No one does more to promote Atheism than a professing Christian who is living in sin!
Gotta read “Evangelical Garbage.“ There are hundreds of old and majestic evangelical church buildings across our land. They are the kind that SHOUT church in every way. They have high ceilings, wooden pews, large pulpits, pipe organs, and red carpet. Outside is a towering steeple, stained glass windows, a large entrance into a well-designed foyer that leads to the awe-inspiring and art-filled auditorium. These churches used to pack in the crowds by the hundreds or even the thousands. Now the movement wants the real estate and the bank account, but they’ve done their best to make the beautiful facility look like a cheap night club. And what they did to the facility is nothing compared to what they did to the old couple that gave blood, sweat, and tears to build the place. They told them where to go… and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
"If you are in an evangelical church, next time you go to church, ask your child’s Sunday School teacher, “what is the focus of the lesson today?” If the answer is application based, just make that your last Sunday there. Really. Move. Go to a new church, a new town, or a new method of teaching your children. You will never convince the church to change. You will never change the direction. Just move. It’s that serious." White, Randy. Evangelical Garbage: How Evangelicalism is Confused, Manipulative, and Downright Dangerous (p. 87). Dispensational Publishing House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
"The average evangelical family has loving parents who want their children to love and serve our God, receiving His gift of salvation when they are old enough to understand that gift. But the focus of these parents, to make sure their children “have fun,” is simply dangerous. And, sadly, the evangelical industrial complex promotes this focus rather than eliminate it. And it doesn’t take a costly study to see that the great evangelical experiment in children and youth ministry has been a miserable failure in almost every way."
White, Randy. Evangelical Garbage: How Evangelicalism is Confused, Manipulative, and Downright Dangerous (pp. 86-87). Dispensational Publishing House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
White, Randy. Evangelical Garbage: How Evangelicalism is Confused, Manipulative, and Downright Dangerous (pp. 86-87). Dispensational Publishing House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
Still There
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. - Romans 1:24-27
Well, what do you know? These verses are still in the Bible even during the month of June.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. - Romans 1:24-27
Well, what do you know? These verses are still in the Bible even during the month of June.
Are We Justified by Works?
Paul wrote to the Galatians in 2:15-16: We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. The phrase we are Jews by nature simply refers to those who were born Jews including Paul. As for the rest of us, we were the sinners from among the Gentiles.
However, please understand that Paul was not saying that the Jews were not sinners as well. He had said as much in Romans 3:23 when he said that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It also needs to be understood that Paul here was not addressing all Jews but only those who know that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. The language makes it clear that he is addressing those Jews who had placed their faith in Christ and not the Law. This would mean that they were grace believers.
Again, he said that by the works of the law shall no flesh by justified. This has to be referring to the new dispensation of grace because under the old dispensation of Law they were justified by the works of the Law. Paul said in Romans 2:13, For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. This verse is clearly not referring to this present dispensation of grace.
Also, James 2:20-26 also said the exact opposite when he said, But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
It is pretty apparent that Paul and James are contradicting each other in these verses. What gives? The men were obviously saying two different things because they were addressing different audiences. Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles and James was writing to the Jews who were still under the Law. Like many in the church today, I spent years trying to harmonize the glaring contradictions until I came to realize that.
Paul wrote to the Galatians in 2:15-16: We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. The phrase we are Jews by nature simply refers to those who were born Jews including Paul. As for the rest of us, we were the sinners from among the Gentiles.
However, please understand that Paul was not saying that the Jews were not sinners as well. He had said as much in Romans 3:23 when he said that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It also needs to be understood that Paul here was not addressing all Jews but only those who know that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. The language makes it clear that he is addressing those Jews who had placed their faith in Christ and not the Law. This would mean that they were grace believers.
Again, he said that by the works of the law shall no flesh by justified. This has to be referring to the new dispensation of grace because under the old dispensation of Law they were justified by the works of the Law. Paul said in Romans 2:13, For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. This verse is clearly not referring to this present dispensation of grace.
Also, James 2:20-26 also said the exact opposite when he said, But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
It is pretty apparent that Paul and James are contradicting each other in these verses. What gives? The men were obviously saying two different things because they were addressing different audiences. Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles and James was writing to the Jews who were still under the Law. Like many in the church today, I spent years trying to harmonize the glaring contradictions until I came to realize that.