An institution built in the tradition of man is no source of truth regardless of religious standing. Claiming to represent God and doing the will of God are two separate things. The scripture in the Bible did not abandon the Kingdom of God, but the gentile religion of man did. Jesus said truth comes only from the Father and that truth is already written in scripture in the words He spoke. He built His church on a rock solid foundation of truth from the Father. No need to interpret or misrepresent in order to justify an institutional church full of middlemen when scriptures contain direct instruction. Jesus' church was people living a way of life based upon the will of God and the ways of the Kingdom taught in scripture, not by man's governance which tells us how to follow and defend their institution. He made that clear when chastising the Sanhedrin for their hypocrisies.
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Matthew 23: 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
© ...timothyu
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Matthew 23: 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
© ...timothyu
