“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power [dunamis] of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.  For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith.’”  Romans 1:16-17

From the Greek word, dunamis, the English words dynamo and dynamite are derived.  The former tends to be a constructive force and the latter, destructive.  The gospel is both simultaneously.  On the one hand, upon its reception, the deconstructive process of tearing out the old man’s worldly foundation begins while at the same time the new man’s foundation on Christ is being laid.  When doing new work in an old place, the old stuff has to be torn out to make way for the new.  Otherwise, it’s new wine in old wineskins.  The apostate church system of our day has been building crumbling foundations for centuries now.  Those of us who have been affected by this shoddy craftsmanship need some serious demo work done to our foundation.  The following is intended for the elect, persons chosen and led by Jehovah who are looking for and earnestly desiring the truth but not finding it in mainstream Churchianity.  Those who are not called out by Jehovah will be manifest by their rejection of these things, for to them these things are foolishness and blasphemy.  This is a direct attack on the god of Churchianity who has been manufactured by men.  Though followers of Churchianity may use the name of Jesus, it is only in pretense as their selfish lives give indication.  This will be the first of perhaps many subsequent posts pointing out the cracks in the foundation of Churchianity while also detailing the characteristics of the true foundation on Christ.  As the scriptures exhort, be as those in Berea, test the spirits and see if I write by my own authority or Another’s.  Nothing is true because I have said it, but if it is true, it is the Lord who speaks.

Much of Mainstream Churchianity Says:

“A.  The Scriptures

We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as verbally

inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, embracing all matters which

the Biblical authors address, and believers that they are of supreme and final

authority in faith and life.

1. The Bible is inspired of God.  II Timothy 3:16.

“Inspired” means “breathed out.” Thus, “the Bible says” and “God says”

are the same.

2. The Bible is inerrant.  John 10:35;  John 17:17.

The Bible is true, without error in all that it affirms and teaches.

3. Plenary inspiration means that all parts of the Bible are equally inspired of God.

4. Verbal inspiration means that the words, and not just the concepts, are inspired

of God.

5. God guided divinely prepared men by the ministry of the Holy Spirit to write the

words of Scripture, adding nothing and subtracting nothing from His

revelation.  II Peter 1:20-21.”

But the truth is:

The Scriptures are not of supreme and final authority in faith and life.  Jesus is the supreme and final authority in faith and life.  Jesus, not the bible, is the author and finisher of our faith. Jesus, not the bible, is the one to whom all authority and judgment has been committed.  The above “statement of faith” denies the Lord His rightful place and replaces Him with a book!  That’s ungodliness in the form of idolatry.  That being the chief problem, there are yet more with the above statement.  As great and even true as it may be that the scriptures were inerrant in the original writings, we do not have those writings today.  Today, we have access to copies that agree to a great extent, but even yet there are still discrepancies between the Textus Receptus, the Majority Text, and the NU Text that are the big 3 used as base texts for our modern bible translations.  The bible is not the Word of God; Jesus is the Word of God. The bible is a collection of true words about God, breathed by Him but written by men who have felt His breathing; who have experienced, known and spoken with Him by His Spirit at least, and even some in person. Their testimony is true (it cannot be broken) and it directs us to Jesus, but we ought to go to Jesus and wait for Him to guide us into the scriptures, rather than lead our own self-guided tours through them.  Though there is this real issue to grapple with, that we do not have the inerrant original writings today, this is not a problem for the children of God, those who are led by His Spirit.  The bible never did, and still doesn’t teach us all things.  It is the Spirit of God, the anointing we have received that teaches us all things.  It was certainly so for them that were led by Him before the bible was compiled and portions even written, and it is still certainly so for those of us led by Him today.  The practical reason that man-made churches worship the bible as the supreme and final authority for faith and life is because they do not have or know (and even deny) the Spirit of Him who has supreme authority.  Such denial sounds like the spirit of antichrist to me…

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