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Infallibility.... Ecclesiastical commandments....

You place too much significance on the infallibility of the head of your church, and yet you are hugely misguided. It was not God’s will that His church should be arbitrarily formed by people and in accordance with people’s will. Everything right and proper to maintain and spread His teaching was given by Jesus Christ Himself on earth to his disciples. He made the distribution of His teaching conditional on the individual’s will to accept it or not. His gave precise guidelines which applied to everyone who wanted to accept His teaching. These consist of the promises which were made on condition that people comply with the requirements of the Lord’s teachings.

He always respected the free will of the human being. The human being should make his decision voluntarily and without external pressure and thus fulfil God’s will. And to these people He promised eternal life.... Thus He only requires faith in Him and His Word when He says ‘I Am the way, the truth and the life.... I Am the means, the law and the fulfilment.... anyone who believes in Me will have eternal live....’ His love wants to give something unimaginably wonderful.... eternal life. And for this He only requires people’s faith and their will. However, it is not His will to burden humanity, who is already living in a constrained state on earth, with new sins.... The restraints of someone who truly believes in Jesus and His Word will be loosened, however, someone who does not believe is already punished enough by his constrained state because he has to remain in it for an eternity. Anyone who disregards the Ten Commandments given to people by God Himself, anyone who defies them, commits a sin, i.e. he disobeys God Who is love, because he disobeys the commandment of love. He does nothing to liberate himself from his state, instead he does everything to make it worse. Fulfilling these commandments is the only means of release, while infringing against them is the very opposite.

The dogma of infallibility, however, became a new lawgiver for people in as much as the God-given Ten Commandments were increased by several more, so that the new ecclesiastical commandments more or less were added to God’s commandments and failure to comply with these laws was considered to be as sinful as acting in opposition to the God-given commandments. And this error has an appalling effect. Because people now burden themselves with entirely irrelevant yet duty-bound actions which are quite unrelated to the commandment of love for God and their neighbour. And now they only focus their whole attention on keeping these ecclesiastical commandments and on releasing themselves from presumed sins.... Thus the sum total of their soul’s task consists of complying with commandments decreed by people or to do penance for the guilt of the alleged infringement. And the soul’s dreadful bondage, which can only be resolved by love, is ignored by them....

If these commandments had been necessary, truly, the Lord Himself would have given and preached the fulfilment of these to His disciples on earth first.... Thus people tried to improve Christ’s teaching arbitrarily and did not hesitate to give themselves divine approval for it. By deeming themselves to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit while still in a state far removed from it, they now decreed laws which could not be in accordance with God’s will. These laws considerably reduced people’s sense of responsibility for the God-given commandments due to the fact that the newly decreed commandments were now given the greatest attention, to an extent that humanity now observes them purely automatically and believes that it follows Christ’s teaching when it fulfils its imposed duty.

The truly enlightened human being is chosen by God to put a stop to this deplorable state of affairs, i.e. to reveal it. However, God can never have enlightened those who had decreed or approved such commandments. The infallibility of the head of the church is a distorted image of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Anyone inspired by the Holy Spirit will always have recognised the error of this set of laws but worldly-ecclesiastical power prevented them from correcting this momentous error. For these commandments did not come forth from the spirit of love.... Lawmakers had little interest in reducing the work for the struggling souls to achieve their final release. Rather, their motive for establishing these commandments was a craving for increased power and the will to lead people into a certain state of dependence, since at the same time the failure to observe the commandments was deemed to be a grave sin. True servants of God have always recognised this deplorable state and have wanted to confront it but the teaching of infallibility of the head of church is already too deep-rooted that it could be easily removed. And only someone looking for pure truth and asking God Himself for the truth and the spirit of inner enlightenment will be able to liberate himself from it....

Amen

NEZMOTLJIVOST... CERKVENE ZAPOVEDI

Kljub temu, da dajete prevelik pomen nezmotljivosti svojega cerkvenega voditelja, se močno motite. Božja volja ni bila, da bi Njegovo cerkev samovoljno oblikovali ljudje v skladu s človeško voljo. Vse pravilno in primerno za ohranjanje in širjenje njegovega nauka, je Jezus Kristus osebno dal svojim učencem na zemlji. Razširjanje svojega nauka je postavil v odvisnost od volje posameznika, ali ga sprejme ali ne. Dal je natančne smernice, ki so veljale za vse, ki so želeli sprejeti (slediti) njegov nauk. Te so sestavljene iz obljub, ki so bile dane pod pogojem, da se ljudje držijo zahtev Gospodovih naukov. Vedno je spoštoval svobodno voljo človeka. Človek naj se odloči prostovoljno in brez zunanjega pritiska ter tako izpolni Božjo voljo. In tem ljudem je obljubil večno življenje... Zato zahteva samo vero Vanj in Njegovo Besedo, ko pravi: 'Jaz sem pot, resnica in vsak, ki veruje vame, bo imel večno življenje...' (Janez 14,6). Njegova ljubezen želi podariti nekaj nepredstavljivo čudovitega... večno življenje. In za to potrebuje samo vero ljudi in njihovo voljo. Vendar pa njegova volja ni obremeniti človeštvo z novimi grehi, ki že tako živi v omejenem stanju na Zemlji... Za tistega, ki resnično veruje v Jezusa Kristusa, se bodo omejitve sprostile, tisti, ki ne veruje, je že dovolj kaznovan s svojim omejenim stanjem, ker mora v njem ostati vso večnost (Janez 3,18-36). Kdor ne upošteva desetih zapovedi, ki jih je ljudem dal sam Bog, kdor se jim upira, greši, torej ne uboga Boga, ki je ljubezen, ker ne uboga zapovedi ljubezni. Ne naredi ničesar, da bi se osvobodil svojega stanja, namesto tega naredi vse, da bi ga poslabšal. Izpolnjevanje teh zapovedi je edino sredstvo osvoboditve, medtem ko je njihovo kršenje popolno nasprotje. Dogma o nezmotljivosti pa je postala novi zakonodajalec za ljudi, saj je bilo od Boga danih 10 zapovedi povečanih še za nekaj, tako da so bile dodane Božjim zapovedim nove cerkvene zapovedi in neizpolnjevanje teh zakonov je veljalo za enako grešno kot ravnanje v nasprotju z zapovedmi, ki jih je dal Bog. In ta napaka ima strašne posledice. Kajti ljudje se zdaj obremenjujejo s povsem nepomembnimi, a dolžnimi dejanji, ki so povsem nepovezana z zapovedjo ljubezni do Boga in bližnjega. In zdaj vso svojo pozornost usmerjajo le na izpolnjevanje teh cerkvenih zapovedi in na to, da se osvobodijo domnevnih grehov... Tako je celotna naloga njihove duše sestavljena iz izpolnjevanja zapovedi, ki so jih določili ljudje, ali iz pokore za krivdo domnevne kršitve. In ignorirajo strašno suženjstvo duše, ki ga je mogoče rešiti le z ljubeznijo... Če bi bile te zapovedi res potrebne, bi jih Gospod osebno dal, in pridigal o njihovi izpolnitvi svojim učencem na zemlji... Tako so ljudje poskušali poljubno izboljšati Kristusov nauk in se niso obotavljali, da bi za to dobili Božansko odobritev. Ker so menili, da jih je razsvetlil Sveti Duh, medtem ko so bili še v stanju, ki je bilo daleč od tega, so določili zakone, ki niso mogli biti v skladu z Božjo voljo. Ti zakoni so zelo zmanjšali občutek odgovornosti ljudi za od Boga dane zapovedi, saj je bilo zdaj največ pozornosti namenjeno na novo določenim zapovedim, in sicer do te mere, da jih človeštvo zdaj povsem samodejno upošteva, in verjame, da sledi Kristusovemu nauku, ko izpolnjuje naloženo dolžnost. Resnično razsvetljeno človeško bitje je izbrano od Boga, da zaustavi to obžalovanja vredno stanje, torej, da ga razkrinka. Vendar pa Bog nikoli ne more razsvetliti tistih, ki so izdali ali odobrili take zapovedi. Nezmotljivost cerkvenega poglavarja je popačena podoba izlitja Svetega Duha. Vsak, ki ga je navdihnil Sveti Duh, bi vedno prepoznal napako te skupine zakonov, vendar jim je posvetno-cerkvena oblast preprečila, da bi popravili to pomembno napako. Kajti te zapovedi niso izhajale iz duha ljubezni... Pravi Božji služabniki so vedno prepoznavali to zlorabo in se ji želeli zoperstaviti, vendar je nauk o nezmotljivosti poglavarja cerkve že pregloboko zakoreninjen, da bi ga lahko tako zlahka izkoreninili. In le tisti, ki iščejo čisto resnico in prosijo Boga samega zanjo in za duha notranjega razsvetljenja, se je bodo lahko osvobodili....

AMEN