PART I: THE COLD CASE OF VAINGLORY AND VAIN WORSHIP

Rosemary K, Gospel Witness/Writer

Preface:

Greetings in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ!

I have had to write this elaborate Testimony as Part I and Part II, to bring to light the many vanities that much of today’s world is shamelessly pushing, even falsely using scattered Scripture verses to support their Spiritual errors of thought and action. The majority of people have succumbed to vain worshipping, borne of religious dogmas and apostasy, all of which are forbidden by the Living God in the Holy Bible.

Recently, I had a disturbing encounter with a hypocritical adherent to a world religion. Sure, that is part of the “potholes” on the road of God’s Ministry work, one would say. Indeed it is, but the experience brings with it the same old attempt by nonbelievers to back their non-Biblical dogmas with scanty quotes of Scripture, unfortunately in a completely ignorant and erroneous way. The overall moral implications of

Christ’s teaching, and their failure to apply God’s plan in their daily lives, notwithstanding.

Welcome to my Gospel Witness Testimony on the INCORRUPTIBLE NATURE OF GOD, and how Man’s errors and vanities disguised in religious dogma constitute Spiritual suicide and bondage to Satan.

1.0 VAIN WORSHIP

What is the Biblical definition of “vain worship”? The definition is “nothing”, something useless, done in vain; something that God cannot hear or bless.

Mark 7:7-8

7) Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 8) For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. (Words of Jesus Christ)

God forbids vain worship from the beginning of time. Jeremiah: 10:2-4 "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen...for the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold: they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."

Jeremiah 7:18 "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger."

It is well documented that “the queen of heaven” was Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. If you are one those that worship other things instead of God, do you know what your chants about the queen of heaven imply?

1.1 What is Dogma? It is defined as a “doctrine held by a religion. It is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted, or diverged from, by the practitioners or believers. Dogma came to signify laws or ordinances adjudged and imposed upon others by the First Century.” [Reference: Wikipedia]

Dogma was formed in AD, after Christ’s death and resurrection! So by its very nature, dogma is a subjective system or set of beliefs, values, and norms taught as “truth” in a religion, no matter the glaring non-Biblical controversies that may surround it.

If your church teaches things that have no complete Biblical foundation, be very afraid, for God says that your worship is in vain.

I Timothy 4:1 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils."

Many are falsehoods disguised in complicated dogmas, with claims that you as on ordinary person cannot understand the Bible on your own; that you need special interpreters, special academic degrees, or PhDs to understand the Word of God! If this is the situation in your church, you are treading on very dangerous ground of Spiritual slavery and bondage to Satan.

Look at the example of the Disciples; like Simon and his brother Andrew; James and John- the sons of Zebedee, most of them were ordinary fishermen with no University degrees to talk about. John the Baptist, the fearless Gospel Preacher, was a son of common Zachary and Elizabeth. He lived in the wilderness, surviving on locusts and wild honey; he was strengthened by the Holy Spirit and preached the Word of God with passion.

Matthew 11: 11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than he. (Words of Jesus Christ)

Look at the women of the Bible, Mary, Martha, Mary Magdalene, they were all ordinary women, yet they believed in Jesus and were always close to Him. And when Jesus resurrected, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, an ordinary woman of faith.

Jeremiah 7:18 "...fathers kindle the fire... pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." (The Lord God)

Editorial comment: Photograph above illustrates Religious Idolatry

In his rebellion against God, Lucifer was blinded by his pride, wanting to exalt himself above God, just like the corrupt religious leaders that have formed their own gospels and forsaken the Word of God to magnify themselves through dogmas. Isaiah 14:14 “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high” (LUCIFER)

2.0 PERSONAL TESTIMONY: MY ENCOUNTER WITH A RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITE

It was Saturday, October 8, 2011. I was on a location of interest, where I had been filming a Gospel-related documentary. I went into a popular craft shop, and talked with the shopkeeper for a while. He first pretended to be God-fearing, by launching a verbal attack on the ungodliness of much of today’s society. I then asked him if he was saved in Jesus Christ, and if he professed the Gospel of Christ. That was when trouble began. He quickly told me how he belonged to a certain popular world religion, and how that religion was the very one purportedly “started” by Jesus Christ Himself. That was the punch line, for many are the times I have heard of that false statement from the adherents of the same popular religion, which, according to historical facts, was in fact started by one famous pagan Emperor in a world city, and then went in line-hook-and-sinker, to adopt the pagan worship styles of that Emperor’s era, complete with some of his titles plus the worship of graven images, in contravention of God’s 2^nd Commandment.

*The 2^nd commandment as in Exodus 20:4-6 (ORIGINAL)

4 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the water under earth:

5 Thou shalt not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the inequity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

(King James Version)

**The 2^nd commandment according to one popular world religion: (HIJACKED VERSION)

There is idolatry in most popular world religions, so the second Commandment has been deleted or sometimes it has been absorbed into the first. All the remaining Commandments are therefore shifted along one count by religious heretics. Because of idolatry, one popular religion deleted the 2^nd commandment, then shifted the 3^rd commandment to the 2^nd, now reading as: “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain,” and then split the 10^th commandment into two, to get back to the Ten Commandments!

You should be able to tell the difference between these two versions. The first is the original 2^nd commandment as given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, while the second is the 3^rd commandment that was hijacked by idolaters to second place!

You may need to know that this dogmatic lie that Christ started a religion is always being reinforced as absolute truth by the same religion which falsely claims direct lineage from Christ. Yet according to the Bible, real Christianity, NOT dogmatic religions, started in Antioch, a small humble place far North of Jerusalem, where Jesus‘ disciples preached.

Evidence here: ACTS: 11: 22-26

22 The tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.

23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:

26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. (Holy Bible, King James version)

2.1 Christ DID NOT Start any World Religion: The Bible makes no mention of the name of any world religion/sect/denomination as having been started by Christ, let alone Christ having ever stepped in the city where the clerical seat of the falsely claiming religion is located! As a matter of fact, the rulers of that pagan empire from which the said religion is actually descended lorded it over Judea, and presided upon the courts that let the Son of God into the hands of sinners, for crucifixion.

This religion and others of similar dogmas omit the real truth of God, and make God seem like a liar by teaching falsehood about His Commandments. In addition to deleting God’s 2^nd commandment, they have added doctrines (false gospels) that the Bible does not sanction, and made their followers heed them as divine commandments! If you wish to know more about the shocking historical LIES AND CRIMES perpetuated by the same religion in God’s name since 60 AD, contact me directly for recorded, historical/factual references.

I pray that the adherents of the said religion repent and get saved in Christ, for He truly came to redeem the lost souls! As a Gospel Witness, my calling is to shame the devil by spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Amen! And if you belong to a religion that has never told you that having graven images of any kind in worship is forbidden by God as idolatry, you have really been taken for a Spiritual ride. That is why you need to think outside those dogmas and seek real Spiritual awakening through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You can also let me know if you did not get my special Gospel Witness Series on Idolatry, and I will be glad to send you a copy.

Indian Ganesha god evokes God's wrath

Back to my encounter with the spiritually hypocritical shopkeeper: I stuck to the Bible truth in the discussion with him about God. He sounded like a broken record, stating the same falsehood he has been conditioned with, over, and over. Monotonous, like the rote prayers of his religion. One thing that I regret is that people blinded by world religions have a long way to go in understanding redemption by faith only, through Jesus Christ, or how the Holy Spirit of God works. How can they see, when they have closed their eyes to the truth? How can they hear, when they have blocked their ears, lest they hear the truth and get saved?

Acts 28: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Isaiah 59:1-2 1) Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2) But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.

So I asked the shopkeeper what he was going to do, after he died and faced God’s judgment, only to find that he wasted his life on earth in vain worship, and was not worthy of God’s Kingdom. His answer was very chilling. “Then it will be too late for me!” he replied. I asked him why he would forsake his heritage in Heaven for the sake of man’s religious dogmas, that were not even Biblical. If the first answer shocked you, as it did me, his next answer was even more stunning: “I was born in [name of religion], I will die that way!” Which takes me to the question of Spiritual Enslavement.

3.0 GODLESSNESS IS THE EVIL TWIN OF SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT

Spiritual enslavement is one of Satan’s ploys to keep souls away from Salvation and Eternal life. Satan is always on the prowl to devour lost souls. 1 Peter 5: 8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”

Remember that Satan, the father of lies, has no shame. If he tempted our Lord Jesus, what do think he can do to mere mortals living outside of the Grace of God? Ungodly minds are the devil’s workshop. You don’t believe it? Think of the many evils throughout human history. Slavery of Africans/ the African holocaust, the Jewish holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Armenian Genocide, global terrorist attacks, apartheid, colonialism, cult/religious killings, crimes in your local neighborhood, name it.

Carnally speaking, all these evils are attributed to the wickedness of mankind against mankind. However, spiritually speaking, the root cause of these evils is Spiritual slavery, and the vainglorious thinking of Godless people that they are invincible. That is described as greed, avarice, and pride, all summarized in God’s 10^th Commandment! Spiritual slavery is the source of all man-made human suffering and chaos. It is not who has more nuclear power, super power, or manpower; it is all about corruption of the flesh, inflated egos, and Godless flesh thumping its chest out for evil’s sake.

People who live in the Holy Spirit of God do not walk or talk war, terror, exploitation, greed, avarice, malice, gossip, lies, sabotage, spite, or other evils forbidden by God. When the Holy Spirit dwells in God-fearing people, all evil is under their feet.

Psalm 91: 13: Thou shalt tread upon the lion, and adder [serpent]: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Only those who have succumbed to the lies of Satan advance fleshly pursuits, which by their very nature, are corrupt, and not for the righteousness that God wants. Yes, the unbelieving, unsaved, have nothing righteous in the sight of God, for only righteousness comes from God, not from the self-righteousness of wicked men! Romans 8: 6 “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Before Christ came to the world, God dealt decisively with all corrupt flesh, through direct extermination of His enemies.

3.1 Evidence that God hates Evil (Old Testament Records):

3.1.1 Noah and the Flood: God sent the deadly floods to exterminate flesh that had corrupted His ways on earth.

Genesis 6: 5-8

6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the land, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man in the land, and He was grieved in His heart. 6:7 And the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them." 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

God's Wrath vs Egypt: Pestilences of blood, frogs, lice, swarms of flies,
death of animals, boils, hail mixed with fire, locusts, darkness,
and death of first borns, to the Pharaohs of Egypt

3.1.2 Slavery in Egypt and God’s Wrath: God sent pestilences of blood, frogs, lice, swarms of flies, death of animals, boils, hail mixed with fire, locusts, darkness, and death of first borns, to the Pharaohs of Egypt, when they refuted His order to free the children of Israel.

Exodus 7: 17 Thus saith the LORD, In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD: behold, I will smite with the rod that is mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

And this came to pass, but Pharaoh’s heart was still hardened.

Exodus 8: 1-2

1) And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

2) And if thou refuse to let them go, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.

And this came to pass, but Pharaoh’s heart was still hardened.

Until God dealt a yet more deadly blow by killing the first born children of Egypt, did Pharaoh relent and let the captive Israelites go.

3.1.3 God versus Sodom and Gomorrah: The Living God unleashed fire and brimstone/burning sulfur upon Sodom and Gomorrah, for their ungodly/sexually perverted immoral acts. These cities were so overtaken by sexual perversion, the men of the city wanted to break Lot’s door, to rape the angels of the Lord that had come to deliver him and destroy the cities.

Honor and glorify God! See the historical remains of Sodom and Gomorrah here:
http://www.arkdiscovery.com/sodom_&_gomorrah.htm

Genesis 19: 4-5, 24-25

4) But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.

5) And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them unto us, that we may know* them. (*rape them)

24) Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

25) And he overthrew those cities, and the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

3.1.4 God versus the Decadent Kings of Babylon: The Lord God struck the iniquitous kings of Babylon in their own craftiness for magnifying themselves and worshipping idols.

When Nebuchadnezzar refused to repent and honor God, and honored himself instead by worshipping idols, God relegated him to the status of beasts. And his son, Belshazzar, disobeyed God by worshipping idols as well. God punished him immediately by finishing his kingdom. Belshazzar was assassinated when the hand of God wrote his fate on the wall, as he partied with his lords, wives, and concubines.

Daniel 5: 5 “In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.” (King James Version).

In the same moment, this king’s joints were loosed, and he became knock-kneed. When all the astrologers and soothsayers failed to read the interpretation on the wall, Daniel was brought in, and he interpreted the writing as a sign from God against the rebellious Belshazzar.

Daniel 5: 30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

The Holy Bible is the Word of God
"Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth
the sayings of the prophecy of this book." (Jesus Christ, Rev. 22:7)

4.0 THE NEW TESTAMENT CALLING TO BE BORN-AGAIN

The Old Testament exhibited God’s wrath against unrepentant sinners. Under this law, everybody is guilty of sin. Ecclesiastes 9:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. YET the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23.

Today, the same God is still the most righteous. He extended His Grace to all mankind in the New Covenant, that they may be saved from eternal hellfire, by getting saved in Jesus Christ, who became the LAST sacrifice for sins on earth. John 3: 32 Then Jesus said unto them, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” (Words of Jesus Christ)

The call to be Born-again is not a fashion statement, as dogmatic religions maliciously and ignorantly label Born-again Christians. It is God’s plan to save all humankind from perishing, because no flesh is capable of saving itself at all. In his state of disgrace (unredeemed), man has not the righteousness that God wants, and therefore, his inequities (sins) make him worthy of death and hellfire. No matter the animal or money sacrifices you make; no matter the seasonal fasting; the rote prayers several times a day; the devotions to the dead people canonized by man as “saints”; pilgrimages to holy places, or body flagellation; the Bible, which is the Word of God, says that all that is vanity. True faith in God is accepting and believing that Jesus Christ is the sole mediator between God and man, and through HIM, abandoning sinful lifestyles for a renewed spiritual life. It is written that on Judgment day, those who were ashamed of Christ in this life, He will also be ashamed of before God the Father.

MARK 8: 38 “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” (Words of Jesus Christ)

Make no mistake, despite what your religious conditioning has impressed upon you in their version of salvation; it is all corrupted untruth of Satan, if it says anything other than that Christ is the only mediator between God and man. 1 Timothy 2: 5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”

By refusing to believe that Jesus is the sole Messiah, with the simple, childlike faith that God wants, you are accusing God of being a liar, and subjecting yourself to His judgment! Yet the Almighty God is incorruptible, He does not make errors. He sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, to be the last sacrifice for all our sins.

4.1 Important Questions to the religious dogma-makers and their lost adherents:

4.1.1 What makes you accuse God of making an error, in sending His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to be the only Savoir of mankind, and that those who believe in Him will be Born-again as Children of the Kingdom of God?

4.1.2 What makes you think that your religious dogmas, which have nothing to do with God’s plan of Grace and renewal through Jesus alone, are right, and that those who refuse to heed your man-made teachings of the Councils of men, are heretics? Do you really know the meaning of heretic?

4.1.3 What makes you shun Gospel bearers and label them “apostates”, yet the same people are teaching and professing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as Commanded by the Lord, at Galilee, before He ascended into Heaven?

AT GALILEE, before Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven, He commissioned ordinary men and women, to spread His Gospel throughout the world, without fear.

MATTHEW 28: 19-21
19) “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”

20) “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Words if Jesus Christ)

4.1.4 Why would you expect people in the knowledge of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to believe your false religious teachings, yet they know that you are not Jesus Christ?

5.0 THE BITTER TRUTH: “DOGMATIC ENSLAVEMENT IS SPIRITUAL SUICIDE AND BONDAGE TO SATAN”

By teaching things that are not sanctified by the Word of God, by making exclusive councils, caucuses, or other sets of commandments not those of God, and compelling people to believe in them as the truth of God, world religions have made an open declaration that they are not serving the Living God, but men’s vanities!

Pagans falsely believe the universe is a supreme deity.
Romans 1:25 "They traded the truth about God for a lie.
So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the
Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen."

When the followers of Christ take them on about these matters, they defend their stand as “tradition”, “ways” of their church, or their so-called “holy” calendar events! The Word of God has some news for such religious hypocrites:

Galatians 4:8-11

8) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

9) But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage?

10) Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

11) I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

Mark 7: 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. (Words of Jesus Christ)

If Jesus Christ, the Son of God, says dogma is spiritual error, why should anybody follow it? Under the guise of “freedom of worship”, many souls have succumbed to the lies of Satan, and “diversified” God into things like the natural elements; the atmosphere; inanimate and animal reincarnations; body energies; and other such pagan profanities. As believers in the Living God, redeemed by the blood of Jesus, Born-again Christians are not afraid to say that those falsehoods perpetuated as “tradition” or freedom do not become the truth of God, just because some council of a popular world religion or a socialite guru said so. Which takes me to another lie about what blasphemy is:

6.0 WHAT IS BLASPHEMY? According to the dictionary, blasphemy is “a contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning God or a sacred entity.”

According to the Bible, blasphemy is openly disgracing God’s name by irreverent utterances, or any other profane things aimed at discrediting God’s majesty and the wonders of the Holy Spirit of God.

In the Bible, blasphemy is explained as discrediting God’s authority, when Jesus is teaching about the greatest sin that is unforgivable: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit of God. The Pharisees disgrace the miracles Jesus is performing, by attributing them to Beelzebub, the chief of the demons.

Matthew 12:31–32

31 “Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven.

32 “Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.” (Words of Jesus Christ)

When non-believers question the wonders that the Holy Spirit works for those in Christ, the Bible says that is blasphemy, for they are disputing God’s power. Jesus had to appear to the non-believing, Christian-persecuting Saul, to make this point:

Evidence Here: ACTS 9: 4-5

4) And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

5) And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard to kick against the pricks [goads].

And Saul was struck blind for three days, eating and drinking nothing the entire time. Then he repented, accepted Christ, and became Apostle Paul!

The Moral: How can mortals contest God’s power and Glory, merely through carnal minds, or applying man’s principles and knowledge in trying to understand God? Do you not know that man’s wisdom is foolishness to God? 1 Corinthians 1:25 This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.

Believers also know that Jesus was falsely attacked by religious leaders (Pharisees, Scribes, and elders), who said that He blasphemed by saying He had power to forgive sins.

Mark 2: 9-10

9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say , Arise ,and take up thy bed, and walk ?

10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

Also, when Jesus admitted to be the Son of God, the Jews claimed to have concluded their case against Him for blaspheming, and went ahead to crucify Him.

John 5: 18 “Therefore, the Jews sought more to kill him, because he had not only broken the Sabbath [He healed a crippled man on Sabbath] but said also that God was His Father, making himself equal with God.”

7.0 BLASPHEMY VERSIONS AND PUNISHMENTS, ACCORDING TO SOME POPULAR

WORLD RELIGIONS

In most world religions, blasphemy is not about uttering disgraceful things about God, it is all about magnifying their religious leaders and protection of their dogmas!

Example: “[W]e hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” Pope Leo XIII.

Isaiah: 42: 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

Statue outside the entrance to Basilica S. Pietro, Rome, Italy.
Editorial comment: Roman Catholicism advances graven images in worship, a direct contravention of God's Second Commandment.

Question: Which flesh, in the knowledge of God and His Might, can dare stand in the place of the Almighty? Lucifer tried, and what became of him and his accomplices is Spiritual History; it is the cause of blasphemies such as the one given in the previous example!

Some religions have been known to launch lethal terror attacks on those people and nations perceived to have ‘blasphemed’ their founders, or so-called prophets.

7.1 Death List: World famous activist writer, Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, was once placed on a “death list,” by the government of Anwar Sadat, for perceived blasphemy. She had called attention to the injustices her religion of birth (Islam), was committing against women. She fled her native country of Egypt in 1988, and lived in exile in the US for many years after that.

7.2 Spanish Inquisition Massacres: The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), is one the most horrendous exterminations of non-Catholic people in the annals of history. Established in 1480 by Catholic Monarchs in Spain to rid their country of perceived “heretics”, the Inquisition ran for over four hundred years, killing/burning at then stake, ransacking, and disbanding people and nations of non-Catholic religions. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

7.3 The Curse and Arrest of Galileo: In the history of leading scientific discoveries, astronomer/scientist Galileo was convicted of grave heresy by the Catholic Church, claiming he was "vehemently suspect of heresy" for "following the Copernicus discovery that the earth revolved around the sun. Under Pope Urban VIII, Galileo was put under house arrest for the rest of his life. Today, the Copernican discovery of the planetary system has been confirmed to be true!

7.4 Ban List Case Notes: David Yallop’s “In God’s Name” is banned among Catholics, for exposing the evils in Roman Catholicism in a brave investigative report uncovering the murder of Pope John Paul I. In 1984, David Yallop won the Crime Writers’ Golden Dagger Award for Nonfiction, for “In God’s Name”, despite his book being forbidden literature among Catholics.

7.5 Fatwa/death sentence: Salman Rushdie had an Islamic fatwa/death sentence put on his head on February 14, 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, for writing the “The Satanic Verses”. He had pointed some doctrinal chants that Islamic faithful intoned to pagan gods.

7.6 Excommunication/death sentence for Moroccan Family: In 1999, Malika Oufkir wrote “Stolen Lives”, a Memoir of her excommunicated family. Not only was their father assassinated, they were banished to a desert jail for twenty years in the name of religion and politics. Malika’s book was previously banned in Morocco.

The current situation: The same condemnation applies to many more brave writers that have documented the many evils wrought upon people by religious hypocrisy. Such scholars’ works are banned, some have had “death sentences” put on their heads, and killed. The list is endless, it cannot fit in this space. I guess I am next on the ban list, for advancing the Word of God versus Man-made religious vanities. Think about this: How can the inglorious vainglories of God-hating, man-glorifying religious heretics hijack the Gospel of Jesus Christ and plant falsehood, while we, the faithful Gospel bearers, born-again by faith in Jesus Christ, stand aside and look? Psalm 94: 16 “Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?” (To be continued in PART II…)

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