SHRAPNEL OFF THE WALL

The Way to God

There is no other Way to God

other than that thru Jesus.

A full description, including the rudiments

by which this path can be traversed would require 

a treatise of some length.

I will not be able to do this satisfactorily.

Besides this should best be done by the people

of the cloth, meaning priests who do  administer

the Sacraments of the Church.

Maybe you should get one of these priests and

ask them whatever you need to know.

Anyhow, I have reasons to believe

that my ever-loving Mom, Trinidad,

who now resides in Heaven

is already happy with my

performance these past few days.

She actually was the one who taught me what

I know about Jesus.

She was a member of the Tertiary Order of St. Dominic.

She was interred in the habit of a nun of this order.

My wife, Sonia, was also a Tertiary

but she was not a fully pledged member.

Anyhow, here is a parting quote for you:

From St. Louis de Montfort;

” In this dark world of ours

Let us all shine.

You in your corner

and I in mine.”

The Pontiff

IL PAPA to you.

This is THE ROCK

upon which Jesus built HIS church.

And when HE said THE ROCK

HE did not literally refer to a boulder-size stone,

which you can kiss to attain forgiveness.

HE meant a steadfast, durable, fiery PETER

who now holds the key to the Gate of Heaven,

and can let loose or bind any soul on earth.

The Pontiff, or commonly called, the Pope

holds sway over the dogma and practices

of the Roman catholic Church,

and no other religion on earth is directed as such.

The present Pontiff, Pope Francis,

is the direct successor

to the Apostle St. Peter.

There is no other revelation from God

after the death of the last Apostle.

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The Lord’s Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

As an integral part of his leading
the Way to redemption, Jesus intended
to teach the people how to pray.
A pleasant surprise greeted HIM when they actually
asked HIM to teach them how to pray.
And so HE taught them HIS OWN PRAYER
to the Father, including the people’s special prayers.
As a result, The Lord’s Prayer satisfies both
God’s requirements and the the people’s needs.
As annotated, it goes like this :

“Our Father, which art in Heaven,”

Jesus called “Father” twice in HIS Seven Last Words,
the First and the Last Words, but HE meant “My Father”
not “Our Father”, therefore the Lord’s Prayer includes
the people who are in supplication with “Our Father”
Also, the the description, “which art in Heaven”,
just differentiated completely God the Father from Man’s Daddies.

“Hallowed be Thy name, they Kingdom Come,”

A complete invocation to God’s name and His kingdom,
both exclusive and separate from earthly instances.

“Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven”

Whatever God wills, it will be done
for HE is the omnipotent God
and nothing will stop HIM nor bar HIS way.

“Give us this day our daily bread,’

Comes now the people’s prayer for daily subsistence.
No more is the freeloading, manna from Heaven stuff
that spoiled and pampered them.
Now, man has to work for it, and pray to God that
their work is fruitful.

“And forgive us our trespasses,’

AHA! straight to the point goes this prayer
because this exactly is what made God come down
to redeem the sinners—to forgive their sins.

“As we forgive those who trespass against us,”

For this forgiveness, man offers to forgive others,
effectively negotiating a Contract with the Lord.
Jesus would agree to this offer because is HE not the one
teaching them this Prayer?
Besides, this should most assuredly make the people
follow his rule of “Turning the other cheek.”
But what if man forgets to forgive  the trespassers?

This situation would then be remedied by—

Repentance and atonement.

“And lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil,”

This is reminiscent of the temptation that caused
Adam and Eve to fall from God’s Grace.
God will now get into the act
to help man avoid temptation and fight Lucifer.
But first, man should be baptized with water
to qualify for these things.

Amen.

(This one is for HATUN  TASH)

GO, GIRL, GO!

Seven Last Words, cont.

To recap what I have said so far :
God came down to Earth to show the way.
People have been complaining thet
HIS Commandments are difficult to follow
as a whole and to be able to do this
one has to be a god himself.
Therefore to show how man can obey
HIS Commandments completely
HE HIMSELF must show the way.
And HE has to do this by assuming the form of man
with Man’s frailties including the feeling of pain.
So while his form, that of Jesus now pinned to the Cross,
HE speaks partly as God wills and partly as man in pain.
After the First Three of Seven Words, HE speaks as God.
The next four of the Seven Last Words
HE will be speaking as Man specifically as Man in agony.
HE had his agony first in the Garden when Jesus asked
the Father to lat this destiny on the Cross pass
because of the pain HE has to endure.
HIS experience as a carpenter got him to know about
beams and the size of the nails to attach these to a post.
The pain of using these nails to pin HIS arms to a beam
should have a painful thought.
More so with a bigger-sized nail to pin two feet to a post.

Fourth of Seven

“My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”

At about this time, the pain must start to hurt.
This is the Man speaking, it would not hurt if HE were
speaking as God.
He realizes that this is HIS destiny and it has to continue
if HE has to save the world from sin.
Such words could not have been said
if HE were to use the Function of God.
More memorable it is to show the Way were HE
to experience excruciating pain and show it.

Fifth of Seven

“I Thirst.”

A symbolic meaning to these words is HIS thirst
for the love and adoration of the people HE Loves.
At any rate, HE was given acidic vinegar
on a sponge to sip on.

Sixth of Seven

“It is finished.”

After several hours (maybe three) pain diminishes
and Jesus feels death creeping in.
HIS Function, and God’s Divine Plan is in completion.
And HE says this, if only to remind HIMSELF.

Seven of Seventh

“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”

The Son of God returns to God the Father.
Jesus dies and the Earth trembles and the Heavens roar
as if both were the ones which gave up the ghost.

“Truly,” the Romans say, “this is the Son of God!”

These last words dramatize the fact which remains both
a mystery and controversy to some other people—-
that there exists JESUS, HIS SPIRIT, and THE FATHER
all rolled into one TRINITY.

(next : The Way)

Chapter 11, The Seven Last Words

 The Seven last Words

The sign above his head reads INRI, or King of the Jews.
This is to signify the Roman mastery over the Jews
and at the same time to mock their beliefs.
These word are related by eyewitnesses of the Crucifixion
by both HIS closest friends and relatives.
In these hours, Jesus performs HIS function as both
Son of Man and Son of God.
What follows is my insight on the occasion,
not God’s, because HE would have other things to think of
while HE is nailed on the Cross.
This is for your perusal and is free for you to download
and use later as a reference.
Just in case.

First of Seven:

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

These words mark the main reason for the Coming of Christ–
They actually form the theme of the Story of Jesus
and what His work was all about—
that of forgiveness, redemption, and love for the enemies.
These words give meat to HIS other spoken words of :
“Turn the Other Cheek”,
even if by doing so one stands to lose the rest of his head
by decapitation.

Second of Seven:

“Today, you will be with ME in Paradise”

HE said this when one nailed to another cross
asked jesus to remember him in Paradise.
Imagine how elated was Jesus to know that HIS work had
been fruitful, that people will now bow down to HIM
in supplication and adoration.
These words also prove HIS authority over the Heavens
and that HE make sinners enter Paradise with HIS will.
HE IS GOD, and HE has made it easier for man to enter Paradise.
Man needs not to blow himself up
nor to behead others
nor to kiss a charcoal-black rock
to enter Paradise.
A simple, sincere plea for forgiveness will do
at anytime, any place, in front of an altar or not.

Third of Seven:

“Woman, behold, your son….Behold, your Mother”

These words ring all over and for those who meditate on them
will sink that these words are actually God’s decree that Mothers
should be placed on pedestals and nothing should be refused
of what they ask for.
Women give birth, and nurture, and care, and love,
the kind of love that made God create Adam and Eve.
To feel the love of a Mother was God’s intention for creating Man.
And HE felt this love from Mary.
HE will realize later on when HE would have felt
the extreme fervor and love from HIS Saints.
This would require another chapter but for the meantime,
Jesus has placed HIS Mother under the care of John
which further decreed the importance of women.

(2 B continuar, whatever that means)

Chapter 10 : Plan B, The Redemption

Plan B : The Redemption

You may be expecting this post to deal with
the Life of Jesus.
i repeat that this story deals with the Divine Plan
from God’s viewpoint.
Not that I know God personally
and that I now claim to be a prophet.
Goodness, no, that would be blasphemy
or whatever you may call it.
Do not treat this as gospel, but just a story,
or to be more specific, a commentary.
Lots of sources you can get for the info about the
life of Jesus, because isn’t His life dubbed
as the Greatest Story Ever Told?
But this post is something worth considering,
particularly if you are wondering why God did this.
Well, the Redemption project was conceived
after Adam and Eve fell From Grace.
Great realization it was for God to know that
Man is unpredictable when given Free Will
because the choices he make may not be
what God would want.
In other words, disrespect of God’s Commandments
and disobedience may be what  dictate Man’s choices.
Bringing Man back to HIS Protection requires Redemption
to free Man from the Original Sin with the Tree of Knowledge.
Such a plan would require Man to redeem himself by himself.
Man has always complained that God’s Commandments are
difficult to follow because Man is prone to commit sin.
Therefore the plan should be that Man should be taught
the Way to Salvation by HIMSELF, and not by the prophets,
(a project which has failed in so many trials).
God must teach man the way by being human,
or that which would have the frailties and weaknesses of man.
HIS teaching would be more believable if HE were to assume
the form that would suffer hunger, thirst and pain.
HE has to temper His body and walk across the desert,
and to withstand temptations by the devil.
Also, to prove hat He is the Messiah,
healing powers was displayed.
Even bringing back dead people to life proves
that He is whom He claims He is.
The plan was difficult in that the Son of Man must show
the frailties of Man and at the same time prove that
He is the all-powerful, omnipotent God.
And then, the whole process of Redemption must show
without doubt that God loves Man.
After all this is what the this story is all about—-
Jesus, a love story between God and Man.
The Project of Redemption must also be easily understood
by all peoples, and all walks of life, so Jesus spoke in parables.
And then, the most important item of all—-
the Plan must be memorable for all time.
God knows that when Man proposes his love to another,
man declares that if need be HE WILL DIE FOR HIM, OR HER!!!
So the Son of Man will have to die a memorable death.
or a very painful and pitiful crucifixion.

(next : Seven Last Words)

Bar Joke

After the conference,
the Rabbi, the Imam, and the Priest got together.

Rabbi to Imam : Let us all have dinner tonight.
Imam to Priest : Good idea. Are you treating Priest?
Priest to Rabbi : Now wait a minute, this is your idea. You should pay.
Rabbi to Priest : No. you’re the love-thy-neighbor type. Your treat.
Priest to Both   : OK, since you insist, It will be my treat——

Tonight we are having Communion.

Chapter 9 The Roman Silver Coins

Enter The Roman Silver Coins

Moses had the Jews going well with God
during his lifetime.
But then came the Romans bearing gold
and silver coins to tempt the souls.
And the Jews lost their exemplary religious fervor
and drifted towards the sway of gold.
The Sixth to the Tenth Commandments
were all but snubbed.
And these are the all-important dictates
towards social relationship with the neighbors,
particularly the Ninth, where lies and false witness
may start the formation of cults and nefarious groups
and false pagan religions.
Life started to be controlled by money,
that influenced even the Temple administrators.
People started to complain
that the Ten Commandments were difficult to follow.
And that Lucifer is again hinting that the Creation of Man
was a useless project.
So God decided to go to Plan B,
or that wherein HE will go down to Earth
in the form of Man.
Enter now Jesus, the Redeemer,
the ONE prophesied to be born of a virgin,
to die for Man’s sins,
and to be resurrected.

(next : Plan B, The Redemption)

Chapter 8 The Ten Commandments

Sculptured by God,

brought down from the mountain by Moses—-

The Ten Commandments

1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.”

2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.”

3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.”

4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.”

6 “You shall not kill.”

7 “You shall not commit adultery.”

8 “You shall not steal.”

9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

10 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to him.”

And thus is listed what God requires man to do to regain HIS favor. This list may not be changed , nor edited, nor abrogated, nor shortened, nor pared down. All should be done.

And Jesus said,

“Therefore I give you a new commandment, Love Thy Neighbor…”

Would this be considered as the Eleventh Commandment?

If so, is this not further proof that HE is God?

Exodus 2

The second Exodus to Israel

was a great lesson learned

after the Jews again abandoned the Promised Land.

So tragic was this second lesson that it cost them

6 million Jews.

No parting of the Red Sea this time–

just crossing a sea–

no Moses here this time.

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Chapter 7 MOSES

Moses

The story of Moses is about as exciting
as the Story of Jesus
but I prefer more the impact of the story of Jesus.
And this is because the main actor in the Story of Jesus
is actually God HIMSELF.
The main actor in the story of Moses is the Prophet himself.
Although his portrayal may not be as good as Charlton Heston’s
the story calls for the ultimate manifestation of
God’s power, HIS Concern for Mankind, HIS desire to be loved
and idolized by Man, and HIS Divine Plan to bring Man
back to HIS Kingdom.
The movie ” The Ten Commandments” is a must see because
it is a profound portrayal of the communication between
God and Moses.
Henceforth, no man will be called to stand as Prophet
if there be no valid, direct communication with God.

(This is a long movie, mind you, and I fell asleep
in the middle of the Sixth Commandment. (Lol)
Just kidding,one does not fall asleep when
Charlton (Moses) Heston is on the screen.)

God exhibits His dominion over Mother Nature in this story.
The Plagues were done with locusts and Frogs and etc.
What may be important to notice is that God makes use
of that very valuable commodity in the Middle East,
which is Water.
It is used in Noah’s Deluge,
the River from which Moses was rescued
the well water which Moses drank,
the parting of the Red Sea,
the changing of water to wine,
and the Baptism of Jesus.
Baptism by water will afterwards form
the VISA from Heaven
by which Man’s soul is qualified to enter
its Gates.
Depicted is God’s Function in the form of a Burning Bush
or a Pillar of Fire.
HIS next depiction will be that in a human form
which will be enacted in person by God HIMSELF.
This person will be Jesus who will redeem mankind.
But remember, Jesus will not redeem mankind by HIMSELF.
HE will merely show the Way by which man will redeem his soul.
HIS Way is not a hard way.
In fact, it is the easiest thing to do.
Once one is baptized with water.
Trust in God.
HE means what HE says.

(next : The Ten Commandments)

Abuse of Freedom

Freedom,

or what people may term as human rights,

is not absolute.

One’s freedom should not infringe on another’s freedom.

This is called Abuse of Freedom

and may be criminalized or censored.

Printed matter such as books,

religious and otherwise,

may be criminalized or censored,

if these contain in print instructions to kill,

invoking illicit sex or marriages, pedophiles,

fornication, prostitution, forced marriages,

mutilations, and etc.

French Security

The Hand of God forgets

that the French police force may be privatized

into some form of mercenary units

a la Foreign Legion.

In which case, the government will not be responsible

for any form of harshness that may be photographed.

 Other attire different from police uniforms may be used.

The Consequence of Decapitation

The Consequence of Decapitation

The hospitable tolerance of Muslims has ended.
The beheading of a teacher in France
resulted in a worldwide scrutiny
of Islam and what it is all about.
The weaknesses of Islam has not been
as dramatized as up to now.
it shows that the Muslims in Europe
are incapable of producing their own food,
focusing their efforts to pray 5 times a day
and to propagate the membership of
what they call their religion,
and at the same time complaining that
they are under discrimination.
The truth is wherever there are Muslims in Europe
there is trouble.
There is no such thing as Islamophobia.
There is no reason to fear Islam.
This concept was started to establish a kingdom
and govern it somewhere in the middle East.
What would be more  attractive a recruiting item
than that including the word of a god in the set of rules?
Thus resulted in the inclusion of the imaginary God, Allah;
a pseudo prophet, Mohammed;
and a nit-and-pick,
mix-and-match, plagiarized book
that is sex-oriented.
The only good thing about Islam
is that it requires discipline and order
within its ranks
at the same time promoting a unity of purpose.
But then again, this is also offered

by all forms of world religions

and cults.

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