Has Religion Changed?

Has Religion Changed?


Has religion changed or is it man who adjusted it to fit his own thought process. While it is true that organized religion has changed over the years the fact is that one thing has never changed and that is God’s plan and idea for mankind. As I have been reading over several papers, theories, lectures and books regarding the subject of religion, man’s reasoning and free thought, Origin of the Species, and anything else I can get my hands on I have come to the conclusion that we are all just a bunch of idiots. We have science on one hand based upon mans own perception of things, conducting experiments whose conclusions are determined by the same people performing them generating thesis as a fact based upon these conclusions and then several years later those facts are proven wrong by another group, which goes on and on. We use test to determine the age of the earth with data formulated by us and coming to conclusions that support the data that we input into the test and we all just eat it up. We buy into it because we need to believe in something and we believe that evidence to be absolute yet when fallacies are found we just as readily accept the new evidence. The same rationale that they use to promote their own theories and tear down those pertaining to God can be used to tear down their own rationalization because honestly I cannot see how it took millions of years for some vertebraed Pikaia to become what we are today. Furthermore I cannot see the logic in their determination of the evidence that they have or the logic in their debates against Christianity.

Of course we ourselves have aided them in this because we hold to the breakdown of the organized religion therefore agree with them that the protestant reformation was a deciding factor in the change when if we were to honestly look at it the same principles were implied at creation. It was His idea from creation that we follow the precepts He set forth, it is just that as our free will denied Him and disobeyed Him He had to tweak it in order that He not alter our free will. He wanted us to love and honor Him on our own and not because we had too. We aided them by altering scripture to make it fit a modern world thereby justifying the very principles that they claim against it. We aided them by using scripture to justify our motives for our own private battles and wars; when the very basis of wars while found in the Old Testament were not for selfish reasons. In each case the nation, that He had Israel conquer had practices that were detrimental to society, with most of them practicing human sacrifice the highest form of obscenity towards God. Consider for a moment the demise of the Aztec, Inca and Mayan people; each had forms of human sacrifice many of which were extremely brutal. Look at many of the indigenous tribes of South America where cannibalism was practiced and where warfare was prevalent many tribes we will never know about because they were annihilated just as many North American tribes were forced into extinction by us. It was not God’s people who caused the North American tragedy but the selfish greed of man. We move places we don’t need to be and then adjust the interpretation of scripture to fit our greed and I am not speaking about physical moving here but a degeneration of our own morality because we want what the world has just as the children of Israel wanted what these neighboring tribes had. Just as they worshipped the idols of the land so we too worship the idols of the land and our education does little more than encourage it. It deadens our senses to scripture and towards others because we’ve adopted their principles and then changed the scripture to fit the new principles that we have adopted. Then we argue that they are what God meant when He inspired the Word and because we are educated many buy right into it thinking that we know what we are talking about and all the while we are grieving the Holy Spirit who has gone from screaming at us to a silent voice that we couldn’t hear with the greatest technology and honestly we don’t want to hear anyways because it goes against how we were raised and what we were taught in college concerning economics one on one. I don’t think Christian speakers should have a set price for their seminars or speeches because it adds to the fire power against us when we have men asking for several thousand dollars to come preach. Many of these guys have agents who help set the price and I must ask as Mark Cahill, what is a soul worth? Is it worth the evidence that we fail to display in these actions? Is it worth your big home or your six digit income? Is it worth your business that you refuse to operate under His authority? Quite honestly I am sick of hearing the cases against us and seeing it for the truth of the situation. We did not come from the Catholic Church; they came from us. They infiltrated the body of Christ and distorted The Way for their own personal gain. They weren’t right from the beginning. They figured a way they could incorporate all the idolatrous practices of those around them to be able to draw them in and then devised a way to keep them there by indoctrinating the bondage of the law yet the Word did not die. It remained until the appropriate time and was revealed, yet while it was hidden for a period there were still those who were obedient to it. There were still those who denied the power of those false teachers who like Stephen would not be silent even to the point of death. It was not God’s doing but the free will of man and his selfish desire of power and pride but as long as there are those who will stand for Him, He will continue to fight their battles, like Enoch who did not die but was taken up alive, Noah who would not yield to the ways of the world even though everyone else was following their own free thought; their own reasoning and logic because after all it had never rained before and they had it all figured out. Joseph who refused to let his power control him like it had done many of his contemporaries or Daniel, or Nehemiah, Esther, David, Gideon, the eleven disciples or Paul.

We have aided them by our lack of knowledge to the point where they do studies to prove that religious people are less intelligent than those of non-religions. We aid them because many of us couldn’t pose a probable argument defending the evidence of our faith to save our lives and this shows them a lack of intelligence because who would believe in something that they did not understand. Faith in Him is based on the evidence received from the past, looking forward to the promises that are to come, providing hope in those promises. Yet because we cannot provide an intelligent answer we are perceived as ignorant and the reason we can’t provide this is because we haven’t worked out our faith. We’ve accepted the promise, and placed faith in the blood but as for the rest of it we are too busy living for ourselves to care about it or is it because we are as the parable of the soils? If so then what soil are we? If we are unable to provide an answer to the world how do we expect to be able to provide one for our children and before you say it is by our life please understand that what they grow up seeing in us had better be enough to withstand when they are in the world and it had better be firmly grounded in sound doctrine.

The logic of the world is not final and we have evidence for that based upon the flood because just as they rationalized with the fact that it had not rained before the One who had created caused it to rain and just as they claim that there is no God the One who created them will return again and He will judge them in their sin just as He had judged those during the flood. Just as He judged Sodom and Gomorrah in the days of Lot and just as He judged Israel during their disobedience and as He will judge us based upon our works. We are justified by faith but we are rewarded by our works and this is where we have changed scripture to fit our failure to do so. While there are many out there who actually live his word they are in minority and those who do not are the ones who are changing religion to fit their own image of God. One who thinks like them and like the things they like while those in the world think they are god. Who can blame them when you consider that they logically came from a vertebrae billions of years ago.