Corruption

There are many verses prophesying of the corruption of Christianity and there are many verses and examples in history to indicate this has happened.

Psalms 40:6

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—but my ears you have opened[c]—burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

[c] Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts “but a body you have prepared for me”

[The initial text read ‘but my ears you have opened’. While most modern Bibles now opt for this “older” version, who knows what else is not the original text that someone inserted to push their own ideals. This difference is clearly trying to get a particular message across. The initial version sounds a lot like denouncing sacrifice while the second version tries to push that Jesus was prepared as the solution to do away with sacrifice which God decided he would rather not have. It doubles as ‘prophecy’ of Jesus’ coming. Prophecies are rather easy to fulfill when they are added after the fact!]

Matthew 5:13

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

[Jesus likely did not say this just for the fun of it. He was giving clear instruction as to what should be done after his message became corrupt. The message—that of sacrifice for sins—is a worthless notion. And it is tied to the message of Jesus. His message has lost its savor and it is good for nothing. This ‘Christianity’ needs to be tossed out. It cannot be made salty again. It is good for nothing. Promote love and kindness, but forget the Bible.

Matthew 13:24-29

Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”

[Just prior to this parable, he explains the parable of the seed that fell on the rock, the wayside, the thorns, and the good soil. He explained that the seed is the word of God. It makes sense to keep the meaning consistent in this parable as well. Jesus came and planted the word of God: good seed. The good seed plants in good soil (people’s hearts) and grows to produce a true citizens of the kingdom of God: wheat. Someone else planted bad seed into the kingdom. It is important to recognize that it is planted into the kingdom and not into the world. There are still people outside this field which represents the kingdom. These seeds, or these lies, create false citizens within the kingdom of God—tares—and they grow together. Interestingly enough, it is the tares that are first collected and burned. This would indicate that any concept of a rapture would have to be that of killing the false citizens rather than taking up the true citizens. This even resounds greatly with Jesus stating in Luke 17 that one will be left in the field and the other taken. When asked where they will be taken, he said that vultures will gather around dead bodies.]

Mark 16:9-20

[every verse of Mark 16:9-20 is not found in the older manuscripts. It is thus clear that they were added after the fact. Who knows what else has been added after the fact. The book is not pure.]

Luke 13:18-19

Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.”

[People often see what they wish to see or what they expect to see. They often read this verse as indicating that the tree provides shelter and they presume it is good. However, if a man planted a mustard seed, the last thing he would want is for birds to perch in the tree when it is grown. The birds would eat all the seeds from it and it would become worthless. So it is with the kingdom.]

Luke 13:20-21

Again he asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

[Again, people see what they wish to see. They take this to mean that the kingdom will expand and fill the world. However, yeast is never considered a good thing in the Bible. It is always symbolic of worthlessness or vanity and Jesus even specifically mentioned to beware the leaven of the Pharisees in Matthew 16:11. He is indicating here that he kingdom will become puffed up and worthless with the false teachings of the Pharisees. The leaven works all through the dough. It does not corrupt merely a part; the entire kingdom becomes leavened.]

Luke 23:31

For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

[Jesus spoke these words on the way to his crucifixion. He expresses the thought that if people are willing to crucify him for his teaching while he is yet alive, how much worse will it be after he is dead? He walked among the people presumably with the power of God and yet still people would not listen to a message of love. If they would not listen even with his power, then surely it would fare even worse when he is no longer around. While not necessarily indicating that Christianity itself would become corrupt, it at least alludes to a worse-off condition than when he ended his teaching.]

Galatians 5:6-9

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”

[The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. That was the main message; the ONLY thing that counts—not circumcision and not sacrifice, but faith in love. And, as we can see, the bad seed had already begun being poured out and swaying the minds of believers. Paul had to fight to keep the faith focused on loving others. But, as he said, a little yeast works through the whole dough. The kingdom became puffed up and eventually lost the original cause of love and instead focused on sacrifice which so happens to be a meaningless ritual.]

Colossians 2:18-19

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of [messengers] disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have [not] seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

[Even here there was a warning about vain people teaching about stuff they know nothing about within the kingdom of God. Such people never disappeared and indeed succeeded in corrupting the message and leading people astray. As with Paul’s message, it was clearly possible to be so led astray.]

2 Thessalonians 2:7

For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

[As written of in the book, I believe this section is not translated very perfectly by expressing the “lawless one” as being a person. It seems more fitting given what has happened that it is likely not a person but the Bible itself. It is upheld as if it is God among the churches. By so doing, it removes the possibility of listening to God’s spirit because such a spirit would denounce the many lies in the book. By quenching the spirit, the spirit is taken out of the way and the corruption perpetuates.]

2 Thessalonians 3:6

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us.

[Not only were the Galatians being swayed by false teaching, we can see that the Thessalonians began to stray from the original message as well. They began being busybodies and not working for their lifestyle. In short, people took advantage of the goodness of true citizens of the kingdom and certainly that has not disappeared. Today, the supposed kingdom is entirely aflutter with liars and cheats stealing money from the weak-minded and poor. They do no real work of their own and merely speak to receive money.]

1 Timothy 1:3-7

As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith. The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk. They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.

[Clearly the corruption of the message has already begun according to these verses. There are proclaimed followers of Jesus who wish to appear important so they are discussing worthless things like genealogies. They are probably trying to discuss Jesus’ lineage and tie him back into being the Christ. Paul is trying to stop it, but it is likely he was not successful. He claims he wanted it to stop so that they could focus on love instead. The phrase ‘which is by faith’ in this paragraph seems quite out of place which looks a lot like an insert from someone later trying to push faith over ‘works.’

2 Timothy 3:1-5

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

[What is interesting about this list is that it claims that such people have a form of godliness. It is not referring to the unbeliever, but the believer. People who profess God. And the problem with such people is indeed that they are behaving poorly. The trouble is not with their belief in God. So clearly, it is a prophecy of the kingdom becoming corrupted with evil deeds and the true citizens of the kingdom must not be associated with them. Christianity has become ruined. Humanism is the original Christianity.]

Thomas 97

Jesus said: The kingdom of the Father is like a woman carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on a distant road, the handle of the jar broke and the meal poured out behind her on the road. She was unaware, she had not noticed the misfortune. When she came to her house, she put the jar down and found it empty.

[While not in the canon of the Bible as we know it, if indeed it is true that the kingdom would become corrupt, it is no surprise that some things were not included in the original Bible that perhaps should have been. Since the message of Jesus was never to surrender to a text but rather to follow the spirit of love, we are perfectly capable of reading any text and gleaning insight. We can “pick and choose” if you will as you likely do even with this book here. It is a foolish notion that one cannot pick and choose from the Bible. Despite not being in the Bible, it is an ancient text which prophesied that the kingdom would become corrupt.]