Greetings in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
As a member of LGM, I'm aware of the religious diversity that is encompassed throughout this site, but I must as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ express something of importance. This stems from that "tongue" thread. Time to stop the foolishness.
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This will probably offend MANY and for it I do
not apologize, even if it cost me this thread.
If theres one thing that I know, it is that God is absolute. He being absolute, makes his word (the truth) absolute. We as man, being the fallable humans we are, will misinterpret these truths and even go as far as to change them to suite us. Yet, that which God has established remains true, just and INFALLABLE. Yeah, God is love and he loves his creation with a everlasting love, but hes also sovereign and eventually passes judgement to those who fail to adhere to his truths.
With that being said, I will say this, "Someone's living a lie and somebody's going to hell". What do I mean? Everybody here believes in Christ and everyone here considers themselves "Christians", but we foolishly have over 1300 denominations in the world of Christiandom because everybody wanna believe they have "the truth". People, listen, theres only one truth! The WORD!
Yes, the bible contains areas of symbolism and then there are passages that can just be taken for face value (literal). Understanding the Hermenutics of the bible may be tricky to some, but through prayer and reading in the Holy Ghost grants one true spiritual insight. Simply, there are things that we've been taught without doing any personal research, and things that we accept cause it "sounds" good, but isn't alway lined up with God's word.
Why am I saying all this? Cause we've somehow begun to live in a delusional world of believing that everybody gonna make it and that just ain't true. The bible clearly tell me what its going to take to make the rapture. Paul, one of the greatest of the apostles says in Ephesians, "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism so that means SOMEONE'S living a lie. Some say baptism's "In Jesus name" and others "Father, Son, Holy Ghost and both can't be right. I've seen no baptisms in the "Father, son, Holy Ghost" method ANYWHERE else in scripture... somebody's going to hell.
Some say that women can't preach and then you have women that say they're called.... someone's living a lie. I personally don't see any women elders, apostles, bishops or any thing else in the NT and scripture even addresses those women who assume church authority (Rev. 2:20-23), but then I'm called a "hater" because of what the word CLEARLY states.... somebody's going to hell.
Some say that theres three in heaven, and other say that theres only ONE Lord... someone's living a lie. My bible tells me, "Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:" in Mark 12 and that the Father, Word and Holy Ghost are ONE in I John 5:7... somebody's going to hell.
There are those that believe you must live a holy and sanctified life before the Lord, then there are those that think you can live some filthy, degraded life and God understands your heart... someone's living a lie. The Spirit tells me that "the soul that sinneth SHALL die" and my word backs that up... somebody's going to hell.
"You don't need to speak in tongues to have the Holy Ghost" says some, and other believers say that its the initial evidence of it.... someone's living a lie. Jesus told Nicodemus, "You MUST be born of the water and the SPIRIT". How clearer can he be?? On the Day of Pentecost when the first church was established, he scripture says,
Acts 2:4"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."
Why is that so hard to comprehend?? Yet there are those that sees it as meaningless to salvation... somebody's going to hell.
Scripture talks against men with LONG hair, but brothers will dread it up or curl in down with no conviction. Paul addresses the plating of hair and modest apparel of believers, yet we'll spend $1200 for a suit and $800 for a dress just to be "sharp" and draw attention... somebody's living a lie.
The parables that was taught by Jesus was not to entertain you people, but for understanding. Somebody's going to be a foolish virgin when Jesus returns with NO oil in your lamp. Sadly, some lamps haven't even been initially filled. Two will be sleeping. One taken and the other left. Two will be in the field. One taken and the other left. Two will be on LGM. One taken and the other left.... somebody's going to hell.
I am in no way trying to be "holier than thou" and condenming folks to hell, but God's word is his word and you can try to walk around it, jump over it or crawl under it, but if you don't adhere to it, you'll pay the consequences of your actions. People do want they want to do and go to churches that concurs to their beliefs, but that doesn't change the absoluteness of God's word. Everbody ain't right and theres going to be whole groups of people crying, "Lord, Lord" on that great and terrible day.
Someone's living a lie, somebody's going to hell...
Lord Help...
