The Corruption of the Church, Caused by its Fusion and Confusion with Temporal Power. Quite possibly the oldest & most articulate witness defending obedience to the Commandments given us on the Mount by Christ, His sermon on the Mount. This book written around 1440 & not printed for hundreds of years, barely even made it to print: for the same reason Quakers, Mennonites, Waldensians, Paulinites, & endless others have been persecuted for this exact issue, that is, obeying Jesus Christ. What this man quotes & articulates bares great witness to the fact that not just for the 1st 200 years after Christ did His followers obey His most basic & repeated commandment, signed in both His Blood as well as His disciples without number, but that this is an issue going all the way back to the first counsel of Nicaea in 325AD. Never did Christ cease to have followers, nor will He. Their books were burned & many with their bodies as the kindle, not including their characters shamelessly smeared by the so called Church fathers that pop up after the NicaeaJudasHeresy of 325AD.

They were such honorable men, that they dared not spread the disease of heresy by giving the accused any chance to defend themselves, Judas having his writings preserved from the flames but each successive KING. But what King will protect them against the King of Kings? I mustn’t fester in anger any longer, having already proven to the reader just how unworthy I am, but we leave it to Christ, and pray for our enemies, and love our enemies, amen.

Oh, I’m but a most pitiful man. Those false accusers had no more authority over the Body of Christ than they, the Orthodox, the Protestant, or any other hypocrite who puts himself above God by claiming to be the one and only chosen ones of God, pretending to show resistance against the Jews while teaching their victims how to where their Iron shackles, the delusion that even Hitler fell for, that anyone be the superior, that great Jewish heresy. That most uncivilized gang way of thinking with their gang signs, initiations, Chains about their neck, telling themselves & all else on their block, that their power & chains are self evident proofs that they’re chosen by God, else they wouldn’t have such power. What a discgrace; but even moreso, a tragedy that these most unvicilized Barbarians to ever have the audacity to think themselves civil, make up the bulk of the literature we have on the True Church. But the wise won’t morn for too long, for the spirit of Truth never died, & if you’re still, you’ll see the doves fly, not cry. And paper has never been able to encage them, but only men, for Christ so declared, “I accept the record of no man”.

His own will know him by His voice no? His own would not follow a stranger. This thing I say now, this is the Truth. Lean on no tree, for God is alive. Lean on no corpse, for God is alive. Stop that & let the dead bury the dead, for Christ walks the Earth! Though every book were burned tomorrow, there’s nothing to morn. God is alive. The Word comes from heaven like a dove & always will.

I speak against these hypocrites, yet I still feel peace. No other God can do this . These petty theological differences, that according to Paul are no grounds to separate either ourselves, or someone else from the Body of Christ; these theological differences are the grossest examples of idolatry, perhaps, in all of man’s history. Who has the audacity to maliciously violate the sacred body of Christ, the church of which every member is a priest of the Most high God, while at the same time daily pretending to care more than all else of His body by their wickedly humble public displays of the gobbling down of their abominable bread which most certainly is manifested into human flesh, the flock they daily devour. Using it as yet another means to bind men to themselves by unlawful oath & wicked rituals.

Oh forgive me, I spoke like the pathetic untempered man I am at which point I now think of what Paul said of humbly being All things to ALL men in order that he might win them. For we all know that no institution has the right to be called holy, nor any office that any man holds, nor any relic, nor any petty doctrine that concerns itself not with open non-repentent sin. We glory not in outward show, nor are to proud in delusion to think anyone can make us unclean, or that the victims we silence are some virus we’ve eradicated for the greater good of mankind; that gift of the founding fathers, the founding father of Covid 19, Heresy 325AD.

Oh, do I ever shut up? Gandhi himself said he was inspired by the Russian Christian reformer Leo Tolstoy, as well as the writting’s he shared of American Christians who’ve always willingly laid down their lives before obeying man rather than Christ. That’s right, Gandhi actually followed Jesus Christ & he wasn’t ashamed to proclaim Who he followed either. Let the mad man who doubts Gandhi’s Christianity doubt just as much every disciple Jesus ever had while he reflects on his own madness.

Leo Tolstoy:

Having thus learned the essence of Chelčický’s teaching, I with much greater impatience waited
for the appearance of The Net of Faith in the journal of the Academy. But
a year, two, three years passed, and the book did not appear. Only in 1888 I learned that the
printing of the book, which had been begun, had come to a stop. I got the proof-sheets of as much
as had been printed, and I read the book.

The book is in every respect remarkable.

The contents are quite correctly rendered by Pýpin. Chelčický’s fundamental idea is this, that
Christianity, having united with the power in the time of Constantine and having continued to
develop under these conditions, has become absolutely corrupt and has ceased to be Christianity.
The title “The Net of Faith,” was given by Chelčický to his work, because, taking for his motto the
verse of the Gospel about calling the disciples to become fishers of men, Chelčický, continuing
this comparison, says, “Christ by means of His disciples caught in His net of faith the whole
world, but the larger fish, tearing the net, jumped out of it, and through the holes, which these
larger fish had made, all the others went away, and the net was left almost empty.”

The large fish that broke through the net are the rulers, emperors, popes, kings, who, in not
renouncing their power, did not accept Christianity, but its semblance only.

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