Originally posted by halfoldman
reply to post by Phenomium
OK, heard it a few times now - so there's the cannon-fodder at the bottom who look cool and win converts, the "silent" middle, and the top
structure. To me it sounds like current, popular Christianity! It sounds like the corner church!
But then it is mentioned that Satan appears as an "angel of light".
And I think I mentioned a few posts back that there are 2 different types of Christianity..... the kind that the Republicans and Democrats hide behind
and do evil deeds in the name of (thus giving ALL christians a bad name) ....and then there are the True Christians who don't even care about
politics, they only care about the people that the evil policies affect and try to help them. They help people on a daily basis and ask for nothing in
return. They do it in the name of the one TRUE Jesus and live for him because he died for them. They don't do it for themselves and are not
charlotans. The Christians are being attacked worldwide and made to look dirty in an evil world.......simply under the context of evil using the name
of Jesus to perpetrate it's agitation on mankind.Real Christians don't have sects, or levels of this and that, and they don't get caught having s3x
with alter boys, nor do they have churches that are made of gold and jewels while the world starves around them. They don't deny Christ by
worshipping the vessel he entered the world in (his mother), asking people to say numerous "hail marys" to repent when the bible makes it clear that
there is ONE mediator between man and GOD which is Jesus Christ. (1 Timothy 2:5 "or there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus;").
This is a perversion and one of many slight tweaks that constant translation over time has done to the original texts of the Bible (the original
books). Yes, to all of those who want to debate about the original texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, I already know and that too will do nothing but poison
my point and take others down a road of information that matters not to my particular point.
I am here to judge no one, but why is it when I hear of Catholics I automatically think of Mary? Why are people finding mary faces on frozen glass and
on toast and then flocking to these sites as if it were a miracle?
Why does their congregation and church own a vast majority of the worlds' money while people starve around them daily while they sit on thrones and
have churches of gold and ancient marble carvings, pillars and paintings that no one but them can afford?
Why such an emphasis on Mary when, although a chaste woman of virtue, certainly did not die for ones sins. She was merely the vessle for which Christ
was born because of her purity. I personally think the Catholic church is making everyday Christians who put CHRIST first, look bad. True Satan does
come as an "angel of light" because that what he once was, deception is powerful. Many people use the same tactic. It doesn't mean that ALL angels
and all people are tricksters and liars. It is just a tactic that can be exploited and evil tends to do that. It certainly doesn't mean that all
Christians are evil.
Now, I can feel the heat from the flaming arrows on their way now about that but I have made my point and I stick to it.
The point is, is that one drop of poison in a glass of perfectly pure water turns the whole glass of water into a death for anyone who drinks it.
Just because you hear bad things and hear the name "Christian" with it.........you will know them by their fruits.....not their words. Real
Christians don't boast or brag about the things they do. They don't stand and talk in tongues around people to impress them and stand in temples or
churches prostrating themselves as if GOD had chosen them to be a centerpiece for his congregations. They are humble servants for mankind and care for
people and they want nothing in return but to serve Jesus for the gift of salvation.They are kind of like a special forces of Christ without all of
the killing and evil politics, more about the stealth part. They do charitable acts of kindness that make a grand impact yet usually don't want their
names to be mentioned so that Jesus may get the deserved credit for it. As for the levels in the churches? This is what the bible says about levels
and church separations.
(1 Corinthians 1:10-13)
"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but
that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which
are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of
Cephas; and I of Christ.Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?"
So there you have it, no Quakerism,no Catholics, no Protastants, no Lutheran, no Methodists....NO LEVELS!
Interesting fact:
According to the World Christian Encyclopedia (year 2000 version), global Christianity had 33,820 denominations with 3,445,000 congregations/churches
composed of 1,888 million affiliated Christians.
Certainly someone or something is trying to trouble the waters for Christians and it has been going on for generations.
[edit on 14-2-2010 by Phenomium]