The Plague of Churches
Search the yellow pages of your local
telephone book and you will find that the different churches wanting
your presence are many. They come in all different flavors and sizes,
with as many different beliefs, teachings and doctrines as there are
churches. Some church groups are small, very small, local or are
much larger. Some church groups are national or international in
scope. Some may be in association with a particular creed or set of
beliefs. Had you not gone to a splinter group of the Worldwide Church
of God, but instead had gone to lets say a Baptist church or perhaps a
Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Methodist or any one of
countless others, such as the Church of the Latter Day Saints
(Mormon) or the Jehovah Witnesses, then your beliefs, doctrines,
practices and customs would have been totally different from the WCG
splinter group you are glued to. And lets not forget the Roman Catholic Church or anyone of thousands of other groups, to numerous to mention.
Every
church group on earth thinks they have "truth", while all others are
the poor deceived humans who are so blind they cannot see. I wonder
how many different church groups there will be in another two thousand
years and beyond? Will the different church groups keep dividing
and splintering until there may be a billion different groups and each
with their own human church Pope standing before the people, proclaiming
himself as the "pastor king" of his group? How many Herbert W.
Armstrong's, Garner Ted Armstrong's, Rod Merideth's, David Pack's,
Gerald Flurry's and so forth are yet to arise in the future, that will
deceive many into worshiping at their feet as if they are God in the
flesh? To any outsider not associated with this comedy, it is
ludicrous beyond comprehension that people are sucked into man-made
religion as if God Almighty is the author.
The world of churches
is not really "Christianity", but rather "Churchianity" (man-made).
Religion is as old as dirt and has long been a major means to control
people, have power over people and the endless flow of free $money. All
human governments on earth and all religions on earth are the twin
means by which the whole human population is seduced by those who assume
the posture of power over all others. Control and power over the
common people is both psychological (as in religions), and physical
(as in governments, which exists by brute force). The source book for
deception is the "sacred" text, which has magically hypnotized the
masses for thousands of years and as privately interpreted by the gods in the pulpits.
Like
the mythical plagues of ancient Egypt, the modern day plague of fake
churches is appalling and the simple minded are forever overtaken as
church slaves.
Van Robison
