Some claiming to be among Christianity would have us think that the universe that God spoke into existence for His own purpose is not really under His control. They have a God that dwells in creation wringing His figurative hands just hoping that someone will love Him and be His friend. Aww…poor God!<\/p>\n
Although many “Christians” may deny that they see God in the above terms, their theology and what they say about God indicates otherwise. I will give a few examples but it certainly will not be all-inclusive because this anemic concept of God is exceedingly widespread and is subtly interwoven in “Christian” concepts about their Creator.<\/p>\n
Let me start with the overwhelming majority in Christendom that believe what good or bad that they do in this life determines if they go to Heaven or Hell. In this view, each individual becomes the god of their own destiny. They think God does not determine who He will save, our own actions will.<\/p>\n
The majority seem to believe that God has this scale and if your good outweighs your bad you will be allowed through the pearly gates. But if the scale tips the other way, you will go to their concept of hell. Most of the books written from people claiming to have gone to heaven or hell reinforce this view.<\/p>\n
Those with this view of God think that when we reach the age of accountability we are given ten commandments to live by and that is how God and everyone else keeps track of how we are doing. The head of the denomination<\/span> becomes the infallible chief justice of the supreme court and he defines the finer points of the church Constitution and then directs his referees called Clergy to be the black clothed Umpires… or is it Impires<\/span>.<\/p>\n Line markers are put down to keep you from going out-of-bounds, repentance and penance boxes are set up that give you a chance to get some of those heavy sins removed off of the bad end of the scale and ways to earn extra weights for the good side are defined. If you think I am exaggerating look into Roman Catholic doctrine and Christian cults.<\/p>\n Obviously, with these, keeping the rules as defined by the church and what you do in life determines your salvation. God really has nothing to do with it. He is just a fan somewhere out in the bleachers rooting that you make the varsity team through your own efforts and by playing by your church rules.<\/p>\n There is also another large segment within Christendom that correctly believes that man is saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, however, they think that game is not hard enough so they add man-made rules to exclude those that do not fit the standards that they set up. They add that what you do after you have been saved actually determines if you actually will get saved or not. These people like to rail against once saved always saved doctrine. What they fail to see is that if you lost your salvation Jesus could not have been your Savior in the first place. Can any almighty Savior lose those that He came to save? Anyone see<\/span> the oxymoron here?\u00a0Aww…poor God! He cannot even keep those He came to save!<\/p>\n Once again, with this belief, it is you that determines your salvation. You have to stay saved through your own good efforts. Christian leaders tell us God can’t keep His eyes off of you. So, He must be in heaven biting his figurative finger nails watching you, just hoping that you keep yourself confessed up so that He can have the pleasure of your good company in heaven.<\/p>\n This theology makes you God of your own eternal destiny. It also is not a fair salvation system, because until you walked ten thousand miles in the shoes of everyone else carrying the baggage that the world system saddles them with, how can you claim that your walk of sanctification meets the requirement of salvation but the walk of others does not? They might have entered the initial sanctification walk carrying ten times more worldly baggage then you did when you confessed Jesus. You may have only had to walk a short time in the Son light to get purified enough to presume to call yourself “holy<\/span>“, but others maybe not quite as presumptuous as you, know they will never get holy through their own efforts.<\/p>\n And if staying confessed up and holy is the key to salvation wouldn’t we all be better off if we just died the moment after conversion or right after the last time that you confessed up your sins and repented of them? If staying out of sin is the great hope for your salvation, then you might want to play golf in an electrical storm as long as you confessed up before you tee off on someone.<\/p>\n The truth is that the sanctification process is not the same for all, and we do not even determine how the Holy Spirit achieves it. Yet, we want to compare ourselves with others and then use ourselves as the measure of who is saved and who is still lost by works that happen to please us. If you could really judge all the good and evil that people do, you would be God.<\/p>\n You see where this leads? It is saying that defective fallen human brains can judge who God saves.The Bible says that God is sovereign. He saves those He chooses to save and nobody can take them from Him. That person might not meet your standards but salvation is not based on your standards. Our salvation really has nothing to do with anything that we do other than receiving God as our Savior.<\/p>\n God will no more deny the children that He chose to create and save from before the foundations of the world then you would deny your own children. If God is dependent on what we do, then He is not God at all. The Bible says that God knows everything. God knows the end from the beginning?\u00a0 Then why would God let those that He created for salvation to be lost to His adversary? That logically makes no sense.<\/p>\n There are also the postmodern New Evangelicals heretics claiming Open Theism. They claim the future has not yet been determined even for God. God can only guess the future because He does not know the choices that people will make. In many of their eyes, God is evolving along with His whole creation.<\/p>\n No wonder most of these heretics believe in evolution. They will not deny that God exists, but they will make Him the prisoner of His own creation. There is a being that wants to act like the Creator but is subjected to the limits of creation. That dude is the Devil! That is the real god of Open Theism. The Bible teaches that God transcends His Creation. He Knows everything and is fully in control of everything. He is sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. He not only knows the future, He determines it. Everything within God’s creation works toward fulfilling His plan for creation.<\/p>\n Open Theists love their delusion because it helps them rationalize God using their own very limited minds. This is not as small a movement as you might think. Open Theism has infected the minds of many of the postmodern New Evangelicals. These people then take the view that man can determine his eternal ultimate fate through human collective choices because creation is evolving and what it will become in the future is not determined. Those that believe that everything is evolving have no reason to believe that man cannot someday evolve to become like God. Man’s belief in evolution is just fallen humanity acting out the big lie from the Devil since Eden.<\/p>\n That is why these same leaders want to integrate Protestantism, Catholicism, Mormonism, Muslims, and other pagan religions. The concept of a one world religion is built upon the conjecture that we all are evolving spiritual beings and poor God, at best, is just leading the way. Mankind can catch up by evolving into the collective divine consciousness that some call Christ consciousness.<\/p>\n The garbage in some of the most popular books in Christianity are influenced by these heretical concepts. They suggest that you are an evolving powerful spiritual being that God can’t keep His eyes off of. However, the truth is that unless God saves you from your fallen human nature, by trusting in the Savior that God sent, you will never evolve into anything more than the dirt you are.<\/p>\n One of the great deceptions in Christendom is being presented in a book called “The Shack” <\/a>and it is now going to hit the movie screens. The Shack will be another Satanic move that will be passing itself off as a Christian movie. Nothing Godly should be expected to come out of the viper den of Hollywood.<\/p>\n Christiandumb<\/span> bought into The Shack big time. However, the story is a lie out of the pit of hell and the people who help bring about the movie are trying to reach even more people with this damnable heresy. The book promotes universalism and a blasphemous concept of God. The Holy Spirit is represented by a black woman. Guess who will play the Holy Spirit in this Movie? Poor God… it is Oprah Winfrey!<\/strong> This Woman has done more to lead people to believe New Age\/New Spiritualism demonic pagan lies than any woman in the history of the world. What is left for this woman who sold her soul, but to\u00a0 play a counterfeit Holy Spirit and lead everyone that rejects the truth to the common damnation that she fosters through her pagan beliefs and the satanic people that she promotes?<\/p>\n God is not in Heaven wringing His hands saying woe is me hoping that someone will come to love Him. That sad sack God that is obsessed with the actions of men is not the God of the Bible. God does not need man. Man needs God. Our God is not working through time and chance evolving it toward some hopeful outcome. He has determined the outcome before He created the world. Don’t apologize for God like He has been missing the mark. It is those corrupted by Satan that are missing the mark.<\/p>\n Jesus did not come to beg people to love Him. He came to show us the love of God by saving mankind from their sins by taking our own sins upon Himself so that we may be saved. Those the Father gives Jesus will believe. Those that reject Him are condemned already. Those true Christians that were washed by the blood of Christ for all sins, past, present, and future do not have to worry about losing their salvation. God knows how to keep those that are His.<\/p>\n Some want to make God a human concept of love but love is Jesus coming in power to destroy the works of the Devil and all that follow after him. Fear this God of love, because Love will not tolerate the Devil or any evil causing sorrow in His creation much longer. God is love but most do not know that true love will bring about the demise of this evil world system and everyone that loves it.<\/p>\n If you trust in Jesus, do not let legalistic people put you down because you are not dancing to their tune. God is not saying woe is me because you did not do something or lead someone to Christ. He will draw those He predestined to Christ. Nobody is going to hell because of something that you did or did not do. God is not dependent on our actions. You may lose a reward you might of had<\/span> and another may receive it, but don’t buy into the nonsense that salvation depends upon your performance.<\/p>\n We are told to proclaim the gospel so those that hear<\/span> and believe will be saved. We do not do the saving and our actions do not save or condemn anyone. Don’t ever let anyone put that guilt trip on you. Such nonsense is not from God. Use the spiritual gifts that God gave you and you will receive a reward beyond salvation. Salvation is assured for the believer that believes in what Jesus did with His death and resurrection for their sins. Don’t let some legalistic self-righteous\u00a0dolt tell you differently.<\/p>\n If you have no assurance of your salvation. Find out if you’re saved by what is said in the New Testament about Jesus and salvation. The New Testament clearly defines how people are saved. You can believe what God said in the Bible, or you can believe postmodern “Christian leaders” and demonic spiritualists like Oprah that think the Bible is defective, incomplete, or just one of many truths, so they should define God for those less enlightened in the world. 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