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345-page ONE NATION UNDER ISRAEL Almost FREE (see end)
Published by Truths Press
ENABLING WAR: HOW A BIBLE PUBLISHER CORRUPTED CHRIST'S WORDS
Why Celebrity leaders accept a form of Judaism and call it "Christianity"
By Charles E. Carlson (Director of We Hold These Truths)
This study is not written to convince anyone of what Jesus said; it quotes a small but important part of the Christian New Testament of Jesus, explaining how these words have been reinterpreted to justify serial wars. This analysis is important to persons of all beliefs, faiths, and races who are trying to understand why wars dominate our world, and why many of those who call themselves by Jesus Christ's name find themselves pitted in support of wars against other races. It is undeniable that our current wars are directed at Islamic populations. We focus on one bible that is used every day as a war enabler.
This is a re-written and abbreviated version of our more far reaching 2006 series, "The Sheep and the Goats" Parts 1 & 2, which are drawn from a study of book of Matthew, chapter 25. Your author is responding to requests that we more clearly prove and document the essence of popular biblical distortion about Heaven and Hell in the book of Matthew. Chapters 24-25, which evangelical believe to contain Jesus' words, are intentionally distorted by these same persons, both in the text and footnotes to the text in most popular bible study versions.
Self professed CHRISTIAN-ZIONISTS at the pulpit of mega-churches are left with an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about what certain New Testament Bible passages say, or even to read them, without contradicting their own support for wars and for the constantly warring state of Israel. Evangelical teaching and preaching often directly contradict that which Jesus taught about love and peace, and more surprisingly, celebrity Christian statements often directly conflict with Jesus' statements about Heaven and Hell.
Church economics may be a factor in scriptural compromise. Opposition to war is less popular than ignoring or accepting it. Celebrity Christian leaders may feel financial pressure to warp the New Testament into a wide and easy path interpretation, which they say points, not to Heaven and Hell, but to a "second coming." Simply stated, pastors have learned they can't fill 10,000 seat arenas by leaning too heavily on sin, repentance and judgment as Jesus portrayed it in this carefully worded chapter. It is just not good for mega-church business.
Nor do they want to refute what is public policy at the highest levels. Some pastors no doubt justify compromise to choose the wide path to build their own empires in contrast to what Christ called the narrow path or "Strait" gate. Our government's public policy includes war, which has also become many churches' policy.
Evangelical celebrities generally believe in politically activism, and every politician knows it pays to be "born again." Thus an unspoken, unholy alliance has been created between financially successful biblical teachers on one hand, and politically successful politicians and businessmen who thrive on serial wars, on the other. The cost has been untold lives in several unholy wars in the 20 years. But where to the war-accepting pastors find their scriptural support for war? We will examine only once example in a corrupted version of the book of Matthew, in one corrupted bible the Scofield Reference Bible 1967 version.
Oh that my adversary would write a book
The famous Scofield Reference Bible, perhaps the most powerfully promoted Bible ever written, is the godfather of modern bible distortion, which is now emulating and even exceeding in radicalism by other popular study bibles including the NIV Study Bible and the MacArthur Study Bible.
Matthew 25 contains one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained passages on Heaven and Hell, which was once taken at face value in most churches. But the explanation of Matthew 25 we find so simple and straight forward is now rejected in almost every evangelical (Christian Zionist) church. And the Oxford/Scofield re-write is increasingly influential in a growing number of mainline churches where are members attend dispensational bible studies, and while there hours before celebrity-Christian media. Members of most Catholic or mainline protestant church are also deeply influenced by the “end times controversy.
Matthew, the first book in the New Testament, contains the most outrageous example of added words that directly contradicts Jesus words. A quote from the Scofield Reference Bible footnotes directly contradicts what Jesus Christ is quoted to have said, His simple words, taken from the King James Edition, describing the basis upon which Jesus told his followers He himself will someday judge every man from every tribe ("nation"). We start by reading Jesus' words in Matthew 25:31-35:
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: (skip to40)---Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
The next five versus describe Jesus' rejection of the "goats," those who have been less than kind to the least of "his brethren," judging them unfit for heaven by the same measure. Jesus provides a standard for his eternal kingdom, simple measurement of faith, love and service, a simple set of rules for His acceptance.
Now, we must beg your patience to wade through a long paragraph which is a footnote to this same passage in Matthew above, and which footnote directly conflicts with what Jesus taught. Be patient if at first reading you should be confused.
http://straitgateministry.net/
345-page ONE NATION UNDER ISRAEL Almost FREE (see end)
Published by Truths Press
ENABLING WAR: HOW A BIBLE PUBLISHER CORRUPTED CHRIST'S WORDS
Why Celebrity leaders accept a form of Judaism and call it "Christianity"
By Charles E. Carlson (Director of We Hold These Truths)
This study is not written to convince anyone of what Jesus said; it quotes a small but important part of the Christian New Testament of Jesus, explaining how these words have been reinterpreted to justify serial wars. This analysis is important to persons of all beliefs, faiths, and races who are trying to understand why wars dominate our world, and why many of those who call themselves by Jesus Christ's name find themselves pitted in support of wars against other races. It is undeniable that our current wars are directed at Islamic populations. We focus on one bible that is used every day as a war enabler.
This is a re-written and abbreviated version of our more far reaching 2006 series, "The Sheep and the Goats" Parts 1 & 2, which are drawn from a study of book of Matthew, chapter 25. Your author is responding to requests that we more clearly prove and document the essence of popular biblical distortion about Heaven and Hell in the book of Matthew. Chapters 24-25, which evangelical believe to contain Jesus' words, are intentionally distorted by these same persons, both in the text and footnotes to the text in most popular bible study versions.
Self professed CHRISTIAN-ZIONISTS at the pulpit of mega-churches are left with an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about what certain New Testament Bible passages say, or even to read them, without contradicting their own support for wars and for the constantly warring state of Israel. Evangelical teaching and preaching often directly contradict that which Jesus taught about love and peace, and more surprisingly, celebrity Christian statements often directly conflict with Jesus' statements about Heaven and Hell.
Church economics may be a factor in scriptural compromise. Opposition to war is less popular than ignoring or accepting it. Celebrity Christian leaders may feel financial pressure to warp the New Testament into a wide and easy path interpretation, which they say points, not to Heaven and Hell, but to a "second coming." Simply stated, pastors have learned they can't fill 10,000 seat arenas by leaning too heavily on sin, repentance and judgment as Jesus portrayed it in this carefully worded chapter. It is just not good for mega-church business.
Nor do they want to refute what is public policy at the highest levels. Some pastors no doubt justify compromise to choose the wide path to build their own empires in contrast to what Christ called the narrow path or "Strait" gate. Our government's public policy includes war, which has also become many churches' policy.
Evangelical celebrities generally believe in politically activism, and every politician knows it pays to be "born again." Thus an unspoken, unholy alliance has been created between financially successful biblical teachers on one hand, and politically successful politicians and businessmen who thrive on serial wars, on the other. The cost has been untold lives in several unholy wars in the 20 years. But where to the war-accepting pastors find their scriptural support for war? We will examine only once example in a corrupted version of the book of Matthew, in one corrupted bible the Scofield Reference Bible 1967 version.
Oh that my adversary would write a book
The famous Scofield Reference Bible, perhaps the most powerfully promoted Bible ever written, is the godfather of modern bible distortion, which is now emulating and even exceeding in radicalism by other popular study bibles including the NIV Study Bible and the MacArthur Study Bible.
Matthew 25 contains one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained passages on Heaven and Hell, which was once taken at face value in most churches. But the explanation of Matthew 25 we find so simple and straight forward is now rejected in almost every evangelical (Christian Zionist) church. And the Oxford/Scofield re-write is increasingly influential in a growing number of mainline churches where are members attend dispensational bible studies, and while there hours before celebrity-Christian media. Members of most Catholic or mainline protestant church are also deeply influenced by the “end times controversy.
Matthew, the first book in the New Testament, contains the most outrageous example of added words that directly contradicts Jesus words. A quote from the Scofield Reference Bible footnotes directly contradicts what Jesus Christ is quoted to have said, His simple words, taken from the King James Edition, describing the basis upon which Jesus told his followers He himself will someday judge every man from every tribe ("nation"). We start by reading Jesus' words in Matthew 25:31-35:
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: (skip to40)---Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
The next five versus describe Jesus' rejection of the "goats," those who have been less than kind to the least of "his brethren," judging them unfit for heaven by the same measure. Jesus provides a standard for his eternal kingdom, simple measurement of faith, love and service, a simple set of rules for His acceptance.
Now, we must beg your patience to wade through a long paragraph which is a footnote to this same passage in Matthew above, and which footnote directly conflicts with what Jesus taught. Be patient if at first reading you should be confused.