Knowledge which sets you free

Posted by Jesus on April 25, 2007

I wonder how many of you actually think you read the Bible enough out there. When you’re sitting in your living room on Monday night, after 24 is over and Jack has once again thrilled and amused us, do you think about getting out your old worn out Bible and learning something new? How about on Wednesday before Lost? On Saturdays, the Sabbath, after the afternoon hockey game? Or are you one of the many who save your Bible reading for Sundays, the first day of the week? Maybe you’re one of the majority in that you only get your Bible out and follow along when the preacher is reading. Roger Maxwell from Indiana prayed last night to alert me to a really great story about a man who differs so much from all of you that he actually kept himself out of jail with his knowledge of the Bible.

From the article:

When he appeared this morning before Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge John Burlew, Hines attorney was hoping for a low bond for Hine and told the judge he was a churchgoer who works fulltime at a company that makes wine racks.

Because judges hear all kinds of stories from lawyers and defendants hoping for low bonds, Burlew wanted to test Hine on his claim of attending an Avondale church.

So, Burlew told Hine to recite the 23rd Psalm.

“The Lord is my Shepard; I shall not want,” Hine told the judge.

Impressed but still skeptical, Burlew told Hine if he could recite the entire passage, he would let him out of jail.

Hine then reeled off all six verses and 118 words - and even drew some applause from those sitting in the courtroom.

There you go, that’s the role model for which you have all be looking. Eric Hine is in trouble for allegedly stealing a credit card or something, but it’s not true. You can ignore that part of it, Dad just let him get arrested for that so he could do the whole Psalms thing in court. It’s an important point being made though, something which carries a message - there will come a time, and that right soon, when your being unable to recite a required passage from Dad’s Word will get you incarcerated. There will come a time when a new classification of crime will emerge, that of the Crimes Against God. There will come a time when more than half your population is incarcerated for these crimes. It’s unfortunate, but it might just be the only thing that can save the USA from sliding further into the pit you’ve all dug to Hell.

Abortion, homosexuality, tolerance of false prophets in false religions, tolerance of mandatory age limits for marriage, sexual freedom, the release and condemnation of slavery in your society - all of these things are against God, each and every one of them a sin with mountains of Biblical precedence to support their positions, and yet you all still fall into the trap of society. Do you think these temptations didn’t exist when I was there? Sure, we didn’t have filthy eight-way midget-donkey voyeur teen dormroom porn on the internet, but there were plenty of other distractions, some equally as bad. Heck, they did that stuff for real in Damascus! Did you ever see me waver, though? Did you ever see me more interested in a carpentry job than in feeding the masses? Was it ever more important to get a set of cabinets to a client than to save a prostitute from getting murdered. No, because I knew what was important. You, too, can know what is important, but you have to read your darn Bible. If you’re all going to continue to prove that you can’t tell the difference between right and wrong by allowing such wrong to take place all around you we’ll have to take divine action. On the more extreme end this means exactly what I mentioned before, limiting freedom of voice only to those who have knowledge enough of Dad’s rules to help implement and maintain them.

And this guy, Eric Hine, is our opening move in this Heaven v. Earth chess match. Now what we need to see are more of you reciting this kind of thing to get raises, or to keep from being laid off. Heck, if General Motors made a passage from 1st Corinthians the bar upon which a person could keep their job or be laid off in market downturns the problem would effectively start solving itself. If Microsoft required knowledge of Leviticus before accepting a job application we’d see a lot more scholars out there. It’s not an impossible task to bring this kind of biblical knowledge back to your nation, and the time to get the process underway is now. It’s your move, and Dad’s one of those guys who can checkmate you in a few quick plays. Make it a good one.

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