ASHLEY MADISON LIST, HUNDREDS OF PASTORS SIGNED UP

FROM A PREVIOUS BLOG, I OFFER THIS TO ALL WHO ARE READING HERE NOW:

"No, this is not about whether or not there is a 'God', or a 'Christ'...nor is it directed at anyone but "the church" and those people who CALL themselves "Christians".
Everyone else may be excused."  


IN SHORT, AND TO THE POINT, DON'T BOTHER READING THIS JUST TO SEND ME SOME COMMENT TELLING ME THERE IS NO GOD.
BELIEVE AS YOU CHOOSE...ALL THE REST OF US WILL DO LIKEWISE AND YOU CAN'T EVER, EVER CHANGE THAT, OKAY?

TO THE NEWS THAT OVER 400 PASTORS HAVE SO FAR BEEN IDENTIFIED AS HAVING SIGNED UP ON THE ASHLEY MADISON CHEATING SPOUSES WEBSITE...

CONSIDER THIS AN 'OPEN LETTER' TO ALL OF THOSE "FALSE SHEPHERDS".
I AM NOT JUDGING YOU, YOU HAVE BROUGHT ANY JUDGEMENT ON YOURSELVES.
YOU HAD A CHOICE, YOU MADE THAT CHOICE, YOU AND ONLY YOU.
BUT SOMEBODY NEEDS TO ADDRESS THIS, I FEEL.
SO I AM.

IN THE PAST 30 OR MORE YEARS, CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA HAS BEEN UNDER SERIOUS ATTACK, MALIGNED, EVEN LEGISLATED AGAINST, BUT ALL ALONG, MOST CHRISTIANS COULD NOT ARGUE THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG IN THE CHURCHES.

WHAT DID YOU DO TO LEAD THEM AWAY FROM TEMPTATION AND CORRECT THEIR PATHS?

WHILE SOME DO ATTEND CHURCH OUT OF A DEDICATION OR A DEVOTION TO THEIR CHOSEN DEITIES, FOR MANY IT IS A SOCIAL CLUB, A WAY TO MEET PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS, A WAY TO GET TOGETHER WITH LOCAL PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BOOST EITHER THEIR SOCIAL STANDING OR THEIR EGOS.

YOU ALLOWED THAT, EVEN CONTRIBUTED TO IT...FOR HOW LONG?
DIDN'T TITHES AND MEMBERSHIP OVERRIDE KEEPING THE FLOCK ON THE RIGHT PATH?

NOW...THIS.


BUT ARE WE REALLY SURPRISED TO LEARN YOU PASTORS CHEATED ON YOUR WIVES, OR TRIED TO?

A FEW PASTORS WHO CAME UNDER ARMED ATTACK OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS OR WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY SOMEONE WHO ACCUSED THEM OF INFIDELITY, HAVE MADE THE FRONT PAGE NEWS TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

DID YOU EVER WONDER IF YOU WOULD BE NEXT?

SCANDALOUS?
YES, IT'S SCANDALOUS.

RAMPANT?
TIME WILL TELL.
RIGHT NOW, ONLY HUNDREDS HAVE BEEN OUTED.
"ONLY" HUNDREDS...

SOMETHING IS DEEPLY, INTRINSICALLY WRONG WITH AMERICA'S CHURCHES IN GENERAL, WHICH MANY HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR DECADES NOW.

IN MY ARTICLE, "YOU PROBABLY NEVER MET A REAL CHRISTIAN", I WAS SERIOUS, AND I INCLUDED PASTORS IN THAT STATEMENT.

CHURCH HAS BECOME LIKE TELEVISION, FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES, AND SOCIALIZING MOTIVATES MORE TO ATTEND, IT APPEARS, THAN DOES ANY DEVOTION TO GOD.

"Should churches whose pastors or staff have been discovered on the Ashley Madison website list fire them ?" some articles have asked.

JUST fire them?

 Should they be "loved" and forgiven and allowed to continue in whatever position they've been put in?

"Oh, my! What would JESUS do?" I can imagine some saying. 

TOO BAD YOU PASTORS DIDN'T ASK THAT QUESTION, RIGHT?

WHIP, FLOGGING, MONEYCHANGERS... THAT VISION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE COMES IMMEDIATELY TO THIS MIND.

ARE YOU PASTORS AND ASSISTANT PASTORS, ANYONE CHARGED WITH "TENDING THE FLOCK", REALLY ANY DIFFERENT FROM ANYONE IN THE FLOCK?

FOR ME, IN MY OPINION, NO, NO, YOU ARE NO DIFFERENT, BUT SHOULD BE!
AFTER ALL, WHAT DID "BEING ORDAINED" MEAN?

NEITHER JUDAS GOATS NOR WOLVES SHOULD LEAD A FLOCK ANYWHERE, SHOULD THEY?

WELL, WHAT ABOUT ADULTERERS? 

"THIS WAY TO THE BROTHELS, LADS! COME! TAKE YOUR PICK!"
WOULD THAT BE A GOOD SERMON?

WERE ANY WHO CLAIM THEY WERE CALLED TO MINISTER TO THE SHEEP ACTUALLY CALLED TO LEAD THEM ASTRAY?


I DO NOT APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE THESE STATEMENTS MIGHT OFFEND.

I DO NOT CLAIM TO BE A CHRISTIAN, THOUGH I HAVE MADE IT AMPLY CLEAR I WOULD HAVE BEEN CONVINCED BY 40+ YEARS OF DEVOTED RESEARCH ALONE THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS THE SON OF GOD.
NO, I,LIKE YOU, CHOSE SELF OVER EVERYTHING ELSE.
I CHOSE NOT TO "BE AN IMAGE OF CHRIST".
I CAUGHT MYSELF LOVING ME MORE THAN THAT ONE CHRISTIANITY IS NAMED FOR.
HONESTY DROVE ME TO STOP CALLING MYSELF BY THAT NAME.
HOW ABOUT YOU?

NOW MY READERSHIP FELL BY SEVERAL THOUSAND A DAY AFTER I DID MY ARTICLE ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS IN ISRAEL, AND THIS BLOG MAY DROP IT EVEN FURTHER, BUT I DON'T GIVE A PERSONAL DAMN.

THIS NEEDS SAYING ALOUD.
FOR ONCE, MY ALL-CAPS REALLY SIGNIFY 'YELLING'.
I WISH ALL PASTORS ON THAT LIST COULD 'HEAR' ME.

WHAT ANY PASTOR WHO WAS ON THAT LIST FROM THAT WEBSITE HAS DONE IS BETRAY NOT JUST YOUR WIVES, FAMILY, "FLOCK", BUT THE ONES YOU CLAIMED YOU WERE CALLED BY.

SURE, SURE, YOU CAN (AND MUST?) REPENT, AND IF YOU EVER WERE WHOM YOU CLAIMED TO BE, YOU WILL PUBLICLY AFFIRM WHAT YOU HAVE DONE AND DO WHAT MUST BE DONE TO GO ON FROM HERE.
THAT'S A GIVEN.

BUT IS THERE EVEN SUCH A THING AS TRUE REPENTANCE BEING PRACTICED IN THE CHURCH YOU PASTORED?
NOT MUCH, OR SO IT SEEMS.
SINCE YOU WERE MAKING THESE REALLY BAD CHOICES, MAYBE YOU DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT ABOUT PREACHING TRUE REPENTANCE?  
WOULD YOU KNOW WHERE TO START?

I TRIED TO BE A CATHOLIC FOR A FEW YEARS IN MY YOUTH.
THAT "TE ABSOLVO" BUSINESS JUST NEVER SAT WELL.
DOING 10 "HAIL MARYS" AND A FEW "OUR FATHERS" JUST DIDN'T LEAVE ME FEELING "FORGIVEN".
MY LOGICAL MIND REJECTED THE IDEA THAT ANY HUMAN BEING COULD OFFER ME ABSOLUTION!

SO, NO, AS MERE MEN, YOU CAN'T FORGIVE ANYONE THEIR SINS, BUT YOU COULD DIRECT THEM TO THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN AND TEACH THEM HOW TO GET WHAT THEY NEED...BUT NOT NOW, PROBABLY NOT EVER AGAIN.

AGAIN, IF THAT OFFENDS ANY, DEAL WITH IT AS BEST YOU CAN.
IF I OFFERED AN APOLOGY FOR SOMETHING I AM NOT SORRY FOR, I'D BE NOT ONLY A LIAR BUT A HYPOCRITE, SO NO, ONLY HONEST APOLOGIES ARE GIVEN.

I'VE DEALT WITH THE MODERN 'CHURCH' FOR OVER 50 YEARS.
I WAS AN 'INSIDER' AND I KNOW WHAT I KNOW.
SO DO YOU.
AGAIN, THE "SHEPHERDS" FAILED. 

REPENTANCE.
DAVID WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF  REPENTANCE.
TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN ONLY ONE OR TWO 'SINS' DAVID DID NOT COMMIT, BUT THE GUY KNEW HOW TO REPENT...AND THEN, LOOK...HE DIDN'T DO THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DID HE?

SO, SURE, LET THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BEING ANYTHING BUT SHEPHERDS TO THE FLOCK STAY WHERE YOU ARE, ESPOUSE REPENTANCE, WHATEVER, BUT HOW WILL THE CHURCH FARE UNDER YOUR ONCE (STILL?) WANDERING EYES?

WE MAY FORGIVE, BUT WE ARE PERHAPS "CURSED" WITH A THING CALLED MEMORY.
TRY AS WE MAY TO ERASE THOUGHTS OF CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAUSED US GRIEF, THE MIND RETAINS MEMORIES.
THOSE MEMORIES "COME BACK TO HAUNT US" WHEN WE LEAST EXPECT THEM TO.
WHAT WILL SUCH MEMORIES DO TO A CHURCH, TO ITS FLOCK IF A BAD SHEPHERD, A WOLF IN A SHEPHERD SUIT STAYS ON AS SHEPHERD?

THE WELLS HAVE BEEN TAINTED BY WHAT YOU DID. 
SOMEONE WILL HAVE TO COME BEHIND YOU AND DIG NEW WELLS...BUT THAT WILL BE HARD FOR ANY MAN TO DO NOW, AFTER THIS.  

YOUR FAMILIES MUST BE SUFFERING.
THOSE WHO COUNTED YOU "HOLY" MUST BE SUFFERING.
THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN FAITH WILL SUFFER FOR A LONG TIME OVER THIS.

MAKE LIGHT OF IT?
MAKE THE EXCUSE BY THAT OLD LIE AGAIN THAT "NOBODY'S PERFECT"?

SOMEBODY WAS PERFECT!

AND THE FOUNDER AND THOSE HE CALLED DISCIPLES CERTAINLY SHOWED ALL THE REST WHO FOLLOWED HOW THAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED, DID THEY NOT?

BUT IT IS MIGHTY HANDY TO HAVE THAT "ALL HAVE SINNED" READY WHEN YOU GET CAUGHT WITH YOUR PANTS DOWN, ISN'T IT?

ALL WOULD-BE CHRISTIANS WERE COMMANDED TO "BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT", WEREN'T THEY? (MATTHEW 5:48)
WAS HE JOKING?
DID HE LIE?

OR HAVE WE ALL BEEN LIED TO BY THOSE OF YOU WHO DISAGREE WITH WHAT "THE BOSS" SAID?
HAVE YOU FAILED TO PREACH "THE WHOLE TRUTH...SO HELP YOU GOD"?

COME ON, ANY OF YOU WHO HAVE SO MUCH AS BOTHERED TO READ ALL OF "THE WORD"!
YOU KNOW TOO WELL SOME OF THE FINAL WORDS IN THAT "BOOK"!

LET'S GIVE REVELATION 21 A QUICK READ...BUT FIRST, HOW MANY REALLY BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS GOD-INSPIRED TODAY?
ANYONE?
ANY "MAN OF THE CLOTH"?

HERE'S WHAT WE READ, AND, BTW, THE ONE SPEAKING THESE WORDS IN JOHN'S REVELATION WAS WHOM? :

NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, VERSE 8: "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

KING JAMES VERSION, VERSE 8: " But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

IS THAT FOR REAL?

HOW MANY OF YOU WITH DEGREES FROM SOME "SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY" BELIEVE THAT?

YOUR HANDY-DANDY 1001 EXCUSES FOR DOING THOSE THINGS, THEY SEEM STUPID IN LIGHT OF WHAT THE FOUNDER SAYS HERE, RIGHT?

IT'S CALLED "UNREPENTED SINS", AND REPENTANCE IS NOT SAYING "I'M SORRY" AND GOING BACK TO DO IT AGAIN...WAIT AND SEE.

JUST LIKE ANY OF YOU PASTORS WHO "WENT A WHORING" DID NOT LOVE YOUR BRIDES, YOUR WIVES, NEITHER DO ANY WHO CHOOSE THEMSELVES AND WHAT THEY WANT/LIKE OVER THE WILL OF THEIR ESPOUSED 'MASTER' LOVE WHOM THEY SAY THEY DO.

QUITE SIMPLY, YOU LIED.
YOU BECAME LIARS WHEN YOU BROKE YOUR MARRIAGE VOWS AND WHEN YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISES TO GOD, DIDN'T YOU?

LYING...IS THAT LOVE?
LYING IS DEFINITELY A PARDONABLE SIN, BUT ONE HAS TO REPENT OF IT, i.e. STOP DOING THAT.

BEING SELF-SERVING, HOW ABOUT THAT?

TELLING OTHERS YOU ARE ONE THING WHILE, SECRETLY, YOU'RE QUITE THE OPPOSITE...WHERE DOES THAT LEAD?

ANY PASTOR IN THE ASHLEY MADISON CROWD FAMILIAR WITH MATTHEW 7:21-23?
OHHH, NOOO, NOT THAT!

"And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." (ESV, BECAUSE SO FEW OF YOU LIKE THE KJV ANYMORE.)

LUKE 6:46 ?
"“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?" (ESV)

YEAH, WHY?

WHEN THE RICH YOUNG MAN ASKED HOW HE COULD BE PERFECT, WAS HE TOLD THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO MORTAL MAN?
NOPE!
HE WAS TOLD EXACTLY WHAT TO DO AND DECIDED NOT TO DO THAT!
HE WAS TOLD, " If thou wilt be perfect..." (MATTHEW 19:21)IF HE WOULD!
IF...

AND DON'T PULL OUT THE 1 JOHN 1:8-10 IN REPLY!
THAT'S DIRECTED AT THOSE WHO THINK THEY HAVE DONE NO SIN, EVER.
THEY WERE WRONG!
INDEED, THE BOOK TELLS US ALL HAVE SINNED...PAST TENSE...DID YOU EVER NOTICE THAT?
PAST TENSE.
SURE, THIS MEANS ALL DID ONCE DO WRONG IN HIS SIGHT...BUT THAT HAS TO CHANGE WHEN ONE IS "BORN AGAIN" AND DIES TO SELF, DOESN'T IT?

THERE ARE SEVERAL "QUALIFIERS" ON THIS SALVATION THING THAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED OR BLINDED YOURSELVES TO.
HERE'S ANOTHER:
1JOHN 2 VERSES 3-6:

3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

OR ELSE... 
WHY DID YOU GUYS STOP PREACHING THOSE "OR ELSE..." VERSES?
HERE'S A FINAL "OR ELSE"...ABOUT BEING LUKEWARM...
REVELATION 3:15-16 .
REMEMBER THAT?
WHO SAID THAT?
HE COULD NOT SPIT THEM OUT UNLESS THEY WERE ONCE IN HIS MOUTH, RIGHT?
SO, IF YOU WERE EVER "IN HIS MOUTH" (HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN YOURS, YES?), IS HE ABOUT TO SPIT?

ALL THAT WAS SAID, TEDIOUSLY SO, TO SAY THIS:

THERE IS SOMETHING FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH TODAY'S CHURCH.
IT IS NOT "THE BRIDE OF CHRIST"...IT HAS BECOME SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY, SOMETHING THAT NO ONE WOULD WANT TO CLAIM AS A BRIDE.
WHO IS PREPARING THE CHURCH TO BE THE BRIDE?
ASHLEY MADISON?
WHO?

WE CAN SEE TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT THE ONE THEY CRUCIFIED DOES NOT APPRECIATE EITHER LUKEWARM NOR FAKES.
HE DIDN'T LIKE MONEYCHANGERS IN THE TEMPLE. 

HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE READ THIS AND BELIEVED IT?...
1 CORINTHIANS 6, VERSES 9-11, AND VERSES 19-20, KJV:

"9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

IS THAT TO BE BELIEVED?
DID YOU TEACH THAT?
DID YOU DARE DREAM YOU HAD TO LIVE IT, NOT JUST READ IT?

DID YOU TELL THE FLOCK THAT THOSE DOING SUCH MUST STOP DOING SO?
OR WERE YOU TOO BUSY "MEETING SOMEONE DISCREETLY" ?

DID THIS SLIP PAST YOU SOMEHOW?
MATTHEW 16:23 (NIV) "Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

AND YOU SEVERAL HUNDRED "FALLEN" PASTORS, DID YOU FALL FAR FROM THE "TREE" YOU "PLANTED", THE FAILED CHURCH YOU'VE HELPED CREATE?

DID YOU EVER LIVE WHAT YOU SEEMED TO PREACH, OR DID YOU JUST CEASE PREACHING?

DID YOU ASK YOUR FLOCKS TO LIVE SO AS TO NEVER MAKE EXCUSE FOR EVEN YOU, THE "SHEPHERD", OR ARE YOU COUNTING ON THEM TO HAND YOU THE EXCUSES YOU'VE HANDED THEM FOR SO LONG, KNOWING THEY WERE JUST EXCUSES, NOT TRUTHS?

THERE IS NO VALID EXCUSE.  
YOU MADE A CHOICE.
WE ALL MAKE THOSE FREE-WILL CHOICES EVERY DAY.

NO, THE DEVIL DID NOT MAKE YOU DO THIS....YOU DIDN'T NEED THE DEVIL TO SIGN UP FOR THAT WEBSITE... YOU JUST NEEDED THE WANT-TO AND A CREDIT CARD, 
BLAME YOUR OWN FREE-WILL CHOICES...ADMIT IT, YOU CHOSE SELF OVER EVERYTHING ELSE.

WE SEE WHAT YOU LOVED MOST...SELF.
WE SEE WHOM YOU WERE WORKING TO PLEASE...SELF.
WE SEE WHAT YOUR "HOLY VOWS" MEANT TO YOU...NOTHING!

BUT IF WE LOOK IN A MIRROR, WHAT MIGHT WE SEE THERE?

AND THAT, YOU LYING WHOREMONGERS, THAT IS ALL THAT MAY SAVE YOU.

WE PROBABLY WON'T SEE CHRIST IF WE LOOK IN A MIRROR, JUST LIKE YOU WON'T.

SO MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, THIS WILL TURN YOUR TRUSTING SHEEP AWAY FROM THE TREACHEROUS CLIFFS AND TOWARD "THE GOOD SHEPHERD".

IF SO, IF THEY DO TURN IN TIME, MAYBE YOU SHOULD FOLLOW THE FLOCK?

SOME WILL, SOME WON'T, BUT YOU WILL, AGAIN, MAKE THE CHOICE, EACH OF YOU.

IF YOU WERE EVER HONEST ABOUT YOUR CALLING, YOU KNOW THERE IS BUT ONE WAY, ONE PATH, ONE GATE.

GOD OR ASHLEY MADISON?
WHO WOULD HAVE DREAMED WE'D SEE SO MANY MAKING THAT CHOICE?

WE WERE WARNED ABOUT SUCH AS THESE, WEREN'T WE?

2 Timothy 3:1-5 , KJV,

"1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MAY I SUGGEST ALL WHO ESPOUSE CHRISTIANITY THEN TURN TO A MIRROR AND TAKE A LONG,. HARD, HONEST LOOK?
YEAH, ME, TOO, AS ALWAYS...

CASTING NO STONES, JUST SAYING WHAT, FOR ME, HAD TO BE SAID.
AFTER ALL, IF I SLUNG ROCKS, MY MIRROR WOULD BE THE FIRST THING BROKEN...

BUT, PASTORS, YOUR "KING" IS NOT COMING BACK FOR A WHORE BRIDE, BUT A PURE ONE.
REMEMBER THIS.



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FURTHER READING:
THE LONG LIST OF ASHLEY MADISON ACCOUNTS WAS RELEASED AND LINKED FROM THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE...MAY ALL WHO ARE ON THE LIST ENJOY READING THEIR NAMES...
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/happened-hackers-posted-stolen-ashley-madison-data/


FOR ALL WHO WONDER WHY MY AUDACITY AND IRE BECAUSE OF THIS, PLEASE READ WHAT MOST OF YOU WILL NEVER BE TAUGHT BY SUCH FALSE SHEPHERDS, UNDERSTAND WHAT IS EXPECTED...OR DEMANDED???
IT HELPED ME DEAL WITH THINGS, BUT JUSTIFIES NOTHING.
http://www.ldolphin.org/deliberate.html
"They insult the Spirit of grace."