Jesus Was a LIbertine?

            Just about everyone who believes in God have his or her own perceptions about God.  These perceptions that people have about God determines in their own minds as to how to interpret the Bible.  I read a book back in the 60’s that basically said that whatever we believe God to be, our perceptions of God are too small.  We tend to put God in a box, but the box we put God into is a box that is a creation of our own minds.  Some psychologists have suggested that God is merely an extension of how we view the authorities of our lives, whether those authorities are parents, stepparents or some other significant authority.  Some Christian psychologists then say that as parents to our children we represent God to them.  They suggest that God is fair and that God has a list of do’s and don’ts.

            I am not going to suggest that God is a Libertine, but whatI am going to say is that God is responsible for some seven billion people on this planet.  And that doesn’t include the numbers of people who have ever lived since Adam and Eve.  God literally HAS seen it all!  So, God has to have some kind of fair system for judging the world.  Now, if I suggest that Angels told me that Jesus died for EVERY sin except for he sins of murder and suicide, I am saying then that Jesus, God, and anyone who believes this are ALL Libertines.  What then is the purpose of the Old Testament Law if we can do ANYTHING we please, so long as we do NOT take human life?  Well, there had to be some way to bring order to a society that wouldn’t have much order without the Law.  While Moses was up on the mountain talking to God and receiving the Ten Commandments, the people decided that with Moses being gone, they could revel all they wished.  They made a golden calf and worshipped it.  They participated in all kinds of lewd behavior.  Then when Moses returned he restored everything back to where it was before he left and had in his possession the Ten Commandments.  So, if you think of what life would have been like without the Ten Commandments there was a period of time when the Israelites did as they wished until they had instructions from God to basically behave themselves.  This is what the law of ANY nation does.  The law of any nation keeps an ordered society and punishes those who are disobedient to the law.   And in a Democracy, we can say that people make the laws for themselves.

            Now, what I AM going to suggest to anyone reading this is that Jesus WAS a Libertine allowing people to do most anything they wished because in fact, He says He didn’t come to condemn anyone.  Condemnation is up to God, NOT people.  But yet our laws allow condemnation.  And that means there are things that people do that can be reason to be put to death.  However, I am saying that ONLY God can condemn anyone for what he or she does.  And THAT is my point.  ONLY God can take a human life.  So, I say then that ALL Human Life is sacred to God from the instant of creation until God ends a life.  We have laws that give order to our society as laws give order to ANY society, however if God is going to judge fairly seven billion people when the Messiah comes, there has to be some standard for His judgment.  Not even believers have the same standard of and for belief.  Our views of God and punishment for sin vary from strict condemnation to the Grace of God covering ANY sin including murder and even suicide.

            I will suggest then that whatever we do in life we HAVE to be able to live with doing and that NO ONE can judge ANY other person except God Himself because He made us in His own image.  Therefore, I am suggesting leniency in how we judge the sins of ANY person, because the one standard EVERYONE has to have of God is Human Life.  It is the ONLY consistent standard God can use to judge the world when the Messiah comes.  Yes, this view that I have of God is a view of a God that is incredibly lenient and tolerant of ALL sins.  But this is how God has to JUDGE the WORLD and not just a select number of people.  This judgment of God’s allows for just about any kind of sin under the sun.  There IS nothing new to God, even in today’s world.  The one standard that is consistent IS human life.  Jesus didn’t condemn the prostitute as the Pharisees wanted to condemn her.  Jesus says He came NOT to condemn.  Yes, I am saying that in some respects I AM a Libertine in my thinking and even to some degree what I do or even don’t do, but I am saying to ALL who read this, so is God.  Peace.  Brother Ralphie for The Angels of Life Institute