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The God of the Hebrew Bible hates political correctness
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The Hebrew Bible teaches that the God of Israel hates political correctness. Why? Simply because [for the
most part] political correctness isn't about pleasing the Creator (obeying His Ten Commandments), but rather
about pleasing powerful (and often morally corrupted) men. And pleasing the sinful men in charge of the
current establishment often means submitting ourselves to their shameless lies and morality [something the
Creator abhors].
A good example of it might be the story of king Jeroboam (peace be upon him). The Hebrew bible tells us
that once king Jeroboam rose to the throne of Israel (the ten northern tribes), he realized that if he wanted to
stay in power he couldn't allow the politically incorrect situation where his Israelite subjects would go up to
worship their God at Jerusalem's Temple.
What was the politically correct solution for Jeroboam's dilemma? To come up with new Gods, new priests,
new feasts, and new Temple [in order to sever Israel's psychological submission to the religious leaders of the
southern kingdom of Judah]. So, Jeroboam provided Israel with different Gods (two golden calves), with a
different altar (at Beth-El), with different feast (the fifteen day of the eighth month), and with different priests
(common people, not of the stock of Aaron).
Of course, all these were just lies; vain human inventions, with no connection whatsoever to reality... But it
was the politically correct thing to do, as nobody had the courage to oppose the powerful king!! Problem is
that, again, fraud and deception are the hallmark of political correctness; and government sponsored fraud
and deception will always lead a country into moral bankruptcy and political turmoil.
You see, all Israelites knew the Exodus story. They all knew the death and destruction brought about by the
golden calf. In fact, they knew that these golden calves were false [man made] gods; that to worship even one
of them (let alone two!) was an attempt to normalize madness; a vain and foolish thing, proven by their
history to bring God's anger upon the whole nation. Yet, they were so afraid of offending the sensibilities of
their corrupt leaders, that they were willing to play along, abandoning God's truth with their passive
submission to a dirty lie.
Why was the former conduct deadly wrong? It was wrong because, such feeble submission would allow
wicked men to become the masters of their minds, and their souls. But God doesn't want us to fear [or serve]
any wicked man, for man can bring no salvation, as in all things the final judgment is always in God's own
hands. As it is written: “Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the
great. YE SHALL NOT BE AFRAID OF THE FACE OF MAN, FOR THE JUDGMENT IS GOD’S”- Deut.
1:17.
And also says in another place: “Be strong and of good courage, FEAR NOT, NOR BE AFRAID OF THEM;
FOR THE LORD THY GOD, HE IT IS WHO DOTH GO WITH THEE. He will not fail thee nor forsake
thee”- Deut. 31:6. And further ahead says: “PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES, NOR IN A SON OF
MAN, IN WHOM THERE IS NO HELP”- Psalm 146:3. And finally says elsewhere: “THOU SHALT FEAR
THE LORD THY GOD; HIM SHALT THOU SERVE, AND TO HIM SHALT THOU CLEAVE and swear
by His name”- Deut. 10:20.
And from whence do we know that, if we let political correctness make us forsake God, God will [in the end]
also forsake us? We know it from the story of king Rehoboam, who led the people away from God, and was
in the end punished along with his people. As it is written: «And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in
Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his
mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. AND JUDAH DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,
AND THEY PROVOKED HIM TO JEALOUSY WITH THEIR SINS WHICH THEY HAD COMMITTED,
ABOVE ALL THAT THEIR FATHERS HAD DONE. For they also built for themselves high places, and
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images and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. AND THERE WERE ALSO
SODOMITES IN THE LAND, AND THEY DID ACCORDING TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE
NATIONS WHICH THE LORD CAST OUT BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL...
... And it came to pass, WHEN REHOBOAM HAD ESTABLISHED THE KINGDOM AND HAD
STRENGTHENED HIMSELF, HE FORSOOK THE LAW OF THE LORD, AND ALL ISRAEL WITH
HIM. AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF KING REHOBOAM, SHISHAK KING
OF EGYPT CAME UP AGAINST JERUSALEM, BECAUSE THEY HAD TRANSGRESSED AGAINST
THE LORD, with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen; and the people were without
number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians...
... And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. Then came Shemaiah the
prophet to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of
Shishak, and said unto them, “THUS SAITH THE LORD: ‘YE HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND
THEREFORE HAVE I ALSO LEFT YOU IN THE HAND OF SHISHAK”. Whereupon the princes of Israel
and the king humbled themselves, and they said, “The Lord is righteous”...
And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying,
“THEY HAVE HUMBLED THEMSELVES. Therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some
deliverance, and My wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
NEVERTHELESS THEY SHALL BE HIS SERVANTS, THAT THEY MAY KNOW [TO DISTINGUISH
BETWEEN THE BENEFITS OF] MY SERVICE, AND THE SERVICE OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE
COUNTRIES”...
So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord
and the treasures of the king’s house. He took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon
had made»- 1 Kings 14:21-24, & 2 Chronicles 12:1-9
If the all knowing God of the Scripture states that a certain thing (usury, adultery, deception, homosexuality,
etc) is evil, and then you pretend to know better than Him [claiming that such a thing isn’t evil at all], then it
means you no longer believe in the God of the Scripture. Instead, you believe in yourself (in other words,
you’ve become your own god!)
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«En la geografía Bíblica, Sodoma y Gomorra estaban localizadas en el punto mas bajo de la tierra de
Canaán (las inmediaciones del mar muerto). ¿Por que? Pues para enseñarnos que la Sodomía publica y el
libertinaje sexual son el punto mas bajo al cual puede descender la moral de un creyente. Es que, el hombre
que da rienda suelta a sus pasiones (acercándose a la Sodomía), termina devorando su propia carne
(cometiendo incesto), como ilustra la historia de Lot y sus dos hijas»
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