Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Hidden Agenda of Homeschooling

Sure there are many homeschooled kids that are above their age-similar peers.  However, too often, parents that homeschool want to hide their children from knowledge. They want to control the information that their kids are exposed to. They think its to protect them, but in fact it is too keep them from being their own best versions of themselves.  This is also why cults go off on their own.

Another reason is too keep their own family secrets from going out.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

The problem with Home Schooling.

This is a great article;

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/feb/13/home-schooling-children-teachers-schools

" We have had letters about pathetic cases of good pre-school readers being forced through "Janet and John" Book One by rigid teachers. In these circumstances only the most determined parent can reach a satisfactory solution with the school."

new idea

It has taken me up until October 1, 2015 to realize that we have the same God as the Jews. Right? The only difference is that we believe the Jesus is the savior and the Jews do not. This makes us Jewish.
Afterall, he came to us to save us. To teach us the way to live and to atone for original sin. Adam and Eve betrayed God and this punishment needed to be meted out. Jesus sacrificed himself. He opened up heaven so that we could go in.
But wait. Who is we? It cannot be Christians because there were not Christians before Jesus. It was not Christiansm promised heaven. It was the Jewish people. They were the people waiting and the people he sacrificed for (as well as the faithful since).
So then, the believers were able to go to heaven with Jesus. But they were not Christians. Nor did they have to follow the Bible because it was not written yet. The Torah was. King David in says, Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. … and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever” (Psalm 23:4,6).
Thus, it was his faith that saved him. Noah, Abraham and Moses went to heaven without being Christians. It was their good works.
Not their acceptance of Jesus Christ into his life or strict adherence to the Bible. Yes, they might have followed the religious teachings, but I do not follow their Bible. Mother Theresa did not follow theirs. Yet Jesus came to earth to open heaven for them.
Yesterday, I came to a realization. You do not need to believe in Jesus to be saved.
We know that Jesus was the fruition of the prophecy of a savior.
He is the promise that original sin will be forgiven and people who will be allowed in heaven. Who was promised this? It cannot be Christians because there were not Christians before Jesus. It was not Christians promised heaven. It was the Jewish people. They were the people waiting and the people he sacrificed for (as well as the faithful since). After Jesus, those faithful people entered heaven. Abraham, Moses, King David. They were not Christians and they had not read the Bible because they did not exist. The Torah did. King David says, Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. … and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever” (Psalm 23:4,6).
Thus, it was his faith in a higher power that saved him. Noah, Abraham and Moses went to heaven without being Christians. It was their good works. They had to not be evil.
Not their acceptance of Jesus Christ into his life or strict adherence to the Bible. Yet Jesus came to earth to open heaven for them.
So if only Catholics go to heaven, so if only Christians go to heaven, then our heroes in the old testament did not go to heaven. God would have broken his promise to them. That leads me to believe that to get to heaven, we only need to do good works, love one another, and love the higher power as best as we can


Back to religion


We need to get back to following the word of God. How best to do that? By coming into the arms of God’s religion. The one religion given and sanctioned by God. The Catholic faith.  Other Christian sects are not. They were established by men who had no authority to start churches on their own. The Catholic church, however, was given that authority in Matthew 16:18 where Christ tells Peter that he is the rock upon which He will build His church. Some try to interpret this to mean something else, but let’s not interpret the words, but believe them.
The Catholic church then has kept a line of apostolic succession that began with Peter through  all the bishops.  In other words, that line began with the first Pope, peter and continues today as they guide the church as God intended ( Mathew 28: 19-20)
It does not even make sense. Other churches adhere to the Bible, but then do not accept the authority of the Catholic church, the church that produced the Bible. Perhaps instead of twisting the scripture, they should go and create their own Bible.  When you follow the like of Martin Luther, you are following a man and not the word of God. How can you say Catholics are wrong, but their Bible is right?  That is putting too much faith in man and not following the word of God.
And if Martin Luther can decide to manipulate God’s teaching into what he decided was best, then why shouldn’t we do so today? If other people did so and deemed themselves, Christian, then why cannot I do it?  Because I do not have the authority given to me by God. Only Peter had that.
The catholic church studied this and reaffirmed it in the writing of the Second Vatican Council. Look it up. It will ltell you that This one true religion continues to exist in the Catholic and Apostolic Church to which the Lord Jesus entrusted us with the task of spreading it among its people. In its Decree of Ecumenism, it is explained. “…Christ’s catholic Church alone, which is the universal help toward salvation, that the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained.”

We know that when we turn away from God, we turn away from salvation and what is right. The Presbyterian beliefs and the Lutheran beliefs and the Unitarian beliefs are all different. So how do we know who is right and who turns away from God’s wishes? By simply following the church that Christ founded. It is the only church that goes back to Jesus. The rest, in relative time, is new, a stepping away from the law established by God and guided by those people succeeding Peter.