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Three Colors of Death
Green & White & Red
The Old Path Magazine | Vol. 1 No. 3 | 2005 |
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continuation...RED is for sin
Red is the color of power. History has it that
strict clothing regulations were enforced in Europe
up to the times of the French Revolution. Pure
colors were reserved exclusively for the rich
nobility. Wearing red coats was the exclusive right
of the nobility in medieval times and the red robes
of kings, cardinals, judges and executioners
announced their power over life and death. In
Christianity, the red rose is associated with the
cross and the bloodshed.
The beauty of being with God’s nation is that one’s
past life of sin is forgotten, having been washed
and forgiven at baptism. As written in Isaiah 1: 18
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“Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord:
though your sins be scarlet, they shall be elite as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be
as wool.”
There have been testimonies of worldly lives from
all corners in the Church of God International,
given the lack of knowledge that God’s doctrines
could provide. But after having been taught the
doctrines and the supposed life of a Christian, one
is expected to behave properly. Adultery,
immorality, all forms of carnality when found in a
child of God gives enough reason for the Presiding
Minister, Bro. Eli Soriano, to expel him. With God’s
mercy yet, the putting away is not arbitrary but
with the purpose of teaching God’s children not to
blaspheme. In the Church history, there have been
some expelled.
But where have they gone to? For being put out
because of immorality or adultery and being accepted
somewhere says a lot of their new-found group. The
Ang Dating Daan does not tolerate immorality. God’s
nation does not, and God warns in Rev 2: 19-21 –
“I know thy works, and charity…. Notwithstanding I
have a few things against thee, because thou
sufferest that woman Jezebel which calleth herself a
prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to
commit fornication…and I gave her space to repent of
her fornication; and she repented not.”
By this world’s standards, it is not surprising that
those being expelled would group together where they
are tolerated. As bonus for them, they get the
chance to tell the world in their own terms that
they are innocent, in effect making their
excommunication appear an injustice. From their
appearances alone on television one could tell, they
have gone back to the ways of this world – cutting
their hair, using make up, dressing immodestly, and
from their mouths speak out lies about those they
said they believed in before. Rather than engaging
in self-introspection to see where they have gone
wrong and in humility ask pardon from God, they have
preferred to attend to what this world would think
about them, never mind God. Now come the cosmetics
to supposedly blot out or suffocate the reasons why
they were expelled. In so doing, they resort to all
sorts of shenanigans.
The first target would be the preacher – that he is
this, that he is that. He is fair game to those paid
to destroy him, and like actors sent to deliver a
part, the players play their game, after which they
collect. They are media men now, of the AC-DC type.
This is referred to in journalism as attack-collect,
defend-collect, but of the employment type. They
attack Bro. Soriano for a pay, and they defend their
new-found group for a pay. In effect, although they
feel like heroes on television, licking their wounds
to the world with worldly sorrow, they have become
basket cases in terms of salvation.
Not content with that, they share inside information
that they twist to be able to earn. They become
point men to recruiters, making a list of those who
could take a bite of their moneyed fate. They join
the activities of those tearing apart the
organization they once belonged to – including those
bloody plots and plans.
But at the end of the day, if conscience is still
there, there may be that gnawing, unknown sadness
they alone could feel. They have sold their souls.
They have gone back to where they came from.
Taste for blood. The first ones to be defensive
about their false religion are those trained ready
to kill for their leader. The taste for blood is
part and parcel of the package of salvation. It is
the mindset of those wanting to be martyrs, no
different from the suicide bombers. But this is
easier done by those earning their keep as paid
ministers. Should their religion go kaput, there go
their salaries down the drain, their houses, and
their properties. And so defend to the max their
leader they go.
In so doing, they also put out teachings of their
own, subverting in the process what set of teachings
they should have – to pitch in for a leader who
keeps away from the eye of the public. To defend
what teachings they had through the years, they
resort to going beyond what is necessary to do –
like fraternities bonding for unity, and not for
truth.
Cowardice. But where is the leader in the first
place so that there is no need to defend one’s
teachings with a physical punch? Why do the
lieutenants have to do it themselves? Despite the
power, the influence, and the glory of the chapels,
teachings can only be so much if the mind cannot
even speak for them. If one’s teachings cannot even
stand the test of debates, where challenge after
challenge comes but no leader comes forward to
defend, then whoever is his god would be ashamed.
It is public knowledge that Bro. Soriano has
published a challenge to the leadership of a church
with a history of trying to pit other religious
groups against the ADD. In public, they would be
announcing in their TV programs where Bro. Soriano
would be passing by, what places he frequents, what
his address is. But up to now, there are no takers
to that challenge.
Red supports white to thrive. In fact, red is the
army of white.
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Doctrines of
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