Blindness Chosen

     Chosen blindness is obviously incurable until ones choice is change. This is my view of the Christian world around me, which causes me to write about this embraced falseness that is beyond epidemic proportions. What comforts me is that the cure is readily available, but its been hidden by the master of deception; we have at our fingertips, or at least our reach, the cure because it is merely our choice to do so. Relying on someone else is what has generated this choice for blindness; therefore we need to look at the available antidote for our blindness, and there is only one choice to make, to seek the truth presented within God Jehovah's word.

      God's word is the prescription. You may think this means your Bible and you are only part correct, but the Bible you have is a translation of God's word by the works of man, unless one speaks and reads the Hebrew text. The recommendation is to first read all of your Bible, from front to back and continue on to seek what is consistent, then, whatever seems to be contrary within, find the Hebrew text and a way to look up the translation. No, this is not a simple easy task but we have blindly relied on others, our respected pastors who relied on their trusted theologians, which is the main source of our chosen blindness, our decision to take what man presents as God's truth.

      The host of theologians differ from denomination to denomination and this is almost understandable, all being humans, but not acceptable, because there is only one truth and they all should have the tools to recognize God's truth... I say should. Other then the theologians, the translators shares some responsibility in diverting from God's truth, but again this is understandable being humans but not acceptable if one desire the truth. I will sympathize with them because this is a tedious and very difficult task and in some ways, a thankless position. The theologian is sometimes given credit for his work, the pastors and other speakers are often given praise and thanks, but the translator who no one sees, are left alone by the readers of their work.

      I want to share just some of the truths that I've discovered; which can be proven. The first and the easiest one to prove is that God's personal name has been all but completely taken out of God's word. "Jehovah" is the name given as the English translation from the Hebrew text. Strong'e Exhaustive Concordance shows in its dictionary section, #3068 Yehovah; the self-existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord. There is another segment of Christianity that supports "Yahweh" but I know of no support for this. "Jehovah" is presented only 4 times in the KJV Bible, this may be similar to most other Bible, but the "Tetragrammaton" (YHWH) God's name is presented 6747 times in the Hebrew text. Was there a divine right given to the translators to substitute His holy name substituting "Lord" or "God", these titles for God, both not a name? Why are the host of theologians, pastors and writers about the Bible following the lead of most translators instead of exposing this obvious error? Since I discovered this, I then searched for a Bible with God's name remaining as it is in the original text, which I easily found, the J. P. Green Interlinear Bible, which also contains the Hebrew and Greek text to the right of a "Literal Translation". A personal name for God is not presented in the Greek text, even though Christ and others read or quoted from the Old Testament text.

     Next from man's chosen blindness list is the replacement of the seventh day Sabbath, presented in the fourth Commandment with Sunday worship. We may worship on any of the seven days, and we are not called to worship on the seventh day, according to the fourth Commandment, however, the other six days are presented as work days, because the other six days Jehovah created all things, therefore the seventh day, our Saturday, is the logical day to meet with other worshipers of Jehovah and His Son. The Bible does not call us to worship on the day Christ rose from the dead, the first day of the week, however we may if one chooses, but this does not excuse us from keeping the fourth Commandment, as it presents us to not work on the Sabbath day. We need to remember that if you transgress one of His Commandments, you transgress them all. We are also called to keep the Sabbath for a 24-hour period, starting at sundown and lasting to the following sundown, one full day.

     The next on my agenda of sharing, is that God is only one, presented in over a hundred verses, this is easily confirmed in most Bibles, but especially in the first Commandment, "I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. You shall not have any other god beside Me." (Exodus 20:2,3). If you need further conformation,  "O Jehovah of host, God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubs, You are He, God, You alone to all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth." (Isaiah 37:16). Plus, more then half of the verses stating that God is one are located in the New Testament, even though they don't use a name for God. What makes this outrageous is that most all of the Christian community is taught and believe that God is three in one, stated as a mystery. But not one verse states that God is anything other then one and there is not one verse that states "God the Father", "God the Son" or "God the Holy Spirit", these are all from our chosen pastor, theologians and writes of book about the Bible, and we have chosen to believe Satan's deception.

     The next one is a conflict between the Old and the New Testaments: John 1:3 "All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being." The "Him" in this verse is Jesus according to John 1:1, being the Word, as it is translated. This one verse and one other in the New Testament translates Strong's #1223 as "through" but in the Old and New Testaments it is abundantly stated, well over a hundred times that God Almighty Jehovah is the Creator, as it is stated in the fourth Commandment, naming "Jehovah". We need to look at Proverbs 8:22-31, this is God's Son speaking and He declares His Father is the Creator and that He was only with His Father at the time of Creation, "...before He had made the earth, and the fields, or the highest parts of the dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set the circle on the face of the deep...then I was at his side like one brought up; (KJV) and I was His delight day by day..." And there are over a hundred and twenty-five more verses stating God, Jehovah, the Father, as the Creator. This presents John 1:3 as inconsistent, one must conclude that there must be an error in the translation. #1223 lists many English possibilities, "through" is one of them, but also "for sake" and "with" which is the word God's Son used in Proverbs 8, as being "with" His Father during creation. Another important fact, God's only-begotten Son would be and is exactly like His Father in every way, except lacking His Father's sovereign authority, therefore, would or can Jehovah work "through" His Son? Jehovah did work through His Son at Christ's first advent because Jesus was made a bit lower then the angles, "You made Him a little less then the angels; You crowned Him with glory and honor; and You set Him over the works of Your hands." (Hebrews 2:7)  for the purpose of suffering death.

     Can the translators, theologians, pastors and writes of Christian books all miss these various error, inconsistencies and adjustments to God's perfect word? Education doesn't matter much, I discovered these errors, without much looking for them, and by reading only God's word, no other sources were used except when I looked into the history books to find when the Trinity and Sunday worship was introduced into the Christian church. The information is available for anyone with a seeking spirit, but blindness chosen is my best explanation for the Christian community, as a reason for this foolishness, and this needs to include the various congregations because we are all asked to seek God by reading God's word.

     Here is a seemingly harmless blindness, if there is such a thing: the common understanding that those who die go to either Heaven or Hell is  completely false, non-Biblical. "His breath will go out; he returns to the earth; in that day his thoughts perish." (Psalm 146), "For the living shall know that they shall die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has now perished; nor do they any longer have a part forever in all that is done under the sun." (Eccles. 9:5,6) and one more from the Psalms, "The dead do not praise Jehovah; nor all those who go down into silence." (Psalm 115:17). There are two resurrections, the first is when Jesus returns a second time in the air and the second resurrection is when the dead who are not in the first resurrect are awakened and raised up, “But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were ended...” (Revelation 20:5). According to God's word, the only ones who have been translated into Heaven where God is are Enoch, who was before the flood, Elijah the prophet and Moses was accepted into Heaven after he died. All the dead remain asleep, as Christ called our first death. There is not a group that went to Heaven after death and another group remained in the grave, according to God's word, all remain in the grave.

      This will certainly not the last of man's chosen blindness, but my last I will mention here: "righteousness by faith, only", is a topic I've heard in many sermons either from the pulpit, the radio, but TV, I don't have. This is a welcomed topic because it seemingly sets the Christian free from God's laws and commands as it is generally presented, ignoring our responsibility to do righteousness because the one declaring to have faith in Jesus is all that is needed. However faith is not simple, but involves a belief along with ones righteous actions. Can a faith in Jesus be that simple and complete? This topic is presented in so many ways, one needs to view all its implications. First, I need to point out one over all aspect of this thinking: God spent much more then three quarters of His words on presenting His command, laws and precepts and showing the results of man acting contrary these instructions, not only through the acts of His assembled representatives to the other nations, the Israelites and Judah. They all went astray from God's way and they felt the mighty hand of Jehovah when He allowed them to be captured by other nation and the last one was Nebuchadnezzar. God continued to stress His concern for us walking in His way by sending His only-begotten to walk perfectly in His laws for us to follow Him. Would He toss all these words and examples away and reveal to us that they are not necessary? Would the world continue to exist if there are no laws and justice? If Christ is our righteousness, are we given the freedom to walk as we desire, are not Christians called to follow Jesus in His perfect walk in His Father's commands and laws? This certainly doesn't seem to be the case anywhere.