Beliefs Work Independent from Religion
Your body is your temple. To treat it as separate from religion is insane.
‘Temple’ means ‘belief’. Beliefs are transferred to your offspring not by how they grew up, but how their temple was treated. (Source: “The Body Keeps The Score”).
The way you treat people regardless of any other consideration impacts the expression of your temple and theirs. (Leviticus 19–9–18 paraphrased).
This in a nutshell is how beliefs work, and they work the same way regardless of whatever modality you employ, meaning they function independently of your religion, atheism, and any way of thinking that makes sense to you.
Religious conflict is baked in when obedience to laws is the focus — and it is. Obedience on steroids is when obedience is institutionalized and given fancy names. Theology depends on exegetics and hermaneutics to virally infect a rational mind that turns the temple (body) into a lifeless, loveless shell in which only religion can exist.
Christianity isn’t a religion. It’s a merit system designed to destroy love while making money.
Jesus said as much in Matthew 23:1–36. If you are a pastor or otherwise trained at a Seminary, every single word is about you. “Fuck off!” doesn’t even begin to describe what “woe” conveys. Jesus is merely pointing out the corruption of the scribes and Pharisees who were causing heartbreak and misery with their strict demand to obey their every command.
Replace scribes and Pharisees with theologians and Evangelicals to contemporize it. Harsh? Not at all. It’s just another iteration of the world’s oldest and most successful business model: God told us to tell you to perform an action in order for God to find favor with you. Do it, and all works out well. If it didn’t work it’s because you didn’t have enough faith.
Here’s the kicker about beliefs: they cause you to think that everything you believe is true, and to believe that everything you think is true. I call that singularity because that’s what it is. Your own personal black hole in which no light can escape. Academia and Seminaries are clusters of black holes. They can’t help it because money and merit institutionalizes money and merit.
That shouldn’t sound weird if you know what ‘sow and reap’ is. Unfortunately, for Evangelicals that phrase means to double down on Bible Studies as opposed to doing grater works as Jesus said. That’s why Evangelicals ignore miracles or just mention they were proof of Jesus’ divinity — nothing to see here.
Except Jesus refers to himself as Son of Man, indicating that he’s not a deity. I believe him, moreso because he explains how miracles work. Weird and maybe not surprising that Jesus explains after he kills a fig tree by cursing it. That should be a major clue of how powerful speech is. Or maybe you didn’t notice that God creates the Universe by speaking, “Let there be light”. You will have whatever you say. Jesus cursed the fig tree and it dies.
In almost every instance, Jesus facilitates miracles by speaking. Turns out that it’s a principle of quantum physics.
