They are Gnostics
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They divide the universe into two realms, the spiritual versus the natural.
Christian or Gnostic Worldview?
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Why People Leave the Worker's Way!
God is omnipresent. ‘HE’ is everywhere. To say that the Holy Spirit, Jesus or the Father is in one place and not another is incorrect.
God created all things and said they were good. It was pronouncement of goodness on the natural world. Satan was created good. He was an angel of one of the highest ranks and power. His pride corrupted him and he rebelled against God, wanting to be higher than God. He was a spirit and is a spirit. He is evil, pure evil now. The spiritual world corrupted the natural world.
One cannot divide the spiritual from the natural. Jesus Christ was spiritual before ‘HE’ took on flesh. Now, ‘HE’ has both. We are both. In eternity, we will have bodies. We will have houses in heaven. Jesus said he was going to prepare us a place, mansions in heaven.
It is an interesting process to watch professing people who become Christians. They begin to realize that God expects the Bible to apply to our natural lives. When they try to practice the application of the Bible to literal, natural daily life, they are immediately opposed and mocked by the workers and other professing people.
At first they cannot understand what is happening. They find that they are being attacked by the very people they expected would be their spiritual buddies.
They will exist in a state of shock for awhile, trying to figure out what is going on. Many times, they never do figure it out. The reason for this is because the workers use language differently.
They use the words of the Bible and the topics of the Bible deceitfully!
It is a crafty business of Satan to twist God’s Word into different meanings.
This is why some of the workers live in sin, sexual sin on a daily basis. They are lusting after someone or they are actively pursuing an adulterous, homosexual or fornicating life. Some are molesting children. They are living a lie, leading people to think they are celibate.
Some of the workers live in anger and vindictiveness. Some gossip in order to control people. Some of the workers are dishonoring God. Some are dishonoring their parents, like Cooney and Irvine did.
Take for instance, the word, “God.” The workers are all over the word “God,” as if ‘HE’ is theirs alone. Yet, their “god” is the fellowship, not the God of the Bible.
- How can I say such a thing? Easy! What do they talk about, what do they worship?
- They talk about the workers.
- People and children are expected to know who all the workers are and to honor them simply because they are workers.
The friends don’t honor God. They don’t know God. The friends don’t even know what the word “worship” means. They don’t practice “worship” in any sense of the word.
Unless it is the worship of workers!
They would choke if someone said, “Praise the Lord, Praise God, or Praise Jesus.”
But they praise the workers all the time!
The workers don’t think of their sins as being wrong because those are things that affect their natural bodies, not their spiritual lives.
They don’t realize that they are going to be judged by the natural sins that they have committed while in their natural bodies. They think that because they have meetings in the home and go out two by two and have given up the natural world, that they are automatically forgiven..
Baloney!
The only thing that will wash away their sins is the Blood of Jesus Christ!
Kathy
3-15-06
Posted by “False Beliefs” on 3-2-06
- The 2x2’s do not believe that Jesus’ death on the cross will wash away the sins of all who accept ‘HIM’ as Savior. Instead, they believe that salvation comes through a life of sacrificial obedience to the instructions and examples of Jesus.
- Members insist their mission dates back to the first century, was founded by Jesus and that all other religious institutions have gone astray from this Truth.
- They do not believe that Jesus and the Father are one and the same God. Jesus is held to have been a god-like human on whom the “Christ Spirit” settled, and who gave the world a pattern of “perfect ministry.”
- The “Word made flesh” of John 1:1-14 is held to be the ‘workers’ themselves.
- They hold that Jesus died to save those who follow their ministers, and that ‘HIS’ “pattern life” and “pattern ministry” were the primary goals of ‘HIS’ earthly sojourn.
- They claim to have no organization.
- They claim they have no rules or regulations.
- They claim the Holy Spirit is a force, wind or power emanating from God or Jesus to a child of God; not viewed as God the Spirit.
What's Wrong With Gnosticism?
Sean R. Mize
Recently we Christians have been bombarded with a slew of Gnostic readings and studies which gnaw at the heels of Christianity. Since the discovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945, scholars have had a heyday deciphering the purpose behind the Gnostic faith.
So what is Gnosticism? Without getting too intellectual or theological, Gnosticism basically indicates that the requirement of salvation is special knowledge from God, which they call, simply, knowledge. Although Gnostics admit that Jesus came to earth to save mankind, Gnostics believe He came to bring this special knowledge which would lead people to salvation. They did not believe that Jesus Christ actually lived and died as a fully human individual, nor that He died for the remission of our sins. Instead, they believe that He only appeared to be human, and that either an image of Him was crucified or that someone else was crucified, and the people of the time didn’t realize that they were crucifying the wrong person (imagine that!).
Why is this such a big deal?
First of all, Jesus Christ Himself said, while He was here on earth, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). So there it is, Jesus Christ Himself said that it is faith in Him, not the ‘knowledge’ He brings, that is the key to salvation.
When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, prepared to be offered a conciliatory sacrifice for the salvation of the human race, He begged the Father, ‘Saying, “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done”’ (Luke 22:42, quotes added). The cup, of course was His soon-to-come crucifixion. If Jesus Christ were not truly human, would He have had any need to ask the Father to remove the cup from Him? If Jesus wasn’t really going to be crucified, but rather someone else was going to take His place, would He have asked the Father to take the cup from Him? Of course not.
Next, Luke records: “And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44-45). Would Jesus have needed an angel to strengthen Him or would He have sweat blood if He were not really going to die? And back to the plea in verse 42 above, if there were any method by which salvation could have been accomplished (e.g. knowledge), then why would the Father have let His own Son suffer such agony? The reason Christ died was because there was no other way. If the way to heaven were via knowledge, then Christ could have delivered the knowledge, left earth, and gone back to heaven. But knowledge isn’t the way to heaven; the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ is. Hence His complete humanity and complete death, burial, and subsequent resurrection.
If Gnosticism has merit, Jesus Christ died in vain. I believe He died for me.
- What about you?
- Did He die in vain, or did He die for you?
Note: Scripture references are from the KJV.
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