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Over the years as I've read more Christian books, heard more Christian speakers, contemplated the various teachings and also the Reality I perceive in my own life, I've come to see that there are some major specific mistakes made by mainstream Christianity, repeatedly preached on a daily basis, that take listeners away from what Jesus & God were actually teaching, and what Their living presence continues to teach us (if we pay attention).
If these 10 corrections to mainstream Christianity were made, the true faith could be restored, but unfortunately most idol-worshiping Christians will see these truths as falsehoods because they've been so thoroughly deceived.
1. "We should fear God." No, we definitely should not fear God, we should revere God; that is the correct translation and it is also what doesn't contradict the teachings of Jesus and the apostle John, et al.. The Greek and Hebrew dictionaries along will footnotes in Bibles will tell you "or revere" as an equally valid translation of the word translated into "fear," yet fear and reverence are not at all synonymous terms; revere means "to feel great respect or admiration," and to equate that with fear is incorrect; fear and love are actually incompatible (as said so in 1 John 4:18), and we are commanded to love God, so therefore it sabotages our ability to obey God's command. Fear is actually from the Enemy, so saying that we should employ the Enemy in serving God is actually a form of trying to "serve two masters," as Jesus warned us against. This is not a minor technicality; again, it's directly undermining obedience to the first and Greatest Commandment, and that's no small thing. It may seem that fearing God's punishment for disobedience is a good thing, that fearing the consequences of sin is a good thing "to keep us in line," but we can actually not want those bad consequences without fear involved, just as we can not want to burn our hand from a candle flame without being afraid of the flame; fear is the enemy, not our friend, even in a crisis; we don't need fear to want to avoid sin or avoid something clearly dangerous like a fire. Again the apostle John said "love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love." John spoke directly against this idea that fear of punishment is a good thing, something Christians shouldn't ignore because they they think "common wisdom" on fear is what's actually correct; the suppressed truth is that there is no reason we should think fearfully of God; again it's letting the devil in our relationship with God, which again is no small thing, it's a major error.
2. "The Word of God is the Bible." No, it's not. The Word of God is Jesus and The Holy Spirit; yes there is certainly writing that was Divinely inspired that can be found in the compilation of books and letters called The Bible, yes the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, Micah, the letters of James and John, The Gospels of Luke, Mark, Matthew & John, The Book of Psalms, et al., all contain extremely valuable and uplifting teachings worth studying intensively daily, and of course the words of Jesus, when true to him actually speaking them and perfectly translated, are certainly like hearing directly from God, but one particular compilation of writing should not be considered Divine itself, i.e., the canonization and deification of certain writing into what we now call The Holy Bible, wherein "church authorities" have included highly questionable content like the letters of Paul while excluding other writing that is definitely worthy of study (e.g., The Book of Ecclesiasticus/Sirach/Ben Sira). Most Christians repeat the words of Paul that "all Scripture is inspired by God," words found in one of Paul's letters (2 Timothy 3:16), as if because Paul called his letters Scripture it just automatically becomes pure words from the mouth of God; it's actually pure idolatry of Paul, Paul who said many things that do actually contradict the teachings of Jesus, and words that will contradict the will of the living God which is available for us to discover in our own daily lives.
When the apostle Peter wrote that we must be "born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living and enduring word of God" (1 Peter 1:23), the particular compilation of letters and books we call The Bible didn't exist, and on top of that he was clearly not talking about a book as incorruptible (when writing corrupted by scribes, intentionally and unintentionally, is no conspiracy theory but a reality), he certainly wasn't just talking about a book when speaking of the living word of God; it's only idolatry and appeal to tradition/authority that blinds someone to this obvious fact and has them idol-worship a book, but think it really isn't idol-worship, when it clearly is. Again we can definitely be pointed to God from words written on paper, but those words on paper are not the actual living Word of God; to think certain words on paper are Divine is actually a form of idol-worship because you are idolizing the writer and translator of those words as if they were God Himself, and you are denying God is a living being. God is not a book; that should not be a controversial statement; nor is Jesus a character in a book, he is a living reality, an active savior in our lives (more on this in the point #4) to be worshiped and followed as a living Being, as well as The Holy Spirit recognized and followed in our daily lives as Intuitive Guidance, a living and interactive loving intelligence in our lives, spoken of in writing yes, but not the writing itself; our relationship should be with the living God, and that doesn't actually occur just through words on paper, words on paper that are corruptible, words on paper that could be false, words on paper that could actually be written by an antichrist. Jeremiah spoke directly to this when he said "the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely" (Jeremiah 8:8), and it can be seen for yourself by comparing all the Pauline translations of John 3:36 to the accurate translations, the former translations changing the words "disobey Jesus" to "don't believe in Jesus," a mistranslation pushed to fit Paul's saved-by-blood doctrine. Also the Pauline church endlessly repeats their mistranslation of John 3:16, again changing the words "keeps obeying" to just "believes," so people will think it's solid support of Paul's amoral salvation teaching, which is the opposite of what Jesus actually taught.
Though again, I'm not saying there's nothing good and true in what's called the Bible, not at all, again I believe it's worthy of daily study (when done with discernment, mainly meaning rejecting the mistranslations and toxic content of the letters of Paul). The parts of the Bible that are indeed good and true can point us to God, and God can Himself point us to some of those good and true words as a form of personal guidance. The key point here being that those words shouldn't be equated with Divinity, and it shouldn't be assumed that everything in a book is Divinely inspired, nor should it be assumed that it has been perfectly translated from the original language written or spoken. The Bible is a book, it is words on paper (or on a screen nowadays), and it is more accurately a collection of books and letters by various authors, and many texts that should qualify to be called Scripture, and did previously qualify for Chritians, like The Gospel of the Holy Twelve (probably the "Q"/Source for the Synoptic Gospels), The Gospel of Thomas, The Apocrypha, The Odes of Solomon, et al., have been omitted, by the choices of men, oftentimes pushing their own agenda.
Also the idea that Bible is perfectly complete is nonsensical, as if only Mark, Matthew, Luke and John could have ever written anything about Jesus, and all their writings were included in the complilation done by certain Church authorities; additionally, the approved Bible even has a verse that states that any book on Jesus would be incomplete: "Jesus also did many other things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written." (John 21:25). To not search for those other books, letters and gospels outside of the "authority"-approved ones (with discernment) actually demonstrates a lack of love for Jesus and God; Christians oftentimes do more historical research on comparetively trivial matters than they do historical research on Jesus the Christ. If you really love Jesus, why would you limit your study of his words and deeds to what's recorded in only one book, that again is actually a collection of books and letters, a collection that has been changed over time (the 1611 KJV Bible had 80 books instead of the current 66, for example), and ignore other historical records that may also contain truth about him? If you think one particular book/letter compilation/canon and translation is perfectly complete and Divine, and everything in it is without flaw or omission, again, you're idol-worshiping a book.
Some Christians say that "God can prevent a book from being corrupted if He wanted to" in order to defend their idol-worship of that book, but God never said there would be a book that would be perfect and that He would protect it from containing anything incorrect through His super-natural power. Additionally, the Bible itself speaks to the problem of human error, oftentimes intentional, in writing on religious matters, e.g., Jeremiah 8:3 and Revelation 22:18-19, so if those prophets didn't think it was impossible to happen, why should you think it's impossible? Why believe in Biblical Inerrancy and in every author of the books and letters found in the Bible as Divine beings? Because a guy named Saul/Paul said so? Jesus never talked about a book being the Word of God, Jesus never said trust everyone who calls themselves a prophet or an apostle; Jesus actually taught the opposite, he said to beware of false prophets and wicked false apostles (see Matthew 7:15 and Revelation 2:2).
On top of all that, Biblical Inerrancy can easily be disproven by pointing to a couple of actually pretty well known mistranslations: Jesus said "It's easier for a rope to go through an eye of a needle..." not "camel," the common mistranslation, and John the Baptist was eating a kind of bread (from the carob bean, or the fruit of the locust tree, made into flour), not the insect locust, et al.
The bottom-line is Biblical Inerrancy doctrine is a form of idol-worship (of the book itself, and of the authors and translators of that book), and idol-worship violates the Commandments of God, and that is indeed a major mistake, that supports confusion, deception and false doctrines.
3. An extremely terrible consequence of this idol-worship of a book written by men is the belief that "Paul is a true Apostle of Jesus and everything he taught was perfect and good, everything he taught perfectly compliments what Jesus taught, there are no contradictions, no false teachings, and the real Apostles were never in disagreement with him." All false; there were 12 Apostles, not 13, Paul (previously called Saul, which is spelled the same as Sheol in Hebrew, very relevant when reading Isaiah 28:18), who was a bounty-hunter of Yeshua’s followers and also called himself a “crafty deceiver” (2 Cor 12:16), made himself the 13th after supposedly having a change of heart after supposedly having a vision (that is told in different opposing versions) on the wilderness road wherein Jesus supposedly appeared to him as a sort of angel of light (not in the flesh), and then blinded him (even though Jesus healed the blind), and then supposedly gave Saul a new gospel of grace-through-blood, making Saul the 13th Apostle as he then declared himself to be. Remember that the true Apostle John said that "those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh... is the deceiver and the antichrist." And remember Jesus said he saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven, which also just so happens to fit Paul's story. Paul’s story, which was given in contradicting different versions, and again just so happens to have the elements that fit the exact warnings Jesus & John gave us concerning false prophets/antichrists, supports Paul's subsequent doctrines, which just so happen to fit the amoral doctrine of the Nicolaitans ("antinomianism") that Jesus said he hated (Revelation 2:15), a doctrine actually aligned with Satanism... So Paul's gospel is hardly a sound replacement for the teachings of Jesus, but when Paul's doctrines are declared to be "The Word of God" and pushed by church “authorities” every week and disseminated every day via mass-media, pamphlets, etc., it’s tragically accepted as gospel truth, “truth” that somehow overrides what Jesus said, even though Jesus, as you should know, was/is actually an embodiment of perfect truth.
Jesus called out this hijacking of his ministry directly in Matthew 15:7-9:
"You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men."
What doctrine of men is he talking about?? What was he talking about when he said "beware of the leaven of the Pharisees" (Matthew 16:6 & Mark 8:15)?? Who is the false apostle Jesus warns us about in Revelation 2:2??
Any decent effort given to learn about the real history of early Christianity will reveal piles of evidence that the original Apostles were also very much opposed to the Pharisee Paul; I recommend all Christians read the book Jesus' Words Only: Or Was Paul The Apostle Jesus Condemns in Revelation 2:2? by Douglas J. Del Tondo as a starting point, along with the videos & links at the end of this post for much more revelation on the truth about Saul/Paul. There's so much that could be said on this but I'll leave you with those recommendations and the additional attempt to help you see the truth by saying don't be so quick to believe the "our dear friend Paul" found in 2 Peter, a letter many scholars believe has been tampered with (by either Paul or the Establishment Church that he worked with), and in direct support of this in the Clementine Homiles we read Peter writing to James about about a false apostle pushing immorality and putting words into his mouth; Peter also spoke directly against Paul's vision (supposedly of Jesus) on the road that supposedly gave Paul special relationship and understanding of Jesus; additionally, the letter of James is in fact largely a continuous rebuke of the false teachings of Paul, and that's why most Pauline pastors avoid the letter of James, (along with Psalm 119!) and whenever they do mention it, they usually do so briefly and bring up Paul's teachings at the same time, giving preference to Paul. And again, Jesus said to keep away from the teachings/leaven of the Pharisees (Matthew 16:12, 16) and Paul declared himself to be a Pharisee (Acts 23:6). Once you start listening to or reading the mountains of opposition to Paul, and realize Jesus and the true Apostles were part of that opposition, you'll see that this is not all heretical nonsense, it's actually accurate, despite what the Pauline church will tell you.
4. Pauline Christianity, following the letters of Paul over the teachings of Jesus, falsely teaches that the crucifixion of Jesus was a cosmic legal-proceeding that cancels your sin debt (Colossians 2:14) , and auto-pays (Romans 8:3) for your entrance into heaven, making you pure through "atonement" and "justification" (Galatians 2:16) even if you still do impure things.
Paul tells us (in Romans 6:14) that we "are not under the Law [i.e., The Greatest Commandments], but under grace," even though Jesus never taught any such thing, he actually taught the opposite. Paul tells us (in Romans 10:9) that salvation is just a matter of confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing that he was raised from the dead after his crucifixion; that if you simply do and believe that, "you will be saved," even though the devil and demons also believe that, and even though that's something Jesus never taught as the means of salvation. James, the apostle and leader of the original church spoke directly against this kind of thinking when he said "Good for you! Even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror" (James 2:19). Mainstream Christianity tells you that simply belief in Jesus and God makes you "justified" and "guiltless." If that were true Satan himself could easily re-enter Heaven! Here is a quote from a mainstream Christian article, which says basically the same thing as every other mainstream Pauline Christian source on this topic: "In Christianity, justification means that God has declared an individual to be guiltless in his sight. And being guiltless, they now have right standing with God. We understand justification to be possible because of the atoning death of Jesus on the cross." So, because of what they call "the finished work of the cross," that work being interpreted as simply a legal-proceeding and payment that nullifies all your sins from the past, present and future, all of the moral teachings of Jesus are made to be practically irrelevant. The message they give is that instead of doing what Jesus actually commanded you to do, all you really have to do is believe in this amoral Pauline dogma, all you really have to do is have faith in a blood-sacrifice ritual, even though Jesus never reduced his life, teaching and death to any such thing. Jesus never said the reason he came was to just serve as a blood-sacrifice for humanity, what he said he did come for was to preach about the Kingdom of God: "Actually, I was born and came into the world to testify to the truth." & "He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose." (John 18:37 & Luke 4:43) The Pauline Church ignores those words of Jesus and puts their own words, really the words of Paul, into his mouth! It's shameful!
Jesus told us why he came, and he didn't say it was to be a glorified animal sacrifice that we simply need to believe gets us into heaven! Paulinists ignore the obvious, as if Jesus accepting the crucifixion couldn't be to accomplish some other work, like the work he said it was to accomplish: to get his gospel out to the whole world, to prove what he said about coming back from death in three days was indeed true, to foster relationship for all of humanity with him and the Holy Spirit, and to prove and condemn human rulers as false and abusive authorities (with counterfeit kingdoms opposed to God's kingdom), by showing what they'd do to the most innocent/Divine man on Earth (regarding this, these crucial words of Jesus/Yeshua have survived the Empire's scribes: “The ruler of this world now stands condemned” (John 16:11)).
But no, Pauline Christianity never talks much or at all about all those logical reasons consistent with Yeshua's teachings, instead every day they push an irrational and immoral pro-State/Empire/Slavery Easy Grace theology originating from Paul. (Yes, Paul did condone chattel slavery in Ephesians 6:5-6, and this support was used by slaveholders to "justify" the hell they put Africans and others through!).
Jesus warned us about such toxic teachings coming from a Pharisee like Paul exactly when he said "'Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod,'” (Matthew16:6 & Mark 8:15), again he was saying to watch out for the toxic ideas slipped in by the religious and political authorities (who worked together, then and still today), and how many Christians have heeded that warning? Not many. Instead false doctrines by false authorities have been proclaimed as the Word of God; instead of rejecting Saul/Paul, he's been made an idol. Saul/Paul was never actually with Jesus in person like the true Apostles were; Jude, a true apostle of Jesus, wrote about Saul/Paul in his letter: "Some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches, saying that God’s marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives" (Jude 1:4).
Paul pushed the doctrine on amoral Easy Grace, the same doctrine of the Nicolaitans that Jesus said he hated (Revelation 2:6). This "the Greatest Commandments don't matter because killing an innocent person gets you into Heaven" theology is an incredible spin-off of the teachings of Jesus, so far off in fact, that the term "Christianity" is too generous, it should be called Paulinsim (which bears a striking resemblance to Satanism, with its emphasis on killing innocent people for empowerment, and the total disregard of morality).
Jesus repeatedly said "stop sinning," he said to "be perfect," he said that without exceedingly high righteousness we will by no other means enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:20); Jesus said "He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will disclose myself to him" (John 14:21). How is that compatible with just believing in an immoral blood sacrifice ritual to go to heaven as Pauline Christianity promotes? It's not compatible. We do have to stop sinning; we do have to follow the Greatest Commandments. Jesus also said "Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven." (Matthew 5:19). Did you get that? He said whoever teaches against following his Commandments will be considered as the very least among men by those in heaven! Paul did exactly that when he said "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t" (Romans 7:18). Paul teachers men to see themselves the same way, as lame and forever broken, unable to take responsibility for their actions and stop sinning as Jesus commanded, calling an amoral blood payment theology Jesus never taught "humility" and "glorifying God."
Jesus also said "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them" (Matthew 5:17). And yet Pauline Christianity says the exact opposite! They will say he did abolish the importance of moral law! What amazing shamelessness to ignore and contradict what Jesus/Yeshua said, and yet claim to follow Jesus/Yeshua.
"Paul's teachings about Yeshua were very different from those of James, Peter, and the others in the Jerusalem group. It is striking that Paul's letters never quote Yeshua, rarely refer to Yeshua's teachings, and never mention Yeshua's life. Paul taught his own version of Yeshua's teachings and created his own rules. The Christian Church throughout the 2,000 years since Yeshua has been formed by Paul's teachings, not the teachings of James, the brother of Yeshua, and, some say, not the teachings of Yeshua himself. The fact that Paul did not present Yeshua's teachings in his epistles or his own preaching has been acknowledged for centuries. Only the Church, built around Paul, fails to admit that fact." (https://30ce.com/paulinechristianity.htm)
"No one who abides in Him [who remains united in fellowship with Him—deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin." (1 John 3:6, Amplified Bible)
“I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.” (Jeremiah 17:10)
"I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds." (Revelation 2:23)
Paul's new gospel, that says you can't stop sinning because the crucifixion of Jesus paid for your sins and all you have to do is believe in the power of a blood-sacrifice ritual, is something that not only Jesus never taught as the means to salvation, but actually contradicts what Jesus said to do, namely to "stop sinning" and obey The Greatest Commandments. Jesus was actually asked the direct question "What must I do to enter eternal life?," and what was his answer? To believe in a blood payment for sins? No. His answer was to follow The Greatest Commandments, the comprehensive Law of Love (see Luke 10:25-28). Pauline Christianity often points to a twisted verse of the book of Isaiah (53:10) to supposedly prove that Jesus was meant to be blood-payment of our sins, changing the word which has the first definition of offense, as in Jesus was offensive to the religious authorities, to "atoning sacrifice," or "an offering for sin," and additionally ignore the fact that the gospel of Matthew (in verse 8:17) actually quotes Isaiah 53 to give the correct interpretation! That correct interpretation given via the context of Jesus removing demons from people, not paying for their sins with his blood!
Likewise Hebrews 9:11-27 is pointed to as proof that Jesus was basically just a Divine animal sacrifice, but who wrote the letter of Hebrews? A man, or multiple men, wrote those 16 verses, and none of those men are Jesus, and none of them are even quoting Jesus. Again the doctrines of men have taken precedence over what the Messiah actually said, and this is incredibly thought of as no big deal by Christians!
Jesus freed the animals that were going to be sacrificed as supposed sin-payment, and Jesus quoted Hosea 6:6, “For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice [killing animals], the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings [of animals],” twice (Matthew 9:13 & 12:7), yet Pauline Christians ignore all this (and more that shows this murder-for-salvation instead of love-for-salvation doctrine is nonsense), and insist Jesus really was all about the idea that the blood of innocents can pay for sins and give you a free ticket to heaven! They are fooling themselves and fooled by Paul, who himself was fooled by (if the story is true at all) the false Jesus he said spoke to him on the wilderness road; foolishness on top of foolishness, all to support an immoral doctrine Jesus never taught and goes against what he did actually teach, which was that "he will reward each of us according to our works" (Matthew 16:27). And yet Paul's worshippers will call me the heretic, and claim they are the true followers of Jesus, while they cling to belief in human depravity and murder of innocents for empowerment, identical to what's believed and practiced by Satanists! Somehow I'm the wicked one for repeating the doctrine of love and mercy Jesus actually taught?!
God does actually care if we think and do evil, despite the Easy Grace doctrine Pauline Christianity disseminates to the masses, packaged as "humility," but is really the opposite of humility, it's vain entitlement, ignoring what Jesus commanded because of supposedly being already "saved by the blood," and "once saved, always saved." James, the brother of Jesus and leader of the original church after Jesus ascended to Heaven, called this out directly when he said "But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?" (James 2:20), calling out the complete hypocrisy of claiming humility when actually your position of entitlement shows the opposite, it shows conceitedness. [Note many Bibles poorly translate the word vain as "foolishness," the literal translation is "empty of moral content" which fits vain better than just foolish.]
Jesus asked "Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?" (Luke 6:46). I imagine if Pauline Christians were to go in a time-machine to see Jesus preaching in person, they'd be in the back of the crowd listening to Jesus preach on following the Greatest Commandments, and they'd whisper to someone of that time "Yeah... don't worry, you don't have to actually do any of that, the Romans are gonna murder him, and then his blood pays for your sins." "Really?" "Yeah this Roman guy Saul, or Paul, whatever, anyway he's a bounty-hunter for the empire of people like you now, but later he has some kinda vision on the road, and then he gives this new gospel that says we can keep on sinning and it'll be fine because humans are depraved and the shed blood of Jesus erases your sins, and basically nullifies all his teachings for that matter." "Oh yeah and he says empires, like this one that is going to kidnap, torture and murder your Lord, are actually established by God and obeying them is equivalent to obeying God." After hearing all that, the follower of Jesus at that time in the crowd would probably perceive this future Christian to be completely crazy, and yet today these Christians think that those who follow the original teachings are crazy!
"They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me." - Jesus (John 16:2-3)
"Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous. So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you." (1 John 3:12-13)
"An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked." (Proverbs 29:27)
The religion has been completely turned upside-down by the wicked genius of Paul; for example, most modern/mainstream Christians would just laugh at the idea that Jesus didn't slit the throats of lambs and eat their flesh, and maybe even think you're possessed for saying he didn't! Likewise if you told them that Jesus never said his death was payment for their sins, you'd probably just get raised eyebrows and rejection. It's twisted psychological projection of foolishness, and it makes for a true follower of Jesus to live in a bizzaro-world of enthusiastic abusers and idol-worshipers, isolated from much of any real fellowship with so-called followers of Jesus. But from the mainstream perspective, they are just preserving "the word of God" and protecting a true apostle's reputation.
As mentioned in point #2, Jesus is active in our lives, he is not just a historical figure that did a legal procedure for us in the past! This activity is namely through what we can call Kairos Moments, a term that is rarely talked about by the Pauline Church, and whenever they do, it's almost always in a sense that's detached from what Jesus was actually teaching; they will say something like "our nation is facing a Kairos Moment," as if it's some months-long period that is presented to everyone collectively (and tied to mainstream news reports), when the truth is Kairos Moments are just one-second long and presented to each of us personally! Whenever Jesus talks about himself arriving in a sudden, subtle (like a mustard seed) unexpected and brief moment (like lightning), almost everyone unfortunately thinks he is just talking about a single day at the End of Time, the Final Judgment Day, for which the Christian must “be prepared,” but that "preparation" is extremely passive, not actually requiring any specific reaction at that time itself, the idea being that you just basically stand back and watch as Jesus transforms the world for all to see in a grand metaphysical historical event. Theologically speaking, this is thinking in terms of eschatology, "the study of the end times" in the Bible; the gargantuan error that sabotages the lives of believers in Jesus is to interpret all of his teachings on Kairos Moments in our daily lives as all merely referring to some single final day/time in the future, that, when it comes, will be too late for you to do anything different anyway; the world has been deceived into interpreting his teachings on Kairos Moments in an eschatological sense, which is not only inaccurate, but extremely disempowering, it’s actually spiritual sabotage, setting you up for the end of your life still wondering when Jesus is going to come, when he had actually come to you personally thousands of times in your daily life, calling you to conquer your inner demons and follow his direction, as illustrated by him calling Peter out of the boat during a storm. (More on this is explained in detail in this Guidebook on Kairos Moments).
5. Likewise people believe that "governments are divine, because Paul said so, in his letter to the Romans (13:1-7)," as if all the atrocities committed by governments, all of the insane tyrants and regimes of political history, were all ordained and supported by God, an absurd and blasphemous idea. To think blind submission to any person who happens to have a job in a government equals obedience to God is a completely bankrupt morality and theology. Almost identical text to the nonsense found in Romans 13 is also found in 1 Peter 2:13-14 (that some translations, in pure blasphemous and idol-worshipping fashion, include the statement that "the Emperor is the Supreme Authority"). These verses in 1 Peter have been identified by many scholars as an obvious forgery/insert, never actually written by the true apostle Peter (and you can see for yourself how verse 2:12 flows directly to 2:15, without the bizarre pro-State verses of 13 and 14 that were inserted). What Peter is quoted as actually saying, in contrast to this idol-worship of human rulers, is “We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).
And when Jesus said to give back the money coin to Ceasar, that was not an endorsement of taxation and government! He was evading arrest and so gave an indirect answer, because the truth, that taxation/extortion is not God's will, would have caused his arrest before he was led by the Father to allow that to happen.
Again, to think that obedience to whoever is the ruler over a territory is equivalent to obeying the Greatest Commandments is complete absurdity; all human rulers are actually illegitimate in that their rule is based on abuse, and abuse is the complete opposite of the love we are commanded to carry out.
6. Paul taught that people are inherently evil and can't stop sinning (even though that's what Jesus commanded us to do). In his letter to the Romans (5:18-19) he said "one trespass brought condemnation for all men," that "through the disobedience of the one man [Adam] the many were made sinners." Paul said that we take on the sins of others, and that all of humanity was condemned by one sin by one man! This toxic teaching of "original sin" was never given by Jesus, and it is extremely destructive, resulting in people thinking abusively about themselves, and being more likely to accept abuse from others, which violates the Greatest Commandments of Jesus (which are actually necessary to follow in order to achieve salvation), and also is blasphemous toward the Creator because it says that every newborn baby is created with an inclination to be evil. Jesus told us to become like little children (Matthew 18:3), so he obviously believed, as actually most people, religious or not do, that children embody innocence, not depravity. Jesus also said "A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart." (Luke 6:45 & Matthew 12:35), so how can it be that everyone's heart is inherently wicked as Paul taught? Again, Jesus said that unless we return to the innocence of little children we won't enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 18:3), so how could it also be that newborns are fundamentally depraved as Paul said? (Plus you should be able to look at infants and children and see for yourself it's not true). Jesus and Paul can't both be right, and yet most modern Christians actually foolishly side with and believe in the teachings of Paul over those of Jesus.
Pauline Christians insist on defending this toxic teaching of human depravity, saying that when it's taken in the context of the salvation of Jesus, it's not actually toxic; well that's quite the willful ignorance, again ignoring that Jesus never taught this (and it goes directly against what he did teach), that it violates the Greatest Commandments, that it's blasphemous, and that people often accept abuse and commit suicide because they believe in this lie of human depravity, they believe the toxic idea that they are inherently wicked. Along with ignoring all that, we would have to also deny the sane truth that "a son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him" (Ezekiel 18:20), never mind that "each is to die for his own sin" (Deuteronomy 24:16); never mind that we were "wonderfully made" "in the image and likeness of [i.e., the state or quality of being like] God" (Psalm 139:14 & Genesis 1:27), never mind all of that as if it all doesn't matter, because it was over-written by the idol Paul? Pauline pastors love to read a mistranslation of Jeremiah 17:9 that says "the human heart is deceitful above all things," to support this toxic human depravity teaching of Paul, but the correct translation (found in lesser known Bibles) is "The heart is deep beyond all things, who knows it?" Likewise those that gravitate to the human depravity doctrine often quote Proverbs 3:5 that says to "lean not on your own understanding," and interpret that wrongly to mean that we should disregard our own reasoning all-together; "lean on" is pointing to leaning, i.e., being unbalanced, by not being receptive to God's guidance and the perspective of others along with your own view (following the Greatest Commandments). Yes we need to focus on our faults and repent over them, so that we can eliminate those faults, so we can stop sinning as Jesus said to, not just be part of a weekly "pity party" called church that wallows in self-deprecation and packages it with thin wrappings of humility. Jesus called us to be conquerors, Jesus wants to save us and lead us to a happy abundant life, and if we think personal growth is an impossibility, that's disempowering sabotage.
Shouldn't what Jesus taught (and recognizing what he didn't teach), take priority? Additionally, to believe in inherited sin/human depravity is to believe a doctrine that violates The Greatest Commandments, violates a law of Love, and goes against the reality we can see with our own eyes when we see a young child.
This teaching of human depravity pushes a toxic mentality of lameness (rather than of being a spiritual warrior and devil-conqueror), as if it was actually "righteous" and "humble" to think you're inherently flawed and can't stop being wicked no matter how hard you try. It's a false morality, a false teaching, something Jesus never taught, and something that sabotages the lives of anyone who believes in it. Jesus said: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 7:21).
"By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. (1 John 2:3-5).
7. "Jesus said to turn the other cheek when someone is hitting/abusing you." No, that's a mistranslation, the original Greek shows that He was saying "Return a strike to the jaw likewise, one of the same type," in other words, use defensive force that is proportional to the force used in attacking you. This fits the context of him adding specificity to Scripture ("Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" refined to "slap for slap") rather than contradicting it (Matthew 5:17), and it also fits his Greatest Commandments (Mark 12:29-31 & Matthew 22:36-40) which includes the commandment to love ourselves, and, as should be obvious to you, defending ourselves from abuse is a form of self-love. Additionally, Pauline Christianity downplays or ignores Jesus saying "if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one!" in Luke 22:36, and always try to "cancel" that idea by pointing to when Jesus told his disciples to put their swords away when he was being arrested, ignoring the fact that he was letting that particular act of violence happen for a specific higher purpose. The idea that God would want you to accept abuse of yourself and the abuse of others is crazy and blasphemous; additionally, since you need to have equal power as that of the abuser in order to use defensive force effectively, having knives and guns for self-defense is 100% reasonable as a precaution, just as you would wear a safety-belt, or wear a life-jacket, or have a fire-extinguisher, just in case you need them in an emergency; the idea that Jesus would support the abuse of a robber or murderer, by saying you shouldn't have and carry the tools needed to defend yourself against them, is again seen to be crazy and blasphemous once you question it, an idea only abusers would want you to adopt (and so it shouldn't be surprising that rulers would be interested in mistranslating verses to support their abusive System/Empire, a Satan-backed Empire that hijacked the true religion of Jesus, starting with the Roman citizen/agent Saul/Paul, to undermine the true moral Law of the Non-Abuse Principle/Greatest Commandments).
8. "Abusing/exploiting/enslaving/murdering animals is perfectly fine." No, it's not. First of all, did God ever actually tell you that animals are here for your use? If God's original plan for humanity was to eat plant foods only (Genesis 1:29), and if that is our prophesized future as well (as Isaiah said), then why would you go against God's will today? Why would you be uncaring to animals for no good reason until God tells you directly to stop doing so? Did you just get off a boat after a global flood that destroyed all the crops and fruit & nut trees? No, so why are you talking about such a flood as justification for your unethical behavior in the 21st century? Secondly, Jesus probably never actually ate fish, the Greek word opsarion translated into English as "fish," is actually a word used in Greek often to refer to plant foods, not fish or other animal flesh. Jesus, being perfectly loving, who said to "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful," who told us to love others, to treat others the way we would like to be treated (and it makes sense that animals would be included in the category of others since they have emotions, feel pain, and want to live, like humans do), this Jesus (untangled from false doctrines about him and his teachings) was most likely a vegan, who not only didn't eat fish, but didn't multiply fish either, it was just bread that he multiplied. Why would God or Jesus want us to inflict unnecessary suffering, enslavement and violence on sentient beings that feel pain, have emotions, and want to live? It's a ridiculous notion, even blasphemous, making God out to be uncaring, which He of course is not. Daniel succeeded on a vegan diet (Daniel 10:3), countless vegan athletes do today, and so can you.
Additionally there is scholarly record that Jesus and his original and early followers didn't eat animal flesh, quoting Jesus as saying that he came to abolish animal sacrifices, and "Consequently, there is no reason to doubt that the Ebionite gospel implicitly affirms a vegetarian Jesus, especially given that this Jesus has ‘come to abolish sacrifices.’" The "yoke" Jesus spoke of, that is "easy" to put on, other scholars have pointed out referred to the discipline of abstaining from the eating of flesh; just as vegans today keep telling people that being vegan really isn't hard to do! But those that oppose the truth about a comprehensively loving Jesus will, just as they always have, say that this truth is actually the false doctrine (even "the doctrine of demons" as Paul psychologically projected and slandered, as he did when he probably said, posing as Peter at the end of 2 Peter in defense of himself, to "take care that you don't get carried away with the errors of lawless people"). How crazy to say that being merciful to creatures that feel pain, have emotions, and want to live is "demonic" (when factory-farms are a literal hell on earth for animals, and people that befriend animals on small "happy" farms only to suddenly betray and murder the animal are arguably even more cruel)! Talk about about a false and backwards morality! The wicked have been and continue to be projecting themselves onto the innocent true followers of Christ, deceiving the multitudes into their pro-abuse satanic doctrine that pleases the Enemy, not God.
Also a careful reading of the Greek in Genesis 9 shows that Noah was given permission to eat cold-blooded creatures, reptiles and insects, not birds and mammals, as an emergency survival measure, as Noah and his family transitioned back to a garden-based lifestyle post-flood, and in Genesis 6:12-13 it says that the reason God had the flood come was because "man had corrupted their way on earth" and "the earth is filled with violence." So it appears that the Scripture is being twisted to support the very thing that caused the flood, cruelty toward animals! This is just like the changing and twisting of Jesus' words to make him sound pro-abuse as well with the false "turn the other cheek translation." The Devil has attacked Scripture thoroughly, to support his agenda and go against God's will, as should be expected!
If you don't look to the book & letter compilation called The Bible as the only source of possible historical and religious truth, then you will discover that the vegetarianism/veganism of Jesus and the original followers of Jesus is not far-fetched at all; you can learn this from modern books like The Lost Religion of Jesus by Kieth Akers, and Vegetarian Christian Saints: Mystics, Ascetics and Monks by Dr. Holly Roberts, along with the ancient writings of Saint Jerome, Ephrem The Syrian, Epiphanius's writings on the Nasaraeans/Nazarenes (writings in a text called the Panarion, chapter 18 specifically), The Syriac Clementine Recognitions & Homilies (The Ebionite Book of Acts), The Syriac-Aramaic Gospel of Luke, and The Gospel of The Holy Twelve, et al., as you can learn from the following video playlist:
For even more information/evidence on Christianity and veganism see these websites:
- https://christianityandveganism.wordpress.com (Spanish: Vegano Cristiano)
- https://compassionatespirit.com
- https://www.petalambs.com/feature/
- Comprehensive Article on Early Christianity and Veganism
9. "All references to 'God' in the Old Testament are referring to the purely good Creator, never to Satan, the god of Satanists," even though that Old Testament god repeatedly does clearly evil things. This false equivalency, supported by lazy and incorrect translation of the word "God," is rationalized by "The Bible is perfect"-Christians in absurd ways, again because Christians are idolizing a book and don't think rationally and critically about the content within it (as done in the talk titled 'Unveiling the Evil OT God' by Bobby Collier (of Good God Ministry), and related talks by the same speaker.)
10. An additional mistake that has very negative consequence is the idea preached by some very prominent Christian pastors and authors that "God is unreasonable," or similarly "God didn't want us to have the knowledge of good and evil because He didn't want us to live by reason but instead by revelation." This is actually blasphemous and is also a form of spiritual sabotage; God definitely is aligned with reason, and we need to be too in order to align with His will; as usual, propaganda is pushed via logical fallacies, and the one in operation here is the Either/Or Fallacy (aka the False Dichotomy Fallacy), saying that it's either reason or inspiration, as if you couldn't have both, which is completely false, of course you can have both.
"Logic is Divine" talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWQ_TTxUf_0
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Looking at the above Top 10 from an overview, the main mistakes with mainstream Christianity are basically: a) idol-worship and b) supporting abuse (the opposite of love). So, mainstream Christianity isn't just slightly off, it's directly opposed to what God & Jesus have taught us to do, it's actually closer to Satanism (e.g., morality doesn't matter + torture and murder of an innocent is your means to going to heaven) than it is to the true religion of Jesus. And this shouldn't really be that surprising, that the Enemy would try to hijack the religion of Jesus and turn it toward his own evil purposes (people have been tricked into participating in satanic ritual and think it's actually devotion to Jesus and God); that's exactly what happened, starting with the work of Saul/Paul, and has tragically continued for centuries since then because people idol-worship, don't think for themselves, and ignore basic ethics.
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Some of the best presentations on the true teachings ever given:
Additional resources:
- 'Corrected Christianity' video playlist for further clarification on the above points and more: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzRXyF7K41sPo8_cqbnBfSYqlSn4C3DG-
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"For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. ... [A]ccording to the works of his hands it shall be repaid to him." (James 2:26 & Proverbs 12:14)
"The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord... The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayers of the righteous." (Proverbs 15:9 & 29)
"But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life." "Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood." (Revelation 21:27 & 22:16)
