Manipulating the Bible

Cunning, crafty manipulator

Satan began his existence as the highest of nobility, filled with Godly Wisdom, only to see his aspirations shattered following his rebellion, and all his glory stripped away. No longer does he possess Godly Wisdom, instead he has become a cunning, crafty manipulator.

First love - key to life

Many people began to see a need to worship the True God, and were filled with the joy of discovery as they began to study His Holy word. The Bible describes this as a “First love.”

In this early period, many students saw God’s Holy Scriptures as the key to life and a joy to behold. Frequently, they sought out others of same interest and began to fellowship with them.

Doctrine of emotionalism instead of God’s hidden Wisdom

Many times students were discouraged by a doctrine too narrow and therefore it led to a doctrine of emotionalism. The first love was replaced with emotional, symbolic worship of God. It didn’t seem necessary anymore to search out God’s hidden Wisdom; instead they began to believe that they were already “saved” as soon as they “accepted Jesus as their personal Savior.” Nothing else seemed relevant anymore.

All who want to be exclusive – must distort the Bible

After a while it became obvious that their church was not unique, many other churches were teaching the same thing, and so the manipulators went to work to fabricate doctrines that made them exclusive, or at least, made them feel exclusive. Some Churches seized on a Scripture in 1Cor 15 in an effort to show that all their followers must be ‘baptized for the dead’. In fact, what Paul was saying is that we are not to be baptized for the dead. Paul made the point that the Son of God came as a man and died, but more importantly, He was raised from the dead and now sits at the right hand of God the Father. In summary Paul was saying that “if Jesus was not raised from the dead, then why are we being baptized for a dead man?”

So like this example many churches do exactly the opposite of what the bible is saying in order to be unique. 

And because of this millions of Christians are deceived by these congregations.

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