This month on "this Generation" reminded me of the movie "Book of Eli" first scene with Eli & Carnegie's
"I need that book ... I'll kill ya. I'll take the book," threatens Carnegie in a face-off in the middle of the street reminiscent of a Western shootout.
"Why? asks the unemotional Eli. "Why do you want it?"
"I grew up with it. I know its power. If you read it, then so do you. That's why they burned them all after the war," answers Carnegie.
"Just staying alive is an act of faith. Building this town is an even bigger act of faith. But they don't understand that. None of them do. And I don't have the right words to help them. But the book does," says Carnegie. "Imagine, imagine how different, how righteous this little world could be if we had the right words for our faith."
A few scenes later, when Carnegie's senior officer disparages the book, an angry Carnegie explodes.
"It's a weapon ... If we want to rule more than one small ... town, we have to have it. People will come from all over. They will do exactly what I tell them if the words are from the book, (OR TEACH WHAT I WANT IT TO TEACH) " spews Carnegie.
He reflectively mutters, "It has happened before."
In conclusion: Any organization will use any words or scriptures they want to make FIT what they want to perfectly justify how the rest of us should believe it, since they say "only the anointed have the discernment to interpret scriptures" he only read Exodus 1:6 and to say what "a generation" in regards to Jesus saying about the generation seeing the beginning and end of the last days, but now they teach it's an overlapping generations. I guess someone told him that he missed reading the previous verse Exodus 1:5 which talks about those who were born to Jacob came out to be 70 people and together with Joseph's brothers and him are a generation. Reading beyond the scriptures is a cardinal sin in itself....
