In 1973, I studied the Constitution with the idea of using it to protect my God-given rights. I took aim at the IRS. Who in this right mind would do that? When I studied the Constitution, I imagined that voices of the past were speaking to me. I had a bigger than life calling. At the time, my world was in ruins. Everyone I knew felt that I brought it all on myself. My wife, who was divorcing me, advised me to see a psychiatrist.
By 1975, I was working on a minimum paying job, living from hand to mouth, and without one friend. The IRS was threatening me with seizure of my property. The only property I owned was a ten year-old car, which I used to go to work. The IRS said, mistakenly, that I owed $1,500 in tax, penalty, and interest. Actually the IRS owed me a $5,000 refund. Not a soul that would listen to me. I was seen as an illegal tax protester. While some may fall through the cracks, we know, it is the good of all that counts. That’s not the law.
I had petitioned the Tax Court on the IRS mistake. The IRS had frozen my $5,000 refund. The IRS offer was that if I agreed to pay the mistaken tax, the remainder of the refund would be sent to me. That isn’t what the law says. The IRS is above the law. But that’s OK. It is the good of all that counts.
I was being treated as a single with no dependents. Twenty percent of my meager wages was being withheld. I had a nighttime job. I arrived at my one room apartment at 1:00 am. The key would not unlock the door. I didn’t have the money to pay my rent. Not a soul in the world cared. I didn’t exit. How many homeless people are the victims of a care-not, hypocritical America?
Job was tested on his faith in the Lord. I was being tested. There was no doubt in my mind that I was going to win. I called the police. Within an hour, I had the new key. My landlord had not gone through the legal procedure to lock me out.
The lawyer that handled the property settlement agreement called to tell me my wife was successful in getting our agreement repudiated. I would have to fight her in a trial. At least I had the money awarded to me to pay my rent while I waited for the trial. The court ordered my wife to pay my living costs. I hired a divorce lawyer. He was confident that I would win. I didn’t have to pay anything up front.
The court awarded me most of the property. In trying to take it all, my wife got little. The IRS lost. I received my $5,000 refund, plus interest. The IRS dropped its $1,500 claim.
In the story of Adam and Eve, the serpent in the tree of knowledge of good and evil told Eve to go ahead and eat the forbidden fruit, that she would surely not die, but would know good and evil the same as the gods. Adam and Eve both ate the forbidden fruit and were ashamed of their nakedness. They covered themselves with fig leaves. God, seeing them covered, knew they had disobeyed. He kicked them out of his garden. Adam was forced to plow the ground.
Authority tells us that since Adam and Eve sinned, all who followed would be cursed. What was wrong about what Adam and Eve did?
My cousin, Reverend William Pruitt, was a Presbyterian missionary in the Congo twenty-five years. On a revisit to a primitive village in the jungle, my cousin found that the elders of the church he established had a problem. An old woman would not give up the idea that God lived in a tree near her hut. Unable to convince the woman that God lived in heaven, the elders cut down her tree. The old woman died of a broken heart.
I say the tree in front of the old woman’s hut was the same as the tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden, and it was not a serpent in the tree, it was God. Everything in the story of Adam and Eve lines up with my idea. Animals know only good. Animals don’t cover themselves. Animals don’t plow the ground.
There is no better way to control people than to make them feel guilty. “Oh, there but for the grace of God go I.” Give the homeless guy on the corner a dollar and feel good. It is a codependency. Reason says cutting down the tree in which God lived was evil. Those good African Christian trustees didn’t know that. Our Creator gave us the ability to know good and evil, and to act accordingly. The Bible is the moral story of man, and full of deceit. It is up to us to read the Bible and decide for ourselves what is true and what is false. The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is about a farfetched as anyone could get.
Authority runs into something that is generally unknown. Believing itself the more responsible custodian, these control freaks tell whoppers like the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It is the same in the whoppers being told about UFOs. Our sin is not using the reason with which we were created.
When I read the story of Adam and Eve, with God in the tree and the serpent earth-bound authority, it’s perfect fit. God told Moses to tell the people his name was “I am that I am.” In Genesis 1:26. “And God said, Let us make man in our image.” In Genesis 1:27, “God created man in his own image.” “Higher Law” the background of the U.S. Constitution is the law. Do you like war? The current fraud of the United States of America is the serpent. Before you try to take the splinter out of other eyes you need to take the log out of your own eye. Is it going to take another war?
Reverend Pruitt passed on to me a story that could change the world. It took a primitive African woman to tell us where God lives. With this in mind, I’ve written my personal story of how I made all of my dreams come true. My memoirs will soon be published under the title, In Earth as It Is in Heaven 2012.
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