Let's follow along in the mind of a false pastor, a false shepherd, and how he shreds the truth of God while proclaiming to stand for Christianity.
This is the plague we have in Western society that allows secularism into our homes.
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Let's follow along in the mind of a false pastor, a false shepherd, and how he shreds the truth of God while proclaiming to stand for Christianity.
This is the plague we have in Western society that allows secularism into our homes.
PART 2
PART 3
It's a religion that's meant to keep people submitting and proving oneself in struggling for Islam as well as works and repetitious religious rituals. However, if one looks into the historicity of the texts and the inconsistency of its claims, there's no way that having the FREEDOM of leave or deny this religion without compulsion, death threats and blasphemy laws... people would not break free even more than they are now.
In many nations, freedom is happening (in the West, Iran, Yemen, Turkey, Africa, etc.).
Praying that The Holy Spirit of God will continue freeing people from the bondage of religious deception.
Is there assurance of salvation?
Is it a cult?
Is Muhammed a true prophet?
Conversion by love or by the sword?
My answer has to always be what I truly believe the Scriptures teach from the deepest part of my honest conviction. Truly Biblical, truly honest, yet truly COLD, as only the truth can be.
I'm going to talk about this today on the
Divine Nature Podcast:
TODAYS' SHOW:
UNREACHED PEOPLE / UNPREACHED GOSPEL
Global effort to bring Christianity into a one-world Beast system!
#maranatha
Check out my YouTube video: "Is Eastern Orthodoxy the New move?"
There are many Protestants moving towards EO but there are also many coming BACK to Protestantism because they found out what's behind the glam-bam, bling-blam; holy murals and cool garb!
The EO Church doesn't believe in the fallenness of man the way Protestants do.
They don't believe in Christ's atonement the same way.
Baptism and Salvation outside the EO church is not allowed... but it is, but not really. Yet, they don't believe in an "invisible" Church. It's complicated!
(This blog / video thread will keep growing so be sure to revisit for new video additions.)
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"For God will bring every work to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil."-- Ecc 12:14
-The Canon of scripture isn't something that was found, formulated or instituted in the early centuries of the church or by the church but instead it was what had already been devotional to the early Christians as they gathered and copied apostolic instruction from the apostles and eventually ran from area to area to escape persecution.
Early Christians already knew what they had in their possession from the beginning of the collecting of what we now know to be the Christian manuscripts. They knew what was authoritative and what came from the apostles either by their own pen or the pen of those who were instructed by the apostles.
-The Canon of scripture was not created or instituted as authoritative by a church creed or council. Instead, even early church fathers wrote concerning its self-authenticating authority of these books and differentiate them from others with regard to importance and sacredness.
-The authoritativeness of scripture is not only seen in scripture directly (2 Peter 3:16; 1 Timothy 5:18, etc.) but easily perceived by the authoritative writing accounts of the Apostles and those they instructed to write concerning their witness of Christ's commandments and the gospel.
-Long before Emperor Constantine (300's AD), there were a core of (approximately 22 out of 27 books of our NT Canon) which were mentioned among the early patristic church fathers (starting from 101AD) demonstrating their sacred relevance. Among these were the gospels and Paul's epistles.
-Why NOT the apocryphal writings in the NT and OT?
Simply because Protestants wanted to use the Bible (scriptures) that was around during the days of Christ and what He would have used in the OT.
The NT quotes an extraordinary amount of the OT and the NT never quotes from apocryphal texts.
**It was only as a counter-reformation reaction that the Roman Catholic Church decided on their own official Church Canon of scripture.
So, the idea that books at any time were "taken out" of the Canon is a gross misunderstanding of history.
The OT Canon which Jesus followed included The Law, The Prophets and the Psalms, and so these were what needed to be included within a complete Canon of scripture for Protestant Christians.
*** Note that these decisions are ones that are made with a full scope on honoring and making SCRIPTURE exclusively authoritative above and beyond outward tradition, ecclesiastic councils, etc.
Not that apostolic traditional churches have less care or concern over scripture but that nothing FALLIBLE should get in the way of scriptural INFALLIBLE teaching and authority.
DO WE NEED AN AUTHORITATIVE CHURCH TO DECIDE WHAT BOOKS ARE IN THE CANON?
-NO. When Jesus told the Jewish leaders, "Have you not read what God said to YOU.." (Concerning David, Moses, the resurrection, the prophets, etc.)
There was an already established OT Canon which was authoritative without an official COUNCIL to establish it other than God Himself.
Therefore, the same thing goes for our NT Canon:
Hebrews 1:1-2 -
"God, having spoken long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,
in these last days spoke to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds,.."
Which Old Testament books are not quoted in the New Testament?
The books of Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Zephaniah, Nahum, Ezra, Nehemiah, Obadiah, and Esther are not quoted in the NT.
HOWEVER, ALL OT books in the Hebrew Canon were laid up by the Jews in their temple, and so early Protestants wanted to use the official canon which were accepted by the Jews.
*There's an argument that claims that the OT depended upon oral tradition therefore, the NT church also depends upon oral tradition of the NT. But this is not an adequate argument b/c The NT quotes the OT 283 times!
Included therein are the four books of Moses (Torah). So if the OT is inadequate because it depended upon any oral traditions, then the NT can't be reliable either because the reliability of the NT is dependent upon the reliability of the OT.
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Whereas some believe the gospel is found in the definition of what is a true Christian, the definition of a true Christian (among many defining characteristics) isn't just someone who believes they can be free from sin but someone who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God.
Unless one is born again (John 3:3) they can't see the kingdom of God let alone conquer their sins.
Desiring to be free from sin is obviously to be coveted but it's not the gospel.
Our being free from sin is a consequence of believing the true gospel which is that we believe that Christ is the Son of God, The Creator, who came into the world to die for our sins and by faith, God, the Holy Spirit indwells us by God's grace.
Having made Him Lord of our lives. We now walk in the Holy Spirit, purifying ourselves and growing in Christ to a mature stature towards the resembling of Christ's perfect moral standard, by God's grace and power.
We're saved by grace alone, through faith alone, and in Christ alone. It is a gift of God and not of our merit or "good" works.
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I myself have gone back and forth between the idea of whether or not Israel should just stop the war, and insist on retaining the lives of those who have been captured as hostages by Hamas.
However, the circumstances in Israel are beyond the scope of what most here in the West can understand. Israel has lived far too long with the constant threat against their very existence among absolute radicals who are beyond human reasoning.
The West has for so long been bombarded by far-left propagandas and our youth are now marching in the streets expressing the same demonic homicidal hatred and most without a full understanding of why.
Yet what's happening in Israel might be the prophetic hook that'll force and guide world powers into this escalating violent drama as well.
As Christians, we must continue praying that God's will be done and to strengthen us so that we might maintain clarity at such a time as this.
Many Reformed believers will deny that God is still including Israel in His prophetic timeline but I do believe Israel as a nation, has a purpose despite their spiritual blindness.
Can we still say that "Israel is God's chosen nation"...
No.
But God is still not done with "The Jews" as a people. He will call them back as a nation (re-graphded in The Vine), and they will recognize their Messiah in repentance (as it is written).
Is the Quran The Word of God?
This is my personal estimation of some of the many arguments concerning the validity of the Quran and I encourage everyone to look deeper into these arguments for themselves.
-Which is the best transmission for historical and religious texts? Free transmission or closed transmission?
-Does the Quran give an accurate depiction of Christianity 600 years after Christ?
-Can Muslims argue for Biblical corruption of the Biblical text with so much textual evidence against that claim?
-Is the Quran consistent in its claim to continuing the revelation of God after Christianity?
Does the Quran measure up to these claims and more?