12/28/22 THEY HATE THE WHOLE TEXT

12/28/22 THEY HATE THE WHOLE TEXT

Early in my studies and street ministries I understood why pagans did not like for believers to use Scripture as, "proof texts." Pagans admit to not believing the Bible to be the infallible and inerrant word of God. They simply disbelieved and discounted revealed truth.

As time passed I occasionally encountered a person claiming to be a believer, but they did not like my proof texting. This was strange to me. However, it was the exception rather than the rule for a professed believer to reject proof texting.

As I met more of these people and as I studied more of their doctrine, I came to understand that there were whole portions of Scripture that they discounted and rejected. They even rejected the words of Jesus, such as the Sermon on the Mount, claiming that His words did not apply to Christians. As I continued to witness to the sinning religion cult I learned that they had only a limited portions of the New Testament, which they accepted as being applicable to Christians.

Yes, I know that people sometimes misuse, misrepresent, misinterpret, misapply Scripture in their proof texting. But I was finding out that those who follow after Augustine, Calvin and the Reformed theologians disallow major portions of the New Testament from Christian faith and practice. I also found out that they follow a systematic that rejects the clear teachings if the New Testament.

Therefore, it is not unusual to have these folks deny such basic Biblical truths as the Love of God for the whole world and to deny that Christ died for the sins of the whole world. These people are very authoritative as they quote the fathers of false doctrine, but they falter when Scripture clearly teaches that Christ died for the whole world, that mankind is given the opportunity and responsibility to receive and believe on Christ in order to be saved, that sin separates from God and God separates from sin, that the blood of Christ cleanses from all sin (in this present world), that Christians are enabled and expected to be obedient to God.

Thousands of verses which declare these truths are sloughed off in the name of man made religion.