Daily Deprogramming

Yes, for sure the Bible is the Lord’s Book.  It is filled with the testimonies of people who have had experiences with God and  tells us of His dealings with men.  It has been used and misused down through the centuries. It has been hidden in the hands of pious religious leaders who thought the common man shouldn’t and couldn’t read it and understand it.

The above title has been changed  a little as Ardith Keef  put “ME ” all in caps in her title of todays Daily Devotional.  I hesitate to put myself or any other human being on the same level as the Word of God.   There are some things that repel me,  and I refuse to put them purposely on my web-site;   This is one of those things.

People have been burned at the stake, put up on crosses, thrown out of churches ,and even murdered because of  holding firm to it’s teachings.. 

Ted Bundy (mass murderer) was brought up by it’s teachings, and he was executed knowing it’s pages were true.  Jim Jones , preacher and kool-aid murderer of 900 plus people , used it and taught it .  Charles Manson, the bazaare cult leader of the 60’s used the Bible to control his followers and the  book of Revelation to kill his victims,  and David Koresh died in a self induced fire, started in several places in his compound,  ”protecting”  his followers  from the outside  world by using the Bible and standing upon it.  These are just a handful of the more notorious examples of  seriously ill , psychopathic people who  have used the scriptures wrongly for their own advantage.

There have been thousands upon thousands of nieve  victims of high and mighty  (now unknown) , hard-nosed, harsh and merciless,  Authoritarian leaders,  who have lorded it over the Church of God ( using the Bible ) during the century’s ever since the Church began.   Many are  dead now,  but there are always more in their place, and we can be sure  God remembers the abuse, the deception, and the harm done to His people.  These false leaders will give an account one day.  

 I can name two such peculiar sect leaders who have lived and died leading the Church astray here in Maine.   One was the charismatic  leader of the “Shiloh” church in Durham, Maine, Fred Sanford, who practically starved his followers to death in the early 1900’s,  and another was the leader of an abusive Christian  sect  that sat right on the same corner as the Anchor Missionary Fellowship church, in Scarborough, Maine in the early 1800’s.    It’s bazaare “spiritual”  leader was Jacob Cochran.   The  “Bible” teachings and behaviors were eerily similar to the teachings of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church and it’s leaders, Bill and Ardith Keef.  

Then there was Carl Stevens ministries known since the 1970’s  for causing divided families, broken marriages and  homes , fractured  churches, and pastors running off with people’s wives.  This is where Ardith Keef got her  “spiritual training ” when she first became a Christian.  All the dysfunction, confusion and chaos at Anchor  makes a lot of sense when you think about  the “connections”.  All of the above used the Bible to gain base advantage and to control and wield power over other Christians.

Yes , the Bible is a controversial book by all accounts and standards. Back in Jesus day people memorized scripture, from the devout common man to the highest order of Pharisee.  The Pharisee’s used the written law  to abuse their power and to control people as well, and Jesus was not afraid to let them know that He abhored their hypocricy and pretenses. 

Today when one is a Christian , he or she knows for instance the Word teaches that God hates divorce, “I hate divorce” , it clearly  say’s of God .  The word gives only one way  that divorce is acceptable to God.  If your mate commits adultery you are free from the marriage.  Why is it then that christians get divorces as often as the world does?    Has the Bible really and truly reached their heart?  I tell you brethren, it is sin and adultery if you leave your mate for another without the grounds provided in scripture! 

There was a time when Ardith believed this herself. Now she is willing to lead young people to sin by divorcing their mates without proper Biblical grounds, without any grounds at all.  She is even willing  to use her profession of Attorney to aid Christians to divorce one another.  ”Irreconcilable Differences” is not an option for Christians who love the Word of God and adhere to it. 

The Word of God also tells us that we are not to take fellow believers to a court of law.  There is a way provided in scripture to settle differences within the church. There has to be two or three witnesses.  The problem is taken to the individual, then to the elders, then to the church to be settled. 

So, a person  such as Ardith Keef, who claims such grandiose knowledge of the B-I-B-L-E , and instructs her followers in  complicated methods of how one should read the Bible cover to cover, do a  systematic study, contexual study, memorize, use the KJV, seek the Person of Jesus had ought to cleave to it’s teachings herself, hadn’t she?

The Bible says, “Honor your father and your mother.”  She left her mother to die without ever even trying  to reconcile the circumstances.  She didn’t know if her mother was even saved.

The Bible says,  “Do not slander”  she has slandered  almost everyone who disagrees with her or questioned her “authority.” She has called them mentally ill, possessed, with alzheimers, reprobate,  with brain tumers, and bi-polar. Every single  one not true.

The Bible says of God , “I hate divorce.”   She has divorced 5 times and teaches others to follow in her footsteps .

The Bible says that we are not to take fellow believers to a court of law.  Ardith Keef has ,rather than obey the teachings on settling differences in scripture, taken three fellow believers to court.  She has cut off all communication when these folks were continually asking to meet and reason together.  

The Bible says, “Love one another as I have loved you.”  Ardith casts out missionary families, others who love the Lord,  lies about them,  separates families with her false teachings,  breaks up churches,  and destroys peoples spiritual lives by her false teachings.

The Bible says, “Let the little children come unto Me.”  Ardith’s teachings and actions divide the little children from their own brothers and  sisters and break up their families.  Her teachings single out certain children to abuse and neglect spiritually.

The Bible says, “Wives, be subject to your husbands in everything.”  Ardith teaches the opposite to young women and her actions in changing husbands 5 times prove she does not submit herself.

The words of the Bible are only as helpful in our walks with the Lord as we allow them to be. We can know it’s the Truth, but unless we follow it’s truths they are simply words on a page .  Unless the Love of God that is contained within it’s covers reaches our hearts, and spirits  as well as our brains , it is just a  good book with good words, two covers, and our hearts remain stone-cold, hard, and closed.

If you have spent years reading the Word ,and still don’t know the basics about Love, Mercy, Faithfulness to your mate, submission to your husband,  honoring your parents, and all you know is that you absolutely know everything there is to know about- HOW TO STUDY IT, you have missed the boat.   In this case you need desperately  to “get to know the Lord.”  You are like the little two-year-old who claps their hands  and sings    ”The B-I-B-L-E , yes that’s the book for me”    without even knowing the first thing about it!  

Only  in this case you are dangerous to other believers because you have the power to cause them shipwreck and to lead them astray as you have been led astray.   As we have noted with Jim Jones, David Koresh, Ted Bundy, and Charles Manson,  a person like this is a very useful tool in the hands of the enemy.