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1 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | goodnewsminister | 85505 | ||
"Do You Believe the True Gospel?" Chapter 1 — A Message About the Messenger? Your eternity depends on your willingness to understand and believe the true Gospel! Yet the Apostle Paul warned the Christians of his day, "For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a DIFFERENT GOSPEL which you have not accepted; you may well put up with it!" (2 Corinthians 11:4). Frankly, millions of sincere men and women have put up with a false gospel. They have been deceived all right-far too easily deceived. Why? Because too many have failed to obey God's command to "prove all things" (1 Thessalonians 5:21, KJV). Jesus Christ said, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel" (Mark 1:15). Have you believed the same Gospel, which Jesus preached? You need to be sure! There are many, many "gospels" being preached in the world today! Have you ever heard something like this? "Just give your heart to the Lord. Jesus was born in the manger as the Christ, the Son of God, to save as many souls in this age as would accept Him into their hearts. When He grew up, He went around performing miracles and forgiving people. He kept God's harsh law for all of us before finally being nailed to the cross along with that old law. He rose from the dead on the third day and appeared to many witnesses. Then He returned to heaven and began to set up His Kingdom in the hearts of men. He'll forgive your sins and come into your heart-just as you are-if you'll only accept Him. Jesus saves! Just believe on Him, and you'll be saved-born again. And, when you die, you'll go to be with Him in heaven-forever!" But is that really the Gospel Jesus taught? If you have accepted, without question, the almost unanimous voice of mainstream Christianity in this regard, you probably think that it is. Yet consider what Mark Twain wrote: "In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing" [Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959]. Do you really know what constitutes the genuine Gospel that Jesus and His Apostles preached? Or have you made a careless assumption, following the crowd as Mark Twain noted, taking your beliefs from second-hand suppositions? Probably you were taught the mainstream understanding of "the Gospel" while growing up. Or maybe you learned it from the barrage of religious publications and broadcasts that exist in our modern world. In any case, you have, more than likely, not seen the need to question your beliefs. After all, most professing Christian authorities are in agreement here. Surely, they must be right. Or are they? In His famous Olivet Prophecy, Jesus Christ warned, "Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many" (Matthew 24:4-5, KJV). Many modern versions place quotations around "I am Christ," assuming that Christ was talking about individuals who would claim to actually be Christ themselves. However, there have not been "MANY" such people in recent centuries that have been taken seriously, much less deceived the "MANY." Another interpretation some have offered is that Jesus was referring to false "Savior" figures like Hitler and Mussolini. But this is really taking liberties with the text. Remember, Christ said, "Many shall come IN MY NAME." A clearer rendering of what Jesus meant would be: "Take care that no one leads you astray. Indeed, many will appear, making use of My name, saying that I am Christ, yet deceiving many." What an astounding warning! Christ was foretelling that MANY false preachers would talk about Him and that they would proclaim that He is the Christ, the expected Messiah. Yet even after acknowledging Jesus' Messiahship, the deceivers are prophesied to seduce the unwary from a correct understanding of Jesus' genuine Gospel! How about you? Might they have deceived you too? Do not make careless assumptions! Find out-prove-what is true. Then you will really know and nobody will be able to fool you! Amen, Brother Meredith, Amen! Taken from Dr. Meredith's booklet, "Do you believe the True Gospel?" at the following URL: http://www.lcg.org/files/booklets/btg/default.htm |
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2 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | Radioman2 | 85506 | ||
Do I really know what constitutes the genuine Gospel that Jesus and His Apostles preached? Yes, I do and it is NEITHER the gospel according to Jehovah's Witnesses NOR is it the "Jehovah" of the Watchtower Society. Nor is it to be found in the New World Mis-translation of the Bible. | ||||||
3 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | goodnewsminister | 86025 | ||
My friend, You are mistaken. I am NOT a Jehovah's Witness and nor do I preach their gospel, which limits the love of God much as does your own form of the 'gospel', the only difference between JW's and Churchianity- all the other nominal churches such as Baptist, Methodists, etc...is that they- like you- use FEAR to gain converts. Most churches use FEAR of eternal torment to gain converts, and they use FEAR of eternal DEATH as their way of coverting people, both of which produce tare-Christians, or false Christians, as they serve God out of FEAR and not out of LOVE for Him. I have NOT been using the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures either, but primarly the Amplified Bible- as it brings out the full meaning hidden in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. May the Lord bless you today and always is my prayer for you. Christian Love, The Good News Minister |
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4 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | Hank | 86029 | ||
Good News Minister: As a member of a Southern Baptist Convention church, I take vigorous issue with many of the statments in your Post ID #86025, which are both erroneous and offensive. You list Baptist churches as being among what you call "nominal" churches. You accuse them of using fear to gain converts and further insult them by saying that their methods produce false Christians. Just who do you think you are, and who granted you the wisdom and authority to judge? Prove your points if you can. Show chapter and verse. This kind of lambaste is unconscionable and insulting to me, to the church I belong to, and to other Christians on this forum. I tell you frankly, knock it off or face abuse reports. --Hank | ||||||
5 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | flinkywood | 86037 | ||
Hank, it's Colin. I read the Forum from time-to-time but rarely want to contribute. In this case, however... I met 2 former WCG people. Their church busted up a few years ago because someone in authority finally had the guts to question Armstrong's tweaked-out doctrine and actually go read the bible. These 2 people gave me a book by the son of the last WCG Big Kahuna (post Armstrong), which described his father's awakening to the Gospel truth and the resultant, explosive breakup of the WCG. It was a nasty ride all the way: name-calling, threats, tears and the like, but the Holy Spirit brought a lot of people out of there. I don't think this goodnewsminister guy is a remnant of the WCG fanatical faithful, but he has a definite JW style, anti-hell jones working on him big-time. For most cults, and religion in general (Islam excepted here), hell takes a holiday so that Jesus can be demoted from the Son of God to a man, "a" god, an angel, a prophet or some post-facto allegorical device. Without hell you can deny the cross and call Jesus whatever you will. All religions do this to Him (Mohammed even said if you don't, you WILL go to hell!); and all religions suppress God's central work in unrighteousness: that Jesus died, in large measure, to save us from the wrath to come: 1 Th 1:10)...and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come. (NASB). There's been a lot of trash-talk in here lately |
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