No Earthly Intercessor
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	      Originally conceived 6 Jan 2016



Brian  Zahnd hints at brilliance with his bold statement: "I
see the truth out of the corner of my eye: every  empire  of
man  is  built	upon  a lie." If we consider but briefly the
ramifications of this powerful statement, we  must  at	some
moment	acknowledge  as well the proliferation of ecclesias-
tical imperialism: though the protestant  reformation  over-
threw  in  some circles the concept of priestly intercession
to God on behalf of the sinner, and opened the bible to  the
native tongues of the laity, it left fully intact the eccle-
siastical authority to define the  doctrinal  boundaries  of
this only superficially reformed Constantinian Christianity.
Whether this heretical apostasy and usurpation of God's  au-
thority  manifests through elders, deacons, pastors, or Sun-
day school teachers,  these  usurpatious  bodies  are  still
vested with the metaphorical swords of rebuke and excommuni-
cation from the kingdom of God. This modern Sanhedrin  is  a
client state unto itself, carrying out its exclusive politi-
cal agenda on behalf of its statist  and  secular  political
allies.

The  core  concept  of the protestant reformation was a bold
claim that only Christ has the authority to intercede on our
behalf,  and that God grants no man the redemptive authority
to hear confessions and suggest penance.  This	only  solved
about  a  third  of  the problem: remaining is first for the
church--meaning the entire, fully inclusive body of  believ-
ers--to  embrace that the only way to God is through the un-
conditionally peaceable kingdom of Christ,  and  second,  to
cede  fully  and unconditionally to the indwelling Spirit of
Christ the strictly individual authority to  imbue  the  be-
liever	with  a fully divine, personal, fluid, and untainted
vision of truth.

As long as truth and divinity is mediated by human authority
figures  or  clergy of any kind, truth and divinity will re-
main whores of the sinful human agenda,  the  ecclesiastical
empire. Divine truth remains pure only when it remains a di-
rect and unmediated connection between Christ  and  the  be-
liever.  Then, and only then, will Christ's kingdom on earth
be made manifest.

To quote Zahnd again, every empire of man is  built  upon  a
lie.











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The  Spirit of Christ is the absolute and only thing the be-
liever needs in order to see  the  truth  and  live  in  its
beauty.