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Ethics

Moving onto ethical issues; the 4th Watch, as many religions do, teach that morals were given to us by God. While this is a pretty mainstream belief among religions, rational persons of course know that this is just not true. We only mention it here though, because it can be a dangerous thing when persons feel that they do not have control of understanding what is right and wrong, moral and immoral.

Religious groups like the 4th Watch teach you to depend on the Bible's example of morality, which obviously isn't a good thing considering all of the immoral things it teaches. But it makes persons susceptible to believe that all of their moral answers are defined in the Bible, when morals in fact come from our own intelligence and wisdom, and through society, we have come to understand what is moral and what is not.

Persons will always have certain disagreements of course, but we do the best we can as a society, and we certainly can't learn our morals from the Bible. But the main point we're trying to make here, is that morality is not given to us by God, it is something we have to understand as human beings. Because if we don't, we can never truly be good. If we rely solely on others for our morals, we as a human race are endangered.

While there are some moral teachings that the 4th Watch does follow, many are completely immoral. We cannot list them or explain them all here, nor do we know all of them, but in this section, we hope to expose several of them. The first one is that 4th Watchers want you to believe that you do not become good persons by doing good things, you only become a good person by believing in someone, in this case, God...and that's just wrong.

One of the things concerning ethics, is that the 4th Watch teaches its followers to love God more than anyone else. One of the basic philosophies of the 4th Watch is to love God more than anyone else and to put God first in your life. This is sick. How would you like to marry a man or woman who puts God above you and your kids, or above the ones you love the most in life?

And as we touched up in the metaphysics section, members are taught to hate themselves and to think of themselves as meaningless sinners. The 4th Watch takes this even further as it teaches that everybody who has ever been born, regardless of anything they might do in life, are already considered sinners and evil persons. No question that nobody is perfect, but to call a newborn evil is ludicrous. This is the type of extreme belief that such a cult has. Just think, all of your children, your infant sons and daughters are considered to be evil by the 4th Watch church. You are evil and your spouse is evil. Your mother and your father, sisters and brothers, and friends are all evil. It doesn't matter who you are, whether you're a national hero or a convicted felon, you are all evil to the 4th Watch church. Of course, anyone with any degree of rationalism knows that this is not the case. It is without question that nobody is perfect, but to accuse a baby of being evil is radical even for a cult. And to think, with such suspicion of evil by everyone, can you just imagine how uncomfortable it must be to be around all those evil persons?

And if that was not enough, the 4th Watch teaches that all sins and wrong doings are equal to one another. In fact, read everything they teach on salvation, and find what they see as ethically acceptable:

Now sin is usually thought of as a bad thing, and that's the idea...that a sin is some sort of wrong-doing, like murder for instance. But if the Bible is true, then God is a very poor judge of morality, and his rules and guidelines are more often than not, immoral. As an example, you would think that murder would indeed be a sin, yet God commands his people to murder many different persons and peoples. He commands that misbehaving children be put to death for example. An example of what God actually considers to be wrong and therefore sinful would be for a woman to speak in church. Occasionally, God does have a good law, such as not to lie, but for the most part, God can only be described as evil, and his laws and commands immoral. So that's the first thing wrong about God's ethical nature.

Here's a second thing; All sins are just as bad. In God's eyes, no sin is better or worse than another. To God, they are all the same. This is a clear violation of basic morality, but this is the way God sees it. It doesn't matter if you do something as small as lying, or as big as murder. Both sins are equally bad. Because of this, persons who try to be good are brought down to the same level as those who do evil. Because of this, either God is imperfect or he is just pure evil.

Now, when someone does something wrong, they often deserve punishment. This makes sense, but God's views on punishment are very extreme and further shows how unloving he can be. Because a sin is a wrong-doing in God's eyes, sin deserves punishment, and the third thing wrong with God's views on ethics is that sin always deserves pubnishment. It does not matter what sin it is, or who commits it. Every sin must be paid for. There are no exceptions. Despite what many Christians teach, it is clear from the Bible that God is either unwilling to be forgiving and merciful, or that he does not have the ability to be at all. So again, he is either imperfect or unloving. Everytime a sin is committed, someone needs to pay for it and be punished.

So if every sin is the same, and if every sin deserves punishment, then it would make sense for every one of them to bring about the same exact punishment...and it does. And what is this great punishment? It's God's number four reason why he is evil. Every sin, no matter what it is, whether it is lying or murder, both deserve the same exact punishment, and that punishment is often death...to be killed by God himself, and then to be tortured in a pit with a lake of fire, called Hell...for an eternity. This is the punishment for every single sin. When someone commits a sin, no matter what it is, this is what they deserve. Now, being tortured as punishment is one thing, but being tortured for an eternity is God's fifth reason why he is evil. It is completely unjust to apply an infinite punishment for a finite crime. In other words, no one, no one at all...no one who lives now, no one who has lived in the past, and no one who will live in the future will ever deserve eternal Hell. There is not a single person who deserves Hell. You can think of the worst criminal, the most horrific monsters who have committed the most horrific crimes, and they are all far from deserving hell. Ironically, the person most deserving of Hell is God himself, but even he does not deserve eternal torture.

Hell

Now notice that for punishment, we said someone has to pay. For God, it doesn't matter who pays for the sin, just as long as someone's punished for it. This is the sixth thing wrong about God's ethics...that he would actually allow someone else to take the punishment instead so that the person who did the sin is not the one paying for what he did wrong. But it's not just that. God allows someone who commits a sin to force an innocent person to take the punishment. This is number seven. That's right. This all loving and perfect God actually allows for a sinner to force an innocent person to pay for the other persons's sins.

And how is this done? In the Old Testament days, a sinner would kill a non-human and sacrifice it as an offering to God. This would place the sins onto the innocent animal, and that animal would then take the punishment. The fact that God would allow such a sacrifice is the eighth thing that shows he's evil. But this was only a temporary fix. The fact is, God feels that all humans are evil in nature, and ever since the original sin by Adam and Eve, all humans since were born as sinners...not because they committed any sin yet, but they were sinners because of their parents' sins. This means that being brought into the world made you a sinner, and you are guilty just for being born. Imagine that; deserving eternal torture in hell just for being born. That's the number nine reason why God is evil. But this means that sacrificing an animal to God was only a temporary save for the person who committed sin, because as humans were born sinners, they could not stop sinning, and since their nature was to sin, no matter how many sacrifices they made, ultimately, they were destined for Hell.

So because God saw every human as sinful and therefore was deserving of Hell, and because God would not and/or could not forgive and show mercy to his people, God came up with a crazy idea in the New Testament era on how to fix this problem and save them from eternal damnation...And it's an idea only our Heavenly Father could dream up. What was this crazy yet divine idea? Well as you know, sin always deserves punishment, consisting of eternal torture, and God would allow someone's sins to be forced onto an innocent person instead so that they would take the punishment instead of the actual sinner. So this wonderful and perfectly loving and moral god sent his own son, named Jesus, a completely sinless and innocent person to Earth, and forced him to sacrifice himself in order to take away the sins of others and to be punished for those sins instead, just like how the animals were sacrificed before. That's right. God forced his own son, an innocent person, to be tortured and killed in order to pay for the sins that have been committed by others. Except with God's son, this was considered the ultimate sacrifice. By ultimate sacrifice, we mean that it paid not only for the sins currently being committed, but also every sin that was committed in the past and every sin that will be committed in the future...sins that were often nothing wrong to begin with. And this wonderful plan would of course be number ten on God's list of evil involving salvation.

It is worth mentioning though that despite God's insistance that every sin be paid for and with eternal torture, God did seem to have made an exception for his son. Where everyone else would have to spend an eternity in Hell, Jesus only had to spend three days there. If God stays so perfectly within his own logic, then Jesus should have been committed there forever, but the fact that God allowed an exception shows that he can indeed stray from his "perfect" logic, and therefore should also have been able to do the same for humans. Also, you would think that God would be even more so willing to do that for the humans because Jesus was still God, and therefore could do "no wrong". Because God knew that humans were not perfect, it would be morally fitting and expected that God would cut them a break and hold them to a lower standard, especially since God is the one who made them so imperfect in the first place...But he did no such thing. Both the imperfect humans and the perfect son of God were held to the same exact standards. With that comparison, it is like perhaps expecting both humans and dogs to follow the laws of society exactly the same and to give them both the same kinds of punishments when they don't. Holding a perfect being to a very high standard, but then holding imperfect beings to the same standard is number eleven on the list.

Anyways, sending his own son to be tortured and killed because God can't or won't forgive and show mercy, to a place of eternal torture which he created in the first place? That is the story of salvation. It is very difficult to understand how millions of persons have been convinced that God is perfect, moral, and loving, and that sending his son to die for everyone's sins was an act of love and goodness, when it was really just an act of evil. But the story of salvation is not quite complete. There are three more things that shows that God is evil here.

When God had his own son tortured and killed as a sacrifice, human salvation was not a done deal for everyone. The plan was for everyone who wished to be saved, they would have to actually accept the sacrifice from Jesus, meaning they would have to believe in him in the first place, and to apologize to God for their sins and for the sins of their ancestors. As the Bible says, when Jesus died, God bought every person and they were now his. The acceptance of Jesus Christ's sacrifice and the repentance their own and ancestors' sins was now the only way to be saved. No one from then on was allowed to transfer their sin onto others. You now had to believe in God in order to avoid Hell. Of course, Christians will say that it is not the disbelief that would send anyone to Hell. It is still their sin that sends them there. Not believing in God just keeps them from being saved. But it's really the same thing, because God set up for humans to fail since they were first created. God knew they would sin and he made it so that they would go to Hell if they sinned, and his ultimate plan was to have his son killed so that they could avoid it, and so in the end, humans would ultimately have to believe in God...and if they don't, then they are still going to Hell. In other words, humans have to believe in God, and he will send them to Hell if they don't. That is the twelfth reason God is evil. Plus, regardless of whether or not going to Hell was caused by their own sins; the fact that they were going there for other persons' sins does nothing to help God's moral character. Anyways, add to the fact that humans have no way of knowing whether or not God is real, and that there is no evidence of his existence to show that he is, and you have your thirteenth reason.

The next and last reason why God is evil in the story of salvation is this: When Jesus died and everyone was expected to accept his sacrifice and to believe that he was God in order to avoid Hell, that was basically the only requirement you needed to go to Heaven and achieve salvation. According to some Christian religions, you also needed to live a life according to Biblical scripture, but that when you sinned, all you had to do was ask for forgiveness, and Jesus' sacrifice would have you covered. This means that every person, no matter who you are or what you do, can get into Heaven, just as long as you believe in God. It doesn't matter if you steal, rape, or murder...as long as you ask for forgiveness, you won't have to be punished for your crimes because Jesus was already punished for you. Because of this, any person is allowed to do whatever they want and no one is required to be held accountable for their actions. It is a complete debauchery of morality. It is absolutely unimaginable that a perfectly moral being would allow a rapist and murderer into Heaven only because they believed in God and asked for forgiveness, and yet someone who lived a near perfect moral life would go to Hell only because they did not believe in God. That is number fourteen.

It is clear from all of this, that God is imperfect, immoral, unloving, unforgiving, unmercifal, unjust, unfair, and all above evil. The 4th Watchers even claim that it is perfectly ethical and okay for God to kill you, because he created you. 4th Watchers need to get their ethics straightened out.

Now here are some quotes from 4th Watchers that show how they think ethically:

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spacer You cannot make sense of the evil in your life if you do not have Jesus in your life. spacer Cult Member
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spacer Mariah Balaoro “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like that is why there is the Bible to remind us but know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did for him?" (;.. spacer Cult Member
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spacer You should have no other love but Christ, you should have no other world but ministry, you should have no other work, but your jobspec spacer Cult Member
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spacer it is ONLY by God's love I am able to pass on love to others. 1 John 4:19 "We love because he first loved us. spacer Cult Member
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spacer Evil can teach us a lesson about life in general such as the existence of good. Evil proves there is good & if there's good, there's God! spacer Cult Member
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spacer I used to think the purpose of life was to become the best person I can be through worldly achievements such as career success, influence over others, being a good person, etc. God taught me that being my best can only be achieved by following Jesus Christ. spacer Cult Member
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spacer Like Hebrews 11:17-19, we all have an Isaac in our lives and like Abraham, by faith, we should offer it as a sacrifice! Glory to God! spacer Cult Member
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