LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? — Psalm 15:1
One time, I was sitting in an office with several members of my team, and we were reviewing resumes. Quite a few people had applied for a job with our company, and we were tasked with finding the best candidate. At that time, the job market was a lot more difficult than it is today. People were aggressive in their search for jobs as jobs were scarce.
On one side, we set out the job description. While we knew what the job entailed, we were not able to recite from memory the qualifications of the job. They were required to be a licensed healthcare worker in this position. That required specific training, including a college degree. Another qualification listed was a specific length of experience. We were able to take the many resumes and compare them to the qualifications.
As we dug through the pile of papers, we found that no one was qualified for the role we were hiring for based on the qualifications. The requirements of the job as listed were extremely high. No one held the required training, education, and experience.
In this Psalm, David asks a question that should cause us all to reflect and encourage us. at the end of this verse, he asks, who shall dwell in thy holy hill? The question is essentially who is qualified to dwell with God in His holy place? If we look over the qualifications, we will all quickly see that none of us are qualified!
Nothing of ourselves qualifies us for Heaven. Thankfully, the story does not end there. While we may not be qualified of ourselves, we are qualified through the blood of Jesus Christ! God is not looking for money, training, licensure, or anything else. He is simply looking for the blood of Jesus.
Don’t get discouraged when you look at yourself and see sin, fault, and failure. Those are all things of this world. God is looking at your heart. He’s looking to see if the blood of Jesus has been applied. If it has, He says you are worthy and more than qualified!
Jared Dyson
Another Well Ministries
Exactly. There's a kernel of truth in every religion but it's beyond me how people on this forum still don't see "fear and obey, filthy sinner, or you'll suffer in hell for all eternity" for the cabal psyop it is. Remember, they've been in control for thousands of years.
Partly it's psyop, but also partly it's immaturity.
When our people were much less mature, that was all that they could relate to. Like telling a child "Don't run across the road; it's very, very dangerous!"
if you consider that from God's viewpoint, history is the history of God seeking to re-educate us and bring us out of spiritual ignorance that was caused by "the fall", via a necessarily gradual process going through various stages, then the first ideas and 'truths' were necessary and applicable at their time, but as we moved forward, matured, those older ideas become less effective and less applicable.
E.g. I think of 'religion' like an education system. In the distant pre-record past, intellectually and spiritual, we were like small children, not really understanding anything. Thus, superstitious, etc, and vulnerable to exploitation by evil because we couldn't even distinguish between right and wrong.
The israelites were the beachhead where God could bring into focus certain fundamental spiritual principles, and get one ethnic group among the many in the world to practice those. Then, Jesus appeared with a completely new level, and upgrade. He was rejected because, even though God had prepared them for thousands of years, too many failures and mistakes resulted in getting them to think outside their accepted frame was just too difficult.
It didn't stop God or Jesus, and the new (higher) grasp of the underlying truths spread across the globe.
But the Cabal (and their master, Evil) are always striving to infiltrate, corrupt and manipulate. Thus, the truth that salvation is necessary became exploited and used as a weapon that generates fear and other negative emotional responses. What the idea of salvation being necessary SHOULD stimulate are: reflection on self, understanding, gratitude, hope, inspiration. But evil wants to manipulate HOW we think about ideas and truths so that negative ideas and responses are generated.
So, I think it's partly immaturity, and it's partly psyop (manipulation).
But I agree with you inasmuch as I think the idea that ""fear and obey, filthy sinner, or you'll suffer in hell for all eternity" is way out of date, has become packed with negative energy and should be put to the wayside for a more mature grasp of things. The "filthy sinner" part is problematic in the least. Immature and damaged parents use guilt, fear, negative approaches to control their kids. unless the child can grow and come to realize how damage the parents were, they may well perpetuate the problems.