MAINSTREAM CHRISTIANITY

Did God write the Bible for nothing?

Was God wasting His time in writing the Bible as far as you are concerned?

Is the creator God not free to plan life as He chooses?

Does He have the right to reveal His plan to whomever He chooses?

Does He have the right to reveal His plan in whatever way He chooses?

Who is so brazen as to tell God what He can and cannot do?

Do you reject all of God^s efforts to enlighten you?

Are you gullible to false teachings, adulterated interpretations, erroneous explanations and outright lies? Whose fault is that? You can blame Satan but God gave you free moral agency, grab hold of it.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.
Deutoronomy 4:29

Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7

Trust the Bible in these statements. They are from God. This is how He chooses to communicate with mankind, through the words of the Bible.

Mainstream Christianity teaches many false and misleading things. You have often seen and heard the passage that they hold so dear,

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not die but have eternal life.

Of course this passage is true and very important but it is not the be all and the end all of the matter. The rest of the Bible is also true. Look at 2 Timothy 3:16 for another true statement.
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults and giving instruction in right living, so that the person who serves God may be fully qualified and equipped to do every kind and good deed.

Another misleading concept that is perpetrated by mainstream Christianity is the idea that the Law has been done away with or that it has been nailed to the cross. Now listen to what Jesus had to say about the subject.

Matthew 5:17 to 20 (GNB)
Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to make their teachings come true. Remember that as long as heaven and earth last, not the least point nor the smallest detail of the Law will be done away with ~ not until the end of all things. So then, whoever disobeys even the least important of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be least in the Kingdom of heaven. On the other hand, whoever obeys the Law and teaches others to do the same, will be great in the Kingdom of heaven. I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the Kingdom of heaven only if you are more faithful than the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees in doing what God requires.

So you can see that according to Jesus, who is a much greater authority than mainstream Christianity, it is critical that one does the will of God and that one obeys the commandments according to the Law of Moses and not of mainstream Christianity that teaches that the Law is done away with.

Matthew 18:6
If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose faith in Me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea. How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen ~ but how terrible for the one who causes them! (see also Mark 9:42 and Luke 17:2)

Mainstream Christianity is responsible for many false beliefs and many false practices. It is responsible for all its followers to reject Christ^s teachings and therefore to lose faith in Christ and for substituting the true Christ for a fictitious christ. Let those who have ears to hear and eyes to see understand what the scriptures reveal and warn about. Those teachers in mainstream Christianity are the enemy of Christ. They are doing the works of Satan the Devil.

Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues;
Revelation 18:4

There is still hope for sinners. Jesus came to save not to judge but there remain some things that everyone must chose to do, come out of her, repent and be baptized by full emersion as Jesus gave the example, reject lies and hold fast to truth. Prove all things concerning the faith and keep what is right. Believe the Bible not man made interpretations of it.

God is the same yesterday, today and forever. His laws and the Bible are here to stay. It is us who need to adapt to them. We need to conform. We need to change. We need to believe the gospel of Jesus Christ. If we can ever hope to attain eternal life Jesus needs to see obedience in us, obedience to God and not to men.

Those who do the commandments will be saved not those who redefine and alter the commandments.

2 John 9
Anyone who does not stay with the teachings of Christ, but goes beyond, does not have God. Whoever does stay with the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

2 Corinthians 4:3 to 5
For if the gospel we preach is hidden, it is hidden only from those who are being lost. They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world (Satan the devil). He keeps them from seeing the light shinning on them, the light that comes from the good news about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. For it is not ourselves that we preach; we preach Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus sake.

1 John 4:4
But you belong to God, my children, and have defeated the false prophets, because the Spirit who is in you is more powerful than the spirit in those who belong to the world. Those false prophets speak about matters of the world, and the world listens to them because they belong to the world. But we belong to God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This, then, is how we can tell the difference between the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

God wrote the Bible to teach us sound doctrine and to reveal His truth. We need to pay attention and to block out nonsense and stop listening to false teachers and false prophets. Exercise your free moral agency.

2013 Jacques Gauvin

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