I choose what I want to be entertained by.
I choose the entertainment and its quality.
I choose where I get my information from, and I research other sources of information. I research the facts.
I don’t listen to the radio, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines and modern books, don’t read the newspapers. It was not because of who owned them, it was because the content was appalling and was dumbing down the public
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For instance when I became a religious person I was told to read this and that, and I was told that what they told me to read was the honest God given truth.
But I continued with my research, I looked where the religious leaders demanded that I didn’t look. I looked at alternatives. I never fully settled down with one total belief, but instead looked deeper into each faith, and into what was wrong and right about it.
This is why I am becoming more and more popular as a religious person. Jesus preached to all, I follow that belief.
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When I studied electronics I did two correspondence courses side by side, while reading library books, the history of electronics, the biographies of the people that made electronics possible as it is today. This gave me great knowledge of the subject matter far beyond the teacher’s.
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I did the same when I became a believer in God. I read about God possibly two years before I entered a church as an adult. I learned a lot, then at church they told me some pretty amazing stuff that made no sense whatsoever, fairytales, wild imaginings, endless genealogies (even though the Bible says not to believe in these things). So I concluded that no church has a real idea what they are talking about.
The Bible gives the message of the wheat and the weeds growing side by side, and when the harvest comes the false beliefs well be found.
Each church believes that the other churches are the weeds, and pridefully, narrow-mindedly, they think that they are the true church of God, the wheat.
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But what’s if the are all wrong. And the truth is incredibly simple, easy to understand and is readily available to all people everywhere no matter where they are.
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Jesus taught mostly out of the churches. A few times Jesus taught in the synagogues, but mostly to the troubled public. The church leaders and Jesus clashed a lot, and I can easily see why. I have clashed with church authorities often, and what is worrying the most is “doctrinal blindness”. The leaders succumbed to the teachings that make no sense and are completely blind to any form of common sense. Pride is very much alive in church today, and the foolish love pride, because pride is often the only backbone that they have to hold up their obviously ridiculous beliefs that are full of holes and false teachings.
Never did Jesus tell us to follow church traditional thinking of following traditions, nor did Jesus say that we must take part in ceremonies, etc. Jesus taught against those things. Yet today in all modern churches of all faiths they practice these things one way or another.
Spiritually blind people can do the very same things that they peach against, and be completely blind about how hypocritical they are.
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When people go to a church they are “doctrinized” into “that faith” so that any objections or questions are pushed out of their minds, and like they are taught in schools, they submit to authority. They become heavily patriotic to the church and the accepted church doctrines (written by people, not God), and they become regular members and a guaranteed source of income for the church. Many people (like secular people) adore (idolize) the preachers. And modern churches are businesses. “For the love of money, not for the love of God.”
Only a church, “gathering”, that follows Jesus, is following Jesus. Remember the warning, not all those that cry Jesus will Christ know, because they are teaching a false faith in the name of Jesus. But can the blind see that? Nope, not at all. They are blind “exactly the same prideful way that the atheists are blind about God.”
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Saturday, 5 March 2016, 10:06:52 AM.