With Christ have I been crucified, yet I am living; no longer I, but living in me is Christ. Now that which I am now living in the flesh, I am living in the faith that is of the Son of God, Who loves me, and gives Himself up for me.
Paul to the Galatians 2: 20, Concordant New Testament
I consider it one of the most flagrant lies ever preached by the mainstream church. The false belief that man has been separated from the God Who created him. Now, they do this in a way that gets the Lords children to believe that it is indeed true. It is common belief in Christian theology that man "Fell" in the garden after believing the words of the accuser and forsaking the instructions of the Lord. As his punishment, the Lord banished His creation from the garden which He had created for him {Genesis 3:22-24}. Here lies the issue. For nowhere in scripture is it proclaimed that God removed Himself from the human which He created. Honestly, that couldn't have been done, for His fingerprints are all over our identity. It is God who created us in His own likeness {Genesis 1:27}. It is also God Who creates within us a living soul by breathing into us the breath of life {Genesis 2:7}. So here we are, in His likeness and having His life within us. How is it possible that we could be anything BUT in Him? Your own earthly parents may have not been the best, but you can never remove their presence from your life or who it is that you are. So it is with ourselves and God. His DNA is in us. Knowing this, how is it that the modern day mainstream church can speak to the fact that we are now separated from God? We've all made questionable choices in our lives, does that somehow erase us from our biological family history? Not at all! Yet the church continues to preach that it is our own sins that have driven us away from God. As the old actor Harry Morgan used to say..."Horse Hockey!" Unfortunately, if you tell a lie often enough, sooner or later it might just become accepted as the truth. This is what has occurred within the halls of the church. Listen to a majority of sermons on sin and you will hear of how we have somehow become separated from God by it. The old preacher Billy Graham was fond of proclaiming that men must "Repent" of their sins and "Make yourselves right with God." But what if we already were right with Him? It indeed was the Father Who, looking upon His creation, declared it "Very good" {Genesis 1:31}. Yes, we have been declared by God to be very good. The issue is not with our sin, but with our own belief that we are separated from God, that we are independent beings. For its part, the church has continued to preach to this false belief.
There is no independent, self-operating self in the universe, except the One who calls Himself the I AM {Exodus 3:14} and says, "I am the Lord and there is none else, there is no God beside Me" {Issaiah 45:5}
No Independent Self ~ Norman Grubb
While I was still in the church, I believed in the lie which I was taught. I grew up believing that I and the Lord were on two separate playing fields. God was in heaven watching and judging me as I lived my life here on earth. I call this a lie of the church because it is a false reality. The truth of the Lord is that, through Christ Jesus, I now am living my life in the Father {Johns Account 14:20}. There is NO separation in that which He has declared good. Unfortunately, far too many believers have fallen hook, line and sinker for the false prophesy of the church theology. I was once among that crowd. I lived a life not of joy in the Lord, but of regret for what the church declared I had done. Was this the joy of Jesus? No! Living in the joy of the Father is knowing that you live in Him each and every day. Living a life of knowing that you have been judged as innocent in the eyes of the Father through the willing sacrifice of Christ {Paul to the Corinthians (2) 5:21}. Knowing the truth of the Father is knowing that you have NEVER been separated from His presence. He created you. He breathed life into you. He has declared you good. This is the truth you won't hear from the mainstream church.
~Scott~
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