Bert Hielema–Columns and Writings

GOLIATH’S CURSE, and THE END OF EVERYTHING.

Earlier this year I bought the book named after a famous Biblical figure. The author: Luke Kemp, a senior researcher at one of the world foremost universities: Cambridge. Most of us have heard of Goliath, the formidable Philistine fighter, killed by David, the shepherd-youngster, only armed with a sling.

Well, Goliath is back in the news.

In close to 600 pages, a work of 10 years of careful analysis, this learned man, researching the story of collapse in human history, concludes, and I quote: “The darker angels of our nature are flying us towards evolutionary suicide”.

I believe that Luke Kemp here hits, perhaps accidently, on one of the uttermost truths of the Scriptures: The devil’s aim has always been to destroy THE WORD, which was ‘in the beginning’. Well, he is succeeding, thanks to us, his willing allies.

Luke Kemp’s warning is not a solitary voice. On “The End of Everything”, a book by M. John Harrison, the winner of that most prestigious Booker Prize, the author comments, “No, I don’t feel any hope at all. We are just walking in a dream into a desperate situation. Somehow somebody has got to remind us that every action has consequences and that we’re ignoring them.”

He refers, of course, to us, ignorant by choice.

Read the Bible, lately?

Perhaps by coincidence, (Although I don’t believe in coincidence) the prescribed Bible reading from the Lectionary for November 11 was from Matthew 24. It totally confirmed the conclusions by both Luke Kemp and Harrison. No, it was no coincidence. Jesus’ warnings are real.

Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these (disastrous) things have happeneHeaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. Perhaps, reading Matthew 24 once in a while, is an eye-opener. I sincerely believe that this chapter applies to us in 2026/7.

A further coincidence?

COP31 started on November 9. In Turkey. In the same area where Paul, the great Missionary, successfully brought the Gospel. Now the Gospel of Earth Preservation is preached there.

As I have done before, I have made a COP song: COP 31. There is a tune to it. Here it is:

COP 31:

What have we done?

The world is quickly warming.

Should show concern,

As forests burn.

Instead, we start re-arming!

COP 31:

What have we done?

The world sees heat increases

The poor are hit

The drought no fit

Will bring us new diseases.

COP 31

What have we done.

Is there for us a future?

The dies are cast

The heat will last,

And will engulf all nature.

COP 31

What have we done?

A strong El Nino coming,

Will hit the poor

You can be sure

The world’s end will be looming.

COP 31

Can’t be undone?

But Jesus’ words are surer.

The earth renewed

All ill eschewed

The future will be purer.

Some personal history.

I wrote this song last weekend. As a primary school student in the Christian School in Groningen, the Netherlands – a long-time university city (It is the second-oldest university in the Netherlands, after Leiden University, founded in 1614) – each Monday morning, I had to recite a memorized rhymed Psalm song or gospel hymn.

Today, almost 90 years later, these rhymed verses still play through my mind, every morning. Perhaps, these Psalms. grafted into my consciousness, have given me the ability to create new verses quite quickly, often using the melodies of these songs as their starting points.  

A New Age.

“We have entered a new age of climate extremes,” said António Guterres, the UN secretary general. “A supersized El Niño is colliding with a planet already superheated by manmade climate change. Climate records keep falling. The human costs keep rising. And those least responsible are suffering first and worst.”

GOLIATH’S CURSE, and THE END OF EVERYTHING.

What pains me especially is the lack of prophecy in the church. In the Niagara area where I now live, there are thousands of ‘Reformed’ Dutch families, divided over some TEN different denominations, quibbling about such irrelevant matters of women and sex, while ‘prophecy’ and matters of creational preservation seems to be taboo, and rarely mentioned.

In the first Century church, Christ’s return was the overriding topic, so much that Peter had to caution them, evident in 2 Peter 3.

Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.  But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

I sense that this First Century urgency is lacking today, even as the signs are becoming more pronounced by the day.

A HISTORIC SHIFT

I have a personal calling in life: preparing myself for my life to come. Intimately connected with this, are my views on my physical fitness. I see my body as God’s unique gift to me to look after and treasure: It is this body that will carry me into eternity.

Thus, I try to eat well, sleep well, pray, exercise by following a daily routine, develop my mind, always open to new ideas and insights, and welcoming new people and new opinions.

One of these new ideas is Morphic Resonance:  a somewhat controversial hypothesis proposed by British biologist Rupert Sheldrake.  He e Hesuggests that nature possesses an inherent collective memory and that natural laws are more like symptoms that evolve over time rather than fixed, eternal rules.

I see an important analogy here with the Laws of ecology, one of which is: “Everything is connected to everything else.”

That’s also why I fervently believe that creation is a living entity, with feelings of her own, such as love and dread, with anxiety today dominating. I see today’s sudden political change in the USA as part of such a pattern. There is a distinct universal, yet seldom expressed undercurrent of anxiety in human thinking that ‘the times they are a’changing’, as an old song has it. And it is true: the cosmic weather patterns are rapidly altering, with global heat piling up and historic monsoons changing their perpetual paths, endangering the lives of billions.

Trump, personifying evil.

In the USA the Trump regime is not only defying these changes, but accelerating the meteorological modes, and so increases the imminent dangers. I also believe that global dread is an unexpressed feeling. It is never even acknowledged, and one of the factors why we now see a historic shift, an unprecedented period in global happenings.

But, there is hope for America!

The US election has been a revolution, not only politically, but even religiously. Take James Talarico, whose campaign slogan was “Love Thy Neighbor”. He emphasized that we as Christians are called to challenge the systems that brought great inequality.

This election also saw many gospel preachers succeed on the Democratic ticket, a party often vilified as the most anti-Christian political movement. Today these clergymen mirror Jesus’ views on ‘religion’: anti-establishment, drawing the ire of hundreds of their colleagues.

The DAY rushes on.

This shattering pattern is the more relevant, as, I believe, the DAY rushes on, with world-altering events happening, witness AI, Climate Change and War. The entire Bible, the Scriptures, from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, has been written with the TELOS in mind, the fulfillment of history.

The purpose of history.

The early church, the first gathering of Christ believers, as related in Acts 2, sold all their cashable assets, and gave the proceeds to their fellow ‘Christians’ in the fervent belief that Christ’s return was imminent.

That was 2,000 years ago, when the globe, with less than 300 million of us earthlings, was seen as enormous in size. Now we have 8 billion plus. And the globe is small: we can reach almost any point there in less than a day.

I increasingly believe that God wanted to see what humanity was capable of achieving, both for good and bad. History is nothing else but discovering both what fits in the Kingdom to come, and what should never be adopted. That’s why Revelation 14: 13 assures us that “Our good deeds will follow us.”

There’s a lot in our daily doings that will never become standard in the ‘renewed’ creation, for the simple reason that it is harmful, and leads to atmospheric death and climate collapse.

Remember, November is the month of COP 31, in which the world focuses on our detrimental habits that has brought us global climate change. It is encouraging, and energizing that last week’s US elections have given politicians an opportunity to reverse some of the detrimental Trump policies. I pray for courage and wisdom for the Democrats in congress to enact climate friendly policies, in tune with God’s love for the cosmos.

The renewed earth.

Of course, we will not see a totally new earth: The world we live in will simply be renewed, will revert back to its original state, a situation God called ‘good’ seven times when God surveyed what He had created. It is that ‘goodness’ we must rediscover and pursue.

That’s why we must “Pray without ceasing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:17

“Ora et Labora”, is an old Latin expression urging us to “pray and work”. I like to reverse the order, and change it to the infinitive: Laborare est Orare. It expresses the idea that ‘working on the right thing is akin to prayer’.

WHO DECIDES?

^“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, ⁴⁰ yet you refuse to come to me to have life.”                                           Jesus in John 5: 39-40

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James 2:26

I struggle.

Each week my thoughts look ahead and wonder. My wondering is more like pondering. I ponder on eternity, and I wonder what’s in store there. Also, each morning I start the day with reading the applicable lectionary, as published by the Vanderbilt School of Theology. I highlight a text that appeals to me, copy it, and write 250 words of commentary.  Extemporary. No editing. Just my thoughts. Nothing brilliant. Perhaps pure poppycock. Who cares. Done it for decades. That’s how I happen to read “As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” James 2:26. The day before, I copied John 5: 39-40. They made me think about Sunday Sermons, as if listening to them grants eternal life. They don’t. It’s how we live, that counts. Jesus in John 10: 10 re-emphasized how 24/7 living brings LIFE. His words again: “I have come to bring life, and that to the full”.

Our task in life. Who decides?

It seems to me that it is our task, aided by the church, to prepare ourselves for eternity, the state of perfect life. The church must be a school for eternity. Not engage in periphery matters of sexuality, of finer points of theology, but communally explore ‘holy living’ in preparation for the Life to come. It is only out of that future that the presence must be lived. The future? Yes: Eternity in and on a renewed and, through Jesus, perfected world.

Look at Jesus’ life.

As a baby he was circumcised, the customary ritual, still in vogue for Jewish people. As a young teenager he for days debated theology with the leaders of religion in the Jerusalem temple. After that experience, he never repeated that event.

We know nothing of his later years of formation. I suspect that he studied the natural world, communed with animals and trees, where he detected and admired God’s wisdom, and embraced LIFE.

And then after decades of contemplation he suddenly pops up at a revival meeting of John the Baptizer, about whom his mother had told him some weird stories. And then:

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. Only one of the many directives by James, the author of the letter carrying his name.

Where am I in all this? Has life now come down to “Me and the Machine?” Faith without deeds? What are we TO DO? What am I to do?

Turning point.

We are at a turning point as humans. Before the Industrial Revolution, change was all about “Mother Nature and the slow process of becoming”, but then we massively intervened. Coal became king. The ‘murder mills in Manchester ‘, the Charles Dickens books. Then computers 70 years ago. Artificial intelligence is now the last (r)evolutionary leap. That’s what AI is: it is much more than a phase: it signals an end, it embraces finality, it is men’s crowning achievement.

At the heart of this sits the age-old question: who decides our future? Who or what will guide us in an era of fundamental change, a time of ominous indications, a time of radical alterations in weather, in business, in politics, in warfare, in medicine, in religion, in human relations just to name the obvious.

Who decides?

Right now, the answer is a handful of private corporations, billionaires and their political enablers, making choices that will enrich them but devastate billions of people.

The climate crisis is already causing floods, wildfires, drought and record heat. AI agents are already escaping super-secure environments to hack into systems they’re supposed to avoid.

Who will decide the future? Our future? My future?

Let’s confront it. Honestly.

The world is not just facing one individual challenge like climate change. There also is nuclear war, autonomous armed drones, enormous volcanic eruptions, or dangerous new technologies. It is all of these at the same time. Add interconnected global financial markets, where one failure can cause global failure, and the scene resembles Revelation 18, quoted below.

Who will decide our future?  God does.

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!

She has become a lair for demons 

and a haunt for every unclean spirit, 

every unclean bird, 

and every detestable beast.

All the nations have drunk the wine 

of the passion of her immorality.

“Come out of her, My people,

so that you will not share in her sins 

or contract any of her plagues.

For her sins are piled up to heaven, 

and God has remembered her iniquities.

God already has decided. Man proposes, God disposes.

PARADISE RESTORED

A curious conversation.

When Jesus was dying on the cross, he was not the only one hanging there. On his right and his left were other culprits. Jesus knew them, as he knows all people, all created beings.

 The story is told in Luke 23. The one victim confessed that he was dying for a valid reason, but that Jesus was a victim of mal-justice. The man knew that. He had followed Jesus’ life-journey. Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”  End of story. Speculation galore.

Jesus was different. He started his short mission of a mere three years as an itinerant speaker/healer by making wine at a wedding. In that he foreshadowed the place of the constant wedding feast, Paradise Restored, which became the main focus in all his parables, and the destination of his people: His Kingdom, earth renewed.

Just as Jesus began his life’s task with making and drinking wine, he ended it with it too. At the LAST SUPPER Matthew 26: 29 tells us that Jesus said: “I tell you I will not drink of this fruit of the wine from now on (emptying his cup) until that day when I drink it anew with you in the Father’s Kingdom”.

The Father’s Kingdom?

That gives a pointer to our coming destination, a physical feature: Wine.
In the NEW Creation we ALL will drink wine of a quality akin to what Jesus made at the wedding in Cana, his first miracle. He also lived gloriously. His opponents called him a glutton and a winebibber. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”  (Matthew 11: 19)

Still the questions linger.

Jesus, in the prayer he left with us known as THE LORD’S PRAYER, starts with the two matters he regards the most important: (1) HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME and (2) YOUR KINGDOM COME. Both point to CREATION, the old and the new. The Heidelberg Catechism, still a mainstay of the Reformed faith, teaches us that ‘Hallowed be God’s name’, signifies the sacredness of God’s name: “Don’t swear!” in other words. However, that is NOT its meaning. In her book, Sacred Nature, Karen Armstrong lists 50 names by which believers relate to God’s name, and states that God is beyond a name. God’s signature, His Name, actually, is found on every item created. Thus, the “Hallowed be your name” phrase, really requires us to keep Creation holy. We need to maintain the earth in a pure state, as God’s name, his very own signature, is evident in every creature great and small. Read that sentence again, and then ask ourselves whether our life reflects that ‘holiness’. Perhaps a prayer for forgiveness is in order.

“Your Kingdom Come”, the second line in that prayer, asks us to fervently pray each day for Jesus’ return when he brings with him the NEW CREATION. The New York Times, this past week, published a book report: “Fearing future catastrophe is nothing new – ancient Greek and Roman philosophers all visualized the apocalypse.” Why? Because THE END today is often in the news. People sense it.

REFORMATION DAY 2026

I love Luther, the monk who was so turned on by the Bible, that he challenged the religious monopoly of his day by going public with his objections 509 years ago on October 31 1517. The breaking away from the then all-powerful church unleashed a tremendous amount of creativity, evident in such great spirits as Shakespeare and the Flemish and Dutch painters, and cultivated new approaches to music and science, philosophy and literature.

That spirit of free thinking, of new thinking, of daring thinking, seems to have stopped today. Today when so much is changing and almost everything is up for grabs, many are too distracted, too confused, too afraid, too ignorant, to entertain new ideas. Especially in the church.

We are paralyzed. We know that Climate Change looms. To believe in Climate Change means to say farewell to the AMERICAN DREAM, which meant a nice bungalow in the suburbs, a double or triple garage and an infinite supply of fossil fuel, that miraculous substance that once Made America Great. It’s all part of the Age-Old struggle to erect a human empire on the basis of a human-dominated empire.

The Real Miracle.

The real miracle is that through all these attempts, God re-establishes his eternal, unequaled Kingdom. That is the ultimate meaning of history. To believe in the Restored Paradise also means that we must say farewell to The American Dream because it means a totally different approach to life. Paradise is the unspoiled world where the total harmony of all creatures entwines everything in total cohesion. Paradise is the kingdom as seen by God on the morning of Creation, when he saw all that God had made and behold, it was very good.

And there we will be, together with Jesus. In the restored Paradise we ALL will drink wine of a quality akin to what Jesus made at the wedding in Cana, his first miracle.

John 3: 16 comes to mind. Again. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Paradise restored. Forever. Everywhere.

I HAD A DREAM.

A few days ago, in the early morning, in the process of waking up from a fitful sleep, I had a short dream, a dream unlike any other.

Here’s how it played out: “In my dreamy vision, I wanted I to go door-to-door and tell people about God. But, after knocking at one door, I quit. No use.”

I am not sure whether it was part of my dream, but my immediate thought, with the dream still uppermost in my mind, was that using the Bible as a physical aid, in my effort to ‘evangelize’, was totally ineffective. Holding a Globe would have been a much better tool. It could have been part of my dream, because it is fully in accord with John 3: 16: “God so loved the World.” (God did not say, “I love the Scriptures).

Dreams in the Bible.

In the Older Testament dreams play a large role: Joseph, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel, they all had mysterious dreams, but in the Newer Testament, they are called visions. With the apostle Peter, the conservative Peter, God used a dream/vision to persuade Peter to enter the home of a Roman/pagan centurion and bring the gospel there. Of course, much of Revelation, the last Bible book, is the retelling of a vision.

Perhaps my dream falls into the ‘vision’ category.

I do not think that God talks to us directly anymore, as He did to young Samuel, who conveyed a dire message of Eli, the high priest. For us God speaks in a different Way: Today, Anno 2026, to interpret ‘The Future’, is done by reading ‘the signs of the Times’. Jesus, in Matthew 24: 32-34, tells us exactly that: be on the lookout: keep up-to-date on world events, and don’t believe the politicians and their rosy views.

Read widely. Be sceptical. Always keep The End in mind. Yes: Read the newspapers, glean between the lines, and maintain a biblical outlook on current events. Trump is a direct example of our corrupt and distorted political views. He is senile and a criminal, and his actions will hasten the Day. He is just another indication that the Telos is near, much closer than both the world and the church realize.

A Trinity of Perils, an ABC combination.

A combination of AI and the Bomb and Climate Change, will do the trick: a Trinity of perils. Yes, a Trinity of Perils: ABC is a good capture of today’s events. As I have written before, decades ago: The biblical world started in the Middle East, the birth place of Civilization, its cradle, and it may well end there. The news now is centered on that geographic location. The Bible has been written for that area, where Jesus lived his short life, where Paul labored to bring the Good News.

So, why AI?

The AI risks we are now facing are truly staggering. I would put them in two very broad categories. The first is existential risk: quite literally the possibility that AI could kill billions, either because it enables terrible people to do terrible things – such as design and deploy biological weapons – or because AI itself determines it is more efficient to dispense with humans.

The second danger of AI is an existential challenge: left unchecked, the development of AI will deprive billions of us of meaningful agency over our lives, with utterly profound consequences for economies, national security and human happiness. As Bill Gates wrote, the AI era will herald “one of the most turbulent times in human history”, noting that it will either be the greatest equaliser ever invented or the worst source of injustice. 

The BOMB

Trump’s bottom-line justification for the illegal US-Israel war on Iran, is his wilfully mendacious claim that Tehran was weeks away from obtaining the bomb. Yet his reckless threat, issued at the UN, to annihilate Iran,” implies a possible US nuclear attack”. Trump’s hypocrisy is stunning. The US is upgrading its nuclear arsenal of 3,700 warheads and may resume nuclear tests. It unreservedly supports Israel’s hidden nuclear weapons programme. And Trump is pursuing lucrative deals – “The lust for money is the root of evil”- with Saudi Arabia, another bitter foe of Iran, to provide civilian nuclear technology that he knows could be repurposed to make weapons. That has prompted regional countries such as Turkey and Egypt to consider going nuclear.

And then there is CC= Climate Change.

Humanity has fearfully and sometimes joyfully anticipated the end of the world ever since it began. Matthew 24 – spoken by Jesus – and the Bible’s Book of Revelation, both mention “end times”, a period of tribulation, war, famine, plague, floods and environmental catastrophe that may seem a less absurd prospect today than perhaps it once did. Matthew’s gospel predicts most people will ignore or ridicule warnings of imminent Armageddon. Peter, another of Jesus’s disciples, agreed: “In the last days, scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.” Trump and Putin?

The ABC of history is upon us. That is not ‘pessimism’. That is very Biblical.

I had a dream. My real dream is the New Creation. “Your Kingdom Come”, is an all-important request in The Lord’s Prayer.

Be ready for its reality.

A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE CHURCH AND ITS MESSAGE.

“Many whom God has, the Church does not have, and many whom the Church has, God does not have.”                               Augustine.

All my life I have been a member of a ‘Church’. The church designation itself is derived from old English, with equivalents in other European languages such as ‘kirk’ in Scottish, ‘kerk’ in Netherlands, ‘Kirche’ in German. They all are derived from the Greek word ‘kuriakon’, meaning the dwelling place of the Lord (kurios).

But, the Greek word ‘kuriakon’ does not appear in the New Testament. Therefore, to refer the concept of church to buildings that are God’s dwelling place, is not biblical. A church building, its spire promisingly pointing to heaven, is just that: brick and mortar. That’s also the reason why in Revelation 21: 22, the seer of Patmos, said: “I see no temple there (in the New Creation)”. No Church, not even a Bible there.

What is biblical is found in Psalm 24: “The Lord’s is the earth and its fulness, the world, and those who dwell in it.”

So, please don’t get too worked up about ‘the church’. It is a human invention, contrary to ‘the earth and its fulness’. That is God’s dearly beloved creation, specifically mentioned in John 3: 16 as God’s object of unconditional devotion. If God’s love for creation is so immense, to the point where He sacrificed his only child to wrest it back from the clutches of the Devil (think about that for a day or two) should we, following God’s example, not sacrifice a few of our luxuries and conveniences, and so showing our love for Creation? Shouldn’t the ‘church’ be an example in this?

What constitutes the Word?

The same applies to ‘The Word of God.” The church custom, after reading the Bible, to say, “This is the Word of God”, implying that only the Scriptures are God’s Word, is incorrect. Psalm 33: 9 clearly states: “God spoke, and it came to be”. What came to be? God’s Word fulfilled in Creation. There also is Christ: God’s Word become Flesh. To make the Bible God’s only Word, is idolatry. The Belgic Confession is quite clear here. To designate the Bible as God’s only revelation, leads to Religion, and Religion kills. Religion leads to human – thus faulty – interpretations.

Jesus hated religion for the simple reason that it killed him. John 10: 10, in a few words, outlines Jesus’s view of life. The text quotes Jesus’ simple statement: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” I wonder whether Jesus had Trump in mind when he said “The thief comes only to steal”.  There are reliable sources suggesting that the Trump family’s wealth, in the current two years of the Trump dynasty, has increased by $10 billions. His presidency has been typified by exploiting creation and abolishing all environmental regulations, and enriching themselves purely through killing God’s gifts to humanity, committing the fatal sin: the sin against the Holy Spirit, for which there is no forgiveness.

Paul Krugman reports: “The level of corruption that Trump has engaged in and enabled in others, is completely unprecedented – self-dealing that, as Trump would say, is like nothing anybody has ever seen before”.

THE AMERICAN RELIGION.

The American Religion is the title of a book by America’s most qualified literary critic, Dr. Harold Bloom. Its subtitle is: ‘The emergence of the Post-Christian Nation’.

I bought it some 30 years ago. Its core message is that “We think we are a Christian nation, but we are not” Now Gnosticism rules. Gnosticism hates matter = Creation, and favors ‘Spirit’, destined for heaven. The American self stands outside of creation. Dr. Bloom bluntly stated: “The American Religion has ceased to be Christian”.  Trump was politically so successful, because he was – and still is – the exponent of the American Religion, a pure reflection of the nation’s ruling faith.

Both the VP JD Vance and the head of the US military, Hegseth, are recent ‘converts’ to the American Religion, the VP being Roman Catholic, Hegseth being Protestant, espousing Christian Nationalism,

This week, Hegseth took his personal crusade to a whole new level, announcing a new Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs, which reports directly to him. The military he said, was putting on “the full armor of God”. The Pentagon insists that it will not “compel religious participation”, but given Hegseth’s broader efforts to imbue Christianity into the armed forces, it’s hard not to be alarmed.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which has sued the Pentagon over its worship services, is certainly worried. “All of [Hegseth’s] actions combined with this latest announcement make clear that Hegseth is advancing a Christian Nationalist agenda in the military,” a teaching based on the Old Testamentary regulations, such as the stoning of women caught in extra-marital sexual situations.

Love Creation as God does, as the indigenous people do.

All my life I have been a member of a ‘Church’, an institution that will vanish in the New Creation, soon to come. Because “God so loved the Cosmos”, we, too should follow God’s example: That is true Christianity.