Great Mystery

By John Williams

Great Mystery resolves a lion-hearted mystery of biblical proportions. With ire and dice and wit, St. Paul gamed with the Devil for our very souls, for us to be given Christ's truth. Facing death but not bound to his enemy's canons, unashamed of the gospel of Christ, knowing the power of God, he made a last stand. He defended, for all time and for all of us, his Alamo. Sin surrounded him, but he created for God a marvelous, a wonderful, a Great Mystery which will free us all - every one, even one who is sighing. This Great Mystery was first rediscovered four hundred years ago and was communicated secretly onward to our age within the pages of the King James Bible. This Great Mystery fires God's New Testament cannon balls into all of our hearts.

May the Lord bless St. Paul and you too.

FOR THIS CAUSE

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781447754176

John Williams

John Williams was born in Cardiff in 1961.He wrote a punk fanzine and played in bands before moving to London and becoming a journalist , writing for everyone for The Face to the Financial Times. He wrote his first book, an American crime fiction travelogue called Into The Badlands (Paladin) in 1991. His next book, Bloody Valentine (HarperCollins), written around the Lynette White murder case in the Cardiff docks, came out in 1994. Following a subsequent libel action from the police, he turned to fiction. His first novel the London-set Faithless (Serpent's Tail) came out in 1997. Shortly afterward he moved back to Cardiff, with his family, and has now written four novels set in his hometown - Five Pubs, Two Bars And A Nightclub (Bloomsbury 1999); Cardiff Dead (Bloomsbury 2000); The Prince Of Wales (Bloomsbury 2003) and Temperance Town (Bloomsbury 2004). He has edited an anthology of new Welsh fiction, Wales Half Welsh (Bloomsbury 2004). He also writes screenplays (his ninety-minute drama, A Light In The City, was shown by BBC Wales in 2001). An omnibus edition of his Cardiff novels, The Cardiff Trilogy, is to be published by Bloomsbury in summer 2006.

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GREAT MYSTERY

John Williams

Copyright Year: 2023

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This book is written within Australia. In the spirit of reconciliation we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

No living person is described within my book, apart from myself. If there are character descriptions which have similarities to living people, these were by mistake as I sought to avoid this. I have sometimes referred to leaders by name or people by name.

This should have the same force as any other declaration of this nature, since this would be an honest deceleration - my view is that every writer draws on their personal experience – what else is there to draw on? Are there any writers who can honestly say that they do not?

Grace be given to you with peace and God’s love, which is beyond the eternal. Blessed be our one God, God the son and God the Holy Spirit. I pray one day we will all be one.

THE GREAT MYSTERY

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Ephesians 5 v. 29 – 32

This book reveals the ‘great mystery’ which has been hiding in plain sight for two thousand years.

Lord God, you are everything and nothing and beyond our understanding and beyond the understanding of our existence.

We are created by you, our Lord, in your likeness, though we are not worthy to gather up the crumbs under your table. We live and we die within minute fractions of your universe as beings who seem to be empty, who seem to be beyond meaningless. We are each of us a zero or virtual zero who may become one with your son, Jesus Christ, within this existence which is your creation.

We thank you for looking upon who we are and who we are not and what we do and what we do not do with your beyond infinite mercy, Lord. You always offer your grace; you always offer your forgiveness; you always bring us your peace; you love us beyond love.

We give thanks for our existence, Lord, for you have given us everything there is. We are certain you will be good. We will never bow to or serve any God who isn’t you, our Lord, our God, who we swear to serve.

In each and every moment, within our hearts, souls and minds, we will serve you willingly and give to you our minds, hearts and souls for you to do with as you will; we will work to love our neighbours as we love ourselves; we will work for others and we will give to others our selves.

We pray on our knees before you, Lord, asking for your help. We do not pray for ourselves and we do not ask you to intervene for ourselves. We ask you to enable everyone to be more than mere mathematical perfection, for everyone to be free, for every one to be free to choose you.

I didn’t write this.

THE GREAT COMMANDMENTS

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Matthew 22 v. 36 – 40

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

ELEVEN WORDS

I am John.

Whenever anyone looks within and beneath my words, I pray they will see that I earnestly endeavour only to say what is love, what is honest, what is just, what is pure, what is love, what is praiseworthy, what is virtue, what is love.

There will be no irreverence within this book; God will not be mocked and the Bible will be held to be God’s law. God and the Bible are matters of most excellent spiritual importance.

We are all the children of God and we Christians may assure God, with our hands on our hearts, that we have done very little which is sinful and that we are very good Christians and that we are trying.

When we learn to love everyone and everything, including what we hate, we cannot hate and we have very little anger or resentment. When someone hurts us, when we see they are mistakenly on the wrong path, we are still able to accept and love them and, in doing this, we love existence and life. Christians learn to love. Hate isn’t the way; love is the way.

Christians are together: together we follow our biblical law; together we believe that all the law hangs on our following the Great Commandments; together we accept the word of our Lord Jesus Christ and we believe in his name. These beliefs are what make every Christian a Christian together.

We pray that, together with our secular friends and all of our neighbours, we will make our world and we will care for our world and we will keep our world safe for our children who will follow.

I give reverence to our existence and the paradoxes and the glory and the terror. If you ever have to face the Devil, whether secular or Christian, whose words are you going to turn to? My Christian family will turn to the Bible and to God’s words and their faith. My secular family should know, if that happens to you, that I have been where you are and that, whilst I am permitted to have a will which is my own, I will not leave your side; I will not leave you behind.

As you, my world family, are challenged, which you will be here or within what I have written elsewhere, it will require courage, it will require you not to wear fear, not to look for revenge or anger or hatred or self-satisfaction. We have all made mistakes and we all make mistakes. When we do we look to forgiveness or to understanding or to love or to God or to balance or to more.

My Christian family will always be able to look to the Bible for the help they need and for the understanding the Bible brings to everyone; my secular family will always be able to look to the Bible for help, just as I have, if they wish to. One and all may look to the love of God and to the care and love which God gives to all God’s creation.

Seriously, as I write tears stream down my face, knowing that I have been accepted and that I am cared for during my lonely, sinful existence.

Praise the Lord.

The Lord has made known to me the Great Mystery of God’s message, and I have accepted the Lord my saviour within my heart.

When we expect we will see something or when we think we know something, we see what we expect and we think we understand what we already know. It is very difficult to overturn our accepted and conventional beliefs.

Many people, homophobic and gay and lesbian together, think that St. Paul was against same sex relationships or did not give these relationships support; here we will hear, here and now, how very many times Paul and Christ fully approved same sex relationships.

It will be difficult to understand how any other conclusion was ever possible, when we read the truth within the Bible.

For those who do not know the Bible, in many different ways Paul wrote that it was good for a man not to touch a woman. I kid you not – Paul’s own words:

It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7 v. 1

Our mistakes do not define us: it is who we are, who we learn to be, which is defining for us. However, for our sins, we may receive a bill, and tedious though it can be, payment may have to be made. Even in this, I have written what could be seen to be offensive. I ask for forgiveness from you, my Christian family, where I have made the truth too blunt.

May the peace of God which passes all understanding be known to you and keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.

With thanks be to God,

John

LOVE IS EVERYTHING

Alleluia

King and King

I am made servant to my monarch’s reign.

Bowing in silent mime, after I give all my time,

After life, I am seeking my seat with the angels.

My errors are missed; rest is at their order.

In every way I can, I offer my service.

At their urgent pleasure, in my bedazzled heart,

I give them my all: I give them my love;

I give them my long life, never leaving their side.

In the heat of the day, I greet them with my eyes;

Aye, Aye, Aye, I march to their order.

We ring in every year with joyous nuptials.

Each morning I wake, and dress them with my sighs.

Knowing they slept well, knowing their startling beauty,

No wings fly me fast enough to their side.

I breakfast with my desire in bed; together we be.

Last night, in singular tones, we sang to find our delight.

I am a honey bee in nectar, watched over by her King.

All servants are a bee; I let ‘er see I’ve vital life.

Receive it all, my King, until we are ordained by decree,

King and King, we do all together, in love.

I could equally have written king to queen or queen to king or queen to queen.

One thing I am not biased about is the Bible and sexuality and sexism. I have always held the traditional view that the Bible wasn’t very helpful to gay and lesbian people and to women’s rights. It was ingrained in me.

I saw how the underlying message of Christ was incompatible with homophobia and with sexism, but I also thought I saw how Paul and Peter and others were often pretty harsh on sexuality and on women and so forth.

Yes I saw that you could read around Paul’s comments about gay men and distinguish unpleasant comments about abusers of themselves with men from healthy gay sexuality, but since Peter and Paul were silent about healthy gay relationships, I had assumed that they were, on the whole, unhelpful to gay and lesbian people and their fight for freedom. And I thought I saw Paul and Peter saying terribly unequal things about how women had to live subject to their husbands, to men.

What follows is my growing understanding about what Christ and Peter and Paul and others actually said about healthy gay and lesbian relationships and about equality between the sexes, which has been missed. I went looking because God showed me what was within Matthew 19, which caused me to look again at what Peter and Paul had actually said.

When I went and looked carefully at Paul and Peter and Christ’s words about marriage, about sexuality and about women and men’s relationships, I was able to understand. Why was I able to see? This was God’s doing and I had a little help from a few friends: from Lionel Sharpe, St Peter, St Paul, Christ and God.

There is a reason that gay men have been referred to as queens. It is because a queen usually and traditionally has less power than a king, and often has no power. I think a better term for gay men would be king.

And why not do away with princesses and queens altogether and just call everyone king or prince? All those connotations with girly and effeminate weaker vessels would go. I know many people like to think about their child as a princess, but women are not little princesses.

Equal.

Even.

ONE

Where is Christ talking about gay and lesbian people in the Bible? It is astonishing that he did not seem to make any comment about gay and lesbian people.

As any good lawyer should say, silence is its own evidence.

Silence suggests it was a dangerous topic.

Christ didn’t wear fear.

Seek.

These days I am mostly, virtually always, within peace.

Love love whether you know love or not; love life whether you love life or not.

Live well and you will be well.

GOD RULES

OVER EXISTANCE

The Mystery

The structural additions which Christ made to the Old Testament are key to our understanding the ‘great mystery’. This book will sequentially examine each of these great structural additions:

Matthew 19 v 5-6 alters Genesis 2 v 24

Matthew 19 v 9 alters Deuteronomy 24 v 1

Matthew 22 v 36-40 alters Leviticus 19 v 18 - 19 and Deuteronomy 6 v 4 - 5.

Matthew 5 v 17 – 22 and 5 27 – 29 alters Exodus 20 v 1-17

Matthew 5 v 32-38 alters Exodus 21 v 22-26

Matthew 5, Matthew 19 and Matthew 22 are the key texts on same sex marriage. On each of these occasions, Jesus was careful to add to the words within Genesis and/or Exodus and/or Deuteronomy, to ensure lesbian woman were protected in marriage and/or to ensure that gay and lesbian people could receive marriage. The most important chapter for our understanding the mystery is Matthew 19, because the key to the Great Mystery is found within Matthew 19 in the changes that Jesus made to Genesis 2 v. 24 and because of how Jesus said gay men ‘receive’ marriage.

In Matthew 19 v. 5 Jesus added ‘FOR THIS CAUSE’, ‘twain’, two to totally change the man and woman definition that had predominated for marriage, which resulted from our misreading Genesis 2 v. 24. And then, within Matthew 19 v. 12, Jesus said gay men ‘receive’ marriage.

These words and these phrases, ‘receive’ and ‘FOR THIS CAUSE’, relating to Jesus’ message on marriage, were then repeated repeatedly repetitively by St Paul, particularly when he was discussing who receives marriage and for what cause. Look at any time Paul wrote about marriage for ‘for this cause’ or ‘receive’ or for servants and masters and the other language Christ used in Matthew 22, 19 and 5.

Please remember that you will only discover the Great Mystery within the King James Bible and the original Greek/Aramaic of the Bible, because only the man behind the translation of the King James Bible saw and understood the Mystery and communicated the Mystery to you and to me.

Rest in peace, my friend; you have served your time.

We give thanks to the Lord for revealing the truth with the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and FOR THIS CAUSE.

FOR THIS CAUSE shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Matthew 19

He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

SAME SEX BEING APPROVED BY JESUS

BIBLICAL AUTHORITY

FOR THIS CAUSE shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain [two - woman woman or man man], but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, [ it is not good to marry for gay people?] But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given, [but only because it is practical to refer to husband and wife.] For there are some people, which were so born gay from their mother’s womb: and there are some people, which were made gay of men: and there be people, which have made themselves gay for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

HE OR SHE THAT IS ABLE TO RECEIVE IT, LET THEM RECEIVE IT

Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.

Matthew 19

In the first place a follower may say: ‘From the mouth of the Master himself have I heard, from his own mouth have I received it’.

Buddha – Maha Parinibbana Sutta

MATTHEW 19 HAS JESUS TALK EXPLICITLY ABOUT MARRIAGE AND ABOUT DIVORCE.

I could analyse and pick apart the passage, but it is crystal clear and indisputable. It is absurd to read the above as Jesus just randomly starting to talk about eunuchs being born eunuchs within the context of a discussion about marriage. There isn’t any doubt – eunuchs were gay men and they get to get married!

He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

GAY MARRIAGE WAS EXPRESSLY AND EXPLICITLY AND CLEARLY AUTHORISED AND APRROVED AND PERMITTED AND RIGHT WITH JESUS.

IT IS AS CLEAR AS LIGHT.

He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

What else could it possibly be about? Clearly it is about gay men, is it not?

ASK GOD

Christ would have said all men cannot marry, if he meant all men cannot marry in Matthew 19 v 11.

But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given,

Christ uses the careful phrasing about people not receiving his ‘saying’ to ensure gay men receive marriage.

To avoid doubt, when I myself talk about husbands and wives within my book, all people cannot receive my saying save them to whom it is given, but only because it is impractical to refer to husbands and wives and to gay husbands and lesbian wives altogether. Everyone who is able to receive what I am saying receives what I am saying and not just those directly referred to.

I should emphasise that Jesus Christ, our Lord, tells you and me, in Matthew 19 v. 12, that a woman’s womb is the woman’s womb, it is ‘their mother’s womb’, belonging to the mother, the woman, and no longer belonging to the man.

In verse 5 Matthew 19 Jesus said:

FOR THIS CAUSE shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder

These words give the first structurally important addition to the Old Testament which we will consider, which Jesus made to ensure same sex marriage was lawful. These words altered Genesis 20 v. 24 which reads:

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Jesus changes ‘Therefore’ to ‘FOR THIS CAUSE’ and crucially he adds the word ‘twain’ two. This was to ensure two got married – man man marry and woman woman marry.

People today still say that only man and woman can marry because of Genesis 2 v 24. And they were saying the same thing two thousand years ago. Jesus went to the trouble of altering the verse in Genesis to ensure everyone received marriage.

And don’t you dare start tying to make a case for lesbian women being unable to get married, because they do not get such a clear and unambiguous endorsement. Once foolish is easily forgivable but twice, well you will have to ask a lot.

Jesus talked about men and women being married.

The disciples asked are you saying no to gay or lesbian marriage?

Jesus said do not be silly. Heterosexual men and gay men cannot receive this saying at the same time, as I may only speak to those to whom a personal pronoun is given . Clearly there are gay people. And its good that they can receive marriage.

The disciples did not bother to ask another silly question about why he had not mentioned lesbians.

All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given, since it is impractical to name gay men as well as heterosexual men, when I am talking about husbands and wives, but what I say about heterosexual marriage applies to gay men equally. For there are some gay men which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some gay men which were made gay: and there be gay men, which have made themselves gay for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

This is hugely sad, because of all the completely unnecessary pain and hurt caused by Christians to gay and lesbian people. There are going to be men and women who read this who will be in tears.

I had just accepted what I had been told, which was that there was no express permission and authority for same sex marriage within the Bible. I knew same sex marriage was right and Christian and authorised through love, through those eleven words which guide our Great Commandments, but God had to direct me to this passage.

For gay men and lesbian women, it will be very, very difficult to realise Pharisees were running the same arguments you have faced, two thousand years back. Two thousand years of unnecessary prejudice and persecution, which should never have happened.

Why eunuchs as a euphemism? It is why I say what I say about the role of gay men within our evolutionary history in my book Greek Wisdom. Think about it and about who, in society at the time Jesus was speaking, would you trust with your women like you would trust a eunuch.

You would not take a bet that a heterosexual men would be trusted.

A woman was no way either, because many would be lesbian.

Gay men like men. Yes some are bisexual and gay men are perfectly capable of having sex with women and procreating, but statistically this was the most realistic safe option. You would prefer to leave a gay man with your women.

Eunuch might have been an unfortunate choice of word for gay men today, but really I think you should be able to accept this from Jesus, who was so far ahead of his time. Anyway, who chose the euphemism? How common was it, I wonder? And how many eunuchs were physically altered and how many were just very effeminate gay men who called themselves eunuchs?

I do not know how you feel my gay friends. There must be great sadness for you, which I feel too, but I also feel a tremendous sense of peace and good sense and approval from God, that we have finally seen what was there to be seen. Some may think I was told this by an angel, after all this time has passed, to ensure that you and your chosen partner can be brought to worship, with everyone present knowing you have been made by God for two worship.

I bet there are a lot of Christians feeling a little bit silly or very, very ashamed. The latter would be far more appropriate.

Get on those knees.

Then ask for forgiveness for two thousand years of prejudice and persecution which it is clear that Christ would never have approved of, even if he had not expressly stated that gay marriage was okay, which he did. It is clear from the Bible that Jesus accepted people and included people and loved. Jesus would never ever have rejected people who loved.

And that foolish and absurd argument about what is and isn’t natural:

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.

For the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus said, born gay.

Floored you again.

He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Should you doubt the King James Bible translation, you will have to get on with some knee exercises: you will need to spend a lot more time on your knees. I am confident for four reasons that the King James Bible has the best translation:

Lionel Sharpe and his friends – they were very familiar with the original and knew their languages very well;

What Jesus said in Matthew 19 is consistent with what I have been saying is his message, his underlying theology;

God loves.

And four!

He that is able to receive it , let him receive it . Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.

Why did the Pharisees bring little children unto Jesus for him to ‘put his hand on them’, immediately after Jesus had approved gay marriage?

You know, don’t you? They were inferring or saying that Jesus’ support for gay marriage made him a child sexual abuser. The disciples rebuked the Pharisees for this, because they knew exactly what the Pharisees were inferring.

Why would the Pharisees have done this, had Jesus just denied gay marriage? It would have been completely irrelevant. More importantly and more relevantly, what possible reason was there for the disciples to rebuke the Pharisees for bringing children to Christ, after what Christ had said shortly before about the innocence and goodness of children. The disciples knew what the Pharisees were inferring, that is why.

And what did Jesus do, in response to the Pharisees provocation? He said, ‘ Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me.’ He inferred right back into the Pharisees’ faces that everyone was welcome, including gay and lesbian people.

The translator of the King James Bible and Lionel Sharpe almost certainly knew this to be the case, because, whilst Mark’s version of these same events misses the talk about the eunuchs, he puts in the story about the children being brought to Christ:

And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them .

Mark 10

The translator chose the word ‘touch’!

I like seeing what they saw, those distant writers and translators, and knowing what they knew and what they could not publicise. Really, though, I am conscious that I cannot say what I am saying publiclly, and yet I am doing this anyway, because it is God’s words – it is my duty to put myself in harm’s way.

I know the Devil will be coming for me in this life; I will say to him, good seeing you again - let’s make sure we have more fun this time.

Why was the language so carefully phrased by Jesus? Why not just say gay people? Why say eunuchs and so on?

Because the Pharisees were seeking to trap Jesus. Had he just said gay marriage is ok with me, the Pharisees would have had cause to put him to death for breaking what they believed was the Law of Moses.

The question Jesus answered within Matthew 19 with his description of the eunuchs was one such trap. It was put in these words:

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

The Gospels are full with such instances where the Pharisees sought to trap Jesus and Jesus spoke very carefully in response. We see only one example in the adulteress caught in the act, where Jesus simply asked questions. Jesus was man and God and rightly he did not want to die, although he knew he would. Yet, he did not seek his death.

Jesus was flesh and blood and he was a man:

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Collosians 1

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Collosians 2

Jesus was man and son of God and, beneath the careful phrasing, Jesus sang for gay marriage and put his body on the line for this.

Again, Lionel Sharpe and the King James Bible translator knew what this passage meant, I am confident. In the original King James Bible, the line above reads with a very small C:

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is c y kingdom of heaven.

I C y the Pharisees brought children to Christ.

Ceems I am second to C this.

MAKE THAT THE THIRD OR FOURTH OR FIFTH OR SO ON..

and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

WHY DID JESUS AND MATTHEW USE THE PHRASE ‘KINGDOM OF HEAVEN’ TWICE SO CLOSE TOGETHER?

TO ASSOCIATE GAY MEN WITH THE CHILDREN WHO CHRIST WAS REFERRING TO. CHRIST WAS SAYING GAY MEN WERE THE CHILDREN OF GOD.

We are all God’s children, when we wish to be married within a church.

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18

Jesus said we should all humble ourselves as little children. Shortly after he said this, Jesus told his disciples to welcome the little children in response the Pharisees bringing the children to him. When he talked about the little children being welcome one chapter later he was inferring the gay men he had just talked about as eunuchs would be welcome.

The Pharisees tried to infer Christ was a child sexual abuser by bringing children to Jesus after he approved gay marriage and he took it on the chin and told them that the children, gay men, were welcome.

He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Same sex marriage

Can I let a belle people receive it?

Are you Cain or Able?

Same sex marriage within Church or a millstone around your neck.

Your choice.

Are you a child of God or flawed, or forlorn or for law, God’s law?

Put this to the floor:

He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Who is going to be waiting at the alter for us to kneel and pray for our millstone to be removed, for us to be forgiven? It will be Christ with his gay and lesbian children who we have repeatedly and completely insulted and excluded and persecuted. These are not Christian behaviours.

God is love.

Oh crap! You really have gone down the wrong path and now you are beginning to realise it. How will you cope? Will you follow the path of sin, or will you redirect yourselves to Christianity and kneel and pray and ask for forgiveness.

Go to a gay or lesbian Christian and ask for forgiveness.

You will be forgiven.

Christians forgive.

Eunuchs!

After I saw how gay men received marriage in Matthew 19 and wrote the above, I went looking for whether gay men were given the euphemism eunuch in the ancient world. There isn’t much there, but Mark Brustman did some research, which he records online, and he makes the very good point that what we call eunuchs are not born eunuchs. For these and other reasons, with much better referencing than I tend to provide, he proves that gay men were referred to as eunuchs.

Thank you, Mark.

The translators of the The New English Bible also knew, in Matthew 19, that Christ wasn’t referring to literal eunuchs. Instead of eunuchs, they wrote how, ‘some are incapable of marriage because they are born so’. Clearly the translators saw eunuchs as a euphemism, but did not draw the conclusion that the word referred to gay men.

And the translators did not understand what Christ was saying overall in Chapter 19 and did not realise the importance of these words, their words:

That is something which not everyone can accept

This line was the New English Bible translators interpretation of Matthew 19 v. 11, which in the King James Bible is:

All men cannot receive this saying,

The translators of the New English Bible or others may say that I am wrong, though I hope not. Saying that I got this wrong would be saying that God got this wrong, but God sent you, the translators, these words. The question will be whether this can be accepted because it is something which not everyone will accept.

I trust everyone will now accept the truth. In the past it was something which not everyone could accept.

To one translator of The New English Bible

Did you understand what you wrote in Matthew 19, when you said not everyone could accept the truth, and did you know the time wasn’t right, because it was something which not everyone could accept?

It is my final edit and I am very slow indeed, and I only just thought you may have known, so I had a very brief look.

You are with God; you did know, I strongly suspect. I saw what you wrote in Mark 7. I think you are in a sharp league. Come out, come out, wherever you are.

How wonderful that you were able to sneak the truth into this translation, your translation. I imagine you going to great trouble to plan how to get your words put in, so as to ensure the words you wanted to get put in were approved by the group who was behind this translation. How you must have thought and wondered, when will this be seen?

It is seen.

Thank you.

Mark 7

Mark 7 is about gay men and gay sex.

And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

Mark 7 v. 2

The Pharisees do not like Jesus’ disciples eating with people they saw as ‘defiled’ – gay men.

People read this as though it is actual unwashed hands which offended the Pharisees. Read all Mark 7 within the King James Bible, after reading what I have written here, and make your minds up for yourselves, as to whether they were speaking in euphemisms.

Either Pharisees were really silly back then and worried inordinately about religious cleanliness and this argument was worth putting within the Bible? Or Pharisees said that gay men were unclean?

I am sure that this was what the Pharisees were saying:

We cannot believe it! What are you eating your nice clean dinner with these dirty scoundrels for? Think about where these men put their hands. Yuk. It is dirty and unclean to mix with them, even though they have lovely flamboyent clothing and are nice in every other way. We do not mind them, but we do not like their unclean hands. We will welcome them, if they follow the law, which we have interpreted to say makes them sinful and to say that only we are okay with God. Look how his hands are touching the bread.

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Jesus says the Pharisees commandments about gay relationships are the commandments of men. We should remember the word ‘doctrine’ for later.

Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Mark 7 v 7

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Men who are gay offering ‘corban’ (seed?), a euphemism, are falsely rejected by Pharisees.

But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free . And ye suffer him no more to