A Comment on Changes in the Christian Church

The United States of course has millions of people that claim to be Christians-and many are, and many others are misled in churches into worldly acceptance of politics and lifestyles more than a little out of harmony with the Gospel.

Probably priesthood of believers congregations should combine low church, high church and house church styles providing networked, credited support services for members along with individual participation as peers in worship. The hierarchical priest leading the flock unfortunately requires a dumb flock forever acting as recent convertees; good enough for evangelists of the ignorant yet virtually useless for the majority of maturing Christians.

Americans have been over-trained to accept social networks of a secular nature that actually replace intelligence and private property as meaningful values. Flowing in a perverted social sewer is more highly regarded in The U.S.A. today than traditional properties of rights and rights of private enterprise individually. That trains Americans to accept doctors with degrees in theoretical physics writing up extra-dimensional math formulations to swindle investors on Wall Street and promote a nation of network, finance, banking and Wall Street cross-dressing business people. Such nations eventually burn through natural political cycles.

In America tightening one's belt for the middle class may mean putting on more weight. The federal government develops more methods to assure the corporate world that Americans become increasing twits steadily. Jesus did say in Luke 18: 24, 25 "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

America as a nation with increasing debt and decline in comparative quality of its education, individual capital assets, infrastructure, energy independence, environmental quality and Mexican border security will not create a umbrella of salvation for its people because of the concentration of wealth and impoverishment of millions of Americans compared to the values of the 1960s and 70s. A value system of an individual transcends that of a society in their relationship to God-foremost in trusting Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

Worldly values taught in churches may be a little less harsh than some worldly cultures past and present. Yet what is it for a worldly church that denies hell exists for the faithless to gain secular power and perhaps lose their gospel souls? God may be a God of love, yet are human beings more like Christ or like Satan when they disregard the word of God? Can Christian 'authorities' disregard the word of God where it conflicts with popular sentiment and be doing anything besides harm to the eternal fate of gullible dupes following a no-fault dogma on sin and eternal life?

Could God reasonable have allowed Satan to just have his way and become numero uno in heaven? Didn't Satan and all of the faithless need somewhere to go for eternity since their souls too are immortal? Isn't that place hell, or should an emergent faithless, sophisticated church preach that the unsaved go to nice time-sharing condos on a Caribbean island with ample means for depravity so eternally satisfying?

Jesus speaks in Mark 9; 43-49 about hell. For those that are not saved, for those that are not of faith and have failed to enter into the Kingdom of God, hell seems to exist by default. For outside of the Kingdom of God it is difficult to imagine that God would sustain eternal environments or universes for the benefit of the faithless.

Some theoretical physicists have mentioned the possibility of an infinite cascade of Universes created by gravitational forces borrowing energy from a perpetual emission of virtual particles in the void. Well, even if such were to form, the anthropic principle would render the vast majority of universes that could sustain life into hell universes for eternal beings unfortunate enough to migrate into them. Yet it isn't known what the eternal budget or interest of God is in regard to Universes. The real probability that hell conditions dominate the majority of universes that transcending eternal souls might happen to go to-universes without Divine oversight, cannot be erased by logic, disregard of the Gospel or depraved secular sophism.

We learn from Jesus that many things may distract a soul from salvation and destiny preventing entry into the Kingdom of God. Considering how important it is-that the alternative is an eternity without God that becomes hell over time, the Christian is reinforced in his knowledge that there are many that let the word fall onto the stony ground of their lives to their own doom.