Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Sep 29, 2022 at 16:28
The longstanding perception(s) of whose truth is the greater control of mortally challenged contenders seeking how to live life in the best way while life itself seems destined to be unsearchable for answers that give any advantage; it is generally determinable that humanity has limited, if any, actual propensity for gaining any such advantage.
When, in the course of human history, any such demonstration of a superior attitude in defining how to live life by any means available to the human condition was found to be fundamentally flawed, what form of retribution was imposed in order to prevent a similar recurrence for the future. In human terms; none.
Since, in the reality of humanity's inability to be responsible in governing the actions of the social order en grosse and the history books (in tablet, copper sheet, sheepskin and parchment forms extant), it is demonstrable that the course of history was initially designed for a differing path to achievement in mortal terms on route to immortality.
Religion was instituted to be the intermediary between the theosophy of the human condition and the reality of the inability of humanity to determine how it is all supposed to be accomplished within the framework of mankind's frailties and innate limitations. Throughout history's attempts at appeasing the gods, humanity failed them all.
The reality is that there is only one Deity; and there has been only One since before time. The attempt of humanity to define deity is one of humanity's great, if not the greatest failure; and realize that humanity lost the right to rule by being disobedient from the very beginning to the reigning Truth: that the Creator never relinquished sovereignty.
Advance the historical record several thousands of years (remembering that adding any number of years more than the physical record can actually prove in human evidence), humanity is in no more better circumstances to determine how to merge into immortality from then; nor now. And that is a truth that hurts intellectualism.
Theosophy merges into ideology in the same attitude that the mortal intellect has somehow absorbed enough technology (a fallibility and result of misunderstanding truth throughout the Middle Ages of religious instructional failures to define Truth); and mankind is no better off now than two thousand years ago when Deity was revealed.
Competing efforts of the variant positions of whose belief system is the one to be recognized as superior (religious or secular) comes down to whose actually proves out to be the one chosen (Anointed) that achieves humanity's true destiny. In actuality, the best proof is the one that many try so hard to disprove: the Ruler of Zion and His coming Kingdom.
This becomes the ultimate source and basis of the finality of mortality, which if received through and by Him who brought and bought salvation to those who believe, the alternative messages that try to replace the original message of the Gospel (as many of the Muslim adherence to the Quran try) will be revealed and the Truth prevails.
It is in this the battle for Jerusalem wages and rages and the sovereignty of Israel cannot be broken, not by errant Christianity which suffers from allowing humanity to dictate eternal terms; and neither by replacement theology which fails to define in reading the right narratives to follow in the footsteps of Him Who defines it all and knowing that others cannot replicate.
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