DECEPTION BY PERCEPTION

   Religion is an evil conspiracy:  the place where people are tricked to believe that they can go to heaven by their submission to religion and its system of perceived values.
   Religion is designed to appeal to the human mind and not to the heart. 
   Religion is an invention out of the imagination of the pride of men, which causes religion to be attractive to people because we are prideful. 
   Religion is the place for substitute gods, substitute grace, substitute forgiveness, substitute salvation, and substitute peace and happiness.
   Religion is the place that keeps people believing that they are always dirty, always sinful, always guilty, and incapable of reaching heaven if they do not always submit to the substitute gods, which means they must continually seek forgiveness from human priests, whom they perceive as gods of the earth. 
   Out of this evil conspiracy of religion came evil men to conspire to kill Jesus, the only begotten Son of God.  After which, evil people continued to conspire to hide the knowledge of Christ from people by hiding the religion of witchcraft in a church in Rome under the title of Christianity and making Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire---when this church of Christianity was not Christian at all!  It was a work of deception by perception, and people were tricked. 
   People were tricked to believe that pagan priests became Christian priests, that pagan priests could forgive sin, that pagan priests could turn ordinary water to holy water, that pagan priests could baptize people with unholy water for the cleansing of sin, and that pagan priests were ministers of salvation and absolution.  This trick worked as people were deceived by perception.
   On the contrary, many people were not tricked by Rome as they continued to believe in Christ without Rome's approval.  They continued to preach without a license from Rome.  And they translated the Holy Bible to the English language without religion's approval. 
   Jesus said, I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  (Matthew 16: 18)
   Please notice that Jesus said MY church.  The Lord never said my religion.  Therefore, the new church of Rome, obviously, was built by men and not of Christ.   This is the reason that the church of Rome is a false church, and its priests are false priests:  for it teaches the doctrine of devils, of witchcraft, hidden behind the banner of Christianity.  It is a deception by perception. 
   Knowing this, people should be able to see and understand that all religions are a work of men and not of Almighty God.  Which means that all of the faith people have in religions is faith in vain, for each is a system of deception by perception.
   For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God. (Ephesians 2: 8)