God would never do that !

Proverbs 16:4 says, " The Lord has made all things for Himself, Yes even the wicked for the day of doom." We often create the impression that God is weak,  one that is so soft and loving that if anything bad happens we tend to think that there is no-way God had anything to do with it. My Pastor use to say we think God is some big teddy bear with a lolly pop in one hand and an ice cream cone in the other. And often times it is "Christians" who give this false impression of the Almighty. Is God love? More than you can imagine, but God is also just and you will not understand the full extent of His love if you don't also realize that God is worthy of executing judgment on all man kind. We deserve Hell and instead He gave us Jesus, make no mis-take He did not have to do this, God being God could have blew the whole thing up and started over again. But while we were still yet sinners He died for us and paid the price in full,  but we come on His terms, I've heard it said, "well, thats arrogant!" yea well, He's God. In our country we have become spoiled thinking we deserve everything, law suit after frivilous law suit proves it, my coffee was too hot, they hurt my feelings, whatever, with this attitude we will never understand who we are in the sight of a Holy God . We are sinner's and yet He is paitent with us not giving us what we deserve, and for those who come to Jesus understanding that yes I am un-worthy He covers us in Christ.  John the Baptist called all of man to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, He was the front runnner to Jesus starting His ministry, this call has not changed, we need to accept the salvation offered to us in Jesus or suffer the wrath of God. Two cults that I have recently studied do away with this truth, saying there is no eternal consequence for rejecting Jesus, who gave Himself for all man kind, easy for them to say it wasn't them who gave up thier Son to be beaten and hung on a tree for a bunch of rebellious un-grateful people. It is good for attracting a large following  and that translates into big dollars for them, but does not get you saved.  The bible say's that every knee shall bow and every tounge confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father.  Every knee that means you, me, everybody will bow the knee at somepoint, make sure it is now, cause when you die and do it then it's too late. The Bible says that all have fallen short the Glory of God, all are sinners there is non righteous no not one, we have all gone astray like sheep but He will save you if you call out to Him and  admit the reality of your situtation. Why is this so important? God hates pride, it got Satan kicked out of Heaven. Say you see a beggar on the street and you have compassion on him and offer him a bolony sandwich and he responds with, "I want roast beef ." Sorry but that cat can go hungry. Don't misunderstand the analogy, Jesus is Prime Rib and He offers you the best God has to offer, but when one feels they dont need to be forgiven and they are "good enough" they will stand before God on the day of judgment alone and then The Almighty will call you to task and I promise you will not stand up to the requirements. Put it this way, you would have to beat Jesus in a round of golf and He will shoot an 18 on an 18 hole course, so in comparision Tiger Woods sucks. God doesn't judge on a curve its not a matter of par, God accepts only perfection and Jesus fuffiled that requirement and say's you can come with me.  Reach out and take it humbly, it's the only chance we have.  

Mormons Preach A Different Jesus Christ.

John 14:6

Jesus says in John 14:6 "I am the way,the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." This is clear and to the point, that is why it is so important to expose those who change the truth of this scripture to fit their own personal opinions. And worse yet, try and convince others to follow them. True Christianity points to Jesus, not doctrine. Never follow a person who claims to possess some new way to follow Jesus, in the book of Ecclesiastes it say's there is nothing new under the sun. Jesus is not new He was in the Beginning,in the book of the Revelation Jesus says "I am the alpha and omega" the beginning and the end. Because you or someone else thinks they have a better way doesn't give them the right to change what has been written and make it more attractive to people by omitting the reality of eternal punishment which is what some of the biggest cults do. The reality is this is not love, rather it is a Satanic. Jesus called Satan the father of lies, and all who change the truth of God are in league with him and are doing what he wants to do and that's keeping you from the truth. Jesus is not hiding from people, the opposite is true we hide from Him, we are afraid of the truth in us that will be exposed. The good news is that He knows these things about us and is willing to forgive us and restore us to a place without fear, but make no mistake it is on His terms. What does God accept ? Humble surrender to the truth, the truth that we are guilty of death because we are indeed sinful and need a savior. And because God is sooo good He provided that for you as well in Jesus, nothing else will do. That's right nothing, not a watered down Jesus,  giving money to the poor, taking mission trips or voting republican. All must come to the knowledge that the disciple Thomas came to when he confessed "My Lord and My God" that moment of understanding can be your story as well. Jesus said," knock and the door will be opened for you " in other words seek Him and the Spirit will lead you into all truth. Who is the Spirit, part of the Trinity, The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit. The cults destroy this doctrine out of ignorance because it defies all human logic and reason and then have the impossible task of making it work without this truth and it ends up with correction after correction and in some cases a whole other book. The truth is that not all will receive the teaching of Jesus, and it is truly sad but sympathy doesn't trump truth. I will continue to show the difference between Biblical Christianity and many other beliefs, it will no dought create some strife but Jesus said they hated Me first and if you carry His truth they will hate you as well, so go ahead Ive been warned.

A look at the Mormons

In studying the Mormon religion after looking at the Jehovah witness' the winner goes to the Mormons for being the more ridiculous of the two. I will begin with some back ground on this group, they were started by a mere mortal by the name of Joseph Smith Jr. who after a couple of angelic visitations and visions claimed to be given a new revelation to the truth of the Holy scriptures. The first vision, according to Mormon history, happened when a revival broke out in Palmyra, New York 1820 and a young Joseph Smith Jr. confused by the people all claiming a different sect as the one to follow Methodist,Baptist and so on, led him to inquire of the Lord as to which to follow. He claims that during this inquiry of God that a being appeared to him, at age 15, that he was not to follow any of these for they were all wrong and they were all an abomination in his sight even using scripture from the New Testament writings to make this point to young Smith. In 2nd Corinthians 11:14 it tells us that Satan transforms himself into an angel of light so the idea that Smith did receive a visit is not unbelievable to me, in fact I think it probably happened but it was not God. The fact that the "being" used scripture to make his point reminds me of when Satan tried tempting Jesus in the desert but  it did not work with Him, unfortunately in Smiths' case it did. Smith moved in with his father-in-law after the second vision he received in September of 1823. In that vision he was told of these gold plates that he had to get at a place the "being" would show him. He began to translate the gold plates with, by his account,Divine help and then published the translation, which was financed by a farmer who he told the writings were "reformed Egyptian."  April 6, 1930 in Fayette, New York "the church of Jesus Christ" was officially organized with 6 members the name was eventually changed to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The membership grew quickly and started moving around. The group met with a lot of adversity which led to Smith creating an army of about 200 men at one point, Smith was arrested with his brother Hyrum after having a press destroyed for publishing anti-Mormon material and was killed along with his brother by a mob who stormed the jail, according to Mormon history he did not go down without a fight. Brigham Young  took leadership after that and eventually ended up in Utah. The Mormons reject the doctrine of the Trinity as well as eternal punishment. Jesus to them is just the same as anyone else, just another pre-existing soul with the chance to achieve what Jesus did. Although with the works based salvation that they preach why do you need a savior at all ? And who cares really, there is no hell according to the Mormons. But what they do offer to the best of their clan is the chance to advance to god like status which comes with a whole host of perks to include rule and reign over your own planet someday with a host of heavenly wives,but you can start the hIran here and now. Sorry they really go off the deep end, they have had like 3000 revisions to their doctrine in their relatively short history why because they are changing with the times and the Bible of historic Christianity says God is the same yesterday, today and forever. These cults all have the same common thread they don't dig what the bible says so they change it to accommodate what they want it to be like or what they feel it should be like. I could write pages on examples of all the little wrongs but why, after you take Jesus from His rightful place and put him in with the masses your jacked already. The rest after that matters little.They believe in what they call "the living prophet" who is the head of the church and transfers from leader to leader as they die off. This "living prophet" has the power to change anything at any time, in February of 1980 at Brigham Young university, Ezra Taft Benson said,"the living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works" this meaning the existing written works of doctrine. I would also point to one important failed prophesy, Smith said the temple would be built in Zion (Jackson county,Missouri) during his generation and never be moved, not only did it not happen, while he was declaring this from Kirkland, Ohio his cult was being run out of town and his printing presses destroyed, of coarse on learning this he changed the prophesy a little and it still didn't happen. In today's small world of instant knowledge this cult would not have lasted a year, but now that it is established no one cares to challenge its claims, after all they are not hurting anyone and they are generally nice people. But if they are spreading a lie that has eternal consequence they need to be called out and exposed. I don't have nearly the anger at other religions that don't claim Jesus and the Holy Bible as there authority, if you want to start a religion go ahead but don't pervert the truth about the Christian God to do it.    

Ahmadinejad: islam will conquer the world

Rich Mullins - Creed

Calling out the cults

Khilafah (Caliphate); The Means to Establish Islam on Earth

To establish moral law according to the Koran is the goal. No thanks.

Appeasing Islam

Jehovah's Witness a false prophet

    What do David Koresh of the Brach Davidians, Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple, Wayne Bent of the Lord our Righteousness Church and Charles Taze Russell of the Jehovah's Witness have in common? All are false prophets. In the book of Deuteronomy 18:21,22 it speaks of the people concerned about those who say that they hear from God and how to test them, well it was made quite clear that if these "prophets" made a claim and it did not come to pass then then the Lord has not spoken. In 1891 Charles Taze Russell wrote that the world would see "the full establishment of the Kingdom of God in the earth at A.D. 1914, the terminus of the time of the gentiles." These predictions failed. They say now that they meant that His kingdom would be fully established in heaven, okay whatever. More credibility would have been given if they would have just said they were wrong, but rather they choose to continue the lie.The scripture is very clear on this prophesy concerning the Lords return and the end times, in the book of Mark 13:32 it says "But of the day and hour NO ONE KNOWS, neither the angels in Heaven nor the Son, but only the Father." Any honest seeker of God would recognize this as a definite truth, and if ever you "felt" you had some time line in your head you could instantly identify this as deception. Renounce it and get about the business of serving God in the capacity in which you have been instructed. The Bible tells us also in Mark 13:6 "For many will come in my Name, saying 'I am He,' and will deceive many and warns us in verse 21 if any one tells you "here is the Christ or He is there" do not believe it. In Matthew 24 it is made very clear that during Christs' return you will not need someone to point it out to you, all will see. As Christians we are to be proclaiming His truth not the ideas about which we think it should be and manipulating the scriptures to fit our theology. A good friend told me of a analogy about a drunk leaning on a lamp post, the post is not there to keep the drunk from falling to the ground it is there to illuminate the way in which we are to travel. In the same way the Bible is not here to uphold our thoughts but rather to bring us into an understanding of His truth.  The Jehovah witness cult differs from Bibical Christianity on multiple important doctrines including eternal judgement, the Trinty and salvation.The Bible tells us that " My people perish from a lack of knowledge," we must know what it is we believe and why we believe it or be subject to confusion when these people show up at our front door with a smile and a copy of Watch Tower magazine. Let us help them to understand that they to can know truth and be saved instead of spreading a false doctrine that leads to death.