No, I'm not. I'm saying just the opposite. I'm saying to read and listen to the God of the Bible, not the "other" religious voices in the land we are born into. That is dangerous.
I know what you are preaching. But God shows me exactly what happen that caused the fall of man. There was "another" voice in the garden, it quoted some of God's Words, it convinced Eve God's Words were not true, and it provided "another gospel" for her to consider. She could have went to God, and "hungered and thirsted" for HIS Righteousness, but she didn't. She relied on her own understanding, and went about to establish her own righteousness.
So God has made HIS Word available to each one of us. It isn't God's Word which causes the division, it's the "other" voice in the garden.
This is true, as the Christ Himself warned.
First through His Prophets. One of many such places is this;
Ecc. 12:
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
And again in the person of Jesus.
Matt. 24:
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I (Jesus) am Christ; and shall deceive many.
So these and many more scriptures are warning, not of Atheists, or Islam, but of self proclaimed "Christians" deceiving men. You can see the hypocrisy, you can see the division and agenda of many of these religious franchises.
This then begs the question; "why do you listen to any of them"? Is the Word of God not sufficient for "instruction in Righteousness"? For Doctrine? For Correction? In your view, is Paul lying to us?
2 Tim. 3:
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Where is there any instruction to pick one of the 40,000 different religions who "come in His Name"? Is the Christ not capable of teaching men without Pharisees? Without Baptist preachers? Without Catholic Priests? I thought Jesus was our High Priest now. Why should we listen to another? What spirit wants us to listen to another?
Eve chose to listen to the "other voice". Her choice doesn't make God's Word void, or incomplete, or imperfect.
I have not given you my judgement. I have posted God's Words and desired a discussion about them. The devil believes in Jesus, the "many" who Jesus spoke about in Matt. 7, believed in Jesus. Those deceivers in Matt. 24 Jesus warned of, believes in Jesus.
This is not "MY" judgment. I am simply pointing out what Jesus said. He also told us, both as the Word of God, and as the man Jesus, what the problem was with the mainstream preachers of His Time. They became "Partial" in the Law.
Mal. 2:
7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his (God's) mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
And again;
Matt. 15:
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
And again;
Matt. 23:
4 For they (Mainstream Preachers of His time, not God) bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
I didn't write these Words, I just believe in the Christ who inspired them.
It seems you hear a lot of ministers. What if it is the voice of these religious men who is the problem, and not the Word's of the Christ of the Bible? I don't believe in this preacher that you hold up as so wise. But I do believe the Word's of the Holy Scriptures, who also disagrees with this "other voice" you choose to listen to. There is no place in the entire Bible that says if 50 men shut of all the "other" voices in the land, and only read the Holy Scriptures, that they will come up with 50 different gospels. In fact, the Bible implies just the opposite.
Who do the Holy Scriptures say to listen to?
The Jesus of the Bible says to live by "Every Word of God". Is HE telling me the truth here? Or have you been convinced that we can't trust in His Words?
Who does Paul say to listen to? The Holy Scriptures, Yes?
So who has convinced you Paul doesn't know what he is talking about here?
Absolutely? I was born into a religion just as you were, and Jesus, and Abraham. Don't we all have to choose between the voices of the religions of the land we are born into, and the Words of Almighty God Himself?
Of a truth I presume God's Words are truth, while the "other" religious voices in the land may not be truth. Will God reject me because I believe in Him over the "other" voices in the land? Maybe, but it is my Hope and Faith that HE is the ONE voice that I can Trust, even when the religions around me do not. And I am here to simply have a discussion about what HE says. It isn't my fault that what HE says and what "many" who come in His Name say, are two different things, just as what the serpent said, and what God said were two different things.
I don't understand what you are talking about. The "shepherds" God raised for me are the only ones I listen to.
1 Cor. 10:
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our (Jew and Gentile) examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
I'm not, nor have I ever said to listen to me. I just wish to discuss the Holy Scriptures. Is Moses not a Shepherd sent by God? Is Malachi, Isaiah, Jeremiah, not Shepherds sent by God? Is JESUS not a Shepherd sent to the lost sheep? If we could actually have a conversation about the Holy Scriptures, you would answer this question.
Why were there lost sheep? Did God's Word's lead them astray? Or was it religious voices who became Partial in the Law, that turned men away from the God of the Bible?
Jer. 50:
6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
It is precisely because I am not a "self appointed authority and self sufficient shepherd of myself", that I come to these questions.
Let's look at the Scriptures together. Let's have a discussion about them because we "believe" in the warnings of the Christ.
That's all I was asking. If the Holy Scriptures expose a darkness or untruth in our mind about God, then let's rejoice and be thankful we are growing in the knowledge of our Lord. As opposed to protecting and preserving the darkness and untruths because we might be humiliated in the correction.