Tag: Endzeit

Churches are entirely unbiblical.
Churches today survive by convincing their members that without the interpretation of their theologians, all would be lost.

To my dismay, I eventually had to realise: Theology is not theology.
Although we have only one Bible, we have many different theologies.
Some practise infant baptism, others believe they must be immersed seven times to be truly baptised.
Still others claim to be the end-time church—and many other differences.
Yet according to the measure of the Bible, all churches are unbiblical.
For whoever transgresses even one commandment has broken them all.

Additionally, in the end times, the faithful are called out of the (still) future Babylon.
This Babylon consists of economy, politics, and religions.
Furthermore, most religions strive for official recognition by the state.
But when the state recognises something, religious groups are not allowed to deviate too far from state mandates.

For example: if the state promotes same-sex relationships, then a state-recognised religious group is not allowed to publicly uphold the biblical prohibition of homosexual relationships.
This shows clearly: No state-recognised religious group can be biblically justified.

The first congregation, as described in the book of Acts, was not a religious group.
They were people who lived together voluntarily and shared their small possessions with one another.
Of course, we also read about problems and the like—but strictly speaking, it was never a religion.

In the beginning, the believers were one large family.
The twelve patriarchs were brothers and had one father.
This small family simply grew into a very large one.

Only over time did elements emerge that make up what we now call a religion:

“(usually accepted by a larger community) a certain belief, defined by teaching and statutes, along with its confession.”
(Duden online, https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Religion, retrieved 2023-03-18 22:06)

The Duden explains quite simply that a religion is defined by teaching and statutes—that is, by human rules.

That is why Jesus also said:

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city.”
(Matthew 23:29–34, Elberfelder 1905)

And on another occasion, Jesus said to the theologians of His time:

“Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.”
(John 8:42–45, Elberfelder 1905)

As soon as man introduces his own rules and makes faith dependent on anything, it becomes a religion.
And when it becomes a religion, it is an unbiblical grouping.

But if a person has the Holy Scripture as his foundation and believes sincerely, then it is a blessing when other believers gather, and they live together.
Such a group is biblically grounded and does not require external signs.