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THIS IS
VERY
IMPORTANT!
By our breaking
JUST ONE
of the Ten Commandments,
(even if it seems small,
like stealing a paperclip, or telling one lie, it's
STILL committing a sin regardless,
and God
doesn't grade on a curve!)
makes us
un-worthy
to go to
Heaven, and since nobody (other than Jesus) lived a
sinless life, we ALL will spend
eternity in
hell, according to God's Word.
We cannot do anything to remove our sins!
but...
Jesus Christ's death upon the cross
paid for the sins of each person who chooses to believe and
acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Only Begotten Son of God,
that Jesus is
literally
God in the flesh,
and believe in their heart and acknowledge
that God rose Jesus from the dead
on the Third Day, as well as confessing
their sins to God, and
repenting of
their sins.
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"For He hath
made Him to
be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in Him." -
2 Corinthians 5:21
"And ye know that
He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin.
Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not
seen Him, neither known Him." -
1 John 3:5-6
"He that committeth
sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that
He might
destroy the works of the devil." -
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Jesus (God in the flesh) is the only person who
never sinned, and His
death on the cross was a substitution (payment) for the sins
of those who
choose to be saved through Him. The only way to get to
heaven is through accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and to
understand the terms in order to truly become born again, born of the
Spirit (where the Holy Spirit will reside in you, and where with
TRUE conversion, your heart will change, and you will want
to serve God).
(Jesus set the terms
as far as how one can accept His payment for ones' sins. Jesus
Christ explains these terms in the text of the Bible.) It
doesn't matter what our heart "feels", the ONLY thing that matters is what
God's terms are, and Jesus Christ is God.
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- REPENTANCE -
After one accepts Jesus
Christ as their Lord and Savior, if they are truly saved through Christ,
their heart will change, and they will have a repentant heart as result of
true conversion.
"For if we sin wilfully
after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth
no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of
judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." -
Hebrews 10:26-27
"So then, those who
are in the flesh cannot please God.
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
if indeed the
Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of
Christ, he is not His." -
Romans 8:8-9
"...Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted
out..." -
Acts 3:19
"He that saith, I know Him,
and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the Truth is
not in him.
But whoso keepeth His
Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we
are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to
walk, even as He walked." -
1 John 2:4-6
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A QUICK NOTE:
Fulfilled prophecy has proven
Jesus Christ to be the Messiah.
In his book "Science Speaks", Peter Stoner
provides evidence that the odds for one person
to fulfill just EIGHT of the prophecies
of the Messiah
that was to come (which ended up being Jesus)
would be
1
in 100,000,000,000,000,000!
One of these specific prophecies is
Psalm 22:16... "For dogs have
compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.".
This clearly describes the torturous act of
crucifixion, which was not even
invented until hundreds of years AFTER Psalm 22 was
written!
Other
prophecies include the Messiah's
betrayal for 30 pieces of silver, and a
potters field purchased with that money
(prophecy told in
Zechariah 11:12-13, fulfilled in
Matthew 26:14-16, and
Matthew 27:4-10)
(
Click
HERE for more info on fulfilled biblical
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REGARDING CONFESSION of
OUR SINS to JESUS CHRIST...
"If
we confess our sins, He
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness." -
1 John 1-9
(by the way,
nowhere
in the Bible does it say we must confess our sins to a priest,
Jesus
Christ is our ONLY Mediator to God the Father.)
But God's forgiveness of our sins
doesn't give
anybody a
"license to sin"
REGARDING TEMPTATION to
SIN...
God wants us to turn away from sin
completely, and He tells us we should daily pray for Him to protect us
from temptation.
"...And lead us not into
temptation, but deliver us from evil..."
(from
Matthew 6:13, click
HERE to read this in it's context where Jesus Christ is teaching
how we all should pray).
God TESTS us
(a good example is the Book of
Job), but satan TEMPTS
us to sin.
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God wants to use us, but satan would
obviously rather we wouldn't! God says...
"Wherefore
gird up the loins of your mind, be
sober, and hope to the end for the
grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus
Christ; As obedient
children,
not
fashioning yourselves according to the
former lusts
in your ignorance:" -
1 Peter 1:13-14
God knows it's not easy to repent of sin (and
there are MANY types of sin that God condemns throughout the
Bible, and it's our job to read and understand His Word, so we
find out how God wants us to live)
"Forasmuch then as
Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise
with the same mind: for he that hath
suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no
longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts
of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may
suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we
walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings,
banquetings, and abominable idolatries:" -
1 Peter 4:1-3
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The Importance of Becoming
'Born Again'...
'Jesus
answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" '
-
John 3-3.
"Jesus
answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless
one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit."" -
John 3:5
Jesus Christ
says He is
the only way to
eternity in Heaven. That's that! The Bible is
abundantly clear about this.
I believe and
trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ is the
only acceptable sacrifice to God for sinners like you and
me, Jesus died to pay the fine (so to speak) of the sin debt of those who
accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Praying to
Jesus Christ, accepting His offer to pay for your sins to God the Father
through Jesus' sacrificial death upon the cross, acknowledging and
believing in your heart that God rose Jesus Christ from the dead, asking
Jesus Christ to guide you with help from the Holy Spirit, and to live
according to His Word and His Will. Praying regularly for guidance,
peace, protection, and help in the repentance of sin, in the Name of Jesus
Christ. And with a repentant heart, turning away from sin once and
for all. If one truly gets saved, their heart changes, they will
know how much God hates sin, they won't want to dishonor God by committing
more sins.
To me,
that is the best description I can think of to truly become "born again",
according to the Bible.
If you haven't already, I hope
you will choose to do the same and accept Christ Jesus as Lord, as your
Savior.
If you
accept Jesus Christ as Savior, the Bible is one of the main ways the Holy
Spirit guides us to understanding the Truth of God's Word, the Bible.
Pray for guidance, and just start reading. The Book of Romans is an
EXCELLENT starting point! As far as "translations" of
the Bible, the most accurate translation to English is the King James
Version (abbreviated "KJV"). Pray to God for the Holy Spirit to
guide you as you read and study the Bible, and watch how vivid,
insightful, and helpful Scripture will become! For me, the more I
studied it, the more insight into God's Will for my life I received, and
it's a blessing I can't put into words.
When
you decide to dig into the Scripture more, to make sure you are
interpreting it correctly, a concordance such as "Strong's Exhaustive
Concordance of the Bible" (for really digging into the text, finding out
what the original Greek and Hebrew words are, and how the same words are
used in other parts of the Bible, so you can really get it all in context.
Important to do because personal opinion of what one reads doesn't matter
at all, correct understanding of what was written is not subjective, it is
"Study to
shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth."
- 2 Timothy 2:15).
Also consider attending a GOOD
Bible-believing church, to grow in the knowledge and un-failing love of
Jesus Christ.
And with your
study, be sure to only believe those who directly quote the Bible, IN
CONTEXT. There are
MANY preachers out there that don't even believe that
Jesus is the only way for salvation,
as the Bible CLEARLY says!!!
I think by perverting God's
Holy Word to create a church's doctrine that "allows" certain
clearly defined sins to become acceptable (with no call to
repentance), fewer people will be offended, and more will
attend their church. But there are only two types of doctrine,
TRUE and FALSE!!! (or "Christian" and
"Anti-Christian")
I see so many churches that avoid
preaching the requirement of repentance of sins, as not to offend and
risk lower church attendance! A lot of motivational speakers out
there, and sadly, fewer and fewer preachers of the Word of God!
I've even been
told by a priest
(from a major
denomination)
that he believes Scripture
can be changed and through God's continuing revelation.
But such a statement is not backed ANYWHERE in the Bible.
God is AGAINST
His Word being modified -
take a look at the last page in
your Bible, particularly Revelation 22:18 and Deuteronomy 4:2...
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"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of
the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God
shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
And if any man shall take away
from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his
part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the
things which are written in this book." -
Revelation 22:18-19
and...
"Ye
shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish
ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your
God which I command you." -
Deuteronomy 4:2 |
So be
careful! There are MANY wolves in sheep's clothing
out there!
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"For such are
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into
apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms
himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into
ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their
works." -
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You can always trust the Word of God! (But
ONLY if you are reading
an accurate translation of the original
manuscripts!). I DO NOT
believe mankind has the right to change God's Holy Word in
any
way.
If you don't already have a concordance, I recommend getting a good up-to-date
one,
such as Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. It makes it easy to check what the original
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words meant, and to see the same words in
various contexts throughout the Bible, to better understand God's Word.
It's VERY helpful!!!
The Bible is constantly being proven true. The Bible is 100% accurate regarding science, the Bible
speaks several times about the earth being spherical
(check it out
here and
here), but for a long time,
most believed the earth was flat!
It has been accurate regarding astronomy, biology, all sciences!
Well then, how do we know that some publisher didn't change
God's Holy Word during
translation from or in a publisher's "creating"
a new "version" ???
Clearly some people with twisted
agendas have twisted God's Word, so obviously
there
ARE
some
very inaccurate "versions" of the Bible out there.
The
Bible's original content has NEVER changed,
the King James Bible
has been proven to be is very accurate to the many
original
manuscripts found over the last several thousand years.
Dr. Jewell Smith has done a lot of research on this, and I
believe there are several videos he has done where he goes
through the history of Biblical manuscripts. I highly
suggest looking into his research.
And again,
a good concordance
will help you understand God's Word better, by being able to
look up the words it's original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek - and
to see where else in Scripture the same words are used.
By the way, there are more than
20,000 known ORIGINAL manuscripts, that date from as early as
the second century A.D.! MANY times more than any other
book EVER! For
more information about the Bible's authenticity, please click
HERE.
Well, is God's Word True?
YES!!!
Regarding science - one good
resource to study within the Bible:
The Book of Job
...from back
in the Old Testament, WRITTEN THOUSANDS OF
YEARS AGO, God goes down a list of many scientific facts,
such as the fact there are
springs of water inside the earth (Job
38:16), that there are
springs of
water in the sea (Job
38:8), that
inside the
earth is fire (Job
28:5), water in clouds (Job
38:9 and
Job 38.34),
that light can be diffused (Job 38:24).
...and there's much, much more! A
lot of these facts are repeated in several areas of
The Book of Job! I would just open up The Book of Job
and start reading, LOTS of facts! LOTS of PROOF!!!
(By the way,
for those who ask how God could
allow suffering to occur,
the Book of Job is very helpful in explaining this.
We are
all tested by transgression, by a thorn in the flesh, by
something that humbles us, because
when we are humbled, we tend
to listen more carefully to Him!)
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How
about Creation of the Earth?
Some pastors preach that the Bible
"never really meant" literal days! Well, here's some PROOF
that the Bible is, in fact, 100% CORRECT, regarding "Literal
Single Days" in Genesis...
...the
word "yôm" is used in Genesis
Genesis 1:5, yôm literally translates to the word 'Day'
(in context, it's used in Genesis 1-11 to
describe evening and morning as a literal day)
meaning our literal 24 hour "day".
Hebrew
words that mean something other than 'literal day'
include: "dor" (a revolution of time), "moed"
(a season of time), "shana" (a year), among other
Hebrew words for time. Click HERE
for more information on this!
I
believe 100% that God created the Heavens and the earth and all
that's in it, in 6 literal days and rested on the 7th
day.
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..."Then God saw everything
that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the
evening and the morning were the sixth day." (Genesis 1:31).
"And
on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done and He
rested..." (Genesis 2:2).
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Some Creation v.s. Evolution Stuff...
Regarding
evolution - there's now proof that layers of sedimentary rock
was not formed vertically, but horizontally. That some
fossils found in lower layers can actually be
YOUNGER than some
fossils found layers ABOVE them!!! There was a global
flood (read Genesis, particularly Genesis 6).
"Layers" cannot determine the age of anything!
Click HERE
for info on stratigraphy.
Could birds evolve from
dinosaurs??? What about the notion of lizards
scales evolving into feathers? It's impossible!!!
Feathers are similar to hairs "follicle-wise", individually
rooted; but scales are all part of one skin!
Here is a website that compares the two.
Did humans evolve from some
form of primate? No. Evolution is
somply not true, but don't just take my word for it,
research "Nebraska
man", well,
Nebraska man ended up just being a single tooth
from a pig!, or how about "Piltdown
man"??? it was another lie:
Piltdown man was
a combination of a human skull
and an orangutan jawbone with the teeth filed down -
but there's no
way fossils could ever prove evolution.
One would need to see
the remains of the generation before AND after, to determine any
changes! There "are" bones of humans who
were very old, and very arthritic, and facial bones continue to grow as one continues
to age. The Bible says the typical
human life-span was
around 900 years back in Adam's and Noah's days,
the genealogy
proves it (click
HERE for info). The religion of evolution makes human life
appear
to be much less special, when people are considered 'evolved
animals' rather than wonderfully created and designed in the
Image of God Himself! And Christians can't have it both
ways, they either believe the Word of God or they don't.
God is crystal clear that He designed us, and created Adam (as
well as Eve, as mentioned later on in Genesis) on the sixth day.
And the word "yôm" was used for "day", so translated correctly
and used in the particular context used in Genesis ("Then
God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very
good. So
the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
(Genesis 1:31).,
it was a standard 24 hour time period. No raining on hot
rocks, then slime, then fish, then frogs, then rats, then
monkeys, then "Adam".
God made Adam from the dust of the
ground, and science now proves that all of the elements found in
humans are also found in dirt. Dust we were made
from, and to dust our earthly bodies will return to after death.
The "theory" of
evolution is
INSULTING to God, who created
us in His Image!
Yet many liberal theologians take it
upon
themselves to twist and pervert the Holy Word of God,
in order
to fit whatever agendas they have in mind.
Example: somebody
says the earth wasn't 'completely flooded' during the great
flood in Noah's time (click
HERE for info on this), so then
they
are saying God isn't sovereign! Saying God's Word is not
True. They are calling God a liar!
In fact, Jesus Christ says
(speaking of His return)... "But
as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the
Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the
flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
And knew not until
the flood came and took them all away; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be." -
Matthew 24:37-39
"Whereby
the world
that then was, being
overflowed with water,
perished:"
-
2 Peter 3:6
"...when once the longsuffering of
God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,
wherein a few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."
-
1 Peter 3:20
That was obviously referring to
the global flood mentioned in greater detail Genesis...
"And the flood was forty days upon
the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it
was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and
were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the
face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth; and
all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven,
were covered.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains
were covered.
And all
flesh died that moved upon the earth,
both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose
nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry
land, died. And
every living substance was destroyed which was upon
the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping
things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed
from the earth:
and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in
the ark,. And the waters prevailed upon the
earth an hundred and fifty days. And God remembered Noah,
and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in
the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the
waters asswaged; The fountains also of the deep and the
windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was
restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth
continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty
days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the
seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the
mountains of Ararat.
And the waters decreased
continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on
the first day of the month,
were the tops of the
mountains seen. ..." -
Genesis 7:17-24, and
8:1-5
NO WAY
it could POSSIBLY be a "localized flood".
Sadly, many false teachers of God's Word seem to "spin" it to
make such a theory seem valid.
So if it were JUST a
"local flood",
HOW
could ALL the high hills and ALL the
mountains be covered? And what then would have caused the
death of all flesh that moved upon the earth during the
flood, IF
it were "localized"???
If the flood was
"localized",
then explain how
fossils of "closed" clams (when clams die, their
shells open up - a way to tell which clams are ok to eat or not!
So it would be impossible for this without a rapid burial in
sediment) are found all over the earth,
even on the top of
mountains such as
Everest!?!?
Also, check out the Institute for
Creation
Research's articles regarding radioisotopes, more
evidence for a young earth!
More evidence that goes against
the theory of "millions of years" of evolution... There's
actually been a fossil of a person's shoe squishing a
trilobite (but how can that be, evolutionists say trilobites
are 600 MILLION years old!)! Check out these links:
HERE,
HERE,
and
HERE.
HERE
is another great link to fossil evidence (human footprints with
dinosaur prints, an iron cup embedded completely in coal,
etc.). And there's been proof of the age of ica stones
(by analyzing the natural patina where the images have
been carved, of the few authentic ones). Click
HERE for info. And you can get replica ica stones at
drdino.com
HERE. A GREAT book regarding the ica stones, check out
"Secrets of the Ica Stones and Nazca
Lines" by Dennis Swift.
For the CORRECT
Answers:
READ
GOD'S
WORD - NOT
MAN'S WORD!!!
If somebody believes we came from
apes, then they are saying
that they don't believe God, that they don't believe
God created the first man,
Adam, out of the dust of
the Earth, created in God's image, and that
God breathed life into Adam, (Genesis
2:7)
, (and for the general run-down of when
everything was Created by God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit),
click
HERE).
There CANNOT be death before sin, God's Word is
specific about this, that there was no
death until after Adam & Eve's fall into sin after giving
into temptation in the Garden of Eden. The only things
that died before that were plants, given for Adam & Eve to
eat!!! (Genesis
1:29). But no death came upon
animals (which the Bible says animals also have the
breath of life
Genesis 7:15)
until AFTER Adam
and Eve sinned the very first time.
For plenty of
evidence of God's creation, please visit websites such as
Creation
Science Evangelism. Also, check this out:
www.IntelligentDesignVersusEvolution.com.
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Regarding "The Last Days"
and False Doctrine...
The
Bible says in
the last days, there
will be "many
false gods" and
"false
prophets",
"Then many
false prophets will rise up and deceive many".
- Matthew 24:11
If
what you hear by a preacher, or what you read
contradicts the Bible
(or
misconstrues, or takes scripture out of context,
which satan LOVES to do
to mess things up
for us! - just as satan quoted the Bible, out of context, in
ways to try to test Jesus in the desert, and to try
to get Jesus to bow down to him)
then it's definitely
NOT
the
Word
of
Jesus Christ.
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"Beloved,
believe not every
spirit,
but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because
many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby
know ye the Spirit of God:
Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh
is of God:
And every spirit
that confesseth not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh
is not of God:
and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the
world." -
1 John 4
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Regarding the intentions
of some pastors, be skeptical
of everybody,
especially
to those who take
the easy way out and just
'paraphrase'
when talking about the Words of
the Bible, or add/subtract from the Word (which is FALSE
DOCTRINE! One instance, regarding The Book of
Revelation in particular, read:
Revelation 22:18-19.). Some often
misconstrue! "Beware
of
false prophets,
who come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly are ravenous wolves. "You will know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from
thistles?" "Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but
a bad tree bears bad fruit."
-
Matthew 7:15-20
Paraphrasing
the Bible is
VERY DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!
The TRUTH can
ONLY be found in the Word of God, through an
ACCURATE translation of the
Holy Bible! (such as King James,
New King James, etc.). Paraphrasing is watering down the
Word of God, you can't trust it. If they give you the
scriptural verse(s) after quoting something from the Bible,
then
you can TEST what they just said, to make sure...
1.) that they're not
distorting the Word of God,
2.) and that they're not just
taking the easy way out.
I
would question the intentions
of those who frequently paraphrase
w/o providing EXACTLY
where what they just quoted is located in the Holy Bible! And
make sure they're not quoting an inaccurate translation of the
Bible!
"Test
all
things,
hold fast to that which is good."
-
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Eternal
salvation through
Jesus Christ is
THE
MOST IMPORTANT THING, and when studying God's Word,
just "paraphrasing" God's Holy Word is NOT an option!
If learning God's Word through a person who delivers Biblical
scripture out of context is commonplace (during their prepared
sermons & Bible study) I personally would not attend that church
and/or Bible study anymore!
Who would want to believe
anything that was taken out of context in any other field?
So why would I, regarding obtaining Biblical insight and
knowledge, trust learning the Word of God to a preacher who
doesn't feel the need to give the context of Biblical quoting of
scripture???
What
About that "Prosperity
Gospel" and "Name It and Claim It"
Preaching?
I see A
LOT of a particular form of televangelists that will
say you need to give them your money in order to
receive:
financial blessings,
restored relationships,
spiritual revelations,
healings of illness, etc.
These
folks try to get most of their money from those who
are experiencing
bad health,
bad
finances,
bad relationships, etc.
(trials and tests
which God calls
LONGSUFFERING,
which is actually God's mercy, His chastening those He
loves! Check out the Book of Job for a great example
of tests and how/why God allowed them!).
Sadly,
many preachers use
selective Scripture (such
as
Luke 21)
to encourage parishioners
to give them often
much more than the standard 10% tithe, by
saying that the amount of your "first fruits
offering" sewn into their
ministry (paying for their Rolls Royce, private
jet, motorcycle collection, etc.) will determine the
parishioners' amount of financial gain for the entire
year! They'll say 2008 is the year of perfection
(basically saying "bet everything on 8!"), even saying
2007 was a horrible year (and throughout 2007 saying God
told them 2007 was the year of perfection and overflow,
etc.).
But
that's taking advantage of the poor, the downhearted, the
widowed, the sick, etc. by twisting God's Word
for their financial gain!
"Beware of
the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love
greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the
synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
Which devour
widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers:
the same shall
receive greater damnation." -
Luke 20:46-47
Scripture
continues on in the next chapter... "And he looked up, and saw
the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
And he saw also a
certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he
said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast
in more than they all:" -
Luke 21:1-3
But
what does the Word of God say about riches, etc.?..
"Every
word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put
their trust in Him. Add thou not unto His words, lest He
reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Two things
have I required of the; deny me them not before I die:
Remove far from me
vanity and lies:
give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with
food convenient for me
Lest I be full,
and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD?
or lest I be poor,
and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." -
Proverbs 30:5-9
"Lay
not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break
through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through nor steal:"
- Matthew 6:19-20
"...Now when
Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one
thing: sell all that
thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou
shalt have treasure
in heaven: and come,
follow me.
And when he heard this,
he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. And
when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said,
How hardly shall they
that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!" -
Luke 18:22-24
"A double minded
man is unstable in all his ways. Let the brother of low
degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
But the rich, in that he
is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall
pass away." -
James 1:8-10
But
they say whatever you ask for you will receive.
That you can "speak" things into existence, such as more
money in your billfold, or "speak" that a storm doesn't
reach your home. Then they ask you for your "special
first fruits offering" of course!
-
Again, what does Scripture
say? -
'
"Now
this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask
anything according to His will, He hears us."'
- 1 John 5:14
"Be careful for nothing; but in
every thing by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known unto God. And the
peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep
your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
-
Philippians 4:6-8
God ONLY
gives according to His Will.
Some preachers forget to mention that, and want to believe
if we donate "X" amount of dollars, we can ask God for a
new Ferrari and just expect it to happen. Only God's
Will will be done, not ours, PERIOD.
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I'm not gonna
comment regarding this information below, other than
mentioning that I have not read any Scripture in either
the Old Testament or New Testament, that supports these
claims from the Catholic church's
"Catechism of the
Catholic Church"
...
460 "...For
the Son of God became man so that we might become God.
80"
"The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in
his divinity, assumed our nature,
so that he, made man,
might make men gods. 81"
(from
460 of
"Catechism of the Catholic Church"
Part 1, Section 2,
Chapter 2,
Article 3,
Paragraph 1, 460, from the
"Catechism
of the Catholic Church". http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p122a3p1.htm
(page 116
of printed version).) |
and more from the "Catechism of
the Catholic Church"...
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I was
Episcopalian for most of my life, but am not an
Episcopalian anymore! I'm just "Christian" :)
Here are a few reasons why...
Over the last several years,
there have been doctrine changes made by the Episcopal
church that clearly oppose God's Word, and the media seems
to cover a lot of their controversial doctrinal changes.
But my faith and
salvation is in the True and infallible God
- Jesus Christ - and it is
certainly not in the hands of a church!
I don't trust anybody anymore, I won't take any
preacher's word for anything, I need to look the Scripture
up to make sure they're not distorting stretching God's
Truth. (again,
"Test
all
things,
hold fast to that which is good."
-
1 Thessalonians 5:21)
God's Word
does not change, and when people decide
they can change God's Word, that's when I
leave!
"Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Be not carried
about with divers and strange doctrines. ..." -
Hebrews 13:8-9-
Hebrews 13:8-9
"For the
time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears;
And they shall
turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be
turned unto fables."
- 2 Timothy 4:3-4
Sin, Death, Salvation...
A person's free will decision
to
accept
Jesus Christ's
free gift of
everlasting life through
accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior,
and asking Jesus Christ for His forgiveness of our sins is
what we are told by God's Word regarding forgiveness of
sins, so without one's accepting Jesus Christ as their
Lord and Savior, there is no forgiveness of sins.
Only through
faith in Christ,
repentance
of our sins, and
our
asking
for Jesus Christ's
forgiveness
of our
sins, can there be forgiveness of sins!
"For
by grace
are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of
works, lest any man should boast." -
Ephesians 2:8-9
"For
the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord." -
Romans 6:23
..."let it
be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel,
that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him
this man stands here before you whole. This is the
‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has
become the chief cornerstone.’
Nor is there
salvation
in any other,
for there is no other name under heaven given among men by
which we must be saved.” -
Acts 4:10-12
"...that if you
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved." -
Romans 10:9
"Repent therefore
and be converted, that your
sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing
may come from the presence of the Lord" -
Acts 3:19
"For God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life.
For God did not send His Son
into the world to condemn the world, but that the world
through Him might be saved.
“He who believes
in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is
condemned already, because he has not believed in the name
of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the
condemnation, that the light has come into the world,
and
men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds
were evil.
For everyone practicing evil hates
the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds
should be exposed." -
John 3:16-20
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We ARE
living in the last days...
The Bible
mentions signs one's living
in the last days
are like
birth pains... The
Bible mentions great
natural disasters, wars and rumors of wars...
"And
ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all
these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places." -
Matthew 24:6-7.
The last days will be like the days of Noah,
nobody believed there would be a flood that would kill everybody and every
living animal that was not on the arc. - the arc's door was shut, no
second chance, no rewind button... the Rapture happens when it
happens!
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' "But of
that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven,
but My Father
only.
But as the days of Noah were,
so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days before
the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and
took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be." '
- Matthew 24:36
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The
formation of a one world government, that nobody will be able to buy or sell
unless they accept the mark of the beast "He
causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a
mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell
except one who has the mark of the name of the beast or the number of his name."
- Revelation 2:16-17.
Visit
www.SpyChips.com for
info the likely precursor of the mark of the beast.
Could this be the woman riding the beast from
Revelation 17. ???
Are these signs of the development of the revived
Roman empire???
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TOMORROW IS
NOT GUARANTEED
FOR
ANYONE!!!
Please decide
TODAY if you want to accept Jesus
Christ as your Lord and Savior!
I'm
NOT saying
"join a church",
and I don't
want anything from you.
I just want you to know the Truth!
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