not make a habit of recommending or providing links to specific websites, as I feel if someone is interested or wants information, then do the research for yourself. If you have any knowledge of the disease called AIDS, then you probably know that AIDS victims do not die from any "viral" infections. They die from complications caused by "fungal" infections. If HIV, which is a "retrovirus", causes AIDS, then why doesn't the virus kill victims? Why do they die as a result of "fungal" infections? It does not make sense. Virus' cause "viral infections", with many examples. Polio, influenza, viral meningitis, TB, smallpox, malaria, and the list goes on. Virus' that kill do so as a direct result of the virus, but not AIDS. Now, I am not an expert of any kind in the field of microbiology or pathology, but, I cannot help but wonder how a virus could cause people to die from a variety of opportunistic "fungal" infections. Here is a website you can go to and read information from a plethera of "experts", who are of the same opinion as I, that HIV does not cause AIDS. They however, are highly qualified and can provide the medical evidence that backs their claim, something I am not qualified in the least to provide.

http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/index.htm

I did not mean to get off on a rant about AIDS, but, when I first contracted Thrush 14 years ago, it was a result of the antibiotic Biaxin I had been on to treat strep throat. But, when I went back to the doctor at the Medical clinic who treated me, the first thing he told me was that the antibiotic was not the cause, that thrush was one of the first symptoms of HIV/AIDS! Imagine the horror I went through, being told basically that I most likely had AIDS. I was too scared to even get tested, and was certain I was going to die. This fear went on for several years, until I finally learned that I did not have HIV or AIDS. My mother told me that the doctor who told me this was nuts, and mom was right.

I have had problems with fungus nearly all of my life. I have had chronic athlete's feet, several bouts of ringworm, and this is my third bout with thrush. I have had fungus toenails since my 20's, chronic sinusitis, chronic bronchitis, and have been prescribed more antibiotics than I could possibly count. I have been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Cervical Stenosis, Degenerative Disk Disease, and that is the short list, and excludes all the "three letter" mental disorders that I have been diagnosed with.

Of course, with each diagnosis came the pills. From Ativan to Zyprexa. From Amoxicillan to Zithromax. You name it, I have been prescribed it. What doctors never told us was the fact that antibiotics kill bacteria. ALL bacteria! The bacteria that causes infection, but also the "good" bacteria that is vital to the body. This good bacteria gets killed right along with the bad, and when that happens, the yeast takes over and literally turns to toxic fungus. I have never once been told by a doctor that I should take a probiotic along with the antibiotic to replenish the good bacteria that is killed off. The only thing they tell us is to make sure to take the antibiotic for the full course, usually ten days.

Why should someone have to discover this information on their own? When "antibiotic" literally means "against life", does it not make sense to tell us that we should supplement with a "probiotic", which means "for life"? Why do doctors fail to inform patients exactly what antibiotics do? Because they are not told to do so. The doctors in this country basically do what the AMA tells them to do. Who controls the AMA? Drug companies. Pharmaceutical companies control the AMA and the fact is that they operate for not merely profits, but huge profits. And, the only way to ensure huge profits is to also ensure that people stay sick! There is not much profit to make if people are healthy, so do you really think that these drug companies want to see people healthy? If you believe that then you are about as gullible and ignorant as they come, and feel free to stop reading this! Drug companies make drugs, and you can't make drugs unless you have something to make them for, so it only makes sense that they Truly would not want doctors to really treat the "cause" of any illness. They treat the symptoms, which they have conveniently caused, and many of these "symptoms" have been labeled as "diseases", "disorders", and "syndromes" in and of theirself. Then, they make the drugs that treat the disorders that they create, and make unbelievable amounts of money in the process. This is Truly sickening, and these companies are controlled by some of the most evil men to ever walk this earth!

As long as this country continues to operate under a capitalistic "for profit" health-care system, then the last thing they Truly "care" about is your and my "health". Now, if you are gullible and ignorant enough not to realize that the drug companies control the health-care system in this country, and that it is "nuts" to think that there is some kind of "conspiracy" going on, then continue on your way, and make sure you take whatever medicine you are on. Because, one would be hard-pressed to find anyone in this country over the age of 40 who is not on some kind of medication.

Back to the fungus. Once it has taken over your gut, then the fungus only needs to be fed. What does fungus like? Sugar. Carbohydrates found in processed foods. Foods like bread, pastas, soda pop, alcohol to name a few. All the good stuff in everyones pantry that tastes so good is the same stuff that will eventually kill us all. Slowly. A 60-70 year slow death, making sure we develop the symptoms which have become "labels" of their own diseases, disorders, and syndromes. Do you honestly believe that "adult-onset diabetes" is a hereditary illness? Older folks will remember the days when it was simply called "Sugar diabetes". This was a much more accurate label. Processed sugar is the favorite food of the yeast/mold/toxic fungus that has overgrown in many people.

There are many types of sugars. There are 2 particular sugars that really are unhealthy, and they are both "processed" by man. "Sucrose" aka "table sugar" is about as healthy as arsenic. People love it. But, have you ever seen a "warning label" on sugar? The media cannot tell you enough about how bad cigarettes are for you, but, what about sugar? It will kill you, but, are you warned? No. Why does sugar not come with a warning label, "Warning: the consumption of sugar may be harmful to your health"? Or simply, "harmful or fatal if swallowed"? The medical community blames diabetes on things like being overweight and genetic factors. Give me a break! Here's a clue. ADULT ONSET "SUGAR" DIABETES IS CAUSED BY WHAT? SUGAR!

Are you "lactose intolerant"? No. You are "sugar intolerant". Lactose is sugar. Sugar from processed dairy products, especially milk and ice cream. Milk is not meant for humans. It is baby cow food. It is not a "good source" of Vitamin D! The only "good source" of Vitamin D is the SUN! Vitamin D is produced by the body, but, the body requires sunlight to produce it. OH, I forgot. Exposure to Sunlight is not good for you, it causes skin cancer! So, eat your Oreos dipped in milk, but stay the hell out of the Sunlight, it will kill you. Good grief! There is something sinister going on here, but, do the research. Don't believe me when I say that the Sun, which is responsible for all "life" on earth, is not even remotely "unhealthy". The PTB (Powers that Be) do not want people exposed to anything that is healthy. It is ludicrous to believe that the Sun, the "ultimate life-giver" should come with a warning label.

The major culprit was developed in the 1970s. It is called "HFCS". High Fructose Corn Syrup. Research this crap. It is in nearly every processed food in this country! It is freaking poison! I will not get into the details of how they process this crap, so do the research!

What happens to bread when it gets old? One guess. It rhymes with "old".

Once fungus has taken over, people start to feel like crap, and they develop symptoms-turned-diseases like Type II diabetes, Leaky Gut Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia, Raynaud's disease, Epstein-Barr virus, Meniere's Disease, and possibly even MS, and a list of others too long to list or even think of right now.

If you have fungus toenails or fingernails, you are told that it is mainly "cosmetic", and not something to be really concerned about. If you have a white, pasty film on your tongue, then you have a fungus problem. If you can view the fungus externally on your nails or tongue, imagine what it is doing to your body!

Again, I make no claim to be an expert in any other field than possibly history and theology/religion, and even that is debatable. The knowledge I have on this subject has been a result of research I've done in an attempt to learn more about the cause of my own medical problems. You see, I am one of those "unlucky" ones who have a genetic defect that affects my body's ability to fight off fungal infections, and have had a yeast-turned-toxic mold overgrowth since childhood due to the over-prescribed amount of antibiotics, and a steady diet high in deadly sugars/processed carbohydrates. So, if you think that you have a sweet tooth, crave sugar or sweets, remember it is not you craving it, it is the little parasites in your body telling you to feed them. And humans think that they are the most intelligent beings in the Universe. It is fact that the smallest creatures on earth are man's greatest predator, killing him either quickly or slowly, depending on the pathogenic microorganism.

The fact of the matter is that all three known microorganisms called "pathogens", virus, bacteria, and fungii are present in the body. And you can bet the farm that there is a very delicate balance of each intended for the human body. Just as the Universe is very orderly structured, balanced, and operating in a very "perfected" manner, so is the human body intended to be in this same perfect order and balance. It's called "homeostasis". And the checks and balances to homeostasis lie in the balance of these "good and evil" microorganisms. When fungus is allowed to dominate, it becomes just like man. Evil. A nice 50-60 year disease that makes drug companies very rich!

IT IS CALLED "CHRONIC CANDIDIASIS"! RESEARCH IT. YOU CAN TREAT IT WITHOUT ALL THE DESIGNER DRUGS FOR MADE UP DISEASES. STOP EATING PROCESSED SUGARS, AND QUIT TAKING ANTIBIOTICS EVERY TIME YOU GET SICK. START TAKING A "PROBIOTIC" FOR A CHANGE. GET SOME SUN! YOU RELY ON DOCTORS FOR YOUR OWN BODY, BUT YOU DON'T LEAVE YOUR CAR TO JUST ANY MECHANIC! THAT'S IRONY FOLKS. I AM OUT

He was a man considered low in stature
who's mind was surely out to pasture
But, he knew the fields where the sheep were grazing
unaware that a constant fire was blazing

He spoke of things they had not heard
For they truly were a drunken herd
for lack of Truth the sheep were puzzled
and the wine of confusion they poured and guzzled

The lowly man in his wisdom knew
that most men truly had no clue
of the matters he held in his view
and the fires that all men's souls go through
oblivious to the flames that grew
while proudly planted in a pew
Sadly, man can't grasp the truth
Of the fire that's followed them from their youth

Men drift through life and play the games
and pay no heed to the book with names
while boasting as if they'd conquered all
but in their mind there lies a wall

Ask the lowly man who's out to pasture
These crumbling walls spell pain and disaster
Cause the so-called wiser saints of old
concocted much of the truth they sold

The lowly man in his wisdom knew
that Truly there are but a few
he knows the many who have died
for dead men truly cannot hide
and though men search themselves inside
their soul is full of empty pride
If only men knew that the One who died
came not to conquer, but to divide

Seven times man has walked the road
each time toting a heavier load
for the burden placed by "saints" of old
caused the love of many to grow cold

The time has come for man to toil
cause he's drowning in the wine and oil
It's time for man to stop and think
that wine and oil make bitter drink

The lowly man in his wisdom knew
and cried for those who had no clue
that the raging fire within men grew
rapidly spreading from pew to pew
But ask the one folks deem insane
cause the lowly man can make it rain

I am wise in my ignorance, yet
I am ignorant in my Wisdom
I am happy in my sadness
I am funny in my seriousness
I am sane in my insanity
I am loving in my hatred
I am vain in my self-loathing
I am strong in my weakness
I am unfaithful in my faithfulness
I am living out my death, so
I am dying to live as
I am living to die
I am innocent in my guiltiness
I am peaceful in my anxiousness, but
I am anxious in my peacefulness
I am a duality of oneness, but
I am separation of unity
I am effeminate in my masculinity, and
I am malevolent in my femininity
I am humiliated in my pride, yet
I am proud in my humility
I am enlightened in my darkness, but
I am darkness invading my light
I am selfless in my selfishness, but
I am selfish in my selflessness
I am empty in my fullness, and
I am full in my emptiness
I am praised and I am scorned
I am certain in my uncertainty
I am ancient of days, and
I am from days of ancient
I am a creation, and
I am a creator
I am the tempted, and
I am the tempter
I am an illusion of reality, yet
I am reality in my illusion
I am the first, so
I am also last
I am the end, because
I am the beginning
I am the image, and
I am the counterfeit, but
I am not the counterfeit image
I am a Son of man, and
I am a Christ, but
I am not Jesus Christ
I am but a mere mortal. and
I am certain of what I am not
I am my god, but
I am not Providence Most High
Who am I?

"I am that I am and that's all that I am".