Now, what makes you smarter, or more in touch with the Lord than me?
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Truth.
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall MAKE you free."
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my wife and close friend have both converted to Catholicism. So, as you can PLAINLY see, there is no deception here.
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There in lies the deception. TomB..........its a war for souls, its that simple. Satan is not a red devil with a pitchfork...he is an arch angel, he is gorgeous, and he masqarades as an angel of light. He completely knows the scriptures ...he has taken generation upon generation to pervert it. The farther we get from truth the more corrupt this world becomes. LOOK at the fruit. Jesus referred to knowing a tree by its fruit. WHAT is the popular belief system producing? I don't mean just catholic...because they are joining, the protestants are no more. God warns of a system that calls herself the Queen of Heaven and he also warns his people to "COME OUT OF HER." Before He judges her..for her killing of the saints and all her wickedness.
I'm not going to tell you that you are hell bound, I don't know what choices you will make, I can only hope those choices will be according to true scripture.
Clue 1.
Scripture says, "There is nothing NEW under the sun."
Clue 2. The Whore of Babylon is in Genesis...the beginning of the bible.
Clue 3. The Whore of Babylon is in Revelation...the end of the bible.
Identify HER because she is that Mystery of Iniquity that goes thru the ages from beginning to end. She is religion and joins to a political system.....politics and religion crucified Christ.
There is NO separation of Church and State....not when a tax exempt contract is signed.
We stand by FAITH...trust in One God thru Christ. Our foundation should be unmoveable because it is on the rock which is Christ...not Peter..but what Peter said...again the little twist of deception to pull mankind away from truth.
TomB...."work out your salvation with fear and trembling."
Search....its there, just as much for you as it is for me, and its free. Time is short....even if its another 7 yrs. time is short. You will not be able to hold up in the storm standing on false doctrine, you won't have the spiritual strength or fortitude, your foundation will shift like sand out from under you and you will fall. What do you think Satan's plan has been all these many many years.
Deception is something that looks right but isn't.
The more you see, the more you will understand.
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.""But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.
From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!"
Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."
You never answered my question:
"Now, what makes you smarter, or more in touch with the Lord than me?"
How do you know you are saved and I'm not?