Whenever nations are under the control of a civil government or a religious government, the wealth of the people decreases and poverty increases.
When nations are under the power of a religious regime, people suffer. People live in fear. They live under the fear of being a heretic, the fear of being an infidel, the fear of being excommunicated, and even the fear of death!
Because of fear, people bend and bow to the powers of religion in order to survive, to live another day. They are not concerned about their sins against God, but rather their sins against their own religion! Thus they confess their sins to their religious priests and gurus in order for them to be clean underneath their religious god, who is a man or a god created in their imaginations. Their faith is in someone they can see with their eyes rather than having their faith in Almighty God, Creator of Heaven and earth, whom they cannot see with their eyes. Therefore, people of religious empires are not taught about the love of God; instead, they are taught to fear their religion and their priests, their god-men, and a god created in their imaginations.
While Christ was upon the earth, the Lord never taught His followers such words as heresy, infidel, or excommunication. The Lord taught His disciples to take the love of God to all nations, and the Lord never instructed His followers to treat people as heretics or infidels, and He never taught them to threaten people with excommunication, nor with death.
Christians, therefore, have never been a band of warriors, raging across nations with swords and killing people because they refuse to believe in Christ.
Jesus Christ does not want people to walk or live in fear, but to walk and live in freedom!
For all the people who have been born again in Christ, not one has ever been excommunicated from God the Father. No, not one!
When nations are under the power of a religious regime, people suffer. People live in fear. They live under the fear of being a heretic, the fear of being an infidel, the fear of being excommunicated, and even the fear of death!
Because of fear, people bend and bow to the powers of religion in order to survive, to live another day. They are not concerned about their sins against God, but rather their sins against their own religion! Thus they confess their sins to their religious priests and gurus in order for them to be clean underneath their religious god, who is a man or a god created in their imaginations. Their faith is in someone they can see with their eyes rather than having their faith in Almighty God, Creator of Heaven and earth, whom they cannot see with their eyes. Therefore, people of religious empires are not taught about the love of God; instead, they are taught to fear their religion and their priests, their god-men, and a god created in their imaginations.
While Christ was upon the earth, the Lord never taught His followers such words as heresy, infidel, or excommunication. The Lord taught His disciples to take the love of God to all nations, and the Lord never instructed His followers to treat people as heretics or infidels, and He never taught them to threaten people with excommunication, nor with death.
Christians, therefore, have never been a band of warriors, raging across nations with swords and killing people because they refuse to believe in Christ.
Jesus Christ does not want people to walk or live in fear, but to walk and live in freedom!
For all the people who have been born again in Christ, not one has ever been excommunicated from God the Father. No, not one!
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