Well it IS actually difficult when you realise that you could visit about 100 different churches and receive 100 different explanations for a SINGLE passage of scripture – and that is even within a single denomination!! What ever happened to Christians believing in 1 God, 1 Bible and 1 truth…?? with 1 truth WHY do we need approximately 38000 denominations within Christianity..? That sounds like a very confused and divided religion to me! Shinchonji aims to see the unification of all religions and all denominations…
So how can we make sure that the testimony we are hearing from Mr. Man Hee Lee at Shinchonji isn’t one that has been altered to suit human lifestyle?? If we are striving to have hearts after God’s own heart, and to really be called His children it takes more than simply confessing with your lips, and, more than just believing in God and Jesus too… we all know that saying something doesn’t mean it is that way, and believing something will always reflect in your actions. (Mt 19 v 16-30 …”obey the commandments”… and naturally we need to understand what the commandments are before we can do this!)
Galatians 1 v 8 speaks about the fate of people who teach a gospel differing, even slightly, from the one that the disciples heard directly from Jesus and were teaching at the time. Deuteronomy 4 v 1-2 also says, do not add or subtract from anything that God has said through his prophets. Repeated only 8 chapters later in Deuteronomy 12 v 32 God speaks through Moses telling His people to DO all that He commands and not alter His word in any way. Again in Proverbs 30 v 5-6 He makes himself abundantly clear saying if you speak your own ideas and opinions and claim that it is from God He will rebuke you and prove you a liar…and ultimately some of the last word we are left with from God tell us the same (in a slightly less friendly sort of way), Revelation 22 v 18-19 prove that God has been sounding the same warning since the beginning of the world. Now would a wise and almighty God give warning without reason?? It should make us aware of the fact that this is happening, and then make us adamant that those words will not be what we accept! for if we accept false words and still believe they are from God we are just as much at fault as those administering those words. We all have God’s original! We have his Word, unaltered and unedited, and it is therefore our duty to make sure we are awake and alert as to what we receive as truth! This truth has been testified and over 100 000 people internationally have verified that it is in fact truth! There is a difference between God’s word and what is simply man’s attempt at understanding it – are you willing to hear, verify and understand for yourself?
In man’s efforts to explain things only revealed by God himself (Is 29 v 9-13, Hab 2 v 2-3, 1 Cor 2 v 9-10) we fool ourselves into believing our own interpretation of something that is actually beyond human and physical understanding, and in doing so we are falling into the very trap God warns us about in all the above mentioned scriptures. Through understanding God’s promises with clarity, and being allowed to bear witness to their fulfillment, as proclaimed by the man whom God has revealed them to, let’s learn how to discern for ourselves what is truth and what is man’s words so that we are not deceived!
Mt 24 v 4: ” Jesus answered:” Watch out that no one deceives you”"So how can we make sure that the testimony we are hearing from Mr. Man Hee Lee at Shinchonji isn’t one that has been altered to suit human lifestyle?? If we are striving to have hearts after God’s own heart, and to really be called His children it takes more than simply confessing with your lips, and, more than just believing in God and Jesus too… we all know that saying something doesn’t mean it is that way, and believing something will always reflect in your actions. (Mt 19 v 16-30 …”obey the commandments”… and naturally we need to understand what the commandments are before we can do this!)
Galatians 1 v 8 speaks about the fate of people who teach a gospel differing, even slightly, from the one that the disciples heard directly from Jesus and were teaching at the time. Deuteronomy 4 v 1-2 also says, do not add or subtract from anything that God has said through his prophets. Repeated only 8 chapters later in Deuteronomy 12 v 32 God speaks through Moses telling His people to DO all that He commands and not alter His word in any way. Again in Proverbs 30 v 5-6 He makes himself abundantly clear saying if you speak your own ideas and opinions and claim that it is from God He will rebuke you and prove you a liar…and ultimately some of the last word we are left with from God tell us the same (in a slightly less friendly sort of way), Revelation 22 v 18-19 prove that God has been sounding the same warning since the beginning of the world. Now would a wise and almighty God give warning without reason?? It should make us aware of the fact that this is happening, and then make us adamant that those words will not be what we accept! for if we accept false words and still believe they are from God we are just as much at fault as those administering those words. We all have God’s original! We have his Word, unaltered and unedited, and it is therefore our duty to make sure we are awake and alert as to what we receive as truth! This truth has been testified and over 100 000 people internationally have verified that it is in fact truth! There is a difference between God’s word and what is simply man’s attempt at understanding it – are you willing to hear, verify and understand for yourself?
In man’s efforts to explain things only revealed by God himself (Is 29 v 9-13, Hab 2 v 2-3, 1 Cor 2 v 9-10) we fool ourselves into believing our own interpretation of something that is actually beyond human and physical understanding, and in doing so we are falling into the very trap God warns us about in all the above mentioned scriptures. Through understanding God’s promises with clarity, and being allowed to bear witness to their fulfillment, as proclaimed by the man whom God has revealed them to, let’s learn how to discern for ourselves what is truth and what is man’s words so that we are not deceived!
2 Cor 11 v 13-15: ” For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
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