Isaiah 5:20
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
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We today do call ‘evil good and good evil’.
God forgive us, in Jesus name,amen.
WAKE Up all of us that seem to be hypnotized, and many are in such a state and do not realize it.
There is no such word as church or Church, which is why all of the believing community is scattered around. The word Jesus used (which was morphed by Rome) is “gathering” or “assembly”. It is a common word with no special emphasis. Even the riot at Ephesus was an ecclasia. You will now hear the clammor of the RCC claiming their pre-eminence in 3,2,1...
No Jesus told us to not test everything in light of scripture but to trust in the traditions of men, blindly accept the word of self appointed prophets and oracles of biblical interpretation and through their expertise we can get the filtered albeit correct version of God’s plan for us. Jesus also told us his Mother was to be exalted prayed to,was sinless and a mediator between God then Jesus , we are unworthy to come straight to God. Also Jesus also preached to thief on the cross that he would not be going to heaven that day “techincally”.. he was to do a stint in a netherworld between the living and the dead. Jesus also preached that no meat on Fridays buys extra favor, that prayers with beads are super holy and that His ...whoops I mean Peter’s church... was to proclaim some people “Super Christians”...aka Saints and we are to pray to them when we are boarding a boat or when we lose our car keys. Jesus also preached some women are to be married to him and live a life of sullen pharisaical piety, spend their lives forcing children to kneel in rice in Chapel. Jesus did not come to fulfill the law but establish a brand new set of laws that worked better than that Old testament stuff, now we have the right people in power including a guy in a pointy hat to tell us God’s Law v2, is now the correct mixture of high priest hypocricy , theft, depravity and legalism.
DouglasKC, my understanding of the United Church of God forbids voting and proselytism. So just what are you doing for God by posting here?
Some of the more striking doctrines of the UCG are (1) rejection of the Trinity, (2) adoption of certain dietary laws and restrictions of the Hebrew Scriptures, (3) Saturday observance and (4) the particularly bizarre concept known as "British Israelitism."
The UCG is, I believe, currently split into two factions - the Luker group and the Kilough group.
There is a remnant, within His church, like Gideon. The institution and intellitualism of itm has followed the 1st Covenent into false traditions, commandments of men.
Rev 12:17 (NASB) Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her children, those who
* keep the commandments of God and
* hold the testimony of Jesus.
I Timothy 1:16: Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
And at Damascus:
Acts 26:15: And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Acts 26:16: But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
Acts 26:17: Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee
Christ Jesus HIMSELF NOW sends Paul to the Gentiles - unto whom now I [Christ Jesus] send thee [Paul]
Therefore, be forewarned as Christ Jesus (the Word) gave Paul these Words of warning:
Romans 2:16: In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Israel could have had that Kingdom setting beginning in the days of the Apostles, and Peter had the keys to administer entrance into it, but the leadership of Israel, both in the land of Israel, and the Dispersion (Acts ch. 28) rejected it . . .
. . . thus it is in abeyance until the return of Christ.
Remove the "new testament" from your bibles and suddenly everything will become crystal clear.
Are those who believe in Jesus Christ as in the Holy Trinity, trinitarians, part of the church your article describes?
Yes of course...for the church is made up of Christian believers from all walks of life, from various cultures, and peculiarities. It was so when He walked among us, and after that.
That's not to say there isn't error happening....the church doesn't do a very good job of identifying the “wolfs” Jesus expressly said would be among us.
But there are no perfect church denominations or otherwise apart from the centrality of Jesus Christ being foremost among it's believers.
bttt
But He guaranteed no such thing. Instead, He warned His disciples that "false christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect" (Mark 13:22, emphasis added throughout). I think that happened along about the 1600's
What is the History of Your Church?
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A church (ekklesia = “group of people”) is not an organizational chart.....it’s just a group of people. Who often disagree.
Is this one of my church is an honour roll student or can beat up your church sort of threads?
Do you chauvinists really think God or the Christ care what church you attend short of apostate?