God condemns man-made religious articles. In Exodus 20:4,5 and Deuteronomy 4:25 He commands that we not make (possess) any graven (hand made) image or likeness of anything on earth, in the water or in the air that is to be used in worship of Him. Notice that He characterizes Himself as JEALOUS. Man becomes jealous […]

In its heyday the Roman Empire covered much of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Having the premier military machine of its day, the empire typically overran a people, killing or enslaving them or making them pay tribute. When they conquered a people they routinely absorbed their god(s) and religion(s), making them their own. One […]

“Proof” of one’s religiosity often consists of the use of symbols that represent one’s relationship with deity. The question is, which deity? The answer depends on the symbol in question. One of the most observable characteristics of heathen religions is their prolific use of physical symbols. As a general rule, the more elaborate, colorful, and […]

Some time ago I watched a t.v. documentary concerning a young North Korean man who had been born in one of the government’s many gulags–prisons where thousands of innocent Koreans are kept in animal-like conditions. I will call the man Fo. Many who had gone before him had been born, lived and died having never […]

One of professing Christendom’s most time-honored sayings is that man does not pull God down to his moral level so as to be one with Him (atonement), rather that God reaches down to man and pulls him up to His moral level. Truer words have never been spoken. However, those words are as far as […]

There is an age-old saying that speaks to my ministerial calling: “The devil is in the details.” Scripturally speaking, Satan does not want church people to know, believe and obey the details found in God’s Word. He wants his followers to focus on John 3:16,17 and to ignore First John 3:1-10. My ministry is to […]

The believer, having been deceived by Satan (Rev. 12:9), does not know that his salvation has been “scalped.” Outside of any sports arena one can find people who have “tickets” they will sell at a “much reduced price.” Though the tickets look exactly like the ones carried by other people who are entering the arena, […]

In Second Corinthians 5:16,17 we find Paul addressing the religious people of his day. He notes that many of these people know Christ “… in the flesh”–according to the doctrines, customs and “truths” of man’s religion. Today this refers to Catholicism/Protestantism. Though we all have come through a religion system that taught us that, from […]

A man and his wife have five children. They receive an invitation to a party but only three of them can attend. The family would refuse to go–they all go or none of them go. This the church will agree on to a person when the subject is a party. However, when it comes to […]

In the first chapter of Mark we find John, the cousin of Jesus, in the wilderness of Judea baptizing people for the removal of sins–transgressions of the Law (1 Jn. 3:4). In verse five we are told that the people came “… confessing their sins,” revealing that they knew God’s definition of sin and were […]