LITTLE CHILDREN: WAKE UP!

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."  (Ephesians 6: 12)

   As stated previously and many times, all of the religions of the world have been created from the imaginations of men; for when God created the earth, the Lord did not create religions as places for people to worship gods and goddesses in temples and shrines built by men; for it is man who has created religions:  of himself, by himself, and for himself.
   THE BATTLEGROUND OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE IS IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE:  for as the minds of people are trained and educated in the knowledge of religion, their religion becomes a weapon of spiritual warfare fighting against the knowledge of God.
   Religion is usually written in the minds of people in early childhood, such as their toddler years, where it is sown and nourished and becomes a vital part of their lives, and people become religious all the days of their lives:  or walking-talking textbooks of religion.
   Knowing that religion is from men and not from God, then we, however, should be able to understand and believe that religion is a weapon of spiritual warfare, and it is used by people to fight against the knowledge of God in the privacy of their own minds.
   When people have their faith in religion, then their faith is in men because men created religions.
   Religion is therefore a spiritual addiction, administered in small doses in the minds of toddlers, and their spiritual minds remain the minds of toddlers all the days of their lives; for religion continuously treats people as toddlers, thereby keeping them as little children under the power of their spiritual authorities, such as their ministers and priests:  for their leaders do not want their subjects to grow up and mature as spiritual adults, but rather to remain with childlike mentality.
   Neither do they want them to think independently, nor to think for themselves.  They want them to continuously remain attached to their religion, which is their spiritual mother, and never to break their umbilical cord and fly away.  The menu they were fed as toddlers is the same menu they are fed as adults, and the menu never changes, just as the discipline and the routine never changes.  So that as they were when they were toddlers is the way they will be when they become adults, for they are constantly and continuously in need of their mother religion, chained and shackled.
   Believe it or not, but even within religious Christianity people are followers of men instead of followers of God, and their minds, too, are engaged in spiritual warfare against the knowledge of God:  for they believe it is their Christian religion that saves them from sin and not Christ the Lord.
   Furthermore, they believe the story of Adam and Eve are characters from the pages of mythology instead of the first humans to walk upon the earth.  Since Adam and Eve are written in the Bible, do these religious Christians also believe the whole Bible is a book of mythology?  If so, then what do they say about Jesus, whose life and words are recorded in the Bible?  Is Christ, to them, no more than a religious idol:  which is to say that Jesus is not a real person?  That Jesus is no more than a character of mythology etched in the minds, just like Adam and Eve?  And since they believe their religion has cleansed them from sin, what do they have to say about Christ the Lord?  The answer, of course, is nothing because they are followers of men instead of followers of God.
   For religious Christians, their minds are also battlegrounds of spiritual warfare where they are fighting against the knowledge of God, which is found in the Holy Bible, which is the very book they reject.
   Believe it or not, but the purpose of a church is to preach the Bible.  For it is written in the Bible,
      "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?  and how shall they hear without a preacher?  And how shall they preach, except they be sent?"  (Romans 10: 14-15)
   But if the Bible is not preached in a church, what is?
   The answer, of course, is found in the fact that the people are hearing the words of men  from the pulpits instead of hearing the word of the Lord.  But because the people do not read or study the Bible, their minds are deceived to believe whatever their authorities tell them:  while they sit on the pews as obedient children of all ages while their "men of God" lie to them.  Since the Bible has been hidden from them since their toddler years, and even forbidden to be read, they do not know the difference between truth and lies.
   This is most obvious in religious Christianity, for the people there have no interest in evangelism, which is taking the message of Jesus to others.  Instead of being voices for Christ, they are voices for their religion.  Instead of being defenders of Christ, they are defenders of their religion.  Instead of following Christ, they are followers of men.  Even though it was Christ  who died for our sin and not the ministers and priests, people of Christian religion do not know this truth because their leaders never preach the Bible.
      "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savor."  (Ephesians 5: 1)
   Little children, wake up!  Get to the Bible and get to the truth that is in Christ Jesus.  Then get out of churches that are not preaching the Bible from the pulpits.