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.

Christianity and forgiveness are Siamese twins. Indeed forgiveness is the very foundation of Christianity. Christ came so that we may be forgiven. I don't understand how you can want God to shame people you've forgiven.

From Fred Arani ArapNyankuru wisdom pamphlet