I'm doing something I should have done a long time ago; Challenge my Faith with questions people are too afraid to ask.
I ask myself this; Would I have followed leaders like Jim Jones in the younger years of my life, while I was deeply searching for God, and extremely gulliable?
My first Pastor, who fell into adultery, was extremely rigid, had "strange" spiritual motives, and is no longer apostolic, did he have the potential to lead us into the dark side of religion (or did he lead me to that side, and I didn't know it)?
Am I so locked into the "Pentecostal" way of thinking, that to ponder another way of thinking would be considered demonic?
Is the King James Bible accurate? With historical reference now at our fingertips, we are finding fallacy, fault, and great manipulation coming from our past. To conceive the King James as the "Word of God", we must preceive who wrote it, why, when, and how it applies to us who want truth. To lock God into this Book, we may find this has completely endangered our ability to comprehend who God really is. Why, because MAN is all over this Book. Failure is intertwined into this interpretation, and that is a fact. To simply conclude, The Bible is the Tell All, this is the same theory behind men like Jim Jones. Accept this or DIE!
If we as Oneness people don't beleive this, we are flawed and guilty of hiding the truth, creating our own cult of fear and oppression.
The 47 Bishops responsible for translating the King James were cultured from Trinity doctrine, and bound by Catholic ideals. In fact, it is known, Hell in the form that we teach it comes from Catholisism. Also, England in the middle ages was entirely guilty of horrible atrocity against mankind in the name of religion! Why did people come to America? They wanted to escape Englands grasp upon their desire to ask questions.
To be honest, I see the world of religion becoming shaken by the need to really know God. Confining God to a Book, a Denomination, a Faith, men who claim to have revelation, this zeroing-in-affect is destroying our ability to learn about the One who created the Universe.
I could go on and on about this. I never thought I would ask these questions, because I was afraid. Afraid of the dictorial method of men who slam their fists on pulpits, portraying our God as one who will burn lost humanity in eternal fire for eternity. If this was true, why wasn't this mentioned in the Old Testament? How about all those of the past who had no idea this place ever existed? Is this our God of mercy, or is this the God of men?
I've seen over the last 30 years way to much justifying and not enough answering! We dodge the bullet, making the Bible answer our questions from traditional bondage, all because we can do this with Scripture. Why do you think there are so many different faiths in the World? They all think they are RIGHT, us included!
Our altars are becoming places of mixed ideas and unanswered dilemas. Who spoke in tongues and who didn't? Who got healed and who didn't? This person is spiritual because they shouted, danced, and then got injured when they fell down at church.
It's time to step into the real Light, and see the Real God of Ages! We can glean from the Bible, but we must question its authority, its origin, and what possible descrepencies do exist. You cannot, there is no way possible, to confine God to a Book with so much flaw! We will only go deeper into spiritual apostasy if we bar the One who made man, who loves man, and who reaches for man because we are so needy!
I hope this post will help someone out there who is in "Doubt". Don't be afraid! God LOVES you, like a Father loves his son or daughter!!
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