For every dude like this - just think of all the churches around the country who teach "hell" the same way... :/
http://theblessedlife.com/20080731_hellfictionorfact.swf?video=20080731_hellfictionorfact.flv
Hell sure has been "Good business" tho for churches..
He starts off saying hell is mentioned 167 times in the Bible and that Jesus preached about it 33 times in his 3 1/2 years ministry, which he says means he preached about it at least once a month. How can He have a conscience and lie like that to millions of people?
Another thing about this fellow is hard to describe. At times there's God's presence in a sweet peace like a cloud near with him; but, he needs to learn to walk after that. Sometimes a man just walks in his flesh. Religion (falsely) teaches that God means to have an appointed man's boot on everybody else's neck. Carnal man believes in dominating others and sometimes that is involved with his idea of being a male, which is totally Adam. Some take a carnal pleasure in exercising authority. When religion has secular authority this becomes dangerous.
Nothing wrong with being in Adam (in whom all dies.) Jesus was born an Adam male; but, he ended that race of mortal beings and became the new head of a new Adam, one predominantly spiritual with an immortal body. That's the remaining change which is our Father's business we must be about. Many of us are born again (Passover) and filled with the Spirit (Pentecost.) What's next that we don't have? The salvation of the body (Tabernacles.) Just as you cannot learn to be spiritually born again, nor work hard and achieve it, nor is it something inherent to your Adamic nature that gets revealed thus metamorphosing out of Adam into Christ by reason of flesh identity, so you cannot in these ways obtain the physical change that must occur, for "this mortal must put on the immortal!" Not in death because corruption, meaning "the decay of a corpse" does not inherit incorruption. ". . . flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." (1 Cor 15:50) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (1 Cor 15:53) We the living must enter in.
I hope you don't mind me getting carried away a bit.
well put, Reformer! :thumbsup: very refreshing to hear what you've learned--it jives well with what I've been learning as well, just from a different perspective! good news! very good news indeed!
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