tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38125580961306802502024-02-18T17:56:40.669-08:00Fighting the Four EvilsWe do not fight people, we are fighting with a spirit. That spirit is Mammon which dominates and controls the whole world through the Anglo-American Democratic Capitalist System. It manifests in Humanism and Liberalism, through Democracy, and Capitalism, the Four Evils who enslave the whole of mankind.
Many Christians who should understand the spirit of Mammon, do not.
We expose and fight the spirit of Mammon, and the four evils of Humanism, Liberalism, Democracy and Capitalism.
Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.comBlogger1293125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-33947852477013355972020-12-17T10:19:00.005-08:002020-12-17T10:22:48.167-08:00The spirit of Paganism is of Degeneracy, Rebellion and Bloodlust<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paganism is the
rejection and hostility towards all Christian virtues. It is not merely the
unbelief in fundamental Christian theological doctrine, but the hatred of
Christian virtues. This ultimately leads to the active, outright embrace of all
manner of degeneracy. The scriptures describes such paganism in Romans 1:18-32:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness, because what may be known of God
is manifest in them, for God has shown it to
them. For since the creation of the world His
invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they
are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not
glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in
their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be
wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals
and creeping things.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of
their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,<b> </b>who
exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even
their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. <b> </b>Likewise
also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving
in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those
things which are not fitting; <b> </b>being filled with all
unrighteousness, sexual immorality,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they
are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning,
untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing
the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are
deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who
practice them.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The passage in Romans
describes those who know of the truth of God, but reject it on purpose,
deliberately and knowingly, to the point that God gives them up to a debased
mind. Those with a debased mind have absolutely no sense of moral virtue at
all. Speak to a person from such a pagan society about 'morality', and he will
give you a blank look at best, or mock and scorn you at worst. Such people in
as though there is no such thing a morality, and worse still, that morality is
some evil construct that is designed to oppress people. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The passage is not
describing societies that are seeking the knowledge of God but to whom God has
not revealed Himself, such that they fail to understand who God is. It is not
describe ancient Greece in the time of Aristotle who sought to use natural law
to understand the concept of a 'God', or ancient China where Confucianism,
which sought to understand the truths about life (the 'dao' or </span><span face=""Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif" lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">道</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) and ultimately about
the concept of a 'God' which was conceptualised as 'dao', was adhered to.
Both Aristotelianism and Confucianism, though flawed in their
conceptualisation of 'God', at least sought to do the right thing, and sought
to be virtuous. These cannot be described as paganism as such because they do
not actively and outright reject true virtue.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Any worldview that
still accepts some or certain Christian virtues, such as kindness,
righteousness and humility, though not believing the the fundamental Christian
theological doctrines, such as the Trinity, is not paganism, though it is
certainly not Christian. Such is the case with Confucianism as well as
Aristotelianism. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paganism is simply the
embrace of all manner of rebellion, embracing the pleasures of the flesh and
pride of life, and does not care about the dignity of others. It is simply the
celebration of outright degeneracy, self-centred, self-gratifying lusts, and
cruelty. It despises anything who opposes its degeneracy and self-centred
lusts, manifesting in its inherent cruelty and mercilessness. It will do
anything to oppress and suppress those who oppose their wickedness. It
disregards the weak, needy and the poor, and tramples them under foot, and
thinking nothing of it. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Book of Wisdom
2:1-23 describes the evil person, as opposed to one who is simply ignorant:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the ungodly said,
reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and
in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to
have returned from the grave.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For we are born at all
adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the
breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our
heart:</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Which being
extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish
as the soft air,</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And our name shall be
forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life
shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that
is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For our time is a very
shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is
fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Come on therefore, let
us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures
like as in youth.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us fill ourselves
with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us crown ourselves
with rosebuds, before they be withered:</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let none of us go
without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness
in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us oppress the
poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray
hairs of the aged.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let our strength be
the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Therefore let us lie
in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean
contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and
objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He professeth to have
the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was made to reprove
our thoughts.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He is grievous unto us
even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, his ways are of another
fashion.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are esteemed of him
as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth
the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us see if his
words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For if the just man be
the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us examine him
with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his
patience.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us condemn him
with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such things they did
imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As for the mysteries
of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness,
nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For God created man to
be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pagan is barbaric,
as he oppresses the poor righteous person, the widow and the elderly. Societies
that are pagan are well-known for carrying out human sacrifices on the elderly
once they reach a certain age, as well as the righteous who oppose their ways.
Pagan societies love death, and support all manner of practices that bring
about death against the Will of God, such as abortion and euthanasia, but yet
oppose putting the wicked to death for his sins as he deserves, such as the
homosexual. Where they do put the wicked to death, it is for wicked motives and
reasons. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pagan mindset is
that what one can do is what one should do, whether it is right or wrong. To
the pagan mindset, the only right and wrong, is what satisfies one lusts of the
eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life. The love of such lusts leads to
blood lust where one seeks to pursue their lusts at no matter what it may cost
to others, even if it is their blood. This explains why pagan societies are
full of death and human sacrifice is so normal across all pagan societies,
including that done under a more 'clean-cut', modern scientific face. Shedding
the blood of the innocent is viewed as normal, and treated with utter
indifference in pagan societies.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pagan societies are
fundamentally tribalistic, defining themselves by their own tribal ways,
attitudes, and characteristics, especially their own tribal degeneracies. These
degeneracies are what they are so proud of as a society that they look down
upon anyone who opposes, disagrees with or even questions their degeneracies.
Such societies are the most racist and intolerant, despite often having the
face of 'tolerance', by which they really mean tolerant of all manner of
wickedness, degeneracy, rebellion and heresy. Their face of apparent tolerance
comes by virtue of not being lax about morality, and not in any way because
they are genuinely caring and charitable towards others, such as those who are
'foreigners', being people from other cultures or ethnic groups. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pagan societies are
always racialist and intolerant towards people of other cultures and ethnic
groups, particularly those of non-pagan or religious cultures that believe in
virtue and morality. The racism of such societies is not evident where
prosperous materially, but where hard times comes, the racism flares up and
comes to the surface, owing to jealousy towards others, or looking down up
others out of pride when comparing themselves to a less well-off group.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such societies are
always inevitably full of pride in being proud of their ways, including the
evil ways of their tribe, just because it is of their tribe. Anything that is
foreign to their tribe is immediately rejected as evil, just because it is not
of their tribe. This is what makes it so difficult to reach out to certain
ethnic groups with the Gospel, because of their racial pride, and racial
supremacist thinking. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The spirit of paganism
is of degeneracy, rebellion and bloodlust. It is the active hatred against God
that knows about God but rejects God, not merely ignorance about God. It is
next to impossible to reach out to such people who are so darkened in their
minds, and actively hate God and pursue all manner of lust and pride, to the
point of celebrating all manner of evil, degeneracy and rebellion, and being so
full of pride. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p></p>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-82428494544128353542020-11-27T08:08:00.001-08:002020-11-27T08:08:39.165-08:00Patriarchy was Instituted by God and for Good Reason. Those who go against it are in Rebellion Against God.<p></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
very term 'patriarchy' evokes all kinds of negative feelings in modern society.
For many in modern western society, particularly women, it is the most evil and
worst dystopian nightmare possible. For others, it is seen as outdated and
antiquated, but nevertheless viewed unfavourably. Yet for some acculturated in
western culture, it is simply foreign but evoked not strong emotions. Either
way, there is no concept of patriarchy in modern western society, and
increasingly westernised countries all over the world.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">By
contrast, patriarchy is seen as the norm in many cultures and societies, all
over the world, including those that are successful in their own right. One
striking observation to be made is that all successful civilisations are
patriarchal, be it Greek, Roman, Chinese, Babylonian or Egyptian. Male
authority in the family and in the Church, in the case of a Christian society,
as well as in society generally, is the instituted order of God. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Without
patriarchal authority, a society will inevitably breakdown, as contemporary
western society has shown. It will be full of marriage and family breakdowns,
which produces an entire generation of children who are degenerate, unstable,
unsuccessful, and full of problems. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Which
matriarchal society has been successful a society and has real culture? None.
No matriarchal culture has a written language, the defining characteristic of
civilisation. Matriarchy goes against the natural order of things as designed
by God. It is inherently evil and degenerate, precisely because it rebels
against not only God but also nature. Such a society is not even rightly
ordered in accordance to nature, and there is no reason to think it would be
functional. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
dysfunctionality of matriarchal cultures and society is evident: marriage
breakdown owing to the perpetual conflict between a man and his wife leading to
divorce, family breakdown which is the result of marriage breakdown, and a
society in which it is hard to find a person who will make a responsible spouse
of either sex who will fulfil his or her respective duties as husband or wife,
that prospects for a good marriage are low. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Instead, sexual immorality is the
norm, and in particular, that of women, whether it be fornication or adultery
is rewarded. Men are severely penalised by women, whether they be a responsible
husband and father, or a 'deadbeat' father, or a sexually upright man, or a
sexually immoral one. Those who are upright are punished for women's sexual
immorality and blamed for her immorality, while those who commit immorality are
also punished for women's sexual immorality.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
key characteristic of a matriarchal society is normalised, rampant sexual
immorality, not just fornication and adultery, but also homosexuality, as well
as contraceptive sexual relations between a husband and wife. Rightful sexual
relations, which is the natural sexual act as opposed to an unnatural sexual
act, between a husband and wife, that is procreative and open to conception,
are rare, in a matriarchal society. Of the most perversion type of sexual
relationship is deliberately nonprocreative, contraceptive sex between a
husband and wife, which has the appearance of 'righteousness' because it is
done within marriage, but is truly an abomination. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The
test as to whether a society is patriarchal is the state of the family. Where
the man is head of his wife, exercising authority over her in an effective way,
it is patriarchal. Where he is not, but his wife is exercising authority over
him, it is matriarchal. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sexual
immorality is the inevitable result of matriarchy. Sexual immorality is
rebellion against God, rooted in a lust for power. Sexual immorality that is
treated as justified, and not simply the result of lacking self-control in a
particular instance, is motivated by illegitimate authority, which is rooted in
a lust for power. Such power is the power to manipulate others to do one's
bidding by placing them in a position where they have no choice but to submit,
intimidate others if they seek to resist the manipulation, and dominate, as a
result of being able to manipulate and intimidate others. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A female-dominated society is one that only wants to 'live, play and laugh' or one that only wants to 'have fun'. It is an inherently hedonistic society that lacks all self-discipline and work that is useful to society. Such a society is not only one that lacks direction, but one that lacks any knowledge or wisdom about virtue at all, and one from which no moral direction can be imparted. This is because the role of the father and husband in such a society has been totally eradicated. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Anthropological evidence testifies to how matriarchal societies never succeed. In such societies, the men never mature into an adult male, making them totally undesirable to females who have all the power, all the authority and all the say, that those females intermarry with males who are more authoritative and power. It is not that these females are willing to obey such men in marriage, but that such 'immature' men raised in such societies are so utterly undesirable to the females (who have all the choice and power) that such societies eventually die out, in that the females intermarry into other patriarchal societies. Not only are such cultures lost, but such societies are lost and 'race mix' with other more patriarchal types.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Patriarchal societies are by no means always righteous and godly. Many are in fact ungodly and pagan, but nevertheless, they follow, though in flawed ways the natural order of things, and are able to succeed as societies and civilisations through the basic order of marriage and family. In contrast to matriarchal societies, patriarchal societies have a solid marriage and family structure, albeit 'oppressive' in some but not most cases. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The family is the fundamental and timeless building block of society. Without strong families that have a patriarchal authoritative head of household who maintains order in the household, the family will breakdown. Children will become rebellious and dysfunctional, and women will become degenerate and immoral. The problem today in the modern west is that the woman controls the man and the household, which is precisely the root of the problem in modern families: illegitimate authority. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Illegitimate authority is both the result of rebellion and is rebellion. As long as there is rebellion, illegitimate authority becomes the new order of society. Illegitimate authority is itself rebellion, which breeds even more rebellion. Righteousness necessarily respects righteous authority and hates illegitimate authority, because all illegitimate authority opposes God and seeks to legitimate all manner of unrighteousness and degeneracy.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Women are to be subject to men in the household and Church. This order is for a reason that God created humanity that way, to fulfill male and female roles. At the same time, it must be recognised that this is not 'female inferiority' but natural order. God created equality in dignity between male and female, and them together to exercise dominion over the earth (Genesis 1:26-28). It does not mean that woman should be only relegated exclusively to the domestic realm based on the flawed views of women that some religious circles have. It does not mean that the only acceptable role for women is to be housewives and mothers.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">What it means is that male authority must be respected in the household and Church. A wife should not usurp authority over her husband as Eve did by manipulating him to do her bidding (Genesis 3:6). Such usurpation of authority is always inherently for evil purposes precisely because it is done for one's own evil desires that go against God's will. There is no righteousness that can come with such usurpation. Such illegitimate authority leads to not only rebellion, but the justification of it, and hostility towards anything that opposes rebellion and illegitimate authority. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The illegitimate authority in the household exercised by women over men manifests in the game of 'respect' that women play. The game is that of double standards that purport that if a man is harsh to his wife, he is wrong, but if a woman beats her husband up, he deserves to arrested for his wife's wickedness and cruelty towards him. If a man commits adultery, his wife has all manner of right to divorce him, but if she does the same, she has the right to not only divorce him, but to take his house, property and money from him, and isolate the children from him. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Such evil double standards that most in modern western matriarchy is precisely the result of this illegitimate authority where the woman has successfully manipulated, intimidated and dominated the man. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The woman has manipulated him by making him think that his exercise of authority is evil, cruel and wrong, a form of 'tyranny' that he has no right to do, all while she can dictate him to do her bidding, as part of his 'obligation' to 'love' her. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">She has then intimidated him by wielding her sexual power over him - the power to control him through through his lust, by the use of denying him rightful marital sex. Where that fails, she has intimidated him through the power to divorce when she feels slighted by him, as a result of failing to do her bidding.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Finally, she has dominated over him by taking away his power to exercise authority over her and to stand up against her, through enforcing her will over him, including by threats. His mindset is focused on how to please her for his own self-centred sexual lusts which she uses against or to avoid the consequences of divorce, and not how to love her rightly. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Patriarchy that disintegrates in which men succumb to the Ahab spirit which allows the Jezebel spirit to manipulate, intimidate and dominate men under that Ahab spirit, leads to matriarchy, which is the antithesis of the God-ordained natural order.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-89012569561407073342020-11-03T03:54:00.001-08:002020-11-03T03:54:02.111-08:00The Abuse of Scripture and the Perversion of Biblical "Gender Roles" <p><span style="font-family: arial;">Gender roles is one of the hottest topics in society today, and it certainly is a topic that some Christian circles are fixated on, to the point that their entire theology on based on the question of gender roles. While submission of the wife is an important doctrine and is not to be neglected (Ephesians 5:22-23), and indeed should be taught more, owing to the constant perversion of it to qualify this teaching, some have gone to the other extreme to misapply gender roles. This is itself wrong and must be addressed, for it is well understood in most church circles that a wife must submit to her husband.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Most reasonable non-fundamentalist Christians, irrespective of denomination, acknowledge that a wife is obligated to submit to her husband as part of her obligations towards him. But gender roles go both ways, in that the husband also has his obligations towards her, and are far more complex than the literal text of Ephesians 5 than fundamental Christians make it out to mean in making gender roles to be about only the woman submitting and the man being the one who simply dominates her by making her his literal property, or slave in the true sense of the term.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Many effectively teach that a wife should be made subordinate to her husband, and love to teach that Eve was made from Adam's rib, not from his feet so that he can oppress her, nor from his head so that she can dominate him. They often attempt to make it sound more palatable by saying that such subordinate is not abuse, making a distinction between abusive subordination and non-abusive subordination. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However, marriage is not about subordinate of one person to another, but about a man and wife united together before God with respective roles, with neither side being intended by God to be the oppressor or oppressed. Marriage has never been oppressive towards women or men. It has never been about making a woman a sex slave or property, or oppressing men by giving women all the benefits of sex, children and money, at the expense of men.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Some more extreme fundamenalists go so far as to teach that a wife is effectively the sex slave to her husband by using 1 Corinthians 7:3-4 which teaches mutual sexual obligations (not rights), and even just tolerate serious abuse such as rape and violence in the true sense of the term.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While this may sound unbelievable, this mentality is evident in the attitude of many, as demonstrated by their indifference towards domestic abuse. That itself is the manifestation of the attitude that a wife should just allow herself to submit to abuse, and ironically (or perhaps unironically) as cruel abuse or perversion of the doctrine of submission.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The pastor with the most sound teaching on this issue is Derek Prince who neither waters down the scripture to qualify or exceptionalise submission to please women as many do, nor read into the text unscriptural, unsound and oppressive views about gender roles. The result is an understanding of gender roles that is just and fair towards both sexes, and not one that is warped in favour of either one. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The problem is the fundamentalists is the sola scriptura approach to scripture which literalist approach often leads to unsensible, legalistic, primitive, simplistic, unduly rigid or oppressive interpretations of scripture. This misinterpretation and misapplication of scripture is the result of every person being his own pope, and the rejection of church authority and the Church Fathers who never made gender roles as prescribed by scripture to be oppressive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In contrast to much of contemporary fundamentalist 'christian' teaching on gender roles, St Thomas Aquinas taught "If a husband were permitted to abandon his wife, the society of husband and wife would not be an association of equals, but instead a kind of slavery" (ScG 3.123). Aquinas was not only condemning the idea that marriage is to be a kind of slavery whereby the wife should simply tolerate abuse. He was saying that marriage is an "association of equals", showing that God never made marriage to oppress women or men.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While of course, a husband is the head of his wife, and the wife must submit to her husband, the idea of 'gender roles' in which certain actions are legalistically prescribed to the respective sexes, is perversion of scripture. It is the abuse of scripture that can be and is often used to oppress or abuse people or manipulate people. For example, such rules are used to unjustifiably stop a woman from getting out of the house except without her husband's express permission. Such rules are also even used to justify a woman's divorce from her husband when he fails to find a job, owing to the legalism applied to the text of the scripture.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, there are certain responsibilities that each respective spouse has. The husband has the responsibility to provide and protect his wife and children. The wife has a responsibility to rear children. But apart from that, marriage is not an institution and was never designed as an institution of slavery of woman or for that matter, man, whereby a person's sole existence is to satisfy the personal desires of the other, and whereby that person himself or herself cannot have his or her own emotions, feelings, opinions or beliefs. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Some try to make marriage out to be an institution where a man exists solely as a cash cow, sperm bank and sex provider for the wife. Others try to make marriage out to be one where a woman exists solely as a sex provider (sometimes sex slave) and cookie baker. Both views are totally ridiculous and are never intended by God.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">God designed gender roles for the good of humanity, not for the oppression or abuse of people. God designed man to be the head of household and leader, and woman to be his helper. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span class="text Gen-2-18" id="en-NKJV-49">And the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” </span><span class="text Gen-2-19" id="en-NKJV-50">Out of the ground the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. </span><span class="text Gen-2-20" id="en-NKJV-51">So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span class="text Gen-2-21" id="en-NKJV-52">And the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. </span><span class="text Gen-2-22" id="en-NKJV-53">Then the rib which the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-2-23" id="en-NKJV-54"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>And Adam said:</i></span></span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span class="text Gen-2-23" style="position: relative;">“This is now bone of my bones</span><br /><span class="text Gen-2-23" style="position: relative;">And flesh of my flesh;</span><br /><span class="text Gen-2-23" style="position: relative;">She shall be called Woman,</span><br /><span class="text Gen-2-23" style="position: relative;">Because she was taken out of Man.”</span></i></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-2-24" id="en-NKJV-55"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.</i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-2-25" id="en-NKJV-56"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Genesis 2:18-25)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #14171a; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-35538310209077470282020-09-11T09:35:00.002-07:002020-09-11T09:41:08.167-07:00The Republic of Sodom and its Tyranny<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Many
Christians are rightly concerned about heresy, but which evil which they fear
addressing is that of the heresy of sodomy. They attack Islam, pornography,
human trafficking and even abortion, but the one evil heresy that they fear
even expressing a view about is that of sodomy.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This shows one thing: the republic
of Sodom rules supreme in today's world. That even opposition to abortion is
less controversial than opposing sodomy shows how the republic of Sodom now
reigns in its fullest tyranny. If the republic of molech was tyrannical and
diabolical enough, which it was, the republic of Sodom takes tyranny to an even
greater level. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The republic of Sodom encapsulates
all kinds of evil, and justifies them. It is a republic that expands all over
the world, in seeking to bring about an insidious, tyrannical world order, one
that not only seeks toleration for their vile, despicable sin, but seeks<b> submission</b> to
it. This is called homo-sharia. Just as sharia law demands total submission to
the Arian heresy of Islam, in which anyone who does not want to submit to it in
any way even to the slightest is severely persecuted and oppressed, likewise,
homo-sharia demands total submission to the evil diabolical heresy of sodomy.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Sodomy is not simply an act of
sodomy between two men in the privacy of the bedrooms. It is a spirit, a
mentality and an ideology, as well as a system. The coming Mystery Babylon will
be a Republic of Sodom in the fullest sense of the term. Anyone will opposes
sodomy and the sins associated will be put to death. Revelation 11 testifies to
this:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30874"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And
there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise,
and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30875"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">But the court which is
without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the
Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30876"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And I will give power unto
my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore
days, clothed in sackcloth.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30877"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">These are the two olive
trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30878"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And if any man will hurt
them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if
any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30879"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">These have power to shut
heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over
waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often
as they will.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30880"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And when they shall have
finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit
shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30881"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And their dead bodies shall
lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called <b>Sodom </b>and
Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30882"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And they of the people and
kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an
half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30883"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And they that dwell upon the
earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to
another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30884"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And after three days and an
half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their
feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30885"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And they heard a great voice
from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in
a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30886"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And the same hour was there
a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake
were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave
glory to the God of heaven.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30887"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The second woe is past; and,
behold, the third woe cometh quickly.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30888"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And the seventh angel
sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this
world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall
reign for ever and ever.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30889"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And the four and twenty
elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and
worshipped God,</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30890"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Saying, We give thee thanks,
O </span><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></i></span><span class="small-caps"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Lord</span></i></span></span><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> God
Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee
thy great power, and hast reigned.</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30891"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And the nations were angry,
and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the
saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy
them which destroy the earth.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span id="en-KJV-30892"><span class="text"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">And the temple of God was
opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament:
and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and
great hail.</span></i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">(Revelation 11:1-19)</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In the republic of Sodom, marriage will be
totally debased, and the only marriage that is acceptable to people will be
'sodomite' "marriage". The concept of marriage between a man and
woman, united by the conjugal union, that serves to unite husband and wife, and
is open to procreation at all times. True marriage itself will be despised and
hated by all in such a society as 'oppressive' towards women, 'restrictive' and
'evil'. Children will be had by not by natural means, and not even by
artificial insemination, but by transhumanist engineering. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Even during these evil times, people still recognise that natural
affection between a man and woman is normal, but during those times, such
affection will be regarded as evil and distorted, owing to their debased,
delusional minds. While fornication and adultery are grave evils, they are
nevertheless based on 'natural affection', as opposed to sodomy which is
unnatural. The unnaturalness of sodomy is the manifestation of the spirit of
sodomy, which is a tyrannical, diabolical spirit, full of the spirit of rebellion,
lust and pride. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">It is little known or perhaps known but little acknowledged that many if not most mass murderers and paedophiles are sodomites. These people are the most debased people of all, who are almost always beyond all redemption. The most sadistic murderers are often sodomites, itself testifying that sodomy is itself violence. Modern western society loves to speak about how evil and unacceptable child abuse and murder is. Yet, in their hypocrisy, little do they acknowledge that many mass murderers and paedophiles are sodomites who are beyond repentance. Instead, anyone who points out this face is shouted down and hounded as a 'homophobe'. And that is exactly where the problem lies.</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Sodomites dominate and control western society, as do women, but not any women, but those who are pro-sodomite. Those, particularly, men who oppose sodomy and the sodomite agenda are seen as evil, oppressive patriarchal men who hate sodomites, just because they 'offend their ego', which comes from the 'power and privilege to exercise control over women' which is perversely treated as morally unacceptable. Any man who opposes sodomites and sodomy is treated as deservedly pariah for his supposed 'evil' in opposing the sodomite agenda. It is not those sodomites who are evil, but rather those who oppose it who are evil, perverse and diabolical.</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">What hardly anyone ever says is that it was women in the west who pushed to sodomite agenda and created homo-tyranny. Women were the ones who started it, and it will be women who will be ones who complete it in Revelation 11. In the Mystery Babylon, the screaming masses of lesbians will play a major role, if not the main role in killing the two witnesses. Whenever there is rampant sexual immorality in society, this is a sign of women being given over to the sodomite agenda, and becoming citizens of Sodom. It is 'feminism' or 'women's liberation' that grooms women into the citizen of Sodom, as a paedophile grooms innocent unsuspecting children. Just as the serpent appeared to Eve and groomed her into rebellion against God, and used her tantrum-throwing ways to manipulate Adam; likewise, the serpent has whispered in the ears of an entire generation of women, not only in the west, but all over the world, to seek what they want, money, sex and power, from men, by using them in any way they please, and teaching them to think it is normal.</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The very concept of "women's liberation" is itself diabolical and evil. It is from the Pit of Hell! "Women's liberation" is really just "women's manipulation" both by the devil and of men. The devil has manipulated women into using and manipulating men. That is the heart of what women's "liberation" is. No sin goes unpunished, and no perpetrator of evil goes uncursed by God. Women's "liberation" has only driven women into bondage to all kinds of things - money, sex and power. </span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">This is why there is an entire generation of women for whom broken relationships leading to emotional pain, broken relationships, divorce, loneliness, poverty, domestic violence, and incurable sexually transmitted diseases are a norm. These are all curses unleashed upon women who have had the audacity to seek their own way in rebelling against God. An entire generation of women, and those to come, except for those who are righteous and oppose the Republic of Sodom, will be subject to these curses. Such curses will be the norm for women, except for those who oppose the Republic of Sodom.</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The Republic of Sodom, like all evil tyrannical empires do, paints a portrait of itself as one that stands for goodness - and in the case of the Republic of Sodom, it portrays itself as one that 'respects women' by opposing "evil patriarchy" that is the real evil that is more than one that just involves individual hatred for women. To them, this "evil patriarchy" is an entire tyrannical system that opposes all "women's rights" by (rightly) opposing the authority of women over men in household and in society more generally speaking.</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Isaiah 3:12 states: "</span><i><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">As for</span><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> my people, children </span><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">are</span><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause </span><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">thee</span></i><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><i> to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.</i>" This itself is scriptural evidence that it is neither normal nor right for women to rule in society, household or the Church. God never intended for women to rule in any sense and so the normality of women in power is itself a sign of degeneracy and rebellion. It is illegitimate authority, always the result of rebellion that leads to even more rebellion to the point of degeneracy. This explains why whenever any society or civilisation is run by women, its fall is nigh. Indeed, this fall being nigh is can be observed throughout history, including in current world affairs. America is falling and its decline is nigh, and its society is one dominated by women. This is one mark that will put the nail in its coffin.</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;">Women ruling over men is itself rebellion. One might ask, how is it linked to the republic of Sodom? It goes hand in hand with the Republic of Sodom. The whole purpose of the Republic of Sodom is to institute an entire empire that goes against God, hence why the Republic of Sodom is part of the coming Mystery Babylon where the world shall be as Sodom and Egypt (Revelation 11:8).</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;">At the heart of the Republic of Sodom is rebellion, and not just any rebellion, but militant aggressive rebellion unleashed from the gates of Hell itself which is absolutely 'hell-bent' (literally) on dethroning God and the Church. It is rebellion that seeks a system built on the blood of Christian martyrs, and world that is free from any vestige of Christian, and that oppresses anyone who desire opposes the heresy of sodomy. That is why it seeks to pervert all rightful authority, starting with the devil manipulating women to manipulate men into immorality, intimidate men into not fighting and resisting their evils, and eventually dominating men through sexual immorality. </span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;">Sexual immorality in the Republic of Sodom is not simply the lack of self-control. It is motivated by the lust for power, and used as a form of manipulating others, usually used by women to manipulate men, as part of the devil's plan to usher in the Republic of Sodom. As such, this sexual immorality is political, in being one about power, most notably the 'empowerment' of women to commit fornication, adultery and lesbianism. The supposed 'oppression' of women by the nuclear family, the proper family, which has a father and mother and their children, is used to justify such degeneracy. </span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;">Sexual immorality seen as a form of 'self-expression' or 'self-empowerment' is itself the the essence of feminism or women's liberation. Yet, of course, the sad and cruel irony is that sexual immorality is never liberating. It is bondage and only brings more bondage to people. It leads to all kinds of curses, such as loneliness, depression, broken relationships, divorce, fruitless labour, constant failure, and poverty. </span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;">The Republic of Sodom is a republic full of people under all kinds of curses including broken relationships, fruitless labour, depression and poverty. This makes for a dangerous mix, as such a society is an angry, jealous, envious society, hostile and filled with seething hatred towards anyone who is free from all such curses, and hating even more so a person full of blessings in his or her life. Such a society will be a extremely volatile, unstable society that is full of division even worse than any kind that we have seen, one that will lead to a world war.</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;">Another world war is coming, as the Republic of Sodom rises to become the hegemon empire of the world. As the world darkens, the Church will shine more brightly than ever. Indeed, a Christian Crusade is coming to fight this evil empire, the Republic of Sodom, which will unite all the nations of the world to fight the Church. But the Church shall prevail in the end, as she will fight to the death. It is she who will be God's protector of the oppressed on earth, and the warrior who fights and destroys all heresies.</span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><br /></p><p>
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For it is written,</span> <span class="woj">‘You shall worship the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> your God, and Him only you shall serve.’</span> <span class="woj">”</span></i></font></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-11" id="en-NKJV-23221"><font face="arial"><i>Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.</i></font></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">(Matthew 4:8-11)</font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">Satan comes in all kinds of guises, appearing with a false guise of righteousness to different groups with a face that appeals to them the most. He appeals to anti-Islamist westerners as anti-Islamist, to Islamists as Islamic, to women's liberationists are a liberator of women, black ethnonationalists as a liberator of blacks, and to religious cults as a distorted image of God, that suits their own desires, lusts and flesh. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">People love to talk about which cult or evil ideological group is the most evil, pointing to their evils to justify themselves. But the reality is that people with such mentality are themselves evil. For they are not truly set on fighting evil. They are only set on <i>using </i>the evil of another group to justify their own evil. Such people, all such people, have their own evil agendas, but their evil agenda is the same: <b>to pursue and worship the kingdom of the world, in accordance to the way they see best for themselves</b>. Such people have bowed down to the devil who has promised them the kingdoms of the world as he tempted Jesus in Matthew 4:8-9. They are all the same. They worship mammon and hate God, and in their worship of mammon, they want to murder and destroy all who they see as "less deserving" of what they want, compared to themselves. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">The 'differences' between them are only superficial that appear in the face with which they come, be it the face of "demono-cracy", "socialism", "capitalism" or "communism", or "white ethnonationalism" or "black ethnonationalism", "mormonism", "islam", "shintoism" or "hinduism". The only thing that differentiates them is the way they see the world, and how they seek to advance their goal - but the ultimate goal is to gain the kingdom of the worlds, in which they can live a life that serves mammon, to indulge the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">The world system is not only evil, but diabolical, perverted and dark to the core. The only functioning world system is an evil one, as that is the reality of how a fallen world works. There have been many evil world systems in the course of human history, and the one the prevails is the one that gains the support of the masses depending on the spirit of the particular age, be it a monarchy, republican, or capitalist-demono-cratic system. Irrespective of what age one lives in, all world systems are systems that worship the kingdoms of the world, that of the devil. All will inevitably and more perversely, necessarily, rely on the oppression of some, for the benefit of others, the winners. For that is the nature of the human heart, one that loves evil, oppression of others, who are not considered "one's own", and wickedness. Power is loved, because it is the power to oppress, bully, and destroy, even murder others. Mammon is the spirit behind this love of power, which is the means of getting what one wants to satisfy one's lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">Those who oppress others have no real reason to do so. They do so out of diabolical motivations because they are under an evil spirit of antichrist, who is the ultimate tyrant who is yet to come to earth. Of course they find all kinds of pretexts to justify their oppression of others, but the real reason is always because of their lust for power, which cannot and will not be satisfied until they oppress people who they view as not only inferior, but not part of their own people. That is the spirit of tyranny, which always leads to mistreatment, oppression, and eventually genocide. Such tyranny is most greatly manifested in radical followers of cults, including false religions, and evil ideologies. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">All worldly ideologies of the world are fundamentally evil, whatever it may be. Choose whatever ideology you want, and I will show you an ideology of the devil, rooted in the Adamic spirit of pride, envy, and jealousy. Such is the way of worldly wisdom, which is concerned not with seeking truth, but with seeking a way to satisfy one's lust and pride:</font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial"><i><span class="text Jas-3-13" style="font-size: 16px;">Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. </span><span class="text Jas-3-14" id="en-NKJV-30334" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. </span><span class="text Jas-3-15" id="en-NKJV-30335" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. </span><span class="text Jas-3-16" id="en-NKJV-30336" style="font-size: 16px;">For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. </span><span class="text Jas-3-17" id="en-NKJV-30337" style="font-size: 16px;">But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. </span><span class="text Jas-3-18" id="en-NKJV-30338" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"> </span>Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.</span></i></font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jas-3-18" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="arial">(James 3:13-18)</font></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">This passage in James 3 describes the game of ideologies and political games that people of all ideological groups play. All are full of envy and self-seeking, and born out of envy and self-seeking which James 3:14. Enemy ideological groups are enemies because they are in a different position in the world, and so have a different set of circumstances about how to pursue their envy and self-seeking. The ideology all ideologues love, irrespective of ideology, is the one that idealises their envy and self-seeking, and fantasies about eradicating all who oppose, hinder or resist their lusts, and above all, the lust for power to create a world in their own image. Their "wisdom" is "earthly, sensual and demonic" (James 3:15). This leads to all kinds of chaos, manifested by all kinds of conflict, be it ethnic conflict, political turmoil, and even genocide, often euphemised as "ethnic cleansing". </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">Many ideologically-orientated people are religious people, who love to talk about worldly politics, despite being a blind as a bat, having not even a clue about what is going on, including those who are heretics. In fact, heretics are often, if not always heretical and become 'christians' for ideologically-motivated reasons. They are often those who seek to use 'christianity' to advance their evil, and ultimately tyrannical, murderous agenda. Their heart does not love God at all, but they see only certain doctrines of Christianity which they can use to justify their evil agenda of advancing and pursuing the kingdom of the world that they want to live in, a world that gives them all the benefits in the world, which inevitably involves the oppression of others. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">The Holy Scriptures describe the heart of those who adhere to evil ideologies, which is all worldly ideologies: </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial"><i><span class="text Jas-4-1" style="font-size: 16px;">Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?</span><span class="text Jas-4-2" id="en-NKJV-30340" style="font-size: 16px;">You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. </span><span class="text Jas-4-3" id="en-NKJV-30341" style="font-size: 16px;">You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. </span></i></font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jas-4-3" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="arial">(James 4:1-3)</font></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">This passage describes the heart of those who are driven by worldly ideology and who despise people of other ideologies. Their desire for wars and fights is the outworking of their envy, self-seeking and love of evil wisdom as James 3 describes. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">So what is a 'worldly ideology'? A worldly ideology is any ideology that is not based on the foundation of Christ. Instead, it is based on envy and self-seeking. It does not seek God nor the wisdom of God. Just as all humans are born in iniquity (Psalm 51:5), all worldly ideologies are born in envy and self-seeking, and used as a justification for such envy and self-seeking. Envy and self-seeking is so inherent to the Adamic nature of human beings, that anyone not in Christ and who leans on Christ, is inevitably full of envy and self-seeking. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">Self-seeking is incapable of having even basic compassion on the needy, and seeks only to fatten its own self. Once it gains what it wants, it wants more. In many cases, what it wants is not what it even finds desirable, but wants so that it can feel smug, or in cases of power, to use it to oppress others. In politics, this manifests as tribalism and factionalism, which ultimately leads to genocidal fantasy. Those who have such ideological drive, and have the means to commit genocide, will commit genocide.</font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">Since the pursuit of the kingdoms of the world is inherently tribalistic, all kinds of oppression, particularly racial oppression will be inevitable. History has shown that war almost always, if not always involves people fighting against each other, based on "race", which is nothing but a social construct that is imposed on others by society that determines how they are treated. A person who is of the same "race" or similar "race" is treated as belonging, while a person of another "race" is different, treated as one who does not belong, and often with suspicion or even outright hostility if that person is considered to be too different. In war, a person or people is an enemy because they are "different people", an "other" and seen a worthy of being attacked and oppressed. Race is almost always, if not always, implicated in war, particularly non-religious wars that are not fought for holy motives, but for worldly motives. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">Worldly ideologies and their causes are antithetical to true Christianity, which is Christian militancy for the sake of Jesus Christ. </font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial">Worldly ideologies pursue the kingdom of the world, and worship mammon, and seek the devil, not God. </font><span style="font-family: arial;">Christian militancy pursues only the Kingdom of God, the true Kingdom, worships Jesus, and is willing to die for Jesus.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Worldly ideologues live for their lusts and pride. Christian militants constantly do battle with their lusts and pride, and seek theosis with God.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Worldly ideologues love war that is fought for their own material gain and to dominate other peoples. Christian militants support holy war and fight holy war, to fight evil, laying down their lives for Christ, and the brethren, and to protect peoples of other nations. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Worldly ideologies claim to fight for peace, but do not seek peace. Christian militants know true peace which is righteousness before God and seek true peace by warring against evil.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Worldly ideologues reject Christ as their foundation. Christian militants sacrifice all for Christ. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jas-3-18" style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-87060920885322088522020-07-02T11:20:00.000-07:002020-07-02T11:23:59.158-07:00All Heresies Lead to Witchcraft, which lead to Illegitimate Authority, and Ultimately Tyranny<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Heretics love to argue and debate about theology, not because they
are concerned with truth, but because they are rebellious, under the spirit of
rebellion. Heresy is not only of the spirit of rebellion, but the heart of all
rebellion is heresy. Every rebel against God is a heretic in his theology,
whether he consciously thinks so or not. For rebellion is independence of God,
stemming from the hatred of God's authority and being subject to it. All heresy
is the basis of rebellion, for heresy is itself rebellion. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is
as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
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Rebellion is witchcraft for it seeks to reject and cast off the authority of
God over oneself. That is the essence of witchcraft, which works through
manipulation, intimidation and domination. Witchcraft is ultimately about
seeking to gain domination, and leads to tyranny in determining right and wrong,
and oppressing all who oppose it. This spirit of witchcraft is evident in the
family in the West where the woman dominates the husband, and the demonisation
of government authority - a husband who stands up against his wife, which is a
position he should never have to be in the first place, is seen as
"oppressive" or "chauvinistic", and a government which
exercises authority in ways the make "the people" upset or unhappy
because of limiting freedom and liberty in legitimate ways is labelled a
"dictatorship". </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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These are all manifestations of witchcraft, be it in the feminists who seek to
dominate their husbands (which includes 'evangelical' feminists) or the
anti-government conservatives who demonise it for not giving so-called
"freedoms" that people should not have or should never have gained in
the first place. The anti-lockdown conservatives are a perfect example of those
who demonise government authority exercised to ensure public health and safety,
on the pretext that they are "attacking their liberties" to worship
the dollar - at the cost of the elderly. This is just as iniquitous for they
are full of rebellion. Those who refuse to obey the government's restrictive
orders for public health and safety are in rebellion, and that is of the spirit
of witchcraft. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Indeed, witchcraft manifests in all quest for illegitimate or evil liberties,
whether it be abortion, sodomite marriage or the so-called "right" to
do what one wants with one's money as one chooses. It is not exclusive to only
the "liberals" who conservative evangelicals love to target for
criticism, but also the so-called "anti-authoritarian" conservatives
- who hate "big government", their pejorative term for governments
who do not allow them to do whatever they want. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Away with the idea of witchcraft is simply an obscure, archaic practice of a
minute group of "silly women" who are "loaded down with
sins, led away by various lusts" (2 Timothy 3:6)! Away with the idea that
only "backwards tribes" in certain "backwards" nations
practise witchcraft and that the modern west is far too sophisticated!
Witchcraft is all around us, right in the open as manifest in all kinds of
rebellion against God-ordained authorities. It is the manifestation of
rebellion, of the Adamic nature itself which started with Eve when she decided
to eat the Forbidden Fruit:</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Now the serpent was more
cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And
he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of
the garden’?”</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">And the woman said to the
serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; <b> </b>but
of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has
said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Then the serpent said to the
woman, “You will not surely die. <b> </b>For God knows that in the
day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing
good and evil.”</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">So when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its
fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. </span></i></b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Then the eyes of both of
them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">(Genesis 3:1-7)</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This account depicts the beginning of all witchcraft. Eve's rebellion and her
attempt to lead Adam to rebellion with her, to which he succumbed. This pattern
has literally being repeated in human history, most evident in the relationship
between a husband and wife. Most teaching in the contemporary Church on
headship and submission are in and of themselves witchcraft. Eve sinned in
"desiring knowledge" which is the exercise of illegitimate authority
for this "desire for knowledge" was the desire for her own way, in
finding her own truth, and own life. This is itself rebellion for it the desire
for independence from God, which is itself the rejection of God as authority
over one's person and life. She did not only "redefine truth", but
also what is the way and what is the life found in God. Eve, as the first woman
to pervert the way, truth and life of God, represents the antithesis of Christ,
who is Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6). </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The
devil twisted the meaning of "desiring knowledge" in seeking to obey
truth, that is, the truth of God, to mean, seeking knowledge outside of God.
This attempt is seek knowledge outside of God is most evident in the doctrine
of the gnostics (which literally means 'knowledge') whom Apostle John and the
other apostles spend much energy and time countering. The devil redefined
knowledge, to mean a truth, way, and life outside of and independent of God<i> in
accordance to one's own desires</i>. It is precisely the pursuit of one's own
desires itself that is sin, and the result of the lust of the flesh, lust of
the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). This is perversion of the
knowledge of God. As a result of eating such fruit, human nature became fallen,
in which desiring to satisfy the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life is the essence of human nature. The pursuit of such lust and
pride is of has an evil spiritual power behind it. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Witchcraft is nothing mysterious or obscure as contemporary TV and film makes
it out to be. Nor it is exclusively the realm of ugly old women as traditional
literature represents it as. It is a real demon in the spiritual realm, that is
just as real as the spirit of mammon, the spirit of lust and the spirit of sex.
How the spirit of witchcraft operates is in the heart of human nature itself.
It is blind to all race, ethnicity, or sex. It does not have to manifest itself
in a woman, as is often assumed, but can and does manifest in men, albeit in
different ways, that adapt to the strengths of man, such as physical strength,
as opposed to the strength of women, such as emotional understanding and
beauty. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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All witchcraft is rooted is rebellion against God, and first manifests itself
in <b>heresy</b>. For all rebellion against God starts in perverting
knowledge of God, who is the Truth and only in whom Truth can be found. When
Eve first ate the Forbidden Fruit, she became the first heretic in the world. Eve
sought to become her own goddess, which is precisely what witchcraft it - the
most blatant, utmost rebellion which is not only just content in rebellion, but
in seeking to usher in an entire system and world order of rebellion. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The future during these End Times will continue to see more and more rebellion,
that keeps getting worse and worse. This rebellion will not simply be out in
the open, though it certainly will be. It will be all the more embedded in the
world system, and one that will attempt to force more and more people into it.
It will be worse than anything we have seen so far. It will be far worse, and
be as if the whole world were living in a horror movie - except that this
horror movie is not only real, but that one is living in it and cannot escape
it. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When the sixth trumpet is sounded, after the seventh seal in Revelation is
open, the climax of the wickedness of the world spiraling into ever more
darkness, and Hell, is reached. As the Scriptures testify:</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Then the sixth angel
sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which
is before God,<b> </b>saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet,
“Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” So
the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year,
were released to kill a third of mankind. Now the number of the
army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the
number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on
them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and
the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of
their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. By these three plagues a
third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which
came out of their mouths. <b> </b>For their power is in their
mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents,
having heads; and with them they do harm.</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">But the rest of mankind, who
were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their
hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold,
silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. <b> </b>And
they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their
sexual immorality or their thefts.</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">(Revelation 9:13-21)</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">During these times, God will
seek to destroy the world by fire and smoke, brimstone, as was in the Days of
Lot in Sodom and Gommorah. This is parallel to Noah's Flood in Genesis, except
that this time, fire and smoke, not a flood will be used, as God promised that
He will never flood the earth again (Genesis 9:11). </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">But unlike water which
symbolises both death (drowning) and life (sustaining life), hence the use of
water for baptism, which in turn symbolises God giving people of the world a
chance to repent, fire and brimstone is now used by God to wipe out the entire
city of Sodom and Gomorrah, symbolic of Hell, where there is only fire and
brimstone, to burn forever as punishment for sin. This signifies that the
people who still remain after the three plagues in Revelation 9:18 will not
repent, which is why God uses fire and brimstone. Whenever God uses fire and
brimstone to punish people, it symbolises total annihilation and those burned
by fire and brimstone are wicked. Only those spared such fire and brimstone are
the righteous as shown by God's willingness to spare a city if it had at least
10 righteous people, who would then flee (Genesis 18).</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">In Revelation 9, those who
escape the fire and brimstone will not be the righteous, as was the case in
Genesis 19 where Lot and his family (except his wife) escaped. This time, fire
and brimstone will be sent to destroy the whole world, not just two cities.
Even the destruction of Sodom and Gommorah will seem tame and mild
then. Those who survive during the sixth trumpet are the wicked who will
not repent despite even those terrifying plagues that God Himself will bring to
the whole world. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The sins characteristic of
those wicked people who still remain after the sixth trumpet is blown are <i>idolatry</i>,<i> murder</i>,<i> <b>witchcraft</b></i>, <i>sexual
immorality</i> and <i>theft</i>. What is significant is that
these are <b>all mortal sins leading to death </b>that will
characterise the world system then: <i>If you see any brother or sister
commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give
them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a
sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about
that </i>(1 John 5:16). That the world then will be bent on only
committing mortal sins, sinning out simply out of ignorance, but deliberate sin
in deliberate rebellion against God - with not even one person in the
whole entire world will be righteous or will repent before the Lord, will bring
about to the End of the world. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">It is this time in the
timeline of God's Salvific plan for the world that the world is truly finished.
This sixth trumpet is followed only by the seventh trumpet (Revelation
11:15-19) where the Kingdom of God will be proclaimed. Though it is easy to
think that the world right now is truly finished, that is not the case. We are
still living in a world where many are being saved and will continue to be saved,
particularly in the parts of the world which have not had a Christendom, namely
Africa and Asia. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Unlocking Revelation
requires an understanding of historical parallels in the timeline of God as
found in the Old Testament. That is something which many do not understand and
as a result, devise all kinds of whacky interpretations of Scripture, that are
absurd, wrong and often have outright disturbing or perverted
implications. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">One of those mortal sins of
the world system during the sixth trumpet is witchcraft, showing that there
will be much rebellion. Rebellion will be a core part of the Mystery Babylon,
one in which heresies will abound, and chaos will ensue because all heretics
will fight each other in seeking to usher in a tyrannical system based on his
own heresy. Hence why murder and theft will be part of the system of the
Mystery Babylon, because all wicked heretical sects and cults will all fight to
usher in and establish their own heretical tyrannical system - vying to build
his own Tower of Babel to dominate not only the world, but also to be
God. Each of these sins represents one aspect of the entire Mystery
Babylon that will come. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The coming Mystery Babylon
will be a pagan witchcraft tyranny in the fullest sense of the term, that has
no 'redeeming aspects' in even the slightest sense, not even a belief in basic
human decency. It will be full of the vilest things imaginable, be it
cannibalism, ritualistic human sacrifice to appease the blood lust of the human
heart, ritualistic sexual immorality practised to serve the pagan system,
tribalism whereby various pagan tribes fight each other with brutality that
cannot be uttered, a system where paganism and witchcraft religion are dominant
in which violation of such religions are punished as blasphemy in the eyes of
these wicked heretics - things which even most unsaved people in our times
reject.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Uncovering this Mystery
Babylon requires a close examination of Scripture, understood in light of Old
Testament prophecies. That is already half the battle. The other half of the
battle is to thoroughly examine each verse by verse. The current events that
are unfolding can be linked to the prophecies in revelation. Upon a closer
examination of Scripture, though the Final End has not yet come, it is fast approaching. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Over the next few decades,
the world will descend into further chaos, wickedness, degeneracy, violence,
and turmoil. But it is only the beginning of something much worse, something
truly monstrous and terrifying - the Mystery Babylon is a system of the beast
itself. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The only way to overcome the
system we now live in and most certainly the coming system is by the power of
the Holy Spirit, through the authority of Christ, by the grace of God. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Repent, repent, repent, and
turn to Jesus Christ. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-25780344982038460802020-06-23T09:05:00.001-07:002020-06-23T09:07:29.174-07:00Heresies Originate from False Revelations of the spirit of the Antichrist who seeks to Attack Christ <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart
from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,</span></i></span><i><span id="en-NKJV-29750" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i><span class="versenum"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: black;"> </span></i></b></span><span data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29750B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29750B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="text"></span><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own
conscience seared with a hot iron, </span><span id="en-NKJV-29751" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">forbidding to marry, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and commanding</span> to abstain from foods
which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and
know the truth. </span><span id="en-NKJV-29752" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">For every creature of God <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">is</span> good,
and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;</span><span id="en-NKJV-29753" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i><span class="versenum"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: black;"> </span></i></b></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">for it is sanctified by the word of God and
prayer.</span></i></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text"><span style="background: white; color: black;">1 Timothy 4:1-5</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">People often look at cults and heretical sects and regard
them as laughable fanatics and lunatics who they could not possibly end up
following. They look at them pitifully and condescendingly at the same time,
thinking they are so wise. Yet, most people are themselves under their own
heresies, be it oneness pentacostalism, atheism, Islam or Judaism.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Most, if not all heresiarchs, such as Joseph Smith, Charles
Taze Russell, and Helena Blavatsky received false revelations and visions about
God, built their theology based on such revelations and visions, and started a
cult based on it, leading their followers of eternal Destruction. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">In other words, no one wakes up one morning and declares that
they want to start a cult and heretical sect. No heresy or evil ideology
operates in such a blatant way. All heresies and evil ideologies operate in
much more subtle ways, and by incremental steps. One key way in which such evil
operates is by attacking another real evil which people are rightly concerned
about to justify and cover another evil. The counterjihad movement is a
very pertinent example. While it claims to attack Islam, its motive from the
very start is wrong and corrupt. For it does not hate Islam for being an
anti-Christian heresy. It hates Islam out of its own selfishness, for fear of
the erosion of one's "liberties" and well as motivated by
racism. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">A theological heresy showing the subtleties of evil is
"oneness pentacostalism". "Oneness pentacostalism" claims
to believe in Jesus, and that Jesus is God. Yet, oneness pentacostals have the
wrong view of God, in denying the Trinity in various ways. Even the denial of
the Trinity is very subtle. Some deny it by saying that God the Father and the
Holy Spirit are one, and that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, but deny
that Jesus was part of the Trinity. Others argue that God the Father, God the
Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit are only three forms of the way in which
God manifests, and not three persons. Some argue that they agree Jesus is part
of the Trinity but that the Holy Spirit is only a force or energy, and not a
person who is part of the Trinity. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">All heresies always attack the Trinity because it is the
foundation of who God truly is. The Trinity doctrine concerns not only that
there are three persons, God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy
Spirit. It also concerns the relationship between the three persons and their
respective natures. As long as one denies or misconceptualises even to the
slightest any aspect of the Trinity, one has a false view of God and cannot be
truly saved. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">The Trinity can only be known by spiritual revelation
revealed by God to the person. For Jesus said: "</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws
him; and I will raise him up at the last day</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">"
(John 6:44). All theological doctrines are spiritual, but not all that is
spiritual is of God. Many revelations and visions that people claim to receive
are from the devil or other deceiving spirits: </span><span class="text"><i><span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Now
the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the
faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,</span></span></i></span><span class="versenum"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: black;"><span id="en-NKJV-29750" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></i></b></span><span class="text"></span><i><span data-cr="#cen-NKJV-29750B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-29750B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">speaking lies in hypocrisy </span></span></i></span><span class="text"><span style="background: white; color: black;">(1 Timothy 4:1). </span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Just
as the true God can only be known by spiritual revelation from God, false
versions of God come from spiritual revelations from demons. The Scripture
itself says that false prophets are those who receive false visions and
revelations from demonic spirits: </span></span></span><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether
they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the
world </span></i><span style="background: white; color: black;">(1 John 4:1).</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">1 John 4:2-3 lays the test for how to discern whether a
revelation is from the Holy Spirit is from demonic powers:</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><i><span id="en-NKJV-30606" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">By this you know the Spirit of God: Every
spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, </span><span id="en-NKJV-30607" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">and every spirit that does not confess that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">spirit</span> of the Antichrist, which you
have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.</span></span></i></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Only the Spirit of God can testify that Jesus Christ has come
in the flesh. It is not enough that a spirit testifies of Jesus, for many evil
spirits can and do testify of many a false Jesus. This explains why many
heretical sects, false religions and cults do speak of Jesus. Evil spirits can
testify of Jesus. But what they cannot testify is that Jesus has come in the
flesh. This itself makes Judaism heresy, the mother of heresies, for it
testifies that Jesus has not yet come. It was indeed Judaism that killed Jesus.
It was the Judaisers, who St Paul constantly refuted, and rebuked as evident in
Galatians, who shouted "Crucify Him, crucify Him!" (Mark 15:13; Luke
23:21) calling for Jesus to be put to death, out of pure hatred for
Christ! </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">For by denying Jesus has come in the flesh, one denies Jesus'
existence altogether, rejecting Him, who is the Truth. For Christ Himself is
Truth, for because Christ is God, rejection of Christ is the rejection of
God. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><i><span id="en-NKJV-26396" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black;">Jesus answered and said to them, <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></i></span><span class="woj"><i><span style="color: black;">“Even if I
bear witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and
where I am going; but</span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;"> <span data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26396L" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26396L" title="See cross-reference L">L</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i></span><span class="woj"></span><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">you
do not know where I come from and where I am going.</span></span></i><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></span><i><span id="en-NKJV-26397" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i><span class="woj"><i><span style="color: black;">You judge
according to the flesh;</span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;"> <span data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26397N" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26397N" title="See cross-reference N">N</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i></span><span class="woj"></span><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I
judge no one.</span></span></i><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></span><i><span id="en-NKJV-26398" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i><span class="woj"><i><span style="color: black;">And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for</span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;"> <span data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26398O" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26398O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i></span><span class="woj"></span><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">I
am not alone, but I <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">am</span> with
the Father who sent Me.</span></span></i><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></span><i><span id="en-NKJV-26399" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i><span class="versenum"><b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></b></span><span data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26399P" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26399P" title="See cross-reference P">P</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="woj"></span><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">It
is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.</span></span></i><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></span><i><span id="en-NKJV-26400" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i><span class="versenum"><b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="woj"><i><span style="color: black;">I am One
who bears witness of Myself, and</span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;"> <span data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26400Q" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26400Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></i></span><span class="woj"></span><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">the
Father who sent Me bears witness of Me.”</span></span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="en-NKJV-26401" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text"><i><span style="color: black;">Then they
said to Him, “Where is Your Father?”</span></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="text"><b><i><span style="color: black;">Jesus
answered, </span></i></b></span><span class="woj"><b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><i><span style="color: black;">“You know neither Me nor My Father.</span></i></span></b></span><span class="text"><b><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i></b></span><span class="woj"><b><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><i><span style="color: black;">If you had
known Me, you would have known My Father also.”</span></i></span></b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Without knowing Jesus, one
does not and cannot know God. Judaism is the mother of all heresies for it
boldly rejects Jesus outright, not even acknowledging Him in any way. All
heresies begin with a false view of the Trinity and ultimately attack Jesus,
because heresies are errors, which pervert Truth, who is Christ. Hence
why Scripture testifies that "<span class="text"><span id="en-NKJV-30607" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">spirit</span> of the Antichrist, which you
have heard was coming, and is now already in the world" (1 John 4:3). </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">All heresies are of the antichrist spirit who hates Jesus Christ, and therefore hate God. This antichrist spirit was most manifested in the fullest form in the Pharisees who accused Jesus of blasphemy because He testified that He was God, and sentenced Him to death for claiming that He was God. That is the ultimate manifestation of the spirit of the antichrist - an intense hatred of Christ so great that one denies who He truly is, God who has come in the flesh, who died for the sins of the world, and who rose again, so that we may be forgiven. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The true Christ is He who conquered death which sin brought into the world. He is the only giver of eternal Life, for He is the Life Eternal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Jesus said: </span></span><span class="woj" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I am</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the way,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the truth, and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the life.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No one comes to the Father</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">except through Me. (John 14:6)</span></div>
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<br />Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-32940266594509490712020-06-21T04:02:00.000-07:002020-06-21T04:51:32.506-07:00Heresy is Any Error that Deviates from the Truth who is Jesus Christ, and Comes in Many Guises and Forms, which ultimate Purpose is to Destroy the Church<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many think that heresies refers to only those professing Christian groups who call themselves Christians but who deviate from fundamental truths about Jesus, such as, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons. However, the definition of heresy in the true sense is much broader and all-encompassing than that. It refers to <i>any </i>error whatsoever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The question then is, what is error? Error has tragically and infuriatingly being defined by different people in different ways, its definition complicated by people for their own purposes. But with the Word, Jesus Christ, who <i><b>is</b> </i>the<b> Truth</b>: <span class="versenum" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Jesus said to him, </span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">“I am</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">the way,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">the truth, and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">the life.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">No one comes to the Father</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26675E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26675E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span></i><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><i>except through Me</i> (John 14:6)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">. All error is to be measured by whether it deviates from the Word (<i>logos</i>) who is Jesus Christ.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Word of God is Jesus Christ, not the Scripture, for as Scriptures testify:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text John-1-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">In the beginning <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26046B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26046B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>was the Word, and the <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26046C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26046C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>Word was <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26046D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26046D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>with God, and the Word was <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26046E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26046E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>God. </span><span class="text John-1-2" id="en-NKJV-26047" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">He was in the beginning with God. </span><span class="text John-1-3" id="en-NKJV-26048" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. </span><span class="text John-1-4" id="en-NKJV-26049" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">In Him was life, and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26049I" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26049I" title="See cross-reference I">I</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>the life was the light of men. </span><span class="text John-1-5" id="en-NKJV-26050" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>And <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-26050J" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-26050J" title="See cross-reference J">J</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="text John-1-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="text John-1-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Word in John 1:1 refers to Jesus Himself, the Person. Jesus is a Person, the second Person of the Trinity, of God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It does not refer to the Bible itself, or the Scriptures, which are only a <i>record </i>of the revelations of God's truths. The idea that the Word is the Scripture itself, as opposed to Jesus, leads to the heresy of "sola scriptura", a very subtle heresy that does not explicitly oppose the Apostles' Creed or Nicene Creed which lay out the fundamental truths of the true Christian faith - but is nevertheless a heresy as it purports the people can interpret Scripture in whatever way they want, or that Scripture is debatable. This is heresy because it diametrically oppose the idea that no Scripture is of private interpretation: </span></span><br />
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<span class="text John-1-5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 2Pet-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30499" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30499AA" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30499AA" title="See cross-reference AA">AA</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>light that shines in a dark place, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30499AB" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30499AB" title="See cross-reference AB">AB</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>until <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30499AC" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30499AC" title="See cross-reference AC">AC</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>the day dawns and the morning star rises in your <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30499AD" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30499AD" title="See cross-reference AD">AD</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>hearts; </span><span class="text 2Pet-1-20" id="en-NKJV-30500" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">knowing this first, that <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30500AE" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30500AE" title="See cross-reference AE">AE</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,</span><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span>for <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30501AF" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30501AF" title="See cross-reference AF">AF</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>prophecy never came by the will of man, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-30501AG" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-30501AG" title="See cross-reference AG">AG</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>but holy men of God spoke <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">as they were</span> moved by the Holy Spirit.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since no Scripture is of private interpretation, all Scripture is to be understood rightly. It is not to be interpreted. Interpretation inevitably leads to error, but real understanding leads to truth. Interpretation claims to be real understanding, but it is anything but true understanding. It always bends or twists Scripture to justify one's own desired understanding. Any person with such a heart to seek his own desired understanding, as opposed to true understanding, interprets Scripture with his own private interpretation. With such people, there is always heresy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is only one right way to understand Scripture, and that is the way as determined by the Church, more specifically those called by God to be ordained in the clergy. Only the Church instituted by Jesus Christ is the true Church:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Matt-16-17" id="en-NKJV-23690" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">Jesus answered and said to him, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah,</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23690O" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23690O" title="See cross-reference O">O</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">for flesh and blood has not revealed <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">this</span> to you, but</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23690P" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23690P" title="See cross-reference P">P</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">My Father who is in heaven.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-16-18" id="en-NKJV-23691" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">And I also say to you that</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23691Q" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23691Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">you are Peter, and</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23691R" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23691R" title="See cross-reference R">R</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">on this rock I will build My church, and</span> <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23691S" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23691S" title="See cross-reference S">S</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">the gates of Hades shall not</span> <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">prevail against it.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-16-19" id="en-NKJV-23692" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NKJV-23692T" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NKJV-23692T" title="See cross-reference T">T</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth</span> <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">What gives a Church real authority to claim that its understanding of Scripture is right and true is the authority vested in it, and not because it uses Scripture. Anyone can use Scripture for anything. 'Scripture' can even become corrupted such as the Masoric text, a corruption of true Scripture. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thus, the only real authoritative understanding of Scripture can come first and foremost by true revelation. That such revelation is not actually recorded in the Bible/Scriptures does not make it any less authoritative than that which is recorded in Scripture. Jesus said and did many things that are not recorded in Scripture, but that does not in any way make them any less authoritative than those recorded in Scripture. What makes any purported record of Scripture authoritative is that it is revealed by the Holy Spirit. It requires much discernment, wisdom and understanding to judge whether this is the case in each instance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Where most heresies originate is in false revelation. The founder of many a heretical sect or group thought that he or she received a true revelation from God, but such revelation was devilish, be it Joseph Smith, Ellen G White, Helena Blavatsky, Mohammed, or Charles Russell Taze, and numerous other people. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The reason such people came under such a serious and outrageous error is because they were not submitted under the authority of the Church, the true Church. They have no respect for Church authority. Rather, they were people who loved their own "independence" from Church authority, and arrogantly believed that they need not submit to any Church authority. They believed they could "interpret Scripture for themselves". The result is serious spiritual error that has led and will lead many to eternal Damnation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">People have a tendency to focus on one truth, and neglect or ignore another. It is precisely this mindset that leads to being deceived by heresy, without realising the heresy one is under. The irony is that people can see the heresy of others very clearly, but not their own, because the heresy they can see and constantly rebuke is obvious to them because of their focus on one truth. But their own heresy they cannot see because of their neglect or ignorance of another truth. This itself leads a person to coming under a heresy, or even, starting a heretical sect or group, if the person builds an entire theology on it, and has quite literally a cult following of his or her doctrines.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Many heresies, particularly the more subtle ones, emphasise one truth, but neglect another to the point of denying it. The most common one is "oneness pentacostalism". People under this heresy claim to believe in Jesus, and even believe that Jesus is God, but yet deny the Trinity. This is heresy! How can you believe in the true Jesus if you do not acknowledge the Trinity, the most fundamental truth about who God truly is?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">It is one thing to believe in Jesus' existence, and that Jesus is God, but another to truly acknowledge Him and serve Him as Lord. Even the demons believe in Jesus' existence and know that He is God, and tremble! Yet, human beings dare blaspheme Jesus Christ by denying the Trinity, denying that He is the resurrected Christ, denying the Second Person of the Trinity, denying that He was begotten, not made! Even the demons tremble knowing who Jesus is! Demons are evil, but humans are more evil and bold in their evil, daring to even build entire cults or sects based on an entire theology built on their wicked heresies!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">There are all kinds of heresies, appearing in all kinds of faces, be they religious or secular. All secular ideologies are heresies. All false religions are heresies. That is simply obvious, but what is more subtle are those that masquerade as Christian, that is, Christian heresies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Most Christian heresies, such as the Arian and Albigensian heresies affirm many, if not most truths of Christian orthodoxy, that is, the creeds of the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds. However, they fail on at least one creed, often in a way subtle way, claiming to affirm it, but weaving its way out of fully and properly affirming it, amounting to effective denial. For example, denial of the physical resurrection but affirmation of the spiritual resurrection of Jesus is denial of the Resurrection. Another is the belief in Jesus, but denial that He is both fully God and fully Man. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ultimate purpose of Christian heresy is to destroy the Church, and deceive as many as possible into thinking that they are true Christians when they are not, leading to their eternal Damnation. Its purpose is to destroy the Church from within. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Show me a heresiarch, and I will show you a person full of rebellion, and all kinds of lust, not least, the lust of power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rebellion is not simply about going against God, though that is certainly what it is. It is driven by lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, combined together with the desire to justify one's theology. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This attempt to justify one's own theology is precisely the problem - one seeks to define the truth, and not only that, manipulate God when one is at it. A true follower of Christ will not seek to justify his or her own theology. Rather, he or she will seek to understand the true meaning of Scripture and Church teaching. He will affirm the authoritative Church teaching. He will accept no self-proclaimed theologians or pastors as true theologians or pastors as reliable, most of whom are pseudo-intellectuals or fanatics. He is a follower of Christ who obeys proper Church authority. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beware of anyone who disobeys or denies the very idea of Church authority. They are the ones who love to set up 'independent churches', or attend such churches. They are the ones who set up their own ministry independent of any Church authority, to push their own ideas about what they<i> personally </i>think, spreading ideas that go against orthodox church ideas, or fixated on only one theme, building their entire heretical theology on it, be it marriage and family, or predestination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">True Christian theology is based on the doctrines of the Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed. Anyone who does not affirm even one creed of either of these is a heretic. Even these two creeds alone are not a test for whether a person's doctrine is sound. These two Creeds alone do not screen out moral heretics, those who believe in a moral heresy, such as that homosexuality is not sin, usury is not sin, or that religious liberty (which is really anarchy) is good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if a person affirms all the creeds of both the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds respectively, and affirms all moral teaching of Scripture, does not mean that he or she is not a heretic. For heresy can and always does twist what is fundamental truth, which is precisely the goal of 'sola scriptura'. Even the undeniable absolute creeds of the Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed can be twisted by heretics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One notoriously deceptive heresy is that of "oneness pentacostalism". Oneness pentacostals claim to believe in Jesus, and most are genuine in their belief in Jesus. There are in fact entire denominations of "oneness pentacostals" who claim to believe in the Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed, and often do believe in these creeds - but misinterpret the Trinity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Knowing Jesus Christ must begin with having a right understanding of who God is, who Jesus is, and who the Holy Spirit. It is one thing to claim to know Jesus, and another to actually truly know Jesus. To truly know Jesus necessarily requires one to have the right concept of Jesus. That one is genuine in knowing and having one's understanding of Jesus does not make one know who the true Jesus is. The true Jesus is God in the flesh, fully God fully man at the same time, co-eternal with God the Father and the Holy Spirit as part of the Trinity, the second person of the Trinity, who died for the sins of the world, was crucified, dead and buried, and resurrected on the third day, and who will come to judge the world in the time to come. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was Jesus Christ Himself who founded the Church. Indeed, Jesus proclaimed: <span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><i>And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it</i> (Matthew 16:18). The true Church, the holy universal Church was founded by Jesus Himself. Any so-called church that is not in the line of succession of the early Church is not a true church. Such churches are not founded on Jesus, and are founded on a mere person. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The root of heresy is always rebellion, borne out of a desire to shun truth, because it rebukes one's sins. In such rebellion, one seeks to twist and pervert truth, in an attempt to justify one's sins, particularly lust, and delude oneself into thinking one's belief makes it truth. One thing about heretics is that they tend to be filled with all manner of lust, be it for sex, money or power. </span></span></div>
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Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-6270925301139154152020-06-06T09:52:00.000-07:002020-06-06T09:56:38.597-07:00The Evils of Fallen Marriages and Families<br />
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assuming all manner of righteousness because they supposedly "value
marriage and family" while those "evil liberals" do not. While
it is true that western liberals despise these institutions of marriage and
family, this does not automatically mean that conservatives "value
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These 'conservatives' who claim to "value marriage and family" do not
truly value marriage and family, for those love such institutions for the wrong
reasons. Instead, they idolise them, elevating them above God. While marriage
and family must be respected, idolising them is evil. For idolatry is always
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'Marriage and family' heretics claim that marriage and family are mandatory for
Salvation. They love to talk about how a person must first, be saved, second,
get married as soon as possible (to prevent fornication, as if marriage is a
cure for lust and that marriage is about sex), and third, have children as soon
as possible after marriage and have as many as possible, until one can no
longer bear children. They pervert Scripture, to make marriage and family to be
necessary for Salvation - all while claiming to oppose "works-based
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What must Christians living under the New Covenant marry and have as many
children as they can? To bring about the line of the Messiah, Jesus Christ?
Even under the Old Covenant which these heretics are obsessively fixated on,
marriage and family was not a requirement for Salvation. It did not mean that a
person was holy or unholy, righteous or unrighteous. Prophet Daniel never
married. Neither did Prophet Jeremiah. So, are you evangelicals going to tell
me that you are holier and more righteous than them because you are married
with a family, while they were not? Are that you are more "blessed",
favoured in the eyes of God, because you have a marriage and family while these
supposedly "incel" ('involuntarily celibate') Old Testament Prophets
and also for that matter, New Testament Apostles and Prophets were not married
with family? </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jesus Himself was not married with family, and neither were Apostle Paul and
Barnabas, nor Luke, John the Baptist and many others. That itself shows that
marriage and family are not needed for Salvation. You may say that no one is
suggesting that people must marry and have a family to be saved, because that
would promote "works Salvation", and that "no one can be saved
by works" as Ephesians 2:8-9: <span style="background: white;">For by
grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">it
is</i> the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Let me ask you, do believe one must be righteous and holy to enter the Kingdom
of Heaven, or by faith alone, where one does not need to do good works? If you
say you do not need good works, tell me what Jesus meant when He said: "For
I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds <i style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">the
righteousness</i> of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter
the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:20). That one need only to "just
believe, just believe, and just believe"? What foolishness! And yet
yourselves say you must marry and have a family to be a true follower of
Christ! You hypocrites! </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It is not by marrying and having families that a person is righteous. It is by
obeying the Will of God, loving God with all one's heart, soul, mind and
strength and loving one's neighbour as oneself. For as the Holy Scriptures
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Jesus said to him, “‘You
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
and with all your mind.’ <b> </b>This is the first and
great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all
the Law and the Prophets.” </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Matthew 22:36-40)</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Marrying does not make a
person righteous or unrighteous. It is the heart that determines whether one is
righteous or not. It is not marriage itself that is honourable, but marrying
for righteous reasons that is honourable as per 1 Corinthians 7:36-38:</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">But if any man thinks he is
behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth,
and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them
marry. <b> </b>Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart,
having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in
his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well. So then he who
gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in
marriage does better.</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">No where does St Paul say
that marriage is itself an honourable institution. Rather, it is one's conduct
in relation to this institution of marriage that determines whether one is
righteous. This conduct all starts in the heart, where one's motives and
desires lies. If one's motives and desires for marriage are wrongly ordered,
one's conduct in relation to marriage is wrong and sinful. If one's motives and
desires for marriage are rightly ordered, then one's conduct in relation to
marriage are right and good.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">People nowadays love
weddings and to get married, but not for righteous reasons. Rather, they marry
for self-centred reasons, be it for sexual gratification, financial security,
status and power. Indeed, many married people married for any combination if
not all of these reasons, explaining why their marriages are dysfunctional -
because their marriages were not based on the foundation of Christ. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Evangelical conservatives
who idolise marriage and family promote it as a means to gain all of these
things, to satisfy the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and the pride of
life (1 John 2:16). They do not respect marriage and family by idolising it.
Rather, they pervert it, and as if that were not enough, blaspheme God by
claiming that their marriage and family-idolatry is based on true Christian
doctrine. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The real motives of these
evangelical conservatives in pushing marriage and family is not about holiness
or righteousness. It is ultimately about power, the power to create a status
for themselves in both the Church and society. This power comes from their
ability to boast in the earthly sense that they have the 'good life', in which
they have the so-called 'legal right' from a Biblical perspective to indulge in
the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life - in having
endless sex, and endless credit, as well as no more than the number of children
they want, who they bear for self-centred reasons. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">For from the perspective of
their perverted theology of marriage and family, marital sex is something to be
idolised, not done in a rightful decent way, as indicated by their despicable
unnatural sexual acts they do, under the canopy of marriage, in the name of
'glorifying God'. Contraception is justified by indulging in passionate sex
without being open to having children - all of course, "because they are
married". Children are only to be borne as a means of ensuring that one
does not become lonely in old age, and not as a means of self-sacrifice in
rearing children to be righteous and holy. A wife is justified in her
'independence' as a matter of respecting "women's empowerment", and
that she has a right to make decisions that overturn that of her husband, or
are equal to that of her husband. She has a so-called "right" to
neglect her duties as a wife, all under the false pretext of "men's
oppression". </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Conservatives, and even
non-conservatives, think that marriage and family is a source of comfort in a
harsh, brutal world, but that is not only too optimistic; it completely omits
to point out that fallen marriages and families in an evil fallen world are
full of troubles, chaos and disorder, all owing to sin and wickedness. A fallen
marriage is not necessarily one that ends in divorce, though such a marriage
most certainly is. It is one that is not in accordance to the will of God and
based on the foundation of Jesus Christ. A fallen family is not necessarily one
that is a 'broken family' where there is a solo parent, usually a single
mother, and children. It is one that does not follow the Will of God, and based
on the foundation of Jesus Christ. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">God created marriage so that
humankind can populate the earth with families, to perpetuate a collective
humankind that seeks after God. He never created humans to be 'individuals'
living their own individual lives, and chasing after their own individual
desires, aspirations, dreams, ambitions, and visions. He created humans to live
as a collective humankind, not just in one's own circle of family and friends,
but as a humankind that would love God and love one's neighbour as oneself.
One's neighbour goes beyond one's own circles of family and friends. It extends
to even one's enemies. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The blessed Samaritan who
showed love to the Jewish man who was attacked by bandits by aiding him in his
time of need was his <b>neighbour</b>, despite being outside of not only
the Jewish man's family and tribe, but an enemy. Let us hear the words of
Christ:</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">But he, wanting to justify
himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Then Jesus answered and
said: “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and
fell among [<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A25-37&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-25394b" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;" title="See footnote b"><span style="color: #b34b2c;">b</span></a>]thieves,
who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half
dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw
him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite, when he
arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. But
a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw
him, he had compassion. So he went to him and bandaged his
wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him
to an inn, and took care of him.On the next day, [<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10%3A25-37&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-25399c" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer;" title="See footnote c"><span style="color: #b34b2c;">c</span></a>]when
he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the
innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend,
when I come again, I will repay you.’ So which of these three do you think
was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?”</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">And he said, “He who showed
mercy on him.”</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Then Jesus said to him, “Go
and do likewise.”</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Luke 10:29-37)</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Let us be like the blessed
Samaritan who was the real neighbour of the Jewish man who was attacked by
bandits, who showed him love and care in his time of need! Let us do away with
all tribalism! Let us do away with loving only one's family and friends, extending
love to even our enemies as did the blessed Samaritan! </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-7575416815312155772020-05-30T10:03:00.000-07:002020-05-30T10:09:22.628-07:00Our Ultimate Family is the Holy Universal Church, not our Earthly Family<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Many churches nowadays are
constantly pushing people to get married and have families, largely as a
response to the degeneracy of the decadent immorality of the culture around
them, which despises marriage and family and perverts these institutions. However,
this "marriage and family" agenda is based on many fundamental
misconceptualisations of Scripture. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">One
key misconceptualisation is the view that people must marry to not be lonely,
because of Genesis 2:18 which says: "</span><span style="background: white;">And the <span class="small-caps"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span> God
said, “<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is</i> not good that man
should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” These
religious people in the professing Church are constantly quoting this to people
who object to their view that all people must rush into marriage or else they
are "cursed" for being unmarried. Such are absurd lies!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">What Genesis 2:18 really means is that God created woman to
complement man so that humanity will be both male and female. God did not
create humanity to be of one sex alone, but two. It needs the second sex in the
sense of being created second, so that humankind will flourish. Animals would
not be suitable to help Adam, which was why God created Eve:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><i><span id="en-NKJV-50" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: white;">Out of the ground the <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></span></span></i></span><span class="small-caps"><i><span style="background: white;">Lord</span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background: white;"> God formed every beast of the field and every bird of
the air, and brought <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">them</span> to Adam
to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature,
that <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">was</span> its name. </span><span id="en-NKJV-51" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to
every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable
to him. </span></i></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">(Genesis
2:19-20)</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">Man would have dominion over the earth, and woman would be
the helper. The two will be part of God's creation by procreating, with one
giving seed (male) and the other bearing children (female). In short, Genesis
2:18 is an explanation of God's creation of man as part of his creation
world. It is <b>not</b> a prescription that every man (or woman)
must marry and have a family, to be complete. Nor is it even a description of
the supposed loneliness that people will feel as they age if they do not marry
as these "marriage and family" advocates love to make it out to
mean. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">This idea that Genesis 2:18 is proof that everyone must marry
and have a family is frankly wrong, absurd and most importantly, toxic. It is a
spiritual error that is ensnaring many young people, causing them to be
desperate for marriage and family. Many are likely to lose their faith because
of their teaching, if they do not end up being married, or married as soon as
they wish, because of being told that they must marry and have a family as
young as possible to be a true Christian. Since being a Christian is about
getting married and having a family, it follows that not marrying and having a
family means one is not a truly devoted Christian according to the teaching of
these "marriage and family" advocates. So, those who have swallowed
this teaching will feel like they do not please God and be in bondage to the
spiritual error of this view.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">A critical point to note is that this emphasis on Genesis
2:18 among other verses, mainly Old Testament verses, neglects the New
Testament teaching. The emphasis on any one particular Old Testament verse or
passage to justify any position is should raise alarm bells. For with the Old
Testament alone, people can justify anything, be it murder, rape, adultery,
polygamy or even paedophilia. Jesus came to institute the New Covenant which
supersedes the Old Covenant:</span><span class="versenum"><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white;">In that He says, “<span class="oblique"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">A new</span></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">covenant</span>,” He has made the first
obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish
away.</span></i><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">(Hebrews 8:13)</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">Followers of Christ must focus on what Jesus said. It is that
simple. Jesus elevated the Church above the earthly family. As the Scriptures
testify:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he
who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. </span></i><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">(Matthew
10:37)</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and
children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My
disciple. </span></i><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">(Luke 14:26).</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">This is not to say that one must or should abandon one's
family. By no means! It is heretics and cults who twist this doctrine and
tell people to abandon their families. By the same token, however, heretics and
cults tend to force people to marry and have children as young as possible, and
have as many children as possible to the point of being unable to have any
more. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rather, it is that the Church takes precedence over the
earthly family. We must obey the will of God first and foremost, rather than
that of family. We must go where ever God tells us to go, rather than makes
decisions ultimately based on pleasing family. We must do whatever God wills
for us, rather than what our family wants us to do. This in no ways negates
respect for one's parents, and doing the will of God is never an excuse to
dishonour one's parents. Jesus himself affirmed the commandment to honour one's
parents under the New Covenant (Luke 18:20), but the Church is elevated above
the family under the New Covenant. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 13.5pt;">The main purpose of the Old Testament Israelites for marrying
and having a family was the bring about the line of David and eventually bring
about the birth of Christ. This duty no longer applies to anyone, whether Jew
or Gentile. Even under the Old Covenant, no everyone was obliged to marry and
have a family. Despite this general duty to marry and have a family, a number
of Prophets and Apostles did not marry, such as Daniel and Jeremiah.
Jeremiah was in fact told not to marry because God would destroy the people:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><i><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: white;">The word
of the <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></span></span></i></span><span class="small-caps"><i><span style="background: white;">Lord</span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background: white;"> also
came to me, saying, </span><span id="en-NKJV-19339" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or
daughters in this place.” </span><span id="en-NKJV-19340" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">For thus says the <span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"></span></span></i></span><span class="small-caps"><i><span style="background: white;">Lord</span></i></span><span class="text"><i><span style="background: white;"> concerning
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Holy Universal Church. It is our true eternal family. We are more closely
bounded together than we are with our unsaved family members. While blood is
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-9007616279132366902020-05-25T10:42:00.000-07:002020-05-25T10:42:49.854-07:00Celibacy: The Ideal Life<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For fifteen centuries, the Church has taught that celibacy is the ideal life, based on a proper and clear understanding of Scripture. Yet, with the Protestant Reformation, this doctrine was reversed, and instead, marriage became the ideal. The idea that celibacy was ideal was scorned, and demonised, and marriage became elevated over celibacy. This idea has continued well into contemporary times where many Christians think that marriage is the ideal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marriage has now become the most serious concern of many if not most Christians, irrespective of 'denomination' precisely because of how the idea that celibacy is not ideal, even wrong or unnatural, while marriage is ideal has been propagated down the centuries. This minor issue has become a major issue, while major issues, such as the doctrines of the Trinity, theosis and Christian militancy have been shunned. Many professing Christians are not concerned with fighting evil, but only concerned about marriage and the earthly affairs that come with it, such as housing debt and careers. Many Christians, particularly evangelicals, rush to marry by the tender age of twenty, when they are not even mature enough emotionally or stable enough financially to fulfill marital responsibilities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This shows the sad state of affairs in the Church today. Moreover, it is really an indictment of the professing Church and its concern with the earthly as opposed to the spiritual. That is the bottomline. For those who are truly zealous about serving God would not be desperate for marriage and rush into it. They would pursue the Will of God first, and let marriage come along if it is the Will of God for them personally. In contrast, those who rush into marriage strive for marriage first, and then pursue a career for the money, yet daring to falsely call it a 'calling' which is to denigrate and pervert the meaning of that honourable term. Most professing Christians fall into the latter category which is truly tragic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not only do they rush into marriage, but they twist Scripture, of course, to justify their lust, which is the driving force behind why they rush into marriage in most cases. Instead, of respecting Scripture as it is when it says that celibacy is ideal, and better than marriage, they pervert it to say that Scripture allows people to marry just to have sex and that that is just as righteous as celibacy. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-25">Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy. </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-26" id="en-NKJV-28514">I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is: </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-27" id="en-NKJV-28515">Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed.<b> Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. </b></span></span></i><b></b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-28" id="en-NKJV-28516">But
even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she
has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have <b>trouble in the flesh, but I
would spare you.</b></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-29" id="en-NKJV-28517">But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-30" id="en-NKJV-28518"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>those
who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they
did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-31" id="en-NKJV-28519">and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-32" id="en-NKJV-28520">But <b>I want you to be without care</b>. <b>He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. </b></span></span></i><b></b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-33" id="en-NKJV-28521"><b>But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please his wife.</b> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-34" id="en-NKJV-28522">There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The <b>unmarried woman cares
about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in
spirit.</b> But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how
she may please her husband. </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-35" id="en-NKJV-28523">And
this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but
for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-36" id="en-NKJV-28524">But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them marry. </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-37" id="en-NKJV-28525">Nevertheless
he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has
power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will
keep his virgin, does well.<b> </b></span><b><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.</span></b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">(1 Corinthians 7:25-38 )</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">Those who push the marriage and family agenda, making it some kind of rule that people must necessarily marry and have a family to be truly holy and righteous, cut off this part of Scripture - all while claiming to be faithful to it! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">St Paul taught that celibacy is ideal and that people should only think about marrying if they cannot control themselves, that is, that they would otherwise be likely to fall into the sin of fornication if they do not marry. However, that is not the ideal situation. One should not be in the situation where one has to resort to marriage to avoid or prevent fornication. Instead, one should ideally have self-control. That is the true meaning of 1 Corinthians 7:9 which is often pervertedly twisted to mean that God endorses marrying just to have sex, as if marrying all of a sudden makes lust legitimate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">What makes sexual sin wrong is lust, that is, inordinate desire. This inordinate desire for bodily pleasure can be present both in and outside of marriage. What this perverted doctrine of the evangelicals that marrying for sex is justified imply, is that no sexual desire within marriage can be inordinate, but is necessarily always rightly ordered. It also assumes that marriage simply renders what is an inordinate desire to be rightly ordered, simply by virtue of making a vow. The mindset of such professing Christians who advance and propagate this doctrine is so corrupt that they cannot see how corrupt their own mindset is, explaining why they cannot understand 1 Corinthians 7:9 or the entire passage rightly from a pure mind.</span><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526"> They have no understanding, they are wicked and are rebellious.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">It is no wondering that such libertine people have all kinds of perverted understanding of Scripture on all kinds of issues. For such people do not even understand the different between understanding and interpreting Scripture. Understanding Scripture is about seeking truth from the Scriptures, whereas interpreting is about imposing one's own will upon it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">For out of lust does heresy abound. People pervert Scripture precisely because such perversions reflect their hearts full of lust, rebellion, pride and arrogance, leading to the darkening of their minds. This darkening of the mind which Romans 1:28-30 does not only refer to that of the brazenly evil secular people who support "sodomite marriage" or the muslims who some Christians love to target, but <i>all </i>people who are in rebellion against God because of their own lust. That includes many professing Christians who refuse submit to a pure and right understanding of Scripture, and who love to create "ambiguity" or "contention" about the meaning of certain passages of Scripture they find hard to accept - while of course purporting the unambiguity of their own interpretation when creating their own rules and imposing them on others to oppress them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">Many still continue to deliberate whether celibacy is better than marriage, but Scripture is clear: it is unequivocally better than marriage, not equal to it, but better. It is not simply better because it "teaches singles to not be selfish", in that legalistic way that religious married people love to speak of 'singleness' or celibacy, as if they themselves were all so self-sacrificial, holy and righteous. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">No, celibacy is better because it is more virtuous in demonstrating self-control and a zeal to focus on God (1 Corinthians 7:38). It is also better because it enables one to focus on serving God (1 Corinthians 7:32-35). On a more realistic front, it is better because it liberates one from earthly concerns with married life (1 Corinthians 7:28, 32), such as paying a housing mortgage which is virtually impossible to avoid nowadays, finding a career just for survival even if one does not really have the talent, and fulfilling the often earthly desires of a spouse, which may be sexual, financial or emotional, as well as supporting children in their earthly pursuits. This is what marriage and family brings! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">Of course, one is to respect the institutions of marriage and family. Woe to those who put marriage asunder (Matthew 19:6)! Respecting them does not mean idolising them, using them to indulge in lust, by having endless sex and endless credit (read: debt which is bondage). </span><span class="text 1Cor-7-38" id="en-NKJV-28526">One can't help but note the irony of those who claim to respect marriage and family, but pursue these honourable vocations to satisfy their own <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lusts. Such hypocrisy!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Celibacy is that which is ideal precisely because it is self-sacrificial devotion to God, and not just that which is conducive to a self-sacrificial life. Marriage is designed to be self-sacrificial, but it inherently requires people to be divided in their attention towards both God and one's family. While marriage is honourable, it is one that necessarily requires one to be self-centred to some extent in caring for one's family in the context of a fallen world. It necessarily hinders self-sacrificial living to some extent in a fallen world. Furthermore, owing to the fallen human nature, marriage provides all kinds of temptations to be self-centred, in that one only cares for one's family members, neglecting the needy who are outside one's family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-83224478410765642822020-03-20T07:33:00.002-07:002020-03-20T07:41:16.192-07:00The Degenerate Mindset<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many Christians think that degeneracy is simply about sexual immorality. They love to target the unsaved who practise sexual sins such as fornication, adultery and homosexuality as the degenerates, all while having fornicated before marriage themselves and excusing their own sin on the basis of 'grace'. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, such gross sins are only the symptoms of degeneracy, rather than constituting its essence. Romans 1:26-32 lists these sins as only a few sins among many others that are symptoms of degeneracy. Many professing Christians, many of whom are false converts, are themselves filled with all manner of unrighteousness (Romans 1:29) in being full of maliciousness, double-mindedness, gossiping, backbiters, unloving, unforgiving and unmerciful. Such are those who curse and threaten the true converts, the true prophets of God who speak truth and rebuke these false converts! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The essence of degeneracy is the deliberate rejection of God and His ways, in pursuit of pleasure and treasure. This leads to all the sins listed in Romans 1:29-32. The sins listed can be categorised into three types: love of self, love of money, and love of pleasure. Degeneracy is disordered love, whereby one loves what one should not love, but hate, and hates what one should love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Degeneracy all starts with knowing God, but failing to give thanks for God. Degenerate people are always unthankful towards God, thinking that they do not need God, in being full of arrogance and pride. Their pride is Adamic in nature, wicked to the core, in rejecting God the Creator:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-18">For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, </span><span class="text Rom-1-19" id="en-NKJV-27950"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. </span><span class="text Rom-1-20" id="en-NKJV-27951"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, </span><span class="text Rom-1-21" id="en-NKJV-27952">because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. </span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-21" id="en-NKJV-27952">Owing to such darkness of heart, their minds become darkened. For they profess to be wise with their own knowledge, which is itself evil, and a rejection of God, and become fools. As a result, they are incapable of understanding the things of God, not even knowing what sin is, or knowing right from wrong:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-21" id="en-NKJV-27952"><i>Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.<br /> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-21" id="en-NKJV-27952">The degenerate person is not someone who is simply ignorant, but actively seeking to rebel against God. He is a person who is proud of not knowing God and proud of his sinfulness. He has no sense of shame. Lack of shame about his degeneracy, and the complete lack of knowledge about sin are the two cardinal signs of degeneracy. This dismiss rebuke or opposition to their sin as 'discriminatory', 'homophobic', 'racist', 'misogynistic' or 'sexist', 'judgmental', 'unkind', or ironically, 'unchristlike' or 'unchristian' - showing how degenerate they are in having not only no shame, but pride in their sins. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-21" id="en-NKJV-27952">A degenerate person is a person who is hardened in his or her sin, to the point of being beyond all repentance, except by the grace of God. Such a person is not simply ignorant as was the case of St Paul before conversion. Not all unsaved people are degenerate. Many unsaved people oppose all those sins listed in Romans 1:26-32, and are virtuous - but they are still under the judgment of God because their virtue is not counted as righteousness. For God requires perfection, what holiness is:<i> </i></span><i>For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven </i>(Matthew 5:20).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since a degenerate person is hardened in his sin, and refuses to repent, hating God and loving his sin, God gives up the person to his vile passions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-28" id="en-NKJV-27959">All these loves are in and of themselves perverted, disordered love, in loving what one should not love. The root of these loves is the prideful rejection of God. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-28" id="en-NKJV-27959">That is what makes is so hard to evangelise to people who are so entrenched in the love of self, the love of pleasure and the love of money. For such people aggressively reject all knowledge of God, making it hard to even speak about God to them. Such people are not open to the things of God, but hostile.They are hostile to the things of God precisely because of their love of self, pleasure and money. They are mammonised, full of the love and worship of mammon, as opposed to God, only knowing how to pursue mammon, not knowing how to do good or even having basic moral decency.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-28" id="en-NKJV-27959">Degeneracy starts with a mindset that rejects God out of pride, rather than ignorance, and that is proud of rejecting God. Degeneracy is a mindset that despises not only God, but everything about God and the ways of God. Such people are those who hate Christianity. But also degenerate are those who are professing Christians full of the love of self, pleasure and money, who do not seek truth, but seek to twist Scripture to justify their own love of self, pleasure and money. They are the ones who hate those who rebuke them for being mammonised. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Rom-1-21" id="en-NKJV-27952"><i> </i></span></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-30077745689391348882020-01-16T07:00:00.003-08:002020-01-16T07:09:12.879-08:00The Character of a Real Woman<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The essence of a real woman is one who knows God's purpose for her life. She is one who is kind, wise and strong. Many in hyper-conservative Christian circles think that the ideal woman, or the real woman, who exemplifies the paragon of virtue is one who is supposedly 'truly liberated' from the feminist lifestyle of working and 'coming home to an empty house', by being domesticated, that is a woman who is married, has children, stays home and not university educated. But what they really mean is that the ideal woman is one who is weak, oppressed, and to be relegated to obscurity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be clear, it is not wrong to be married, have children, stay home and not be university educated. Nor are these characteristics signs of oppression of women. What I am saying, however, is that that is the lifestyle that hyper-conservatives seek to impose on women for the purpose of making her weak, subtly oppressed by coercing her to marry as young as possible, and threatening to destroy all social support for her, if she does not end up marrying, and of course, relegating her to obscurity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This has created the false impression that Christianity oppresses women because of how hyper-conservative evangelicals are purporting to practise Scriptural commands - by reducing her purpose and value to be about only marrying, child-bearing and house-keeping. Worse still, they twist Scriptures to justify their subtle oppression of women in the Church by the legalistic fundamentalism, and attack anyone who does not have the exact same lifestyle as them, even those who aspire to follow their prescribed path but have not been able to by circumstance, blaming their circumstances on their sin. This is plainly wrong, unfair, and offensive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some have reacted to this hyper-conservative oppression by pursuing a feminist lifestyle of self-fulfillment and so-called "sexual liberation". That is an abomination. But neither is this hyper-conservative evangelical prescription for young woman good. Both sides are extreme and absolutely wrong, despite being radically different and hostile towards each other. What both have in common is that they do not know what is a woman's true God-given purpose and how is she to pursue it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The radical feminist extreme, as wrong and diabolical as they are, still knows deep down inside that God has created women to do great things as much as men are. For feminists are still human beings created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). Indeed, human beings are all created to do great things for God! How sad it is when people fail to fulfill their purpose in God. They are also right that life is not all about marriage and family, and that a woman should not be oppressed or bullied, just because she is single and childless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hyper-conservative extreme is right in affirming that "sexual liberation" is not liberation, but sexual bondage, and that a lifestyle of pursuing self-fulfillment is wrong. One is to pursue one's purpose in life in accordance to the Will of God. Where they are wrong is that they think that a person, especially a woman, must marry and have a family to do the Will of God. Some even think that one must be married and have a family to receive Salvation! What error!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both the anti-marriage and anti-family extremism of the radical feminists, and the legalistic extremism of the hyper-conservative evangelicals are wrong, leading to a wrong view about the purpose of woman and how to fulfill her purpose. Each of these wrong views is manifested in those who adhere to these views. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The radical feminist is aggressive, macho, proud of her independence and hostile towards marriage and family, in particular, the traditional woman who is married with children, and who does not work. She proudly despises such a woman, and is all of a sudden 'pro-marriage' when she finally ends up marrying a man, only to end up divorced or unhappily married a few years after marriage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This all makes the hyper-conservative evangelical woman all the more dangerous. She seeks to marry young, often marrying a man to use him for sex and money. Despite all he does for her, she is often lazy in bearing children and doing housework as she should. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many of these women only want children when she 'feels' like it, after she has experienced enough pleasure in her first five to ten years of marriage - indulging in endless lust-driven sex and other sexual perversions, even bullying her husband into performing perverted sex acts on her, spending much of her husband's money on unnecessary luxury goods that she won't even use, and of course, working on her useless corporate career where she can make money in a relatively easy job. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She typically only wants to have children to compete with other women, to show that she 'has it all', not because she truly loves children, despite her virtuous veneer. She often also wants to have her own job, to show her 'independence', by running a so-called 'women's ministry' whereby she writes useless foolish books, that are totally wrong in their doctrine, vacuous, or stupid, just to show that she has a so-called "career". What's more, many such so-called evangelicals who are hyper-conservative have fornicated before marriage or are secretly practising sexual perversion within marriage. So much for their 'holy and righteous' veneer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While both extremes are very different in their thinking, they are the same in that that they have no real sense of purpose as women. They are ultimately insecure about their identity as women and do not like being women. This explains why they are so sensitive to alleged discrimination against women in the case of the feminists, or a lack of traditionalism in women in the case of the hyper-conservative evangelicals. Owing to their lack of purpose, they are not and neither can they be caring, wise and strong women. Rather, they are self-centred, foolish and weak women who do not even know it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The characteristics of a real woman will be examined as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Genesis 2:18 says: "And the LORD God said, <i>It is</i> not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed! God created women to be the helper of man. A real woman embraces her role as a helper. She does not seek to hinder, undermine, or manipulate others as many women do. Being a real woman is about the character of the heart, not one's social role, calling, vocation or education. A caring character is a powerful one, and such power emanates from the person himself or herself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A real woman rejects a self-serving life and seeks to devote herself to serving God and serving others. She actively seeks to be a help, not harm. Living such a life is not determined by whether she lives a hyper-conservative lifestyle in rushing to marrying as young as possible, and then having as many children as possible, dressing up conservatively like a Puritan, and demonising education and the use of the intellect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The real woman is wise, not foolish. She is not easily swayed by popular trends, nor popular ideas and ideologies. She is not vain, focused only on outward beauty. For she is not a silly woman (2 Timothy 3:6) who lives for her own pleasure. She is one who is not easily fooled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> She does not strive for independence from God as Eve did in taking the Forbidden Fruit (Genesis 3:6). She opposes the whole idea of 'women's liberation', not because she is 'weak' or 'silly' as people often think, but because she is upright. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Women's liberation' started in the Garden of Eden , not the twentieth-century when Eve first conceived of taking the Forbidden Fruit, which was the height of rebellion against God. In doing she, she is usurping the authority of Adam, by denying his authority over her. She is not 'strong' in doing so, as many in modern Western or Westernised societies think, but is foolish as well as weak. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She may or may not be university educated, depending on her calling. She excels in whatever she does, including that which is not traditionally expected of women, all for the glory of God, for the purpose of serving God and serving others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unlike the worldly woman, her strength does not come from dominating, manipulating, bullying or intimidating others. Nor does it come from her worldly knowledge. Instead, it comes from her character that is full of kindness and wisdom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She despises the Jezebel spirit which is absolutely diabolical, because she is full of moral strength, not weakness. She has a good spirit, one that is kind, lovely, and gentle, that seeks to do good, not a bad spirit that is self-centred, deceptive, and subtly manipulative, that seeks to harm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-12839763462437703982020-01-04T08:26:00.000-08:002020-01-04T08:28:56.463-08:00The Essence of a Real Woman <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is much talk about Biblical womanhood in the Church, which indeed an important topic. However, owing to the confusion about the subject by many people because of misinterpretation and misapplication of Scripture, this subject has become controversial and difficult to understand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many attribute the controversial nature of the subject of Biblical womanhood in the eyes of today's Church to the influence of feminism in the Church. While it is true that much of the controversy is owing to many women being poisoned by feminism, there are also legitimate genuine concerns about certain purported teachings in the Church on Biblical womanhood. Such teachings that involve a perversion of Scripture that is being used to oppress women, which is a concern that warrants discussion. The use of Scripture of oppress people, not just women, is a very real concern. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All discussion on Biblical womanhood must address the fundamental question: <b>what is a real woman? </b>A real woman is one who is worthy of respect, and emulating. That is precisely where the heated contention lies, as to what makes a woman worthy of respect and emulation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scripture upholds many women who are real women, one worthy of such respect and emulation, to be treated as a example for all women to follow. They include Mary, the mother of Jesus, Sarah, Miriam, Queen Esther, Ruth, Deborah, Anna the prophetess, Proverbs 31 woman and the Shulamite woman in the Song of Songs. These are all women who are spoken highly of because they were exemplified the highest of virtue. Such women were virtuous because they conformed to what God made them to be, a helper, of which the key virtues are to be kind, wise and strong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Scripture declare why God created woman: "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him" (Genesis 2:18). She is a helpmeet. A helpmeet's role is not simply 'a little helper' in that derogatory way that feminists wrongly imagine it to mean, owing to their own proud and arrogant hearts, having even the arrogant to think that men are to serve <i>her</i>, and be <i>her </i>slave, appeasing her in whatever way she demands, just because she is 'woman'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="p">At the same time, ultra-conservative evangelical Christians have also likewise misinterpreted what it means to be a helpmeet of man to ways that are at least as damaging at the 'christian feminist' view which seeks to render an egalitarian view of gender roles in which both the husband and wife are 'heads of household'. In contrast to these 'christian feminists' who interpret Scripture to render women illegitimate freedom and liberty, ultra-conservative evangelical Christians render illegitimate limitations and restrictions on what women can and cannot do for the Lord. One renders illegitimate freedom and liberty, while the other renders illegitimate limitations and restrictions. Both are wrong, as both render Scripture to give or impose that which illegitimate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="p">Illegitimate freedoms and liberties for women are obvious to many. These include the so-called "right" to commit adultery and not be held accountable, or even be rewarded for it, and the so-called "right" to divorce just because she feels like it. These are obviously sins and any woman who does such evil is an evil woman. A more contentious illegitimate freedom for women is her so-called "right" to exercise equal authority to her husband which some argue for, on the basis of Scriptures such as Ephesians 5:21. However, this is a perversion of Scripture as clearly evident in Ephesians 5:23: "</span><span class="p">For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body." It is clear that he is to be respected as the head of the wife. Anyone who argues against this is violating Scripture and calling God a liar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="p">However, what is less obvious are illegitimate limitations and restrictions, of which many have been imposed on women, that many do not even realise are illegitimate because they have been so indoctrinated with legalistic thinking on what it means to be a real woman. They think that being a real woman is ultimately to get married and have children, and be a homemaker based on verses such as 1 Timothy 5:14 and Titus 2:4-5 - all while not realising that this an misapplication, that such a path is the only right way for a woman. Some such people do not even think it is right for women to help out in Church, except for in roles such as providing refreshments, and teaching Sunday school children and women Scripture, or that women should sing in Church!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="p">1 Timothy 5:14 which says "</span><span class="text 1Tim-5-14" id="en-KJV-29778">I will therefore that the
younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion
to the adversary to speak reproachfully" is misinterpreted to mean that all young women must marry, and that if they do not marry, or rush into it, they are committing a sin by virtue of being single. However, that is a serious misunderstanding born out of legalism, which is precisely what imposes illegitimate limitations and restrictions on people. 1 Timothy 5:14 was written in the context of instructing on how to treat widows in the Church:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-14" id="en-KJV-29778"><span class="text 1Tim-5-3" id="en-KJV-29767">Honour widows that are widows indeed.</span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-14" id="en-KJV-29778"><span class="text 1Tim-5-3" id="en-KJV-29767"> </span> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-4" id="en-KJV-29768"></span><span class="text 1Tim-5-4" id="en-KJV-29768">But
if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew
piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and
acceptable before God.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-5" id="en-KJV-29769"></span><span class="text 1Tim-5-5" id="en-KJV-29769">Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-6" id="en-KJV-29770">But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-7" id="en-KJV-29771">And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-8" id="en-KJV-29772">But
if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own
house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-9" id="en-KJV-29773">Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-10" id="en-KJV-29774">Well
reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she
have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have
relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-11" id="en-KJV-29775">But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-12" id="en-KJV-29776">Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-13" id="en-KJV-29777">And
withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and
not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which
they ought not.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-14" id="en-KJV-29778">I
will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the
house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-15" id="en-KJV-29779">For some are already turned aside after Satan.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 1Tim-5-16" id="en-KJV-29780">If
any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and
let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows
indeed.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="p">It is therefore evident that 1 Timothy 5:14 is counsel, not a command, by St Paul that younger widows should, but not must, marry, so that they would be idle gossipers who devoted their time to vacuous pursuits. The assumption was that in their case, they should marry so that they would devote their time to being a virtuous woman as manifest by marrying, bearing children, and taking care of domestic matters. This does not imply that that is the only righteous path, nor does it imply that marriage, child-rearing and home-keeping makes a woman virtuous. Rather, it was advice for that young widows and those like them who would resort to idleness and gossiping if they had no household to care for. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="p">The other misinterpreted Scripture is Titus 2:4-5 which says '</span><span class="p"><span class="text Titus-2-4" id="en-KJV-29913"></span><span class="text Titus-2-4" id="en-KJV-29913">That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,</span></span><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914"><sup> </sup>to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.' However, these were instructions concerning how married women may conduct themselves in a virtuous way, applicable only for such women. No where does it imply that women must marry to be virtuous. It is precisely because those married women in the Church were not conducting themselves virtuously that such instructions were given. For some of them were not sober, but drunk, not loving towards their husbands and children, indiscreet, unchaste, not being keepers at home in failing to fulfill their duties as wife and mother, therefore blaspheming God.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914">The phrase 'keepers at home' is often interpreted to mean being the person who does all the housework. This is nothing but a legalistic interpretation of what it actually means. What it means is to care for domestic matters in helping the husband and rearing the children, seeking their good. It does not mean that a married woman cannot ever leave the house without the guidance of her husband, except for the purpose of shopping or picking children from school, or driving them to different places for school activities as some interpret it to mean. Nor does it mean that she cannot work, and not even in church ministry or evangelism as some claim.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914">To be clear, I am not in any way suggesting that it is wrong for a wife to not work, or that it is wrong for husband to request that she does not work. That is not wrong at all, but in many cases ideal, owing to the distraction that a career has on a woman in caring for her husband and children, and household duties in those ends. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914">What I am saying is that to make virtue in women determined by whether she marries, bears children and keeps the home is wrong. If it is marrying, bearing children and keeping the home that determines whether a woman is virtuous, it would mean that female saints of old, like Saint Catherine of Sienna, Saint Lucy, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, St Agnes of Rome, and Saint Clare of Assisi were all unvirtuous. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914">Saint Catherine of Sienna was an activist, author and theologian, who even became a Doctor of the Church, a honour awarded to only a very few. But of course, in the eyes of these ultra-conservative evangelicals, that is utterly unacceptable and inappropriate! And of course, they would look down on her as well as the many of other saints for having never married, scoffing at them for having never enjoyed the (purported) comforts of marriage and family, with the endless sex and endless money that it brings. "Oh, how sad!", these ultra-conservative evangelicals would say condescendingly, "Look at their lives, and how they never married and had sex. How sad and lonely these women would have been!".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914"></span><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914"></span><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914">The truth is that to be a real woman is to be kind, wise, and strong. For these are the characteristics that together constitute what it means to be a helpmeet. To be a helpmeet does not mean to be weak, passive, timid and relegated to obscurity, as ultra-conservatives make it out to be, by implicitly equating virtuousness in a woman with weakness, passiveness, a lack of intelligence and being relegated to obscurity, doing nothing of great impact. Rather, it is the complete opposite. For indeed, how can one be a good helpmeet if one is weak, passive, and timid! One must be strong! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Titus-2-5" id="en-KJV-29914">To be a helpmeet means to have co-dominion over the earth with man as Genesis 1:26-28:</span></span><br />
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in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.</span></span></i></span><br />
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and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have<b> dominion</b> over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Gen-1-28" id="en-KJV-28">Having such dominion over the earth means to serve God first and foremost by using the resources that God gives to one. It is God's purpose one must find and one must live for, not that of a husband and children.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Gen-1-28" id="en-KJV-28"> Loving one's husband and children are only means to that end if one has called a woman to marry and bear children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Gen-1-28" id="en-KJV-28">A real woman therefore one who knows her God-given purpose and pursues it. She is strong, not weak. She is caring, not uncaring and selfish, living only for her own pleasure. She is kind, always seeking to help others, and showing compassion towards the needy. She is clothed in great wisdom, knowing not only right from wrong, and understanding a great deal, but knowing how to apply understanding in all she does. She is fruitful in pursuing her purpose and makes great impact. Such a woman is one who will always find favour with the Lord in all that she does. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-65201140026134514782019-12-29T05:46:00.000-08:002019-12-29T05:50:28.133-08:00The Oppressed Daughter Syndrome and its Demonic Binding Powers<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a phenomenon called the 'oppressed daughter syndrome'. It is a real syndrome and is not only that which has a spiritual dimension, but is demonic in nature. It is therefore an important issue to address from a Christian perspective, as is the case with all kinds of oppression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'oppressed daughter syndrome' manifests in all kinds of symptoms, such as shyness, a lack of healthy self-respect, lack of confidence, forced career choices, rushed marriages, marital distress, especially loveless marriage, and hyper-conservativism and hyper-traditionalism, and lack of an ability to reach one's full God-given potential, and hence destiny in accordance to the Will of God, which is to know God and glory Him in all one does. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One salient characteristic of such a woman is that she is shy to the extreme. By shy, I am not saying quiet and gentle as a woman should be, but rather, severely lacking courage and confidence. Everything she does is marked by a lack of courage and confidence. She is the type who tends to choose career and marriage, only for the sake of stability, because she cannot comprehend how she could pursue a career and marriage, that she enjoys. She is often a woman who has no interests or hobbies of her own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This lack of courage and confidence goes to the essence of her oppression, often one that does not realise, as she treats it as normal, the ways things should be. I say this not on the basis that she is not independent from family, or independent of men, which the typical westerner will view as 'oppression' of women. To make it clear, I affirm strong family ties and women submitting to their husbands. What I am saying is that she has been subject to tyrannical authority in her upbringing under her parents, be it her father or mother, or both, in such a way that hinders her from fulling her destiny. This syndrome is owing to <b>binding powers</b>, which are powers that hinder a person from fulfilling his or her destiny in accordance to the Will of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People often view such a woman as 'boring' because she is hyper-conservative, lacking all manner of vibrance and vitality, lacking purpose, and just following the norms of what her community or society tells her to do. She does not have her own culture, identity, or purpose as a result. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The key characteristic of a woman with such a syndrome is that everything she does in life, be it in relation to her career, studies, relationships, marriage or family, is not that which she truly enjoys. She does it because she was pressured or forced into it, owing to parental, community and social pressure. She is like a ship without a rudder, going where the wind blows or where the tide pushes her. She is perceived as weak, foolish and having no true purpose in life. This perception is not out of 'liberal feminist prejudice' as ultra-conservatives who want women to be as such will argue, but because she actually is. All her life, she has really just been a tool or plaything of others, and thinks that it is normal, because she is often taught that it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conservative evangelicals not only think that the 'oppressed daughter syndrome' is normal, but the ideal woman. They think that a woman has no purpose, other than to be a wife and mother only, whose value only comes from being such. While such callings are very worthy and must be respected, making them to be the sole defining purpose of a woman to the exclusion of all other callings is unbiblical and tyrannical. Such a rule is really not biblical at all, and nothing but a perversion of Scripture that is being used to oppress women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The purpose of marriage and childbearing are only a part of one's ultimate calling, which is to know God. Such vocations are only one means by which to serve God, and do not preclude other assignments in one's life, such as evangelism, mission work or some other kind of godly non-sinful calling. To make a woman's sole purpose to be a wife and mother on the grounds of Scripture verses such as Titus 2:5 and 1 Timothy 2:15 is a subtle form of tyrannical oppression as it is a means of hindering a woman's full destiny and purpose in Christ. The normality at which this occurs in some conservative evangelical circles is absolutely frightening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the syndrome, however is more subtle. One would think that a woman under the 'oppressed daughter syndrome' is one who just gets married young and has children soon after. However, it can indeed manifest in women who 'have it all', those being married with children, with a career. In fact, it often manifests in such women. Such women are the ones who appear to have it all, but often not because they find their careers, or marriages fulfilling, but because they felt that they must have such things, just to satisfy social, community and family expectations, so that she does not incur their judgment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is not about whether a woman 'has it all' that determines whether she is suffering from the oppressed daughter syndrome. Rather, it is about whether she is subject to those binding powers that determine whether it can manifest in her. Such binding powers are not only blind, but flexible, capable of manifesting in all kinds of ways including in opposite ways Whether she is married with or without a career, or married at all, does not determine whether she is under the syndrome or not under the syndrome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many such women subject to this oppressed react in response to their subconscious realisation of their oppression. The lack of courage and confidence which results from their oppression manifests in everything they do. They often pursue the feminist lifestyle in their youth, out of 'rebellion' in seeking 'independence' and their own 'liberation', all without realising that it is merely their reaction that born out of bondage to the very syndrome that they are trying to break from. For the result is the same: bondage hindering them from fulfilling their destiny, leading to a life of not only purposeless and emptiness, but also enslavement to what they seek. Contrary to what people may think, such oppressed women are often fornicators in their youth. The average westerner thinks that fornication by a women is 'liberation', but that is absolutely wrong. Fornication is enslavement to one's sexual desires. Furthermore, if someone fornicates out of the feeling that they must do so to escape from tyranny, that is bondage all the more. Many such women in seeking independence, often out are fear and insecurity to not being seen as 'independent' and 'liberated' by others, are often driven to materialism as a guise to cover their oppression, despite having the appearance of a more conservative, traditional woman, as opposed to a secular liberal woman. Their materialism is also just as much driven by fear and lack of confidence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many, but not all, such women are from conservative homeschooling backgrounds. Some are from conservative cultures, with families that are the ultra-conservative, often tribalistic type, shaping them to be intolerant towards all kinds of people<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, including people of the same culture, but who have some variances from them in their </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">worldview and outlook in life. This is a manifestation of their bondage to binding powers that hinder people from even having the right perspective on things, even at a very basic level. Sadly, many such women are full of racism, albeit a subtle one that is largely hidden, only owing to their shyness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While some may feel sympathy for such women, and treat her solely a 'victim', she is also a women who is evil, and lacks all manner of virtue. While it would be wrong to hate such women, it is also wrong to treat such women as purely a 'victim', as they are evil on their own part in many ways, as evident by their materialism, tribalism, racism and their legalism, all manifesting in their hyper-conservatism and hyper-traditionalism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They must repent of their sins and seek deliverence. Such women are almost always, if not always under the spirit of religion. Religion and binding powers are associated, in that religion serves to justify the binding powers, while binding powers seek to hinder people from truly fulfilling their destiny in accordance to the Will of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-87486888284525306102019-12-02T12:01:00.000-08:002019-12-02T12:09:35.653-08:00The Error of "Sola Scriptura": the Mother of All Heresies<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When speaking of dangerous doctrines, the average Christian today will point to the obviously erroneous doctrines of cults, such as that Jesus was a spirit brother of satan, that there are two 'gods' in the Bible, a cruel God in the Old Testament, and a kind God in the New Testament, or that Jesus had only a divine, but no human nature, and therefore did not die for the sins of the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, little do these Christians think about why these heresies are able to arise in the first place. They simply dismiss them as the doctrines of crazy, psycho heretics - all without realising that they themselves are just as susceptible to heresy as those who are blatant heretics. One should never assume that because one attends a 'normal' church that one cannot fall into the trap of heresy. All most Christians to do is target such heretics for criticism, and lift no finger in helping them understanding why it is heresy, and why have they turned to such heresy as Jude 1:22-23 instructs:</span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-22" id="en-NKJV-30695"><sup> </sup>And on some have compassion, making a distinction; </span><span class="text Jude-1-23" id="en-NKJV-30696">but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Church history has shown that heresy emerges in very subtle ways over time, whether it be theological or moral heresy. The eventual acceptance of usury as legitimate over many century is the classic example demonstrating how heresy can creep into the Church stealthily. Another example is the idea that predestination means that God destined some for Hell itself, with eternity in Hell being God's perfect will for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most heresies are also reactions to some other heresy, to address the error of that heresy that it was trying to address. Such heresies became accepted as a means to resolve another error and put an end to confusion. However, a heresy that replaces or reacts to another heresy creates even more confusion and tension between the two or more sides who are constantly arguing and disputing with each other about the correct <i><b>interpretation</b></i>, rather than understanding, of Scripture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Any person who has seriously sought to expose false doctrines and confront others on it has undoubtedly experienced the infuriating frustration that such doctrinal conflict causes. Indeed, it is frustrating and has often led to churches being split, owing to an unresolvable doctrinal conflict, and people being wrongly expelled from churches, including pastors, owing to theological disagreement. It has even led to people being murdered, as the Puritans of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have demonstrated, who engaged in violence against those who they perceived to be wrong, all while rejecting Church authority and governmental authority, being full of the spirit of rebellion. These Puritans were not the first to use violence. Cults such as the Cathars and Waldensians were violent. Such is the violent nature of heretics! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What has led to such violent contentions? It is not simply 'extremism' as many Western Christians will say, making a distinction between 'extreme' heretics and 'peaceful' heretics. All heretical sects, in fighting for what they truly believe in, and being honest about their beliefs, creeds and tenets, will engage in violence against the true Church, whether it be physically or spiritually, by butchering the true doctrines of the Church, and attacking those who stand for such truth. For that is simply what their beliefs demand of them, if they are to be truly faithful of their beliefs. Those who do not engage in such violence are simply hypocrites for their proclaimed heretical beliefs, are no less dangerous, and are simply cowards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is one's beliefs and doctrines themselves that make a person who he or she is. So, because of that, it is beliefs and doctrines that divide and conflict in such that causes tension that will inevitably lead to violence where all sides are fighting for what they truly believe in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The cause of conflict in doctrine in the professing Church, be it historically or today, is the idea that the Scripture is subject to <b><i>interpretation </i></b>rather than understanding. Such is what the Protestant Reformation creed "sola scriptura" implies. <i>All heretics and cults <b>interpret </b>the Scripture, rather than search for the true understanding of it. The result is that there is <b>no truth or error, right or wrong about Scripture, and that Scripture is therefore open to all manner of interpretation.</b> Such interpretation is necessarily one's own interpretation, as interpretation is how one views something. It is based on one's perspective, rather than an an objective truth. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Scripture itself says no Scripture is of private interpretation, that "<i>n</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 2Pet-1-20" id="en-NKJV-30500">o prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation </span></i><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><i><sup class="versenum"> </sup>for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit</i>" (2 Peter 1:20-21). This itself disproves "sola scriptura", which despite its deceptive title in claiming to stand for Scripture only, really implies that only revelation <i>recorded </i>in Scripture is trustworthy and any other true revelation is not. This amounts to a rejection of the <b><i>authority</i> </b>of Scripture and its true understanding as an authoritative, rather than Scripture per se. Since no prophecy is of private interpretation, by the will of man, owing to it being that which <b>reveals truth</b>,<b> </b>it follows that a true and right understanding must be pursued. Such understanding must necessarily be authoritative, otherwise there can be no right or wrong, true or erroneous understanding. </span></span><br />
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It is those who are ordained by God to be teachers of the Word, the
Priests, who are to exercise such duty, as indicated by
James 3:1: </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-3-1">My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-3-1">Such indicates that teachers are held to a stricter judgment because the congregants or laypeople are under their authority in teaching them, and guiding them. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-3-1">is not because true Scripture is recorded down in what is now called the Bible, but because it is <i>breathed by God </i>that makes it authoritative (2 Peter 3:16-17). Just because a purported Scripture is recorded does not make it true. Many heretical sects, such as Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses' have their Scriptures, but yet such so-called 'scriptures' are erroneous. Likewise, just because some revelation from God is not recorded in Scripture, or a direct saying of Jesus, does not mean that it is less authoritative than those that have.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-3-1"></span></span></span><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">Do you not know not all revelation from God has been recorded in Scripture, or is recorded in Scripture? Do you not know that God has not revealed everything to us about Himself in Scripture? Do you not know that not everything Jesus said or did is recorded in Scripture (John 21:25)? And yet you claim that you believe in God Himself and His Word fully, all while rejecting the idea of prophecies and revelations from God? For those of you who claim to adhere to Scripture, you are going to reject 1 Corinthians 14:1-5 and 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21, because they disprove your "sola scriptura"? As those Scriptures testify,</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><span class="text 1Cor-14-1">Pursue love, and <b>desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.</b> </span><span class="text 1Cor-14-2" id="en-NKJV-28681">For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. </span><span class="text 1Cor-14-3" id="en-NKJV-28682">But h<b>e who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men</b>. </span><span class="text 1Cor-14-4" id="en-NKJV-28683">He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. </span><b><span class="text 1Cor-14-5" id="en-NKJV-28684">I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.</span></b></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><span class="text 1Cor-14-5" id="en-NKJV-28684">(1 Corinthians 14:1-5)</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><span class="text 1Cor-14-5" id="en-NKJV-28684"><span class="text 1Thess-5-20" id="en-NKJV-29642">Do not despise prophecies. </span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">To you therefore, Scripture is nothing but a tool that you use as way to justify your theology, rather than truly seek the Truth about God - and you do not even realise that is exactly what you doing by adhering to "sola scriptura". You treat recorded revelations as God, rather than the Living Word, who is Christ Himself. You have it backwards.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">For the Scripture, which is the record of divine revelation, is not the Word Himself, but rather, Jesus Christ, who has come in the flesh is the Word and the only Word: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><i>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the <b>Word was God</b>...</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><i>And the <b>Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">The Scripture never says "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was the Scripture<i>". </i>No! Rather, the Word <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was Jesus Christ Himself. The Word is a Person of Jesus Christ, not the record of revelation by the Person. It in Jesus where there is Life, not Scripture: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-39" id="en-NKJV-26250"><i><span class="woj">You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and</span> </i><span class="woj"><i>these are they which testify of Me</i> (John 5:39). Scripture only testifies of Jesus, but is not Jesus Himself. For it is Jesus who is the Way, which is found through the Truth, which leads to Life (John 14:6) The Word and Scripture are distinct.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><span class="p"></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">Jesus Himself said that we must worship God "<i>in Spirit and in <b>Truth</b></i>" who is Jesus (John 4:24), not by reading and interpreting Scripture as the Pharisees did, in their pursuit of God. The Christian of today may simply laugh and scorn those Pharisees, but that is precisely what most professing Christians in today's Church are doing, arguing and debating about theology and Scriptural interpretations, just like the Pharisees, which is the practical application of "sola scriptura". </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><b>Truth </b>necessarily seeks <b><i>understanding</i></b>, and not interpretation. Truth rejects all "interpretations" and despises all attempts to justify one's own interpretation by the use of Scripture. The Spirit guides people in <i>Truth</i>, not interpretation. Your interpretation is not of the Spirit, as you claim, but from your own mind and heart. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">Your claim that it is because one must follow the Spirit, not that of the Church authorities, that makes "sola scriptura" true and right, apart from being self-contradictory, is nothing but a cover to justify your own interpretation and your ability to do so legitimately. If you truly follow the Spirit, then you would not interpret, but seek understanding, and you would not make all your vain arguments about how to interpret select passages of Scripture. You would seek true revelations, and not debate and squabble with others. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">Let me ask you who believe in "sola scriptura":</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><b>You reject the idea that there is one authoritative understanding of Scripture. So, how do you know if your interpretation which you claim to be right, is true? </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">You may claim that you can only know then on the Day of Judgment, and precisely, you are right on your part. For you only interpret, and no right understanding of Scripture. But it will be too late. Many people will be lead to Hell because of a lack of knowledge on their part owing to your arguments and debating over Scripture. You yourself will be going there if you seek to find life in the Scriptures, rather than in Jesus (John 5:39-47):</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501"><span class="text John-5-39" id="en-NKJV-26250"><span class="woj">You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and</span> <span class="woj">these are they which testify of Me.</span> </span><span class="text John-5-40" id="en-NKJV-26251"><span class="woj">But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.</span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-41" id="en-NKJV-26252"><span class="woj">“I do not receive honor from men.</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-42" id="en-NKJV-26253"><span class="woj">But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-43" id="en-NKJV-26254"><span class="woj">I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-44" id="en-NKJV-26255"><span class="woj">How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek</span> <span class="woj">the honor that comes from the only God?</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-45" id="en-NKJV-26256"><span class="woj">Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father;</span> <span class="woj">there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-46" id="en-NKJV-26257"><span class="woj">For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me;</span> <span class="woj">for he wrote about Me.</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-47" id="en-NKJV-26258"><span class="woj">But if you</span> <span class="woj">do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-5-47" id="en-NKJV-26258"><span class="woj">Indeed, the Pharisees were arguing over the correct interpretation of Scripture, but yet did not know God, as indicated by how they did not believe in the words of Moses. It was because they did not believe his words that they were arguing about. If they simply believed, and were all led by the same Spirit in truth, they would not be arguing or debating over Scripture. They would have simply submitted to the Commands in Scripture and the Words of Jesus, without questioning, debating, or arguing about it, or what it means. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">You may claim that it is better to rely on a collective understanding of Scripture, rather than that of some corrupt Church authority, like the Catholic Church who you love to attack. Well, let me ask you:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">What makes you think that the collective body who you love so much is not corrupt in its understanding of Scripture? </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-NKJV-30501">You think the collective can't be at least as corrupt as some Church authority? You think evil spread out among more people is better than that of a few in high positions?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite the common assumption that "sola scriptura" originated with the Protestant Reformation, it had always been with the Church from its beginning. For wherever there is a cult or heresy, there is "sola scriptura", the idea that one can <i>legitimately </i>interpret Scripture in the way one wants, such that no one can accuse one of being wrong or heretical. All cults and heretics use Scripture to legitimise their error. Some may even corrupt Scripture itself, but they all use Scripture, treating it as some kind of law and using Scripture to 'legalise' its own heresy, be it theological or moral.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While "sola scriptura" has always been present with any heresy, serving as its justification and giving it a reason, such heresies have been able to be suppressed by the Church, before the Protestant Reformation, so as to prevent such heresies from becoming legitimised within the Church, the holy universal Church, the body of true Christians universally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Sola scriptura" is now taken as an axiomatic by many Christians, including many true Christians. However, little have most such Christians thought about what it actually means and what it is trying to imply. Instead, they have taken it for granted, and without realising it, swallowed the poison of "sola scriptura" which is the most deceptive heresy, precisely because it appears so true, and neither explicitly or implicitly denies that Jesus is God Himself, as all cults do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Sola scriptura", however, is the mother of all heresies. By making the Scripture that to be interpreted rather than understood, Scripture is one for which there is neither right nor wrong, truth or error. Proponents of "sola scriptura" contradict themselves most hypocritically by claiming that they believe in "truth", all while making Scripture to be one for which there is no right or wrong, and no truth or error. It is full of the spirit of legalism in treating the Scripture as the whole of the commands of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What "sola scriptura" really implies is that the truth of Scripture is how the most authoritative people in the Church, in the eyes of the collective body, interpret it to be. These authoritative people are typically the celebrity preachers who the professing Christians in the mainstream professing Church love in the denomination and region concerned. In the conservative evangelical Church in America, it is a group of politically conservative, white evangelical preachers who are highly educated in theology, and are worshiped by the collective body, just because they are highly educated, and who aggressively push for politically and socially conservative ideals. Not few such people are western supremacists, who are racist and do not realise it. Almost of all them, if not all of them, are marriage and family idolators who love to tell young people who are unable to marry immediately as a young person, to marry then and there, and enjoy witnessing their suffering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Sola scriptura" is not only a heresy, but the mother of all heresies, because it justifies the idea that one can interpret the Scripture for oneself. It rejects all righteous authority concerning the right understanding of Scripture, while supporting false authority on understanding Scripture to justify its own interpretation. Yet, such proponents have the audacity to claim that such false authority is right to interpret Scripture, out of their rebellion. That they make the collective interpretation of Scripture the right interpretation shows their rejection of real Truth, by their embrace of such populism. This rejection of righteous authority <i>per se </i>in understanding Scripture rightly, shows that "sola scriptura" is heresy. For heresy is rebellion, and rebellion always leads to illegitimate authority. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The loss of Church authority owing to its abdication of its duty has led to the legitimisation of this heresy, in being unable to authoritatively declare such to be error. For an authority who has rebelled against God in failing in its duty towards God cannot exercise it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-3-1"></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> From the legitimisation of "sola scriptura", all kinds of heresies not only emerged, but became legitimised, creating all kinds of heretical denominations and cults that the Church has no authority to suppress - owing its own abdication of its duty to bring within the Church the true and right understanding of Scripture (Ephesians 4:11-16).</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-NKJV-29284">And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, </span><span class="text Eph-4-12" id="en-NKJV-29285">for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, </span><span class="text Eph-4-13" id="en-NKJV-29286">till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; </span><span class="text Eph-4-14" id="en-NKJV-29287">that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, </span><span class="text Eph-4-15" id="en-NKJV-29288">but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— </span><span class="text Eph-4-16" id="en-NKJV-29289">from
whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint
supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does
its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Eph-4-16" id="en-NKJV-29289">(Ephesians 4:11-16) </span></span><br />
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Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-32847896790289636062019-10-09T08:09:00.001-07:002019-10-09T08:09:59.583-07:00BEWARE of the Greedy Sin of USURY!!!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BXZDWSvAzZU" width="459"></iframe>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-24685563737209160962019-09-30T08:09:00.000-07:002019-09-30T08:21:24.054-07:00The Heresy of Faith as Mere Belief: True Faith is Obedience to God that manifest in Action, not Belief<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The "protest"-ant reformation not only bought about many heresies, but legitimised heresy, because of the idea that every person has authority to interpret the Scripture as he sees fit, and not as inspired by the Holy Spirit. For anyone can say that his interpretation is inspired by the Spirit. Even cults say that they are inspired by the Spirit! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While some heresies are more obvious, such as the doctrines that God is not Triune, that Jesus did not become man, Jesus is not God, or that the God of the Old and New Testament are two different Gods, other heresies are far more subtle. Some of these far more subtle heresies are so generally accepted and have infiltrated into much of the Church that hardly anyone thinks of them as heresy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One such heresy is that false doctrine that faith by which Salvation comes mean that one only needs to "just believe". All one needs to do is to believe in and affirm the doctrines of Salvation to be saved. A person need not take any personal responsibility to actually repent and turn to Jesus Christ. While this may seem to be a somewhat humourous exaggeration or even a mockery of what doctrine of belief-only means, it is not. It is precisely what many professing Christians believe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such an understanding of Scripture is absolutely false, in dangerously isolating certain verses, such as Ephesians 2:9-10 while ignoring, if not outright doing violence to other passages in Scripture such as James 2:14-26. This heresy that faith means to just believe is often, but not always, the result of the perversion of the doctrine of predestination. Predestination is perverted to mean that one need not only need not do good works, but one only need to be predestined by God, as if to imply some inherent spiritual superiority in such people, particularly, those who zealously believe in the doctrines of Calvinism and attack anyone who does not believe in Calvinism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This perversion of predestination, in implying that one cannot do good works or repent, is nothing more than an excuse to justify a desire to not repent, all while wanting to be saved and receive the benefits of Salvation. It is indeed no coincidence that the people who hold onto such a doctrine are the most mammonised and religious people on earth. They are the most evil people in the world! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scripture makes it clear that those who are truly saved have a new nature in Christ: "<i>Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new</i>" (2 Corinthians 5:17). These heretics love to do away with this verse to not only deny all responsibility to repent, but to slanderously accuse those affirm such a responsibility to repent on one's own part on a daily basis as being "heretical", in believing in what they call 'works-based salvation' - a slanderous label they use against those who oppose their belief-only heresy. In doing so, they are also denying that work of righteousness that God does in a person, by continually claiming that a person who is truly in Christ as 'sinful'. Such a person has a new nature, and is therefore no longer a sinner, but saint. To claim that a truly saved person is a sinner is to deny Scripture itself, and call God a liar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet, that is precisely what such people are doing in accusing those who affirm the responsibility to repent and strive to do good works as being 'heretical' in allegedly affirming 'works-based righteousness'. If affirming the need to do good works to be truly saved means that one is heretical, then St James who wrote the Epistle of James must be heretical! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">St James makes it very clear that good works must be produced to not only show oneself to be saved, but to actually <i>be</i> saved right to the end (James 2:14-17). Such works are part of faith itself, as faith without works is not saving faith at all, but dead faith, a faith which cannot save (James 2:17-18). It is not just evidence of Salvation, but it is precisely what God will judge people by - whether one has good deeds, repaying each person according to his deeds (Romans 2:6-11; Ephesians 6:8; 2 Corinthians 5:10). For as the Scriptures say:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><i><span class="text Jas-2-14" id="en-KJV-30308">What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-14" id="en-KJV-30308"> </span> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-15" id="en-KJV-30309">If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-16" id="en-KJV-30310">And
one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;
notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the
body; what doth it profit?</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-17" id="en-KJV-30311">Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-18" id="en-KJV-30312">Yea,
a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith
without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-19" id="en-KJV-30313">Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-20" id="en-KJV-30314">But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-21" id="en-KJV-30315">Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-22" id="en-KJV-30316">Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-23" id="en-KJV-30317">And
the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it
was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of
God.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-24" id="en-KJV-30318">Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-25" id="en-KJV-30319">Likewise
also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received
the messengers, and had sent them out another way?</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jas-2-26" id="en-KJV-30320">For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-2-26" id="en-KJV-30320">(James 2:14-26) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-2-26" id="en-KJV-30320">Just as a body without the spirit may exist but is a lifeless one, amounting to nothing but dust, so likewise, faith without works is nothing but a lifeless faith, one that does not lead to eternal life (James 2:16). Do not deceive yourself into thinking that faith without works is faith, but it is nothing but a dead faith, like a lifeless body. What worth is a lifeless body to the one whose body it is? Nothing! So, if a body which is only temporal is worthless when dead, how much more worthless is dead faith, which profits nothing, but leads only a person to eternal Death? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-2-26" id="en-KJV-30320">Only faith with good works is true faith. It is not simply good works that is evidence of faith, but good works that is a manifestation of the faith itself. It it is good works that gives such faith life, making it a saving faith, just as the spirit gives the body life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-2-26" id="en-KJV-30320">Believing without works means nothing, and leads to no Salvation at all! Even for the demons believe not only in one God, but also the Trinity, and even that Jesus exist! They even believe that Jesus died on the Cross for the sins of the world, and rose again. Even the devil believes in every single part of the Apostle's Creed! He knows it for a fact! Yet, he is not saved nor can he be saved, because he does not good works, but only wicked works. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-2-26" id="en-KJV-30320">You may say that belief refers to belief in the heart, but not just intellectual belief. The belief of demons and the devil himself in God, Jesus and the Apostle's Creed is just intellectual only, and not in the heart, and so therefore, whether one has belief in the heart is the issue. Let me tell you that, that is totally immaterial. For faith is not about 'believing', whether in the mind or in the heart. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-2-26" id="en-KJV-30320"><b>For true faith <i>is obedience </i>that manifests in <i>action,</i> not belief.</b> It is not simply a manifestation of belief, but <i>action itself</i>, that follows from right and true belief, being that God is to be obeyed, no matter what the circumstances. Such is true faith. Faith is obedience to God despite not having evidence of things seen. It is obedience to God despite the evidence of things being unseen (Hebrews 11:1). The trust in God that underlies faith must ultimately manifest in action, which is obedience to God. Otherwise, it is not true faith at all. It is only by acts of obedience to God that demonstrates one's faith as Hebrews 11:4-40 demonstrates:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-4" id="en-KJV-30177">By
faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by
which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his
gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-5" id="en-KJV-30178">By
faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not
found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had
this testimony, that he pleased God.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b> </b></i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="text Heb-11-6" id="en-KJV-30179">But
without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God
must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-7" id="en-KJV-30180">By
faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with
fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by
faith.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-8" id="en-KJV-30181">By
faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he
should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not
knowing whither he went.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-9" id="en-KJV-30182">By
faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country,
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the
same promise:</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-10" id="en-KJV-30183">For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-11" id="en-KJV-30184">Through
faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was
delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him
faithful who had promised.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-12" id="en-KJV-30185">Therefore
sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars
of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore
innumerable.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-13" id="en-KJV-30186">These
all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen
them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and
confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-14" id="en-KJV-30187">For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-15" id="en-KJV-30188">And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-16" id="en-KJV-30189">But
now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God
is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a
city.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-17" id="en-KJV-30190">By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-18" id="en-KJV-30191">Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-19" id="en-KJV-30192">Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-20" id="en-KJV-30193">By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-21" id="en-KJV-30194">By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-22" id="en-KJV-30195">By
faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the
children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-23" id="en-KJV-30196">By
faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents,
because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the
king's commandment.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-24" id="en-KJV-30197">By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-25" id="en-KJV-30198">Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-26" id="en-KJV-30199">Esteeming
the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for
he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-27" id="en-KJV-30200">By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-28" id="en-KJV-30201">Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-29" id="en-KJV-30202">By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-30" id="en-KJV-30203">By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-31" id="en-KJV-30204">By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-32" id="en-KJV-30205">And
what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon,
and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel,
and of the prophets:</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-33" id="en-KJV-30206">Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-34" id="en-KJV-30207">Quenched
the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness
were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of
the aliens.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-35" id="en-KJV-30208">Women
received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not
accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-36" id="en-KJV-30209">And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-37" id="en-KJV-30210">They
were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the
sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute,
afflicted, tormented;</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-38" id="en-KJV-30211">(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-39" id="en-KJV-30212">And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213">God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213"><span class="text Heb-11-6" id="en-KJV-30179">Indeed, all those people in the Bible mentioned in Hebrews 11:4-40 acted in faith, in obeying God, making their faith true faith. Their faith was manifest in their obedience to God, not their belief in certain truths about Scripture, the Gospel, or God, or even all the truths about such things. </span></span><i><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213"><span class="text Heb-11-6" id="en-KJV-30179"></span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213"><br /></span></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213">Faith is obedience to God that manifests in action. Mere belief in truths about Salvation, God or Jesus is not faith. Without such act of obedience towards God, which are good works, there is no faith at all, for faith is obedience. In fact, knowledge about the truth of Salvation, without obedience, is dangerous knowledge, because one will be all the more liable to punishment in Hell for failing to obey God.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213"><br /></span><i><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213"></span></i><br /><i><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213"><span class="text 2Pet-2-20" id="en-KJV-30521">For if after they have
escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.</span></span></i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-KJV-30213"><span class="text 2Pet-2-20" id="en-KJV-30521"> </span> </span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-21" id="en-KJV-30522">For
it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment
delivered unto them.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30523">But
it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is
turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her
wallowing in the mire.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30523">(2 Peter 2:20-22) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="p"><br /></span></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-80170650826074819902019-09-23T09:05:00.001-07:002019-09-23T09:10:12.977-07:00True Interpretation of Scripture Comes Only from God-ordained Teachers and Church Authorities<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the "Protest"-ant Reformation, which was really nothing more than a power grab of Church property, launched under the false guise of fighting heresy, with the destruction of the Church authority to determine what is right or wrong teaching, a whole host of heresies sprang forth which became acceptable and out in the open. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While heresies had always existed since the time of the Early Church, such heresies were severely dealt with, and rightfully so. Post-Reformation, heresies were not only sprang forth, but were legitimised. This was because the mother of all heresies, that everyone can interpret the Scripture in accordance to his own personal interpretation, was not just accepted, but instituted in what now became of the Church. It was instituted as a result of the destruction of Church authority to determine what is right or wrong teaching. So now, instead of the Church determining what is right or wrong teaching, as per Scripture (James 3:1; Ephesians 4:11-15), each individual could now do so based on his own "private interpretation", in violation of 2 Peter 1:20-21:</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 2Pet-1-20" id="en-NKJV-30500"><span class="text 2Pet-1-20" id="en-KJV-30500">Knowing this first, that <b>no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.</b></span> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501">For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.</span></i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501">What gives you, the individual, the right to determine what Scripture means?<i> </i>What gives you, the individual, the right to determine whether a particular interpretation of Scripture is right or wrong? Are you the Holy Spirit? </span><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501">Are you His messenger? Are you God Himself or His representative? </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501">Unless God has truly given you real spiritual revelation of what a particular verse, passage, chapter of book of Scripture means, you have no authority or right to claim that your interpretation is true. If you claim that you have such authority or right, despite not being given real spiritual revelation from God, you are a heretic. For you violate the Word of God, in imposing your own "private interpretation" of Scripture in violation of 2 Peter 2:20-21. You have no right at all to speak about what Scripture means or does not mean, let alone teach Scripture to you. Your words about the meaning of Scripture are poison to the soul and God despises them. Shut your mouth about Scripture before you damn yourself to Hell by your heresies! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501">Ephesians 4:11 sets up the five offices, that of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher:</span><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-KJV-29284"> <i>And <b>he</b> gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers. </i>The 'He' refers to God, not man. It is God who ordains people to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, not man. It follows therefore that anyone who is ordained by man to be of any one of these offices, he is not only a heretic, but a blasphemer, for he calls God a liar in violating what is clearly the authority of God and God alone to ordain people to all five of these offices. </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-KJV-29284">In the Old Testament, false prophets were to be put to death, for precisely this reason: that they seduced people away from worshipping God, making themselves God, hence blaspheming God (Deuteronomy 13:1-11). They did so by introducing heresies, that is, false teaching that led people away from God. Likewise, the New Testament also speaks of false teachers very severely (2 Peter 2: Jude).</span></span><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-KJV-29284"> </span></span><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-KJV-29284">As Scripture says in 2 Peter 2:1-22:</span></span><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-KJV-29284"> </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-KJV-29284"></span></span><i><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-KJV-29284"><span class="text 2Pet-2-1" id="en-KJV-30502">But
there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be
false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift
destruction.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text 2Pet-1-21" id="en-KJV-30501"><span class="text Eph-4-11" id="en-KJV-29284"><span class="text 2Pet-2-1" id="en-KJV-30502"> </span> </span></span></i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-2" id="en-KJV-30503">And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-3" id="en-KJV-30504">And
through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of
you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their
damnation slumbereth not.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-4" id="en-KJV-30505">For
if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell,
and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto
judgment;</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-5" id="en-KJV-30506">And
spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher
of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-6" id="en-KJV-30507">And
turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with
an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live
ungodly;</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-7" id="en-KJV-30508">And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-8" id="en-KJV-30509">(For
that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed
his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-9" id="en-KJV-30510">The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-10" id="en-KJV-30511">But
chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and
despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not
afraid to speak evil of dignities.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-11" id="en-KJV-30512">Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-12" id="en-KJV-30513">But
these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak
evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in
their own corruption;</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-13" id="en-KJV-30514">And
shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it
pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-14" id="en-KJV-30515">Having
eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling
unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices;
cursed children:</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-15" id="en-KJV-30516">Which
have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of
Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-16" id="en-KJV-30517">But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-17" id="en-KJV-30518">These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-18" id="en-KJV-30519">For
when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the
lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean
escaped from them who live in error.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-19" id="en-KJV-30520">While
they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of
corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in
bondage.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-20" id="en-KJV-30521">For
if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the
beginning.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-21" id="en-KJV-30522">For
it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment
delivered unto them.</span></span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30523">But
it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is
turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her
wallowing in the mire.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30523">The descriptions in 2 Peter 2:1-22 and also Jude </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30523">1:1-25 do not only serve as descriptions of the character and conduct of false teachers. They also serve as criteria to determining whether any particular <i><b>teaching </b></i>is false so that one may discern whether a teaching is true or false, and hence whether a teacher of the Word is true or false, for you shall know them by their fruits (Matthew 7:16). The key test as to whether a teacher is a true or false one, is that of his<i><b> teaching</b></i>. For just as good trees bear good fruit and cannot bear bad fruit, and bad trees cannot bear good fruit, but only bad fruit, the legitimacy of a teacher is evident in his teachings. For as Scripture says:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 2Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30523"> </span><span class="text 2Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30523"></span><br /><i><span class="text 2Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30523"><span class="text Matt-7-15" id="en-KJV-23332">Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-7-16" id="en-KJV-23333"></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-7-17" id="en-KJV-23334">Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-7-20" id="en-KJV-23337">Indeed, where the teachings of a person are not right, it is wrong, not just in letter, but also in spirit, as there is no middle ground, and he is therefore a false teacher. Such a person's teaching are not inspired by God, but by his own flesh and his own lusts (2 Peter 2:10; 1 Jude 16). In teaching Scripture, he is exercising illegitimate authority, making him a blasphemer in the eyes of God, since he is not ordained by God, and his doctrine heresy. Although his doctrine may be true in accordance to the letter of the Word, it is borne out of the wrong manner of spirit, rendering it to be false doctrine altogether. Such makes it evil doctrine, being full of spiritual error, and also giving birth to more error. For error only leads to more error. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-7-20" id="en-KJV-23337">For what makes a doctrine true is not just in letter alone, but in spirit Where a doctrine has the wrong spirit behind it, despite being in accordance to the letter of the Word, it is false doctrine, because it is inspired by deceiving spirits that are not of God. That alone makes it false doctrine (1 Timothy 4:1-4). This explains why there is so much confusion in the Church over doctrine. Despite many different 'denominations' (or more properly speaking, sects) affirming the same doctrine in accordance to the letter, there is a different spirit behind these each of these sects in relation to the same doctrine.</span><span class="text Matt-7-20" id="en-KJV-23337"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-7-20" id="en-KJV-23337">A person who teaches is either ordained by God or not ordained by God. As long as he is not ordained by God, he is a false teacher, by virtue of not being ordained by God. Such a person will inevitably teach false doctrine, whether in letter, spirit or both in letter and spirit, because he does not have the anointing of God to teach. Flee such people! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-7-20" id="en-KJV-23337">Teaching Scripture is itself an exercise in authority as evident from James 3:1 which says "</span><span class="text Jas-3-1">My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment." This verse does not simply that people must be careful about what they teach because they will receive a greater judgment. Its meaning is far deeper than that. It is saying that because those who are teachers receive a greater judgment, they must be careful. They receive much greater judgment because they are entrusted with the God-given <i>authority</i> to teach, in such a way that means Heaven or Hell, life or death for those who are under their authority. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-3-1">Teachers have immense power and authority to lead people on the right or wrong path, determining their ultimate destiny of Heaven or Hell, by virtue of the authority they have to determine whether those under them are holding onto the right or wrong doctrine, and to command them to believe in the right doctrines, and to reject the wrong doctrines. That explains James 3:1 in light of Ephesians 4:11. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-3-1">It is clear from Scriptures that only those ordained by God have the authority to teach others Scripture, and that those who do not have such authority, but yet teach Scripture, are false teachers. Such people are heretics and blasphemers. False teachers can be discerned by their fruit, that is, their teaching. What makes a teaching true or false is not just whether it is in accordance with the letter of the Word, as many people think, but also whether it is of the right manner of spirit. For spiritual doctrines is not about what is being purported to be the truth, but the manner of spirit behind why the doctrine is being preached. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jas-3-1">Owing to the rejection of the God-ordained authority of teachers within Church the truth, Church authority on what is right or wrong teaching has been destroyed, which has given all individuals legitimacy to claim that their own private interpretation of Scripture is right, and that anyone who does not agree with them, no matter how right, is wrong. This is extremely dangerous and has damned many souls to Hell. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-64333936098393847432019-08-17T11:14:00.000-07:002019-08-17T11:17:30.833-07:00The Wickedness of Heretics and their Heresies<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the essence of heresy is rebellion, leading to confusion, and not the other way round in being confusion in essence, leading to rebellion owing to ignorance. Rebellion is always at the heart of all heresy. Heretics believe in their heresy because of their rebellion against God. Such rebellion is not mere rebellion, but arrogant rebellion which not only loves sin, but loves to challenge the authority of God, in not only who He is, but also His Word, and ultimately, His Lordship. For that is what rebellion ultimately seeks to oppose, and to usurp the Lordship of God over one's life so that one can exercise one's own lordship over one's life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heresies are of two kinds: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Theological heresy - that which denies or distorts any aspect of the Nature of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Moral heresy - that which denies, opposes, compromises on, or qualifies any Commandment of Jesus Christ in any way, shape or form. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A person may affirm all the true doctrines of the Trinity and Salvation, including the Person and Work of Jesus Christ, but yet still be a heretic. This is because as long as a person rebels against the authority of God in any way, shape or form, he or she is a heretic. A person whose doctrines concerning Salvation are sound, but denies any part of Christ's commands, including that through His Apostles, effectively denies the authority or lordship of God over him or her, and is therefore a heretic of that ground. For example, denying that homosexuality is a sin, is heresy. Anyone who affirms homosexuality is a heretic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Believing that a sin is justified, or that a mere man-made rule is part of the Law of God is itself is heresy. For both deny the authority of God, and seek to usurp His authority over one's life, by believing in that which He is against, as is the case with the former, or by elevating oneself to His position in making one's own man-made laws to determine the worthiness of others enter the Kingdom of Heaven, a prerogative of God alone, as is the case with the latter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many have the impression that heretics are eccentric cult leaders who practise the grossest forms of immorality, such as incest, paedophilia and bestiality, and who torture children, and who establish their own town where they and their followers live, to avoid the outside world. This is but a naive false impression. Heretics often appear godly, but inwardly, they are full of carnality and rebellion. The professing Church of today is full of such people, many of whom are respected by a great majority of genuine Christians! Jude 1:8-11, 16-19 describes the hearts of heretics:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><i><span class="text Jude-1-8" id="en-NKJV-30681">Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. </span> <span class="text Jude-1-9" id="en-NKJV-30682">Yet Michael the archangel, in contending
with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not
bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” </span> <span class="text Jude-1-10" id="en-NKJV-30683">But
these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know
naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. </span><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684">Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-16">These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. </span><span class="text Jude-1-17" id="en-NKJV-30690">But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: </span><span class="text Jude-1-18" id="en-NKJV-30691">how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. </span><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">They are full of wickedness, following all manner of the sins of the flesh (Jude 1:8,11,16,18-19). They are often very libertine, whether they are very theological and intellectual, or not theologically-oriented. One particularly evident characteristic of such heretics is that they are very libertine people, often twisting and perverting Scripture to justify all kinds of lust, be it sexual lust, lust for power, or lust for money. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">They have their pet Scripture verses and doctrines they love to twist. In this age, such doctrines are that the doctrines of headship and submission in the family (Ephesians 5:23-28), the role of women as homemakers (Titus 2:5), marital sexuality (1 Corinthians 7:1-6), marriage and divorce (Matthew 19:1-12; 1 Corinthians 7:25-35) and of course, the Song of Songs. They love to use these verses to impose legalistic rules on young people, and also young women in particular, in prohibiting them from attending university, and compelling them to marry as soon as possible. There are entire denominations built on such perversions of doctrine, owing to their unbiblical emphasis on certain doctrines, and taking it too far, such as marriage and family. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">They make these legalistic rules to exercise a form of illegitimate authority over others, owing to their pure love for power, and their hatred of seeing others advance or succeed more than themselves.This explains why most cults which claim to be Christian but deviate from it, are extremely oppressive, often damaging those who were raised in cults, in all kinds of ways. While not all heretics may be as extremely, they nevertheless have the same spirit of error and the spirit of religion.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">Such people hate authority because they think that they are God Himself. This explains why they love independent churches, so that they can not only believe in what they want to believe concerning theology, but also so that they can formulate their own rules and impose them on people without being subject to any church authority. This is the case with many so-called 'christian' bloggers, most of whom are not worth paying any attention to at all! To justify their rebellion against authority, they speak evil of dignitaries (Jude 1:8), such as those who are truly ordained by God to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers (Ephesians 4:11-16). They are constantly slandering, misrepresenting, harassing, or even threatening them, whenever such dignitaries rebuke them for their sins, even in the most gentle and kind way. Heretics are mentally ill! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">Heretics of our times often love to use social media to spread their heresy, as well as to slander, mock, scold, denigrate, abuse or even threaten dignitaries, and anyone who opposes them for righteousness' sake. This demonstrates their utter lack of respect for their fellow man, not to say, their utter lack of the fear and respect for God. Such people are extremely evil and diabolical people, and those who fear God have nothing to fear, except God Himself, for they are righteous before God. Indeed, these heretics are extremely audacious, not in any way that is noble, right or just, in speaking evil of others, that they are even bolder than St Michael the Archangel, who did not even dare judge satan, but let the Lord rebuke him, in rebuking others (Jude 1:9)! </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">Heretics think that their slander, mockery, abuse or threats are all legitimate rebuke, out of their self-righteousness. Their assumption that they have the authority or right to rebuke others itself amounts to the usurpation of the authority of God. They elevate themselves to the position as teacher of the Word, out of their accord. Their very act of teaching is itself illegitimate, even where their teachings are true, precisely because it is the exercise of illegitimate authority. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">For only those who have been ordained by God to teach may do so, and exercise the authority to do so: </span></span><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692"><span class="text Jas-3-1"><i>My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment </i>(James 3:1). Being a teacher of the Word is an office that God ordains a person equip the saints and edify the body of Christ, so that the Church may be united as one body of Christ, and no longer be confused about doctrines, but grow spiritually in preparation to meet Christ when He comes (Ephesians 4:11-16). The Scripture says that not many shall be teachers, knowing that they shall restrict a stricter judgment, not because people should be cautious about deciding for themselves whether to become teachers of the Word. Rather, only a select few ordained by God may teach His Word. It is <i>not </i>for ourselves to make ourselves teachers of His Word.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692"><span class="text Jas-3-1">That teachers of the Word shall receive a stricter judgment is to ensure that people will not be lead astray, and that leading people astray is itself a sin. To lead people astray is to lead people in error, not simply because of one's teachings, but also because of one's authority being exercised by virtue of teaching. Hence, it is evident from James 3:1 that teachers must be ordained by God, owing to the authority they exercise over others by virtue of being teachers of the Word.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692"><span class="text Jas-3-1"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692"><span class="text Jas-3-1">All those who are not ordained to become teachers by God will either fail in their quest to become teachers of the Word, as orchestrated by God for the sake of their own Salvation, lest they become a false teacher by virtue of exercising illegitimate authority, or become heretics. The latter are those who are not ordained by God, but still continue to teach are plenty in the professing Church today, but who He does not stop from teaching because they are not true converts. Their doctrines are all borne out of the flesh, and seek to appease the carnal desires of those who follow them. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684"><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692"><span class="text Jas-3-1">Heretics, whether those who are ostensibly cult leaders, or those who are well-respected by majority of the professing Church, are typically popular with people, be it the Church as a whole or their target audience. This is in contrast to those who are true teachers of the Word who are hatred by the majority of people in the professing Church. As the Lord Jesus said to His true disciples:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-15-18"><span class="woj">“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.</span> </span><span class="text John-15-19" id="en-NKJV-26719"><span class="woj">If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet</span> <span class="woj">because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.</span> </span><span class="text John-15-20" id="en-NKJV-26720"><span class="woj">Remember the word that I said to you,</span> <span class="woj">‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.</span> <span class="woj">If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.</span> </span><span class="text John-15-21" id="en-NKJV-26721"><span class="woj">But</span> <span class="woj">all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.</span> </span><span class="text John-15-22" id="en-NKJV-26722"><span class="woj">If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin,</span> <span class="woj">but now they have no excuse for their sin.</span> </span><span class="text John-15-23" id="en-NKJV-26723"><span class="woj">He who hates Me hates My Father also.</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-15-24" id="en-NKJV-26724"><span class="woj">If I had not done among them</span> <span class="woj">the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have</span> <span class="woj">seen and also hated both Me and My Father.</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-15-25" id="en-NKJV-26725"><span class="woj">But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law,</span> <span class="woj">‘They hated Me without a cause.’</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Similar t<span class="text John-15-25" id="en-NKJV-26725"><span class="woj">o those who attend "prosperity gospel" churches, these religious people love to have their ears tickled (2 Timothy 4:3), except in a different way from those "prosperity gospel" followers - they likewise love to have their ears tickled by the teachings which affirm their worldview, theology, or outlook, such as the false legalistic teachings that women must be homemakers to be truly holy, or that people who are not married by a certain age are less righteous and holy than those who are.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-15-25" id="en-NKJV-26725"><span class="woj">These religious people are no different from those "prosperity gospel" followers who love to have their ears tickled, except that they love to hear negative, oppressive teachings, especially that concerning others, while those who follow prosperity preachers love to hear positive, empowering teachings. </span></span><span class="text John-15-25" id="en-NKJV-26725"><span class="woj">T</span></span><span class="text John-15-25" id="en-NKJV-26725"><span class="woj">he preachers preaching these negative, oppressive teachings that are against the Word of God, are as heretical as those prosperity "preachers". They rebel against God by not only making up man-made rules, but also treating them as the Law of God that determines whether someone is righteous or unrighteous. In doing so, they deny the authority of God, by not only refusing to submit to Him, but usurping His authority. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-15-25" id="en-NKJV-26725"><span class="woj">All heresy is a manifestation of desiring to indulge in one's carnality, and to justify it by the use of Scripture, leading others to Hell. Belief in heresy is itself damnable because such belief is itself rebellion, and the denial of the authority of God over oneself. Heretics are in rebellion against God in rejecting His Lordship over his or her life. Such people do not just include those who deny the doctrines about the Nature of God, but those who oppose any part of any Commandment of Christ or His Apostles. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-85255079382364897572019-08-11T07:18:00.001-07:002019-08-11T10:56:19.758-07:00Heresy: The Greatest Sin of Rebellion<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heresy is often thought to be simply any doctrine that deviates from the true doctrines about Jesus. While doctrines that deviate from the true doctrine about Jesus is certainly heretical, that is only an example of heresy. Such an understanding of heresy misunderstands the real essence and the nature of heresy itself. <b><i> </i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Heresy is in essence, rebellion against God. </i></b>It is the exercise of illegitimate authority against God through the perversion of doctrine. For in such doctrine is borne out of rebellion against God itself, a hatred of God, in particular, a love for that which is carnal. Jude 1:8-19 sums up the nature of heretics: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-8" id="en-NKJV-30681">Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-9" id="en-NKJV-30682">Yet Michael the archangel, in contending
with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not
bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-10" id="en-NKJV-30683">But
these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know
naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-11" id="en-NKJV-30684">Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-12">These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots </span><span class="text Jude-1-13" id="en-NKJV-30686"><sup class="versenum"> </sup>raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-14" id="en-NKJV-30687"><sup> </sup>Now
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying,
“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, </span><span class="text Jude-1-15" id="en-NKJV-30688">to
execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of
all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and
of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-16">These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. </span><span class="text Jude-1-17" id="en-NKJV-30690">But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: </span><span class="text Jude-1-18" id="en-NKJV-30691">how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. </span><span class="text Jude-1-19" id="en-NKJV-30692">These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Jude 1:8:19) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This Scripture shows that heretics are people who teach strange doctrine that leads people astray from the Truth, which is the result of their rebellion, especially their carnality, to justify such carnality. To teach with the appearance of authority, they must use Scripture, but because their doctrines are evil and corrupt, they must then pervert Scripture on the very Nature of God Himself to justify themselves. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In doing so, they reject all legitimate authority which stems only from God and God alone (Jude 1:8). They speak evil of dignitaries (Jude 1:8) because they expose and rebuke their error (Jude 1:8). Not even Michael the Archangel rebuked the devil, but let the Lord rebuke him, but these evil heretics, in their bold arrogance and their rebellion, speak evil of whatever offends them (Jude 1:9-10)! This simply shows how arrogant heretics truly are. There is absolutely no fear of God before their eyes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They elevate themselves above God, in seeking to determine the authoritative interpretation of Scripture by their own thinking, borne out of their carnality, when they have not been ordained to do so. Such ordinance by God is required for one to be a teacher who is exercising legitimate authority to interpret Scripture (James 3:1; Ephesians 4:11-16). These heretics, not only walk after the flesh, but seek to lead others into doing so, so that they may justify their carnality. They love the blessings of God, but neither obey nor serve Him, and live in utter rebellion (Jude 1:12-13). They are double-minded people as described in Jude 1:13, similar to how James 1:8 describes double-mindedness: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-12">They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; </span><span class="text Jude-1-13" id="en-NKJV-30686">raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-13" id="en-NKJV-30686">Their double-mindedness manifests in their preaching of holiness, coupled with their justification of not only carnality, but their diabolical use of the Law of God to justify it, often in very subtle ways, full of sophistry. Such are those who love to argue that because the Scripture does not<i> explicitly</i> prohibit a particular sin, often a sexual sin, such as masturbation, or pornography, that such are not sins<i>. </i>They are often very subtle in the way they express their ideas, by arguing, for example, that because masturbation is not </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-13" id="en-NKJV-30686">explicitly prohibited by the Bible, one cannot say that it is a sin, but can only say that it <i>can</i> be a sin in certain circumstances. This is effectively to argue that such a sin is justified, no matter what they claim otherwise! Failing to condemn a sin to be sin in the absolute sense is itself to endorse the sin. Such is the deviant sophistry of heretics, who dare to justify such evil!</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Jude-1-13" id="en-NKJV-30686"> </span>Such people are truly wicked and diabolical people! Avoid such people! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The carnality that is characteristic of heretics is evident in the many heretical groups who believe that indulgence in gross carnality, is justified, demonstrating their use of such doctrine. Such endorsement of gross carnality in their teaching stems from their view about the nature of God Himself. For example, Mormons and Muslims, which are both heresies, in denying the true Nature of God, in particular, the Trinity, believe in polygamy, and having sexual relations with virgins after one's death, while the Gnostics legitimised and indulges in all forms of gross sexual immorality. Indeed, one shall know them by their fruits (Matthew 7:16), and also, their fruits can be traced back to their fundamental doctrines about the Nature of God. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the beliefs of a person stem from his fundamental beliefs of a person about the Nature of God Himself. It is only by having the right beliefs about the Nature of God Himself, as exemplified by his belief in the Trinity, that determines whether all his other beliefs can be right. As long as he fails to affirm the truth about the Trinity, he is heretic. It is not even that one's doctrines about Salvation are sufficient to determine whether one follows the Truth, because the foundation of all a person's beliefs is the Nature of God. Rather, his beliefs about Salvation flow from his beliefs about the Nature of God.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Furthermore, it is not enough to just simply believe to be saved, for even the demons believe in one God, but are not saved (James 2:19). Without good works, that are produced by that faith, and that are done in faith, one cannot be saved, for one's faith is not a saving faith. One's faith must lead to good works for it to be a saving faith. For faith without works is dead faith, that which does not and cannot lead to Salvation, and is therefore vain (James 2:14-17). Such works are works of obedience towards God, as Abraham was obedient towards God as manifest by offering his own son Isaac as a sacrifice before God when God asked him to do so (James 2:21). For faith is given unto us so that we may be able to obey God, and our faith is made perfect by works, that is, obedience to God (James 2:22) as demonstrated by Abraham's obedience towards God as an example:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While having a right view of the Trinity is necessary to have sound doctrine on Salvation, leading to true saving faith, it does not normally lead to such. For rebellion can manifest in so-called 'non-Salvific' doctrines pertaining to the commandments of Christ which is so often falsely dismissed as 'non-essential'. Such a view is patently false because a true follower of Christ is commanded to obey Jesus, and only those who obey Jesus, that is, do His Will, shall be saved (Matthew 7:21-23). This clearly shows that the commandments of Christ are not non-essential which can be compromised on, but that which cannot. The idea that the non-Salvific doctrines of Christ pertaining to His Commandments are non-essential is a doctrine of demons (1 Timothy 4:1)! For the Scriptures proclaim that:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text 1Tim-4-3" id="en-NKJV-29751">These doctrines of demons are those which depart from the <i><b>faith</b>, </i>being the saving faith in Jesus Christ. They are doctrines of demons because they deny Jesus Christ's authority as God, and therefore, denying His Person and Work. For it is not simply by believing in His Person and Work that one is saved (James 2:14-26), as even demons believe in Jesus Christ! To disobey Jesus' Commands, even to the slightest, is itself to deny His authority as God, and hence His Person and Work. That includes commands of Christ spoken through His Apostles. For it is to reject Christ Himself</span><span class="text 1Tim-4-3" id="en-NKJV-29751">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-84769391822211057832019-08-07T12:18:00.000-07:002019-08-07T12:21:56.797-07:00The Fundamentals of the Christian Faith: A Call to Christian Militancy<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Christian faith is militant, bold, and unapologetic. Scripture has a wealth of evidence that shows that this is so. Jesus said: <span class="text Matt-10-34"><span class="woj">“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-10-35" id="en-NKJV-23453"><span class="woj">For I have come to</span> <span class="woj">‘set</span><span class="woj"> a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;</span> </span><span class="text Matt-10-36" id="en-NKJV-23454"><span class="woj">and</span> <span class="woj">‘a man’s enemies <i>will be</i> those of his <i>own</i> household' (Matthew 10:34-36). He also said: "</span></span><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj">“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and</span> <span class="woj">follow Me" (Matthew 16:24). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj">These commands by Jesus shows that He expects nothing less than total and absolute sacrifice for Him, as followers of Jesus, nothing but a total surrender of one's life for Him, following His Commands. For Jesus said "</span></span><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj">If you love Me,</span> <span class="woj">keep My commandments" (John 14:15). This does not mean to keep His Commands in a legalistic way, by simply keeping rules as religious people make it out to be, but to obey Him in all ways, out of a heart that truly loves Him. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj">As simple as this command is, great militancy is required to be able to do so. For such obedience contends with the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life (1 John 2:16) which are the three loves that hinder a person from loving Jesus. These are loves, rather than mere powers or forces, because the flesh loves to be under the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. Once one starts to entertain any of these loves, they become even stronger, to the point of being unable to be satisfied. This is when a person becomes a reprobate, where God gives a person over to his or her darkened mind (Romans 1:27-29). For lust is the love of one's own carnal desires. It is a type of love, but of an evil kind. It is perverted and there is nothing good or pure about it, for it goes against the Spirit. Such lust does not and cannot produce the love of the God, that which pleases God. For as the Scriptures say:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-5" id="en-NKJV-28122"><i>For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. </i></span><i><span class="text Rom-8-6" id="en-NKJV-28123">For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. </span><span class="text Rom-8-7" id="en-NKJV-28124">Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. </span><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">(Romans 8:5-8)</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"></span><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"></span><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh because that is their nature, and they are not governed by the Spirit. Such people will live a life that is lead by the three loves, being the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. These loves evidently manifest in all aspects of a person, and also the Church. Crucifying these loves are necessary for one to fight the spiritual battle that one must fight to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, for it is only the violent who take it by force (Matthew 11:12).</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">What Scripture means when it says that only the violent take the Kingdom of Heaven by force is that much battle is needed to be done, in contending against these three loves or lusts, to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This is in contrast to what the Church in the west now teaches, in prioritising the trivial, such as marriage and dating, and trivalising the priorities, being the </span></span></span></span></span><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">Trinity, theosis, which is unity with God, self-sacrifice, and ultimately, martyrdom</span></span></span></span></span>. Almost no where in the West in the Church being taught about pursuing theosis, self-sacrifice and martyrdom. This is not simply because there are no foreseeable prospects of martyrdom that it is not relevant. It is because Christianity in the West has become a religion in which one seeks Jesus for these merely earthly things, which are solely and ultimately within the Will of God as to whether He wants to give a person such things. That is how such things should be dealt with, and not pursued as priorities. Such was the case of the Rich Young Ruler who asked "</span></span></span></span></span><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Luke-18-18">Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” (Luke 18:18), to whom Christ commanded after affirming his keeping of the Law:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Luke-18-18"><span class="text Luke-18-22" id="en-NKJV-25711"><span class="woj">"You still lack one thing.</span> <span class="woj">Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me" (Luke 18:22).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Luke-18-18"><span class="text Luke-18-22" id="en-NKJV-25711"><span class="woj">The Scriptures say that he felt sad as a result of hearing this (Luke 18:23), not because he was emotional or merely because he misused his goods or possessions as some will try to make it out to be, in implying that there was nothing wrong with him living as rich man. It was because he loved his wealth and lived as rich person does, living for such things in ease and comfort that he felt sad, and therefore could not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This is precisely the opposite of the life the Christ commands us, to give up all things, even our very lives (Matthew 16:24; Luke 14:26; Revelation 12:11). These riches themselves were precisely the problem. He could not but love these riches, rendering them to be the right eye that needed to be gouged out and the right arm that needed to be cut off (Matthew 5:29-30). He was sorrowful because he had every reason to be sorrowful. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Luke-18-18"><span class="text Luke-18-22" id="en-NKJV-25711"><span class="woj">Neither is Luke 18:22 an individual command that only applied to the rich young ruler. It applies to everyone, for all commands of Christ lay down how all disciples should live for Him. For Christ died for everyone who is in Christ, and the Church is one body in Christ:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Luke-18-18"><span class="text Luke-18-22" id="en-NKJV-25711"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-5-12">Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— </span><span class="text Rom-5-13" id="en-NKJV-28061">(For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. </span><span class="text Rom-5-14" id="en-NKJV-28062">Nevertheless
death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned
according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. </span><span class="text Rom-5-15" id="en-NKJV-28063">But the free gift is not like the offense.
For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God
and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. </span><span class="text Rom-5-16" id="en-NKJV-28064">And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. </span><span class="text Rom-5-17" id="en-NKJV-28065">For if by the one man’s offense
death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of
grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the
One, Jesus Christ.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Luke-18-18"><span class="text Luke-18-22" id="en-NKJV-25711"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-5-17" id="en-NKJV-28065">(Romans 5:12-17) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Luke-18-18"><span class="text Luke-18-22" id="en-NKJV-25711"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-5-17" id="en-NKJV-28065">So, it follows that all His Commands commanding people to repent apply to all people, for all have sinned in Adam, taking on his nature in the exact same way as each other, for which sin is no respecter of persons, affecting all persons alike. Likewise, all who are saved are saved in Christ, taking on the exact same nature, and spirit. The command to give up all of oneself, including one's riches pertains to repentance and is therefore most applicable to all who want to follow Christ. </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">The focus of Church teaching in the west is ultimately about how to live a 'blessed' life, measured by how much treasure, pleasure, comfort and ease one can enjoy. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">Few do not understand, or even care to understand what the fundamentals of the true Christian faith are, being that of the Trinity, theosis, self-sacrifice for the sake of Christ, and ultimately martyrdom. This simply demonstrates how mammonised the Church nowadays is, in wanting to have their ears tickled, coming to Jesus for what they can get from Him, rather than because they truly love Jesus. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">Those who truly love Jesus will want to know the truth, because not only in Him in there truth, but He is the Truth (John 14:6). So, if one loves truth, one will unite with the Truth, not only refusing to give lip service to His Commands, but actively pursue Him, who is the Truth and fight anything that goes against the Truth. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">The foundation of the Truth is that of who He is, being that He is the Triune God. Anyone who neglects this will have the wrong understanding of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit, and hence of Salvation, from the beginning. For the Trinity is the very Nature of God Himself, which determines the Way of Salvation, the Truth about Jesus Himself, and the Life (John 14:6).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">The love of Jesus is manifest in one's desire to be truly united with Christ. One's unity with Christ is shown by one's obedience to His Commands (John 14:15), including one's hatred for sin. This hatred for sin manifests in its fullness only when one is filled with all manner of zeal in fighting all evils for the sake of Christ. For sin is not simply a 'personal matter' as the Reformers made it out to be. Those who approve of sin, whether actively or passively, despite not actually participating in them, are also just as guilty of such sins (Romans 1:32). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">The highest form of obedience to Christ is to give up one's whole self for him (Matthew 16:24). Such is the greatest manifestation of love for Christ. For who would give up what he has and enjoys, unless he was doing it for the sake of someone he loves? It is to devote the whole of one's life to Him and Him alone, in not just denying the pleasure and treasures of the world, but only doing His Will, being led wherever He leads.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125">The ultimate proof that one truly loves Christ is that one is willing to lay down one's life for Him: "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Rev-12-11" id="en-NKJV-30903">And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death" (Revelation 12:11). One must hate one's very life, in being willing to give it up for Christ. Such is the beauty of martyrdom, where one stays faithful to Christ right to the very end for the sake of Christ. For just as Christ died for us out of His great love for us, and we likewise die for Him, out of our great love for Him.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-16-24"><span class="woj"><span class="text John-14-15"><span class="woj"><span class="text Rom-8-8" id="en-NKJV-28125"><span class="text Rev-12-11" id="en-NKJV-30903">This is the heart of Christian militancy, which seeks only to please Christ, live for Christ, do all things for Christ, and die for Christ alone. Nothing else has a place in a person's life unless it is for the glory of Christ, out of one's passionate and zealous love for Him. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"><span class="text Luke-18-18"><i>Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Luke-18-19" id="en-NKJV-25708">So Jesus said to him, <span class="woj">“Why do you call Me good? No one is good but</span> <span class="woj">One, that is, God.</span> </span></i><i><span class="text Luke-18-20" id="en-NKJV-25709"><span class="woj">You know the commandments:</span> <span class="woj">‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’</span> <span class="woj">‘Honor your father and your mother.’</span> <span class="woj">”</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Luke-18-21" id="en-NKJV-25710">And he said, “All these things I have kept from my youth.”</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Luke-18-22" id="en-NKJV-25711">So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, <span class="woj">“You still lack one thing.</span> <span class="woj">Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”</span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Luke-18-23" id="en-NKJV-25712">But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text Luke-18-24">And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, <span class="woj">“How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!</span> </span></i><i><span class="text Luke-18-25" id="en-NKJV-25714"><span class="woj">For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">Such people think that they deserve anything they have in their hearts. Despite claiming that everything comes from God by grace, they think that what they have is deserved by them because of their righteousness, to make themselves feel pride in their own works, while those who have less are 'less blessed' than them because they have less. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">Owing to their law-orientated mindset which thinks that everything is a matter of being lawful and unlawful, they think that by reason of the law, more specifically adherence to it, what people have or not have, is determined by such. This is not simply a convenient explanation for religious people, although it certainly does provide such a function. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">It is a ultimately a manifestation of the wickedness of their hearts itself, for the law and the ability for people to break it, gives them a justification to look down on others who have less, and to feel superior for having more. Such a heart is manifest in words like "I am so blessed!" or "How good is the Lord" in expressing happiness in how one has attained, whether legitimately, what one has. The law indeed a weapon to use against others, and such is a way in such the law can and is weaponised - by saying that they blessed because of their own adherence to the law.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">The spirit of religion is always trying to justify its own wickedness, including its own pride, hatred, covetousness, envy and arrogance, and it is the law gives it the basis to do so because of how the law can be used, <i>not</i> because the law is wicked (Romans 7:7). This is because the law judges and condemns, and rightly demands punishment for sin. So, according to the law, being cursed is the right punishment for sin, while being blessed is the right reward for sin (Romans 7:7-25; Galatians 3:19-21). Under the law, indeed, those who fail to keep it will not be entitled to the promises of blessings from God, but rather, be liable to a curse. Only those who keep it should be entitled to such blessings from God. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">However, this idea of law-keeping and the rewards of doing so, and the curses for failing to do so, only applied under the Old Covenant. Yet, even under the Old Covenant, being 'blessed' does not mean that one receives more earthly goods. Job is the most obvious example. Job was righteous before God and yet he lost everything. He by no means fell out of favour with God for having lost everything (See the book of Job). Hence, the idea of earthly things being 'blessings' or a sign of blessing is false, even under the Old Covenant. Rather, such things were only symbolic of what is to come in the future, foreshadowing the Heavenly Kingdom. </span><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"></span><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">Yet, what makes Heaven what it is is the presence of God, and not the heavenly treasure as the Holy Scriptures makes clear:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><i><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"><span class="text Rev-21-1">Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. </span><span class="text Rev-21-2" id="en-NKJV-31056">Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. </span><span class="text Rev-21-3" id="en-NKJV-31057">And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. </span><span class="text Rev-21-4" id="en-NKJV-31058">And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">For it is God Himself one must pursue by doing His Will, not any treasure, be it earthly or heavenly. Jesus said "</span><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"><span class="woj">If you love Me,</span> <span class="woj">keep My commandments" (John 14:15). Only by keeping the Commandments of Christ, not simply outwardly, but also inwardly, can one truly claim to love Jesus. For those who do not love Jesus will not truly keep His Commandments, which is His Will. They may keep the outworking of the law as did the Rich Young Ruler, such as by not outwardly lying, stealing, or committing adultery, but they will not keep the Commandments of Jesus which can only be kept if one truly loves God:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text John-14-19"><span class="woj">“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but</span> <span class="woj">you will see Me.</span> <span class="woj">Because I live, you will live also.</span> </span></i><i><span class="text John-14-20" id="en-NKJV-26689"><span class="woj">At that day you will know that</span> <span class="woj">I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.</span> </span></i><i><span class="text John-14-21" id="en-NKJV-26690"><sup class="versenum"> </sup><span class="woj">He
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text John-14-22" id="en-NKJV-26691">Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span class="text John-14-23" id="en-NKJV-26692">Jesus answered and said to him, <span class="woj">“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him,</span> <span class="woj">and We will come to him and make Our home with him.</span> </span></i><i><span class="text John-14-24" id="en-NKJV-26693"><span class="woj">He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and</span> <span class="woj">the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text John-14-24" id="en-NKJV-26693"><span class="woj">(John 14:19-24) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"><span class="woj">For indeed, the Commandments of Jesus are to love God with all one's heart, soul and mind, and to love one's neighbours as oneself, for on this hangs the law and the prophets. As the Holy Scriptures says:</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-37" id="en-NKJV-23910">Jesus said to him, <span class="woj">“‘You shall love the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-38" id="en-NKJV-23911"><span class="woj">This is the first and great commandment.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-22-39" id="en-NKJV-23912"><span class="woj">And the second is like it:</span> <span class="woj">‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’</span> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NKJV-23913"><span class="woj">On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NKJV-23913"><span class="woj">(Matthew 22:34-40).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NKJV-23913"><span class="woj">Some may point to Matthew 22:40 and argue that the law therefore still applies, and further point out that Jesus will tell those who are "lawless" to depart from Him on the Day of Judgement (Matthew 7:21-23). This however, completely ignores all those verses in the New Covenant which make it very clear that a person cannot be saved at all in any way by keeping the Law, but that the law condemns: "<i>For </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NKJV-23913"><span class="woj"><i><span class="text Eph-2-8" id="en-NKJV-29238">by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, </span></i><span class="text Eph-2-9" id="en-NKJV-29239"><i>not of works, lest anyone should boast</i>" (Ephesians 2:8-9).</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NKJV-23913"><span class="woj"><span class="text Eph-2-9" id="en-NKJV-29239">This demonstrates that that all rewards the the Servant of Christ gains is not only by his works and totally undeserved. It also demonstrates that one is not to serve God with the motive of seeking such rewards, for God is the Alpha and Omega, the Great I AM, who is to be feared and obeyed, irrespective of the consequences. One is to obey God even if it meant to still end up in Hell because God is God. </span></span></span><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NKJV-23913"><span class="woj"></span></span><span class="text Matt-22-40" id="en-NKJV-23913"><span class="woj"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">The spirit of religion only seeks to serve God because of what one can gain as a reward or to escape from Hell. Though it may outwardly obey God, it does not love God at all, which is no obedience at all. The Holy Scriptures describes such people:</span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"><span class="text Matt-15-8" id="en-NKJV-23642"><span class="woj">‘These</span> <span class="woj">people</span> <span class="woj">draw near to Me with their mouth,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-15-8"><span class="woj">And honor Me with their lips,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-15-8"><span class="woj">But their heart is far from Me.</span></span><span class="text Matt-15-9" id="en-NKJV-23643"></span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"><span class="text Matt-15-9" id="en-NKJV-23643"><span class="woj">And in vain they worship Me,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-15-9"><span class="woj">Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’</span></span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">Apart from </span><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">utterly denying the work of grace under the New Covenant (Ephesians 2:8-9), the false doctrine of earthly blessings as a sign of righteousness also perverts the idea of what it means to be favoured by God. To be favoured by God is to be righteous before Him, not be to rich in earthly things (Matthew 5:6; Psalm 15:1-2, 112:1). Neither is having abundant earthly riches a sign of blessing, for God does not necessarily give those who are righteous such abundance. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">The vast majority of Servants of God throughout church history have faced the most intense persecution, affliction, poverty, imprisonment and all kinds of suffering. They gave up all things for Christ, even their very lives out of their deep and zealous love for Jesus. So, are you telling me that they are less blessed by God because they have less earthly things? Those of you who say so are insulting such saints! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">The idea that whether one is more or less blessed, that is, favoured by God, is determined by how many earthly goods one has or does not have is the ultimate manifestation of the spirit of religion and the spirit of mammon working together. It is not only wrong, but also utter selfishness to think such a thing. For it is not only a means of justifying oneself for one's works. It is also a means of justifying one's own self-centredness in seeking only one's own interests, and disregarding that of others, in thinking oneself as so blessed because of one's earthly goods, and others who have less to be less holy and righteous because they have less, by which one uses the law to justify such thinking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396">The spirit of religion and the spirit of mammon both seek the best only for oneself, so that one can satisfy one's own carnal pleasures and desires. The spirit of mammon tempts people to seek all treasure and pleasure of this world, and to indulge in them. The spirit of religion works to justify such a mindset on the basis of the law. It uses the precept that the righteous will be blessed and wicked will be cursed, and twists it to mean that having more or less earthly things is determines whether one is more or less blessed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Phil-2-4" id="en-NKJV-29396"><br /></span></span>Anti Mammon and Usury Conquerorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03930361374342490016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812558096130680250.post-38173609551919325352019-06-28T06:39:00.000-07:002019-06-28T06:49:16.602-07:00The spirit of Religion makes Perverse Use of the Law to seek Blessings for oneself and to Curse others<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People are talking about all kinds of evil spirits that are working in Church today. The two spirits which everyone loves to talk about are the spirits of jezebel and the spirit of witchcraft. Yet, they almost never talk about the spirit of mammon, which is the only spirit that Jesus actually mentioned, and the spirit of religion, which was the spirit that accused Jesus of blasphemy and murdered Him. This is itself a manifestation of the spirit of religion which does nothing but accuses not simply the innocent, but the righteous, of being wicked. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><i><span class="text Matt-26-57">And those who had laid hold of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. </span><span class="text Matt-26-58" id="en-NKJV-24113">But Peter followed Him at a distance to the high priest’s courtyard. And he went in and sat with the servants to see the end.</span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-59" id="en-NKJV-24114">Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, </span><span class="text Matt-26-60" id="en-NKJV-24115">but found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward </span><span class="text Matt-26-61" id="en-NKJV-24116">and said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.’ ”</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-62" id="en-NKJV-24117">And the high priest arose and said to Him, “Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?” </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-63" id="en-NKJV-24118">But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, “I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!”</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-64" id="en-NKJV-24119">Jesus said to him, <span class="woj">“It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you,</span> <span class="woj">hereafter you will see the Son of Man</span> <span class="woj">sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”</span></span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-65" id="en-NKJV-24120">Then
the high priest tore his clothes, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy!
What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His blasphemy! </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-66" id="en-NKJV-24121">What do you think?”</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-66">They answered and said, “He is deserving of death.”</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-67" id="en-NKJV-24122">Then they spat in His face and beat Him; and others struck Him with the palms of their hands, </span> <span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">saying, “Prophesy to us, Christ! Who is the one who struck You?”</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">A person is often accused by people of being a 'pharisee' nowadays for allegedly setting standards of holiness that are 'too high' and defining a level of holiness that is 'unable to be defined'. They make this accusation on the basis that the 'rules' being supposedly imposed are impossible to define, in implying that holiness is determined by how closely one adheres to the rules of God. What they are really saying is that a person is a 'pharisee' because they affirm true righteousness, a righteousness that they cannot even begin to understand owing to their own vile, wicked carnality, which despises every single bit of their carnality, even to the slightest. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">The irony of such people is that they are the real 'pharisees' in the literal true sense, in thinking that they are righteous, while being utterly unrighteous. Such is the spirit of religion operating in them. The unrighteousness of such a person knows no bounds. The real pharisees, both of then and now, are nothing but demons with an utterly false appearance of righteousness. They are vile, evil, and full of all manner of wickedness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">They love the Law of God, not because they truly love God, but because want to use it to affirm the own self-righteousness. Not only that, they view the Law of God in terms of how they can use it to justify their own carnality. They use it find all kinds of loopholes to justify their vile carnality, such as marrying just to have sex, charging usury in a 'reasonable way', refusing debt forgiveness, and even justifying marital rape. Their seemingly righteous affirmations of the Law of God and His righteousness is full of double-mindededness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">They love the Law of God when it benefits them, such as when it prohibits others from theft and adultery, because they do not want people stealing their things or their spouses, but despise it when it makes a demand on them that opposes their carnality, such as when it demands that they forgive others unconditionally as many times as necessary, deny themselves utterly for Christ, love others despite how others have done wrong to them, or to love those who they hate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">The Law is what gives religious people their <i><b>power</b></i> to manipulate others spiritually, and in all kinds of other ways that flow from this spiritual manipulation. For the Law has a certain power to it, in enabling people to accuse people on the basis of what the Law commands, prohibits or permits. Indeed, the Law accuses. It condemns (Galatians 3:10:14; 2 Corinthians 3:6). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">Religious people are always seeking to widen what it permits for themselves to justify their carnality under the Law, minimise the commands and prohibitions that apply to them in trying to make their application as narrow as possible, and broaden the prohibitions for other people, especially where they see the contravention of the prohibitions on part of others as a threat to them. </span><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"> </span><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"> </span><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"></span><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">For
example, religious people love to use how the Scripture does not
explicitly prohibit usury in the New Testament to argue that it is
justified, and use Deuteronomy 23:20 to claim that usury is lawful. This is exactly the game that they play in twisting Scripture to justify their love of money, and more perversely, their theft of other people's money. They also dogmatically insist that Scripture does not prescribe the way marital conjugal relations should be engaged it, to argue that sexually perverted acts are
justified, as long as done within marriage. Some of them even use 1 Corinthians 7:1-6 to justify marital rape in their utter perversity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">These are all attempts to render the the commands and prohibitions of the Law of God as narrow as possible to permit a false
liberty for themselves, especially their carnality. Religious people are full
of the love of mammon, because they are carnal. Unlike the average
unbeliever, they use Scripture, and more specifically, the Law which
they love to use for their own advantage to gain the blessing they want, and to curse others by means positively seeking to bring curses into their lives, or denying them blessings. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">They
love to use the Law in particular to seek their own blessings because of how the Law lends itself to the carnal use of power, which explains why they
love to refer to the Old Testament blessings which only applied to under
the Old Covenant, not the New Covenant which has superseded the Old
Covenant (Hebrews 8:13). This is exactly what the demonic 'Abrahamic theology' is
based on. It purports all the so-called material blessings one has is a reward for one's obedience to God, and where one has no or less of so-called blessings, it is an indication that one is less blessed or even cursed by God.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">Yet, even under the Old Covenant, these so-called blessings were not necessarily given to people who were holy, and therefore pleased the Lord. Such people were by no means less blessed. The suffering of the prophets and that of Job indicates that even under the Old Covenant, it is not true that having less material things is a sign of being less blessed at all. This idea has never been true at all, be it during the Old Testament or New Testament Era.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">Likewise,
they love to use the law to curse others, by speaking curses into the
lives of others, by accusing them of evil, or mocking, scorning,
intimidating, humiliating or belittling them for not living a life that
follows their rules, by which they speak satanic prophecies into
their life, especially their futures. Twisting Scriptures to appease the wickedness of their hearts in rejoicing in the difficulties, struggles or suffering of others by espousing all kinds of false doctrines that are full of spiritual error is their specialty. Such spiritual errors cause pain in others, or hinder the legitimate liberty in Christ of others. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"></span><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"></span><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">For example, religious
people also love to use the prohibition on fornication (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) to impose the
rule on singles that they should marry as soon as they have any sexual urges, even if it is minimal, to deny singles the blessing of marrying the right God-given person at the right time and place. This is done to make them feel inferior </span><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">as it makes them feel validated and superior, out of their sheer pride, arrogance and aggressive love of self. By doing so, they curse them by denying them such a blessing, and by mocking them, they speak satanic prophecies against them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">The spirit of religion is utterly perverted. Do not be deceived by its righteous guise! There is absolutely nothing good in it. It is a spirit that is no content with simply holding people in all kinds of bondage of the most painful kind, but it actively seeks to curse others by means of both positively cursing them and denying them blessings that God wants to give to them, all while seeking blessings for oneself. It does this all by using the Law to justify oneself and condemn others. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text Matt-26-68" id="en-NKJV-24123">Indeed, the Law of God is not only weaponised by them, but it is itself a weapon. But it is a weapon that condemns themselves. For by the unlawful use of the Law, they condemn themselves. </span></span><br />
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