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Earth 2175:
The USA is no more. Why? It does not matter to the point of this story. California and Texas went back to Mexico. The Northeast from Maine to the Mason-dixon line becomes its own nation called the Northern States of America. The States below the Mason-dixon line become the New Christian States of America.
The Northern States of America are more progressive, and more money is poured into technological research. If you needed help the government and others were willing to help. Meanwhile, the New Christian States of America research is restricted and sins in the Bible are punished with stoning to death unless one repented of one’s sins. And if one repents then, one is simply interned in a forced labor camp.
Now, let us look at a specific young lady who is a citizen of the New Christian States of America. This young lady will inadvertently shake the very foundations, beliefs, and values of this nation. She is a young lady who is on the autism spectrum. The traits of autism including but not limited to taking things literally, difficulty with non-verbal language, and other communication difficulties. Her family did not quite get this and because of her intelligence, excellent recall of facts and insight into things her family who believed like most of the citizenry in the inerrancy of the Bible considered her touched and possibly a prophet.
For years her parents had her go to church, and she complied. She believed every jot and dot in the Bible was true. She accepted Jesus Christ as her lord and savior. Women were surprisingly educated in this society so they could better serve the will of God and to read and understand the inerrant the word of God.
Day after day, month after month, year after year not only did she learn things like mathematics, she studied the Bible with her various experts including pastors. She eventually grew to a fine young lady both studious and lovely. She would make a good wife but that would not be her destiny. One night during her Bible reading certain verses clicked and made sense. She was able to see a logic within the verses. And that would be the beginning of the end for her and the Christian States of America.
And, as she studied the verses, she kept noticing contradictions in the Bible even when trying the ancient Greek. She would use methods to try to logically explain them away. But there were certain things she could. She believed every word of the Bible was true and was inerrant. Her black and white and rigid mind helped her to survive in this society because it was a black and white and rigid society as well.
One of the sermons she listened to was about The Greatest Commandment and the Parable of the sheep and goats. These are the verses.
https://biblehub.com/matthew/22.htm
Matthew 22
The Greatest Commandment
34 And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question: 36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”
37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=NIV
The Sheep and the Goats
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
35 For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,
43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Reading the parable of the Sheep and Goats made her realize that both the greatest command and the second greatest command depended upon each other. The parable of the sheep and goats explained to her that if you helped and visited the poor, sick, imprisoned, disenfranchised it entails that you will love God with all your soul, heart and mind. And, if one loved God with all your soul, heart and mind she would help and visit the poor, sick, imprisoned and disenfranchised. She realized both commandments weren’t just two but one and the same. She realized the rest of the commands and commandments by God and Jesus in the Bible had to serve the two greatest commandments similar to the order of operations and the concept of PEDMAS. She poured her heart, soul and mind into refining this discovery and correcting the current doctrines in the church. She loved God and she loved the church and God was her father and the church was sort of like her mother.
She started asking herself if the commandment of love God and love others was the commandment and command all the other commandments and commands stem from then there must be a sin and an act of disobedience that all other sins and acts of disobedience come from. What would be the negation of loving God and loving others as oneself? She sat there and pondered this, and a revelation came to her. It is to hate God and to hate oneself. And, by hating yourself you hate others. And, if you hate others then you must hate God. And the converse is true as well. If one hates God, then one must hate oneself and hate others. She realized that the other sins prohibited in the Bible were only prohibited if and only if they could be derived from the ultimate sin and act of disobedience. For example, Abraham was told by God to sacrifice his son Isaac yet one of the ten commandments prohibits murder. By obeying God to sacrifice his son even though the angel stopped him the last-minute Abraham was showing his love and devotion to God the Father who art thou in heaven, holy be thy name.
But what if she could argue that some of these prohibitions are no longer prohibitions if she was able to reasonably justify and argue the prohibited actions from the greatest commandment. For example, is prostitution a sin if the prostitute uses the money made not just for herself but to uplift others. She uses the money made to help feed the homeless and even put them through college so they’re able to provide for themselves. And, if the Bible is the errant word of God and not one word of it is false then magic and sorcery must exist. She thought to herself if magic and sorcery must exist is magic and sorcery prohibited absolutely or is it only prohibited if one commits the ultimate sin and act of disobedience that all sins and acts of disobedience are derived from?
What if she used sorcery to do God’s will and not only to help and uplift the poor but to turn people to God? Not only could she help them but teach them to help themselves. What if she used magic to get people to turn those who did not believe in God and not only got them to believe but she got them to help uplift the poor? All of these thoughts were running through her mind, and she was urged to reform and unify the church whose main mission was to help the needy, the sick, the downtrodden and visit and mentor to the imprisoned.
One day she preached to her fellow women outside of church as she was not allowed to preach in church because Biblical doctrine said that she must remain silent since women were not allowed to speak in church. Some of the women were appalled at what she was saying. The called the police or what was called the inquisitorial squad. These were the squads whose job was to root out heresy. She was eventually tried, found guilty of heresy, and given a chance to repent. She refused to repent because believed she was right and that she was ordained by God. She was executed by stoning and years later the Christian States of America went to dust. And, the specifics of this lady’s trial and the specifics of the Christian States of America’s demise shall be for another tale I shall tell.
18 Jul 2021, 9:35 pm
