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Marxist Christianity
Recently there has been a big push to indoctrinate Christians into a Marxist communist mindset. Preachers are purposely using the scriptures to advocate a shared wealth mentality where any earthly possessions of Christians are deemed to be common property and any excess wealth becomes a focal point for religious rebuke and religious redemption.
To counter the growing Marxist Christianity movement one only has to look to the 10 commandments, thou shall not covet they neighbors goods. How much clearer can it be? I'm sure that when Jesus Christ told his disciples that he was going to send the Holy Spirit he left out the part where the Holy Spirit will divide all of the possessions of the Christians and give them out as religious trinkets to turn the burgeoning christian faith into a platform for idol worship to rein in all unbelievers.
The cornerstone of any Marxist Christian theology is found in the story of Jesus and the young rich man (Matthew 19:16-22 ; Mark 10:17-22 ; Luke 18:18-23). The story is essentially a young rich man seeking out Jesus Christ to present his credentials as a righteous man. Jesus rebukes him and says that he should give all of his earthly possessions to the poor and then to follow him. What is important, and the essential point that is corrupted by Marxist thinking, is that Jesus Christ didn't say to the young rich man to give Jesus the money so he could give it to the poor, but that the rich man should do it himself. Jesus didn't want to spread other people's money to the poor but he wanted to spread the gospel of salvation to the poor, and to everyone else.
For those who eagerly want a “Jesus Kingdom†in this world the story of the young rich man should dispel those illusions. Jesus shunned taking money from his followers to fund any earthly ambitions. Jesus wanted to demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit, not the power of the 'purse'.
One has to imagine Marxist Christianity as a religious airline company. This airline company advertises daily flights and accepts money from customers. Then after the flight when all the passengers try to retrieve their luggage they find it all missing. They are then told of the small print in their boarding pass that allows the airline to redistribute all luggage to the poor. Christian Churches are becoming 'gotcha' guilt traps similar to Catholicism.
If you can see the parallels of the airline company story with our current government system then you shouldn't be surprised to learn why Jesus had so much criticism of the Jewish religious leaders. They were using God's word as an administrative club to exact money and commitments from God's faithful. When a religion begins to use its sphere of influence to become the God that they profess to worship then its time for God to step in and put a halt to it. Sadly Christianity is becoming like the Jewish religious leaders of antiquity and are beginning to devise a faith worship of obedience to a religious administration over spiritual faith. Current Christianity is beginning to replace the worship of God with an idol worship of the poor. A harbinger of the coming antichrist and the mark of the beast.
The first commandment states that we are to worship no other God. But the christian church's push to worship the poor is wrought with disaster as God will impoverish all who neglect the very first commandment. The poor are to be helped but we are not suppose to make the poor the focal point of our worship.
Wealth is not a 'hidden indicator' of someone's extra sinfulness. For God said that all of mankind is equally guilty of sin. There is no measure of being more sinful or less sinful. All that can be said is that one person may be more evil than another, but both are equally sinful in God's eyes. The poor are guilty, and just as culpable as the rich, for being sinful.
After Adam and Eve's sin didn't God force both of them out of the Garden which placed the tree of life out of their reach. It could be said that God was being cruel and inhumane for exacting any punishment for it impoverished Adam and Eve.
God Bless
It is said that American has too much food. Here is what the bible says …..
Proverbs 10:3
New International Version (NIV)
*3 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry,
***but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
I just wish that before anyone starts lobbing disparaging darts at America and its wealth they would first check with God to see if his fingerprints match. There is a false presumption that the poor have no 'wicked cravings' and that all of their poverty is incurred by an injustice of wealth.
Note:
God is a God of creation, meaning that God loves to create. We are told by Jesus that we are to be perfect just like God the Father in heaven is perfect. Most people think of perfection as only a state of being without sin but it is also indicative of the major characteristic of God which is to create. As man adds more useful inventions to humanity do not think that God is disheartened. God is pleased that man would follow his example and use his God given abilities to create. While many 'idle' worshipers look upon man's accomplishments as contrary to God's word it is only because they lack the initiative to follow in God's footsteps and bring forth a useful invention. It is only when evil uses man's inventions to propagate even more evil does God bring judgment upon mankind.
According to current christian theology excess wealth leads to a diminution of mankind’s humanity. If this is so then Jesus Christ, having been a carpenter which was one of the more lucrative professions of his time, must have felt conflicted and tormented for being more 'well off' than most of those around him. I dare say that Jesus Christ's profession as a carpenter was a source of personal pride and not considered an evil pursuit just to enrich himself.
I seriously doubt that the ultimate resolution of Christian wealth is self induced penury. If this were so, that God intended all Christians to become poor as a sign of their faith and to maximize their faith, then why help the poor at all. If poverty will garner the greatest reward in heaven then the poor are already at the point of maximum reward. Any reduction in the poverty of the poor is only going to reduce their reward in heaven.
The whole point of Jesus Christ's ministry wasn't about building an infrastructure to service the poor or establishing a religious administration to divvy up the spoils of 'preaching religion' every Sunday. Jesus Christ was here on earth to present himself as the 'sin offering' by dying for all of mankind’s sins on the cross. Jesus teachings taught that each individual must confront their own sinfulness and come to the realization that they need salvation. A salvation that is simply a belief in Jesus Christ as God's only son come to die for the forgiveness of all of our sins. I hope that the christian church will not try to further burden God's faithful with abstract atheistic thinking (Marxist Christianity) that confers a common ownership mentality as a mediating religious principle.
Whenever christian church leaders chase after the possessions of others under the pretense of helping the poor they are only expanding the sin of covetousness from the individual to the group believing that group sin is a defensible religious pursuit. Notice God's judgments of man. They were all due to a group sin and judgment was levied upon the group's egregious sin. Take for example Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's flood, the plagues against Egypt and then the Egyptian army being drowned when the Red Sea closed back up, and of course the end times when all of mankind will be judged. Do not be deceived that a group sin abrogates itself and that it will go unpunished by God. God will judge group sin, christian or otherwise.
Recently there has been a big push to indoctrinate Christians into a Marxist communist mindset. Preachers are purposely using the scriptures to advocate a shared wealth mentality where any earthly possessions of Christians are deemed to be common property and any excess wealth becomes a focal point for religious rebuke and religious redemption.
To counter the growing Marxist Christianity movement one only has to look to the 10 commandments, thou shall not covet they neighbors goods. How much clearer can it be? I'm sure that when Jesus Christ told his disciples that he was going to send the Holy Spirit he left out the part where the Holy Spirit will divide all of the possessions of the Christians and give them out as religious trinkets to turn the burgeoning christian faith into a platform for idol worship to rein in all unbelievers.
The cornerstone of any Marxist Christian theology is found in the story of Jesus and the young rich man (Matthew 19:16-22 ; Mark 10:17-22 ; Luke 18:18-23). The story is essentially a young rich man seeking out Jesus Christ to present his credentials as a righteous man. Jesus rebukes him and says that he should give all of his earthly possessions to the poor and then to follow him. What is important, and the essential point that is corrupted by Marxist thinking, is that Jesus Christ didn't say to the young rich man to give Jesus the money so he could give it to the poor, but that the rich man should do it himself. Jesus didn't want to spread other people's money to the poor but he wanted to spread the gospel of salvation to the poor, and to everyone else.
For those who eagerly want a “Jesus Kingdom†in this world the story of the young rich man should dispel those illusions. Jesus shunned taking money from his followers to fund any earthly ambitions. Jesus wanted to demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit, not the power of the 'purse'.
One has to imagine Marxist Christianity as a religious airline company. This airline company advertises daily flights and accepts money from customers. Then after the flight when all the passengers try to retrieve their luggage they find it all missing. They are then told of the small print in their boarding pass that allows the airline to redistribute all luggage to the poor. Christian Churches are becoming 'gotcha' guilt traps similar to Catholicism.
If you can see the parallels of the airline company story with our current government system then you shouldn't be surprised to learn why Jesus had so much criticism of the Jewish religious leaders. They were using God's word as an administrative club to exact money and commitments from God's faithful. When a religion begins to use its sphere of influence to become the God that they profess to worship then its time for God to step in and put a halt to it. Sadly Christianity is becoming like the Jewish religious leaders of antiquity and are beginning to devise a faith worship of obedience to a religious administration over spiritual faith. Current Christianity is beginning to replace the worship of God with an idol worship of the poor. A harbinger of the coming antichrist and the mark of the beast.
The first commandment states that we are to worship no other God. But the christian church's push to worship the poor is wrought with disaster as God will impoverish all who neglect the very first commandment. The poor are to be helped but we are not suppose to make the poor the focal point of our worship.
Wealth is not a 'hidden indicator' of someone's extra sinfulness. For God said that all of mankind is equally guilty of sin. There is no measure of being more sinful or less sinful. All that can be said is that one person may be more evil than another, but both are equally sinful in God's eyes. The poor are guilty, and just as culpable as the rich, for being sinful.
After Adam and Eve's sin didn't God force both of them out of the Garden which placed the tree of life out of their reach. It could be said that God was being cruel and inhumane for exacting any punishment for it impoverished Adam and Eve.
God Bless
It is said that American has too much food. Here is what the bible says …..
Proverbs 10:3
New International Version (NIV)
*3 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry,
***but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
I just wish that before anyone starts lobbing disparaging darts at America and its wealth they would first check with God to see if his fingerprints match. There is a false presumption that the poor have no 'wicked cravings' and that all of their poverty is incurred by an injustice of wealth.
Note:
God is a God of creation, meaning that God loves to create. We are told by Jesus that we are to be perfect just like God the Father in heaven is perfect. Most people think of perfection as only a state of being without sin but it is also indicative of the major characteristic of God which is to create. As man adds more useful inventions to humanity do not think that God is disheartened. God is pleased that man would follow his example and use his God given abilities to create. While many 'idle' worshipers look upon man's accomplishments as contrary to God's word it is only because they lack the initiative to follow in God's footsteps and bring forth a useful invention. It is only when evil uses man's inventions to propagate even more evil does God bring judgment upon mankind.
According to current christian theology excess wealth leads to a diminution of mankind’s humanity. If this is so then Jesus Christ, having been a carpenter which was one of the more lucrative professions of his time, must have felt conflicted and tormented for being more 'well off' than most of those around him. I dare say that Jesus Christ's profession as a carpenter was a source of personal pride and not considered an evil pursuit just to enrich himself.
I seriously doubt that the ultimate resolution of Christian wealth is self induced penury. If this were so, that God intended all Christians to become poor as a sign of their faith and to maximize their faith, then why help the poor at all. If poverty will garner the greatest reward in heaven then the poor are already at the point of maximum reward. Any reduction in the poverty of the poor is only going to reduce their reward in heaven.
The whole point of Jesus Christ's ministry wasn't about building an infrastructure to service the poor or establishing a religious administration to divvy up the spoils of 'preaching religion' every Sunday. Jesus Christ was here on earth to present himself as the 'sin offering' by dying for all of mankind’s sins on the cross. Jesus teachings taught that each individual must confront their own sinfulness and come to the realization that they need salvation. A salvation that is simply a belief in Jesus Christ as God's only son come to die for the forgiveness of all of our sins. I hope that the christian church will not try to further burden God's faithful with abstract atheistic thinking (Marxist Christianity) that confers a common ownership mentality as a mediating religious principle.
Whenever christian church leaders chase after the possessions of others under the pretense of helping the poor they are only expanding the sin of covetousness from the individual to the group believing that group sin is a defensible religious pursuit. Notice God's judgments of man. They were all due to a group sin and judgment was levied upon the group's egregious sin. Take for example Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's flood, the plagues against Egypt and then the Egyptian army being drowned when the Red Sea closed back up, and of course the end times when all of mankind will be judged. Do not be deceived that a group sin abrogates itself and that it will go unpunished by God. God will judge group sin, christian or otherwise.
