NOT EVEN ONE VERSE?
Are you prepared for a shock?
These should be obvious, but the truth is the MAJORITY of Christians have swallowed many a lie. How simple and easy it should be for a person who reads the Bible to see the obvious traditions and practices of Christianity which HAVE NOT A SINGLE VERSE to support them.
Yet the majority of Christians willingly accept the following as "Christian". Many of these subjects are further developed in articles on this site. In order to help you think in scriptural terms, here is a short list of unscriptural practices within apostate Christianity:
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It is impossible to show these as a verse or phrase in our Bibles:
1. "Accept Christ as personal saviour" spoken in scripture
2. "ALTAR CALL" as a response to the gospel
3. a. "Pastor": used as a formal title. For example: "Pastor Smith", "Pastor Larry" .....
b. "Senior" Pastor, "Associate" Pastor, or "Assistant Pastor"
c. "Rabbi" (Mat.23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.
d. "Chaplain". Have you ever read of one in your Bible?
4. Any woman named in any TITLED position (for example "Pastor Mary", "Prophetess Sue") teaching or having authority over a man. (none of the named elders of scripture were women).
The Greek word for pastor is "poimen" a masculine noun. You would never call a man a "prophetess" or a queen, feminine nouns. The same applies for the office of "pastor", a masculine noun.
5. "Service", "church service" "our service is at..." as used to describe a gathering of Christians
6. female angels. (whoops! folks seem to find them in this world but there is not even one mentioned in all the scripture!)
7. Fundraiser, raffle, auction, bake sale, food sales, Church sponsored businesses like thrift shops.
8. a. The Church Board
b. "membership" "voting member", or formalized "member" of a church assembly.
9. CLERGY Robes, vestments, formal church attire that distinguishes from others in the body of Christ.
10. Christians tithing
11. A "Worship Leader"
12. Church record keeping of who gave an amount
13. elders submitting to a pastor as a form of church government
14. the "church" instructed to: buy property, have a "building fund", or "building program".
15. a programmed church "service". i.e.: prayer, 3 songs, offering, sermon, closing prayer.
16. Positions of overseership. (superintendents, Districts, Stakes, Wards, etc.)
17. The "Sinners Prayer" as a rote or liturgical response to the gospel.
18. A Pulpit
19. Christians celebrating Christmas, Easter, HELLoween, or Sunday becoming the Sabbath.
20. a "Song Service"
21. A Church Choir
22. Sunday School (Sabbath school)
23. "Spiritual Covering" by a pastor or hierarchy.
24. Any "church" referred to as the "Storehouse".
25. Prayer or homage to Mary, any "saint", Rosary, or statue.
26. Cardinal, Pope, "Your Eminence", or "Father" used to address any Christian.
27. Purgatory
28. The Mass
29. Lent
30 Prayers for the dead.
31. The phrase "God uses doctors"
32. "Repeat after me...." as in "leading" someone in prayer.
33. Pastors given a "vision" for the church.
34. Pledges, promissary oaths, swearing to perform an action such as a fundraiser or allegiance.
35. Anything resembling patriotism to a kingdom of this world.
36. Any "clergy" titles: "Doctor", "Prophet", "Bishop", "Apostle", "Elder", "Pastor" "Co-pastor", "chaplain" "Associate Pastor", "Youth Pastor", "Reverend" (see Those Wonderful Titles") or the short article "Titles"
37. "God helps those who help themselves". -not in scripture..
38. Any church or saint directly instructed to "Keep the Sabbath" (as observed in the Old Covenant). see our article "How to REALLY Keep that Sabbath"
39. Any church or saint in the New Testament commanded to observe the Old Testament feasts.
40. Any church or saint in the New Testament being commanded to observe circumcision and/ or keep the Law of Moses.
41. Palm Sunday
42. Ash Wednesday
43. Easter (the word easter pertains to Ishtar, a pagan Babylonian goddess).
44. "worship" service. (find a mention of one in the New Testament)
46. "Voting" in a pastor
47. a LITURGY
48. Anyone taking "sacraments". False works give false assurance.
49. A parsonage (house) given to any pastor by a church.
50. The word "Trinity"
-one of the great sacred cows. A name invented by men never given in scripture. If you were a Christian living in 100 AD you would never had heard the word because it had not been invented yet. Anyone who simply reads the Bible for themselves without attending any Christian religion will not be leavened with the unscriptural word, "trinity". None of the writers of scripture ever used the term.
It is true, all the above are without a single verse in the New Testament scriptures and are red flag warnings of apostasy to one degree or another. That should alarm you and cause you to consider in Godly fear, all the warnings in scripture regarding "be not deceived", false teachers, false prophets, and the Nicolaitanes who serve the Harlot church, "Mystery Babylon the Great".
Men are real good at rationalizing, justifying, and explaining what they do that is contrary to God's Word.
Do NOT accept any "puffed up" human reasoning or explanation for continuing in an unscriptural religious practice. "that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other."
Belief is as the scripture says, not tradition, not your priest, not your pastor, not the guy on TBN, not me, and not blind ignorance of God's Word. You are capable of hearing from God for yourself without me or anyone else trying to convert you to their way of thinking.
My job is to point you to the Bible to read it for yourself. We can teach the scriptures but only God gives revelation and understanding. The Lord is a much better instructor than me or anyone wearing an eccleastical title.
Apostasy from God's Word is exactly what the prophets confronted.
Ezekiel 34 is a clear prophecy about the shepherds and leaders of Apostate modern Christianity. Jeremiah 23 is another.
And here is:
Isa. 3:1
And in that day seven women (as the 7 churches in Revelation ch 2,3)
shall take hold of one man, (calling on Jesus)
saying, We will eat our own bread, ( we will follow our own faith & doctrine)
and wear our own apparel: (putting on false outward righteousness)
only let us be called by thy name, (Christian in name but not disciples)
to take away our reproach. (they want sins forgiven but do not obey the covenant)
a reader wrote: Comments: I just read your "NOT in Scripture List" and I'm rather surprised... not at what is on the list, but that others have noticed. I've been in and out of churches since I was a child and at the age of 28 I "heard" the call of Christ to "come follow me". Just over a year later, I got up the nerve to read the bible for myself, since many of the people I respected in my "church" discussed what they were reading often. I started in the new testament because it was immediately about Jesus and he was the reason for my being. Well, I foud out the same things that were in your list and I was shocked, angry confused... It was also immediately clear that the whole Idea of the modern church was nothing like the churches in ACTS. Anyway, I've been labled a "radical" and ignored by others when I attempt to discuss these things and asked where we went wrong. I have only one couple who "get it" too. thank you, -Reader in Florida
2007 Rory Moore www.preparehisway.com
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