God desires all men to be saved
AND to come to the full knowledge
of the truth...
A little understanding of history will help to explain the inconsistencies you may have encountered. Most of what you might have observed in Christianity, is the system that God’s Word foretold would be like a mustard seed that would bring forth a “Great Tree”. This parable reveals a rejection of God's ordination - that each seed should “bring forth after it's own kind”. The mustard seed, should have produced a small mustard plant, but instead brought forth a huge tree, in who's branches roost all the evil "birds of the air".
This system is not the manifestation of His truth, although there are many genuine believers to be found there. Only in the Bible itself can we find the absolute expression of God. His written Word - God defined, explained and expressed, was manifested in the flesh, as the seed - the only begotten and yet firstborn Son of God; the God/man Christ Jesus. In this One the creator entered into His creation and became flesh, laid down His life - "fell into the ground" in crucifixion; then in resurrection became the receivable Life Giving Spirit.
Then Shortly after the apostles time, the truth began to be "leavened", and by the time of Constantine, the church married the world, and the SYSTEM -"christendom" - came into being, with its massive clergy hierarchy and political nature. The earth sank into what we call the “Dark Ages”.
The Recovery began with Martin Luther, who recovered the most elementary truth - “Justification by Faith Alone”, which was, essentially, a "Declaration of Independence" from the system. Today, by gathering all the pieces of the divine puzzle, in their proper context, you will come to the full assurance of understanding.
The links provided to the left give you some choices of reading material that will guide you through the “shell” elements of the Bible, to the essence of its meaning. It is the expression of the collected revelation of generations of men, in what is known today as the Lord’s Recovery. |