steve howard's update of the new testament
BARBARALBA BIBLE

THE NEW NEW TESTAMENT

Paul's letter to the ROMANS

 

chapter 10

vs. 2: I can assure you that they are devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge. EQ.

“Obviously not, for if they are devoted to God, they are devoted to a brutal fairy tale. And what the hell is devotion to an illusion good for. These people are misled fools. Babbling apes.”

“Every time they try to make us servants of some lie.” Jackson C. Frank.

vs. 5: Moses wrote ... “Whoever obeys the commands of the Law will live.” EQ.

And for those who still ignore the Torah, The Books of Moses. Moses, who wasn’t really likely real, was a typical tyrant. Most often referred to as Lord. Those who did not obey his Law. The Law of Moses. Were hacked down with a sword. Butchered before witnesses and his or her body thrown out of camp for the vultures to eat. That is our bloody holy history.

So flog off with what Moses said. Militant murderers.

The Moses mentality needs to be weeded out of our species if we want our species to one day become something other than slaves to the big murdering plunder business.

Almost all the heroes who made it to our history books were tyrants. The mighty murderers have taken over and put an ownership stamp on all of it.

The over written, or more than likely fictitious, heroes of our history are not the best material for which to make our religions. It is an arrogant propagation of hateful ignorance. It is shameful. We could say that up until now we did not know how bloody wrong religion is. It is a process that we had to go through. Maybe. But it is time to let them fade. Start with taxing their unholy clubs. Put large warning signs on their houses of lies.

“Danger. We fully intend to rape your mind and own your body.”

vs. 6: ... Who will go up into heaven? EQ.

We are now in heaven. Look up and see the stars. We are among them. It is not a place held aside for the followers of random rules or faith in a fragile fairy tale. It is for the creatures that evolve in heaven. We have arrived. We need only to see it and know it.

vs. 12: ... there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles... EQ.

In fact, there are no Jews and Gentiles. It is a concept based on random rules of conduct. There are fools and idiots. There is the ruling class and the slave class. There are a bunch of pricks with grand titles.

vs. 15: “How wonderful is the coming of messengers who bring good news!” EQ.

Ain’t that a true thing. And I’m happy to inform the reader, that I am one of those messengers. The news that I bring. That which I have discovered in half a century of investigation. The news we have been waiting for: Religion is dead. No one owns life. We can save the world, our paradise. We are in heaven. We are the gods.


chapter 11

It looks like we must traverse another lake of shit.

vs. 8: ... “God made their minds and hearts dull, to this very day they cannot see or hear.” EQ.

No. God didn’t nothing. Most people are dull. People need to be stimulated by life events and we have run away from life. Beaten Essau by robbing him of the wild. Cut it down and built big barriers of illusion. The majority of humans in the western world watch TV, read trash magazines, listen to bullshit radio. Live to go shopping in grand shopping malls. Multi coloured packaging with fabricated food that is food by name but seldom by nature. Fat sad apes wallowing in servitude and ignorance. Very, very dull. They fall into a dream world and give up their participation.

One way entertainment from the mad men who want us to obey, shut up, cower in fear and work for them. Those shitty they people. With all the Gold.

vs. 10: May their eyes be blinded so that they can not see;
and make them bend under their troubles at all times. EQ.

That is pretty serious people. The owners of the planet say that. Read it again. You are being beaten so that you stay a frightened slave.

Vs. 11: I ask, then: When the Jews stumbled, did they fall to their ruin? By no means! Because they sinned, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make the Jews jealous of them. EQ.

Right. So if the Jews hadn’t been sinful, the rest of the world would have been born just to suffer and go to hell. Sounds like God is one mad fucker. Of course, it could be that Paul is a mad fucker.

“What the fuck is this God shit.”

“It is the paranoid belief that everything that happens is everything to do with us. If a rock falls off a cliff and drops on someone’s head, God was pissed at him. It is ape logic. It is a fool’s perception. It is the fear that we don’t matter.”

“But if God is just a concept propagated by tyrannical lying pricks, then we don’t matter.”

“Everything matters. Or it wouldn’t be.”

“But why would any of it matter.”

“It is matter. So mattering is what it does.”

“That’s silly.”

“There does not have to be a purpose to the matter. I may simply be a celebration of energy to be matter. It is a way for what can be to be. And what is and what will be is far more than not to be. Meaning has been propagated to make light of suffering. It would do us good to be rid of both meaning and suffering and make new ideas about what matters about matter. None of our convictions to date change anything but how narrow we look at it. And as long as we cloud our vision with preconceptions, we will remain mostly ignorant of what is and what we can be in it. How we can play in it. What great adventures we can take to see if there is any meaning to the matter.”

“What if there is no meaning.”

“As long as it matters, what does it matter that there is no meaning.”

The rest of the chapter is what’s up with Jews and Gentiles. And there simply is no difference. It is a false concept. A defining of a thing that is not. A marketing of an empty product. God does not choose. Life allows. We choose.

We choose to obey or we choose to wake up and be the guardians of paradise. We can choose to explore our galaxy. Look for what matters. Find how it matters. Conclusions are a crippling security blanket. We need to crawl out of the crib of fantasy and embark on the real. There is enough of it that we may likely never understand all of it before the universe dies. And we could live that long if we choose to. And if this universe is any indication, we will likely find ourselves bashing through the same doubts to wake up in the next universe.

There is so much space to do as we please.

But we won’t get there if it does not please us to open our eyes and ears and choose to do what we must do if we rather eternity over extinction.

Am I, we, getting through.


chapter 12

The teacher of our creative writing course in Toronto said, as a joke. A story has a beginning a muddle and an end. The books of the old New Testament are backwards to this classic form. The muddle is everywhere and somewhere in the middle of the dust storm of running in circles is some information buried.

vs. 2: Do not conform yourself to the standards of this world but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. EQ.

We can agree with that almost. First we need to rethink the concept of God and make it Gods. As for the changing of the mind, we will say throw out all the symbolic meanings, the preconceptions passed on generation after generation until they have absolutely no meaning, and see the world with the naked eye.

Walk through the woods and take no names with you. Let it swallow you and control your senses. Don’t reach for conclusions or definitions. Let it be. Demand no more than your space.

vs. 4: We have many parts in the one body, and all these parts have different functions. 5. In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union... EQ.

That is true enough. It doesn’t prove anything, however.

vs. 11: Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion. EQ.

Paul tells us not to be lazy and put our hearts into what we do. This is good advice. But don’t waste too much time doing things you don’t enjoy. Part of what Paul is doing is teaching us to be happy servants to the Lords. He says God but there is no such thing.

“Many people believe there is.”

“They have been suckered by a fairy tale.”

Part of what Paul is trying to do is make quiet obedient workers who are happy to serve the one great God. And the one great God, unfortunately, for it is a sad thing to have to realize, is the ruling class. God justifies their ownership. And it is not good.

Vs. 14: Ask God to bless those who persecute you – yes, ask him to bless, not to curse. EQ.

This is also good advice. Not just for your chosen enemies. But it is also a waste of your own life to be cursing others. The hatred you produce will eat at your own mind more than it will eat at the minds of your random enemies. It ends up being self-persecution.

Vs. 21: Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good. EQ.


romans chapters 13 - 15