Unafraid

I am unafraid to be called an arse. Or worse. I am unafraid to be called every bad thing in the universe. What, should I be afraid of the opinions of MEN?

G-d forbid that I should be more worried about the opinions of Men than doing the will of G-d.

IF I am telling you what G-d told Humanity about in the Torah and in the Tanakh, then nothing can happen to me except G-d wills it. If I am telling you something else, some little gospel of my own, then I have no protection and deserve none.

In Deuteronomy, as Moses said that G-d said, on the right hand G-d offers you life and blessings, if you follow the Law. On the left hand is curses and disease and pestilence AND DEATH. If you do not follow it. They put a tablet with the blessings on one mountain, and a tablet with the curses on another nearby mountain, SO THAT PEOPLE WOULD NOT FORGET.

THEY FORGOT. THEY ALWAYS FORGET. THEY MAKE THEMSELVES FORGET.

If they had put the words on tablets made of granite a hundred feet tall, THEY WOULD STILL FORGET. Or rather, they would deny, which is a different thing. Anyone could forget. It takes a conscious effort to DENY.

I am not telling you that sex outside of marriage is wrong. THE TORAH IS.

I am not telling you that homosexuality is wrong. THE TORAH IS.

I am not telling you that lying is wrong. THE TORAH IS.

I am not telling you that coveting something owned by another is wrong. THE TORAH IS.

I am not telling you that men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men is an abomination. THE TORAH IS.

I am not telling you that passing your unborn children into the fires of Molech, murdering them for the sake of the idol of your lifestyle, is an abomination. THE TORAH IS.

Why blame me? Go take it up with G-d, see how far you get.


NOT FAR AT ALL, is how far.

I might sound like a hard-ass, but I am not. I am being more loving to you than your little old kindly grandmother when I tell you these things. Your grandmother may be afraid of what you will think. I won't be afraid of what you think. You think I care about your opinion, handful of mud? Listen to G-d and learn. Not what men say.

THIS IS THE LAW. Obey it and stay on the path of life, break it and descend the path of death. It's totally up to you, but I am not going to change G-d's message because YOU DON'T LIKE IT.

YOU NEVER LIKED IT.

When I say "you," the vast majority of people in the Tanakh were depicted in the act of disobeying it. The vast majority of humans disobey. They do not even want to hear the path of life, and to avoid the path of death. Far from obeying, they don't even want to hear it.

I have my bad moments too, but at least now I acknowledge what the law IS even if I break it! Have I ever bedded women who were not my wife? Yes. Was it wrong? Yes. I pray with all my heart that I will never allow it to happen again. I now know it was wrong, though I denied that it was wrong at the time.

I have never encouraged a fetus to be aborted or had a son or daughter aborted, thank you thank you sweet sweet lord that I have not, but in the past I have turned a blind eye when the sons or daughters of others were. I offered no protest, no criticism. I was young then. I did not know the Law. I resisted the Law.

Well you can resist all you like, the Law is still the Law. The same consequences apply whether you believe or not. Blessings or curses, life or death. Choose the Law and live.

How should I care what you think? How should I care what your opinion of me is? What I do care about, is you, not what you think. Choose life.

Fear G-d. Not men.