Our paragraph topic is: (Their distorted religion) Part 6.
They did not know, for they had created a religion based upon the knowledge of man and not the wisdom of God. Their beliefs were based upon the limited wisdom of man. Christ called them blind fools. They had no understanding of the wisdom of God nor had they sought or asked for his wisdom.
They ruled the people based upon what they could conceive themselves. The wisdom of the prophets was not known to them. The knowledge that came from the God to the prophets was killed, buried with their bodies because they could not hear the message that the prophets brought from God. This is why they believed: "And whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing."
They had no idea of sanctity or purity or even of the knowledge of God himself. Generations had passed since their forefathers were brought out of Egypt and lead through the dessert by the hand of God. They were many generations away from their forefathers with very little knowledge of what truths were experienced by their parents. They knew not and even those who had access to the readings of the past did not talk about it or tell about the times past. Only in the synagogues on Sundays when the readings were held did one have the opportunity to hear of the miracles wrought by the hand of God. And those miracles were attached to the Law that one must keep, the Law that was interpreted by the rulers who created them and changed them.
They had a distorted idea of religion. Christ came down from heaven to be with us, to walk with us to talk with us, to show us the truth of who we are and how we should be. We are the children of our creator, our Father, a father who loves us. He wants us to stay out of harms way just as we would want our children to not be harmed. It is amazing to think that the son of the creator walked this earth among mankind, lived with us, died for us, arose from the dead to return to heaven so that we would know the truth of the cycle of life. We have life within us just as he has life and the Father has life. Our belief in him is our belief in his life and the life in the Father. Our belief in him is our oneness in him as he is one with the Father.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
They did not know, for they had created a religion based upon the knowledge of man and not the wisdom of God. Their beliefs were based upon the limited wisdom of man. Christ called them blind fools. They had no understanding of the wisdom of God nor had they sought or asked for his wisdom.
They ruled the people based upon what they could conceive themselves. The wisdom of the prophets was not known to them. The knowledge that came from the God to the prophets was killed, buried with their bodies because they could not hear the message that the prophets brought from God. This is why they believed: "And whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing."
They had no idea of sanctity or purity or even of the knowledge of God himself. Generations had passed since their forefathers were brought out of Egypt and lead through the dessert by the hand of God. They were many generations away from their forefathers with very little knowledge of what truths were experienced by their parents. They knew not and even those who had access to the readings of the past did not talk about it or tell about the times past. Only in the synagogues on Sundays when the readings were held did one have the opportunity to hear of the miracles wrought by the hand of God. And those miracles were attached to the Law that one must keep, the Law that was interpreted by the rulers who created them and changed them.
They had a distorted idea of religion. Christ came down from heaven to be with us, to walk with us to talk with us, to show us the truth of who we are and how we should be. We are the children of our creator, our Father, a father who loves us. He wants us to stay out of harms way just as we would want our children to not be harmed. It is amazing to think that the son of the creator walked this earth among mankind, lived with us, died for us, arose from the dead to return to heaven so that we would know the truth of the cycle of life. We have life within us just as he has life and the Father has life. Our belief in him is our belief in his life and the life in the Father. Our belief in him is our oneness in him as he is one with the Father.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
