PART FIVE

We are seeing that the Fall of Mankind set on motion a very different series of effects than those of which the Reformers came to be the Defenders, and the Confessors the Prophets of the Religion of Reason which they brought forth in these Articles. God had the Power to pardon Man, and to remove from his side the one who  sought his death. He didn’t. He could not do it; the entire System of His Creation had been pushed to the edge. Nothing could be the same as before. Everything has to be submitted to a complete Renovation. God gave Life to Immortality, now He had to Immune Life from Death. Hard as it was to Him, Father of Mankind, to see His creature tortured to the death during the next millennia, He could not expose the Future of the entire Creation to its Fall in the name of the Present pain. Death had found the way to the Earth, and Death had to do its work, for everybody to see that no matter the efforts against it, a World founded and built upon the Laws of the Tree of War it is doomed to its total self-destruction. And that this Truth it is the Source of the Law.

When the Son came down from His World to ours His thoughts were much concerned on the Future of His own work. How could it be other way? And how could He fail to see the outlines of the Future to come?

About the Answer to the Question brought forth by the Rebels, when they set their eyes in bringing the Son on their side, that way forcing God to abrogate the Law on War, and blessing War as the game of the gods, their Temptation failed completely. The Cross was the way to the Victory of Life on Death. Father and Son they have One same Spirit, One same Will, One same Love, of same Kingdom, One same Law. God’s Wisdom is the Source of the Future of the Creation. The King of kings and Lord of the lords of God’s Empire had to die, for the Universal : King, Lord, Judge and High Pontiff, to sit on the Throne of God. Everything : Political Power, Justice, Military, Religion, God had put everything in Jesus Christ’s hands. How would He not see the trouble His Church had to go through the next two millennia? Once God took the decision of setting Free the Devil  about the beginning of the second millennium the series of events to foretell, was clear. Once freed the Devil would take as primary work to divide the churches. Being the churches the Members of the Body of Christ, and Christ is Jesus, the movements of the Lord in His Kingdom would receive a terrible blow, to follow His falling on the ground, a dead man, though alive, watching the sacking of his house by his enemy. The Decree against the Devil had been sealed, but the Devil would take with him to Hell as many Nations of Mankind as possible. To destroy Mankind in a Suicidal Global World War was the Devil’s  target. He only could conquer this goal by dividing the churches; as a madmen is locked in a cell, so the Division of the churches would force Christ Jesus into the straitjacket of a madman.

The Reformation was the direct attack of the forces of the Devil against the Body of Christ, to fit Him in the straitjacket from which He would see His work reduced to ashes, and with it the entire human world.

However, Christ is the New Name of Jesus; Jesus is the Son of God, God is indestructible and invincible. What else?

Let’s go back to the poor blind men who, in the belief that they were playing the part of a New Christ, entering in the Old Temple to cast out of it the Old Priesthood, served the Devil in sieging Christ Jesus in order to lock Him up in the straitjacket of the Division of the churches. Notwithstanding let’s remember words of wisdom, in especial those which says that the salvation of a single soul washes out the many sins of the man who made it possible: because if the Mercy of God rewards so highly the salvation of one single soul, how much higher He would raise the punishment on those who with their works lead entire nations out and away of His Kingdom and Law! If the lambs turn into wolves, and on them the wrath of the Lord, those shepherds who turn their back on the Devil and left the Devil moving at pleasure among the Flock, what they deserve? Hard is to be sit on the throne of the Bishops of Rome, from which so many nations were set apart in the name of Power and Gold!

Now:    

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The Deity of the Holy Spirit

We believe and confess also that the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son--neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but only proceeding from the two of them. In regard to order, he is the third person of the Trinity--of one and the same essence, and majesty, and glory, with the Father and the Son. He is true and eternal God, as the Holy Scriptures teach us.

One more time, we rock the wall! They take the Spanish Creed, word by word, and make them theirs. Why? It is understandable.

In the day of the King of Eden the Devil put the dress of an angel coming from the Lord to announce him a glory day, the day of the coming of man into the brotherhood of the gods of war. In  this case the Reformers, as Confessors, put on the dress of the Spanish Orthodoxy, which has been leading the Catholic Theology ever since they corrected the Greek Orthodox Creed with this New Extension of the Nicaean Creed.

The wolves had to be seen as lambs. And to hide, at the image of the “hidden god” to which likeness they were made, their absolute lack of originality, their absolute incapability to bring a single word of their own, they set apart the Article from its original Source, to make it coming out of the Scripture.

Any man who feels for himself just a little respect and value his freedom of thought and analytical powers, any man can see that the Spanish Confession, to which this Article refers when saying “We believe and confess also”, was made many centuries after the Foundations of Christianity were laid. Any man sees that the Spanish Confession was the Christian answer to the theological creed by the Byzantine Greeks brought forth; and any man sees why: this Spanish Confession is the natural result of the Nicaean Creed, from which the Byzantines began to walk away. Ergo, as much as the Nicaean Creed is the Operation of God’s Spirit on the Servants, in the same way the Spanish Confession was the work of the Lord on His servants. Then, they confess to be absolute Catholics, with a difference, they came to destroy the Catholic Church. Let’s try to find out why.

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 The Creation of All Things

We believe that the Father created heaven and earth and all other creatures from nothing, when it seemed good to him, by his Word--that is to say, by his Son. He has given all creatures their being, form, and appearance, and their various functions for serving their Creator. Even now he also sustains and governs them all, according to his eternal providence, and by his infinite power, that they may serve man, in order that man may serve God. He has also created the angels good, that they might be his messengers and serve his elect. Some of them have fallen from the excellence in which God created them into eternal perdition; and the others have persisted and remained in their original state, by the grace of God. The devils and evil spirits are so corrupt that they are enemies of God and of everything good. They lie in wait for the church and every member of it like thieves, with all their power, to destroy and spoil everything by their deceptions. So then, by their own wickedness they are condemned to everlasting damnation, daily awaiting their torments. For that reason we detest the error of the Sadducees, who deny that there are spirits and angels, and also the error of the Manicheans, who say that the devils originated by themselves, being evil by nature, without having been corrupted.

Here we find, again and again, the same surreptitious way the ignorant had to hide their ignorance. When Saint John said that the Word was made Flesh, He was speaking of the One who said : “Let there be light”, and so on and so forth. The Scripture no saying who was the Person speaking, and the Wisdom which came down on the Apostles being subjected to Silence, Saint John laid down in the form of Dogma the Identity of the Person who Created the Heavens, He who said “let there be stars”, and the Earth, when He said “let there be light”.

Even so, the Confessors, in the pride of the “New Christ” born to enter in the “Old Temple” to raze to the ground the Catholic Church, they committed the most foolish of the presumptive omniscience when they said that it was the Father who created the heavens and the earth, this way denying the New Testament and the Holy Spirit who said, in John, that the Word was God, and this God was the Son. This on one hand.

 On the other hand they dress their foulness, let it be called so in the name of mercy, with golden dust when saying that “God created all the other creatures from nothing”. God said it with all the words “Dust you are, and to the Dust you are to come back”. The Dust is our beginning and the dust was to be our end. Notwithstanding the Confessors follow the intelligence of the time. Incapables to make any advancement on the Knowledge of the Divinity and the Creation they simply master the knowledge of the Church of their day, for good and bad, and made themselves the New Defenders, the new Bearers, the New Superheroes, born to Protect and Defend the True and Pure Doctrine of Christ. Hey man, halleluiah!

On the subject of the Grace of God and the Freedom of Will the Confessors follow their own advice, rejecting the Theology of the Scriptures, which gives Freedom of Choice from the very beginning to all the sons of God. The sons of God who formed the Axis of the Snake, Satan its head, did it so because they chose it to do so. And so the sons of God who rejected to be on their Axis did it by Free Will.

God is Freedom. God’s Freedom is communicated in His Image to His Creation through the Spirit of Intelligence, without which cannot be Freedom of Choice. The sons of God who put their crown at the feet of the Throne of God, they did it so because that was their Choice. Once the War was declared they were free to choose side. They didn’t do that, to side with their brothers on War, because a especial Grace by which they were converted in automats, animals without Power of Judgment? Not at all, they did so because God’s Freedom.

God’s Freedom was their Freedom, and they would never, not before, not then, not ever, side with anything, of anyone but God’s Freedom.

Grace is given to the dammed in prison, waiting for the sentence of death to be executed. This is God Grace in Christ. There is no Grace to be received where there is no Death penalty to be executed. Grace is given to open the doors of freedom, but those who had never been in jail, they had never departed from Freedom; ergo they need no Grace.

On the subject of the eternal damnation of the Devil, what? They came to teach to Christ what to believe and what to reject?

But the most funny part in this Article is the condemnation, One Thousand and Five Hundred years after, of the Sadducees and the Manicheans. And anyway, when speaking of the old saying of the Manicheans “who say that the devils originated by themselves, being evil by nature, without having been corrupted”, why rob us the pleasure to hear them say some word on the source of that corruption by which some sons of God preferred Hell to Heaven? I guess it was more easy to say that some receive the Grace and some are left to die. He who’s got the power got the Freedom, right?

Let’s hear then speak about Freedom.

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The Doctrine of God’s Providence

We believe that this good God, after he created all things, did not abandon them to chance or fortune but leads and governs them according to his holy will, in such a way that nothing happens in this world without his orderly arrangement. Yet God is not the author of, nor can he be charged with, the sin that occurs. For his power and goodness are so great and incomprehensible that he arranges and does his work very well and justly even when the devils and wicked men act unjustly. We do not wish to inquire with undue curiosity into what he does that surpasses human understanding and is beyond our ability to comprehend. But in all humility and reverence we adore the just judgments of God, which are hidden from us, being content to be Christ’s disciples, so as to learn only what he shows us in his Word, without going beyond those limits. This doctrine gives us unspeakable comfort since it teaches us that nothing can happen to us by chance but only by the arrangement of our gracious heavenly Father. He watches over us with fatherly care, keeping all creatures under his control, so that not one of the hairs on our heads (for they are all numbered) nor even a little bird can fall to the ground without the will of our Father. In this thought we rest, knowing that he holds in check the devils and all our enemies, who cannot hurt us without his permission and will.

For that reason we reject the damnable error of the Epicureans, who say that God involves himself in nothing and leaves everything to chance.

This is to say, they don’t care about the War between Christ and the Devil, Hell and Heaven, going on; they don’t care about the Devil’s work; they don’t care about the destiny of men. Everyone is in the hand of God; it is not man’s duty to leak nobody’s wound. They have been saved, they are saved, and to hell whomever got to go to hell. They can’t understand nothing of what’s going on, they only know that Christ came to announce God’s Grace to those who  believe in God, and that the Catholic Church who had been announcing that God’s Grace, in the Name of Jesus Christ, to all men, She had already grown old and corrupt, and She had to go to hell too. They knew more, they had to help Her to go to Hell. The War of Religion, set the world on fire, in order to Announce God’s Grace to the World, which had been hidden from the nations ever since the Bishop of Rome became Pope, Religious War was, absolutely, the Duty of the New Christian Man. And if pushed too much, even World War was a Holy Work.

 Hey man, Halleluiah! because “the devils and all our enemies cannot hurt us without his permission and will”. Yeah, God had the Permission and Will of God to kill Adam. Surely they were the new Christians, at the service of that Devil who brought forth in his own defense this argument before the Curt of the sons of God : “He is Omniscience, he knows everything,  if He did not want me to kill him, why He didn’t stop me?”

But as the Confessors say a short way above : “We do not wish to inquire with undue curiosity into what he does that surpasses human understanding and is beyond our ability to comprehend”. However, created at the Image of God, God being Intelligence, as the Creations of Heavens and Earth and everything show us, our Soul tends to Intelligence at the Image of God’s, which means that we tend to understand and comprehend everything. How then, rejecting the Image of God in Man, which is the Fruit of the Grace, can a man call himself a Christian? The Confessors wanted the Grace, but not the Fruit of it. And for this reason they confess : “But in all humility and reverence we adore the just judgments of God, which are hidden from us, being content to be Christ’s disciples, so as to learn only what he shows us in his Word, without going beyond those limits”. Notwithstanding the teaching of Christ leads again and again to go beyond those limits into which by the Fall was Mankind locked up. “Ask and you will be given “. “If you need, wisdom, ask for it and you will receive it”. And so on and so forth. Of course, we understand, the Belgian Confessors and their reformer mates in body and soul given to get rich, there could be no better advice than to stay into those limits, and once by Grace having being Free, do accordingly their desires, because after all nothing happen without the permission and will of God.

Let’s go now to the Confession of the Creation and Fall of Man. Here the Devil could not restraint its argument to displace Christ’s Wisdom, and opened his mouth to say :

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 The Creation and Fall of Man

We believe that God created man from the dust of the earth and made and formed him in his image and likeness--good, just, and holy; able by his own will to conform in all things to the will of God. But when he was in honor he did not understand it and did not recognize his excellence. But he subjected himself willingly to sin and consequently to death and the curse, lending his ear to the word of the devil. For he transgressed the commandment of life, which he had received, and by his sin he separated himself from God, who was his true life, having corrupted his entire nature. So he made himself guilty and subject to physical and spiritual death, having become wicked, perverse, and corrupt in all his ways. He lost all his excellent gifts which he had received from God, and he retained none of them except for small traces which are enough to make him inexcusable. Moreover, all the light in us is turned to darkness, as the Scripture teaches us: “The light shone in the darkness, and the darkness did not receive it”. Here John calls men “darkness”. Therefore we reject everything taught to the contrary concerning man’s free will, since man is nothing but the slave of sin and cannot do a thing unless it is “given him from heaven”. For who can boast of being able to do anything good by himself, since Christ says, “No one can come to me unless my Father who sent me draws him?” Who can glory in his own will when he understands that “the mind of the flesh is enmity against God?” Who can speak of his own knowledge in view of the fact that “the natural man does not understand the things of the Spirit of God?” In short, who can produce a single thought, since he knows that we are “not able to think a thing” about ourselves, by ourselves, but that “our ability is from God? And therefore, what the apostle says ought rightly to stand fixed and firm: “God works within us both to will and to do according to his good pleasure”. For there is no understanding nor will conforming to God’s understanding and will apart from Christ’s involvement, as he teaches us when he says, “Without me you can do nothing”.

Of course the Devil had to hide its argument in the core of a mountain of words of Jesus Christ, its enemy; which other but God’s Lamb’s skin could do better work in hiding the skin of the wolf? The keystone of the building of this article resides in this paragraph : “But he subjected himself willingly to sin and consequently to death and the curse, lending his ear to the word of the devil”. This willingly is the masterpiece of the Devil. And it is because if the Man willingly gave himself to sin, and willingly left himself be corrupted by the Devil, the entire fabric of the Redemption is a fake.

The Redemption is based in One Keystone : Ignorance of the Science of God and Evil, Ignorance of War. It is in this Ignorance that the entire Old Temple was based. All the sacrifices for the sins of Israel were based in Ignorance.

 Man knew nothing about Treason, about Corruption, about Passion for War, Power, about the Wars of the Sons of God, this is to say about the History of the Things of Heaven. The Creed of Adam was the Creed of John. God is in His Word; the Word of God is Law, The Word is God. And this Creed he assumed to be the Creed of the entire House of the sons of God. As the Creator, the creature has his word as good as law. Man’s word was man’s soul. Man was in his word. The Word was Man. And so with the sons of God. This Creed was Man’s Glory. And his Achilles’ heel too. To kill someone who had in the Word the essence of his Being, his killer had only to put on the dress of an angel coming down from God. “Eat and you will be like us, a god”

This Ignorance on the Science of Good and Evil, whose Fruit, War, he has never tasted, as the records of the Past, Before Crist Five Thousand Years, says, showing us no Arsenal of War in no city, this Ignorance was the Argument by God taken as Door to Redemption and Road to His Grace.

But the Confessors, and the Reformers are backing up this Article and Creed, are saying that the King of Eden went on the side of the Devil in fullness of Knowledge and fully conscientious of what he was doing. The Confessor and the Reformers are accusing God and Christ of being Impostors and Deceivers; the Confessors and the Reformers are making of the Scripture the Book of a Monster, called God, who delights today in stabbing, and tomorrow in heeling. How, being so versed in the Scriptures, which they quoted with the acuteness of those birds repeating words without understanding of their meaning, could they run over the keystone of the Old temple : The Sacrifice, figure of the Sacrifice of Christ?

If Mankind transgressed the Law on War of God in the fullness of the knowledge on the consequences, Redemption could had been never promised. According to the Law, “Eat and you die”, had Man and the Devil walked into the Path of War hand by hand, Man and the Devil would had been sent to Hell both, no mercy no exception, no Grace for none. There was Grace, and with Grace, Freedom, because there was Ignorance on the Nature of the Works of the Devil.

Now, once the Devil has carved its argument into the Creed of the Belgic Confession, it is the time to put on the skin of the Lamb and steal from the Church they have sworn to set on fire, words of wisdom.