08/28/22 UNTAUGHT, FALSELY TAUGHT, TAUGHT

08/28/22 UNTAUGHT, FALSELY TAUGHT, TAUGHT

As a young, untaught believer, I thought that it was Biblical for a Christian to resist the evil government (Far East Communism at that time) with a Bible in one hand and an M-16 in the other. As I said, I was young and Biblically ignorant. In fact, I did not come to the Biblical truth of Christian non-violence until a couple of years after Bible College.

NOTICE, the Bible does teach that God gave the sword of steel to the State to protect the righteous and punish the wicked (through military and civil forces). But the State and the Church are TWO DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE realities. God clearly tells us in the New Testament that Christ followers are not violent, yet the false doctrines of the Roman and Reformed movements have corrupted and twisted the message of the Bible.

Today it is almost impossible to get churchmen to see and accept God's truth concerning the nature and the mission of believers. Today most western churchmen believe that the Church and the State are united in their service to God.

It is time to follow the word of God and abandon the false doctrines of man-made religions.