He Will Confess His Crime!

HE WILL CONFESS HIS CRIME…

Crime: 1. Behavior contrary to morals, to customs. 2. Behavior contrary to the laws.

Sin: 1. A work or behavior that is against God's commands, counted a crime in religion, requiring punishment in the other world. 2. A bad behavior that disturbs a person's conscience and leads to pity.

Although the dictionary meanings are explained simply, when these words are opened up you suppose you have detonated the nucleus of an atom. For this reason I will not open them up too much, otherwise one would have to write books; my aim is to keep the subject short. Subjects written at great length quickly bore people, and they even do not read them at all.

In some societies crime and sin entered the same category. Whatever crime a person committed was at the same time counted a sin too. For instance, the state of Israel in the times before Christ was so. They had received their laws and commands from God. These rules and laws known as the 10 commandments also covered, connected to them, many commands. (Torah-Exodus 20:2-17) Some have counted these commands and rules one by one and say they are about 600; it is true. The prophet Moses mediated in this; the priests of Aaron's seed were appointed and commissioned for this work; the tribe of Levi was charged with helping the priests, and so on. These laws are also called the Sharia. Yet while in the teaching of the Quran these laws and rules are given almost no place at all, the Muslims, inspired by or under the influence of the Jews, with quotations a little from here and a little from there, try to set up a law themselves and, without knowing or understanding what they say, say, “let us return to the sharia.” People cannot lay down a law in God's name, especially if this is entirely contrary to God's aim and will. Why should it be entirely contrary? Because all these laws and the rules we call Sharia came to an end with Jesus the Messiah. Even though the principles do not change, the laws, the sin sacrifices and so on were removed. Those laws and rules we said are about 600 had a certain aim. With those laws God wanted to bring people to the consciousness of sin. In the 3rd chapter, verse 20 of the Gospel's book of Romans:

For in His (God's) presence no one will be counted righteous by the works of the sharia, because the knowledge of sin is by means of the sharia. (Gospel-Romans 3:20) Again:

For whoever keeps the whole sharia but stumbles in one thing, is guilty of all of it. It occurs in the Gospel-James, 2nd chapter, verse 10.

Indeed, to be thrown into prison you do not need to commit the crimes in all the law books; one is enough. For instance, everyone laughs at the one who says, “Stop, do not throw me in prison, I have violated only one more of the ten thousand articles of the law.” Since no human being can flawlessly fulfill all these laws, in God's sight everyone became guilty, and the penalty of the crime is death. To remove this crime, an atonement, that is, its price, had to be paid. The price of the sin that came from Adam would not be paid with the blood, with the sacrifice of animals. (Gospel-Hebrews 10:1-10) For this reason God sends Jesus the Messiah to the earth as a sacrifice in return for humanity's crime. Because Jesus, even though he was one born of a woman, was not under the effect of the sin that came from Adam and infected all humanity, because God took him from the angelic life in the heavens and ensured that he was born on earth in human form for this duty, and he was flawless, that is, sinless, like Adam. And his duty was to be a sacrifice for the sins of all humanity. Al-i Imran 59 - Gospel-Romans 5:14-15 - Al-A'raf 22 - An-Nisa 136

Therefore, just as sin entered the world by means of one man (Adam), so death too passed to all men; because all sinned. And:

For just as by the disobedience of one man (Adam) many were made sinners, so also by the obedience of one (Jesus the Messiah) many will be made righteous. Romans 5:12 and 19

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is everlasting life in our Lord the Messiah Jesus. (Romans 6:23) — by saying which God in fact explains His justice and His plan of salvation for humanity.

The Jews could never accept these things I have written and killed Jesus. Most still have not accepted them and have, with great success, inoculated the same spirit into the Islamic world, into the Muslims. The Christian world, on the other hand, making Jesus one with the Almighty God, worshiping the trinity, has gone thoroughly astray. But my subject will not go in that direction, otherwise I would have departed from the target in the title and lengthened the subject very much with entirely separate details. Those who are curious about the depth can download free and read the book “The Religion Mafias and We” onto their computer or phones from the page www.mesias.de.

In the Ottoman period too, those who acted contrary to religion were committing a crime. They had their own laws too, but religion and state laws played a basic role on the subject of crime. There are many more countries like this. If secularism, which we continually hear of, means, according to primary-school knowledge, “the separation of religious and state affairs,” crime is something people continually commit either way. Whether you lay down state laws or religious ones, they will violate one as well as the other. But in the periods when the religionists had too much authority, since they wrung this business dry, since they acted as a brake in competition and advancement with surrounding countries, nations, and most importantly on the subject of attachment to God, people lost their sympathy for them. This time authority was given into the hands of the lawmakers, that is, the politicians, and they took laws from entirely different cultures, societies, from America, from England, from Germany, from Switzerland and France. These seemed different from the religionists, but they had more harm than benefit to humanity. These words of mine are so in general; that, though very rarely, valuable politicians and religious men too emerged and still exist is another truth. And however flawless the laws may be, there are people who are flawed and think how they can break those laws and not get a penalty. For this reason, by laying down law upon law, rule upon rule, the problems were not solved; on the contrary, with Satan's help too, humanity squeezes itself into a cage and strives to destroy itself. (Holy Scripture-Isaiah 28:13)

The real matter I want to come to is people's committing crimes, their reactions to their crimes and the reasons. Look, even the flawless, that is, faultless first humans Adam and Eve did not at once, in one go, accept their crime and strove to show themselves as if they were victims. Come, let us read exactly from its place:

The LORD God asked, “Who told you that you were naked?” “Did you eat from the tree of which I told you not to eat its fruit?” Adam answered, “The woman you put at my side gave me the fruit of the tree, and I ate.” The LORD God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman answered, “The serpent deceived me, that is why I ate.” (Holy Scripture-Genesis 3:11-13)

Did you notice? These are the answers given by the human who fell into crime while flawless. Instead of accepting his crime, he either indirectly blames God or an animal, but neither of them accepts his own crime.

These events were so about 6 thousand years ago. There was no other human on earth; they did not have a world full of billions of people. They did not live in metropolises far exceeding tens of millions. Let alone evil not being widespread, there was none at all, except Satan. And he deceived them very beautifully, and carries on his work — however many billions we may be — upon everyone in person with the same cunning.

After the sin of Adam and Eve, time passed, humanity multiplied and they drew away from God. Evil automatically increased and the human's mind and thought were always on evil, and God brought humanity's end; but He saved Noah and his family. This too happens about 2 thousand years after Adam's creation. (Genesis 6:5-8)

After Noah's flood people again spread over the earth, and their leaving God was always very quick. Evil again increased and God confused people's languages. Each, according to his tribe, was divided into languages and scattered. Babel anyway calls to mind the word confusion. Until that time there was no sharia or lengthy laws, rules and so on from God. For the first time, around 1500 B.C., God gives laws, rules and principles through Moses. If someone violated these laws and rules, large and small, there was a price. In fact there is nothing without a price. Every crime has a price and it must be paid. Sometimes the blood and sacrifice of an animal, sometimes the firstfruits of your field, sometimes your bodily strength (work-slavery in return for the debt), and sometimes a life had to be given. Otherwise there was no forgiveness. This is God's justice; whether we understand it or not, whether we accept it or not, God's justice is so. And according to that justice and uprightness, all the far galaxies, the universe and all that is within it, outside it and beneath it carry on their function without ever erring. If we have Satan's spirit and understanding, we cannot accept it; we understand, but we cannot accept it. When it is done to us all these practices are good, but when it is against us we disparage it, we hate it, we become Satan, we curse God. (Gospel-Revelation 16:8 and 21)

These laws' connection with our subject is crime, that is, sin. The thing that is a crime was at the same time a sin too, because God had given the laws. To break those laws meant directly sin. As I said, the price of every sin had to be paid. This price was determined by the priests within the framework of God's rules, laws. From time to time, of course, the priests and the Levites who helped them too did not do this work from the heart. They took bribes, they squeezed the people, they committed adultery with women who served from the heart in God's work, they passed judgments according to the desires of the majority, they distorted God's words, and so on. The people, however, had to come to them and confess their crime. Because not every crime was committed openly in the open. Sometimes only the one who committed the crime knew what he had done. And he had to go and confess this, pay its price, and be freed from his sin. These prices were not always very cheap, but they did not exceed one's means either. Because the priest named a price according to everyone's power. If he was very poor he would ask for a little flour, or demand that he sacrifice two turtledoves; from a rich, wealthy one he could ask for a bull. And the value of a bull according to that time was not at all little. In the sixties our villagers who applied to go to work in Germany did this with the aim of buying two oxen and returning to their village again. Of course later the place of the oxen was taken by a tractor, a house, then a Mercedes, and so, like us, most could not return permanently to their homeland and became stuck there. The German infidel anyway arranged each of his laws so that you could not return, tied your hands, so that you could not go and be happy. Yes, you read it right, we are speaking of a nation that cannot tolerate, that envies your being happy. Anyway, let us pass these by, because again I am departing from the subject.

Nothing can be hidden from God. The Israelites had learned this. And by living, by hearing it alive; God had shown them His miracles plainly in all kinds of events. But that generation passed away and the new generation that came in its place very quickly threw behind them these events, God's glory, which they heard by ear or read. They gave more importance to their desires, their egos, their angers, their ambitions, their wishes, the things they had an appetite for — in short, to their every kind of self. Look, let us read what is written about those times:

After all those of that generation died and were gathered to their fathers, a new generation grew up that did not know the LORD and did not know what He had done for Israel. The Israelites did what was evil in the LORD's sight, worshiped the Baals*(stone idols, idols they made with their hands). They forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They bound themselves to the various gods of the nations living around them and, worshiping them, angered the LORD. Because they forsook the LORD and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths* (Idol).

Thereupon the LORD became angry with Israel. He delivered them into the hand of plunderers who took everything of theirs; He made them slaves of the surrounding enemies they could no longer resist. As the LORD had said and sworn, since He was against them, every time they went to war they were defeated. They were in great distress. (Holy Scripture-Judges 2:10-15)

Then God had mercy on them and helped them. From time to time good judges, kings, priests, prophets emerged and brought the people to the right way, but after their death the people again very quickly went astray. And God drew His protecting hand off that nation and left them in the hand of their enemies. How many generations went on like this? Believe me, I do not know the number, but it would not be too wrong if I said: until about 35 years after they killed Jesus the Messiah, when they were killed by the Romans, exiled all over the world, and there remained no state called Israel. We, as a nation, in fact know very well what this means; we lived it and have read it in our history. In fact the Israel that occurs in the Holy Scripture is only an example to all peoples, nations, states, tribes and even to humanity.

These events befell them so that they might be a lesson to others; they were set down in writing to warn us who have reached the end of the ages. (Gospel-1 Corinthians 10:11)

Look, “there is no human who does not commit crime,” says Solomon with God's spirit. (Holy Scripture-Ecclesiastes 7:20) Since every human commits crime, that is, sin, there must also be ways to reduce this to a minimum. There are, but only if we believe that God's words are for our benefit. Because of this lack of belief, and because committing crime is easy and widespread, people very easily find the courage both to sin before God and to commit crime before the laws. (Holy Scripture-Ecclesiastes 8:11) To them, almost everything that gives pleasure, that is useful, satisfying, exciting to them is either forbidden or a sin; like children calling every healthy, useful food “tasteless” and pushing it away. They find everything useful boring, joyless, hard and unnecessary.

Only, there is something much more important than crime, than sin, something God carefully attends to in us. Because God already knows, says, and made us know too that everyone is a sinner. For these things He took measures that would have all humanity's sins forgiven. Well then, what is the problem? Since we are guilty anyway and will be forgiven, what would be wrong with saying, until then, let it rip? This too is one aim of my writing.

Adam and Eve ate of a forbidden fruit, and the penalty was death; they aged and died. We die committing tens of thousands of times the crimes they committed. We commit the very most disgusting, terrible ones, crimes one cannot even bear to watch or hear of. So be it; since Jesus the Messiah is the sin sacrifice for us anyway, what difference does it make?

The difference is here; whether it be the works we call crime or sin committed, the practices, even the thoughts — aside from how much we love and desire them — we do not stop at defending them to the death; we also blaspheme the God who hates them. Indirectly or directly, openly or by denying Him, counting Him as nonexistent, judging Him with our spider mind. And we do all these knowingly, not out of ignorance. This is what God gives great importance to and distinguishes. Look, what does the Messiah say on this subject:

“Every kind of sin and blasphemy of people will be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of man (Jesus) will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit (the Holy Ghost) will not be forgiven, neither in this world nor in the world to come.” (Matthew 12:31-32)

The most beautiful example of one who has this spirit is Satan. Although he knew God, he hated Him and His works. It is evident that he has made quite an effort to make everyone acquire this spirit of his too. Let us not suppose the Messiah's sacrifice to be unconditional either. Those who repent and turn back; those who died without an opportunity, by repenting and turning back at the resurrection, that is, at the rising of the dead, will benefit from this sacrifice and their crimes will be forgiven. Not those who do not want forgiveness. In fact the situation is truly very serious. Here, while we speak of an eternal life and paradise, we are speaking of an eternal disappearing and going to destruction. Because we have seen death, illnesses, injustice, evils, lies, pains, helplessness, tears since we were born, we suppose we have come to a state of having accepted them. Or, not caring, we may see no remedy but to throw them behind us, because we believe we cannot change them. This is precisely the insidious trap, to give up, to make one give up; here is Satan's skill. Yes, we cannot change the whole world, its system, death, illnesses and whatever other calamity there is, but who wants this from us? What the creator wants from us is to change ourselves; very easy and possible, otherwise He would not have wanted it anyway.

What is crime? What is counted a crime? What is sin? What are sins, what are good deeds?

To know the laws of states is something almost impossible. There are volumes upon volumes of law books, unmovable, just on traffic. The interesting aspect is that, just as saying “I did not know” does not save a person, the prosecutor and the judge who interpret that law too can think differently. If you have been caught, it means you have trouble. But this subject of crime and sin has a very easy formula. Again the Messiah gives this answer to one who asked him a question with the aim of testing him:

One of them, an expert in the Holy Law, asked Jesus this with the aim of testing Him: “Teacher, which is the most important command in the Holy Law?”

Jesus gave him this answer: “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and most important command. The second command, like the first, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Sharia and the prophets depend on these two commands.” (Gospel-Matthew 22:36-40)

In fact it is this simple; is there a hard, incomprehensible aspect to these words? Come, if you want, let it be a little more detailed. This time a sincere man comes and asks Jesus this question, and the answer he receives is as follows:

A man came to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good must I do to attain everlasting life?”

Jesus said, “Why do you ask me about good?” “There is only one who is good. If you want to attain life, carry out His commands.”

“Which commands?” the man asked.

Jesus gave this answer: “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall honor your mother and father,’ and ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

The young man said, “I have carried out all of these,” “What do I still lack?”

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be flawless, go, sell all you have, give the money to the poor; thus you will have treasure in the heavens. Then come, follow me.”

When the young man heard these words, he went away in sorrow. Because he had much property. (Gospel-Matthew 19:16-22)

I have laughed much at this man's sorrow. Again, is there an aspect of these words that cannot be understood? In short, we learn what crime is from the day we are born. Right or wrong, but they teach what crime is, even if it shows differences in every society. As I said, crime is not so valuable anyway; what is valuable is our reactions to our crimes and our attachment to them as if addicted; the subject of my writing is in this direction.

For instance, why does a person not confess his crime? He resorts to every kind of lie, comes in from below and goes out from above, tears heaven and earth, weeps and wails, makes a scene, but does not say his crime in three words, “yes, I committed a crime.” The problem really begins here. Otherwise, if your foot slips and you fall and break something, that is repaired, it heals; but there are very rare people who, falling into a spirit like a slip of the foot and a fall while committing a crime, confess. Indeed, even the one whose foot slips in those high heels does not say, “I stepped wrong, ridiculous shoes, my fault,” but says, “they spilled something slippery on the ground, what kind of stairs,” or “it was the road.” We understand, we understand, but we just cannot accept it. The most terrible thing is this, not being able to accept. You explain, you teach the one who does not understand; what can be done to the one who understands but does not accept?! What is said to the one who understands but cannot accept that 2 plus 2 makes four?

“When a person makes a mistake, he can accept his error to himself. But when someone else brings his error to light, he cannot stomach it,” says Carnegie in his book.

Well, with the struggles given to not confess, even to show the same crimes, which are continually committed, as valid, as right, is our world happy? Everything is plainly evident, we see and live it, and for this reason we definitely say “no.”

Come now, before the priests and the laws there is paying a price, getting a penalty; well, among our household, relatives, friends, in the relationships of our togetherness, in how many people do we see the sincerity of confessing one's crime? I, unfortunately, cannot see it in anyone. But why should a human confess his crime in the open and show humility? Is there not a becoming small, a being disgraced in the business? And once you have fallen onto people's tongues, then sort the stones out of the rice. In fact we do not need to make confession to everyone so openly. But at least, toward the person against whom we committed a crime, to show an apology and, with all the sincerity we can, remorse, and to try to make amends, is our human duty. We are speaking of something every human is obliged to do. Now those who read this writing throw at me a host of theses like, “fool, idiot, do you know what happens then? A person's life is ruined.” And contrary as it is, it is the truth. But to those who raise themselves up in that lie and secrecy, look at what Jesus the Messiah says:

“Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted,” it says in Luke 14:11. Even if our world, that is, Satan, tries to show exactly the opposite and is successful, let us not forget that it is only for a very short time. It is not in vain that this world is called “a place of testing.”

I once watched a film, they made it a bit like a comedy too. A man promises himself to tell only the truth for a whole day. You have guessed of course what happens. He is thrown out of work, his wife leaves, his closest friends abandon him, he is thrown out of the house, and so on. All of it happens in one day, supposedly. This is of course a film, and it is precisely what Satan palms off on us as the reality forced on us. And the man has done so much crookedness over the years and dodged it that with one day's truths almost all of it comes out. In fact he should endure the things that befall him. If a person clings to uprightness from the beginning, since everyone would know him so, then not by one day but by a lifetime of telling the truth, his life will not suddenly undergo much change. This world certainly does not give a reward to upright people; if necessary it nails them too, but we spoke of eternal life, we spoke of an eternal paradise, and in between there is God, and we said the one who does His will will stand forever, while the others will eternally disappear. For someone who has accepted this truth, absorbed it into his inside, his spirit, the blood in his veins, the breath he takes, and filled his spirit, his mind with it, what is being nailed? It is only a reward.

Before even coming to the future paradise part of the matter, how many people have tasted the happiness and peace attained while living in this world? The human does what he does, but he cannot know beforehand what will happen after he does it, into what kind of spiritual collapse, even into pain enough to go to suicide, he will writhe. Killing a person may calm our anger of the moment; well, then what? Do we know what will happen, what kind of volcanoes will erupt within us? After we do it, we know. In these events we live by lying, doing every kind of evil, casting slanders for the sake of our egos, our interests, becoming small and base by coveting three and five, we always feel distress at the beginning. The human is in fact wonderfully created in God's likeness. Our mind disturbs us. We cannot sleep, we take no pleasure in anything, and without being drowned in distress, we seek ways to be freed from it. While these happen, one generally comes to a fork in the road. Either we will confess all we have done and correct them; or we will turn and twist ourselves, bend, deceiving one way or another, and come out spotless from our filth. Oh! Now we can sleep comfortably, and let the next day come. Once we get used to these, then all our ugliness, our crimes will no longer seem so hard, however disgusting and unclean what we do may be. First we were warned, we came to the fork, and we made our choice; it is this simple.

Two people named Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson write a book. Both are social psychologists and have taught at university. The Turkish cover name is “It is not my fault,” but I liked the German cover name more. There it says, “Even if I am wrong, I am always right.” The original cover name is “Mistakes were Made,” that is, in the sense of “Mistakes were made.” It became a wonderful research book, and it has a very close connection with this subject of mine. On the back cover of the book the following is written:

It is said, “there is no human without fault”; the life of each of us is full of various faults… In fact we know this truth, but to confess it, to accept it, is not so easy… Well, why?

Why, when things go badly or we fail, do we avoid taking responsibility? Why do leaders, well-known people not confess their faults, cannot confess them? Why do the arguments between married couples about who is right drag on and on? Why do we see hypocrisy in others but cannot pin it on ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we all really believe the stories we tell? These writers tell how we deceive ourselves, how we justify ourselves even in our most terrible faults, and in the end how we harm ourselves, and continue:

Without trying to throw the guilt onto someone else, without setting about seeking an excuse, to be able to say, “I made a mistake, it is my fault,” is, depending on the situation, not only a virtue but at the same time the only way to turn the mistake into an educative, instructive experience… Most of the book is wonderful and was brought forth at the end of the objective study, research they did on us humans for years. I strongly recommend it to everyone.

While our life, and our eternal life and our true happiness at that, are at stake, why do we, as humanity, push all these values away with the back of our hand and let ourselves be carried away by the provocation of one who is an enemy to us (Satan)? How do we turn our backs on the One who created us and on God, who did not create us in vain but has an aim? Supposing ourselves to be what, trusting in what of ours, do we leave off trusting God who shaped and created us, and act solely according to our mind, according to feelings that come from our gut? We who, when put into a coffin (the four-handled bier), turn into a state from whose smell one cannot come near, what do we suppose ourselves to be?

We read all these and, however true we find them, we do not find them realistic, applicable. We say, “Am I to commit a crime and confess it openly! Am I to become gum in everyone's mouth, a subject of mockery?”

You are driving a car on a road as smooth as oil, empty. Touching and touching the gas pedal, you press it down to the bottom. It becomes pleasurable, exciting. The kilometers show 200, but on that road one goes at most 110. You quickly pull yourself together and take your foot off the gas, and your inside becomes distressed. Just recently a car had hit a friend you loved and he had died there. “Yes, he tried to cross carelessly, perhaps it was his fault, but if the driver had gone slowly it would not have happened,” you say. In a place a young girl had gone to do higher education; with her friends they go out for an evening walk. As four friends walk side by side, arm in arm — since in our country cars are parked on the sidewalks, they have to pass there only by stepping onto the road, and the taxi coming from behind, hurrying to pick up a customer at the airport, smashes all four of them to pieces. Arms and legs are gathered from the roads. Only one is saved in a way that will leave her crippled for life. All these come to your mind, and you saw all of these yourself, lived them, not a newspaper or TV news. You feel great distress. You go straight to the first traffic policeman before you and tell how fast you drove and say you are guilty. The policeman gives you a look and, going 200 instead of 110, makes a calculation and writes a 500-dollar fine. He adds, too, “If only everyone were like you.” Your feeling is caressed, you feel a relief, and your heart aches quite a bit for the 500 dollars, but you scold yourself, “it was my fault, oh, it is good.” Then you set out on the road again and, just as it is, drive the car with even more care. As you pass to the left to overtake a truck, the one coming from behind flashes his high beams on and off; you immediately move aside. You think, perhaps he has a patient or something. Then another passes you with a whoosh, even faster. The inside of the car is visible. The woman sitting beside the driver looks at her hair, freshens her makeup! If you are now going 105, on that 110 road he is going a guaranteed 180. Annoyed, you press the horn, but not even the crows hear it. After your confession, on that 100-km road you went home, do you know how many people went, feeling themselves guilty and confessing to the police as you did? You could not even count them. Within at most one hour after your confession to the police, you question whether what you did was right. You begin to see yourself as a dolt. “Am I to change this world? Gone, 500 dollars,” you say. And you climb the stairs of your house thinking, “I cannot tell anyone either, they would tie a tin can to my behind.” Yet with that 500 what would you not have done. You would have gone out to eat with your spouse, and many times at that. You would have ordered the most delicious foods to your door by phone, you would have laughed and played, wife and children. With these and other such ups and downs within you, you drill yourself for work tomorrow without even getting your sleep comfortably.

This was the simplest example. Even the judges who look at the traffic fines that everyone does plainly confess that they too do not drive a car flawlessly and without committing a crime. Did you say, “Well, brother, then we are complete dolts”? Yet at the beginning you made a confession with very beautiful and fitting thoughts and remorse. Well, then why did you change your mind so quickly? Do you say the other drivers caused me to think this way? Yes, it is true. Looking at them, you were influenced, and your uprightness, your conscience suddenly turned into doltishness. If the police had stopped and written a fine for each of those cars that passed you at excessive speed, would you have thought this way then? Do you say “no”? Then where, from what does the problem stem? Do our surroundings influence us? And how.

Look, what does Solomon say in the book of Ecclesiastes:

Since judgment against an evil work is not carried out quickly, the heart of the sons of man finds courage from this to do evil. (Ecclesiastes 8:11) If these words are exactly fitting for us too, then woe to us.

A woman promises her husband that she will lose her excess weight, swears to God and shows all the oceans/seas too as witnesses. They make an agreement that if she cannot, her husband can divorce her and end their 30-year marriage. She needs to lose 6-7 kilos within 6 weeks. In fact it is not so hard, impossible a thing. There is no health problem or anything. The man believes, in fact he wants to believe. What happens after 2 months, make a guess. The woman gains another 6-7 kilos on top of the ones she should have lost. All right, aside from that woman giving no value at all to her marriage, her husband and so on, in between there is God, there is her oath, there is the word she gave. If she says, damn that husband, I understand, but the others are never understood. Because that human not only tramples all values underfoot, but also counts herself as a nothing and destroys herself. Will this person not then say, “the fish has sunk anyway, let it go on its side,” and do everything, sell all values? The more crimes we commit and ignore, the more we have fed the crime. And the thing that is fed grows, develops, strengthens and emerges before us as a giant. Now we can in no way resist it. Our always supposing the control to be in ourselves becomes a lie. This was a woman's oath and the word she did not keep. Well, how many people are there in our world who swear and promise that they will no longer gamble, drink alcohol, commit adultery, lie, steal, use drugs, betray? To say everyone would be the easiest and most realistic, but come, let us not be so pessimistic.

Why does a person not confess his crime? The answer is generally very simple; whatever the crime he would confess, he does not want to give it up, and for this reason he does not confess. Because he will have to do this every day, and if he has to pay a price too, a day will come when he cannot pay it and it will have no meaning either. In old Israel, the one who knowingly or unknowingly violated one of God's commands, of all those laws, was to confess his crime.

-If someone commits a crime and, when he hears the offer of an oath as a witness, does not report what he saw and knew, that person has sinned and will suffer the penalty of his crime.

-If someone unknowingly touches anything counted unclean, the carcass of a wild, domestic or small animal, he is defiled and counted guilty.

-If someone unknowingly touches an unclean human or anything coming from a human that will defile him, the moment he understands what he did he will be counted guilty.

-If someone, on whatever subject, to do evil or good, swears an oath without thinking and without knowing what he does, the moment he understands this he will be counted guilty.

-When a person commits one of these crimes, he must confess his sin. As the price of his sin he must bring a guilt offering* to the LORD. This offering must be from the small livestock. It can be a female lamb or a goat. The priest will obtain forgiveness for the person's sin.

-If he does not have the power to take a lamb, in return for his crime he must offer to the LORD two turtledoves or two pigeons, one as a sin offering*, the other as a burnt offering*. He must bring these to the priest…. The priest will obtain forgiveness for the person's sin and the person will be forgiven. (Holy Scripture-Leviticus 5:1-6)

In fact how merciful God is; He forgives almost everything and shows ways of forgiveness. But people want neither to be forgiven nor to turn back from their crimes; the problem is here. As I said, committing crime is in a sense not so grave; what is terrible is that we have clung to our crimes, that instead of giving them up we want to develop them even more. States, those countries, nations, societies, families like a monster sucking humanity's blood, and we, as a world, have not overcome this problem, did not want to overcome it, and do not want to overcome it.

He who covers his offenses will not prosper; but the one who confesses and forsakes them finds mercy. (Proverbs of Solomon 28:13)

Do you find these words wrong? For instance, instead of “he who covers his offense will not prosper,” do you say, “on the contrary, it is precisely they who prosper”? The whole world is guilty, humanity is guilty, yes; look at that whole world and say, “We, humanity, have prospered.” Can you say it? Because we are guilty and do not give them up, we cannot find mercy from God either. Then, in the wars, massacres we see, looking at children with their arms and legs blown off, rolling in their blood in the dust, do we say, with great arrogance, “There is no God, if there were He would not permit such things”! It happens exactly so. And while saying this we do not even feel shame. Instead of saying, “God gave us our due and we found what we deserved,” we find it easier to deny Him. Come on, now let us sleep comfortably, it is not our fault! These heads rule the world; this spirit dominates over us, and we fed and grew it so much that it became a terrible giant, and now we can in no way master it. If only we knew that that giant is in fact a soap bubble, if only we knew that it is only in our minds, and disgustedly took it out from there and threw it away, we are speaking of something that would here suddenly disappear. But we do not do it. Even if we do, the others do not. If the others do, the rest do not, and as in the traffic crime, we are gripped by the spirit of “Am I to fix this world?” We cannot have the logic and spirit of, “Hey man, hey woman, leave the world, fix yourself, because it is you who will go to destruction.”

Even in the smallest things we lie, we deny. At home, when I said “what is this?”, sounds of “I did not do it” would come from my wife and my son even without knowing or seeing what I said it for. I would say, “So then some invisible people also live in our house.” This weakness of theirs, their being so afraid of responsibility, their seeing family trust so cheap while living under one roof, of course was not at all pleasant. Yet there is nothing in the open. I was not someone who hangs the one he hangs and cuts the one he cuts, either. My son said the same spirit was at school too. When the teacher scolds something, even without saying what it is, sounds of “I did not do it” would rise in the classroom. Almost all crimes are increasing because they make a domino effect. As I told in the traffic example, others do it or do not do it; now, whatever it is, we immediately go after them.

The teacher asks Ali, “Who knocked down the walls of Jericho?” He says, “Teacher, I did not do it,” and while the teacher looks at his face bewildered, the bell rings. The teacher tells this subject to the school principal. When the principal says, “If he says he did not do it, it is true. I know that family, they are very honest,” the teacher is even more astonished and, writing the situation to the Ministry of National Education, sends a letter. The answer that comes from the Ministry of National Education is exactly this: “Repair that wall at once, and do not disturb us with such things again. It is already a very costly school, otherwise we will close the school”!!! Whoa, take from one and hit the other. Perhaps you too do not know who knocked down the walls of Jericho. Those who are curious can read the 6th chapter of the book of Joshua in the Holy Scripture. :-)

Whatever people do, they do not want to take any responsibility, to pay its price, but they continue to do it. This means: “Everyone else, whatever that price is, whatever that pain is, whatever that distress is, whatever that life is, whatever that home is, can be ruined and go, but I am not responsible.” Wonderful, is it not? I think you have understood what the spirit is that we have and that I want to tell about. “He will confess his crime,” says God.

-What crime, sir?

-Which crime?

-Who did it?

-When did he do it, sir?

-To whom did he do it?

-Do you have proof, sir?

No one is disturbed by committing crime, that he should make a confession. A person should feel disturbed when he commits a crime, so much so until he confesses. The police, the prosecutors, the law can make a person do this by taking him into a vice with threats. There are many things that are not counted a crime before the laws but are a sin. Besides, there are hundreds of thousands of tricks that are counted a crime before the laws but cannot be proven. States have crimes and no one has the power for it. Go to the USA and say, “you are guilty.” Say, “You have so much blood on your hands and are still like a monster that is not sated, that eats and crushes and tears the rest underfoot with its feet.” (Holy Scripture-Daniel 7:7) Who would listen, sir? Neither its people nor its rulers would care. It is a very minority segment, and they do not even make their voice heard anyway.

In the history of the Holy Scripture only one country is mentioned, called Nineveh. In this event that befell the prophet Jonah, the people of Nineveh believe in God, proclaim a fast and, from the greatest to the smallest, wrap themselves in sackcloth. And this word reached the king of Nineveh; he rose from his throne, took off his robe, wrapped himself in sackcloth and sat on ashes. By the decree of the king's great men he cried out and proclaimed to Nineveh: “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything, graze, or drink water; let both man and animal wrap themselves in sackcloth and call on God with strength; let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence in their hands. Who knows? Perhaps God will turn and relent, will turn from His fierce anger, and we will not perish.” (Holy Scripture-Jonah chapter 3)

From God's words, which together with the Holy Scripture and the Quran cover a history of 4600 years, we read of only this one nation that, as a whole country, repented. What did Jonah say that they turned back so? With the command he received from God, Jonah did not speak at great length.

“There are still 40 days, Nineveh will be destroyed!”

Jonah, saying only these words, walked through Nineveh, which was three days' journey in length from one end to the other. We read their reaction. And God forgave them. In your opinion, in our time which country in the world would show this reaction as a whole? Which nation? Which tribe? Which group? Which community of relatives? Which family or who? I ask sincerely, whom do you know around you? Think deeply like this. Let me answer for my own account, from my narrow surroundings: I know no one.

In Osho's book it occurs thus:

While establishing relationships with people, let us not put out of our minds that we are not face to face with logical creatures. We are trying to establish communication with creatures that act emotionally, that have prejudices, that are devoted to their honor and their pride.

You go and say to these people, “you are guilty, why do you not confess and give it up?” Dale Carnegie says these words in his book:

Criticism is a very dangerous spark. And this spark is of a nature that will detonate human pride, which is no different from a powder keg. (How to Win Friends and Influence People-Dale Carnegie)

We know, have read, have heard what they did to the prophets. They nailed them, sawed them with a saw, buried them alive, had them torn apart by animals, impaled them on stakes and burned them alive… Is there need to count more? (Gospel-Matthew 27:33-51; Hebrews 11:35-40)

Dale Carnegie continues and writes thus:

If you are someone who continually brings to light the errors of the one before you, read these lines every morning. (We took this anecdote from Professor James Harvey Robinson's work “The Formation of Ideas.”)

“From time to time we see that we change our thoughts without resistance or being seized by excitement. Yet if we are told that we are wrong, we resist and defend our thoughts to the end. It is plainly seen that what is important to us is in fact not those ideas, but our pride which is under threat. In the conversations among people the word ‹‹I›› takes up quite a lot of space. To give this word the value it deserves is the wisest behavior. The words ‘My’ meal, ‘My’ dog, ‘My’ house, ‘My’ father, ‘My’ country have the same effect too. Beginning from our watch being wrong, when we meet someone who objects to our knowledge about the canals on Mars, our mispronouncing a word or misspelling it, our saying a date wrong, we get angry. Because we want a thing we suppose to be right to remain as we know it. We neither feel distressed for it nor apologize for it. In the end, we struggle to not change what we know. (How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.37-Dale Carnegie)

In a conversation with a young German girl of 20, she was saying, “whatever happens, I would never confess a crime I committed.” Upon my asking, “But even if your crime were plainly evident and you were going to the electric chair, would you not confess?”, she was very sincere in saying, “even in its last second, I would never confess.” I believe that she was not the only one receiving this education. They had convinced her so that they had engraved into this girl's heart the logic that if you confess your crime you will lose anyway, but if you deny it, even a one-percent chance of being saved exists. Things like her relationship with God, death, resurrection, the day of judgment seemed to them like fairy tales anyway. Only if there is fighting against Muslims, if they are being massacred, in malice and hatred, then all of them turn Christian in unity! People use even their beliefs in the way of hatred and fighting, even though they themselves sincerely do not believe at all.

What do we need for crimes to disturb us?

-Most importantly we need a healthily functioning conscience.

(Those who want more can read the ‘Conscience’ section of the book ‘The Religion Mafias and We’ from the page www.mesias.de)

What does conscience mean? Simply, our ability to distinguish good from evil. The concepts of good and evil will also show great differences according to laws, cultures, beliefs, regions. In fact we are a human race created from a single God and descended from a single human. While there should be a single religion, Satan has turned the business into a knot of hair. For this reason:

-We need a very good education.

We can find this education only from the words of the single God. And those words are the Holy Scripture (Torah-Psalms-Gospel together) and the Holy Quran. We must continually educate ourselves with those words, learn them, so that in an event they come to our mind at once and are written in our hearts too. To know all these is not enough either.

-We must have a definite belief in those words we know, we learned.

To believe definitely is not enough either. James says in his words:

You believe that God is one; you do well; the jinn too believe and tremble. (Gospel-James 2:19) We must also definitely, lovingly, comply with and apply what we believe. Otherwise it becomes an utterly empty belief and will provide benefit to no one, will serve no purpose.

Education, faith and works are not enough either; the love of God forms the foundation of these. If we do not have love, even if we are doing good works, a day will surely come and we will fall. And to love God we need to know Him. By means of the books I mentioned and prayers coming from the heart, it will be possible for us to know God and love Him. In the time of Abraham, whom God called ‘my friend,’ there was no book or writing. But he, by feeling his way, that is, using his mind and his heart, became convinced that there is a God. (Quran-Al-An'am 74-79; Al-Anbiya 51-70; Maryam 42-58; At-Tawbah 114; Al-Mumtahanah 4 - Please open and read these verses from their place)

Confessing one's crime first gives a person great peace, relief. You attain the lightness of being freed from a heavy burden. Now those disharmonies in your mind come to an end. Your spirit becomes like a sea that, after terribly stormy waves, has become a dead calm, flat like a sheet, giving tranquility. You make this confession above all so that your relationship with God is not spoiled. Because nothing is hidden in His sight. There is nothing He does not know, does not see. Since you already possess this consciousness and knowledge, you do not hide your crime. From whom would you hide it? From people? Will you fear becoming small before them, or before God? Moreover, by confessing and making amends for that crime, we will have difficulty committing the same crimes again and again, because our confession to God, our remorse, will come to our mind. It is like praying. Praying builds a person up; why? In prayer we speak to our Creator of our wishes, of gratitude, of the things that distress us, but we take care that all these be according to His will. We must know God well enough to know that prayers like, “let me win the lottery so that I can buy a wedding dress more splendid than the one Zehra wore at her wedding and show her her day,” are not in keeping with His will. The Arabic we say without understanding at all, like a parrot, ceaselessly, for a whole lifetime, does not build us up; in our mind we only feel a false relief, numb ourselves and deceive ourselves. Is this my opinion?

‹‹When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. They love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets so that everyone may see them. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But you, when you pray, withdraw into your inner room, shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. Your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. When you pray, do not keep repeating empty words like the idolaters. They suppose they can make their voices heard with a multitude of words. Do not be like them! Because your Father knows what you need before you ask it of Him. (Gospel-Matthew 6:5-8)

Only, “whoever the one is against whom you committed a crime, whomever you wronged and put into distress, you must certainly first make peace with him and make amends for the situation,” says God.

For this reason, when offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother has a complaint against you, leave your gift there before the altar, go first and make peace with your brother; then come and offer your gift. (Matthew 5:23)

I believe that almost 99 percent — let us say — of the crimes committed are not out of need. It is not only I who say this. Our lies, our jealousies, the things we covet, our arrogance, our egos, our ambitions, our anger and whatever else there is, none of them is our need. We desire all these, but they are not our need. Look at what a very famous Indian philosophy professor says:

Kill the desires, you will see that no blood comes from them, because they are spiritless. But when you kill a need, there will be a massacre. When you kill a need, a part of you too will die. When you kill a desire, you will not die. On the contrary, you will be freer. More freedom will emerge when you leave the desires. When you become a person of need without any desire, you are already on the way, it means, and paradise is not very far. (Bhagwan)

In every religion there is fasting, especially in the Islamic world. Why? Why does God want us to keep away from being hungry, thirsty or from certain desires? As if, when we eat and drink, we eat and drink for Him? In the spirit of fasting is to become conscious of how little a human needs and how very many desires he has. It is to say “No” to one's self. It is to take its reins in one's hands. And again, fasting is to rein in the body's needs and enrich the spirit. Because these are opposite to one another.

Because those who are according to the body think the things of the body, and those who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Because the thought of the body is death, but the thought of the Spirit is life and peace; because the thought of the body is enmity against God; because it does not, and cannot, obey God's sharia/laws; those who are in the body cannot please God. So then, if God's spirit dwells in you, you are not in the body but in the Spirit… (Gospel-Romans 8:5-9)

All the holy writings written inspired by God give us this message. Satan, however, has always set up a world that will set our bodily desires in motion, that will whet our appetite. All the advertisements, our surroundings, the things we want to have and whatever else there is — pay attention, they are always directed at our desires, not at our need. The crimes we commit too stem from these. “If a hungry thief steals to fill his belly, no one despises him,” says Solomon. (Proverbs of Solomon 6:30) Of however many thieves, jinxes, exploiters, traitors or massacring terrorists there are, how many are so out of need?

Nasreddin Hodja was driving a car and I was sitting beside him. The moment we entered the neighborhood — it was a very hot summer day — he immediately closed all the windows of the car. “What are you doing?” I said.

-“What do you mean? Am I to allow the whole neighborhood to learn that I do not have an air-conditioned car?” he said.

Both of us were sweating, it was like an oven, but how can you let your neighbors learn that you do not have an air-conditioned car? This is a need of the mind. The body says, “Give it up! Are you mad?” The body is sweating, says “No.” Listen to the body; do not listen to the mind. The mind's needs are created by other people around you; they are mindless, foolish, dolts. (Bhagwan)

While reading the Holy Scripture for the first time, this verse drew my attention very much. There the apostle Paul said thus:

Contentment and Piety (attachment to God-abstaining from sin) are a great gain. Because we brought nothing into the world, nor can we take anything out of it. But as long as we have what we will eat and what we will cover ourselves with, we will be content with them. But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many meaningless and harmful desires that sink people into destruction and ruin. Because a root of every kind of evil is the love of money; some, desiring this, strayed from the faith and tortured themselves with many torments. (Gospel-1 Timothy 6:6-10)

Think, being realistic; if one had a spirit that would be content with what we eat and what we cover ourselves with, how rich our whole world in fact is. It would feed hundreds of billions and make them happy. Well, why is the human still, ever since he was created, shedding blood in the world and eating one another? Making one another vomit blood and torturing one another? Because there is no love. Let us not confuse shows with love; I am speaking of true love. Well, what does that mean?

If I spoke with the tongue of people and of angels but had not love, I would be no different from sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. If I could prophesy, knew all the secrets, had all knowledge, had faith great enough to move mountains from their place, but had not love, I am nothing. If I distributed all I have as alms, gave my body to be burned, but had not love, it would be of no benefit to me. Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, does not boast, is not arrogant. Love does not behave rudely, does not seek its own interest, is not easily angered, keeps no account of evil. Love does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with what is true. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But prophecies will be removed, tongues will come to an end, knowledge will be removed. Because our knowledge and our prophesying too are limited. But when the perfect comes, the limited will be removed. As a child I spoke like a child, understood like a child, thought like a child. When I became an adult I left childish behaviors. Now we see everything like a dim image in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now my knowledge is limited, but then I will know fully, as I am known. So there are three things that remain: faith, hope, love. And the greatest of these is love. (Gospel-1 Corinthians 13)

Love is the basic problem of the whole world of humanity. We do not love one another, we do not love ourselves, we do not love the animals, nature, we do not love life, we do not love God, and for this reason we continually commit crime. In the Christian world the subject most preached is love, because this is absent in them, or terribly little. Pay attention, whatever is most preached in every religion, this is the deficiency of that belief community. Speaking of love reminded me, someone somewhere was saying thus:

We say we love animals, we kill and eat them; we say we love trees, flowers, we cut and pluck them; if we say we love fish, duck, lamb very much, you have now understood what it means. We say we love people, we continually fight. I am terrified that someone will say he loves me.

And if we do love, we love like this. Destroying, tearing apart, severing the bonds of life is our fruit. Then are we speaking of confessing one's crime and giving it up?! I chose an impossible subject, I know; still I wrote it because I found it very necessary.

Then He said to me, ‹‹Do not seal up the prophetic words of this book,›› ‹‹because the awaited time is near. Let the one who does evil still do evil. Let the one who is filthy continue his filthy works. Let the one who is righteous still do right. Let the one who is holy remain holy.››

‹‹Behold, I am coming soon! The rewards I will give are with me. I will give to everyone the recompense of what he did. I am the Alpha* and the Omega*, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

‹‹Happy are those who wash their robes, thus earning the right to eat from the tree of life and to pass through the gates and enter the city! The dogs, the sorcerers, those who commit fornication, the murderers, the idolaters, all who love the lie and practice deceit will remain outside. (Gospel-Revelation 22:10-14)