Christianity is NOT a religion.
Since man is limited in his particular range of existence, he cannot see history as important. This plays into the war games of Satan. He doesn’t want mankind to understand the past. Satan doesn’t want man to comprehend the present, and he doesn’t want man to realize the future. How did this massive global religious system that surrounds us today come into being without the peoples of the earth seeing its root of evil? I am not writing about a specific religion. I am writing about the soul of religion. Christianity is NOT a religion. The soul of religion has kidnaped the souls of men from their Creator God to serve and worship every form of organic and inorganic matter instead of the God of creation. CLICK HERE to learn more about religion and the history of religion. CLICK HERE to learn more about the beginning of religion. CLICK HERE for more about religion. And yes, there is more, CLICK HERE.
So right up front, allow me to explain the difference between religion and Christianity. Religion is a man-made program designed to CONTROL the minds and hearts of its followers based on church attendance and a banking system of salvation. Somewhere meshed into every religion there will be some form of merchandising.
Christianity is about CHRIST. Christianity is a REVELATION (from God), it is REGENERATION (by the Spirit of Christ) and it is a personal RELATIONSHIP (with God IN Christ). Christianity is NOT based on a PLACE but on a PERSON.
Christianity is REVELATION, a revealing of God the Holy Spirit; it is REGENERATION, a spiritual birth imparted by God the Holy Spirit when a person is reborn with a newly restored soul; it is REDEMPTION through the blood of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; it is a RELATIONSHIP, from a child of Satan and a child of wrath to a child and son of God, thus, being at peace with God, and God being at peace with His children.
Religion and Christianity are not synonymous. Religion is man’s invention of control and power over the souls of others. Religion attempts to replace God’s will with the will of man. Religion dictates its own way to God, it pretends to follow God and His Word, but doesn’t. Religion decides what and how man can interact with God. Religion sets the conditions to approach God. Religion claims authority to act as the spokesperson for God. Religion is all about religion. Christianity is about God and His Christ.
The difference between religion and Christianity is a battle. It is the battle between two crowns and the conflict over two thrones. What mankind is entrenched with did not first originate with man, all the evil that surrounds mankind in this moment of history, first began in the realm of the history of the spiritual supernatural sphere in the heavens. The peoples of this world cannot see the core of their problems, and that has been deliberately hidden from man by the originator of all their problems. We are as kittens chasing thousands of red dots streaming all around us, and very few are able to disengage from what appears to be reality to actually recognize and observe the hand that holds the laser. Mankind was created to be actively involved in the UNSEEN realm, the supernatural realm, while in a body of a natural realm. We are people restless and without a mooring place because our earthly father, Adam, willingly rejected our proper state and standing in an UNSEEN spiritual realm. That is why the Bible states that our souls need to be restored, and the Lord Jesus Christ repeatedly speaks of a place of ‘rest.’ The difficult premise to grasp is that mankind, the species man, the race of Adam, can NEVER return to our original state and standing before sin. We have been so damaged by sin, that our physical bodies (the flesh), and the condition of our original souls and our spirit has to undergo a supernatural new birth. There can be NO recovery of what we once were. There can be NO reformation. There can be no RENEWAL of the old man, but there has to be a NEW man. This is what salvation is all about, redeeming mankind from sin and the results of sin. This is also why religion gets in the way of God’s redemptive plan. Religion is based on KEEPING the old, renewing and reforming the old because this is all that religion has. Religion is man’s belief system that mankind is not beyond reformation. Because human nature cannot see beyond humanity, it is then up to God and Him ALONE to once more CREATE another life form: THE NEW MAN, a creation BORN ANEW, born again.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3) Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? (John 3:4) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6) Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:7)
Religion, whether pagan, or fraudulent Christianity, cannot understand (as Nicodemus could not understand) that the Lord Jesus Christ REQUIRED another creation, a new creation, a creation created in another form of birthing that would be spiritual and not tangible.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8) Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (John 3:9) Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (John 3:10) Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (John 3:11) If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? (John 3:12)
A Christian can exist without a place to worship. A Christian can exist without a religion, but a Christian cannot exist without Christ. Christ must be the center of all worship, and without Christ man cannot truly worship God. Now, if you are confused . . . GOOD! So, again let me emphasis that this is NOT a religious site . . . it is a teaching site. You will not be confronted with any particular group or organization being pushed down your throat, nor will you ever see a plea for your wallet. CLICK HERE to add more to your confusion.
Men of renown is a companion piece to Giants in the Earth series.
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September 20, 2023 @ 4:48 PM (EST)
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All Scripture references are from the King James Bible. (KJB)