My wife bought me Foxes Book of Martyrs. I haven't read this for many years. Mans cruelty to man never ceases to amaze me. What astonishes me the most, besides mans astonishing cruelty to his fellow man, is the base realization of the reasoning behind it. Belief defining and defying and then reviling another belief berthing retribution by means of exterminating competing ideology. As primitive a form of exclusionary and cowardly means of controlling societal conformity, it's usage comes close to being universal even in the most politesse of societies. Ten reigns of terror executed on Christians in the most obscene and horrific demonstration of methods for the preservation of exclusionary conformity to another's realm of totalitarian inclusion.
Universalism is one of those words that carry frightening allusions of control to me personally. Another, that carries almost the same aversion to me is reforming. Both contain a versioning alignment of thought that to me will predesignate the same destination of control. Getting past the ten reigns of persecution we end up with one controlling Christian ideology that uses the same horrific tactics of control that the pagan systems employed. They refer to this part of history the "Dark Ages." Controlling the dialogue seems to be in vogue wherever we land in historical examination. Yet, truth has to reside in and of its self. We may try to control it and define it; modify it to our preference and codify it to advance a defining conditioning goal of our own or submit to it and let it lay us bare. Judgement comes first to the house of God of which we are. Who wants to be first in line? Time won't even be a consideration, only eternity will prevail. I'm starting to sound like a Baptist now. Still, we will all meet the Truth. I'm going to be transparent before it whether I like it or not; but I'm not writing about that now, because now is all we ever have in time. The strangest part of all this is that I can't wait to be there, at His feet, waiting for the cleansing of my soul; not reformation, not universalism, just myself with the Truth, the Word, and the Life.
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
A question to be asked.
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