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