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WHEN CHURCH IS A DISTRACTER. (Pt.2)
Humanistic Versions Of Church Christianity.
Beliefs adopted into churchianity.
1. IMAGE OF GOD in man that is said to have survived Adam’s fall from innocence into sinfulness.
THE TRUTH: it was irreparably marred and distorted when Adam and Eve rejected eternal life from God’s ‘Tree’ of salvation and chose paranormal insight from a taboo branch of knowledge.
2. CONSCIENCE: The surviving light of God’s guidance in human conscience is said to be preserved.
TRUTH: The light of the conscience was also ruined with Adam’s fall, leaving a universal shadow only of morality in the conscience.
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WHAT REMAINS IN THE HUMAN PERSONA OF ADAM’S RACE.
• GOD’S CURSE IN ORIGINAL SIN. As the blight of God’s curse upon Adam’s descendants passed on to the human race by heredity, it left a dysfunctional trilogy of man’s body (degenerating from the womb); his soul (dead in sins and trespasses); and his spirit (his wilful persona).
• HIS WORSHIP. The original worshipping spirit of Adam was tarnished at the fall and left only a spirit prone and curious to search the mysteries of unseen powers above. This worshipful bent of humanity to fathom the divine is of itself neither virtuous, nor spiritual.
• WORSHIP MISUNDERSTOOD . The natural human desire to worship something, someone, or somebody is cunningly exploited by one’s innate wilful ego for self delusion and self justification. It thrives on the religion of the prevailing culture into which it is born. It works contrary to the spirit of truth possessed by the redeemed and is resistant in its blindness to God and Christ in Scripture.
• RELIGION. Self righteous from early infancy, humans are universally prone to self delusion. Acquiring church doctrines tends to garrison the heart against the overtures of God’s Spirit through the Scriptures and Christ’s ambassadors on earth who possess that inner drive to preach the Word. Indulging in religion, ironically buttresses this resistance to Christ and His Word. I.e. knowledge itself, even of Christian religion, usually increases the blinding deceit of the desperately wicked heart, said the prophets of old.
• This natural propensity to worship the unseen divine power is in a Western culture is called ‘Christian’, but not in other cultures with given nomenclatures of atheism, spiritism, animism, Buddhism, etcetera.
• In a Christian culture the bent to worship expresses itself in church attendance, which again is mistaken for the Spirit of God drawing souls to worship God, who are then named ‘Christians’.
• Whether in a Christian culture, or another one, this worship usually leads to the deception of self-justification, based upon indoctrinated knowledge from preachers, who for the vast majority today, are themselves merely self justifying, moralists and possess no gospel of redeeming grace to give to their congregations, but merely the gospel of knowledge, albeit biblical knowledge. As such they are educators, but cannot lift a lost soul blighted with darkness into the glorious light of the gospel of grace. This is notwithstanding their modern altar-mania, decisionism, and self perfect methods of converting those who respond to their emotive appeals and accept an unconditional free after-life eternal insurance package.
• The natural worship of the first man in his innocence, did not lead him to accept God’s offer of eternal life through the Tree provided.
• Eve, the first woman in Eden, found it easier to worship paranormal phenomena and voices of the gods, despite her knowing that God’s words offered her eternal life from the eternal Tree of Life.
• Eve had the knowledge of and the memory of “hearing the Word,” but it did not draw her to God, without faith, a gift of God’s grace to the wholehearted seeker. She forfeited eternal life by choosing more religious knowledge and the lust to dabble in the paranormal. The average church adherent or member does the same and her male counterpart capitulates to the status quo just like Adam.
