Sir,
I was raised in a very strict christian home. My father is a minister and all of my siblings and family are rooted in the doctrine. As a young man I questioned the notion that an all powerful God was in any way thwarted by man. I didn’t have any support for this notion and was pretty much the black sheep for my views. I’d point out scriptural inconsistency but was told I was twisting the scripture and warned against this.
I don’t want to bore you or take up too much of your time, but I have been discussing the scriptures you use so aptly in my conversations with other “Christians”; they either laugh at me or get angry at my supposed “twisting’ the scriptures, or they just ignore me.
These are all strange actions for disciples of Christ, some even claim to be “scholars of the Word”, but I can deal with them.
Occasionally I’m given a question or series of them that I can’t find answers for but I usually can search enough through your writings and find answers. But I find that no matter what, these scriptures are said to be either misused or I’m adding meaning not meant, etc.
It is frustrating. But maybe I’m trying to make the blind see and the deaf hear? I was asked by a man who calls himself a good christian…”D____ if these scriptures say what you think they say, why is there no one else in the whole body of Christ saying what you say?
I wonder if it isn’t better for me to keep my mouth shut. Will I be held liable by God for allowing my friends, family and acquaintances to continue living the lie that is currently called Christianity?
Thank you so much for your response.
Hi D____,
Your friend poses the question:
“D____ if these scriptures say what you think they say… Why is there no one else in the whole body of Christ saying what you say?”
Well, here is the answer to your friend’s question:
Isa 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
Isa 3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
Isa 3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
It is “the Lord Of Hosts” who has “taken away the whole stay of bread and water.” It is because the “Lord Himself has deceived that prophet” that you cannot get through to your friends.
Eze 14:9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
That is why “there [ is] no one else in the whole body of Christ saying what you say.”
Then you ask me:
I wonder if it isn’t better for me to keep my mouth shut. Will I be held liable by God for allowing my friends, family and acquaintances to continue living the lie that is currently called Christianity?
To answer that question, I am giving you an assignment that I have given to several of my friends of late. I want you to read Rev 10. To understand what this ‘little book’ is, read Ezekiel 2. Then I want you to read what happens when you tell your Christian friends what is in this ‘little book.’ To understand Rev 11, you must read Ezekiel 3. To understand who the two witnesses are, you must also read Zec 4.
When you have read these chapters you will have the answer to your question.
Let me hear from you after you have read these chapters.
Mike