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The
practices of the first church established following the ascension of the Christ
are ignored and comdemned by the mainstream Bible-based church. The doctrines,
practices, offices, holy days, and structure in the Bible-based churches, both
Catholic and Protestant, are based on the edicts of the Emperor Constantine,
during his "personal reformation" of the church, in the fourth century AD. The
edicts and practices he established made scriptural doctrine and practices
illegal, altered most of those not outlawed, and purged a large percentage of
booksaccepted in the original church. Church practice was completely
manipulated to conform and blend with the former "state" religion, which is now
condemned by the modern church as "paganism". The mainstream church, in this
era, not only bears virtually no resemblance to the first church, but actually
contradicts and condemns the practices of that church.
The
tithes are Old Testament laws not meant to support a church organization, but
for personal celebration and feeding the poor. There is no justification for any
church demanding any money from members based on scripture.
The
myriad of laws from the Old Testament, given exclusively to the nation of
Israel, were fulfilled by their consolidation into one prime law, love God and
your fellow man.
Prayer
is to be done in private and public or repetitive prayer is condemned.
Faith
is the way one believes based on the evidence presented and the thoughts
resulting. The Bible states there is evidence that is not revealed, except by
the will of God, and that minds will not be opened to certain truths, except by
that same will.
The
holy days of the Bible were festivals commanded for the nation of Israel and
none of the holidays celebrated by the mainstream church have any basis in
scripture. There is no command to remember either the day of the birth or the
day of death of Jesus. There is no command to gather together for a weekly
worship service. A day of rest, the seventh day, was commanded for the nation
of Israel but was outlawed by the Emperor Constantine at the same time he
ordered the first day of the week to be a day of worship.
Salvation is deeply personal concept between an individual and God based on the
beliefs held on the nature of man, the nature of God, the actions and
predictions of the Christ, and the scarifice he made.
To most
those are the first words of the Bible; to us that refers only to the biosphere
we now inhabit and the fauna, flora, and human inhabitants now on Earth.
Scripture reveals, and ancient history and the geological record support, that
this is certainly not the first, and quite possibly not even the second
creation. The conclusion we have reached is that there was a society and a
distinctly different biosphere before this one. The age of the dinosuars and
the fauna and flora of that time could have occupied that biosphere but the
societies existing were most likely not human. We believe the Earth was also
occupied by a high tech society probably populated by the beings called angels.
An
unproven theory with little foundation based on evidence revealed since this
theory was advanced.
The
flood was not instigated because mankind had grown evil but because of an
illicit relationship between angels and female humans, which produced a
voracious race of giants. These giants rapidly became a threat to the biosphere
and were destroyed by the flood. The hybrid nature of these giants created a
problem for mankind their bodies perished but their spirits survived. These
spirits are the devils, commonly referred to as the "demons", which Jesus dealt
with in his travels during his earthly mission, and seem to have the torment of
humans as a prime obsession. The concept, of a fiery pit, with
red-glowing, sharp-horned, pointy-tailed Satan and his fallen angels waiting to
hang humans over the flames, and poke them with pitchforks for eternity is not
found in scripture but very much the concept the church uses to keep the flock
from straying. In most instances where the word Hell appears it is referring to
the grave, the original meaning of the words, from which this fanciful catchall
word was translated. Our research into whether any humans are even bound for
hell is ongoing but it is certainly not as prevalent a theme as the church
presents. The Holy Spirit And The Trinity
Our
research has revealed that the tradition of a "Trinity", and the resulting
attribute of "personhood", meaning that the Holy Spirit is a being rather than a
spiritual force from God, has origins in tradition rather than scripture. The
doctrine of the Holy Spirit as a being was not present in either the Old or New
Testament and manipulation of verses by the translators, seemingly meant to
support this concept, only provide evidence of the doctrine of man changing the
doctrine of the Bible.
The
books in the Authorized King James Bible are definitely not all the books of the
Bible. The Apocryphal were in the original translation but were removed in the
early 1600s. There are more than a score of books quoted from, or mentioned in
the Bible that are not in the King James, or the Catholic Douay versions. These
books were removed because they disagreed with the doctrines established by the
Emperor Constantine and those who followed him in the establishment of the
Catholic Church, beginning in the fourth century.
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