Religious freedom is the fundamental right to be wrong, while the truth is somewhere in between that battle.
The scholars have proclaimed religious freedom rights to believe and descend into disbelief… Jesus warned of this… He said in Matthew 15:14 “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
You don’t have to follow the blind leading the blind… Jesus said so.
Fear not… man has evolved???
We pause for a moment and listen to this commercial… it just seems to fit….
Can’t stress Matthew 15:13-16 enough….
10And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 15Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. 16And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
Again, it was Peter who asked…what do you mean by this parable? And Jesus had to explain to him in plain words that it was out of the heart that proceed evil thoughts, murders, adultries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies and all manner of sin. Which the blasphemy of bearing false witness of Jesus and His Word is blasphemy against God and these ones who do such things are blind. Those who follow them are blind and are without truth. Their hearts are cold as stone.
For those who sat in the seat of Moses making laws at that time, were following a laundry list of laws and rules of the law makers of the Sanhedrin, clinging to their own man made dogmas of how and what to eat, drink, do and when to do it, etc. They were missing the greater message of what the shadow of the temple customs laid out by Moses from the mouth of God truly meant and had their eyes closed that their Messiah had come to fulfill the promise of the covenant given to Adam, to Abraham, and Moses, and teach them in the flesh the ways of God and make atonement for all sin.
Who organized the political aspects of the fundamentalists?
Was their such a strong ego driven positive and negative, back and forth until they finally left God somewhere in the dust of their argument? We definitely find the birthing of 40,000 denominations all who believe they had the “One and only way” to heaven. Out of the fundamentals came the decree that all evil acts were to be blamed on God as His punishment, and not Satan’s attacks. Thereby diminishing Satan and positioning God as angry and to be feared? Whereas, the truth is the Bible shows man without God is open to the firy darts of the devil…Satan is alive and roams about as a ravenous lion to see whom he may devour. Thus, this brought about evangelicals and the message of prosperity, which brought about the mega 501c3 church controlled by the government.
This ushered in the Zionist movement and the added strength to the World Council of Churches and Prophets… and the state of the church today. Thus, once again a form of church and state… and the devil laughs and winks.
What is Fundamentalism? Excerpts from an article by Dr. Dwight Longenecker:
“Fundamentalism as a movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the late 19th century. It soon spread to conservatives among the Baptists and other denominations around 1910 to 1920. The movement’s purpose was to reaffirm key theological tenets and defend them against the challenges of liberal theology and higher criticism.[11]
‘The term “fundamentalism” has roots in the Niagara Bible Conference (1878–1897), which defined those tenets it considered fundamental to Christian belief. The term was popularized by The Fundamentals, a collection of twelve books on five subjects published in 1910 and funded by the brothers Milton and Lyman Stewart. These essays came to represent a Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy that appeared late in the 19th century within some Protestant denominations in the United States, and continued in earnest through the 1920s. The first formulation of American fundamentalist beliefs traces to the Niagara Bible Conference and, in 1910, to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which distilled these into what became known as the five fundamentals:[12]
- Biblical inspiration and the infallibility of scripture as a result of this
- Virgin birth of Jesus
- Belief that Christ’s death was the atonement for sin
- Bodily resurrection of Jesus
- Historical reality of the miracles of Jesus
“The behaviors and attitudes are fascinating because they are, in effect, a kind of anti religion.
“Where every religion calls for charity we see hatred. Where true religion calls for an open and enquiring attitude we see intellectual shut down. Where true religion calls for humor and humility we see sour self righteousness. Where true religion calls for faith and risk we see a fortress mentality and retreat to the comfort zone. Where true religion calls for reaching out and welcoming of the stranger we see suspicion, exclusion and fear. Where true religion calls for forgiveness and a non judgmental attitude we see shunning and condemnation. Where true religion calls for freedom and joy we see legalism and misery.
“What makes it more complicated is that within a fundamentalist community not everyone exhibits these negative behaviors, and those who do exhibit them are not totally negative or negative all the time. Sincere faith, kindliness, charity, humility and humor are mixed up with the negativities.” READ: What is Fundamentalism? | Fr. Dwight Longenecker
Political church power and warfare … the devil is in the details.
Ponder it all and discern…
COME OUT FROM HER MY PEOPLE! FOLLOW THE WAY OF THE LORD!
KEEP ON PRESSING INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD! PRESS, PRESS, PRESS!
DIANNE
