CHRISTIANITY CONDEMNS ITSELF BY SAYING WE SHOULD BE ALL FOR GOD WHEN IT IS NOT ALL FOR GOD ITSELF
Christianity claims to agree with God that we have to love him with all our
power and love others just for his sake (Matthew 22:37). Strictly speaking, we
are to love him alone and loving others really means loving him for he is
present in everyone.
The ten commandments are linked to it. The first commandment forbade anybody to
adore anything in Heaven or earth apart from God himself. This excludes both
adoring something in God’s place or adoring a god as a lesser god than God which
would imply that any god is a servant of God who uses his influence with God for
you. Even if that god is an angel who really exists it is a sin. This tells us
that God alone wants to be loved for he will not even tolerate one loving an
angel but wants all the love and wants the love for the angel to be an
expression of love for himself so it is not love for the angel.
Notice too that to say you must love God with all your powers is to
automatically make this the main rule and the greatest commandment for you are
being told to sacrifice all to God so that is very serious and heavy stuff and
also a rule concerning the love due to such a supremely good being would have to
be the greatest for that being is the greatest. Since loving God alone is the
greatest commandment according to Jesus, the Son of God (Mark 12:29,30) to
undermine and fail to teach this commandment is the greatest sin.
The Jews were right to make sure that reminders containing the text of the
commandment were stuck up everywhere so the Christians not following suit shows
that nearly all of them are under divine wrath for the commandment is so serious
and so difficult that one cannot be allowed to forget it even for an hour. The
commandment is part of what Jews call the Shema. The failure of the apostles to
make sure the Shema was exalted to a prime place in the symbolism and literature
and worship of the Church indicates that they were nothing but a bunch of
vagabond heretics. If the apparitions of Jesus and Mary were real they would
recite the Shema first thing every time they appear so they are either empty
spaces or demons.
The Shema implies you must have an appropriate view of God - a God who is worthy
of that devotion. The god of the Mormons then would have to be out for being
only an exalted man, he would not be entitled to all that devotion. So the Shema
requires you to be an expert on the nature of God both intellectually and
spiritually. Those who are not experts will not be saved. Deathbed conversions
are no good unless the dying person is an expert. Believers with little faith
and Atheists and Agnostics are committing the greatest evil possible, not
preaching and living out the Shema. It would be madness to execute murderers and
not kill them or at least dump them in dungeons and persecute them. The Law of
the Land needs credibility to have authority and if we undermine that we should
be destroyed or persecuted for we are opposing the Law and bringing trouble on
it.