The Missing Cross to Purity

Deficiencies of the Deficit Sects

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As instructed by the Voice of the Lord, this web site frequently refers to Christendom sects, as the deficit sects. There are many who can point out errors in Christendom today, but none like this site, which shows you the way to purity, holiness, union, in the Kingdom of God within, while on earth and forever. This web page lists the problems. The solution is found in How to Receive the Changing Power of God, to become free from sin and enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The encouragement and hope is found throughout the web site, particularly the writings of the twenty plus souls who attained the purifying baptism of death, and entrance into heavenly Jerusalem while still writing on the earth.

Christendom's error is based on deceptively twisted definitions of three words: grace, the word, and salvation. (Click on each word to learn its true meaning.) These incorrect definitions, lead people to presume they are immune to all the Bible's warnings and all the Bible's stated requirements, while being unaware of heaven's availability while on earth. So today's Christendom, listening to the words of the scriptures, hears them like a beautiful song that is sweet to their ears, but they fail to apply the commands to themselves - always thinking the warnings and commands apply to bad people, not righteous people like themselves; so they do not obey the commands they hear.

Indeed you [God] are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument;
for they hear your words, but they do not do them. Eze 33:32

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22

The following is a partial list of the deficiencies of the deficit sects of Christendom today:

1. There is no fear of God, they sin in the sight of God with no fear or shame. There is no fear of God before their eyes. Rom 3:18



2. There is no obedience to God's commands. -- you are to them as a very lovely song, they hear your words, but they do them not. Eze 33:32



3. Today's deficit sects, still captive to sin and the power of Satan, believe in a God whose favor is presumed to be granted due to their heathenish ritual and form of godliness, while continuing to live in the godless human, sinful nature - continuing to be immoral, impure, greedy; practicing adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, pride, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, [partying], lying, deceit, foolishness, etc. - all those things that the Bible tells us we will be banned from heaven if we continue.
   Jesus never said you could be saved if you say the sinners' prayer, or be baptised with water, or eat bread and drink grape juice; these are just heathenish rituals.(See Sacraments for more.)
   
   The deficit sects have defined a horrible, unjust God, who on the basis of superstitious ritual, sends their non-believing neighbors to Hell for sinning, while supposedly excusing themselves to live the exact same life-style of sin, bypassing Hell. Think about it: does this sound fair, just, and equitable - to eternally punish one person on a technicality, while excusing another who conducts themselves identically? I assure you, it is not true, nor is it the least bit just; the true God is just.
   
   Here's the problem: the false salvation has to allow for a saved person to continue to sin, otherwise he has to keep getting saved every time he sins. Once you open the door to one sin is OK, the two are OK, then ten, then one thousand, then Adolph Hitler is in heaven too, because he was a believer, starting as a choir boy at age twelve. So heaven is full of evil people? The place full of supposedly saved people, who were still sinning as they died, is Hell, not heaven.
   
   True salvation is to have sin, even the desire to sin, destroyed in you by the teaching, purifying grace of God.
   
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, [revealed in us] that he might destroy the works [sin in us] of the devil. 1 John 3:8


4. When asked if many would be saved, Jesus said few would be saved, for the gate is narrow and the way is difficult; many would seek to enter and be unable. Mat 7:13-14,Luke 13:23-24. There are an estimated 2 billion so-called Christians in the world today. Does 2 billion people sound like a few to you? Is saying the sinner's prayer, getting dunked in water, eating bread/drinking grape juice a narrow, a difficult way that many would try to enter and be unable? No, because the presumed salvation of Christendom's deficit sects is make-believe, fables, lies, deceptions - it is the wide and broad way that leads to destruction. The deficit sects of Christendom have totally lost the narrow, true way that few will find; there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Pro 14:12,16:25,21:2.
   
   
5. These sects ignore, disregard, and treat with indifference all the commands of Jesus. While relying on four verses out of thousands to support their imaginary salvation, never bothering to question how those four verses must be interpreted in conjunction with all of Jesus' wonderful teachings and commands; they expect Jesus to be their excuse for not obeying the commands that he left his glory in heaven to come to the earth to teach, and then died a horrible death, to show the extent of the required obedience that we all must have to ever please God. He will not be their excuse. Jesus said he will deny all who continue to sin, even those who are firmly believe they are saved Christians.
   
   Notice Jesus in John 3:16 doesn't say if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, he says if you believe in him, (or simply believe him). There is a big difference: 1) mental assents to Jesus being the Son vs. 2) to believe what he commands and advises - enough to obey Him. He commands us to seek with our highest priority in life the Kingdom of God and His righteousness - to be perfect - to turn the other cheek, to come to him, listen to him, and obey him- to deny yourself and pick up your cross daily and to repent or perish. The demons believe that Jesus is the Son of God, but they don't obey him - they disobey him. The Amplified Bible gives us further understanding: whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him. Do you obey Jesus' commands, or are you like the demons, who believe him to be the Son of God raised from the dead, but who disobey his commands?
   
   John tells us who really believes that Jesus in the Son of God: it is he who has overcome the world, by fighting the good fight of faith, to victory over sin.



6. They tell you that the law is dead and because you believe in Jesus, you don't have to follow any of the law - that lawlessness is excused by Jesus.
   Yet Jesus said: all who practice lawlessness [who sin] will be gathered out of His Kingdom and cast into the fire,
   where there will be great wailing and gnashing of teeth. Mat 13:41-42.
   Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?
   But he who merely hears and does not practice doing My words
   is like a man who built a house on the ground
   without a foundation, ... and the breaking and ruin of that house was great. Luke 6:46-49
   (See Obedience is Still Required for more).



7. The sects teach that seeking God is not necessary, because believing is all there is to do.
   Yet Jesus tells us that seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness should be our highest priority,
   above food and clothes, and to keep on seeking and you will find.
   The Bible gives us many admonitions to seek diligently, early, with our whole heart and soul.
   Seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deu 4:2
   To seek God and find him is the single and entire purpose of life. That is why you are alive.
   He [God] has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth,
   and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
   so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him,
   though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being;
   one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in you all. Acts 17:26-28, Eph 4:6
   Yet, the ministers of today tell you: don't seek, don't obey, don't fear, don't strive -
   they say there is no need, because of grace, your supposed license for immorality and excuse for remaining in sin.
   
   He tells us to seek his face. Keep seeking until his face appears visible to you in your heart, until his face appears in ever increasing glory.



8. They pray thy will be done, and then blithely continue do their own wills.
   Jesus said, the only people who would enter heaven were those who did the will of the Father.
   Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven,
   but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Mat 7:21
   The Father told us how to do his will, how to go to heaven.
   This is My Son, My Chosen One or My Beloved; listen to and yield to and obey Him! Luke 9:35
   So you must come to Jesus, silently listen, hear him speak to you, and then obey what he commands you to do.



9. Sin has been minimized, misunderstood, or totally forgotten. They can't discern their right hand and left hand. Jonah 4:11



10. The concept of repentance has been forgotten. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:5
    Jesus told the adulteress: I do not condemn you either.
    Go on your way and sin no more, least a worse thing come upon you. John 8:11.
    The worse thing is to be banned from heaven for still sinning, and sent to Hell, until you have paid the last penny .
    He would not have commanded her to sin no more, unless it were possible. Repentance is the way.
    Jesus warned us several times: Unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Luke 13:3,5
    Repentance results in Him changing us by the power of his grace to become - holy, pure, and perfect.
    
    Luke 24:47
    And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
    In the original Greek, the word for remission meant both forgiveness and remission. That is why many New Testament translations (NIV, and AMP) use the word forgiveness instead of remission. Remission, (as in, the cancer is in remission - a shrinking, a dying), is far more accurate, and perfectly describes the purification necessary to avoid being banned from heaven. The cleansing of the Word, the cleansing in the Light, both attained by waiting on the Lord, listening, hearing, watching, and obeying - such cleansing is a remission of sin. But the poor souls, who were trying to translate the Bible, had not experienced remission of sin within themselves, and so obviously chose to emphasize forgiveness instead.
    
    The deficit sects kept the forgiveness, are not to sure how to repent, and are ignorant of repentance's effects - remission.
    
    Christendom claims they don't need to repent because they are already righteous because they believe.
    This is just like the Jews who claimed they were special too, and didn't need to repent.
    Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’
    For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Luke 3:8
    
    Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:5. But if you keep on repenting, you can enjoy purity, holiness, perfection, judgment, being freed from even the desire to sin, destruction of the residual man of sin within one by the brightness of his coming, seeing your name written in the Book of Life, joining in union with Christ and the Father, entering into the Kingdom of Heaven, seeing the Glory of God, themselves also appearing in glory, fellowshipping with past saints made perfect, and fellowshipping with the Father and Christ the Father and the Son; and live forever as a Son of God.



11. The inward cross of self-denial has been forgotten, dismissed, ignored, and treated with contempt;
    yet Jesus told us repeatedly that no one can be his disciple, or is worthy of him, without carrying their cross and following him.



12. No one is taught how to receive the power of God to change their hearts, removing even the desire to sin.



13. Grace has been twisted into a pernicious lie, said to be instant salvation; and an excuse for all their sins: past, present, and forever.



14. Today's ministers, with eyes full of adultery, [love for the world] they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood! They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those [lustful desires of sinful nature] who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. 2 Peter 2:12-19.  (And Jesus said, I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. John 8:34)

    I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
          They commit adultery [with love of the world and profit] and walk in lies;
          They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, [telling them they are saved]
          So that no one turns back from his wickedness. [they remain in sin]
          All of them are like Sodom to Me,
          And her inhabitants like Gomorrah. Jer 23:14
    (Christendom has fallen to the same lies that the Jews repeatedly fell to.)

15. Like the Pharisees, today's ministers shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for they neither enter themselves, nor do they allow those who are about to go in to do so. Mat 23:13



16. Like the Pharisees, today's ministers like to walk about in long robes and love to be saluted [with honor] in places where people congregate and love the front and best seats in the synagogues and places of distinction at feasts.



17. Like the Pharisees, today's ministers outwardly seem to people to be just and upright but inside they are full of pretense and lawlessness and iniquity, and grasping self-indulgence. They feed themselves while fleecing the sheep; and they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. (eager to take your money.)
    
    Notice: as society's morals decay, the standards of all the deficit sects decay proportionally; less than one hundred years ago, the churches did not tolerate divorce, drunkenness, living together as partners, illegitimate children, etc. Today, our sects tolerate any degree of sin, sympathizing and consoling the shameful ministers publicly exposed in some outrageous excess of sin: Haggard, Baker, Swaggert, etc.; plus all the Roman priests, exposed, but usually not defrocked, for molesting the young boys of their congregations.



18. The Bible is mistaken for the Word of God, so people read instead of listen to God.  and the Word was God. John 1:1
    They think all the commands in the Bible to hear the word of God, mean to listen to someone read the Bible.
    Yet, Paul told us where the word was:
    “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith which we preach. Rom 10:8
    You must have faith in the word which is within you, in your heart and mouth;
    faith enough to listen, and faith enough to obey the heard commands.
    So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, Rom 10:17 (hearing the word of God within your heart)
    So which Jesus do you believe in?
    The Jesus in the history book, or the Jesus within you that speaks to you, teaches you, encourages you, and changes you?
    Blessed (happy and to be envied) rather are those who hear the Word of God and obey and practice it! Luke 11:28
    
    Let me illustrate the problem further. Jesus said: Be perfect, therefore, as your Father in Heaven is perfect. Mat 5:48
    You can't obey this command by hearing someone read the Bible.
    But, if you are listening to the Lord's voice, the true Word of God, he will give you a series of commands, which if you keep and obey, you will eventually become pure and perfect, by your obedience and his accompanying grace. Your faith in the words you hear, being from Jesus, is what purifies you.



19. They do not understand that Christ is within them, waiting to teach them. Christ in you, the hope of Glory. 1 John 2:27



20. They think God is outward, far off in heaven - but He is in us all, in our hearts, chained down, waiting to grow. Rom 10:8



21. They tell you to study the Bible to grow. Yet the letter kills; only the spirit gives life. Studying the Bible is like studying the law. It only increases your fleshly knowledge. It only puffs up your pride. The Bible is not the truth - Jesus, the Word of God, is the truth, the Father's words are truth; truth and the word of God, heard within, and obeyed is what sanctifies you. You must receive increasingly more of Jesus' listened to words in order to grow. You can memorize the entire Bible, and it will do you no good, unless you spend time, waiting on God, listening for his voice, hearing him, obeying him. The Bible is good for hope, the Bible is good for understanding what God does not approve of. But you cannot grow reading the Bible. See My Sheep Hear My Voice for more. Everyone of the truth hears my voice. John 18:37



22. They don't have a clue as to how to progress spiritually. To make any progress at all, you must go to him. You must wait on him - listen silently, with the humility of a sinner in need of his changing power - grace. Seek, listen, obey..seek, listen, obey.....seek, listen, obey.......
    A reader of this site asked his senior minister of 35 years,
    what is the meaning of: Be still, and know that I am God, Psalm 46:10?
    The minister said, it means, be quiet in church and listen to your preacher. (pathetic)
    Unless you get quiet to listen for the Lord's voice within, hear him, and obey him - there is no spiritual progress or salvation.
    
    But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you,
    and you do not need any man to teach you:
    but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,
    and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him. 1 John 2:27
    
    The Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. John 16:13



23. Covetousness is encouraged, even preached as the gospel of prosperity. Beware of covetousness...life is not things. Luk 12:15



24. The operations and necessity of the light have been totally forgotten.



25. Works of faith are not encouraged, and often warned against. Faith without works is dead. James 2:20,26



26. Tithes are collected and paid, yet tithes were of crops from the land only, (not money), were only to be collected only by the Levitical priesthood, (which has been annulled by Jesus' priesthood), and were for the support of widows and orphans - not just the priests or temple. Tithing died with Jesus assuming the everlasting priesthood.



27. They think salvation is in the Bible. Jesus said: You search the scriptures thinking to find eternal life, but will not come to me. John 5:39-40



28. By taking a few scriptures and twisting them, the deficit sects have created a false salvation, with false promises, which shall be annulled. They tell you that you are saved; which you can only presume without absolute evidence from God to you.
    
    Let's examine how taking one or two scriptures, while ignoring many others, results in false conclusions:
    
    We trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. 1 Tim 4:9-10. Taking this one scripture by itself, there is no need to do anything, ( not even the heathenish rituals of saying the sinner's prayer, getting wet, or eating bread and drinking grape juice to be saved.) This is the error of the Universalists. The scripture is true, but you have to know the rest of the scriptures to interpret it correctly. See Is There Hope for All to understand this scripture, in context with all the rest of the Bible.
    
    The same is true for taking John 3:16, (anyone who believes shall not perish), and three others out of context with the rest of the scriptures that include: without holiness, no one will see the Lord; anyone who is impure, immoral, or greedy will be banned from heaven; and except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. See the complete discussion The John 3:16 fallacy.
    
    The only true salvation. (to escape from being banned from heaven), results from the inward cross of self-denial to purity, brought by the appearance of Jesus in your heart, who judges you, destroys the residual man of sin within you by the brightness of his coming, and takes you to the Kingdom of Heaven, where you have fellowship with the Father and the Son, see your name written in the Book of Life, receive a new name engraved on a white stone, and see the glory of God - all this is ignored, assumed to be impossible while alive, discounted, even denigrated.
    
    
29. They tell you that you are righteous, because you believe in Jesus, even though you continue to sin. It is written: He that says to the wicked, 'You are righteous;' him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him; particularly those who have sold and assured them of a false salvation. You will curse those who have fooled you into believing that you will not be banned from heaven because you sin, because you live in lawlessness.



30. The deficit sects teach that a spiritual experience, (really just a wake-up call), of God is evidence of being filled with the Holy Spirit. When, if one is truly filled with the Holy Spirit, their thoughts, words, and actions are controlled by the Holy Spirit.



31. The sects tell their followers that they are in Christ, when only those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires. Gal 5:24.



32. Like dishonest salesmen, the deficit sects preach only the headlines of a contract, while failing to disclose to you all the fine print of the contract - which plainly states the requirements to be holy, pure, and perfect; and the exclusions of the impure, immoral, or greedy. There are consumer-protection laws against such dishonest salesmen, but no laws against the dishonest preachers. God will avenge; but he also expects you to read the fine print.



33. People are taught that prayer is to tell God what they want, instead of being silent to listen to God so he can tell us what he wants us to do. Be still and know I am God. Pa 46:10, Be silent all flesh. Zec 2:13. Listen to and obey My voice, and I will be your God and you will be My people; and walk in the whole way that I command you. Jer 7:23



34. The prayer of the wicked [those who still sin] is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. Pro 15:8 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words. Pro 15:26



35. Ministers are paid, against Peter's and Jesus' commands: Feed the flock, not for filthy lucre. 1 Peter 5:2. Freely you have received, freely give. Mat 10:8. Those who ask for money, or who take a salary, or who tell you to tithe are the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ferocious wolves - greedy, and eager to devour your money! Mat 7:15 . Peter and Jude had some very grave things to say about those who solicit donations or preach for a salary. Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. They both say that blackest darkness is reserved for them forever. And the first shall be last, and the last first.
    



36. Heathenish ritual, a form [empty shell, dead, dry], and superstitious ceremony have replaced worship in Spirit and Truth.
    A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers.
    God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality). John 4:23-24



37. Ministers speak from a divination of their mind rather than words supplied at the moment from the Holy Spirit.



38. Ministers steal the words of the saints, instead of speaking words heard directly from God.



39. Ministers speak a flow of lies, based on their position, and the people love it. Your minister can be a great public speaker receiving the praise of men, but so did the false prophets of old. Luke 6:26
    
    
40. According to the Paul in Ephesians, the purpose of teachers, preachers, and pastors is for the perfecting of the saints and to bring people to the fullness and completeness of Christ:

    And His gifts were some to be apostles (special messengers), some prophets (inspired preachers and expounders), some evangelists (preachers of the Gospel, traveling missionaries), some pastors (shepherds of His flock) and teachers. His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church), until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the knowledge of the Son of God, that at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him. Ephesians 4:11-13

    Is your pastor helping you to attain perfection? Is your pastor bringing people to the fullness and completeness of Christ? Of course not because they don't have a clue as to how to do it. They are unauthorized and untaught by Christ; they are still in the old man of the flesh, preaching from their carnal mind, teaching deceptions. They are leading you and others into spiritual captivity. Your pastor is a false prophet, doomed for destruction and leading you to destruction also.

41. The deficit sects have fulfilled, and continue to fulfill, the below prophecies.
    
    As predicted: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires,
    because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
    and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 2 Tim 4:3-4
    
    As predicted: People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. 2 Tim. 3:2-5
    
    As predicted: This is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
    Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things,
    speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits. Isaiah 30:9-10
    The listen to the law like beautiful music, but do not obey. They are hearers only, no doers.
    They assume all of God's laws only apply the bad people, not good people like themselves;
    yet, because they still sin: they are slaves to sin, they serve sin, and they are under the power of Satan.



42. The rest has been totally forgotten and totally misunderstood, and no one enters.



43. The kingdom of God is totally misunderstood, and no one enters.
    
    
44. They tell you Jesus is coming again, to the whole world. Yet in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus is recorded saying that some then standing with him, 2000 years ago, would see his glorious coming with the Kingdom before they died. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus is recorded saying all the end times prophesies would be fulfilled before the generation of 2000 years ago died, (click here to see all).
    
    
45. They tell you there is a great tribulation coming soon on the whole world. Yet In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus is recorded saying all the end times prophesies, including the great tribulation, would be fulfilled before the generation of 2000 years ago died. See all the Tribulation scripture references that prove tribulation is to be experienced by all of those determined to live a godly life in Christ Jesus.
    
    
46. They tell all their followers that they are going to be one-time raptured out of the world, saved from the supposed one-time great tribulation. Every generation has sat around waiting for this to happen. Yet, just as the second appearance of Jesus and the great tribulation, has applied to every generation, so does the rapture - but only to those individuals in each generation that have purified their hearts through repentance on the cross of Christ. See the Second Appearance of Jesus for more.



47. The ministers don't have the fruit of the Spirit; instead they have thorns and briers.



48. Ministers, evangelists, teachers, have not been appointed by the Holy Spirit. Christ said, the pupil is not above the master. Yet these blind ministers, were never pupils of Christ, were never taught by him - they were only taught by other men. So they have placed themselves above the teacher, as unnecessary; they consider themselves to be above Christ, teaching before they have been authorized, perfected, and restored by Christ; being blind they can only lead you into the ditch.



49. God's requirements and promises of perfection, holiness, and purity are ignored and denied as being possible for man on earth.



50. The Bible is their authority, judge, and rule - not the Holy Spirit of God and Christ.



51. Swearing is mistaken to be profanity; while swearing [oaths] is common among Christians.



52. Church buildings are an expression of man's pride and vanity, and were never commanded by God.



53. Union with Christ and God has been totally ignored, assumed to be impossible, or presumed to occur from asking.



54. People think they have been born again, while still in their sinful nature; to be born again and sinning are mutually exclusive. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
    In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 1 John 3:9-10
    
    
55. They incorrectly tell people that they can give their hearts to Jesus, just by saying so. You only give your heart to Jesus by obeying his each and every command listened to and heard; then he takes your sin from your heart, inch by inch - in a spiritual battle that he wins - if you persevere in repentance and obedience to the end. First he has to break your heart, then circumcise it.



56. They tell people by just inviting Jesus into their hearts, he becomes their Lord and Savior. Yet Jesus was already there, in the hearts of all men and women who come into the world. He is chained down, waiting patiently for you to seek, listen, obey.....seek, listen, obey- so he can grow in you and take full possession of your heart, to rule and guide your words and actions; and until he controls all of your words and actions, you are still a servant of sin under the power of Satan, not the Lord.



57. People are promised heaven after death, just by believing that Jesus is the Son of God;
    yet even the demons believe and tremble.



58. People interpret a spiritual experience (God's wake up call) to be born again, baptised by the Spirit, or worse: a call to preach.



59. So-called Christians, with evil still in their hearts, are told by their sects to witness to others.



60. Without obeying his commands, so-called Christians think:
    They know Jesus: We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. 1 John 2:3
    They love Jesus: If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. John 14:23
    They are a friend of Jesus: You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:14
    They have been born again while still sinning: Whoever has been born of God does not sin. 1 John 3:9



61. They have a form [empty shell] of godliness, without Power. Paul said, turn away from such people. 2 Tim 3:5



62. They are assemblies of hypocrites - talking about religion, but walking in sin.



63. Each sect has a different concept of what God requires, what Jesus insists on, what his message was. Each different concept of what God requires, and what Jesus requires, is actually defining a different God. These different definitions of God and Jesus are based on their collective opinion as to which scriptures are important, and which scriptures need to be ignored - or even their opinion of what a scripture means. They each worship a different Jesus. They each proclaim a different gospel. They are cursed.



64. So each sect prays, not to God, but to the collective spirit of their group, which has been imagined God and his requirements according to their collective opinion of God.



65. These sects are all derived from the Roman Catholic sect, preserving the vast majority of that sect's heathenish traditions, beliefs, and ceremonies.



66. The so-called 30,000 Christian sects are Babylon - painted to imitate and appear like Zion;