Time: Sun Nov 10 05:55:42 1996
To: joyce@mlode.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Re: G-D
Cc: 
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At 10:59 PM 11/9/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Paul....I come from a Jewish background. It is very difficult for me
>when I read about being a christian and the "Christian Movement in
>America."

Hi Joyce,

I know what you mean.
The key is found in such
stories as the one about
Mary Magdalene, who was
a central figure in the
greatest story ever told.
She was a prostitute about
to be stoned to death, not
for sleeping with the powers
that were, but for talking
about it.  I think you know
the rest of the story.  The
part I like best is her
encounter with the "Gardener."
She must have been in terrible pain,
because her best friend had
just been brutally murdered.
She was on her way to his
tomb, before dawn, and she
meets this gardener and starts
to harrangue him about the
body that is now missing.
Her despair is instantly transformed
into ecstasy when the gardener
says, "Mary."  That was her 
"second birth," if you will.
It is waiting for all of us 
who ask for it.  I have now 
experienced it myself, so I speak
from direct personal experience.

/s/ Paul Mitchell

 I can't understand the term "born again" although I am living
>with a man who claims to be a 'born again' Pentacostal. All his friends
>were anti semetic when I arrived. Now they are very confused. Some of
>them are still looking for my horns and tail. Being intellighent has
>probably been my one saving grace. There are few jews where I live, and
>the few that I've met are couples living in mixed marriages. Coming from
>a jewish area on the east coast to this environment on the west coast
>has been an experience for me. I honestly don't know if I will ever
>adjust to it. 
>I have a strong believe in a merciful and loving G-D who askes nothing
>of us other than we give him obedience and love, which I have always
>done. He grants us forgiveness if we ask. There are no strings attached.
>I have studied comparative religions for 11 years and in the process I
>have practiced most religions for a short time. I have returned to
>Judism believing that all roads lead to the same place. I am very
>tolerant of ignorance. The words, "forgive them father, they know not
>what they do," are words I live by. Below is an article on religion that
>I wrote years ago after an encounter with a nasty anti-semite at a
>public meeting where I was the guest speaker. It was one night in my
>life that I will always remember very vividly. Since that night I have
>asked this question over and over again...."are the people worth
>saving?" This question still goes unanswered........I would appreciate
>any comments on this article that you may care to share with me.....
>                                 ###
>ONE NATION UNDER GOD.....................
>
>   FREEDOM: Is it in truth a reality or simply a wonderful concept of
>man? Do you believe that this world was made by God who then placed man
>upon the earth and told him to go forth and multiply? Was man created by
>God to live free? Can anyone really be sure when man discovered that he
>was free. The origin of man's knowledge of freedom and of a God who, it
>is believed, made him free is unknown. Man has always struggled and
>fought for freedom. Men flourished in freedom. Freedom is the self
>evident truth that has passed from father to son, mother to daughter, 
>from the beginning  of creation.
>   It is said there was once a great land called Ur. In this land
>dwelled a people. They were shepherds. They traveled the land as they
>led their flocks. Among this people was a man called Abraham. In a land
>of many gods, Abraham believed that there existed only one true God, the
>God of many things, the one God who creates and judges. He taught his
>people that this God was the God of morality, and truth. He taught that
>God made man to be free and responsible for his own actions. He taught
>that God made man free to do good or evil, as he may choose. He taught 
>that any wrong act would result in punishment to the evildoer. Abraham's
>decedents lived by his teachings and went forth and multiplied. In their
>freedom they grew and they prospered.
>   Moses reduced the teaching of Abraham to a written code of moral law
>that is known as the Ten Commandments. Each of the commandments is
>addressed to the individual responsible for his own thoughts, actions,
>words and deeds. Each commandment recognizes freedom and liberty as
>being inherent in the nature of man.
>   The first commandment tells the individual to reject pagan gods and
>recognize his own value as a human being. He is taught that he shall
>accept no power but that of the Creator.
>   The second teaches the individual to form no image of abstract
>authority, but to direct his devotion  toward the divine truth.
>  The third tells the individual not to speak frivolously of the
>Creator. Knowledge of fundamental truth.....cause and effect......
>should be taken seriously.
>    The fourth tells man to devote some time to  reflection and thought
>on the eternal truth.
>  The fifth recognizes the family as the primary human relationship and
>establishes parental authority over the child as the only authority
>which a child should accept as his own.
>  The sixth stresses the sanctity of  human life.....the individuals
>right to live, which is a right that must not be violated by another
>person.
>  The seventh establishes the principle of contract...the inviolability
>of promises given by persons to each other and the sanctity of the
>marriage contract, which is the basis of the family.
>   The eighth recognizes the individual's right to own property.
> The ninth recognizes free speech.....the individual's control over his
>own words and his responsibility for their truth.
>  The tenth emphasizes again the right of ownership. Not even in thought
>should a person violate the property  rights of another.	
>  It would appear the nature of man is also to make excuses and ignore
>the  teachings of their Creator.  A time came when the people begged
>their wise man, Samuel, to give them a king.  Samuel tried to tell the
>people of their folly. He tried to teach the people of the fallacy of
>government. These are his words:
>     "This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He
>will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and
>to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will
>appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will
>set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his
>instruments of war....And he will take your fields, and your vineyards,
>and your olive yards, even the best of them, and give  them to his
>servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your
>vineyards........And he will take your men servants, and your maid
>servants, and your goodliest young men.....and put them to  his
>work.....And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye
>shall have chosen you."
>  If you study those words you will recognize the wisdom of Samuel. They
>are the precise statement of the sources of the state's power and of the
>state's attempt to control its subjects/citizens........first the taking
>away of productive energy, then the rise of the bureaucracy and heavy
>taxation, followed by stagnation and poverty, leading to ultimate
>destruction in war. 
>  The worshiping of today's government through blind obedience of it's
>dictates, statutes, ordinances, and codes represents pagan submission to
>an imaginary authority. The Declaration of Independence reaffirmed the
>rights of man as given to them by our Creator. The Constitution of the
>nation, as well as the several States, confirm the truths of liberty and
>freedom. It is up to us to demand that government return to its role of
>servant to the people, as it was originally created.
>	God may chose to protect us from government, but government can in no
>way protect us from God. It's time for the people of  this nation to
>chose who they wish to serve.........
>
>
      


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