In Jeremiah 23:11 God makes a personal observation about " His Church", and this was some time ago; " For both Prophet and Priest are Polluted; Even in My House I have seen their Wickedness, declares the Lord." If God himself can see this stark reality, its no wonder or wrong thing that we can see it for ourselves. This is one very important reason why many do not believe in God, because of the behavior of the believers. God said his church is polluted, why would he hold it against others who say the same thing?
Why would God condemn me for not going to a Polluted Church? Why would God be against anyone for not wanting to be a part of the Pollution? How would you know if a Church is Polluted? Would God lead someone to Pollution in the first place? Is there such a thing as an unpolluted Church? Well later I'll get into that, but first the stark reality that God himself has stated: the Church is burning from pollution, and I want to go into some other things he said about the Church.
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One of the greatest and most difficult decisions I have ever made, was to leave the churchs I had attended. And I had tried quite a bit of them. Two things shape a church; one, the national doctrine of the denomination it is a part of, and two, the Pastor of the church and his opinions. These are the two major influences of any church. I just happened to find myself in disagreement with all the doctrines of all the denominations, and all the opinions of all the Pastors, so I was effectively eliminated from being a church goer. It is no longer for me.
It can be quite lonely, not belonging to a group, but you must walk the path that you must, if you are to be true to your beliefs. Church is just not for everyone, it is mainly for those who can look past or ignore the deception, the disagreement, the human meddleling, the inconsistancys, the misinterpitation, the predujice, the obvious discrepencys in their leadership, and the list goes on and on. No, the church has been burnt up in my mind, it is no longer relevant for me, its no longer a need for me. I look for a church not built by the hands of man, not led by human leaders, not inspired by human opinion, and there is no such thing, not now. But that will be the church for me, I will accept no less. Nothingelse will be good enough" For Me." That being said, I want to go into what the bible says about churchs. And its quite a surprise.
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By far the most common misconception about God, is that the churchs of this world represent him. Of course each one to the letter makes that claim, as if it is automatically so. Generation after generation has spawned all kinds of churchs throughout our history. Culture after culture has laid claims to God in one form or another. Book after book, has been written, each trying to explain this Egnigmatic being in our belief. One thought occured to me that was just as spactacular as those claims to represent God, that being that every last one of them did not represent God, they just believe that they do. And I tell you, I believe that, and the belief is growing within me, and it won't back down.
At first it was a very frigthening thought, outrageous and awesome to even consider it, intimidating to conceive it as even being possible. And yet the more I study the bible and our human history , its the only thing that begins to make sense, and more sense to me. To consider that everyone, all of us could be wrong about something, is a maddening thought to comprehend. It makes you consider yourself and your own head. You ask yourself, " Oh so you alone are right and everyonelse is wrong." Thats one space I do not want to be in because its not sane. I am not saying I am right, its just what I believe, and I know I could believe wrong. I suspect it to be true, but I know I am not an authority on the truth. So when you believe things that are profound, you have to have your head on right, or you can become foolish in your speculations, so in believing that you might be right, you must leave just as much room for being wrong.
The biblical days must have been so much clearer. The man of God, the Prophet or Leader was made clear to everyone. It was far more obvious than it is now, and I am sure the early churchs of God were just as clear as to who they were. But that clarity has been lost over the years, and what we see now is by no means clear , at least to me. It must have made it easy to actually see a person perform a miricle with your own eyes, or for a man to actually hear an see an Angel for himself. Or to hear Gods very voice for yourself, and it be genuine. Oh what days those must have been. It seems the further we move away from those times, the more nebulous they become. The churchs of today are far different than those days, and I want to go into that.
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In the book of Hebrews 3:4;" For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God." So God is behind all things, which sweeps all areas conceivable, including Science and Atheism, God has built those things also. So God is aware of and has not moved to stop any kind of movement on earth that has survived until this day, believe me IF he wanted to stop it, he both is able to and would have. Its not that humanity has free will, they just have a free ride from God to excercise their will. The churchs of this world were, and are , built by men. And I want to touch on that some.
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If God really wanted people to believe in him and to serve him right now or at anytime during human history, do you know what he could do, and its nothing for him to do this. Look at Isaiah 49:5; " And now says the Lord, who " Formed me from the Womb to be his Servant." Before this man was even born, God manipulated his mind to both believe in him and to serve him, absolutely no choice involved whatsoever, and he could have done this to any of us, IF he wanted to. He could have built all human churchs himself. Created our opinions and behavior way before we were even Born into this world. And we would have lived just like he wanted, believed just as he installed it. He didnot do that, because he didnot want to do it, and neither did he want to give us a choice in the matter. God can make his appeal in our pre-natal state of Consciousness, but thats not what he is after now. Nor is he concerned with how men believe or not believe, nor what we choose to do with our lives. If God can give a human belief in him before they are born, then giving an entire planet belief while they are alive would be absolutely nothing for him to accomplish. Nothing for this Egnigmatic being to get done.
But God wanted just the oppisite, he wanted belief and unbelief to be the human experience throughout our history. The Wheat and the Tares to grow together, both good and evil to exist at the same time, both belief and unbelief to be our experience. And human history then and now reflects that to be exactly how it has been. And the Churchs in this world reveal that confusion to be our reality.
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Its common knowledge that humans will grab hold of any understanding and take it in any direction and just run with it according to many varibles, and this has been done to the bible without predjudice. Its been literally ripped apart of its true message and stomped on, and on another end its message has been tampered with and misinterpited by its own believers, often hard to tell which end has done the worse damage.
Jesus in Matt.23:13 said that people " Shut off the Kingdom of Heaven from men", or they adhere to " Limited Atonement", the belief that salvation is only for certain believing humans. People grab hold to the bible in an effort to save themselves, and then start developing an " Us vs. Them mentality", and start behaveing as if the road to Salvation is best walked on the backs of unbelievers. And condemnation of unbelievers becomes their support for walking in belief, from this mentality, the present churchs of this world have been formed. And I want to go into that.
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I think one of the things God is after, because I do not totally understand God, but one thing seems clear to me. God is after the complette confusion and disruption of a human society that has existed for some generations. Thats what he wanys. Thats what he has gotten too. I keep saying over and over again, everywhere I post, that this world has been exactly what it has, because God wanted it that way. People are unbelievers, because wants them to be unbelievers. People believe, because God wants them to believe. People are Athiest, or Christians, or whatever they may be, because God wanted them to be like that to experience their lives in that capacity. God didnot want this earth to be full of believers, he just didnot.
And thats why the churchs of this day, or any day, has not been able to achieve worldwide belief, because that would be against Gods will. Thats why we have the churchs that we do, which spawn people who don't know what they are talking about, because thats how God wanted it to be. Thats why we have greedy Pastors, selfish Salvation grabbingChristians, and arrogant scarcastic Atheist, because God wanted each of those kinds of humans to exist. And I want to go into that.
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The Church is burning, there is no doubt in my mind. The whole concept of God and churchs is being systematically dissolved and slowly burnt to a comming cinder. There are many reasons for this reality, but I think the greatest reason is the church itself. The people who consider themselves as Gods standard bearers. They are the very reason it is burning. They carry a torch alright, but they have insisted on using this fire to burn the population of the earth in its beloved hell fire, which has backfired, and now their own hell fire is burning the church itself. Their condemnation of the world, has in turned condemned their own self built church. And I want to get into that.
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The Christian church has slipped into a pestimistic view of Salvation, which is really a form of unbelief. A pestimistic view of the bible is like a dark cloud entering into a room of Salvation, it dims the view of it. If you look at this discussion board for example, religion is being discussed, or you can say Salvation is being discussed. But what will kill that discussion or dim its view is when the dark cloud of unbelief enters into it. And I think Atheist and Christians are a lethal combination that will kill a discussion on Life, and turn it into a discussion of dim views. More than a killjoy, it is a dark cloud that blocks the light. And men love the Darkness greater than the Light.
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