AntonGoldnagel
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In ancient Israel JHWH God told His people to avoid mixing with the neighbouring pagan Nations. (Josh 23:7.) The reason for this was to keep them clean from the influence of other God's and religions. Exo 19:6.
By the time the Mosaic law was replaced by the New Covenant, Peter was directed by God, for the first time to accept people of the nations into true worship starting with Cornelius and his family. (Act10:35-) this meant religious unity regardless of race or national affiliation, under the direction of Christ.
From that time on, if they accepted the headship Christ Jesus became their king and Lord . By divine providence they were called Christians. (Act 11:26.)
Obviously these nations had already their own God's and religious practises. The Ethiopian eunuch baptized by Philip for instance (Act 8:38) was perhaps raised in the worship of the Semitic triad of the Sun, the Moon, and Venus, the female deity Zat-Badar, or any number of other Ethiopian God's along with numerous religious holydays and practises.
The question is, would the Nations who became Christian have to follow the same purity of worship that was required of the Israelites and render exclusive worship to God? through Jesus mediatorship (1 Tim 3:5) .
We know the answer ist yes, this was a requirement. (Joh 4:23).
According to Jesus's prophecy -made in a parable- ( Mt 13:35) this consistency of acceptable worship sadly would not be maintained among Christians for very long.
Paul stated in a letter that this drifting from pure worship was already in force. (2 Thess 2:3,7) and would continue until the wycked will in due time. be revealed.
Three hundred years later the tares prophesied by Christ completely took over the field when Christendom introduced pagan doctrines as "Christian truth", along with Greek philosophy and heathen holydays. A few hundred years later the man of sin attempted to destroy the Bible along with those that read it, introduced pastoral hierarchy in complete disregard of Jesus commands (Mt 23:8), and held a higher importance for their own tradition than to God's word. (Col 2:8-9).
Today followers of Jesus from the first century would not recognise their beloved religion.
There are thousands of Christian denomination. "Disciples" of Christ see nothing wrong with celebrating holydays dedicated to demons, witches and goblins and encouraging their children to participate in having fun with the occult reading Harry Potter and celebrating halloween. Christians participate unreservedly in pagan practises like yoga, reiki, new age philosophy, messages from the spirits, praying to saints. Mariolatry and idolatryj, just to name a few things.
Don't be misled anyone practising these things are on the boad road leadig to destruction. (Mt 7:13)
One easy way to find out, is to ask 3 simple questions:
Is if it's acceptable to the majority?
Is it popular?
Are most people acceptingt it ?
If you answer in the affirmative to these 3 questions you've discovere the broad road Jesus was referring to.
The reason it's broad, is because it's easy to find and to follow, plenty of peers, support, encouragement and sense of belonging.
Who then is walking on the narrow road ?
one thing is certain you won't find them on the broad road. Since there are only two roads it stands to reason true Christian follow only the narrow road regardless of its lack of appeal, they know it's the only one leading to life. (Mt 7:14)
The fact is nothing that Jesus taught was popular or in the mainstream. The road that he was advocating was narrow, ramrod straight, hard to find and required strenous effort to enter it's gate, it could be lonely, criticised by those not on it, even hated as Jesus was.
A Question that is sometimes asked:
what denomination would a person be that is walking the narrow road ? only God makes the determination who His sons and who the brothers of Christ are. Technically however the only ordained, High priest, shepherd , and teacher is Christ. No one can offer any evidence to have been delegated the job to manage Christ affairs on earth as if he needed mans help to do that. Conversely any successorship is a incongruous concept since neither he nor the apostle are dead. (1Cor15:51)
The nation of Israel had the obstinate notion that they wanted a visible king to rule over them, instead of being ruled by the most powerful person in the universe their God Jhwh. , (1 Sam 8:6) despite serious warnings they insisted and paid dearly for their lack of wisdom.
A wise person learn from history. Why would a Christian require a visible shepherd when he can have a wise and powerful shepherd in heaven that gave his life for them ?
By the time the Mosaic law was replaced by the New Covenant, Peter was directed by God, for the first time to accept people of the nations into true worship starting with Cornelius and his family. (Act10:35-) this meant religious unity regardless of race or national affiliation, under the direction of Christ.
From that time on, if they accepted the headship Christ Jesus became their king and Lord . By divine providence they were called Christians. (Act 11:26.)
Obviously these nations had already their own God's and religious practises. The Ethiopian eunuch baptized by Philip for instance (Act 8:38) was perhaps raised in the worship of the Semitic triad of the Sun, the Moon, and Venus, the female deity Zat-Badar, or any number of other Ethiopian God's along with numerous religious holydays and practises.
The question is, would the Nations who became Christian have to follow the same purity of worship that was required of the Israelites and render exclusive worship to God? through Jesus mediatorship (1 Tim 3:5) .
We know the answer ist yes, this was a requirement. (Joh 4:23).
According to Jesus's prophecy -made in a parable- ( Mt 13:35) this consistency of acceptable worship sadly would not be maintained among Christians for very long.
Paul stated in a letter that this drifting from pure worship was already in force. (2 Thess 2:3,7) and would continue until the wycked will in due time. be revealed.
Three hundred years later the tares prophesied by Christ completely took over the field when Christendom introduced pagan doctrines as "Christian truth", along with Greek philosophy and heathen holydays. A few hundred years later the man of sin attempted to destroy the Bible along with those that read it, introduced pastoral hierarchy in complete disregard of Jesus commands (Mt 23:8), and held a higher importance for their own tradition than to God's word. (Col 2:8-9).
Today followers of Jesus from the first century would not recognise their beloved religion.
There are thousands of Christian denomination. "Disciples" of Christ see nothing wrong with celebrating holydays dedicated to demons, witches and goblins and encouraging their children to participate in having fun with the occult reading Harry Potter and celebrating halloween. Christians participate unreservedly in pagan practises like yoga, reiki, new age philosophy, messages from the spirits, praying to saints. Mariolatry and idolatryj, just to name a few things.
Don't be misled anyone practising these things are on the boad road leadig to destruction. (Mt 7:13)
One easy way to find out, is to ask 3 simple questions:
Is if it's acceptable to the majority?
Is it popular?
Are most people acceptingt it ?
If you answer in the affirmative to these 3 questions you've discovere the broad road Jesus was referring to.
The reason it's broad, is because it's easy to find and to follow, plenty of peers, support, encouragement and sense of belonging.
Who then is walking on the narrow road ?
one thing is certain you won't find them on the broad road. Since there are only two roads it stands to reason true Christian follow only the narrow road regardless of its lack of appeal, they know it's the only one leading to life. (Mt 7:14)
The fact is nothing that Jesus taught was popular or in the mainstream. The road that he was advocating was narrow, ramrod straight, hard to find and required strenous effort to enter it's gate, it could be lonely, criticised by those not on it, even hated as Jesus was.
A Question that is sometimes asked:
what denomination would a person be that is walking the narrow road ? only God makes the determination who His sons and who the brothers of Christ are. Technically however the only ordained, High priest, shepherd , and teacher is Christ. No one can offer any evidence to have been delegated the job to manage Christ affairs on earth as if he needed mans help to do that. Conversely any successorship is a incongruous concept since neither he nor the apostle are dead. (1Cor15:51)
The nation of Israel had the obstinate notion that they wanted a visible king to rule over them, instead of being ruled by the most powerful person in the universe their God Jhwh. , (1 Sam 8:6) despite serious warnings they insisted and paid dearly for their lack of wisdom.
A wise person learn from history. Why would a Christian require a visible shepherd when he can have a wise and powerful shepherd in heaven that gave his life for them ?
