Normally by this time in the Spring I have already written my annual expose’ concerning the numerous HEATHEN “truths” around which the Institutional Church has formulated her various anti-Biblical versions of God’s Truth, way and will. The only positive result of professing Christianity’s wholesale rejection of God’s Word and embrace of paganism is the fact that this soul-damning travesty highlights the difference between God’s church and Satan’s church in a way that everyone can see the difference IF THEY WILL ACCEPT BIBLE TRUTH. In this series I will once again point out a number of professing Christendom’s pagan beliefs, customs and traditions which she has borrowed from Babylonian Mystery religions over the years. I do this annually for any new readers of the website who might not have had time to read all of the 500+ series (2000+ postings) that comprise this website’s offerings to date. As stated on several occasions, this ministry is directed toward the Catholic/Protestant Religious System known as “the church.” Simply stated, the Institutional Church is my assigned mission field. As readers of this website and those who have heard me speak know, I am not here to make people feel good. I am here to tell the church God’s Truth. The modern church has never heard God’s Biblical Truth and have never studied the Bible in search of His Truth.

The deadly differences between the two church systems constitute the basic life-or-death difference between God’s one true church and Satan’s hundreds of counterfeit churches, faiths, denominations, etc. which 2.5 billion salvation seekers believe is their guaranteed ticket to heaven. Whether true or false, the Christianity one practices determines the believer’s eternity. One will notice that, though both entities are called “the church,” the only way in which they are alike is that each calls itself “the church.” One of them is dead wrong.

With that in mind, I will address each of the featured differences separately. I will identify a church belief, custom, tradition, then provide the Lord’s Biblical “Truth” relative to that subject. I will not bother to detail what the counterfeit church believes about the custom in that everyone “knows” that what they do is blessed by God. It is indeed blessed by a deity. The question is: WHICH DEITY? The God of the Holy Bible or the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:4)? Satan’s church outnumbers God’s church 2 1/2 billion to perhaps ten thousand globally.

That spiritual evil controls the vast majority of the human race is proven by Biblical history, secular history and current events. Such evil has its roots in Satan himself. His method of control over both religious and nonreligious man was identified by Jesus when He said: “Get behind Me, Satan, for you care not for the things of God, but for the THINGS OF MAN” (Mat. 16:23). Satan seduces man into following him by granting his (man’s) desire for self-rule, specifically in the spiritual realm. Man insists on making his own religious rules. God insists that man follow His rules. The spiritual irony of this truth is displayed by the fact that church people will agree that man-made social laws are absolutely necessary for a society in order to prevent SOCIAL ANARCHY among its citizens. In the opinion of most people, man’s created laws must be obeyed by all within the society. Those who fail to obey them are punished, even unto death in some cases. to church people, OBEDIENCE TO THEIR SOCIETY’S LAWS IS NOT AN OPTION.

However, those same people summarily reject God’s hand-written Laws and their accompanying by-laws by which He RULES HIS TRUE SAINTS. When false churchites BREAK GOD’S LAW–their attitude is that all is well; no harm done. Their reaction to spiritual Lawlessness (sin–1 Jn. 3:4) is the exact opposite of their reaction to their man-made laws. Obedience to God’s Law produces REJECTION AND CONDEMNATION from them. In other words, CHURCH PEOPLE DESPISE GOD’S LAWS AND THOSE WHO OBEY THEM. THIS WHILE STRICTLY OBEYING MAN’S LAWS AND DESPISE THOSE WHO DISOBEY THEM. Read Luke 10:16 to see what Jesus says about such an attitude toward His and the Father’s Words.

THE RESULT OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED CHURCH-WIDE HYPOCRISY IS SPIRITUAL ANARCHY in which churchites believe what they want to believe, declares their beliefs to be God’s truths and obey them– when it is convenient to do so. And when it is not convenient–no problem–the fix is in; just repent and get ready to sin again, and again …. No society could exist if citizens were allowed to ignore the man-made system of laws that govern the society’s people. However, those in so-called Christian societies feel comfortable having religious laws that contradict the Laws they claim were written by the God they claim has saved them. The Lord supposedly allows professing Christians to ignore His commands or to do away with them altogether. Then He allows them to lie about those Laws, claiming that He had “nailed them to the cross” on which His Son died so that they could be forgiven for breaking those same Laws. Christ’s death also empowers them to obey those same Laws in the future. Not so, says the church which claims that Adam made obedience impossible. I have been told that it is impossible to obey God. I will repeat what I heard a t.v. preacher say: “Don’t even try to be righteous; you’ll just make yourself sick. You are nothing but a society of sinners.” I’ll bet that brought a grin to Satan’s face. Read The Message of the Cross and the series on Justification, key words Message and Justification respectively. Also read “It is Finished,” key word Finished.

Now we will delve into several of the counterfeit church’s Babylonian beliefs and customs with which they all agree and practice religiously. The irony is that God condemns every one of them in the Book they claim was dictated by Him. Let us begin our search for Bible Truth in order to compare it to what are known as “church doctrines,” which are abominations simply because they exist. Question: why have church doctrine when we have God’s doctrines known as THE HOLY BIBLE? Answer: BECAUSE CHURCH DOCTINE IS MAN-GENERATED, MAN-CENTERED AND MAN-EXALTING. God’s Law, on the other hand, is simply His Self-generated, Self-centered and Self-exalting version of truth. Religious man is having none of it.

Unable to prevent mankind from believing in a HIGHER POWER, Satan deceives the masses into accepting his (Satan’s) “better ways” of seeking and following that Power. Satan’s “better way” is always “way better” than God’s ways. Satan does this through deception (Rev. 12:9), and he is very good at what he does. Satan has convinced salvation-seeking man that the light he is following is Jesus Christ. Because of man’s reliance on the religious customs of his church fathers, the Scriptural warning that “There is a way that seems right to a man, but that way is the way of death” (Prov. 14:12) is totally ignored. Which is not surprising in that the church has done away with the entire Old Testament. However, there is one chapter therein that churchman has deemed to be important enough to acknowledge–Isaiah 53. I have before concluded that professing Christianity is the most convenient religion on earth. The deal is that if you don’t like it, ignore it, replace it or eliminate it. Your Savior has got you covered. Or if you are Catholic, Mary does the honors. This series features several of Satan’s ways that, though they became truths to our religious ancestors, they never were God’s truths, no matter how many people have believed and obeyed them.

DENOMINATIONS: “Divide and conquer” is an age-old system of warfare that has proven to be effective in both secular and spiritual realms. Time and again the Lord’s writers warned His people about Satan’s D&C strategy. But to no avail. For example: “There is one body, one Sprit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all” (Eph. 4:4-6). “I beseech you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing (Words, Gospel) so that there will be NO DIVISIONS AMONG YOU. IS CHRIST DIVIDED?” (1 Cor. 1:10,13). All church divisions (denominations, faiths, churches, etc.) are abominations to the Lord. Each religious cult has its own god (creator) and head (savior). Their respective church doctrines are designed by Satan so as to meet the religious preferences of all who seek salvation outside of God’s Holy Gospel which, the Apostle Paul tells us, reveals the righteousness of God (Rom. 1:17). Why is knowing God’s righteousness important to the salvation seeker? Because it is that level of righteousness that is required for salvation to be received upon Christ’s return to earth (1 Jn. 2:6). It was that level of righteousness that was required of Jesus in order for Him to do what He was commissioned to do. Understand this globally-rejected Truth put forth time and time again by God’s servants: when the word “SALVATION” is found in the Scriptures it refers to the First Resurrection–the RESURRECTION OF GOD’S VERY ELECT SAINTS. But the Lord has made a way for other people to be saved following Christ’s return to earth. Read about mankind’s second chance for salvation using the key word– Millennium. Read about the THREE RESURRECTIONS using the key word–Resurrections. L.J.