Yes God knows my heart, and you certainly don't, just as I don't know yours.
Please explain why there is no hope for me?
Is it because I love God with all my heart, strength, soul and mind?
Is it because I love my neighbor as myself?
Is it because I choose to observe the feasts ordained by God and not the Pagan derived holidays of Christianity?
Is it because I believe when it says Jesus died for the sins of the entire world, I believe it really means the entire world and not just who you think are saved?
Is it because I don't believe that God is evil, that he would create humans just to torture them with no purpose for eternity?
Is it becaue I believe the Torah (the perfect guidance and instruction of God) has not been abolished, just as Jesus himself said?
I'll take my chances believing the above rather than trusting in the following things:
A doctrine that even the most ardant biblical scholars who defend, admit there is no real biblical basis for. (The Trinity)
A God that would torture anyone for eternity with no real end purpose.
A self appointed 13th (the number of rebellion) Apostle who perfectly fits the warnings of God in Duet 13, and the warnings of Christ in Matthew 24, fits the description of one that is rebuked by Jesus in Revelation and fits the Benjamin ravenous wolf prophecy of Genesis 49.
And please don't come back with the whole "I don't understand without the leading of the Holy Spirit" thing. Jesus described the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives as reminding us of the words that He himself spoke. For 25 years I was trained and then ordained to preach the doctrine of institutionalized Christiantiy which elevate the words of Paul over and above the words of Christ. I have witnessed first hand the fruit of it, both in my own life and the lives of those I lead and taught. For the last five years I have slowly been re-learning the true religion of Jesus and the disciples (The way). I am overwhelmed by the blessing and fruit it is producing in my life.
The institutionalized religion of Christianity is built on the words of Paul, while the true church is built on the same revelation that Peter had. The revelation that Jesus is the Messiah and the son of God. The true apostles preached a costly grace, where obedience was better than sacrifice.
The true Apostles taught that denying Christ in the flesh was the sign of a false teacher. Paul denied Christ in the flesh. He had no desire or need to learn from the disciples what Jesus taught in the flesh. The only quote of Jesus he bothered to use was to water down the passover feast into the sacrment of communion. Paul did not preach the same Christ that Peter, James and John knew but promoted and preached his mystical version of Christ.
God warned that he would send false prophets that would seduce us from the law, as a test. It was the Roman empire told you to accept Paul's writings as the word of God.
@Todd
Unfortunately, it is true that Paulian Christians are completely wrong in their beliefs (some of the things you brought up) because of a GROSS misinterpretation of what Paul said in his epistles (letters) by the churches, as well as a complete misunderstanding of his statements regarding The Law.
That is why Peter gave the warning -
3:10 But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
3:11 [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and Godliness,
3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the Day of God, wherein the "heavens" being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found by Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
3:15 And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the Wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
3:16 As also in all [his] epistles (letters), speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other Scriptures, unto their OWN destruction.
Paul was talking only about the ceremonial part of The Law that had to do with animal sacrifice for the forgiveness for sin (and circumcision) which was only a schoolmaster to bring the people to Christ, and which was fulfilled and made obsolete at the Cross by Christ's Sacrifice - once for all. (The Lamb of God)
What Paul wrote has been so grossly misunderstood and misused by the Church, that what you wrote in that post is completely understandable. The problem they have, is you cannot possibly understand what Paul was talking about, if you are not actually following and doing the teachings (Christ's) yourself - crucifying the "self" daily to subdue it and bring it into submission, as Paul said and attempted to explain in his letters:
http://jahtruth.net/noti.htm
Paulian Christians therefore have to realize soon that they need to choose between the two options:
Return now to following and doing Christ's Teachings and start receiving Christ's fiery baptism (willingly), or, if not, they will all cause themselves to have to face
"The Fire" (soon):
Enoch
66:14 And when the angels shall ascend, the water of the springs shall again undergo a change, and be frozen. Then I heard holy Michael answering and saying: This Judgement, with which the angels (Beings - souls) shall be judged, shall bear testimony against the kings, the princes, and those who possess (and think they own) the Earth.
66:15 For these waters of judgement shall be for their healing, and for the death of their bodies (Flood and Watery-Baptism). But they shall not perceive and believe that the waters will be changed, and become a fire (
Luke 3:16), which shall blaze forever (
Fiery-Baptism or The Fire - the choice is yours).
Deuteronomy
33:2 And he said, The "I AM" came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of the holy people: from His right hand
(The Word) [went]
a fiery (spiritual)
Law for them.
Matthew
3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and [with] fire:
3:12 Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
Fire.
@JoChris
