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  The question I am about to ask will cause some people to speculate as to whether the depth of my religious heretical-ism and apostasy, permits me to call myself a believer of, and in Jesus Christ. Here is the question...Is religion in the truest sense of the meaning of the word...antichrist...meaning against Christ?   By that, I mean...is what religion is about, what religion believes, what religion stands for, and what religion teaches and preaches...antithetical to the teaching and life living of Jesus Christ and the Church He said He would build? If it is, it presents a profound and disturbing problem for what the religionists stand for in their religiosity! The antichrist spirit is the master of disguise and has deceived many in the religious world, yet they are unaware they are deceived and are singing his songs of deception as if they are from God Himself. We are living in a day where we are seeing an increase in theenemies efforts to trap people in deception...

Understanding Scripture  Scripture  can people who believe they are so right, be so wrong when it comes to the understanding and interpretation of scripture and the attributes they ascribe to our loving God?  Because of the way they believe the meaning and understanding of words are the way God means and understands them to be and if God understands words the way they do in their narrow mindedness, their understanding must be correct. They become self-appointed "Doctrinal Police" armed with hate verses that they shoot from their mouth anything that does not fit their narrow mindedness in understanding scripture, Let's take a look at the word "hate" and see why the sinner haters believe God hates sinners and makes them feel justified in their hate mentality.  Rom 9:13, As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. According to them, it cannot be any plainer. God does not just hate the sin, but the sinner as well. Case closed, it is as plain as the ...

A scripture in the Bible that as believers would do us all well to understand with clarity. Isaiah 55:8-9 reads; For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. From the rendering of the passage, it is fair to say that whatever man's understanding of hate and its consequences are, God's knowledge and understanding of hate is righteously far beyond the puny brain power of man who figure they have a handle on scripture and use the verses about hate to bring God down to their level of understanding that essentially makes God into their image of who He is. This is the height of idolatry where the self-appointed-knowers of God become are idol and deceive many to bow to their perceptions about God.  Have you considered that when you read about God's "hatred" of sinners, and you attribute your personal, huma...

"God hates sinners" is the proclamation of many fear mongering preachers and people who are deceived by their contextual misuse of scripture by believing God hates people which gives believers the right to judge and condemn sinners as one individual did in response to my post "Are Lovers of God People Haters". And the ironic thing is he and all who believe God hates people use bible verses to prove their right to hate. Here is a quote  by Matt Slick, "The sobering fact is that God is so holy and righteous that He hates the sinner (Psalm 5:5; Lev. 20:23; Prov. 6:16-19; Hos. 9:15). Some say that we should say that God only hates the sin but loves the sinner. But, the above scriptures speak contrary to that." Can you imagine that because a person is HOLY and RIGHTEOUS is the reason to HATE PEOPLE! Would that not make God, the supreme Holy and righteous one, the SUPREME HATER of PEOPLE...how absurd! Angelo Sanchez says this, "You say that God is a God of ...

1 John 2:16; For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. In Jer 13: 9,10,15,16; "Thus says the Lord: In this manner I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. This evil people who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be just like this sash which is profitable for nothing…. Hear and give ear: do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken….but if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride;" Yes, pride is evil. It is evil because it unveils and feeds our self-interests and our self-sufficiency, which may seem necessary and good to us. But, when we are self-sufficient, we fail to see our need for humility and relationship growth. Therefore, self becomes our god, and our relationship with God is stunted and His work in us and through us is muted. Wh...

To many people, religion is their identity and the Bible is their authority, instead of Jesus.  Yet they claim Jesus is their Lord! If we fail to understand the bible through voice and example of Jesus our view of God will be distorted and we will interpret the bible in a way that will fashion God to be what we want Him to be. The religious image of God was formed by taking the bible and dissecting it to make it say what they wanted it to say rather that what Jesus says. If in our quoting of the bible we interject our distorted understanding and slant it to our preconceive ideologies and mis-apply its context we have distracted from its truth and made the bible out to be a lie.  Mouthing scripture is not a magic formula to dispel sickness or the devil. The scripture has great power, but unless we know the Living Word the power in the written word is the letter of the law and of no value to us. The bible needs the light and life of Christ to empower it. Michael Horton wrote and...