We all suffer from sort of bondage! Financial bondage, debt, and over-extension of our resources is one of the worst. It consumes our vital jucies as we worry though days and nights endlessly, wondering how we can escape the grip of debt's fears. However, one of the most subtle and relentless bondages is that which is sold by the church and various religious leaders. We need religious freedom most of all.
The church has held the fear and threat of an eternal hell over the heads of it's members for way too long. The church has been into sin management too long. And it's time to LET MY PEOPLE GO, as the Scriptures, but not as the religious leaders are want to do. While I am all for confessing our sins, the Catholic church has used this tool to keep people coming back, keep people guilt-ridden, and religiously in bondage.
As a recent Catholic poll showed, 60% of Italian Catholics no longer attend confession.
The message of Jesus is slowly coming through. The light is become more bright. the GOOD NEWS cannot forever be denied as the entire world grows and increases in a spiritual consciousness that no longer accepts a confession of uncondtional love while living our a conditional one. How can we defend our freedom to reject God but deny God's freedom to reject our rejection? But we do, or have.
FEAR is an increasingly poor way to get people saved- whatever that means!
Jesus refused to be put in religious bondage by the Pharisees of His day and we should refuse it from those who profess it today. He refusd to be forbidden to touch the unclean, the lepers, the menstruating woman, and all who needed help. The message of Jesus is that GRACE will be granted to those who need it most and those to whom it is least merited. The church isn't the only mediator of grace!
Are you really FREE?
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