True Spirituality

The purpose of this research is not to cause strife, division among believers but to encourage simplicity. What can you remove from your faith that is man-made so you can live in the freedom of the one true Gospel? Is what I have been told really the truth? We live in a world of media, so much that it’s difficult to tell from any form of media (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc..) what’s real and what is rehearsed. I encourage everyone to do their own research.

True Faith

Everyone has faith. Not every has true faith. Faith is an ACT based on BELIEF sustained by CONFIDENCE (EXPECTATION). Even atheists and agnostics have faith in the laws of physics. Believers in God have faith in the promises of God.

What’s wrong with religion?

The reality is that worldly systems of thought are corrupted by a Satanic agenda. Lucifer is in competition over Jesus for the throne. We are all caught in this controversy where Satan wants to steal worship from God.

"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." (Rev 14:6-7)

Roman Catholic Influences

Much of modern Christianity is corrupted by paganism and Catholic traditions. Much of modern Christianity is full of man-made traditions with origins in the Catholic church (Constantine in 327AD, new age theology, Calvin, Augustine paganized Christianity and created a state religion which caused Christianity to loose much of its zeal which is why state and religion should be separate).

From the 4th century, due to pressure from culture, Christianity accepted many pagan festivals (Christmas, Easter), images (Saturn, Sun, Cross), idols’s names into the Church. The same god or gods were worshipped that pagans worshiped were also included in Christianity with different names. "All gods are only different powers of the sun" (quoted by James Bonwick, Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought).

Examples of pagan and cultural influences:

Idol worship of pagan names and symbols.
Sun and Saturn worship. It is possible that the reason why sun-worship is actually Saturn worship is because in Genesis 1, God made the earth desolate due to Lucifer’s rebellion who could have made Saturn his seat of the universe. It’s clear sun worship is actually Satanic worship.
Greek mystery religions practiced counterfeit tongues and prophesied.
Seeks political control
Moral, self-righteous

It is very important to know that Catholics teach that Jesus Christ is still present on Earth physically which is incorrect. Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father. Only the Spirit of Christ is with us. Christians only believe (trust) Jesus Christ for salvation and receive the Holy Spirit for life thereafter. Do not believe anyone who says Jesus Christ is here physically present with us, that is the Anti-Christ! In John 7, Jesus told His disciples that those who believe in Him (as Savior) would receive His Holy Spirit, in person. In John 14-17, Jesus repeatedly explained to the disciples: He would return to the Father and that He would send the Person of God, the Holy Spirit, to come and live in them after His departure.

Pagan (Mystery Babylon) Influences

"Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven…" (Acts 7:42)

All paganism is putting man above God (essentially what the beast in the end-times is).
Greek pagans also prophesied, spoke in tongues. This is why the Corinthian church was so immature with fornication and such. Paul had to reconcile Christians coming from paganism. His ultimate plea was to love in 1 Cor 13. meaning godly character is more important than gifts.
Originated in Nimrod (Nimrod means "let us rebel") building the tower of Babel. Every ancient religion is influenced by Nimrod.
All American holidays (Easter, Christmas) are pagan.
Almost all symbols, structures are pagan and sun/saturn worship oriented. Including obelisks, crosses, statues.

God hates vain images such as sun worship.

Word of Faith Movement

Hocus Pocus in paganism, or the word "myth" means "I spoke and it became substance". Word of faith is pagan because it essentially says man speaks and brings forth substance. The scripture say that only God speaks and creates. There is power on the tongue of life and death in the sense that we must be accountable to God for every idle word we speak. The point here is not cause offense or a stumbling block, yes indeed we must speak truth and life but we cannot let our words rule over God’s word which is like man ruling over God.

Holidays

"Do not learn the ways of the nations…" (Jer. 10:2)

All Christian holidays are originated from pagan sun worship. I personally wouldn’t go to church on a holiday for conscious sake.t

Easter is pagan and a miss-translation of the Passover. The council of Nicaea in 325 decided that Easter should be celebrated on Sunday. Easter actually means Ishtar, a false goddess. "A great many pagan customs celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter…the rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility" (Catholic Encyclopedia).

We are never commanded to remember or celebrate the birth of Jesus, only His death and resurrection. "The largest pagan religious cult which fostered the celebration of December 25 as a holiday was the pagan sun-worship, Mithraism (the largest growing cult prior to 321AD), this winter festival was called the Nativity of the Sun" (Catholic Encyclopedia)

Church and Politics

When Constantine united paganism with Christianity and made it a state religion, true Christianity lost it’s power and became mixed with the culture. It is not good whenever the church seeks to control the government or the government controls the church, they must stay separate.

Revelation and the Anti-Christ

The anti-christ will need a church-government union to rule. So, the the Anti-Christ’s rule will be a religious rule.
The anti-christ will work miracles of healings, deliverance. This is why following miracles is dangerous. True religion always focused on godliness, not magic shows.

Modern Christianity

Many Christians today are in an automatic "lazy" mindset where they they think just showing up in church listening to a sermon once a week is enough to prove they are Christians. This is not what God had intended for His body. Being a Christian is not about going to church every week.

Marks of a False Religion: There must be a great apostasy and falling away of true faith before the Anti-Christ can come.

Lawlessness: lack of obedience and love (selfless compassion)
Focus on humanism, social justice
Traditions, rituals
Focused on rules, morals, ethics, and self-righteousness
Focus on church membership and attendance.
Man-made hierarchy structure of titles. Separation between lay people and leaders.
Tax-exempt 503c1 status which gives the government power of the church.
For profit preachers (like televangelists)
Focus on salvation only – going to heaven is enough.
Encourages weakness – just submit to your leaders and stay quiet

Cults

Essentially, a cult is claiming they are the true remnants and anyone else outside of their group is not chosen/saved. This kind of privileged, self-righteousness is exactly what Jesus called out on the religious leaders and Jews. In Hebrews, it even warns that gentiles (the wild branch) could be cut off from the root. No one is above the possibility of Lucifer’s deception and being cut off. So, there is no need to separate people between who are "remnant" and who aren’t. Only God knows the wheat from the tares and only God can judge man.

Kingdom Life in Original Christianity

Book of Acts paints a picture of house churches, communities where revival was a normal event and everyone had their needs met. Does your life look like the Book of Acts?

The early church knew that Jesus lived inside of them. The message of early Christians is Christ living in you and us living by His life. Christ is LIVING PRESENCE. Christ in you the HOPE of GLORY was the purpose of the early church. They practiced this by meeting together in community as an outflow to their personal life. Their thought life was Christ centered. Jesus is central.

Marks of the early church include:

COMMUNITY: people met together over a meal
Community over individuality.
LOVE: Everyone had their needs met. Lawfulness. Love as Jesus loved is the last commandment.
LIFE: Life in Christ was the focus (not the cross, rules, government tyranny).
POWER.
Focus on inheriting the Kingdom, not just salvation
Focused on personal walk with God (prayer, Bible reading, meditation).
There was no titles, structures.
The oldest Bible, the ethopic Bible had 88 books not 66!
Christ’s death and resurrection alone is the basis of unity.
Everyone is trained to be a fighter and conqueror. Fight to stand with Christ (not physically or politically) but consciously and spiritually fighting against lies with truth. Jesus said the Kingdom suffers violence. We must stand for our freedom in Christ.
Priesthood of every believer: there is no separation between lay people and leaders. Everyone is a leader actively using their spiritual gifts.
Jesus never mentions the church as an organized corporation. He always spoke of the Kingdom of God. What is the Kingdom of God? It is the physical body of God where Christ is the head and we are the body. It means living all of life out of God. Jesus also spoke of salvation as believing in Him as the fulfillment of the Law (10 commandments) but never dismissing the law as something we can ignore, being obedient to His commands.

Identifying and Breaking the Religious Spirit

Identifying and breaking free from the religious spirit is crucial.
What is the "religious spirit"? It is simply replacing love for God and others (the 2 greatest commandments) with performance-driven activity. It produces self-righteousness, false confidence, every evil thing including greed, pride (ego, titles).
Simple love for God and others overcomes all evil.
A religious spirit seeks after knowledge without power (the Holy Spirit). See 2 Timothy 3:5.
A religious spirit will try to gain favor with God through good works rather than out of gratefulness for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It will judge, criticize, tear-down instead of build up others.

Breaking Free of the Religious Spirit

Seek God in secret. Religious people love to live out their religion in public. Jesus said to seek Him in private. Build intimacy with Christ in secret (closet) through prayer, meditation, worship.
Pray that the same love the Father has with Jesus will be in you. Love must replace religious duty. You cannot live out of fear of punishment.
Study God’s word.
Be led by the Holy Spirit. Born-again believers do not live out their lives in carnality, through soul-ish living but through the spirit. Spirit of Christ within you the hope of glory (Col 1:27)
Ask for love, to turn criticisms into intercessions.

How Should We See God?

God is light. Light is a particle and wavelength. How can light be both a particle (always stable, immovable) and wavelength (always moving)? It’s a mystery that goes beyond quantum physics but it proves that no image can define God because God is presence. It’s God’s presence that matters in our lives, not ceremony or laws.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the closest we will ever get to the Heavenly Father. The bottom line is, organization religion is not required for your name to be written in the book of life. A personal relationship with Christ and a public expression (starting with confession of the death and resurrection of Jesus, repentance from sin, baptism and fellowship) are essentials.

What To Do?

No one is above the possibility of Lucifer’s deception (pride of man)! Followers of God in the end-times are not called to seek political or religious affiliation but to love His church (body not building) as Jesus loves. Keep your eyes open, stay informed and aware.

A Government-church union must exist for the Anti-Christ to rule. The false church will have great power, miracles, signs, wonders and will look very much like the true church. Both will be preaching Jesus, love, unity and claim they have the truth. Deception is very subtle. The false church will have a government sponsorship and will preach a false gospel of man-made rules, morals, "social justice" that leads to self-righteousness. Jesus, love, unity on truth are good things, but not when it’s mixed with humanism (man-first religion/ethics). It’s very easy to see that this church/religion could be the Roman Catholic church and it’s traditions or Conservative Christian 501c3 churches.

God’s Agenda

The ultimate plan for creation is so that God can have children, a body, and Christ can have His bride. This is the good news that we get to enjoy fellowship with God through Christ, being His body. This plan goes beyond all things and into eternity. This is the focus for all of life: God seeks a body to dwell in. It’s not a building, institution or political party.

Repent of pagan practices like sun worship and idolatry. Be aware of them and don’t practice them.
Be led by the Holy Spirit in all things.
Love others: give to the poor. Help others, be a witness.
Love God. Love yourself as God loves you. Know that the love of the Father for the Son is the same love is for you!
Love Truth over experience: the revealed scriptures. Know the word in order to recall it. (See Your Face, O Lord, I Seek)
Focus on quality quiet time with God (reading, praying, praising God) over traditions.

Simplistic, minimalist: religion is complicated. Why not just take God’s word for what it says. Read the word and act on it, just do it. Live it out, practice truth. Stop waiting for something to happen, just act on what you already know, go out and make disciples.

Sources of Inspiration

Do Your Own Research: All sources of information have been found in the following. Feel free to do your own research and arrive at your own conclusions.