Yes His true undefiled word is still around today but it is getting less and less taught throughout the churches, as they are moving forward to teaching things society accepts as a whole instead of standing firm. I see doctrines that teach all who call Jesus Lord gets eternal life, but Jesus Himself said this is not so.
There are even multiple scriptures that say those who name Jesus as Lord are to depart from iniquity (sinful ways).
How many times do we hear this is impossible, we will always sin constantly everyday, and even after being born again people still put limitations on those who believe ???
Lord Jesus said all things are possible for those who believe (Mark 9:23) !!!
Hi Ken, I am sorry to see that the Holy Spirit was quenched on this thread since I last visited
Therefore in an effort to restore us to our more joyful position....
....I agree with what you said above, and the process of making it a gospel of man seems to me to be very subtle, so that things appealing intellectually are favoured over the clear word of God, or things said by people who are regarded as scholars are favoured, regardless of what God says clearly.
Often I feel I want to go back to the Gospels and speak Jesus' words because that simplicity is too often abandoned.
Jesus said Matt 18:3
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Also Luke 18:17
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall
in no wise enter therein.
Easy enough, you would think lol.
Then Paul backs this up by his experience in 1 Cor 2 1 And I, brethren, when I came to you,
came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For
I determined not to know any thing among you,
save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was
not with enticing words of man's wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith
should not stand in the wisdom of men
, but in the power of God.
And further down in the chapter he says something interesting, that there are 2 types of spiritual under the Holy Ghost’s eye:
12 Now we have received,
not the spirit of the world (1),
but the spirit which is of God; (2)
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak,
not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (1 and 2)
….There is the the stuff which man’s wisdom speaks… and then there is that which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual with spiritual.
IMO man’s wisdom will lead us up the garden path into dangerous complexity, while the Holy Spirit will always straighten things out in simplicity.
It's all in there Ken!!!