Scatter-brained

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“He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.
Luke 11:23

Child Protective Services does not gather with God. I guess you could call them scatterbrained. The Message Bible cuts to the chase on this verse: “This is war, and there is no neutral ground. If you’re not on my side, you’re the enemy; if you’re not helping, you’re making things worse.” CPS certainly qualifies as having the heart and brain of a scatterer who makes things worse.

I am now 30 posts into this area of study. I had intended to go through all four gospels and document everything that jumped out at me in regard to CPS being in opposition to the teaching of Jesus. It is time for a radical change in the process.

CPS is bad because its foundations are wrong. There is no point in trying to reform it. It does not support God’s rules for child rearing, therefore it is anti-God and an antichrist. It does not gather families in a redemptive, gracious approach but scatters them.

Child custody cases constitute at least a third, and in some jurisdictions half of all civil litigation. (Alvare) Can you say “Love of Money?” This provides work not only for the obvious lawyers, judges and courthouse staffing, but also for psychotherapists, mediators, counselors, social workers, daycare centers, and more.

(F)amily dissolution breeds a host of societal ills for government to solve. Virtually every major social pathology, from violent crime to drug abuse to truancy, is directly attributable to family breakdown and fatherless homes more than any single factor, surpassing race and poverty.
(Blankenhorn)

Every time CPS damages a family, they broaden the breeding ground for social pathologies. The utensils they use are right out of the devil’s toolbox: Lies, deception, and fear.

CPS is heavily infiltrated by two closely related spirits: radical feminism and witchcraft. Radical feminism is generally understood. Witchcraft needs to be defined, however, because I am not talking about a Harry Potter fantasy. Witchcraft, in its basic definition, pertains to power that is not given or delegated by God which is used to control another person. It is the use of illegitimate authority to manipulate another person.

I am changing the focus of this Bible study series to explore this area more fully. Future posts will follow a different format.

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THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language Copyright © 2002 by Eugene Peterson.

Alvare, Helen. “Types and Styles of Family Proceedings,” Report of the United States to the XII World Congress, International Association of Procedural Law, 2003.

Blankenhorn, David. Fatherless America, 1996; ISBN-13: 978-0060926830

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The Bad Patch

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36 And He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. 38 “But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 “And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, `The old is good enough.”‘
Luke 5:36-39

Jesus was actually explaining that the Kingdom of God would be expanding. Gentiles would be grafted in to the Jewish root and some accommodations would need to be made to hold the new wine.
CPS, however, is not God. Even so, the rules of “spiritual physics” still apply. To adapt the truth of this parable, one must realize that God’s ways are good, and when CPS tries to force God’s wine to fit in with their godless worldview of the family, it is destructive.

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As Short & Sweet as It Gets

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24 Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
Mark 12:24

One would be hard-pressed to state how Child Protective Services opposes the teachings of Christ more succinctly than that!

CPS does not regard the family as God’s creative plan for child-rearing. They are all about evolution and believe that the family unit was an adaptation to preserve and distribute meager resources in a subsistence level society. In today’s culture, they believe that outsourcing is more efficient and gives children the opportunity to develop more highly advanced social skills at an earlier age. In other words, they think daycare is good for kids and parents alike. It is supposedly good for kids because they can be reared by “properly trained” child care providers with ample supervision. It is supposedly good for parents who need an emotional break from their kids to keep from becoming stressed out. Hogwash!

Daycare is actually a very unstable environment with many people constantly coming and going. Enduring, permanent attachments are not formed, and children are exposed to serial relationships at an early age. It is a petri dish for contagions. There is little “down time” for a child to reflect on experiences without having them interpreted for him. There is less opportunity to explore one’s creativity when confined in a group.

The parents’ priorities and schedules are rearranged by the demands of other people and entities who have different and often godless value systems. Parents do not get to personally oversee the shaping of their child’s worldview as is taught in scripture. Only rarely do parents have the fresh moments of the day to share with their children. Far more often, the “quality time” had to be fit in when the parent, child, or both are exhausted.

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CPS – big heads, small hearts

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42…Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them. 43 But it is not so among you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister: 44 and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.
Mark 10:42-44

Let’s put this verse into the American vernacular: “You’ve observed how godless CPS workers throw their weight around,” Jesus said, “and when people get a little power, you’ve seen how quickly it goes to their heads. It’s not that way in God’s kingdom. Whoever wants to be great there must become a servant.”

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Mis-Sunder-Standing

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5 But Jesus said unto them, For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; 8 and the twain shall become one flesh: so that they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Mark 10:5-9

This is an obvious one today folks! CPS often encourages divorce. In fact, ripping families asunder and pitting one parent against another is Standard Operating Procedure.

I heard a socialworker claim that putting one person against the other helps him “get to the truth.” He is a degenerate idiot.

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Covenant Children

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“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.
Mark 9:42

Commentator John Gill took a slightly different perspective on the “little ones” this verse:
“Christ is not speaking of little children in age, who are neither capable of believing in Christ, nor are they ready to take offence; but of such as belong to him; his disciples and followers.”

If he is right and age restriction is removed from this verse, if “little ones who believe” refers to little in might and power rather than little in age, then CPS is in huge trouble. This interpretation also helps to explain why the thrice-repeated refrain from Isa. 66:24 about being thrown into the unquenchable fire of hell where their worm does not die is used at the end of the paragraph.

If the little ones who believe are the minority of parents who are raising their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, (cf. Ephesians 6:4,) then CPS is messing in a covenant relationship. Of course God is going to take that seriously! When CPS breaks up a covenant relationship that is not already broken, they should expect the wrath of God to fall on their day of judgment.

Gill, John. “Commentary on Mark 9:42”. “The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible”. . 1999.

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Forfeiting Souls

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“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
Mark 8:36

Five verses earlier, Jesus is explaining to his disciples about what is coming up next. Peter does not like the way God is doing things and tells Jesus this privately. That instigates the comeback that everyone remembers, “Get behind Me, Satan!” He then summons the rest of the disciples and the crowd and begins expanding on how man’s interests are not the same as God’s interests. Jesus takes this directly to the focal point of the eternal consequences.

Most CPS policies are based on man’s interests. Many are forfeiting their souls because of it. Lamentably, they take others with them.

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The Heart of Man

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14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” 17 And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 greedy desires, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Mark 7:14-23

CPS totally misses the point that Jesus teaches here. And it is not surprising that they do because they are always looking for evil in others, never in themselves. They think finding evil in others makes them good! I am serious.

In my experience, what comes from the heart of CPS is false accusations and lies. They think the worst of others, they slander them in their investigations and reports, they are greedy to prosecute, they are full of pride, and they make some of the most foolish decisions of any professional vocation ever.

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Shunning God for the Sake of the Children

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3 He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 5 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God,  6 he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word  of God. 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
8 “‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
9 in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
Matthew 15:3-9 English Standard

By in large, the departments of children’s services in this nation have very little respect for parents, especially married parents. It is mostly lip service. If they do show compassion on a single mother, it is unlikely that they will stop to consider how the woman herself or government policy may have contributed to that single-status. The spirit of feminism runs rampant within children’s services.

Too many people go into social work because they were abused, or perceive themselves as abused, as kids. They come into the business with a chip on their shoulders and are hired for their passion. In truth, these broken people ought to be screened out during the hiring process. They have no business bringing their sociopath prejudices anywhere near either a hurting or worse, a falsely accused family. They identify too strongly with the first and have no realistic understanding of the cruelty they inflict on the second.

The mob members who demanded Jesus’ crucifixion would be right at home working in children’s services today. They would take Jesus’ quoting of the Torah that anyone denouncing a father or mother should be killed, judge him to be too weird, and demand court-ordered counseling. If that did not work, they would have him thrown in jail “for his own good.”

The structures of CPS are absolutely pharisaical in honoring man’s “enlightenment” rather than the wisdom of God. They believe as rigid doctrine the precepts of men.

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How Child Protective Services Opposes the Gospel

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From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 4:17

When I first opened my red-letter Bible to begin this study, I was struck by the order of Jesus’ words. Never before had I tried reading only the “red words.”  I saw that as one begins reading through the New Testament, Jesus first has to tell John the Immerser that his baptizing Jesus was a “fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” (Matthew 3:15) The point: Even John, (of whom Jesus says in Matthew 11:11, “Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist!”) had to adjust his view of what he considered right. As I have done in my previous investigations, I will let the scripture speak for itself, but hold this thought for the end of today’s article.

The next recorded words that Jesus spoke were three quotations from the Old Testament. This occurred during the time that He was being harassed and baited by the devil. Keeping up harassment when confronted with truth is a character trait of CPS.

The first real teaching that we have a record of in this Gospel is, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” CPS does not follow this teaching. Unlike John the Immerser who was quick to change his attitude to permit righteousness as soon as Jesus explained it to him, CPS does not behave that way. When they do not find what they were first looking for, they do not ask forgiveness for believing slander.  They will look for something else. This is the behavior pattern of the devil.

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