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This year religion began to attract a lot of attention to me, I come from an atheist family so I felt like a little girl exploring different religions and their stories. The one I like the most is Christianity but here comes the problem. Everyone knows that Christianity, for the most part, has always been linked to conservatives and I am a feminist, lesbian, progressive, woke, leftist, hippie, pro-abortion and everything that has to do with that world. So my relationship with Christianity is fair to bad. In addition, I also rethink the Bible a lot, I think it is the most human thing to do to doubt something that was written 2000 years ago and about forty years after the crucifixion, plus some words or stories in the Bible can have several meanings. Am I the only one?
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The Characteristics of All Religions and All Pastors’ Sermons
(1. The Characteristics of Sermons That Rely on Human Words)
All human words are inherently abstract. Therefore, the common problem among countless religions—and all pastors within Christianity—who teach as though the truth of God can be interpreted literally through human language is that the interpretation ultimately depends on their own logic and arguments, making it inevitable for them to interpret according to their personal preferences.
The fundamental reason human words differ depending on who teaches and who learns is that every word on this earth is, without exception, unable to possess a clear standard or a definite limit. Because human words and letters cannot have fixed and absolute boundaries, using human language to present the truth of God is, in itself, a contradiction, a falsehood, a distortion, an assertion, and inevitably a delusion.
Let us take an example:
If one attempts to define the word diligence, where exactly is the precise boundary that determines how much and in what manner a person must work to meet the standard of “being diligent”? Likewise, if one tries to interpret the word love, by what measure, to what degree, and in what manner must one love in order to enter the true boundary and standard of love? Such standards inevitably differ depending on the teacher and the learner. Because there is no strictly fixed, accurate, or meticulous boundary, interpretations vary according to the claims of the one teaching. This is why countless heresies continue to spread today.
There is no such thing as a heresy that shines like light and serves as salt and example. Those who rely only on intellect and knowledge—teaching with theoretical, cognitive, and ideological values—are 100% heretics. They distort the Scriptures, producing their own theoretical, emotional, and intellectual frameworks in order to teach their own claims, thereby abusing the Word of God. This is nothing less than defiling the holy Scriptures, which are the divine text of God.
The truth of God is meant to lead us to receive the power of God—power that transcends human limits and human ideals. It is not meant to produce sermons that only stimulate human emotion, determination, resolve, willpower, and pride.
Any sermon that merely stirs up a person’s own awareness, effort, determination, or pride is not the truth of God in which His power works. This is why all believers remain slaves to sin, unable to escape the human limitations that cause them to repeat sin throughout their entire lives. No sermon that motivates human determination can ever destroy the deeply rooted evil habits of humanity that inevitably repeat sin. Thus, today’s Christians do nothing but repeat sin all their lives. In this regard, they are no different from unbelievers or people of other religions. They are learning human teachings and human inspirations that lead people to rely on themselves.
In other words, instead of receiving the truth of God—where the power of God manifests—they follow sermons leavened by human teachings that guide them to trust in their own will, temperament, and confidence. They are being taught human education, human learning, human doctrine, and human theory—all of which lead them to rely on themselves.
However, the truth in which God’s power works is meant to lead people to obtain the power of God—power that transcends the limits and habits of humanity, who otherwise can only repeat sin their entire lives. But instead of being led by the Spirit of truth that grants this divine power, many today follow worldly teachings that worship both God and material things together. By abusing Scripture through literal and intellectual interpretations, they elevate their own knowledge and theories, turning their own sermons into an authority that reigns above the Word itself.
Deceived by these false sermons, people spend their entire lives relying on their own will, conviction, and pride. The outcome is that they only continue to accumulate sin—sin that will ultimately bring judgment and hell. This is the tragic reality of all religions and all Christians today.