Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

My mother and father are both Christians who live in unrepentant sin, so I've had to shun them.  It's for their own good, and mine.  My father relies on lies when it's convenient, and my mother recoils at hearing the word of God, and she lives in many lies.  I've tried every way I can think of to teach, coerce or force them to change, even to twisting myself in a bid to urge them to help me and therefore to help themselves in the process, and they will not be changed. They won't give it up, so I've given them up, according to the biblical mandates, so Satan can have their bodies for the sake of their souls, but not as enemies but as dear siblings in Christ.  For a long time, I hurt myself by trying to accept them as they are and live as they do and compromise myself, but my sympathy - if that's what it was - was ineffective to change them, and it only changed me.  Now that I've recovered much of what I'd lost, I realize that what was considered harsh...

We can't get God to call us by learning morality or ethics. Wesley's Way of Salvation misunderstands the basis of gaining the image of God (1).  God's Spirit creates that life in us when we are born again by believing the tenets of the gospel and responding to that belief by calling on the name of the Master to be saved by verbally confessing Master Jesus (see 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 for the beliefs outlined in verses 3b-8, and see Romans 10:9a, 10:10b, and 10:13 for the action we must take to be saved).  Wesley supposes that gaining the image of God - a necessary part of salvation - is partly through the soulish work we do to sanctify ourselves, but Romans 10:9b-10a says we gain righteousness by believing the same thing that the 1 Corinthians passage says we believe to be saved.  That means that salvation comes first, and then sanctification by believing the Resurrection, which entails contemplating the reality of the Spirit of Life Who raised Him from the dead, Who is also...

Concerning a YouTube video by Allen Parr, "Jesus Would Be a FALSE TEACHER if He Lived Among Us Today...Here's Why" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTS6UFET5oY, retrieved July 29, 2021).  This answer was too long to give in the comments, so I gave a shorter one there, but this is what I was planning to say in the comments of that video. _____________________________ 1) Jesus wasn't agreeing with their falsehoods, and He called them out.  He didn't just party with them and say nothing when they spoke falsehoods like otherwise true teachers do when they associate with false teachers today.  In the Church, we have specific guidance on not associating with siblings in Christ who live in unrepentant sin.  These are not unbelievers that we must not associate with, but believers!  So the hypocritical Pharisees is not equivalent with this rule that we use to base our action of not associating with false teachers who are Christians, but those Pharisees are equivalent wit...

Don't be seduced or believe devilish doctrines, dear Christians.  Don't leave the faith.  Don't hypocritically lie, and don't let your conscience be seared with a hot iron!  Don't believe government programs that forbid you to marry or to keep yourself from eating certain food, because everything God made should be enjoyed, and we should thank God for all His wonderful food, which we should not refuse but thank Him for it all, because it's cleaned by the word of God and by prayer.  According to 1 Timothy 4:1-5 (and verse 6), I remind you of these things.  They are pushing against us, so stand in our Master Jesus Christ by the word of God and by prayer. According to a news article (https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-27-uk-food-police-social-credit-score-china.html, retrieved July 28, 2021), "[UK Prime Minister Boris] Johnson’s regime has already indicated that it does view meat as 'unhealthy,' and plans to push Brits to seek out 'alternative...

I want God to prepare me to be murdered for His sake, and I want it to be very obvious to others in my city that He is the reason.  But, short of being murdered, we fight our sin-corrupted bodies and some enemies in the World (and, sometimes, demons, too).  Fighting all that to refuse their pressure to renounce or go against Jesus is also a type of martyrdom, and it's the type of thing I thrive in and what I call really living life in this wicked age.  It shows me how close He is to me when He strengthens me to constantly fight my own flesh, first and foremost, and the others, too. Pray for your weakness to allow His strength to course through you in the day of your evil as well as in your good days; it will help you defeat your enemy during the one day and help you sense His sweet presence in all the others! "Great God who loves us, you know what's happening here.  Keep our minds and our hearts and our wills from despising you, and give us perspective ...

This is a list of pastors from https://www.cypresschapel.com/about-us.html, retrieved on July 21, 2021. I suppose they are mainly trustworthy, except their salvation doctrines are weirdly off.  Check them out with the Bible.  No pastor is perfect, but make sure they are sincere and repentant in what they say and do, and don't be judges of their thoughts (like Paul negatively asserts about respecters of persons).  Judge what they say and do, though, like 1 Corinthians 5:12-13a says: Christians judge those inside the Church and God judges those outside it. ______________________________________________________________ I looked at the Calvary Chapel website, https://www.calvarychapel.com/know-god, on July 21, 2021. It adds a necessity of asking Jesus to forgive you, which Paul's gospel doesn't explicitly include as a necessity, but is implied by salvation.  The problem is that it pulls into a prerequisite for salvation what is really the outcome of and a part of the def...

Living a life that is not characteristic of someone in the Kingdom of God means that that behavior is not of the Christian's nature.  It does not mean that justified, born again Christians will take on the nature of those in the Kingdom of Satan by behaving that way!  Salvation is by confession of the tenets of salvation (see 1 Corinthians 15:1-8) and calling on the name of Master Jesus by verbally confessing Master Jesus (see Romans 10:9a, 10:10b and 10:13).  Sanctification comes progressively to the born again, justified Christian by believing the Resurrection and thinking on it and the Spirit Who raised Him from the dead (and all Christians, too) more and more. When you read those scary passages that seem to say that a Christian who believes and confesses according to the Scriptures can lose their salvation or has never been saved, then look at it more carefully and ask yourself what the subject is and if it refers to the unsaved which it is comparing and contrasting t...

Tell them, tell them in front of another witness or two, then in front of the congregation, and then, if they won't repent, *remove them from the congregation, but not as enemies but as siblings in Christ, giving their bodies over to Satan to be hurt so their spirit can be saved (that is, so their spirit can be healed on the Earth)*.  Not as enemies (that is, not as they were Worldlings), but as siblings! Salvation is not determined by our good works or by our fight against evil works, but by believing the tenets of salvation that Paul said he learned and repeated to the Corinthian congregation in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 (see the first two verses, too), and by calling on the name of our Master for salvation by verbally confessing Master Jesus, according to Paul's statement in Romans 10:9, 10, and verse 13.  Believe and confess, according to the Scriptures for salvation. We who are justified in Christ behave differently with those who are and those who are not.  To the Church...

If you want to do anything you think so long as it lines up with the Bible, then do it.  If you have an urge to tell people that Jesus died for our sins, and God raised Him from the dead, according to God's plan, and that those who believe it and call on His name for salvation by verbally confessing Master Jesus - then what's stopping you from telling them that you have a firm reason to hope for eternal life instead of the eternal death that you would have gotten without Him and His work?   Something's stopping you.  Is it fear, shame or simple shyness at speaking, or something else?  You might have to overcome the pressure of being programmed by society to think that sharing the gospel is imposing your beliefs on others, which has been made out by the World to seem like extremely intolerable action.  It's loving to tell them what they need to know, and it's trusting God to let it be after you know that they know, because it's His work to do in their hearts....

Rights are outside legal authority and, therefore, need not be "invoked" in order to actively exist in all situations. There is no need to "invoke" the right to remain silent.  That part of Miranda which deals with this issue is enough for the officer to know that the right exists, although they should know it without, due to the fact that they enforce law, which merely acknowledges the existence of all rights and has no authority over them. Rights are always in effect like a legal opt-out program, and they need not be invoked like a legal opt-in program, because they exist outside law.

Only the Bible can differentiate between soul and spirit. The World confuses the soul and the spirit and intermixes them in false ways.  For instance, when the World prays to a spirit they think they are doing an action that does resemble soulish attuning to a way of thinking about a quality, such as thinking about what one's ancestors did in stories or about the serenity of beauty of a tree and its surroundings, so that the World is not performing a spiritual action but a soulish one.  On the other hand, the World might think it's praying to an idol or performing a ritual that they basically conceive of as a soulish act, to align their mindset with a certain mood or as a mere expression of solidarity with all the others who perform the ritual or pray to the idol, but there is a demon spirit involved. "For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and ...

For those who think serving the World is taught in Scripture, realize that the entire ministry of Master Jesus Christ on the Earth was service of The King to His people, Israel.  He served Jews.  Consider Matthew 25:31-46.  Did you stop and read it or do you already know it?  Go ahead and read it.  Now, look at verse 40.  "..to one of the least of these My brothers..".  Also in the New Testament we are told to love the brothers.  Have you noticed that phrase "the brothers"?  The siblings of Christ - the Church - are who we are committed to.  If we go around healing the World but withholding the gospel, we are despicable and atrocious in our behavior toward them, and it is a deep unkindness to the World who has a full belly because of us but no knowledge of the truth - they might have gotten saved then and there if we had just told them!  But we behave according to our own vain philosophies and not according to God's Word, and, at th...

Consider 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.  We who are in Christ are not counted as workers of evil even if we commit sinful acts, because we are washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.  But, since the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God, unrighteous actions are not of the nature of we who are justified.  Because it's not our nature, we shouldn't do them or be in bondage to those evil things.  But 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is used to frighten Christians into believing that they lose their salvation every time they sin (or, even more strangely, every time they commit one of the particular sins listed there).  But you see how it says in verse 11 that we are not those who shall not inherit the kingdom of God, because we are washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

If God gives to some individual Christians the desire and work to overcome particular societal evils, then I would only have them remember to preach the gospel, also, and to not keep from telling the World that they are sinners and that they must be sinners, but there is good news, because He who knew no sin became sin for His enemies to die for our sins, and everyone who believes the tenets of salvation that Paul both learned and taught and that we can read in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and who calls on the name of the Master for salvation by verbally confessing Master Jesus (which we read in Romans 10:9, 10, 13) will be saved to a new life and instantly have power over the bondage of sin. We cannot get them to become Christians by showcasing right living - the World has had that example through all of human history and has not turned altogether or even mostly or as a society.  The vanity and pride of those Christians who lived in 1950's America (or our dream of them), for instance, and...

When a Christian teaches an anger management class through a Church congregation or a Christian organization, does that person allow for the management of anger in expressing it, or does that person only believe the World's psychological teaching that management of anger is identical with suppression of it or controlling yourself to never express it? Does the Bible teach complete suppression of anger to never express it?  No, it does not.  So, you see how Christians are subverted to teach falsehood at the behest of the World as though it were biblical teaching. Jesus controlled those money changers business.  Jesus used His anger and controlled those selling animals in His Father's Temple, where Jesus had authority to do so.  The World says that using anger to control others is the wrong thing to do.  Christians must support what Jesus did when it's against the World's desire.  The World teaches this point about anger management - that we should calm d...

Worldly heroes are mimicries of Jesus Christ.  He has done the impossible and is therefore trustworthy to always protect His own.

Even though we Christians are still in these sin-corrupted bodies, God grows us!  We think of Him and His qualities and we think about His actions, and we grow by His Holy Spirit of Life in our Master Jesus Christ, learning Christ's mind, taking every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, contemplating God's Resurrection of our Lord Jesus The Messiah from the dead and gaining righteousness by that contemplation.  It's wonderful!  It's not our willpower but God's freedom to love Him without the burden of sin binding us. God's power disregards the sin of His own.  Don't believe the falsehood that we are still bound by our sin, dear Church.

Celebrate Recovery says that Jesus is their Higher Power as adapted from the 12 steps (which was really ripped out the Bible by atheists, who excised Jesus from it in the first place).  Jesus does not fit that part of the definition of "Higher Power" where everyone has their own Higher Power of their choosing, because Jesus is in fact everyone's Higher Power whether they choose Him or not, because He is the King of the entire Universe.  Since we know that the definition of "Higher Power" includes the concept that we pick, then when we all pick Jesus, we are demeaning Him by shoehorning Him into that smaller definition, and we change our own concept of Him in subtle ways but ways we firmly believe. Even for someone who has never known a single fact about the 12-Steps or the Blue Book or the history of the 12-Steps program, those people might hear someone within Celebrate Recovery mention this faulty definition by saying, "Jesus is our Higher Power even thoug...

Showing active love to the unbeliever does not draw them to Christ, but only the knowledge of the Gospel, which is knowledge of Christ's active love, will lead them to Him, because the part of them that needs to respond - their spirit - is dead, and their soul cannot respond, except for the part of the soul that God's Holy Spirit works on when they hear the Gospel and then either accept or reject it.  Christians have a living spirit as well as the Holy Spirit always working in us, so that's why we respond the way we do to affectionate love and all sorts of helps.  Jesus worked some miracles for the people of Israel even when the individual didn't believe in Him - though we don't know that He ever did for someone who explicitly said they didn't believe in God; even the demoniacs weren't speaking for themselves - and His work to Israel is not the same as Paul's work after Christ's salvific work was finished, and so His ministry to the Jews that He did ...

Pressing a Christian sibling to show that they believe is against the Bible's teaching of accepting the mere word of the sibling that they repent seven times in a day.  Believing is all that's necessary to believe, and you cannot monitor another's heart - they must tell you whether or not they believe.  There is a thing that is a response to belief that can be heard by others - verbally confessing Master Jesus.  That's the action that goes with belief of the tenets of salvation doctrine that Paul learned and taught, and it has nothing at all to do with sin, so that the old standard some congregations have had to force certain behaviors from Christians in order to ascertain whether or not they are siblings in Christ is wrong.  However, monitoring behavior to know whether to rebuke a sibling in Christ and to shun them - but as a sibling and not as an enemy - is biblical and it is right to do that, according to the Scriptures.

Seeing things from others points of view is useful to a point, but structuring your behavior after your assumption of another's point of view or even after your certain knowledge of it is dangerous and wicked.  Consider the Golden Rule and compare it with this concept.  How can doing to others as you suppose or know that they want you to do to them be kind when it is the opposite of the kind God's rule of behavior to do to others as you want them to do to you?  No.  Becoming so various that you tailor yourself to the other - or to your impression of the other - grinds down your own personhood, makes you unnaturally and exhaustingly question and schism your own clear motives in the light of what you think another will think, and it makes you love the other more than yourself and it makes you love the other with your whole soul in much the same way that we are told to love God.  Then we love ourselves and others on an equal footing. Following the World's current r...

If your politeness is this dark, how dark is your darkness?!  I live in the light.  I don't live there because I was smarter or more moral than you, but because my Master put me in His light, and He made me live there.  You can also be clear of your deep darkness by running to Master Jesus in His own way, according to the gospel that the Apostle Paul of the Bible learned and taught.

Paul was once followed around for some days by a medium who called out the seemingly approving message that they spoke for God and told of salvation.  This grieved Paul.  He cast the spirit out of her and left her to go back to her paymasters.  They weren't happy about it.  See Acts 16:16 and following. Compare Paul's behavior with these modern congregations that try to win people to Christ by being forever polite to them!  Paul only cast the spirit out of the girl because he couldn't take her - in modern standards, very polite and agreeable - messing with him for days on end.  And what did he do?  Did he get her into a 12-steps program?!  No.  He dealt with the problem and left her.  She obviously already knew about the doctrine of salvation he was spreading, so there was nothing more to say to her.  It led to problems for Paul from the city rulers, who had him and his follow soldier for Christ, Silas, beaten and put in prison, whi...

"Thanks for sharing" is often used as a brush-off and a way to control the conversation without any meaningful response.  It's also a lie, because if thankfulness was involved, that thankful person would want to hear more or to respond meaningfully.  The phrase seems positive even though it's a brush-off, which is meant to stop the conversation by putting the speaker at loose ends while he figures out how to take the positive-sounding brush-off. Sometimes, it could be genuine.  In that case, edification from the preceding will have truly taken place, and further comment is not strongly stymied.

Even if the World calls neuro-engineered AI which wraps itself around the entire nervous system a god in order to think it got around God's taunt that the makers of idols of silver and stone that cannot speak with their mouths, hear with their ears, etc., were like their own creations, such artifice of human production would still be like their producers, and the makers and the gods would still be less than God who made humans.

Without biblical salvation in Christ, there's no basis for safety, even for church-goers.

An secular historian named Tom Holland wrote, "Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World".  He wrote and article (https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/religion/2016/09/tom-holland-why-i-was-wrong-about-christianity) in which he concludes, “In my morals and ethics, I have learned to accept that I am not Greek or Roman at all, but thoroughly and proudly Christian.”  But he is not Christian at all in his salvation, which is the primary point of Christianity.  Making ethics or morality the primary point of Christianity is an Antichristian strategy and a false gospel like we were warned about in the Bible.

Memorize, understand and tell people 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 and Romans 10:9, 10 and verse 13.  Death comes from sin.  Physical death is a metaphor of spiritual death, which is separation from God who gives us good things, even sunshine and food and ..air and our lives.  That life will go away when we die and it's really gone now in the deeper way, because we are sinners due to the sin of our first father, Adam.  God knew our situation, so He sent His only natural or sired Son to Earth.  Jesus never sinned, so He never would die, because death comes from sin, but He was murdered by the authorities of the world.  Now, there's an old statement in the Bible that says that anyone who hangs on a tree is cursed (and it means what it really means - it doesn't mean climbing a tree or something like that makes a curse), and so we obviously know Jesus was made a curse, because He was hung on a cross to die.  When Jesus died as a human who never sinned, He fulfilled...

Neurotic behavior is an attempt to self-punish and to cause others to punish so guilt can seem to be relieved.  That's why psychotherapy seems to alleviate it when it moves the guilt to a different area that is not as much at the forefront of the consciousness.  Only God's justice can alleviate the guilt that must be punished, though.  Jesus Christ took on that punishment.  Verbally confessing Master Jesus due to believing that He died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures and was buried, then God raised Him from death on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures and then He was seen by many witnesses - only that belief and the action of calling on the name of the Master for salvation can save, justify and remove the guilt.  Neurotic behavior or the psychotherapies cannot. Jesus Christ washes us with His blood and we die with Him and are born again when we believe the tenets of the gospel and confess Master Jesus in accordance with 1 Corinthians 1...

There is no contrast but unity of purpose between helping the world and teaching them they are going to Hell unless they stop being part of the world through the specific beliefs and action of the gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-8 and Romans 10:9, 10, 13).  The key is to see salvation as the main purpose of Christianity - of Christ's Church of people whom He knows belong to Him - is not to feed the world but to be Christ's own people!  Secondarily, Christ's own people will naturally feed the world as a byproduct of our relationship with our Master Jesus Christ and the righteousness we attain as we believe in our hearts that God has raised Christ from the dead (look real careful now at Romans 10:9b & 10:10a; it's fascinating to me that knowledge of the Resurrection of our dear Lord is the means by which we gain righteousness!). So, there's not any fight between those Christians who want to spend a lot of time doing charity work, as long as they are also willing to tel...