Since God doesn’t look on the outside, should you dress like celebrities?

Liberal Christians today are a very deceived bunch of people. They claim to go by the name of Christ but live like the rest of the world. A classic example is the popular saying “God doesn’t look on the outside but at the heart”.  Agreed that this is what the LORD told Samuel when choosing David as a king:

“But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” (1Sam 16:7)

So taking this Scripture ref. in to account, men and women who call themselves Christians find the liberty to cover themselves in tattoos, piercings and clothes that exhibit all the feminine curves. Don’t even dare tell them that their sense of fashion is an abomination to God; you will be attacked with the verse quoted above. In fact, they will tell you that immoral fashion it is not distracting anyone from worshiping God. There are even worship leaders that dress like Hollywood celebrities. In that case, the Apostle Paul made an unforgivable blunder when he commanded women to dress modestly. 

Even men lie when saying that a women’s suggestive clothing doesn’t stop him from focusing on God – yeah right! Are you really not distracted when a liberal Christian girl is dressed in tight mini-skirt jumping in front of you during a worship session? (These worship sessions are mostly music worship instead of God worship, but that’s another topic.)

And girls, as if you don’t know that you are causing men (who you call your brothers in Christ) to sin?

Anyhow, coming down to what God is saying in the verse quoted above, notice that He is referring to the physical  structure of a man (or a woman). “Countenance” and “height of the structure” refer to the attributes with which the person is born. People judge others based on these attributes: short men, black people, ugly nose, no curves etc. The physical characteristics, which you can’t do anything about, is what the LORD is referring to. No one is born with tattoos, low-cut tops or piercings. (If you had tattoos before you came to the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, you are pardoned. However, it is those who know His grace yet go on to look like the heathens.)

There are portions in the book of Psalms and Proverbs that say that a woman who leads a man astray with her words is an adulteress. However, women don’t need to speak words in order to lead men to stray; she simply has to show off her curves and/or skin.  You could cover all your skin by wearing a tight outfit, it will still display your curves. It is a proven fact that men naturally tend to respect women that dress modestly and carry themselves with dignity and self-worth rather than items of lust. And trust me girls, real men prefer a properly dressed woman.

As to the argument that God looks at the heart: your thoughts, your sense of fashion, your words, you habits — they all display what’s in your heart, and what God is actually looking at. What’s on the inside shows on the outside. If you revered and feared the absolutely holy and righteous God, you would think a 100 times before dressing like a celebrity or heading to the tattoo parlor.

 

Feminists And Their Satanic Influence On God’s Church

If you are seeking Christian marriage, trust in the Lord, and wait for the companion God has chosen for you. Getting ahead of God by not waiting only brings the disaster of being unequally yoked against God’s biblical harmony.

It is important for young single Christian men to understand what type of women they should avoid. Many women who call themselves “Christian” these days are nothing more than feminists, disguised as Christians. A true women of Faith will trust God’s word concerning women, and not seek the worldly pattern of ambition for authority.

CHRISTIANS ARE MIXED UP IN DEMONIC MYSTICISM – Part 1

By Marsha West

September 15, 2007

NewsWithViews.com

More and more of those who profess Christ are “experiencing God” in ways that lands them smack dab in the middle of the New Age movement. It’s not like they haven’t been warned about experimenting with mysticism. They’ve been warned plenty, yet they totally disregard wise counsel. So if you’re among the sheep who have gone astray, consider the Bible’s wise counsel: “It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him” (Deut 13:4).

I must admit I’m mystified (pun intended) as to why so many Christians are choosing to leave the narrow road Jesus spoke of and follow Oprah down the broad road that leads to destruction. What’s up with that?

The Bible says, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord,” not Oprah!

Reading God’s Word to know Him and His ways just doesn’t cut it for some so-called Christians, which is why a number of them are venturing into the astral plane hoping to connect with God on a “deeper level beyond your thinking.” Even though Scripture is opposed to any form of mysticism (2 Chronicles 33:6), many Christians are joining “Christian yoga” classes and praising the health benefits — even getting their kids involved. Sly marketers sell Christians on yoga’s good mind/body health benefits (Deepak Chopra, anyone?), plus they say it will help you to “apprehend God.” As an extra-added bonus you can tone those flabby abs!

There’s big bucks to be made from yoga. In America, it’s a $30 billion-a-year business. And speaking of big bucks, McDonald’s is masterful at marketing their products to consumers. When your run of the mill hamburger is promoted as the Big-Tasty® the gullible public, mouths watering, head straight to the golden arches! The Big-Tasty® sure tastes good, but is it good for you? The burger contains 8 grams of saturated fat, 70 grams of cholesterol, and 500 calories per serving. Sounds like a heart attack waiting to happen.

Christians are being lured into “Christian yoga” by promises of good health. Sure, it’s a tad New Age, but what’s the big deal? I mean, everyone’s doin’ it, so it’s a good thing…right? Does that kind of logic not make your blood boil?

Affixing a new handle to an ancient Hindu practice may make it palatable for the Christian consumer, but it doesn’t change the fact that offering yoga in a Christian setting is unacceptable. You cannot separate yoga from the Hindu religious system. As I said in my commentary, Christian Yoga? C’mon!, “Classical yoga is intended to put one into an altered state of consciousness. Believers who think they’re ‘just exercising’ are being swept into a counterfeit religion.”

Eastern mysticism leads to destruction. But that doesn’t stop some Christians from involving themselves in “kything prayer” (KP), which is another unbiblical kind of prayer and meditation. This bizarre prayer practice will astound even the most well-informed followers of Jesus Christ. One way to engage in KP is the Enneagram, which is a heresy of the first order. I’ll get to “kything” in a moment. But first a bit about “contemplative prayer” AKA “centering prayer.” For centuries, Catholic mystics have engaged in contemplative prayer. Today Catholics and Protestants alike practice CP. Carmelite nun and Spanish mystic, St. Teresa of –vila, “a very much-loved contemplative Catholic saint” spent hours in meditation, which she called the “prayer of quiet.” She recommended the following prayer technique to another nun:

“Pray the Lord’s Prayer, but take an hour to pray it. Spend a few minutes entering into each individual phrase, until it becomes truly the prayer of your heart, and you become the prayer.”

I have no clue what “become the prayer” means, but Jesus Christ never taught His followers any such thing. He never taught them to empty their minds, which is what occurs during Transcendental meditation. The “prayer of quiet” has its roots in Eastern mysticism, not the Bible. People will argue that Catholic monks have been engaging in CP for centuries, like that alone should make it acceptable. However, it doesn’t negate the fact that meditation goes against the express teaching of Scripture. “Let no one be found among you … who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead” (Deut. 18:10-11).

Granted, the Bible says Christians are to mediate. Joshua 1:8 says, “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.”

Meditation is contemplating what God says in the pages of Holy Scripture so that we will do everything written in it. In other words, so that God’s people will know what He expects and be obedient. As John MacArthur observes, “It is not enough just to study the Bible. We must meditate upon it. In a very real sense we are giving our brain a bath; we are washing it in the purifying solution of God’s Word.” I read somewhere that if a Christian is careless in Bible reading he or she will care less about Christian living. (To read more on Christian meditation.[2])

As I mentioned above, Christians are involving themselves in “kything prayer” (KP). There are other examples of outright heresy practiced by Christians could be brought to light, but KP is sufficiently concerning that it deserves a few paragraphs here. That way, when a well-meaning, albeit undiscerning, person introduces KP into your church you’ll be equipped to explain its connection to Eastern mysticism. (Unfortunately there are church leaders who are as undiscerning as some laypeople, hence they, too, are guilty of introducing false teaching and outright heresy into the Body of Christ!) If only Christians would heed Paul’s words to Timothy: ” … you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:15-17).

Most Christians aren’t “thoroughly equipped” for one simple reason — they don’t bother to meditate on God’s Word. A large number of evangelicals admit that they’re too busy to spend time in their Bibles and only pray on the run, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that liberalism has a foothold in most mainline denominations and is spreading like wildfire through evangelicalism (which was once ultra conservative). Bear in mind that “progressive Christians” (liberals) have the unmitigated arrogance to profess their love for Christ, yet they endeavor to mold His church into a decidedly unbiblical worldview. You can put a steeple on it, but that doesn’t make it Christian. But I digress.

“Kythe” is an ancient Scottish word that means “to make known; to manifest; to show.” It’s described as a sort of telepathic communication whereby “one person almost becomes another, seeing through their eyes and feeling through their senses.” Kythers communicate through methods other than the senses, which sounds a lot like mental telepathy! While in this frame of mind, “the two people intuitively know the meaning of what the other is telling them, disregarding such things as words or pictures. The idea may be based on the concept of Oneness, which states that all that exists, is one in its source and end…recollection and assertion of that concept puts a person ‘in Kythe’ with that which they are concentrating on.”[3]

Before I enlighten you with the three steps to get started in KP, I should mention that the concept of “Oneness” comes from Eastern Religion’s belief in pantheism — God is everything and everything is God. “All that exists constitutes a ‘unity’ and this all-inclusive unity is in some sense divine.”[4]

How does pantheism explain human nature? I love how Sue Bohlin puts it, “Pantheism explains human nature by saying we’re all a part of god, but our problem is that we forget we’re god. We just need to be re-educated and start living like the god we are.”

Christianity does not hold that God is “everything and everything is God.” On the contrary, authentic Christians are theists. Theism holds that God is transcendent, that He is separate and distinct from His creation, and that He possesses the attributes of personality, hence God is personal. Moreover, Christians believe that in the incarnation God took on bodily form and became the God-man (Theanthropos.)

No Christian should buy into the New Age movement’s lie that each human soul is akin to a drop of water in a sea of Divine Consciousness. (“Here there is not even energy; no body, no mind, no light, no sound – absolute nothingness – total vacuum – only tremendous potential unmanifest Divine Consciousness, from which all life and material creation flows.”[5]

1, Christian yoga? C’mon! By Marsha West
2, Biblical Meditation By J. Hampton Keathley, III, Th.M.
3, Kything – Answers.com
4, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Stanford University website
5, A Nature Meditation By Robert Elias Najemy
6, The Voice in the Stillness: An overview of some Christian ways of meditation — The Wild Things of God website
7, Apostles’ Creed – Catholic Encyclopedia
8, Gurdjieff and the Enigmatic Enneagram By the Reverend Ed Hird
9, Finding Spiritual Enlightenment Original Air Date: July 30, 2007
10, Is Oprah Peddling Snake Oil? By Marsha West

A Nation defeated by Idolatry

Two major events have taken place in the US recently: legalization of gay marriages in New York and Christians welcoming Muslims into the house of God to hold interfaith services. Along with these two events, tree-huggers are taking extreme measures to worship the created than the Creator. Scientists are busy searching for extraterrestial life in order to have contact with them and literally worship them; they believe that aliens will solve the problems of this world. The list could go on but the spiritual downfall of the nation cannot be more evident. Homosexuality is the result of blatant disregard to the holy God, the Creator of the universe (read carefully) :

22 “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

 ²³And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

 ²⁴Wherefore (for which reason) God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

 ²⁵Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

 ²⁶For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

 ²⁷And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” – Romans 1, The KJV Bible

The Bible clearly defines the reason behind men lusting after men and women lusting after women: idolatry. When the created is being worship, godly morals, godly fear and godly reverence has no place in such worshippers. God gives up the wicked to exchange unnatural relationship with each other. There is evidently a lot of idolatry going on in America, and it’s spreading to other nations at the speed of a mouse click! The list of wicked acts goes on:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

 ²⁹Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication (fornication always follows idol worship; it’s considered a ritual for some religions), wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

 ³⁰Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things (Hollywood, Bollywood), disobedient to parents (rebellious teens are a result of the idolatry),

 ³¹Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

 ³²Who knowing the judgment of God (those “Christians” who have welcomed Muslims into their midst), that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” 

The US has been greatly defeated by the eastern religions, the source of idolatry. The infiltration of depraved Hindu philosophies and religious mysticism by New Agers has especially played a gigantic role in diverting the nation of America from the God they once feared and revered, evident in their recent acts. The nation has failed to protect its borders from depraved influences; instead it calls its people to tolerate it! The Lord will preserve His faithful Church.

American Churches to Embrace Islam on 26 June 2011

After reading the following write-up by NETB, one would expect Muslims in the Middle East to unite with Christians there; inviting them to read Bibles in their mosques instead of butchering them! Well, what exactly is the purpose for these Christians to invite Muslims to their churches? Rick Warren better visit the Mid East soon!

 

American churches to deny Jesus Christ on June 26, 2011 –

 

NTEB has reported extensively on the growing Chrislam movement. Started in part by Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, it has grown dramatically and now has infected many hundreds of churches and denominations all across America. A new group called Faith Shared is now spearheading the move to merge Christianity with Islam, and in the process provoking the very judgment of God down upon us as a nation. (NOTE: Rick Warren is not affiliated as far as we know with Faith Shared.)

The following is taken directly from their website:

“Faith Shared asks houses of worship across the country to organize events involving clergy reading from each other’s sacred texts. An example would be a Christian Minister, Jewish Rabbi and Muslim Imam participating in a worship service or other event. Suggested readings will be provided from the Torah, the Gospels, and the Qur’an, but communities are encouraged to choose readings that will resonate with their congregations. Involvement of members from the Muslim community is key. We will also provide suggestions on how to incorporate this program into your regular worship services. And we will assist local congregations in their media and communications efforts.

While there is a strong preference for all of the events to happen on the same day, a number of congregations held interfaith services in January and February giving us wonderful examples of how communities can come together in support and fellowship. We will be posting photos, sample programs and audio files from theses services.

Faith Shared will collect images and videos from these events to use in our efforts to spread this message of respect and understanding from America.

Tensions around Islam in America have erupted throughout the country in the past year, leading to misconceptions, distrust and in some cases violence. News stories on the rising tide of anti-Muslim bigotry and violence abound, with graphic and often searing images of the antagonists, the protagonists and the battlegrounds where they meet. All too often, media coverage simplistically pits Muslims against would-be Qur’an burners, neglecting any substantive representation of where the majority of Americans actually stand: a shared commitment to tolerance and freedom. We are committed to ensuring that the storyline changes dramatically in 2011 by helping to create an environment of mutual understanding and respect for each other’s faith traditions.” source – Faith Shared

The following are churches across the US who have agreed to sponsor a Chrislam service:

Congregation	Location
Anchorage First Christian	Anchorage	AK
University Presbyterian Church	Tuscaloosa	AL
Quapaw Quarter UMC	Little Rock	AR
Federated Community Church	Flagstaff	AZ
First UMC Phoenix	Phoenix	AZ
All Saints Cathedral	Pasadena	CA
First United Lutheran,	San Francisco	CA
Light of ChristEcumenical Catholic Church	Longmont	CO
Park Hill Congregational	Denver	CO
Union Congregational	Nucla	CO
Temple Micah	Denver	CO
Riverfront Family Church	Hartford	CT
The National Cathedral	Washington	DC
Seekers Church	Washington	DC
North American Old Catholic Church	Washington	DC
National City Christian Church	Washington	DC
New Ark United Church of Christ	Newark	DE
Faith United Church of Christ	Clearwater	FL
Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola	Pensacola	FL
United Church of Christ at The Villages	The Villages	FL
Virginia Highland Church	Atlanta	GA
Decatur United Church of Christ	Decatur	GA
The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist	College Park	GA
St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church	Honolulu	HI
Church of the Epiphany	Honolulu	HI
Cathedral of St. Andrew, the Episcopal Diocese of HI	Honolulu	HI
Collegiate United Methodist Church and Wesley Foundation	Ames	IA
Congregational United Church of Christ	Iowa City	IA
Urbandale UCC Church	Urbndale	IA
Hillview United Methodist	Boise	ID
Boise First United Methodist Church, Cathedral of the Rockies	Boise	ID
First United of Oak Park	Chicago	IL
St Thomas Mission	Chicago	IL
The Chicago Temple First UMC	Chicago	IL
First Presbyterian Church of Fort Wayne	Fort Wayne	IN
Northminster Baptist Church	Monroe	LA
The Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst	Amherst	MA
Grace Episcopal	Amherst	MA
Church of Our Savior	Arlington	MA
St Paul’s Cathedral	Boston	MA
Old Cambridge Baptist Church	Cambridge	MA
Hadwen Park Congregational Church	Worcester	MA
Veritas United Church of Christ	Hagerstown	MD
Trinity United Methodist	Mountain Grove	MO
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church	Ely	MN
First Congregational	Great Falls	MT
MtView/Trinity UM Parish	Butte	MT
Unitarian Universalist Ocean County Congregation,	Toms River	NJ
Christ Episcopal Church	Toms River	NJ
Zion Methodist Church	Las Vegas	NV
Prepare New York	New York	NY
Auburn Theological Seminary	New York	NY
The Sacred Center of New York	New York	NY
Christ Church United Methodist	NewYork	NY
The Riverside Church of New York	New York	NY
All Souls Bethelehem Church	Brooklyn	NY
First Congregational UCC	Corvalis	OR
Spirit of Peace United Church of Christ	Sioux Falls	SD
Baha’i Faith Community Center	Nashville	TN
Saint John’s United Methodist Church	Austin	TX
Hope for Peace & Justice Interfaith Peace Chapel	Dallas	TX
Cathedral of Hope	Dallas	TX
Wasatch Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City	Salt Lake City	UT
Grace Episcopal Church	St George	UT
United Church of Bellows Falls	Bellow Falls	VT
Cathedral of the Diocese of Vermont	Burlington	VT
Vermont Ecumenical Council & Bible Society	Burlington	VT
Dummerston Congregational Church UCC	Drummerston	VT
Memorial United Church of Christ	Fitchburg	WI
Trinity Episcopal Church	Janesville	WI
First Congregational Church UCC Casper	Casper	WY