REMAIN TRUE TO THE EARTH.
I conjure you, my brethren, REMAIN TRUE TO THE EARTH, and believe not those who speak unto you of super-earthly hopes! Poisoners are they, whether they know it or not.
Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and therewith also those blasphemers. To blaspheme the earth is now the dread-fullest sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!
Nietzsche.
Beware of the word ‘Christian.’ If there is no mention of an ‘earth’ connection, it probably is pure pietism. Jesus warns in Matthew 24: 24 that “For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles”. Anything associating Christian Truth with AI is false from the start. For us, in the boring 2020’s, (where THE Machine dominates) any claim of the Message that omits our intimate connection, our indispensable earthly origin and ultimate cosmic destination, is categorically false.
For Christians now and beyond, John 3 pinpoints our personal plight and our perpetual planetary destination: EARTH. In that famous chapter Jesus gives a fundamental faith formula, directly aimed at a gospel teacher, Nicodemus, a leading theologian of his day. Jesus’ words, such as verses 10 – 17 of that chapter, are now through Nicodemus, equally directed to all Biblical Teachers: “Nicodemus, You personify ‘the world’s’ teacher, to whom Jesus then and now, strait from the gut, tells: “No one has ever gone to heaven except the One- Jesus – who came from there, the Son of Man”. That plainly puts paid to the outspoken Greek Heresy, pure pagan propaganda, that we will somehow end up in heaven, a place of which Paul, the eminent emissary, who had a peek there, tells his protégé Timothy, (see 1 Timothy 6): 16: that “God lives in inapproachable Light, who nobody has seen or can see.” And nobody put it better than Friedrich Nietzsche, who father and both grandfathers were preachers.
A deceiving example.
Here is what a Trump’s lackey proclaimed at the funeral of Charlie Kirk: “To our enemies: You have nothing to give. You have nothing to offer. You have nothing to share but bitterness. We have beauty, we have light, we have goodness, we have determination, we have vision, we have strength. We built the world that we inhabit now, generation by generation, and we will defend this world. We will defend goodness. We will defend light, we will defend virtue. You cannot terrify us. You cannot frighten us. You cannot threaten us, because we are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God”. How ungodly! Sincere Christians do not boast and condemn.
Compare this to Jesus’ words: “Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.” (Luke 6: 35) Trump pursues his perceived opponents, expressing hatred for them. Beware of false religions, so rampant today.
The point of no return.
Late November, COP 30 opens in the newly built Brazilian Capital, carved out from the ever-shrinking Amazon region. It seems to me, that the UN has given up stopping and reversing Climate Change. Trump and the US certainly have. Its government has scrapped all environmental protection measures, and ceased to support all renewable energy resources, now giving priority to climate-changing carbon fuels. The use of black coal, the most polluting energy source, has reached records, while solar and wind energy sources are abandoned upon Trump’s direction.
There is a theology behind this: It’s the ‘heaven-bound’ – Satan inspired – falsehood. It’s damning the world, the ancient ‘gnostic’ heresy so revered by the church.
Genesis 3: 19 plainly says, “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Daniel concludes his writing (Daniel 12: 13): “As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.”
God took us from the earth, as we are earthlings through and through: that’s why we will spend eternity there, this time, without The Machine, and without any sweat, as the last Bible chapter attests: “On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.” (Revelation 22: 2)
Pray for Collapse of the Machine that now dominates our world, and constantly tries us to rob us of our humanity, endeavouring endlessly to re-make us in its image, rather than in God’s likeness.
“Lord, I want to be a Christian, not only in my heart, but with my entire being, body, soul and spirit, 24/7, as I eagerly await the promised New World, where everything, without exception, honors its Maker, where even ‘the leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations.”