Christian Clarity Review

Remember that sermon in Church that was on “How no one can be sure that Jesus Christ is God or that anything He Said was actually Truth AND that Jesus was God and was Revelation?”

Remember how the pastor talked about the joys of uncertainty in Christ in between the passionate discourses on the PAIN on the CROSS! and the SUFFERING for OUR SINS! and how that supposed uncertainty was the why, the common sense of ‘choosing Jesus’ ideas’ or say, Buddha’s ‘ideas’ NOW! and that supposed uncertainty made peace with ‘other’ religions and that such things as ‘other faiths’ existed because no one could be sure about anything, to include the PAIN on the CROSS! and the SUFFERING for OUR SINS! or even that we were really sinners or that Christ even exists?

I don’t either.

But in Preacherville, that mass “marketplace of ‘ideas’” wherein all that is done and spoken supposedly never interferes with the human will (aka Babylon filled with lying spirits) so as to keep up the lie of free will no matter what is said/lying spirits spread, a sermonizer of anti-Christ is not only saying that there is no certainty in Jesus Christ, but that he knows exactly what he is uncertain about within the Unknown and is using that knowledge to choose certain aspects of demon worship as a substitute for what he lacks AND that his own views are always changing AND that he is a Christian enjoying eternal life NOW as he says that.

Even within the lie of free will, advertisers pay their hucksters to be certain on camera. “Buy my product!” This man, filled with lying spirits is not-certain as he is paid cash money and kind words amongst his own to sell his brand name of Jesus. His angst, at least in his own eyes (and that of ‘Christianity Today’) is his piety and his bait.

This man filled with lying spirits, a poster person of Satan’s lies as non-creating speech such that he equates the Word of God with the non-creating speech of sin (the Unforgivable sin wherein the Holy Spirit in the Word is equated with demons)

Matthew 12:30-32 He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathers not with me scatters. For this reason I say unto you, Every sin and injurious speaking shall be forgiven to men, but speaking injuriously of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. And whosoever shall have spoken a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming one .

…is given a soapbox at “Christianity Today”, that apostate of apostate magazines. We’re not supposed to see that he is being lied through because he is supposedly “mainstream” and “conservative” and presented as a ‘critical thinker’.

No, Mr. Apostate is ‘critically examined’ and pronounced more spiritually fit because of his regular workout in Satan’s gym and is most blessed in that he has the benefit of working out with Satan in camaraderie AND then working out with Jesus in Love. No doubt he genuinely thinks to be a peacemaker between Jesus and Satan.

We’re not to see through his lies because “It concerns him that some of his friends have decided that there is little reason to be Christian at all because they regard all religions as equally valid, and he worries about people who seem to embrace tolerance and pluralism without having thought through the implications of these values for their own faith.”

and

while respecting the teachings of other religions, he also dismisses the notion that all religions are equally true or simply substitutable for one another.

No doubt, as niche tumors in the mind of anti-Christ, they are quite ‘convinced by the evidence’ that they are the conservatives without really going so far as to be ‘unreasoning’ “fundamentalist.”

Excerpted from:

One Way, Many Views - Christianity Today Magazine (note the attempt to tacitly associate the word ‘Reformed’ with automatic conservatism and then re-define conservatism to be functionally anti-Christian and anti-Christ by supposedly ‘including’ lies within ‘Reformed’ and ‘Christian’ as a ‘good’ thing…)

Although churches are guided by many considerations, including the condition of their finances and the interests of their members, theology is generally the underlying principle that governs the kinds of programs that are considered appropriate or inappropriate.

The importance of theology is particularly evident in the following example. First Reformed Church is one of the historic landmarks in its East Coast community. Founded in the mid seventeenth century, its membership has remained constant in recent years, numbering just below two hundred. The neighborhood is rich in religious diversity. Besides Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant churches, it includes four synagogues, two mosques, two Hindu temples, and two Buddhist temples. In the past two years, First Reformed has participated in two three month long Bible study classes held jointly with a synagogue four blocks down the street. At first, about twenty five people from the church attended, and then the number grew to around forty. Each week the discussion focused on a passage from the Hebrew scriptures. The pastor and the rabbi led the discussion, but mostly the members of the two congregations just shared their impressions and opinions about the passage. The experience was so positive that the congregation has been considering repeating it and perhaps initiating a similar forum with one of the mosques in the neighborhood.

The Reverend Jon Hoekema, now in his twelfth year as pastor at First Reformed, views these interfaith activities as a natural expression of Christ’s teachings. The congregation’s theological orientation, he says, is firmly trinitarian, mainstream as far as the denomination (Reformed Church in America) is concerned, and conservative. He believes that Christ opens people to a relationship with God that deepens and enriches their lives, and for this reason, he strongly urges people who want a relationship with God to study the Bible and become involved in a community of believers where they can learn about Christ. His understanding of salvation is more positive than negative: those who know Jesus have an abundant, eternal relationship with God; those who resist God’s will may in the end also be forgiven or perhaps a merciful God will simply terminate their existence, rather than sentencing them to eternal suffering. Mr. Hoekema says that there is no way to be sure about this, so it is better to focus on other aspects of Christianity.

The most important teaching, in his view, is to love one another as God has loved us, and this means loving everyone. “Because of Jesus, I now have a new relationship with every other human being on the face of the earth. They are my brother and sister because God is our father. The way I describe it is because of the exclusive nature of my commitment to Christ I have become a very inclusive person. There is this exclusive nature of Christianity. It is a commitment to Christ which seems to exclude others, but because of my relationship to Christ he has showed me that I am a brother and sister to every other human being on the earth.” Thus, in his ministry, he tries to live up to this ideal of inclusivity. He is pleased, for example, that his once all white congregation is now a melting pot of European Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Puerto Rican Americans and that it helps sponsor a couple of foreign missionaries. He takes an active role in the local clergy council, which includes rabbis as well as pastors, and has been working through this organization to combat hate crimes reflecting the racial, ethnic, and religious tensions in the community.

Over the years, Mr. Hoekema has had ample opportunity to think about the implications of his seemingly paradoxical view about the exclusivity of Christianity being conducive to an inclusive approach to religious diversity. Reared in a predominantly Christian community in the Midwest and having attended a conservative Christian college, he was challenged by some of his college and seminary professors to think hard about his religious assumptions, rather than merely taking them for granted. Traveling in Europe, visiting Holocaust sites, and having close friends who were Jewish and Hindu, as well as his reading, forced him to think about how to be Christian in a religiously diverse environment. It concerns him that some of his friends have decided that there is little reason to be Christian at all because they regard all religions as equally valid, and he worries about people who seem to embrace tolerance and pluralism without having thought through the implications of these values for their own faith.

His own views are still developing. He says, for example, that he would have no trouble talking to a Muslim about how to become a Christian if that person were interested; at the same time, he thinks there is a kind of devotion and piety in Islam that God probably respects and, indeed, from which Christians could learn. He believes that Jesus is God and is God’s revelation to humankind, yet he also believes that people of other religions find God through the way of humility and obedience that Jesus taught even though they may not consciously invoke the name of Jesus. He regards the Bible as God’s infallible word, meaning that it is trustworthy, but rejects the idea of biblical inerrancy and insists that the Bible is one of many ways in which God is revealed. His interpretation of Jesus’ statement about being the way, the truth, and the life emphasizes the differences between this statement in the gospel of John and those of the other gospel writers; while respecting the teachings of other religions, he also dismisses the notion that all religions are equally true or simply substitutable for one another.

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For a person like Mr. Hoekema who takes theology seriously, the reality of other religions not only in the world but in his immediate neighborhood poses an opportunity to think more deeply about his faith than otherwise might have been the case. He expects Christianity to become a minority religion in the United States within a generation or two and says that this will probably be a good development. At least those who remain Christians, he hopes, will have a clearer understanding of why they are trying to follow the teachings of Christ. Meanwhile, he acknowledges that he does not have all the answers but believes his God is big enough to encourage Christians to interact on level ground with followers of other religions without fear.

(more to the article along the same lines..)

The message Satan is trying to send as “Truth’ through that article in ‘Christianity’ Today: No one can be certain of anything. There is only ‘trying’ to follow Jesus Christ –and perpetually/eternally remaining the same fallen creature that was physically born on earth –a direct equating with the flesh and the soul. There supposedly is no being new creation in Jesus Christ now or even the necessity of it, even to escape the lake of fire.

According to anti-Christ through ‘Christianity’ Today and Mr. Hoekema, heaven and hell will be full of identical creatures in two different places who earned their placement by ‘doing’ one set of behaviors as opposed to another in ‘free’ will. What new creation? What Creating Word of God?

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Very plainly heaven is and will be filled with real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ while the lake of fire will be filled with everything else. God is not mocked by Mr. Hoekema’s ‘holy angst’ and the belligerence he keeps on hand toward Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Father to always be just ignorant enough to be polite and learn from to his demon worshipping neighbor and to constantly equate anti-Christ as non-creating speech with the Creating Word of God, Jesus Christ.

No doubt the crew at ‘Christianity’ Today and Mr. Hoekema are great ‘agree-er’s with God. When God Speaks, they think for a minute and as a chorus say “We concur.” and think themselves to have honored God. How shocked they will be in the lake of fire if God is not merciful to them.

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A Parable:

Day of Judgment:

God: It says here that you agree with me. That you agreed with me for years and taught others to.

Claimant: Absolutely, Your Highest.

God: How can I be highest if you say you have to concur with all I say in order for it to be true or binding?

Claimant: That’s not what I meant..

God: Now I’m mistaken?

Claimant: No. I..

God: How is it that I sent a lie to entrap those who were not my Sons, to expose them for what they were, vessels of wrath I made specifically to be vessels of wrath and here you are repeating back to me that lie and yet pretending it is not a lie at all but proves you are my Son?

Claimant: Uhhh, I don’t know.

God: Then how did you agree? And teach others to. Do you claim that your speech is the Same as My Son, Jesus Christ?

Claimant: Oh yes, Your highest. He just had secret insight into how to use it. But there is only one speech in total reality. Everyone knows that. I was just trying to hold you up in front of pagan people in a way they could understand so that they could worship you too. Like you wanted. I was preaching the gospel.

God: I never wanted that. If I had wanted them to worship Me through some other Word than My Son, I would not have sent My Son. And by your own speech, the only thing you taught them was to pretend they had to concur with everything I said before it became truth. You taught them that My Word was obscure and powerless, indeed, useless.

Claimant (searching among his former best selling books (he’s an ‘author’) ) This is very irregular. Wait a minute.

(heaven laughs)

God: Am I in you now?

Claimant: Of course not Your Highest. That would interfere with my free will and overthrow your whole system.

(uproarious laughter from heaven)

God: Have I ever been in any that spoke to you?

Claimant: Oh no, your highest. That would have interfered with their free will.

God: So you never heard Me personally Speak to you before this moment?

Claimant: Oh no, your highest. That has been my piety, my dread. That I would do something that offended you — because you had made your Word so obscure and confusing. So I..

God: Depart from me. I never knew you. When I came to you as Word through My prophets and servants, you just said you never heard Me. You deny to this hour that I AM. You thought you were laughing at them when in Truth you have scorned me. You killed my servants. You killed My Son. I sent many to you personally and Spoke to you. Yet you loved the speech you already had gotten and loved to argue against Me with it. Your favorite phrase was “I love to play devil’s advocate and test out my intellectual and debating skills on you.” You did not know I sent that speech to you to devour you and you never once truly turned to me.

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Luke 6:43-49 For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit; for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble. The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good; and the wicked man out of the wicked, brings forth what is wicked: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say? Every one that comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will shew you to whom he is like. He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock; but a great rain coming, the stream broke upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded on the rock. And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has built a house on the ground without a foundation, on which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of that house was great.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen