Make sure your belief system proves and biblically (exegetic-ally not eisegetically) substantiates every teaching it gives. Always confirm with the BIBLE not with your BISHOPS, Religious founders or even Theologians. It doesn’t matter how big your religion is, how much miracles your pastor is performing, how big your congregation is and how much your religion is politically recognized…prophet Elijah was not recognized neither was he popular like the Baal prophets were: 1 Kings 18.
There is a very important question the Bible asks: DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE READING? Acts 8:30. The way we answer this question determines where we stay and how we stay there.
If your justification of being in whatever belief system you are in is “FAITH”…say like I don’t have to search, dig-deep, test and prove what I believe personally… Then the Bible has some bad news to all who claim to be in “FAITH”….this what it says in Hebrews 11:1: now FAITH is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for and EVIDENCE of things not seen.
The word SUBSTANCE is a translation of the Greek word: “Hupostasis” that means the ‘objective’ and an underlying reality behind anything, with the ‘specific’ meaning derive from the ‘context’ that gives a firm guarantee and basis for confidence or assurance.
(Freiberg lexicon)
The word EVIDENCE is a translation of the Greek word: “Elegxos” that means strictly trying or testing for the purpose of PROVING.
Now let me ask: DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE BELIEVING/READING?
1-if your pastor says thus says God, go and bring all your money on the bank account to be prayed for!!!
2-if your pastor asks you to eat grass, in the name of Jesus!!!
3-if your pastor claims to return demons to fellow sinners and not to hell (abizaayo)!!!
4-if your pastor claims to insert the power of the holy spirit through your genitals!!!!
5-if your pastor walks on your body, steps on your abdomen in the name of healing!!!!
6-if your religion instructs you to kill all those who are not of your faith!!!
7-if your pastor asks you to buy water from him for a blessing!!!
8-if your religion asks you not write your exams on a particular day!!!
9-if your religion teaches praying to idols, and repenting through priests and dead religious icons!!!
10-if your religion teaches…salvation by grace through faith authenticated by law obedience!!!!
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE BELIEVING?
I T WHITE
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