04.29.06

Defending the Faith

Posted in Recent Events at 7:59 pm by Perry

Just this fall I was forced to defend the Christian faith against false self-proclaimed prophets coming on our campus and teaching a false gospel about Jesus Christ and now, just months later our campus is awash is the hurricane of another deceiver. In case you have been isolated in the library and don’t know what I am talking about, a preacher from Georgia has been coming on campus every day this week preaching on the quad a gospel of hate and condemnation eliciting phrases of hatred. This man called the woman standing around whores for wearing skirts and jeans and called another man a homosexual for wearing a pink hat and said that any feminine man cannot go to heaven for being “sissy”.

The worst part, though, is what this man teaches. He stands up and attracts large crowds by calling people out and condemning them for any multitude of reasons (many of which are not even sinful such as wearing pants, a skirt, or a man having long hair). Know this, his teachings are not in accordance with the very Bible he carries in his hand and this man surely does not represent my Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. He is from an isolated denomination which holds many heretical teachings which go against doctrine held by the greater body of Christian believers.

As Christians we are told to go into the “world” and tell people about whom Jesus is and what he can do in their lives (Matthew 28:19). A part of that commission includes telling people who are blatantly sinning that those sins are disobedient to God and that they should turn from those sins and seek after the Almighty God. That itself, though, is not the gospel we are told to preach. We teach that God is love and that He loves fully in every sense of the word. So much so that He gave His only son Jesus as a living sacrifice to cleanse us from our sins if we only seek after Jesus and trust in Him fully as our Lord.

The scriptures themselves teach that “God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 John 4:16-17). Beware of people coming to you and proclaiming a gospel that does not include the love of God which is what sets us free from our sins. The same chapter in 1 John also tells us to “not believe every spirit, but [to] test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone into the world”. Do not be led astray by such non-biblical teaching or be turned away from God because of the teachings of men who do not even know who God is. There are many organizations on campus which would love to tell you about who Jesus Christ truly is such as Campus Crusade for Christ, Crosswalk, and Chi Alpha to name a few. Please, seek after Him and righteousness will be counted toward you.

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