Part 1 of this series provided a foundation and overview. Part 2 outlines the essential elements of mysticism in faith.
You already know that the mainstream western churches uniformly reject Biblical Law. They are not feudal, tribal or heart-led. There’s nothing that says you can’t belong to a conventional church organization, as long as you realize that it’s a social club, and not really a church. The people there are church members; very few of them are faith family as defined by the Covenant.
There’s no need to get into fights with church leaders at any level. Just don’t take them seriously when they claim that what they are doing is a reflection of what God actually requires of His children. There’s no need to sniff disdainfully and talk down to anyone. Just remind folks you are there for the fellowship and activities.
Give thought to whether you might be able to answer any questions they have about your reluctance to take their claims seriously. You can show them a copy of the Code of Noah HOWTO or anything else you believe is appropriate, but you should expect them to reject it. You should expect them to characterize falsely what those documents say. They may pressure you about it. Still, there are some that will remain open to your presence, as long as you aren’t disruptive.
In most cases, you will eventually feel compelled to leave that situation. As things continue going downhill in our world, and in America particularly, the friction will increase. We are still in a phase of apocalypse where the existing institutions will squeeze more tightly and people will huddle together. Because they are standing on false grounds, the herd identity will eventually start to fracture. When it does, you will begin to see more people asking for something stronger to believe in.
If you see the Radix Fidem way as the truth for you, then be prepared to spend some time in isolation. Except for rare instances, we will become more alienated from church folks.
Why in the world would you then try to identify with those who don’t even express allegiance to Christ at all? You have no common cause at all with secular human ambitions. If this world is doomed to Hell, how could you possibly want any part of what worldly people are doing?
When God moves and begins pouring out His wrath on sin, a part of the process is polarizing the people involved. The distance between His children and everyone else is more readily apparent. The pretense falls away, and religious fakery crumbles into dust, blown around by any strong wind. As the song says, He’s shaking His body to see who will stand and who will fall. If you walk away from the herds early, you will be less hurt by the chaos this causes.
In Acts 7, Stephen summarized some 2000 years of his nation’s history of arguing, carping and rejecting God’s Word. It’s time for another Stephen to denounce the churches as having no better record over yet another 2000 years. I wish I was him; I’d be glad to face stoning if I could get a shot at preaching to an equivalent audience like that.
That’s not my mission. Besides, we don’t have a clearly defined group of church leaders huddling together like the Sanhedrin. Instead, we have a thousand different groups rejecting God’s Word while insisting they each define what it says. Oddly, the one thing they all share is the insistence on keeping an institutional presence, as if that somehow was what God had in mind when His Son issued the Great Commission.
All I can do is share what God has shown me about His Word and hope that it triggers some kind of reaction in a few hearts that read these words. Don’t follow me; my path may not work for you. Instead, go through the process of questioning everything others lay upon you as imaginary obligations.
Human civilization is itself a lie, and so is every other form of human devised herding. Leave the herd and follow your own path.
We can see the tribulation coming, even if we could scarcely pin down any kind of details. We don’t need to. What we need is to follow our convictions and obey Biblical Law. God has never failed to guide His children where He wants them when they listen.
