Van Robison on "Insurance Against Church Deception"

Insurance Against Church Deception

Basically the only real insurance anyone has against deception in the church world, is to not go to church.  If you do go to church then you are most likely going to be persuaded by the speaker or speakers in the pulpits. Public speakers are quite often very convincing.  Whatever flavor of religious persuasion they spew forth, varies considerably depending on the church.  Most likely all pulpit speakers will quote some "Bible", which will vary considerably from the King James Version, the "New World Translation" (Jehovah Witnesses),  the Mormon Bible, or any one of hundreds of different Bibles, all purporting "truth", while very different from one another.

Many groups have their own personalized Bibles, such as the Jehovah Witnesses, the Mormons, the Roman Catholics and the Protestants.  Many defend the KJV as if God Himself penned it.  He didn't!  I have personally sat in the pews of different churches, including the Worldwide Church of God and soaked in hundreds of sermons, by many different preachers over a lifetime.  Maybe it was thousands of sermons.  The pastor was always looked upon as "royalty", "chosen", "above common people", "all knowing", "having all understanding", "understanding all the mysteries of the Bible", "having all wisdom", "knowing the mind of God", "infallible and inerrant", "having authority over the sheep", "having a right to your bank account for 10% plus", "having a right to tell you what to think and what to believe", "anointed by God" and the list of nonsense is endless.

The human mind is easily deceived by public, charismatic, authoritarian, self-righteous preachers, who pretend that they are more moral than all others.  They are not!  All preachers and those who assume the posture of religious false authority over others are no different than any other human being.  They all have human nature and you would most likely be appalled if you really knew what goes on behind the scenes, in the personal lives of the "pastors" and those you think are "holy" men or "holy" women.    Truth is, we are all human and we all have human nature.  We can pretend that we are "Holy" all day long, but who is really Holy other than God Himself?

There is no greater means of deception, than listening to those who want to control you, have authority over you and who insist that you need to send them money.  That sounds a whole like like politicians, governments and preachers of churches and religions of all kinds.  That millions think the Bible itself is an "exception to deception" and that you cannot be deceived by the Bible, is among the greatest fallacies on earth.  INK on PAPER is no guarantee that you will not be deceived.  Does it seem strange that Jesus warned repeatedly to BEWARE, because MANY would come in His name and DECEIVE people?  Why then is it that so many gullible human beings will flock into the churches, like they do to the Ice Cream Parlor and devour the goodies?

If you really want INSURANCE against church deception, life-long false fear of fake rulers and freedom from being financially looted and true peace of mind, then consider that Jesus Christ alone is the Way, the Truth and the Life and NOT your local church, national church or world church, nor the frauds who stand in pulpits and warp your thinking with endless FEAR about your salvation.


Van Robison