Christian Cannibals-By Bryan Hupperts

March 22, 2006
Christian Cannibals -By Bryan Hupperts

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Hi, SheepTrax!

Ahhh…. The Caribbean, the desired vacation spot of the Western world. As I am always curious about word origins, I looked the word Caribbean. The islands were named after the Caribs, indigenous people who were, by most credible accounts, cannibals. The Caribbean Islands are really the Cannibal Islands.

And you thought your neighborhood was tough?

Cannibals are people who eat other people; they dine on human flesh. The scientific word for folks with a hankering not merely to Eat At Moms, but to Eat Mom, is anthropophagites, but so what? Most condemned prisoners are offered a final meal. In cannibal society, the condemned are the last meal!

So can you be a Christian, one who is commanded to love his neighbor, and also be a cannibal? Put down your fork and knife 'cause the answer is a resounding "No!"

God has quite a bit to say about devouring one another. There is cannibalism that devours the flesh, and then a kind that devours a person whole. Curious, isn't it? Both types of cannibalism have to do with a misuse of the mouth. One kind of cannibalism devours the flesh; the other kind devours the human spirit in effort to ruin someone's confidence, influence, and reputation.

God issues a dire warning concerning Christian cannibalism: Galatians 5:14-15, "The entire law is summed up in a single command: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other."

The word "destroy" means to soundly defeat, to consume, to overcome and to bring to total ruin. These are devilish acts. 1 Peter 5:6, "Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."

What Paul told the Galatians Christians is that they were acting like devils when they were using their wayward mouths to bite and devour each other. The end result is that everyone who participates in this sin is assured of mutual destruction.

Jesus taught, in Mark 3:25, "A house is divided against itself… cannot stand." A physical body that is working against itself is said to be sick, diseased. It is unhealthy and in need of a physicians' attention. So it is with the Body of Christ.

There are Vampires For Jesus (but not the real Jesus) who seem to thrive on sucking the very life out of unsuspecting people. If they kill you, fine. Worse, if you've been bitten, you can allow a root of bitterness to take root in your heart over their godless attacks until it finally strangles the fruitful word within, and you morph one of them, the living dead; those who have, according to Revelation 3:1, "A reputation of being alive, but… are dead."

Scary.

The cure for Christian cannibalism is to change your diet. Stop devouring one another. Decide that you will stop making carnal judgments against others; stop undermining your brothers and sisters, repent of slander and gossip. Take your godless appetite for the flesh of others to the Cross of Jesus and let him deliver you! In other words, start loving one another.

Mathew contrasts two kinds of Christian professors as sheep and goats. To those who love, he will say, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." To those who do not love, but bite and devour others, he will say, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me."

How important is this? He finished his discourse on the sheep and goats with this admonition: "They (the devouring goats) will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous (those non-biting sheep) to eternal life."

Got the munchies for your brothers' hide? Jesus' warning stands clear: If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out! Your eternal life depends on it. He takes how we treat each other very personally.


Bryan Hupperts
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