THE HERESIES

I CAN'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW THEOLOGY

No matter how hard I try not to find myself in a situation where I have to poke holes into what fellow Christians do, I really find myself many times feeling guilty for not rebuking what conscience tells me is wrong. I'm sorry if any Christian brother, sister or fellow finds this offensive.

There seems to be an increasingly popular heresy being preached in churches and television screens which depicts God as some vindictive being waiting to torment "OUR ENEMIES ." That even His blessings to us is a means of getting back at those who we perceive as enemies.
What happened to "love your enemies?"

All these teachings are contrary to Biblical teaching and are a warped representation of some of the psalms of David and a failure to read the Bible in context.

The Bible from Genesis to Revelation, does not exist in fragments but is a compact WORD of GOD. If you remove as little as a letter from the Bible, I can assure you that what you're left with is not the word of God. This is why I agree with  a wise scholar who said that if you reject parts of the Bible and accept others, it's not the Bible you believe in but yourself. So that it is not possible to agree with what Paul says in his epistles and refuse to accept what James says in his write-up.

The book of Psalms has been widely preached because it is easily twisted to appeal to the faithfuls who are starved of teachings on forgiveness and repentance. This is the reason we have a more religious but more wayward society today than ever. It is common to hear pastors today preaching about how God will deal with our enemies but seldom do we hear such vigour directed towards the teaching of forgiveness and prayer for enemies. As a result we have vengeful Christians in the church today who are in the church to ask God to hurt their perceived enemies on their behalf.

Such is the confusion of the contemporary Christian. I feel that such a Christian is deluded. They believe in what they don't understand or rather something they think they understand. This is because the contemporary Christian believes in the almighty man of God at the pulpit. They're taught that speaking ill or questioning the spiritual viability of of the man of God is deadly and will attract the wrath of God because God says "touch not my anointed and do no harm to my... " This is what I call boxing Christians into submitting to the so called spiritual authorities. A negation, in and of itself of the apostle John's  warning against accepting every spirit.
(Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. I John 4:1 NKJV)

There behaviour is similar to that of the Pharisees at various points in the Bible who adopted a holier than thou posture whenever they dealt with congregants in the temples until Jesus debunked their hypocrisy. Whenever I see a Christian congregation shouting and cheering a "Man of God" as he hypes a hypnotized lot with this heresy of God helping kill, cripple, shame, confuse and blind all enemies, I sense a bunch of individuals who are in the church for all the wrong reasons. Devoid of the love that the good religion teaches and instead filled with hate and vengeance. I perceive a spiritless church filled with bitterness and emotions which a foul spirit from the enemy has taken advantage of and made them believe they're filled with the Holy Spirit. I feel sympathy for the whole lot for believing that delusion.

Christianity and forgiveness are Siamese twins. Indeed forgiveness is the very foundation of Christianity. Christ came so that we may be forgiven. The person you forgive does not remain an enemy and your relationship becomes as if they had never wronged you at all. This happens with or without them apologizing. When  Jesus Christ says;
(“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor  and hate your enemy.’  But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,  that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust....") - Matthew 5:43‭-‬45 NKJV, He's not just asking us to embark on a task but also reminds us that that is indeed the character of God our Father. He adds "....that you may be sons of your Father..." (because when you're a son you take after you father).

Remember what John 1:12 says;
(But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:) John 1:12 KJV. If you're not able to forgive and love your enemies then you can't claim to believe in or to have received Christ (the WORD) and therefore you have not obtained the power or right to be a son and it is no wonder you are not yet taking after God your Father.

 I don't understand how you can want God to shame people you've forgiven. Forget this lie and turn to the true WORD of God.