Christian Philosophy: Understanding Racial Oppression

By Evangelist Leon Kabasele

My first book, Jesus Christ Is My God, explained that in this world, we are not alone; somebody said, Your families will abandon you, your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend will forsake you, but Jesus Christ will never let you go. Even on a hospital bed, he will be there with you.

My second book, Spiritual Development, is about how you can develop both spiritually and physically. The book discusses all sixteen chapters of the book of Romans, especially as it connects to your life today. The book also discusses the book of Philemon. Those two books analyse biblical passages from Jewish and Christian versions of the holy book. I have a keen eye for etymology and offer finely detailed explanations of many of the original Hebrew and Greek terms in the Bible.

This book, Christian Philosophy: Understanding Racial Oppression, discusses Christian philosophy and the ideology of colonisation. This book discusses many Christian issues, including creation and how this world functions. I think this book can tell you many top secrets. This book was written with my understanding of Christian philosophy in this modern time. The book does not reveal private secrets but exposes some things that need to be found; this is an idea of archeology without physical digging.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jun 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468582918

Evangelist Leon Kabasele

Evangelist Leon Kabasele was born in DR Congo, formally Zaire. He says, “I felt terrible pain in my Christian life but God himself knows where he is taking me” (Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations”). “Qadash,” this means to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separated. After many years, he became seriously ill. The doctors thought he was going to pass away, but Jesus Christ himself healed him. He says, “Many people left me in the hospital, but Jesus Christ my saviour never left me.”

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Contents

Background

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1    The Meaning of Christian Philosophy

Chapter 2    Understanding of Right

Chapter 3    Life Experience

Chapter 4    The Understanding of Religion

Chapter 5    Christian Life Challenge

Chapter 6    Dreams

Chapter 7    Why Death?

Chapter 8    Brief Introduction of Angels and Demons

Chapter 9    Prayer for Wisdom

Bibliography

Background

I am originally from the Republic Democratic of Congo (RDC) but I currently live in London. I encourage you to read my book, Jesus Christ Is My God. It is a book that can help to understand that, in this world we are not alone, there is somebody who said: your families will abandon you, your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend will forsake you but me Jesus Christ; I will never let you go even on the hospital bed I will be there with you.

My second book, Spiritual Development is about how you can develop both spiritually and physically. The book discusses all sixteen chapters of the book of Romans, especially as it connects to your life today. The book also discusses the book of Philemon. Those two books analyse biblical passages from Jewish and Christian versions of the holy book. I have a keen eye for etymology and offer finely detailed explanations of many of the original Hebrew and Greek terms in the Bible.

This book, Christian Philosophy: Understanding Racial Oppression, discusses Christian philosophy and the ideology of colonisation. This book discusses many Christian issues, including creation and how this world is functioning. I think this book can tell you many top secrets.

Preface

This manuscript took a few months to complete because it required a lot of research in both philosophy and psychology in relation to the Christian Bible. I wrote this book to develop my theories about the Christian philosophy. Christians do not just stand behind the Bible, they also contribute to the community. This book shows that many rules, policies, and regulations in the world come from Christian thinking. This book is more Christology, in terms of Jesus Christ is the centre of the book, which also discusses the ideas of Christianity and colonisation.

I used etymology skills to analyse many biblical words in Greek and Hebrew. These two languages helped to develop historical ideas. I am concerned in this book that the Christian philosophy must be more biblical than another person’s idea. If I write about a scripture passage, I can imagine what Jesus Christ was thinking; let the mind which was in Jesus Christ be in you; The intelligence of human beings cannot be outside of God, because if we think we are born with a gift or talent, where do they come from?

We say people are gifted when they do things without studying them. David was not in the army, but he won the battle against Goliath in the presence of everybody. There is no need to ignore the Christian philosophy and attack others. God put his mission to everybody but the use of that mission is used in different ways. This is why the culture is involved in everything we do; some people want to be bigger than others, some people use even the contradiction to trap themselves.

In my introduction, I will describe the book, because there are many surprises inside; some things I discovered while doing research for this book even surprised myself. This book is not just for Christians only but also for people of every religion; it is for politicians, historians, scientists, and also those who want to know about Christianity (even if they do not want to hear the word of God).

This book is more involved in the concepts of theology and philosophy. I write about the philosophy of the Bible. So the philosophy becomes as a child of the Christian Bible; of course, philosophies of humans will be destroyed. According to the Bible, many philosophers went to Apostle Paul to get advice; in other word, they were all using Apostle Paul’s philosophy rather than Apostle Paul using theirs. We all need to know who Paul was to understand the Christian Bible. Acts chapter 17 explains how Paul influenced the Greek philosophers. There was trouble in Thessalonica, and Paul shared the good news of Jesus. The Thessalonians became Christians, and the Jews were against those people who became Christians. The Jews accused Paul of telling the Thessalonians there was another king rather than Caesar. This was the reason why Paul and Silas left and went to Berea.

When I was ill, I was visited at my bedside by Jesus; this sparked my unexpectedly speedy recovery; my healing was also helped by my surgeons.

I believe that if God had not used Job, many people in today’s world would not understand what’s going on with them. This book will help many readers to understand philosophy. A long time ago, I heard that when people study theology and philosophy, they see another side of the word of God. I studied philosophy but I do not see what other people say about that.

This book was written with my understanding of Christian philosophy in this modern time; there are many issues and open debates in this book. The book clarifies many issues that were hidden for some reason.

Introduction

In today’s world, many people have different ways of making their own decisions, organizing things, and sorting out many issues without being a Christian or a believer of a particular faith. Many people who live in the corners of a village never read the Christian Bible, but they can understand things better than those who read the Bible and call themselves the Christians. Do not be yoked together with unbelievers (Corinthians 6:14: For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?).

I will be also talking about other faiths and about unbelievers and what a Christian can do in terms of working together and communicating together with non-Christian believers. Even the Bible does not list everything that can make an impact on a Christian’s life (John 21:25: Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.).

If the existence of God was not revealed, how would life be? I believe when we think about religions, politics, or science, we consciously look for the solution and improvement within our house, organization, country, and many places. In this book, I include entire Bible passages because you might not have the time to go look at the Bible yourself. I used the Scriptures and other books to support my debates. I think after completing this book, you will become more spiritually mature.

This book also discusses how the Christian philosophy responds to idea of racial oppression. Every human being was made in the image God. This is a fact because without the existence of God, there would not be anything in this world, so God made the invisible things visible. I discuss what sin is and how humanity became divorced the consequence of sin. The human right, according to Christianity, is about freedom through Christ Jesus.

I also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of colonialism in terms of missionary work in Africa, also the commercial interests of colonial governments. The final point is about how to resist evil, in terms of anti-racism. How can Christians understand evil and the meaning of evil? Every human being was created in the image of God, whether man, woman, black, or white (Genesis 1:27). This is why every human being is equal. God himself knows why wanted human beings to be equal. The invisible things became visible, and all human beings rely on God, because he is the source of all creation. I will discuss the fall of humankind, which brought much disobedience among the nations. This also brought out the colonialists and the theory that black people were inferior to white people. God can help people of every nation resist against evil. Here is the meaning and existence of God: Before the creation of this world, God existed, he still exists, and he will still exist.

I discuss many aspects of death and determine why human beings must die. The fact is that death is not bad or evil; if death was bad, we would not be born. Humans must be born to fill the earth because the earth cannot be empty of human beings. Humans must control all the living things on Earth and even on the other planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. These planets cannot exist by themselves without being controlled by human being because of the authority which God gave to human being since the beginning of the world. Death came from life; in this book, I will clarify why we are alive and rule this planet.

Every human being has a limitation; God created human beings with a beginning and end; as he said, everything will pass away but his word will never pass away (1 Peter 1:24-25: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever. And this is the word that was preached to you.). But after death there is another life; the body must be destroyed before the soul comes out of it, and the soul does not die. If the soul does not die, this means that we will still be alive but not with this body.

The existence of God helps humanity to survive and understand what God does for them. There is always something that people try to know; they want to go behind what God says and reveals. It is not bad to do research, as I myself am a researcher, but I do not want to exaggerate (Ecclesiastes 7:16-19: Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise why destroy yourself? 17 Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool why die before your time? 18 It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. The man who fears God will avoid all [extremes]. 19 Wisdom makes one wise man more powerful than ten rulers in a city).

These Bible passages help me with the mission that God gave me; there is no contradiction against these passages, because God is the beginning and the end of everything. This is why I always say that he is the boss. He gives us his wisdom, not for us to be more than him but to be less than him. This is why many scientists must say the truth and work with God. God will help them in everything that they need, and I discuss the views of many scientists in this book. When I was a young person, I was always looking at the things in our house and wondering what was inside the television, what was inside the radio, and why this and why that?

In 2009, I met somebody who said that he believed in God because he grew up with the ideology of research. God can help us be unstoppable, because he knows what he wants to do with us, and nobody can stop him. This is why there is no point in panicking or being afraid; the answer of your power and strength is God. Many people say that they learned their talent from somebody, but if it is a good thing, it must come from God; in God there is not good and bad. Matthew 12:13 says, Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.

A tree has many branches; if you learn from