It was organised religion that murdered Jesus, to preserve their lucrative business. How can anyone believe
ANY organised religion is from God? Which organised religion isn't doing the exact opposite of what we've been
COMMANDED to do for our own benefit?
Being
CALLED "Christians" doesn't really mean much, especially given the context in which that term is applied today, to adherents to the organised religion known as "Christianity", which has absolutely
nothing to do with Christ or
His True Teachings.
Even the word "church" is a corruption of the original Greek word "
ekklēsia" which, correctly translated, means "community".
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/acts/11-26.htm
The original Greek word "
ekklēsia" has been intentionally mistranslated to justify building churches everywhere, which have likewise been condemned throughout Scripture. Here are two such condemnations in the Book of Acts alone, among others within that Book [including the story of
SImon PATER the Sorcerer (
Acts 8:9-24), who founded the RCC:
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth
NOT in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth
NOT in temples made with hands;
The
ONLY temple, or church, that God has
EVER given man permission to build was Solomon's Temple. It is Satan and his priests (who
blasphemously claim to work for God) who have built
ALL the others, of
EVERY denomination (
Matt. 6:5-6,
Sura 7:55,
Sura 9:107-109).
And what did God ultimately do with that temple? After it became a den of thieves, as
ALL man-made temples eventually do, Solomon's Temple was
DESTROYED not once but
TWICE; the second time so utterly that there wasn't so much as one stone left upon another (
Matt. 24:1-2). This was to leave
NO DOUBT that God does
NOT dwell in temples made with
human hands (Satan and his priests do –
2 Thess. 2:3-5,
2 Cor 11:13-15).
Proving who invented Christianity: Lucifer/Satan/Iblis, the devil, i.e. the
LIAR.
True to what? True to the organised religion known as "Christianity", which would more aptly be called '
Churchianity' or 'Paulianity', because they pay absolutely no mind to what Christ actually says or teaches?
Christ told everyone
NOT TO GO TO CHURCH like the heathens and the hypocrites do (
Matt. 6:5-8)! Do most "Christians" listen and obey? No. Christ told everyone
NOT to call anyone here on earth their "father" because we all have
ONE Father, Who is in heaven (
Matt. 23:8-10). So what do over a billion Roman Catholics do? They have the audacity to call their priests "father" as well as
blasphemously calling the pope "the Holy Father", a name reserved for God alone (
John 17:11).
And with regard to
Christian Zionism, how many so-called Christians believe that the “Wailing-Wall” in Jerusalem is part of The Temple that Christ-Jesus said would be so completely destroyed that
"there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down"? Calling Jesus a liar is,
by definition,
anti-Christ.
Agreed. Anyone keeping The Law/Commandments of God, and encouraging others to do the same, i.e. to listen to and obey God ONLY (Acts 5:29), is attacked for not being in lock-step with the evil majority (Exod. 23:2).
Agreed. One can be a true follower and disciple without being part of the organised religion known today as "Christianity", which is replete with its ritualistic pagan rites and
myths.
1 Timothy 3 was very obviously
added to the Bible, by the very same people who intentionally mistranslated the original Greek word "
ekklēsia" and had
the book of Enoch removed. The book of Enoch includes instructions on how to spot when the Bible has been tampered with, which is why it was removed (Enoch was the first Prophet of God, and the only one who was ever "translated", to emphasize his importance).
Ephesians 4:11-12 (correctly translated)
4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, ministers and preachers;
4:12 For the perfecting of the holy people, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ministering to someone is
serving them,
NOT being the leader of one of Satan's churches.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
11:13 For such [are]
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
11:15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if
his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
It was organised religion that murdered Jesus, to preserve their lucrative business. How can anyone believe ANY organised religion is from God? Which organised religion isn't doing the exact opposite of what we've been COMMANDED to do for our own benefit?
Organised religion is not an organised Church. When we read about the early Church in the Bible they were an organised Church/community. There were no denominations. The early Church had unity because of their shared spiritual experience in Jesus. There was harmony among the believers even though they came from different backgrounds. It was all about Jesus and the Holy Spirit could be found among them.
In the Bible there is One Church (
Ephesians 4:4, Ephesians 1:22-23) and Jesus is head of the Church (
Colossians 1:18, Ephesians 5:22-23). In the one true Church there is only way, one truth and one life to be saved (
John 14:6).
Being
CALLED "Christians" doesn't really mean much, especially given the context in which that term is applied today, to adherents to the organised religion known as "Christianity", which has absolutely
nothing to do with Christ or
His True Teachings.
It means a lot in the Bible. I believe in the Word of God. As I've explained above there is a difference between organised religion and an organised Church. Organised religion has many bad aspects to it, but that doesn't mean you should tar all Christianity with the same brush. True Christians and their Church exist and will do till Jesus comes back. Christianity has everything to do with Christ but only as He intended it to be according to the Bible.
The original Greek word "
ekklēsia" has been intentionally mistranslated to justify building churches everywhere, which have likewise been condemned throughout Scripture. Here are two such condemnations in the Book of Acts alone, among others within that Book [including the story of
SImon PATER the Sorcerer (
Acts 8:9-24), who founded the RCC:
Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth
NOT in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth
NOT in temples made with hands;
Then if Church means community what's wrong with that? There is a true Church/community of God all over the world. The Bible talks about in the New Testament all through to Revelation to the end of this world.
In order to understand
Acts 7:48 you've got to read from
verses 44-50. Actually its best to read from
chapter 6:8 and all of
chapter 7 where Stephen is accused of blasphemy and stoned to death for telling the Jews the truth. Stephen was told the Jews how they had resisted God and the Holy Spirit throughout their history until they killed Jesus on the cross. He told them God was bigger than the Temple which was was very important to them. Basically he was saying, that the Jews' idea of God was too small! They had limited God in their religion and minds but God was bigger than that. What Stephen said had nothing to do with Church buildings.
Acts 17:24, again in this verse Paul is reiterating what Stephen told the Jews. God does not live in one place only. God is much bigger than anything that we can build.
The
ONLY temple, or church, that God has
EVER given man permission to build was Solomon's Temple. It is Satan and his priests (who
blasphemously claim to work for God) who have built
ALL the others, of
EVERY denomination (
Matt. 6:5-6,
Sura 7:55,
Sura 9:107-109).
This is not true at all, not biblically. The Temple is also known as the sanctuary of God. Remember when the children of Israel were in the wilderness for forty years they had a sanctuary that they built according to God's instructions given to Moses? That was the portable Temple they travelled with in the wilderness. Then the Temple of Solomon (the first Temple) was built and it replaced the portable Temple (
1 Kings 6:1-38, Chronicles 3:1, 2 Chronicles 2:12). Solomon's Temple was destroyed by king Nebuchadnezzar when Babylon took Judah captive (
2 Chronicles 36:7,19, 2 Kings 24:10-13, 2 Kings 25:1-21).
Then the second Temple of Zerubbabel (second Temple) was built under a lot of difficulty and opposition (
Ezra 5:1-2, Ezra 6:13-18, Haggai 1:1-15, 2:1-23). God commissioned the building of both Temples of Solomon and Zerubbabel. The second Temple is the Temple Jesus worshipped in and it was destroyed by the Roman army about 40 years after Jesus went back to heaven.
In the Bible Jesus (who is our example) went to synagogue to worship with others on the Sabbath.
Mark 1:21, Mark 6:2, Luke 4:16, Luke 6:6. The apostles always attended Church with other believers too as we read about in the Bible.
Acts 13:14, Acts 13:42, Acts 17:2, Acts 18:4, Acts 19:8.
Over and over again, we see Jesus in the synagogue on the Sabbath worshipping with others. We’re even told that it was His custom to be there on that day. The disciples also followed in the example of Jesus, as we can see clearly in the book of Acts.
The Bible tells us in
Hebrews 10:25 that we should not forsake the assembly of ourselves together, that we need to assemble. God all through the Bible, Old and New Testament talks about convocations, gatherings together so that people will grow together.
Why would a person say he or she loves God but doesn’t wish to fellowship with His people? One of the reasons God wants us in Church is because it has people with similar beliefs. It helps bolster our faith and makes us accountable to one another. Even in Churches where there are some difficult people, it is the best environment to increase our capacity to learn to love one another.
If you’re looking for that
“gotcha” verse that says specifically, in so many words,
“Go to church on Sabbath or else,”—well, you won’t find it. However, God has given us the example of His Son, and many verses besides, to lead us to a clear conclusion in this matter.
Please don't quote the Quran to me. I don't believe it is the Word of God. Only the Bible is the Word of God.
And what did God ultimately do with that temple? After it became a den of thieves, as
ALL man-made temples eventually do, Solomon's Temple was
DESTROYED not once but
TWICE; the second time so utterly that there wasn't so much as one stone left upon another (
Matt. 24:1-2). This was to leave
NO DOUBT that God does
NOT dwell in temples made with
human hands (Satan and his priests do –
2 Thess. 2:3-5,
2 Cor 11:13-15).
The temple was destroyed because it no longer meant anything after Jesus' death. The temple in ancient Israel, also known as the sanctuary served as the greatest lesson on the plan of salvation ever given to God’s people. Its symbols and ceremonies lead us into a greater understanding of the mystery of salvation. For example In the earthly sanctuary temple people brought animals to be sacrificed for the atonement of sins. There was no more need of sacrificing animals because Jesus the lamb had died on the cross for our sins. The price for sin was paid for at the cross. That is why at the very moment Jesus died on the cross the curtain that separated the holy and most holy rooms got torn in two from top to bottom.
Matthew 27:51, Mark 15:37-38. A new way of salvation had begun. The sacrificial services that had for so long pointed to Jesus, were no longer necessary. The old earthly type was now replaced by something much better. After Jesus went back to heaven, He went into the heavenly Temple and offered His own blood for the remission of sins. He was now the High Priest and mediator between man and God.
Paul wrote in
Hebrews 9:12, "Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption."
You need to read the book of Hebrews that talks about the heavenly Temple to understand why the earthly Temple ceased to mean anything.
who invented Christianity: Lucifer/Satan/Iblis, the devil, i.e. the LIAR.
The Bible is clear that Christianity was started and endorsed by God. The Holy spirit worked with the apostles to preach the gospel to Jews and Gentiles and we read about this in the New Testament. Please stop lying about Christianity and what it entails. You are not disagreeing but with the direct Word of God. The Devil is the one who has brought division within Christianity with lies and false doctrines that are not of God. He wants to confuse and derail people from the road to heaven.
Acts 11:26,
"And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. This is no work of the Devil!!
True to what? True to the organised religion known as "Christianity", which would more aptly be called '
Churchianity' or 'Paulianity', because they pay absolutely no mind to what Christ actually says or teaches?
True to the Word of God as the early Church was in the Bible. Christianity is not a religion but there are many religions within Christianity. So true Christians exist and always have and worship God in truth. And Church is about Jesus Christ
NOT Paul. Paul just relays God's Word as His apostle. As Christian we don't to pick and choose what parts the Bible we agree with and discard others. The whole Bible including Paul's writings are the Word of God that is why they are in the Bible.
Christ told everyone
NOT TO GO TO CHURCH like the heathens and the hypocrites do (
Matt. 6:5-8)! Do most "Christians" listen and obey? No. Christ told everyone
NOT to call anyone here on earth their "father" because we all have
ONE Father, Who is in heaven (
Matt. 23:8-10). So what do over a billion Roman Catholics do? They have the audacity to call their priests "father" as well as
blasphemously calling the pope "the Holy Father", a name reserved for God alone (
John 17:11).
Again you are misinterpreting the Bible. Jesus has never told anyone not to go to Church. That is
NOT biblical. Jesus would be contradicting Himself in His Word and His actions. So let's find out what Jesus was really saying shall we?
In
Matthew 6:5-8, Jesus was referring to prayer. He was saying some people prayed in public
"standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men". Jesus was saying when we pray we should do it privately and not for show so people can see how pious we are. We shouldn't boast of our relationship with God. "But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly." We have a personal relationship with God and it shouldn't be for show.
Matthew 23:8-10. Matthew 23 is about Jesus condemning the Scribes and Pharisees. If we read from 6-10 we understand better what Jesus was saying. Verses 6-10, "They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’ But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ." Jesus charged the Pharisees with loving the best places at the feasts and the chief seats in the synagogue. They loved to be called rabbi, which recognised that they were teachers and scholars. Jesus reminded them that their Messiah, “Christ,” was their Master, and God was their Father. What He was saying was that the Pharisees and Scribes had forgotten the superiority of God and of their Messiah.
Yes its wrong what the Catholic Church do by calling their priests father and having the Pope as head of their Church because that is not biblical. In these positions the priests have the power to forgive sins and other powers which only belong to God. However the Bible tells us as I posted from Ephesians 4:11-12, "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,"
And with regard to
Christian Zionism, how many so-called Christians believe that the “Wailing-Wall” in Jerusalem is part of The Temple that Christ-Jesus said would be so completely destroyed that
"there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down"? Calling Jesus a liar is,
by definition,
anti-Christ.
That is the part of Christianity that is not biblical. The wailing wall was not part of the Temple and its pointless going and praying at it. The Temple was destroyed completely. Zionism is not biblical.
1 Timothy 3 was very obviously
added to the Bible, by the very same people who intentionally mistranslated the original Greek word "
ekklēsia" and had
the book of Enoch removed. The book of Enoch includes instructions on how to spot when the Bible has been tampered with, which is why it was removed (Enoch was the first Prophet of God, and the only one who was ever "translated", to emphasize his importance).
I disagree. Everything in the Bible is there because God decreed it to be. The Bible is not a human invention. It is God's Word and He controls everything that is in it. Just because it disagrees with your doctrine doesn't mean its wrong. Its you who is wrong I'm afraid. That is not the only part of the Bible that talks about leaders in the Church. Were they all added to the Bible?
1 Timothy 3:1-13,
Titus 1:5-9,
Hebrews 13:17, James 5:14, 1 Peter 5:1-4.
And the Book of Enoch is not in the Bible because it is not an inspired book. That is true of all the apocryphal books. A lot of what is written in them contradicts scripture.
Ephesians 4:11-12 (correctly translated)
4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, ministers and preachers;
4:12 For the perfecting of the holy people, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ministering to someone is serving them, NOT being the leader of one of Satan's churches.
Yes ministering is serving others just as Jesus served and humbled Himself even though He is God. That is what He taught the apostles and condemned the Pharisees and Scribes of. My point is in the Church of God there are people with positions such Pastors/ministers, elders and deacons. They are gifts from God (
1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 3:7, 1 Timothy 4:14, 1 Peter 4:7-11) and what's more Paul endorsed the application of the organisational model of the early Christian Church in Jerusalem to other Churches in the world. He spelled out the qualifications for those serving as spiritual leaders (elders) as well as those attending to the other church affairs (deacons) in 1 Timothy 3:1-13.
What is with you and Satan's Churches? There is nothing wrong with leadership in the Church as we see in the Bible. Its false leadership that God has a problem with.
James 3:1 says,
"My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment." Leaders in the Church will be held to more accountability because of the high positions they hold.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
11:13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
11:15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Paul talks about false apostles in
2 Corinthians 11. He is saying these false apostles pretend to be apostles of Christ but are impostors. Just like Satan who disguises himself as an angel of light to lure people away from God. As Satan deceives, so do his representatives and their end won't be good. One of the worst sins in the Bible is that of ministers professing to be of Christ and yet they serve as agents of Satan. The Bible says they are known by their fruits.
This does not apply to genuine apostles of Christ. Don't twist the Word of God to fit in with your doctrine as you've done with the verses you've posted here. You've taken them out of context and given them different meanings. That is not how we study the Bible. Read everything that the Bible says about Church and the body of Christ and you will see that you are wrong about Christianity, the Church and Church leadership.
In the Bible a Church is not about a building. Its where God's people gather together.
Matthew 18:20, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
God bless.