SOUL TRAP
The Revolutionary Truth About God And The Bible!
by: Wayne Stewart
DEDICATION
Soul Trap was written for anyone that ever looked to the heavens in desperation, and expected an answer.
SOUL TRAP: The Revolutionary Truth About God And The Bible!
by: Wayne Stewart
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-0410-3
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Soul Trap
Copyright © 2012 by: Wayne Stewart
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NOTE ABOUT THE STYLE AND NATURE OF SOUL TRAP
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein.
With that; and knowing this; I will tell you that religion is the six-ton raging bull elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. It raises hell in our lives, trumpets aloud, tears up the furniture, bullies us a round, and even sits on our chests. Yet, no one wants to call it out for what it is. Hell, no one wants to admit that it even exists. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there, crushing the life out of us.
Having said that…
The things I tell you now, you will want to know if only because they are important. What I show you now you will want to see, if only because it will open your eyes. And, you will want to witness for yourself that which will transform everything you ever thought you knew to be true of God and the Bible, if not religion itself. It is that revolutionary. And yes. The journey you are about to undertake has everything to do with magical poppies as teased up from the Land of Oz, compelling you to close your eyes and go back to sleep. See I Corinthians 1:17 where the apostle Paul said of religion, “Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: to preach it not with eloquence or wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be emptied of its power.”
Be that as it may, we need to look at that verse again by exposing its essence—if only because its message packs one helluva “Gotcha!” This, we do, by stealing a peek behind the great and bellowing curtain of Oz. See again, as wrought for elucidation, where the apostle Paul said of the power behind the Bible as enacted through the vehicle that is religion, “Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: to preach it not with eloquence or wisdom of words because there isn’t any. Otherwise, to expose the truth behind the cross would be to empty it of its power whereby rendering it useless.”
Even so, it’s curious that the apostle Paul would say something like this: especially when his job is to peddle the truth of the Bible. Right? Well, the reason he didn’t is because there is none to sell. He even said as much. I know. But he did. And, you can always reread that passage for as many times as it takes for its truth to sink in because sink in it will: just as it did for Dorothy, as she ever-so-slowly began to realize that she wasn’t in Kansas no more.
With that; and knowing this; I give you I Corinthians 1:18. This being where Paul added of it in an effort to defend his position, as written for edification, “The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness [making reference to those with a difference of opinion;] but unto us that are saved [meaning, we who choose to believe] it is the power of God. 19 For God said of it: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of [those with a difference of opinion,] and will bring to nothing the understanding of [them that choose not to believe in my particular brand of folly.] 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?’”
Now before you run off halfcocked regarding my use of the word ‘folly,’ I would have you see I Corinthians 1:21. This being where the apostle Paul said, as he lets us in on one of the big guy’s secrets, “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those that believe.”!
You see, truth is, there isn’t anything I say or write in this book that isn’t in one way or another backed by scripture. Otherwise, I would have never said it. And that, my dear reader, is the beauty of Soul Trap. Moreover, don’t you find it odd that the apostle Paul said that God chooses to save those that act foolishly according to the proclivities of religion, if only because he finds their trials and tribulations regarding it, entertaining? I know I do.
Therefore; and by the Bible’s own admission; we find that knowledge and wisdom are as dissimilar to religion, as oil is to water. Now you know why Jesus is always walking upon it, and his father who art in heaven always trying to tear it down. Welcome to the rest of the story behind the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1 thru 9,) if not the garden of deception (Genesis 2:8 and 9.) But then, intellect can have that effect on those things hoped for, as found wafting in the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1.)
What we find as our “Gotcha!” then, is that religion by its very nature is nothing more than an emotionally charged house of cards that has for its foundation, the ills of hype as fueled by foolishness (see again, the confession that is I Corinthians 1:21.) If you don’t believe that God is to wisdom what the Bible and preaching are to intellect—then do I ever have a surprise for you! And yes. It has everything to do with the idiom of doing as I say, and not as I do. See Proverbs 14:24. “The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.”
What was it again, that Dr. Albert Einstein said about this? Oh! That’s right. It was, “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
Now, as far as knowledge and intellect goes, I invite you to pull up a chair and have a sit in God’s garden of deception. Have a gander. Do you see, the same tempting fruit-bearing foliage that I see? And what I see waxing in full bloom, in this the cool of the day, is Genesis 2:8. “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden…9…and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
Then there is Genesis 3:6, albeit for edification. “When Eve saw [what?] the tree of knowledge, that is was good for food and pleasant to the sight, and a tree to be [what?] desired to make one wise, she took the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto Adam; and he did eat.”
Therefore;
