2007-08-13 07:41:47 #63 of 63
A few years back I studied to be a minister to one of the big denominations (I won’t mention which one) However, I will say when I discovered they made their man made doctrine their primary source of their religion… I got out. I feel you should not be led spiritually by man but by God.
A situation came up where this organized religion stated that something was not in the Bible. It was in the Bible. They said but the Bible did not speak against the sin in question. However, the Bible did say that anyone committing that particular sin should be stoned to death. Now, is that not plainly speaking against something? Their rebuttal was that it is NOT spoken against in their doctrine and that was their final word. Half of the church walked out with me on that day. It was sad.
My advice to anyone who has questions about God, religion or the Bible is to open the Bible up!!! You have the same tools as any member of clergy. Many of the religions have tried to keep the mass majority ignorant of seeing and learning the word for themselves.
A lot of the people of today are living on Second hand religion as well… you’re a Christian cause your mom’s a Christian and whatever your mom said is good enough for you…but her religion is based off of what her parents said and yadda yadda yadda… the thing is, the retelling of their religion without ever opening up the source and reading it, things get miss interpreted. And when someone can’t back up what they know with scripture…that when you get hit with that “DON’T QUESTION IT!!” DO question it!! Open up the book and see what it says!
1 John 4:1[ Test the Spirits ] Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
