steve howard's update of the new testament
BARBARALBA BIBLE

THE NEW NEW TESTAMENT

Paul's letter to the ROMANS

 

chapter 13

vs. 1: Everyone must obey the state authorities, because no authority exists without God’s permission, and the existing authorities have been put there by God. EQ.

This could be true if we lived in a computer-simulated game and the programmers made the rules. But that just ain’t the case. And cannot and will never be the case. God is a lie that the greedy authorities sell, through their whores, the priests and lawyers, to keep the slaves mute. It is the big bald face lie that we have been under since before written history. It is the lie that has crippled us.

The state, if there must be one, is, and must always be, answerable to everyone who is within the state. It is not a God given authority. If a state claims such a lie, it is tyranny. Unless it is secular and open it is tyranny. No state secrets. Until the state is clear and anyone and everyone has access to it, it is tyranny.

We must change the machine. Complete anarchy cannot work. If the system is torn down, things will get real ugly. Law must be taken away one piece at a time. We must decentralize. Every community needs to be self-sustaining.

We must decentralize our energy. There is no choice. Our dependence on oil and other finite resources is war. And genocide and world destruction.

Legalize and decriminalize all plants. Cannabis is a fast growing planet that can be used as a product for so many things from food to fuel to building materials. It can help replace mineral oil. Solar energy is free for the taking. Every home must be self-sufficient. Water and energy need to be free. Must.

People must have free water.

Large corporations cannot be permitted to own the resources of the planet. They are not ordained by anything and just because they got to the resources first does not make it theirs. And so often it is murder and deception and outright theft that get these companies to where they are.

vs. 11: You must do this, because you know that the time has come for you to wake up from your sleep. EQ.

Paul has truly said.

Vs. 12: The night is nearly over, day is almost here. Let us stop doing the things that belong to the dark, and let us take up weapons for fighting in the light. EQ.

“When Paul is on, he is truly on.”

“You gotta love the guy for interlacing the gibberish with some fine threads of gold.”

This, of course, is also what Jesus Christ was saying. And other cultures as well. The astrologers too. The time we have just finished, for Paul there were still several hundred years to go. It was the dark time. The astrologers called it the fish sign. Water sign. And the next sign. Or house. Is air. Clarity. Awakening. The dawning of awakening. It is the time when religion becomes myth. It is the time when the real becomes what matters. It is the end of war and poverty. The end of God given authority. The end of tyranny and slavery. And it is finally here and now. No longer at hand but in hand. Mold it. Form it. Be it.


chapter 14

vs. 1: Welcome the person who is weak in faith, but do not argue with him about his personal opinions. EQ.

This ain’t a bad piece of advice. Most people follow a religious creed and they are impervious to reason. And if they don’t wanna do something ‘cause their creed says don’t. They won’t.

Vs. 2: One person’s faith allows him to eat anything, but the person’s who is weak in the faith eats only vegetables. EQ.

Fuck faith. There are other real reasons why we must question what we eat. It takes many resources to make meat. And we now know that less is better than more. We don’t lead lives that require large amounts of protein. And most meat, and even much fish, is full of antibiotics. Not good for our immune systems. So the vegetable eaters may very well be healthier than the flesh eaters. They certainly cost the planet fewer resources.

But. If your faith, or lack of it, or appetite, requires meat, make it less and you will be helping to save the last bit of rain forest and jungle. And if we want fewer devastating dust-storms, we need more trees and smaller gardens. We need to decentralize. Monsanto must die.

vs. 5: ... Each one should firmly make up his own mind. EQ.

For something completely different. What do most people think is their third eye.

It reminds me of the two tribes on either side of the river. One tribe was familiar with the fountain of youth and the tribe was one. On occasion some would open their third eye with a finger or two or a penis.

The tribe across the river had a law that said there was no third eye and sex was only permitted by the priests and those with an official sex contract.

No oral sex. No third eye. No more than one sex partner.

And the retentive law lovers made flamethrowers and declared the other tribe to be evil and burnt them all and took the little girls and boys to have as sex slaves for the priests.

Paul talks about food. He would have told the story of the third eye if he thought he could have got it through the censors.

Vs. 11: For the scriptures says,
“As surely as I am the living God, says the Lord,
everyone will kneel before me,
and everyone will confess that I am God.” EQ.

“The scriptures are full of shit.”

“And whatever Lord said that shit was a ego maniac fuck wit prick terroist. If there was a God capable of creating a universe, that God would not threaten small minded apes with sublimation.”

You are not God. All gods are a god. None shall be worshipped.

vs. 17: For God’s Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives. EQ.

All religion is myth.


chapter 15

Paul closes off his letter to the Romans reminding them that Jews and Gentiles are to obey God. He gets on about being nice to people. He tells us how come he knows so much.

“And why is that.”

“He said so.”

He also says Jesus Christ said so. But he didn’t.

A good portion of the old New Testament is the voice of Paul the Jewish priest who makes Christianity an extension of the Laws of Moses. And we must remember he is the voice of authority for most of it and authority’s claim to authority is that their authority is a God given right. Which would mean God gives authority to the self-serving greedy tyrants.

“If there was a God it would be necessary to kill him.”

“Thank Christ there isn’t.”

Jesus was born to live and love and happened to have some Jewish ancestors on his mother’s side. People who called themselves Jews. For there is no difference biologically between a Jew and any other human no matter what title they are given or take. Biologically, we are very closely related to all other primates. And not so distant cousins of every other mammal on the planet.

It simply doesn’t mean anything to hold onto a title.

vs. 27: ... Since the Jews shared their spiritual blessing with the Gentiles, the Gentiles ought to use their material blessings to help the Jews. EQ.

“What.”

“Since the Jews decided they were the chosen race and all other races are Gentiles they should give money to the Jews.”

“One could just as easily say: Because the sun is the center of the solar system and Pluto is so far away and small, it is no longer accepted as the ninth planet. So we are down to eight. And we should give our money to the Jews.”

“Or because they haven’t murdered all Gentiles like they have given themselves the authority to do based on a bald face lie they call God, we should give our money to the Jews.”

It’s business. Religion. Judaism is a worldwide bullshit business. The other two monotheistic religions are daughter companies.

Make them pay taxes. For Christ Sake. Remove all traces of their authority.

Synagogues. Churches. Mosques. Organized crime.


romans chapters 16