The Message

The Message
Orlandp Lujan Martinez

If you read between the lines of the bible you will discover the true message of the Bible-the word of God-which the religious martyrs feel is so important that it is worth dying for. The Bible was written in a direct word for word literary manner that tends to make it confusing to many people and its message obscure. This requires the reader to interpret what is really going on between the lines of the seemingly obscure rhetoric of the Bible.
Thus the German protestant theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer (executed by the Nazi’s in 1945) can write in The Cost of Discipline: “Jesus does not promise that when we bless our enemies and do good to them they will not use and persecute us. They certainly will. But not even that can hurt or overcome us, as long as we pray for them. For if we pray for them, we are taking their distress and poverty, their guilt and perdition, upon ourselves, and pleading to God for them. We are doing vicariously what they can not do for themselves. Every insult that they mutter only binds us more closer to God and them. Their persecution of us only serves to bring them nearer to reconciliation with God and further the triumphs of love.”

But the word “martyr” does not mean, in the original greek, the acceptance of death, it means “witness” -one who testifies with their very being, body and soul and this they accomplish as ordinary person, intractable and patience in their defense of the truth.

I have followed him home, here, to the cross. If I must mount it, he assures me, I will not do it alone.

In death the martyrs says to others, What I believe in is so important that it is worth dying for.

Oscar Arnulfo Romero Archbishop of San Salvador said days before he was murdered, “Tell the the people that if they(The death Squad's hired but the rich) succeed in killing me, that I forgive them and bless those who do it. Hopefully they will realize they are wasting their time. A Archbishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.

And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free, John 8:32

...the agony and courage of a Nazarene carpenter who refused, 2,000 years ago, to hold his tongue to please the powerful.

but Jesus actions at the Temple had another purpose as well; to demonstrate to the masses that they had the right and the power to challenge those who lorded over them.