The following speech was given at the Assembly of Antichrists, on the 23rd of October 2009. This is Part Two of the fourteen-part series, THE BIBLE 2: HOW TO BURN CHURCH.
(The speech began with the usual pleasantries. The speaker was introduced as ‘friendly,’ ‘wise,’ ‘knowledgeable in the Scriptures,’ ‘loving life,’ ‘blessed,’ ‘anointed,’ and ‘a powerful man of Beelzebub.’)
In a world where everything made sense, I wouldn’t need to give this address.
Our understanding of salvation would be directly affected by our understanding of sin.
Yet sense evades us.
Somehow, salvation can still mean being transformed into God’s design whilst sin revolves around a moral code.
But we’re not satisfied. Our purposes necessitate that we distort this dilemma even further.
Through the spread of the Law-Grace Hypothesis, a rare opportunity has presented itself.
We are now perfectly capable of making the meaning of salvation even less relevant to sin without anyone noticing.
Briefly summarized, the Law-Grace Hypothesis suggests that Israel and Christianity had and have two utterly divergent purposes.
So will be ultimately judged by two distinct criteria.
Israel was designed to stay away from the sinful world and strictly follow the law.
Christianity is designed to convert the sinful world and loosely follow the law.
The law matters less for Christians because God is now more concerned about being popular than having people obey him.
Therefore, God invented grace.
Grace means that it doesn’t matter what you do so long as you belief the right stuff.
This makes sense, because it would be very difficult to convert people to Christianity whilst it had very strict rules.
People like freedom most, which just so happens to be Christianity’s favorite slogan.
And the best part of the hypothesis – it suggests that salvation is now nothing to do with action whatsoever.
Israelites will go to heaven so long as they keep the law.
Christians will go to heaven so long as they keep their beliefs.
Brilliant. Let’s adopt it.
Let’s utterly crush every possibility that Christianity might have something to do with present change.
Salvation becomes the moment that the soul switches eternal destinies from hell to heaven.
The Christian life becomes the pursuit of that moment for every soul.
Fortunately for the church, that moment is achieved by accepting precisely the beliefs that strengthen the Institution’s status in society and therefore the status of its members.
Aided by this subtle persuasion, the church would potentially lose all focus of its restorative purpose.
It is even possible that if this plan is executed, the phrase ‘salvation is God’s work, not ours’ could even become ‘orthodox’ doctrine.
Wow.
Picture a hospital where the doctors do nothing but point to the Chief of Staff and say ‘healing is his work, not mine.’
Christianity could become so beautifully ironic.
By merely defining its success by the number of people who join it, we have the ability to mold the entire movement into one that uses all the same words with completely contrary meaning.
The death of a movement is the moment it concerns itself with the number of people who constitute it rather than the change that it effects.
What could be a more genius method of sabotage than suggesting the purpose of a movement to be the pursuit of its demise?
Now that we have the method, we need to decide on a game plan.
Let’s start from the beginning – right at the entry point to Christianity.
We need an initiation rite.
We’ve got to make people do something that immediately conditions them to perceive Christianity as being primarily concerned with beliefs.
Something that distracts from themes of earthly restoration.
Here’s an idea.
God, forgive me. I am a sinner.
I want to stop sinning.
I don’t want to feel guilty anymore.
Thank you for dying on the cross and making everything okay.
I accept my immortality as accomplished by faith and belief in Jesus.
I accept you as my final authority, as defined by the church.
Come into my heart.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Faith and Belief.
We need to say those two words together so often that people forget that there’s any difference.
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