Within the pages of the Bible we find instructions as to how to qualify for eternal life. Here we are commanded to study to show ourselves approved of God by rightly dividing His Word (2 Tim. 2:15). The expression “rightly dividing” literally means “to make a clean cut”–to reject every church “truth” that is not of the Word, which includes many church “truths.” A more specific set of instructions concerning how to approach God’s Word is given in Isaiah 28:9,10,13. Here the Lord asks: “To whom can I teach knowledge?” His answer: “He who is weaned from the milk and drawn from the breast,” who will study the Word “… precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” Obviously, man’s habit of taking one statement and building a doctrine around it is rejected by the Lord.
In 1 Corinthians 1:5,6 God tells us that the testimony (Words) of Christ must be confirmed in us. The word “confirm” in the Greek is babaioo, meaning to establish, firm up, stabilize, make sure–to DO God’s Word. In no way does this give man the authority to do anything relative to God’s Word other than to believe and obey it–a Truth the Counterfeit Church rejects.
Of all the subjects one will not hear coming from the pulpit, obedience to God’s Word tops the list. Instead, one hears smooth sound bytes and mantras designed by Satan to numb the hearer’s mind to the contradicting Words of God. When asked if one is a Christian the inquirer hears: “I belong to such and such a church.” One will never hear: “I am a Christian because I know, believe and obey God’s Word.” One’s church is built around one’s faith, of which there is only one (Eph. 4:5), the faith that comes from “… hearing the Word of God” (Rom. 10:17).
The faith required by God is extremely rare among professing Christendom. Most do not know what faith is. The masses have faith in God, which will not save the soul. Satan has such faith. God-designed faith is being assured that the Bible is God’s Word, that it is unalterable Truth, and that He will stand behind it. The Bible is the only information we have about Him (Rom. 1:16-19). Jesus was God’s Word in human form, which is why God calls Him “the Word” (Jn. 1:1-4/Rev. 19:13)–His Spokesman. The recorded life, teaching, etc. of Jesus is God speaking to mankind, which is why in order to affect salvation we must “… walk as He walked” (1 Jn. 2:6) and “… overcome (Satan) even as I overcame” (Rev. 3:21).
In 2 Corinthians 4:2-7 we are warned about those who would handle God’s Word deceitfully. Others teach “high things,” and in so doing “… exalt themselves against the knowledge of God” (2 Cor. 10:5,12,17,18) who compare themselves among themselves, who glory in themselves and commend themselves. These false Christians operate in the spirit of antichrist– the spiritual power that directs the activities of the Institutional Church. God warns about those who preach another Jesus, another knowledge, another gospel/witness. This the false church does continually.
Galatians 1:6-12 perfectly describes the manner in which the Counterfeit Church evolved from an institution dedicated to God into a conglomerate of religious cults bent on apostasy. Seeing what was happening, Paul warned that even if one of the apostles, or even an angel from heaven, for example the Mormon’s Moroni, should present any other gospel/witness that person or angel was cursed by God. Each “church” within the Catholic/Protestant system has created its own gospel/ witness, thereby REJECTING BOTH FATHER AND SON as Jude 4 warns. Jesus settled the question as to which gospel/witness was legitimate: “THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM shall be preached in all the world, then the end will come” (Mat. 24:14). Note it–only one gospel/witness is legitimate–HIS (THIS) GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM. All churches, faiths, denominations, etc. are cursed by God in that they exist as sentinels of rebellion against Him. He said only a few would find His right way and walk it (Mat. 7:13,14). Many, He said, would enter into Satan’s web. A check of any phone book under the heading of “churches” will prove Him right. Those who so walk are cursed by God (Gal. 1:8).
The Counterfeit Church’s rejection of the Godhead and their Word has forced her to create for herself another god and another savior. The Biblical God and Savior are not part of any other gospel. Religious man has created another gospel–a perverted version of God’s gospel (Gal. 1:6,7), many of whose tenants are presented in the introduction to this website.
In Galatians 1:11,12 Paul emphasizes that the gospel he preached did not come from man, rather it was given to him by Jesus Christ Himself. He went on to say that those who espouse another gospel are bewitched (by Satan). This website is dedicated to proving that God was right: “Satan has deceived the whole world” (Rev. 12:9), the worldly church being his most prized victim.
We are commanded to “Prove all things; hold fast to that which is good” (1 Thes. 5:21). We must cling to the good because Satan’s people “wrest” it into more man-satisfying forms, thereby denying Jesus, Who is the Word (Rev. 19:13). To change the Word is to deny its veracity, thereby denying the veracity of Jesus–to deny His Messiahship. Romans 3:3 says that to judge God’s Words is to judge God Himself. Paul writes to the church in Ephesus about this problem (2:23), warning them that disobedience will bring on God’s wrath. Disobedience to what? The Word. When Peter rejected what Jesus said (His Word), he was being used by Satan (Mat. 16:21-23). To deny any of God’s Words is to be controlled by Satan, which the false church does repeatedly, loudly, far and wide. Like unconverted Peter (Lk. 22:23), the church kneels at the foot of the cross while accusing the One who hung on it of being a liar. Some of man’s accusations of divine lying involves such heathen notions as the Sunday Sabbath, Christmas, Easter, instant salvation, entrance into heaven or hell at death, the Lord’s one day-two night stay in the tomb, the rapture, grace, faith and works relative to salvation, the New Covenant, the death of the Law, rebirth, denominations, inherited sin, to name a few. The Counterfeit Church refuses to believe God, choosing rather to believe their worldly leaders whom they have trained to scratch their itching ears. These Scripture-rejecters hold the Truth, but do not love God enough to believe and obey it (2 Thes. 2:10,11).
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