Many people on here have "religious paranoia." Why do you listen to leaders who talk only about sinning?

Question

You can't do this, can't do that, you will be chastised by society, don't touch yourself, it's a sin, remove your self from the world of sin, believe this or God will hate you! Don't you see that these "mortals", just like us, are trying to turn you into Human Puppets?!? Read the history of Jim Jone's cult in Africa, or people letting themselves being talked into suicide so they can hook up with Halle-Bopp comet as it goes by. Please! Think for yourself! And God will show you the way. I promise.

Answer 1

RAmen brotha!!

Answer 2

I don't go by what ANY man (even my preacher says) UNLESS it correlates with what my bible says. That's why God has told us to hide His Words in our hearts. If we know and learn what the bible says then there's no being tricked into a cult.

So I allow God to show me the way through HIS word (the bible). It's easy to identify a cult if you'll read the bible and pray. God makes things perfectly clear. God doesn't hate anyone. He loves us all and wants us all to come unto Him.

As with anything, the Bible is our guidebook and we have set rules both here on earth and to gain entry into heaven. We have grown accustomed to MAN'S laws governing speed limits, need for drivers licenses, etc. So we should grow accustomed to the fact that God has laws too and abide by them.

Answer 3

One cannot have God for his Father, who will not have the Church for his Mother, and likewise, one cannot have the Word of God for his faith who will not have the Church for his teacher. It is the infallible teaching authority of the Church, as promised by Christ, which alone preserves God's Word from erroneous interpretation.

We must believe all that Christ has taught, that God has revealed. Without this Faith, there is no salvation. Without this Faith, there is no hope of Heaven. Without this Faith, there is eternal damnation! We have the words of Christ for it, "He that believeth not shall be condemned."

if God has intended that man should learn His religion from a book, the Bible, surely God would have given that book to man. Christ would have given that book to man. Did He do it? He did not. Christ sent His Apostles throughout the whole universe and said, "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you."

Christ did not say, "Sit down and write Bibles and scatter them over the earth, and let every man read his Bible and judge for himself." If Christ had said that, there would never have been a Christianity on the earth at all, but a Babylon and confusion instead, and never one Church, the union of one body. Hence, Christ never said to His Apostles, "Go and write Bibles and distribute them, and let everyone judge for himself." That injunction was reserved for the Sixteenth Century, and we have seen the result of it. Ever since the Sixteenth Century there have been springing up religion upon religion, and churches upon churches, all fighting and quarreling with one another, and all because of the private interpretation of the Bible.

Christ sent His Apostles with authority to teach all nations, and never gave them any command of writing the Bible. And the Apostles went forth and preached everywhere, and planted the Church of God throughout the earth, but never thought of writing.

The first word written was by Saint Matthew, and he wrote for the benefit of a few individuals. He wrote the Gospel about seven years after Christ left this earth, so that the Church of God, established by Christ, existed seven years before a line was written of the New Testament.

Answer 4

people should never let some religious person who is totally mixed up in their thinking about GOD and what he wants for all mankind to have some form of control over them. you are right if you think the way GOD wants you to think, then he will show you the way to go, ONLY if you are one of his children.

Answer 5

I totally agree.

Answer 6

I agree with the "think for yourself".....

Answer 7

agree do what you know its right,