Sunday, August 14, 2011

Q64: Lope, You Are Telling Us NOT To Follow What Christ Taught in The Bible! He said, "Listen To The Church"



QUESTIONS:
1. Lope, you are telling us not to follow what Christ taught in the Bible! He said, "Listen to the Church"... 

2. St Paul also said: Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you (Hebrews 13:17). For the answer, go to: Q561: OBEY/FOLLOW A MAN (Or Church), ONLY IF HE FOLLOW CHRIST

3. Matthew 16:18 -- And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall n...ot prevail against it.Based on what you are saying the gates of hell would have prevailed against the Church.  For the answer to this question, go to: Q66

 4. How are we to judge whether Church doctrine is corrupt or not if we dismiss the Bible as obsolete? For the answer to this question, go to: Q562:
RONALD M. CRISS
MA in THEOLOGY, XAVIER University



Ron, I will answer your questions, one by one. I will quote various Bible commentaries to explain some of the Scriptures used here.

Q1: Lope, you are telling us not to follow what Christ taught in the Bible! He said, "Listen to the Church."

A1: Ron, what you said is actually the opposite of what I'm telling People, Churches, and Religions all over the World. I'm telling them to listen and follow Christ as taught by the Bible (Mark 7:14). 
  • And calling near all the crowd, CHRIST said to them, LISTEN TO ME, EVERY ONE OF YOU, and UNDERSTAND. (Mar 7:14 MKJV) 
Otherwise, all of them make the Bible of NO POSITIVE EFFECT to the Eternal Salvation of People (Mark 7:13).
  • Making The WORD OF GOD of NO EFFECT THROUGH YOUR (Human) TRADITION which you have delivered. And YOU DO MANY SUCH THINGS. (Mar 7:13 MKJV)  
Yes, WITHOUT CHRIST, DECEPTION IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE. That is, we must be very careful in following Human Religious Leaders. Following them, or the Church they are leading must be based on the very important condition: THEY SHOULD FOLLOW CHRIST and LISTEN to His Teachings. Otherwise, we could be just following Church's Human Leaders => Their faulty Human Ideas, Concepts, and Reasonings, but not CHRIST. 

CHRIST is the centerpiece of ALL MY TEACHINGS. Be sure where you Stand, and know the deadly consequences of following only a Man, Church, or Religion.

OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN! Follow a Man Only When He Follows Christ!

With regard to following the religious leaders of the Churches, CHRIST, Paul, Peter, and the other Apostles said that it is CONDITIONAL -- follow a man ONLY if he follows Christ!
  • Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.  (1Co 11:1 KJV)
  • Peter and the apostles replied, "WE MUST OBEY GOD RATHER THAN MEN. (Act 5:29 HCSB)
Unfortunately, almost all of the Churches today, have developed into organizations and groups ruled by men, and taught of man-made doctrines and traditions! The True Jesus Christ and His pure supernal Teachings were thrown out of the windows of their Churches! 

The GENUINE JESUS WAS REPLACED BY "ANOTHER JESUS," AND THE PEOPLE ACCEPTED IT!

Instead, a fake Jesus (called "ANOTHER JESUS), with its worldly teachings (different gospel), inspired by "a different spirit" (the Spirit of Antichrist), were preached to the people, and the people accepted it (2Co 11:4)!
  • For if a person comes and preaches ANOTHER JESUS, whom we did not preach, or you receive a DIFFERENT SPIRIT, which you had not received, or a DIFFERENT GOSPEL, which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!  (2Co 11:4 HCSB)
Only the genuine Jesus Christ has the LIGHT, He is the LIGHT (John 8:12). This "another Jesus" has no light; instead he brings darkness to his leaders and followers. Therefore, these leaders that preaches ANOTHER JESUS are Blind! Christ instructed His true followers to avoid these kind of religious leaders.
  • Let them alone. THEY ARE BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.  (Mat 15:14 MKJV) 
From Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
Let them alone... Have nothing to say, or do with them; do not mind their anger and resentment, their reproaches and reflections, nor trouble yourselves at the offence they have taken; if they will go, let them go; they are a worthless generation of men, who are not to be regarded, hearkened to, nor to be pleased; it matters not what they say of me, and of my doctrine:
they be blind leaders of the blind; the people that hearken to them, and are followers of them, are "blind", as to any true sense of themselves, their state, and condition by nature; as to any spiritual, saving knowledge of God; as to any acquaintance with the Messiah, and the method of salvation by him; as to the Spirit of God, and the work of grace, regeneration, and sanctification upon the soul; as to the Scriptures of truth, and doctrines of the Gospel; and the "leaders" of them were as "blind" as they who thought themselves very wise and knowing, yet they were blind also.  -- HENRY

From John Hill's Exposition of the Entire Bible:
This was predicted, in Isa_42:19 and all such leaders and teachers are blind, who, notwithstanding their natural abilities, and acquired parts, are in a state of unregeneracy; and have nothing more than what they have from nature, or have attained to at school; and as apparently all such are, who lead men from Christ, to mere morality, and to a dependence upon their own righteousness for justification, which was the darling principle of the blind leaders in the text. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch; of ignorance and error, immorality and profaneness, distress, if not despair, temporal ruin and destruction; which was notoriously verified in the Jewish people, and their guides: and of eternal damnation, the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; what else can be expected? -- GILL




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