Taken from A Bible Study and True Christianity.
1. True Christianity must line up with the Bible, the word of God. True Christianity pronounces Jesus Christ to be the son of God and believes that He is the only way to salvation and forgiveness.
2. True Christianity will be rejected by the vast majority. This has always been the case throughout history. In Noah’s time only 8 people were saved in the whole world. In Lot’s time only Lot and his family were saved in two cities. The Bible says that our time will be similar to Noah and Lot’s time so it is very likely that the percentage of people saved could be similar.
3. True Christianity will be considered radical by most people. Jesus, the apostles and the prophets were considered radical. The Bible says that Christians are a peculiar people.
4. True Christianity will boldly rebuke and hate evil to such a large extent that those who preach the truth will greatly upset those who are evil. Those who preach truth will suffer persecution as a result.
5. True Christianity will be controversial and cause divisions (Luke 12: 51,52). To cause these divisions major change would have to occur in someone’s life which would upset others.
6. True Christianity will testify that almost everything that almost everyone does is evil.
7. True Christianity will be about true love, which is sharing and caring for others, where the main focus is to proclaim or aid the proclamation of the Gospel.
8. True Christianity will not be conformed to the world by accepting or desiring materialism, money and commercialism as a good thing or a part of life.
9. True Christianity will not be able to be proved wrong, although people may appear to make it sound untrue by arguing against it by using false statements.
10. True Christianity will not be deceptive or misleading or cause people to believe a lie. It will be about honesty and truth. People today are saying misleading things such as that the church is fine. They say people are supposed to be getting healed everywhere and saying they are healed when they are not. This could be compared to a dishonest salesman who says something is great when it does not work in order to get people to accept their product or system.
11. True Christianity is positive about good things and doing God’s will, but it hates evil. It is not like the mainstream that is positive about many evil things. Saying that something evil is good is only leading people to do evil. Many people say that things are fine and that many people are being saved and doing God’s will when this is not true. This is only suppressing the fact that the world is almost totally evil and causing people not to repent.
12. True Christianity has the fruits of commitment to doing God’s will and it will follow the historical example of those who did God’s will such as Jesus, the Apostles and the Prophets. Using your time and money to do God’s will is the purpose of life. The majority don’t do God’s will by working for the corrupt system or spending their money and time on unnecessary things
There is some good discussion and Christian overviews with reference to Eckhart Tolle’s book, “A New Earth” at the following links that are worth checking out….
http://prolepticlife.wordpress.com/
and
http://bcooper.wordpress.com
That’s great stuff, Bro. Alan! Hope you enjoy your Bank Holiday, bro!
I would enjoy it more if I wasnt at work
Hi, Alan. Great post. It sums it right up.
Thinking about distinguishing real Christianity from Satan’s gospel reminds me of those old commercials comparing Coke and Pepsi, in which people were blindfolded and had to distinguish the difference based on the taste of each.
I guess that’s kind of how it is with this new doctrine sneaking into the Church…but some people are refusing to take off the blindfold even after “tasting the bitterness” of the Satan’s false gospel.
Anyway, I think I’m going to add this link to one of my posts.
Peace.
I like that Coke and Pepsi anaology
That is one great analogy, Lavrai. I often see this with my dad. Despite me showing him films “The Many Faces of Benny Hinn”, “The Signs and Wonders Movement Exposed”, “Christian Counterfeiters” and most importantly, showing him from Scripture that a man like Benny Hinn is not to be trusted, he just won’t see the evidence for what it says
True Christianity is Westboro Baptist Church?
(By which I mean distinguishing truth from falsity by looking for beliefs that are distrusted and which believe that most things are evil, in ways that are unfalsifiable, with an honest fanaticism, and which command their followers to devote all their resources to the group is a very very bad idea, given the huge range of terrorist groups, cults, suicide sects and so on this covers in this day and age.)
Guys remeber the bible say that satan will disguise himself as a shining angel of God, well if he is to look like an angel of God he cant Go to operate in Night club or in brothels but he will operate in the church. and hey we allow him because of lack of knowledge. many of this people who are deceived by these false prophetes like saying that satan is a fool even though he outsmart them.
God’s Love
Anon Westboro Baptist Church is not a good representation of Christianity and I apologise. The Phelps are the worst typr of ‘advert’ for christianity and by their behaviour, I dont even believe they are christians as true christians would not do the things that they do ie picket at dead soldiers funerals. They make the scriptures say something that it des not and twist it to suit themselves. That is the characteristic of “most terorist groups, cults, suicide sects and so on”
But what I would ask you is if your friend punched me and I said that I hate you, that would not be fair would it? In the same way, do not judge christianity or more importantly Jesus Christ on the basis or the actions of his followers or presumed followers.