A Phil-for-an-ill Blog

September 13, 2008

Phil’s Mad World Lab “When Pills Just Don’t Cut It Anymore…”

Yesterday we had madness and insanity, today we are having craziness and lunacy… for a change

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“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5:11

Home (= http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/ )

2010-01-14:

Spirituality – Some questions regarding Mary K. Baxter’s “A Divine Revelation of Hell”

2010-01-13:

When is self-confidence a good thing and when is it not so good?

Random Insights – Videos – Commentary to the “What is Ego” Video

2009-12-17:

The cost of depreciating people:

Random Insights – The Downside of Talking People Down

Which is a more fundamental antagonist of Love, hate or fear:

Random Insights – Is it “Love vs Hate” or “Love vs Fear”?

2009-12-3:

Under what societal circumstances does psychopathic behavior confer survival benefits:

Random Insights – When Does Psychopathy Flourish? (Musings on Psychopathy II)

2009-11-27:

My biggest project to this date ladies and gentlemen, spanning no less than 9 parts:

Spirituality – Unmasking the Roman Catholic “Our Lady of Fatima”

2009-11-3:

Are vaccines really that meritorious? Do they really prevent disease or could they, heaven forbid, precisely help to cause disease rather than cure it?

Health & Well-being – Swine Flu – Vaccines, Cure or Cause?

2009-10-30:

Regarding the fashionable Swine Flu H1N1 hype:

Health & Well-being – Swine Flu – Is the Disease Really Worse than the Cure?

2009-10-23:

The package inserts leave no room for doubt, vaccines destined for Europe contain at least three potent poisons:

Health & Well-being – Swine Flu – Proof that European H1N1 Vaccines Contain Mercury, Squalene and TWEEN 80

2009-10-21:

The Jezebel spirit is a most fashionable but exceedingly hostile spirit that seeks to possess people:

Spirituality – When Love Yields to Fear – What is a Jezebel Spirit All About?

2009-09-30:

The Dutch version of how I got set free from demons:

Spirituality – Hoe ik door demonen bezeten raakte en van ze werd verlost

2009-09-21:

The chronicles of my much needed deliverance. How Moziah saw to setting me free from demons:

Spirituality – Tragedy and Sin, Forgiveness and Restoration – My Own Deliverance Story

2009-07-19:

The second of a three-part blog on Mercury toxicity:

Health & Well-being – Dental Amalgams

2009-07-12:

The first of a three-part blog on mercury toxicity:

Health & Well-being – Toxic Mercury

2009-07-09:

Added a four part blog based on a four part youtube presentation provided with ample background material:

Health & Well-being – Dr John Rengen Virapen, Blows the Whistle on his Former ‘Big Pharma’ Employer

2009-06-07:

Selected Videos – Chris Strunk on Speak Up with Sandy Shulte

Selected Videos – Chris Strunk back on Speak Up with Sandy Shulte

2009-05-12:

Spirituality – Moziah Frees her Cousin Tina from Demonic Possession (Video Slideshow)

2009-04-20:

Spirituality – Moziah Frees her Cousin Tina from Demonic Possession

2009-03-07:

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – I Am Legend (2007)

2009-02-19:

Added:

Random Insights – Musings on Psychopathy

2009-02-15:

Added the timely remake of the 1951 original:

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

2009-02-13:

Added a predictive programming analysis of a Sci-Fi oldie:

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

2009-02-07:

Added a blog series based on a 19 part Youtube repost of Jerry Brunetti’s – Food as Medicine filmed presentation:

Health & Wellbeing – Jerry Brunetti – Food as Medicine (Youtube repost)

Its predecessor is:

Health & Wellbeing – Jerry Brunetti – Food as Medicine – Eat Natural Food

2009-01-27:

Added the first three episodes of the TV series called Survivors aired in 2008 on the BBC:

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Survivors (2008 )

2009-01-26:

Added:

Mad as Hell News – Yahoo Email Censorship – Obama’s Fainting Women Travelling Circus Act

Added:

Obamania Memorabilia – Obamas Fainting Women Travelling Circus Act

2008-12-11:

Added:

Selected Videos – Psychology – Five Steps to Tyranny

To install a tyrannical regime is easier than people may think. To spur people into doing tyrannical deeds is also easier than people tend to believe.

2008-12-04:

Added:

Spirituality – Sister Keri and Moziah – Fighting Evil on a Spiritual Level (1of2)

Spirituality – Sister Keri and Moziah – Fighting Evil on a Spiritual Level (2of2)

How to fight evil in general, and the Catholic Church in particular, on a spiritual level rather than the usual physical level, something they by and large control.

2008-12-02:

Added:

Health & Wellbeing – Dr Tullio Simoncini – Cancer Is A Fungus – Baking Soda Is The Cure! (canceled 2009-06-11)

The dreaded public enemy nr.1. killer disease meets an elementary and effective cure.

2008-11-30:

Added:

Mad World News – Wal-Mart Worker Killed During 5am Store Opening Stampede

2008-11-27:

Obamania Memorabilia – “Something is happening of historic proportions”

2008-11-20:

Health & Wellbeing – Dr Russell Blaylock – Nutrition and Behavior

A tantalizing video in which Dr Blaylock elaborates on the connection between nutrition and (criminal) behavior. It is shown that bad behavior and bad nutrition are inseparably linked. In addition, the development of a variety of health afflictions and diseases (ADHD, Schizophrenia, depression, migraine, anti-social behavior etc..) is highly sensitive to improper dietary habits. As such, in many cases diseases of this type can simply be reversed by beneficial dietary adjustments instead of resorting to toxic medication to merely ameliorate the symptoms and thus ignore and cover up its root cause.

2008-11-18:

Added three interviews I did a while back with Illuminati Grandmaster Leo Lyon Zagami. As always, the interviews were improvised and recorded through a Skype connection. Some information is a bit timely while other information proves to be most relevant at the moment.

Selected Videos – Leo Zagami – Phil Interviews Illuminati Grandmaster 2008-06-19 The Life of Leo’s Son in Jeopardy(canceled)

Selected Videos – Leo Zagami – Phil Interviews Illuminati Grandmaster 2008-05-31 Eric Jon Phelps and Monetary Reformer Marco Saba(canceled)

Selected Videos – Leo Zagami – Phil Interviews Illuminati Grandmaster 2008-05-28 (canceled)

2008-11-12:

Added:

Mad as Hell News – American Militia Leader Speaks to Senate (10-2008 )

A US militia leader articulates his concerns regarding the slow transformation of the US into a Police State while people’s backs are thrown against the wall and how the militias will hold firm ground trying to preserve the Constitution.

2008-11-10:

Added:

Health & Wellbeing – Exposing The Hideous Nazi Monster Called F. Luride

Health & Wellbeing – Slaying The Hideous Nazi Monster Called F. Luride

An invention by the Nazis to dumb down and psychologically repress camp-inmates, it is hardly a surprise that fluoride compounds have a myriad of neurotoxic and poisonous properties. The evidence speaks quite clearly that fluoride compounds should be outlawed banned for public consumption.

The way to do this is to educate yourself and your social circle on the atrocious nature of these stupifying and toxic compounds. Rid fluoride from your tap water as thoroughly as possible and use alternatives to fluoridated toothpaste. In addition, be keen on using no edible products containing fluoride. Read the labels.

Perhaps only by a systematic boycotting and banning of products containing fluoride can a halt be put to the prevalence of fluoride compounds and its immoral infusion in myriad of consumer products.

2008-11-04:

Added:

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Transformers (2007)

[...]personifying robots no doubt earns the sympathy of many young and naive viewers and there stands nothing in the way of viewers to even identify with the robots. Depicting robots sympathetically and which have literally superhuman powers reads like an effective advertisement regarding the merger of man and machine. By making robots come across as friendly and protective (the Autobots only though, not the Decepticons) the viewer is predictively programmed to look favorable towards a future in which man will be drawn closer to machine either by augmenting machines with human characteristics or by endowing humans with machine like qualities facilitated by neural implants. In short, humanizing machines while dehumanizing man. The latter is a most worrisome prospect to anyone preferring to be a flesh-and-blood sentient human being who enjoys his or her autonomic mind and takes pride in his or hers individuality, as opposed to being an essentially soulless and unconditionally obedient machine reminiscent of a human.

2008-11-03:

Added:

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Cyborg Girl – Boku no kanojo wa saibôgu (2008 )

I believe that the purpose of movies such as Cyborg Girl is to help bridge the gap between sentient man and the soulless machine and make it more attractive for people to accept implants that directly interface with the human nervous system. Although there are certain benefits to be enjoyed by augmenting nervous systems in case they have been compromised say by, for instance, paralysis or neuro-degenerative diseases, regarding the preservation of privacy and individuality however, brain chips pose a tremendous danger to humanity if such technology is administered by an tyrannical regime in an Orwellian police state setting.

2008-10-31:

Added:

Obamania Memorabilia – Protect Democracy by Exposing Obama’s Hypnotic Deception

This blog serves as an research supplement to the document circulating on the web exposing the multitude of hypnotic strategies and techniques Barack Obama is using in his speeches. The document is called: AN EXAMINATION OF OBAMA’S USE OF HIDDEN HYPNOSIS TECHNIQUES IN HIS SPEECHES. It is also referred to in my previous blog on this subject. Although it is a very valuable and very important tool in understanding and exposing the “Cult of Obama” for what it really stands for, it was not always an easy task to get to access the references and source material cited in the document. The function of this little addendum blog is to help you to get to the evidence material quicker and more efficiently.

2008-10-28:

Added:

Obamania Memorabilia – Barack Obama Using Covert Hypnosis In His Speeches

2008-10-26:

Added:

Obamania Memorabilia – Obama Not US Citizen? Berg v. Obama dismissed – Berg appealing to U. S. Supreme Court

Added:

Health & Wellbeing – Coconut Oil – The Healthiest Oil on the Planet

2008-10-25:

Added:

Obamania Memorabilia – Holocaust Survivor Warns of Obama Becoming the Next Hitler

The parallels of the current cult-like frenzy surrounding the “messianic” Obama are frighteningly close to what happened in Germany when Hitler rose to power.

Added:

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – The Happening (2008 )

A sudden surge of collective suicide secretly precipitated, through biological warfare, by the powers that be, but made to look as if it was brought on as the wrath of nature. If society is brought into a crisis, releasing a biological agent while using nature as a cover the perpetrators are given a cunning form of plausible deniability.

2008-10-22:

On the many dangers of soy, I added:

Health & Wellbeing – Good Soy is No Soy

2008-10-20:

Added:

Health & Wellbeing – Jerry Brunetti – Food as Medicine – Eat Natural Food

2008-10-19:

Added review of Bee Movie:

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Bee Movie (2007)

2008-10-15:

Added an addendum to:

Random Insights – Counter-argument to “The Illuminati Is Good” Video

in response to a brief Youtube message exchange I had with the representative of Nemesis, DJHives.

2008-10-10:

Added:

Mad World News – The Wall Street Welfare Act – Congressman Sherman

Added:

Mad World News – Market Watch Page

Added:

Mad World News -BANGKOK – Police throw bombs into a 30,000 strong crowd!

Added the third and last part of the vidoed Vyzygoth/Collins Brothers series on predictive programming in culture.

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins – Invoking the Beyond 3 of 3

2008-10-09:

Added the first two video parts of an in-depth radio interview series by Vyzygoth and the Collins Brothers on predictive programming in culture.

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins – Invoking the Beyond 2 of 3

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins – Invoking the Beyond 1 of 3

Added Counter-argument to “The Illuminati is Good” Video, a response to a presentation in which it is maintained that greedy sheeple are the source of all the world’s problems and the cause for the rise of the Illuminati and their dominion over the world.

Random Insights – Counter-argument to “The Illuminati Is Good” Video

2008-10-07:

Added:

Random Insights – Other Reasons Why Marijuana Is Kept Illegal

2008-10-06:

Added:

Random Insights – Information, Misinformation, Disinformation, Comparing Definitions

2008-10-03:

Added two short youtube videos detailing the predictive programming relationship between the movie Independence Day and the September 11 attacks. Videos based on Vyzygoth Interview of Paul and Phillip Collins from 2007: Vid1 and Vid2.

The videos are to be found under item 3 of the references list of my review of Independence Day (1996).

2008-10-02:

Added Death Race (2008 ), on the rise of the modern-day prison gladiator and the Prison Industrial Complex.

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Death Race (2008 )

2008-09-30:

Added The Concept of Ego-sphere and the Tragedy of Being Wealthy, on Public Enemy Nr.1: Narcissism.

Random Insights – The Concept of Ego-sphere and the Tragedy of Being Wealthy

2008-09-26:

Added Independence Day (1996). Also a very important movie in that it helped to prepare the public into accepting a simple but deceptive terror paradigm of good, the patriotic American citizens, versus evil, the perceived demonic enemies of America.

Immediately following September 11 2001, the media began their barrage of showing us various footages of disintegrating WTC towers, over and over again, ad nauseum. Those who have watched ID thus have had ample opportunity to recognize the destructive real life events being similar to the fictional ones as portrayed in the movie. Thus, by virtue of this kind of recognition and familiarity gained from fictional imprinting, the witness is led into accepting a context of response similar to the one as presented in ID. In the movie, a clear identification is made of the enemy and a clear distinction is made between forces of good, that being the world in general and the US in particular, and forces of evil, that being the alien invader from outer space.

So when the real attacks happened, those who have watched ID are inclined to also adopt this dichotomous and uncompromisingly gung-ho mindset of good vs evil. This type of response was further reinforced when the government, most notably Bush himself, immediately following the terror attacks began to spur the public into immediately start thinking in purely black and white terms of good versus evil. That this technique of moral coercion left no room or time for careful and honest deliberation and reflection became dramatically clear with slogans such as, “you are either with us or you’re with the terrorists.”

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Independence Day (1996)

2008-09-20:

Added Swordfish (2001). This is quite an important movie as it details government involvement in procuring funds, through illegal means, as a means to support its counter-terrorism operations.

“Although I would find it unlikely, considering the myriad of risks involved, that covert FBI or CIA organizations or programs secure funds through such spectacular means as portrayed in the movie, the viewer is nonetheless inculcated with the idea that normal ethics hardly apply to these organizations, and indeed may be ‘justly’ suspended if so desired. In other words, downright illegal means of ‘fund-raising’ are permissible. The use of potentially unethical and unlawful acts of misdirection, being of crucial importance to make the movie script work, is not shied away from either. After all, given the supposed value of its supposed protectorate, that being the safety of US citizens and/or their lifestyles, to such organizations the single paramount rule upheld must be that the end is considered ’sacred’ enough to afford the justification of any means necessary. Everything else is of subordinate importance.”

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Swordfish (2001)

2008-09-18:

Added Things to Come (1936). Yeah I know it’s a crappy old movie. But don’t let that put you off as it is, precisely by virtue of its age, an excellent testing ground to see if any featured predictions have come true. If they have, which is indeed the case, the raison d’etre of the programming is thus validated.

“The movie predicts a war involving a town called ‘Everytown’ (which is a peculiar way of stating that the war is also a global war) by Christmas 1940, whereas the actual World War broke out in September 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland. So Wells was only off for about a sloppy one year. It goes to show that Wells was definitely ‘in the know’, as Alan Watt calls it, as to what the agenda entailed.”

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Things to Come (1936)

Added Youtube, Lieberman and Censorhip. Your freedom of speech is about to go down the tubes. Act now before they completely Nazify Youtube.

Mad World News – Youtube, Lieberman and Censorship

Added Alan Watt – Predictive Programming Theory and Practice

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Alan Watt – Predictive Programming Theory and Practice

2008-09-15:

Added V for Vendetta.

“The parallels between Equilibrium and V for Vendetta are hard to miss. Both films depict dystopian societies which heavily refer back to Nazi Germany. In V for Vendetta the government has transformed itself into a full-fledged Police State ruled by an oligarchical rod of iron.”

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – V for Vendetta (2005)

2008-09-13:

Creation of this page (Chronology) for the purpose of enabling a rapid page load, ease of oversight and display of posting chronology.

2008-09-12 and further back:

Added Minority Report.

“In Minority Report it is being advertised and bragged about that, through pre-crime, murder-rates have plummeted to negligible levels. Therefore, of and by itself, the notion of pre-crime is presented to the viewer as being not something that is altogether disadvantageous to society. The great downside of pre-crime is type of intrusion and indeed the violation of privacy associated with the imposition of a pre-crime system onto the public. Through movies like Minority Report the viewer is acquainted with the idea that there will come a time in which there will be no such thing as privacy and that all the things that make you who you are, including not only all the superficial things such as shopping habits etc. but also deeply personal things such as medical history, will be up for grabs and ready to be exploited by all kinds of commercial entities as well as governmental (“Big Brother”) agencies. The realization of a pre-crime system therefore ultimately boils down to increases in governmental control and less freedom for its citizens. The mantra never changes, sadly.

You may therefore look towards a time in which you will have less and less control in and over your very own life and you will experience a time in which you can only hope that the control you have (tacitly) consented to relinquish does not end up in the wrong (i.e. tyrannical) hands.”

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Minority Report (2002)

Interpreting Movies – Inferred Meaning – Into the Wild (2007)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Gattaca (1997)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Predictive… What?

Interpreting Movies – Inferred Meaning – The Devil’s Advocate (1997) (Vanity and the Psychopath)

Random Insights – Memetics – Is Logic a Meme?

Random Insights – Memetics – The Spoiled Reward Pathway Hypothesis II or Learning-Machines

Random Insights – Memetics – The Spoiled Reward Pathway Hypothesis

Random Questions – Gnosticism – 4. Rise Of The Spirit Mind And The Rise Of The New World Order, Dealing with the pending clash

Random Questions – Gnosticism – 3. The Ontology Of God – Evolution Vs Creation, Is a synthesis possible?

Random Questions – Gnosticism – 2. Eastern Martial Arts And Spirituality, Animal Emulation and becoming fully human

Random Questions – Gnosticism – 1. Ridding The Ego And Dealing With Extremely Threatening Situations

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Equilibrium (2003)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Code 46 (2003)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008 )

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Starship Troopers – Marauder (2008 )

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Cloverfield (2008 )

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – I, Robot (2004)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Shoot em Up (2007)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – John Rambo (2008 )

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming -The Invasion (2007)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – The Kingdom (2007)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Soylent Green (1973)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – 28 Weeks Later (2007)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – 300 (2006)

Interpreting Movies – Predictive Programming – Children of Men (2006)

The Law of Relativity of Sanity (Psychiatry Blues):

If insane people are regarded as sane by insane people then, conversely, sane people will be regarded as insane by those same insane people.

January 14, 2010

Some questions regarding Mary K. Baxter’s “A Divine Revelation of Hell”

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From divinerevelations.info we read:

Mary Katherine Baxter was chosen by God to let the world know of the REALITY of Hell. Jesus Christ appeared to Mary Baxter on 40 consecutive nights and took Mary on a tour of Hell and Heaven. She walked, with Jesus, through the horrors of Hell and talked with many people. Jesus showed her what happens to souls when they die and what happens to the unbelievers and Servants of God who do not obey their calling. divinerevelations.info

I’ve read “A Divine Revelation of Hell” but I was unhappy with three minor passages. They are raised in the following letter, sent to Mrs. Baxter in December of 2009.

N.B. The questions raised in this letter should in no way be construed as being part of my possible personal conviction that hell does not exist. The purpose of this letter was to confront Mrs. Baxter with what I consider to be inconsistencies with the 1 John 4:8 description of God as well as 1 John 4:18. Again, these inconsistencies should not be understood as a denial on my part of the existence of hell.

Letter starts:

Dear Mrs. Baxter,

With fascination I’ve read your book “A Divine Revelation of Hell.” Although I am not doubting the things that have happened, as captured by the book, there are nonetheless a few problems for which I’d like to have your extra clarification.

On page 116, you wrote:

Jesus said, “There are many demons in the air and on the earth. I have allowed you to see some of these demons, but others cannot. That is why the truth of the gospel must be preached to everyone. The truth will set men free, and I will protect them from evil. In My name there is deliverance and freedom. I have all power in heaven and earth. Do not fear Satan, but fear God.”

If we are to fear God then this implies that God could be regarded as being a source of fear for us, correct? Now, when I open the Bible I read:

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8

And a bit further down I read:

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18

So from these two Bible passages I get the impression that God cannot be a source of fear because of 1 John 4:8, and furthermore that it is not good practice for us to fear, as per 1 John 4:18. In addition, if we were to fear then we would not know God, as one cannot fear and love at the same time, as per 1 John 4:18.

Fear is the prime or parental aversive or antipathic emotion whereas love is the prime or parental compassionate or sympathetic emotion. The former alienates and divides us while the latter unites and bonds us. In short, fear and love are each-other’s antagonists. With respect to  love being divine, fear is demonic.

Therefore if we are to fear God then this, per 1 John 4:18, implies that we are to expect punishment from God. If God were to punish us then this would be because we deviate from his will and punishment would be the result. So, is God a punisher? If he would be so then this would seem counter to 1 John 4:8 but also counter to Deuteronomy 30:19 which states:

This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. Deuteronomy 30:19

and thus implies that God wants us to choose life, i.e. his preferred way, rather than coerce us into following his way. In other words, the meaning of 1 John 4:8 and Deuteronomy 30:19 seems to conflict with the idea that God is out to punish us if we deviate from his will.

Do you acknowledge the discrepancy between your writing and scripture? If so, could you clarify how it came about and how it can be resolved? I ask you therefore explicitly: what you’ve written down on page 116, is that a verbatim capture of Jesus’ literal words to you? Or is it possible that you’ve slightly misunderstood or misrepresented his original words?

On page 124 you write:

“Repent,” He said, “for I am a jealous God. Nothing can be placed before your worship of Me – not sons or daughters or wives or husbands. For God is a spirit, and He must be worshiped in Spirit and truth.”

Jealousy is an aversive emotion that quite directly is based on fear. It is the emotion that belongs to someone not wanting other people to have that what they do not or cannot have. Jealousy is an emotive expression of intolerance. It is also a feeling that belongs to wanting to steal or usurp rather than ask and acquire on the basis of personal merit and achievement (i.e. a basis of deserving). The feelings of intolerance and wanting to steal or usurp are based on fear, not (compassionate) love. Jealousy is also the fear that belongs to the awareness of having to deal with (threatening) competition. So, no matter how you look at it, jealousy is a product of fear.

Now while I know that it is indeed stated in the Bible that God is “a jealous God,” I do not believe that this is an accurate representation of God since if it would then there would be an internal conflict with 1 John 4:8: God is love. And when it is stated that God is jealous then that implies that God is not purely a god of love but that he also is (partially or wholly) a god of fear, and this in turn, conflicts directly with 1 John 4:18.  So again, there is a contradiction here. Please clarify.

On page 191 you write:

Then I heard Jesus say, “My people should love one another and help one another. They must hate sin and love the sinner. By this love shall all men know that you are My disciples.”

First off, the statement, through using the word must, implies the necessity for coercion. Again there arises a conflict with Deuteronomy 30:19, which, although they are encouraged to choose life, it is left to the believer, not to God, to either choose life or death. Deuteronomy 30:19 implies the granting of free will to the believer. Your statement implies coercion. Both conflict with one and other in meaning.

Secondly, the believer is coerced to hate (…sin). Hate is an aversive emotion that is grounded in fear (fear of being hurt again), the antagonist of love. Of and by itself there already seems to be a conflict with 1 John 4:8 and 1 John 4:18. The effect of hate is the formation of a sort of aversive emotional shielding around the object or subject of hate. Hate does not encourage investigation into the nature of the object or subject of hate, in fact the hater is encouraged to precisely do the opposite: to stay as far away as far possible from trying to understand the source or subject of hate. Indeed hate encourages the hater to destroy, rather than understand, the source of hate, if given half a chance. A consequence of this blunt and myopic ego-based strategy is that the hater keeps on remaining ignorant of the nature of the source of hate.

At least in this specific case, where sin is to be hated, this is unfortunate because if the hater would know why he perpetrated the sin he could arm and prepare himself to be able to prevent recurrence of the sin next time because he would know how to circumvent the necessary conditions and circumstances that led him to sin. By remaining ignorant (through hate), no such possibility will exist for the sinner.

The imperative to hate, i.e. by having to stay ignorant, also seems counter to different words of Jesus:

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. Matthew 10:16

So on the one hand Jesus allegedly, according to your words, wants us to remain ignorant (of the nature of our sins), but, as per Matthew 16:16,  he does wants us to be wise as serpents, a state of mind that’s the very opposite of being ignorant. The latter seems to encourage us to pursue understanding while the former coerces us to do the opposite. So which one is it going to be? Please help resolve this apparent contradiction.

I’d appreciate it very much if you could respond to the three problems raised.

Sincerely in Christ,

Letter ends.

A month has passed now and have not received any response back from her yet.

Bummer….


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