To Christians, those who believe themselves to be Christians, Church-goers and Church Members:

I've been recently made to see things that have gone awry with Christianity and the modern gospel today, and I've been led to see these things in a way that is not based on my own intelligence or my perception, but in a way that is supernatural.

There are things and teachings so wrong and so perverse and contrary to the gospel that Christ and his disciples brought to the world.

I get enraged when Christians claim they've saved people or they can save people. You are mistaken! God does the saving. God is the one who makes people who do not want God believe in the unbelievable.

If you believe easily, you have then not believed in the gospel, and you must not have heard it fully.

There is no such thing as human free will.
I get really mad when I hear Churches and people saying that you can make a choice and decide for yourselves if you want to believe. Where in scripture is it like that?

We are so wicked and so lost and so steeped in sin that we cannot save ourselves.
We are drowning in our own sin, and when we're drowning, how can we pull ourselves out of the water? Only Jesus can pull you out!

You claim you have control over yourself? But then you're so wicked and sinful that all of your control would be devoted to sin. You deceive yourselves if you profess to have control. We are enslaved by our sinful desires and no matter what we do, it is motivated by our own sinful desires.

So if you dare say you have and exercise human free will, you mean that you are in full control of your sinful acts and you're saying that you can get out by yourselves without Jesus.

Romans 8: 5-8
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful men is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

If you do not think you're evil, you're in denial. Do you remember the worst thing you've done and said? Do you remember the evil thoughts you've entertained in your head and evil thoughts about your friends? You hate God's sovereignty because it will expose your wickedness.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is so amazing that you would either believe in it or abhor it. It denounces man, and exposes him for all his wickedness and unworthiness. When man is concerned about enjoyment and pleasure and having a good time living his best life now, God's laws will remind him that he cannot do what he has been doing or what he likes to do.

Believing in God is not something you can do. It is a supernatural work that is all God and not you. We have been separated from God because of our sins, and God must reach out and make first contact. We man cannot do it by ourselves!

In Acts 16:11-15, it speaks of a true authentic conversion. It talks about a woman called Lydia, who was listening to Paul. In verse 14, it is written: The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message. She did not believe out of her own sense, but because God had mercy on her and allowed her to come to him.

The entire gospel is about God's mercy and how he could have carted us all to hell, but instead he put together an elaborate plan that spanned thousands of years and is charted in the Bible to reconcile God and man.

Isaiah 48:8-11
You have neither heard or understood;
from of old your ear has not been opened.
Well I do know how treacherous you are;
you were called a rebel from birth.
For my own name's sake I delay my wrath;
for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,
so as not to cut you off.
See, I have refined you, though not as silver;
I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this.
How can I let myself be defamed?
I will not yield my glory to another.

Do you understand what you're reading? God reveals what he is actually doing.

You cannot believe in God by yourself. You will not believe in God by yourself. Instead God has mercy on you and gives you the gift of faith in him and his Spirit so that you may be able to walk in a way that pleases him. How much are we dependent on God and his mercy.

I get disgusted when people believe that God chooses them because they have some quality or abilities that God likes. You're only buffing up your own ego when you believe this.
God does not choose people because they have some merit. He chooses the weak and the foolish to mock the people in the world who believe in their own strength and ability.
God chose Rahab the prostitute; Jesus was a carpenter, and Jesus' disciples were sinful men-tax collectors and uneducated men-fishermen. He set these men up against the religious authority of the day against the Chief Priest and the Pharisees who were thoroughly educated in God's Laws.

Isaiah 46:10
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times,
what is still to come.
I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Do you think that God does what he does to make you live better and happier?
God does everything for his own glory because he cannot allow his name to be defiled. He does not do this to satisfy or pacify your selfish human sinful desires. Do you recognize that this is the God you claim you believe in?

Or do you think your worldly worth has bolstered you qualifications for salvation? If you must have confidence, have confidence in Christ. Why are you so pleased with yourselves. God delivers victory into our hands.

Do you think your merit has weight in God's sight? You've done work for God? You're supposed to do work for God!

God hates sinners. God is love, yes. But we've dimmed the other attribute of God which is as important, and as real. God is righteous. God hates all who does iniquity. If he is righteous, he must hate what is evil. If you love babies, you must hate abortions.

God loves us, yes. But because of his righteousness, we have aroused his wrath and his hatred. If God's love could cancel out his wrath and holiness, then he would not have to go to the trouble of having Jesus come down to die on the cross and suffer God's wrath on our behalf!

God's wrath and justice must be satisfied. For the wages of sin is death, we must die for our sins. However, there is a lamb, a pure sacrificial offering that is Jesus. Jesus took on God's wrath for us and paid for our sins in full. So our debts have been cleared in full if we believe in Jesus and hope in him.

But if you reject Jesus, do you think it would be fair for him to have died for you?
Your blood then will be on your own head and you will face God's wrath yourself this time.

You have better go read Romans.

I detest how churches evangelise and try to present the gospel in a tamer way that censors out the 'harsher' aspects of our God. If they believe, they would not have believed in the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, but a god you have fashioned and tailored to increase your membership. You go on and on about God, but you have not known him.

Do you know that God knows you and everything that you think about? He reads your heart and knows what is inside. Isn't that scary?

Do you honestly think God is a judge who pardons freely? He is a judge who judges and passes sentences. What kind of man-made God have you been subscribing to? Certainly not the God in Scripture!

I have this to say to people who evangelise and try to save people.
The gospel is not a gospel of man, but of God. Whatever you do to evangelise is useless. Only God saves. You, you're just a loudhailer that must continue to shout his gospel out to the world. God makes people believe in the unbelievable.

The people who claim to believe after you've summarized the gospel for them are only believing in your concept of Jesus Christ, a Jesus Christ and a God who blesses and forgives indefinitely. The way you're making Jesus sound like an upgrade to someone's life is popular and not from God. Everybody would want this kind of God. Nobody would say no to living forever, as well as receiving gifts.
You are on the path to doom and bringing others down with you!
You cannot package the gospel or edit it, because the gospel is not from man.

2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith, test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you, unless of course, you fail the test?

God has already chosen his very elect. Jesus knows his sheep and his sheep hears his voice and knows him. Do not presume you've been saved because of something you've done. Nothing you do can save yourselves.

If the things I've said are very different from what you believe in, then you had better start reading the Bible properly, and not because you want affirmation or you want comfort from verses that gives you a warm fuzzy feeling.

The gospel is not the New Testament! It is the Old and New Testament. The real gospel will offend you because it speaks out against what you've been doing all this time!

I am not a model Christian, but a wicked and immoral human being who has recognized my own need for God's mercy and for Jesus Christ and I've been compelled to shout all of these out. Praise be to God.
For non-believers, if you've bothered to read, its not just angry banter.

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Finally, I think (but mostly hope) that Barack Obama will change the world for better.
The 'A' levels are extremely infuriating.