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![WOULD A TRULY CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION CLAIM WE DON’T NEED CHRIST? [3 of 3] The
following tenet is among the unbiblical writings of Mary Baker Eddy that today’s Christian Science reveres above the Bible: "We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter." That’s just an ugly pile of “What did she say!?” Unfortunately, people get snookered into Christian Science’s extremely deadly belief system that claims sin, sickness, and even death are not real. So, when you get sick, don't see a doctor; just focus on the problem and fix yourself with your mind, by convincing yourself that the sickness is not real. Just keep telling yourself it’s not happening—deny reality as you most likely get worse and maybe even die. Val Kilmer is just one of countless
Christian Scientists who have had to struggle with the organization’s
false beliefs while dealing with a serious health issue: Diagnosed with
throat cancer in 2014, Kilmer eventually had a two-year bout with it, a struggle that had serious consequences for his life and career. He had to decide whether to follow his faith by denying the cancer even existed, or seek help from medical treatment. According to reports, he ended up accepting chemotherapy and two tracheotomies, and has been cancer free since. He is not able to eat, so he takes food through a feeding tube. Though he likely had consequences from waiting to take treatment, Kilmer woke up to the reality that he needed healthcare. But according to the mumbo-jumbo machinations that happened in Mary Baker Eddy’s mind, Christian Scientists who follow her teachings supposedly get their wakeup moment when each realizes that he or she is the universe. From there they are told to train their thoughts toward only bringing themselves
good. The whole idea sounds New Agey and Hinduistic because that's
really where this deceptive, dangerous thinking came from. | image tagged in christian science,mary baker eddy,god,bible,religion,cult | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5z0p7d.jpg)
![WOULD A TRULY CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION CLAIM WE DON’T NEED CHRIST? [1 of 3] Though they named it “Christian” Science, this pagan religion tells its followers they do not need to be saved—that Jesus will not help them get to heaven. But what is the barebones definition of a Christ-following (Christian) organization? What does it mean to believe in Jesus and why do we need Him? Why did Jesus go to the cross and why is it so important, as well as the fact that He was able to rise from the grave? Why is it a big deal that He came to earth and died for you and me? Why are we even here on earth still waiting for Jesus to come back? The answer is that sin is real and we all do it through our God-given freewill. But sin is an offense against our perfect Creator, who is love and truth, so it carries horrific consequences that we need help with, we need a be rescued from the dilemma that has us headed for hell.
We must be saved from our situation, so we can be with God in heaven. With that in mind, how can some group calling itself “Christian” Science say we don't need be saved? They claim we do not need help getting saved through Christ, who suffered the most excruciating death to save a sinful, fallen, degrading creation. Was it for nothing? The Christian Science organization might as well be climbing up on the cross and slapping Jesus in face, claiming, “You weren’t good enough to save us. I guess we will have to do it ourselves.” Completely contrary to the clear Word of God, here is the absolutely crazy way the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, taught salvation: "Final deliverance from air is not reached through the paths of flowers, not by pinning one's faith
without works to another's vicarious effort." That mumbo jumbo
was her claiming humans are not saved by relaying
on the work of Jesus Christ. Yet, the organization has
the audacity to call itself a “Christ-ian” religion. | image tagged in christian science,god,bible,cult,mary baker eddy,religion | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5z0ool.jpg)
![WOULD A TRULY CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION CLAIM WE DON’T NEED CHRIST? [2 of 3] Does the religion of Christian Science rely on Christ and His Word in the Bible? No. The writings of founder Mary Baker Eddy are the source of authority for this false faith, and here is an example of her anti-biblical and anti-Christian teachings: "Since sin and death are false beliefs, to achieve salvation, the Christian Scientist needs only to find the true reality of understanding, as revealed in Christian Science teachings." She is claiming that sin—and even death—are false beliefs and illusions; therefore, salvation involves overcoming our wrong thinking. With the “realization of our divine spirit” in mind, they say we must acknowledge and commit to
the idea that sin and death do not exist. According to Mary Baker Eddy, salvation has nothing to do with Christ (our Savior and the reason we have Christianity), and there is no sin (the situation Christ saved us from). According to Eddy’s anti-biblical teachings—that today’s Christian Science reveres above the Bible—salvation has nothing to do with death. But the Bible tells us the “wages of sin is death,” and that's why Jesus needed to come and save us. Eddy’s blasphemous version of salvation claims we attain our own salvation when we agree with her, believing sin and death are not real. So, her ideas are completely contrary to the Bible. Knowing even that little bit about Eddy’s teachings,
you can already see how misleading it is for the false religion of
Christian Science to use “Christian” in their name. | image tagged in christian science,mary baker eddy,god,bible,cult,religion | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5z0oxp.jpg)
![DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE FALSE RELIGION OF “CHRISTIAN” “SCIENCE”? [1 of 2] Founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, Christian Science is not Christian and not Science—not even close. By both secular and biblical definitions, and like all other cults, they get their source of authority wrong: Instead of being a true Christian organization that trusts the Bible, they get their dominant beliefs and practices outside God’s Word. Whenever people get away from following our Creator’s plan, they end up being led by man's ideas and those of the murderous, lying demons that people connect with. Christian Science claims to follow the Bible, but then tweak and
contort Scripture to make it say what they want, choosing to follow
the false teachings of Mary Baker Eddy—their ultimate authority. Cults like Christian Science get life’s most important truths wrong, including the nature of man and God, the Trinity, the personal work of Jesus Christ, and the means of reaching a wonderful afterlife (salvation). Unfortunately, many famous people have been duped Christian Science, and those have probably caused millions of others to join. Among past Christian Scientists are Robin Williams, Kelsey Grammer, Val Kilmer, Ellen DeGeneres, Muppets creator Jim Henson, author Danielle Steel, singer Bruce Hornsby, and Metallica’s James Hetfield. Prominent Christian Scientists
from further back were Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda,
Robert Duval, Audrey Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rodgers,
Carol Channing, Ernest Hemingway, Doris Day, and Jean Stapleton
from the 1970s television show All in the Family. | image tagged in christian science,cult,bible,mary baker eddy,god,jesus | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5z0nql.jpg)
![WHY DON’T TODAY’S JEWISH RABBI’S BELIEVE
JESUS CHRIST IS THE PROMISED MESSIAH THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR? [3 of 3] Imagine what would happen in our time if Jesus came along to challenge the powerful politicians running the world. How would they handle Him bringing up all their corruption and outright evil? Would they embrace Him? Most likely, no. They would try to save face, and preserve their ill-gotten wealth, which means they would council their nations to distrust Jesus Christ (actually, they already do). In fact, they would probably claim Christ is an intolerant liar who incites violence, hoping that would lead to the people somehow eliminating Him. It was no different two centuries ago when the rabbi’s were concerned about losing their authority to Jesus, and facing serious retribution from the people they had been ruthlessly controlling through thousands of rabbinic laws. Back then, the power was in the hands of religious leaders
(the rabbi’s) who decided to crucify Jesus. And it would probably be the same
reaction among our powerful politicians today. Those who had Jesus eliminated
centuries ago didn't like the fact that He was jeopardizing the money, position, appreciation, and authority that the Jewish people had given the corrupt leaders. So, regardless of over three hundred Old Testament prophecies that Jesus was fulfilling, as well as all the miracles He performed to prove He is God, the Jewish leaders decided to turn the people against Christ, having Him killed so they could retain all they had. And two thousand years later in modern Judaism, the Jewish leadership is still pushing Jesus aside: They won’t even entertain the question of whether Jesus is the Messiah, which makes rabbinic writings extremely biased against Jesus, and they won’t allow Jews to decide about Christ for themselves—rabbi’s spread the assumption that “no good Jew” should even read the New Testament. So, their current policy on Jesus Christ allows no exploration of the truth, just the blind leading the blind.
Still today, Judaism’s leaders don’t want anyone to learn about Jesus, and this
follows two thousand years of Jewish rabbi’s covering up the truth about the
most famous Jew in the history of mankind. Throughout the centuries and
even up to today, Jesus has been the most recognizable name ever, and He
is written about in history’s most read book. Yet, Christ remains Judaism’s
unrecognized Messiah and its most widely held secret. | image tagged in jewish,politicians,jesus,god,bible,rabbi | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yvkqm.jpg)
![WHY DON’T TODAY’S JEWISH RABBI’S BELIEVE JESUS CHRIST IS THE PROMISED MESSIAH THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR? [2 of 3] At the time He walked the earth, Jesus spoke out about the vast quantity of manmade traditions foisted on the Jewish people by Judaism’s rabbinical leaders. In fact, the Jewish Talmud (oral laws) lists 3000 laws handed down by the Jewish leaders—just for planting zucchini!—not to mention how it must be cooked and eaten. Wow! Obviously, the creators of all those tedious, religious practices had their followers mired in worthless works, focusing them away from the heart of God. Those men used the laws they created to control people, just as so many manmade faiths do today. Jesus said the rabbi’s looked good on the outside, but inside they were stumbling blocks to people having a relationship with God. Those false teachers were greatly burdening the Jews with all their
traditions, a practice Orthodox Judaism continues today. | image tagged in talmud,jewish,laws,god,bible,rabbi | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yvjs2.jpg)
![WHY DON’T TODAY’S JEWISH RABBI’S BELIEVE JESUS CHRIST IS THE PROMISED MESSIAH THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR? [1 of 3] As human beings, we don't like to admit we’re wrong, especially when we must confess to being hopelessly sinful. Our human nature loves power and control, while we also want to feel special, important, and valuable. Knowing this, we should not be surprised when the Bible tells us humans had a similar mindset two thousand years ago, during a time of widespread religious hypocrisy and corruption—like today. So, the love and pursuit of power and control—mixed with religion—was also pervasive way back then. With all this in mind, is it possible that those rabbi’s accused Jesus and His followers of idol worship because they feared Christ’s ministry would cause them to lose power and status? Historical researchers located about twenty ancient sources, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, and rabbinic writings that detail how absolutely corrupt Israel’s religious leaders were during that time of the Second Temple. They wanted Jesus dead, even though He let them know He hadn’t come to abolish God’s laws; He said He came to fulfill them. What Jesus did reject were the manmade traditions invented and hallowed by the rabbi’s of Christ’s day. Those
were called the “oral law.” But Jesus knew that tradition just
produces religion, and religion distances us from God. | image tagged in rabbi,jewish,god,bible,jesus,israel | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yvjh8.jpg)
![DO JEWISH PEOPLE THINK CHRISTIANS WORSHIP THREE GODS? [2 of 2] Besides Jesus professing that “the Lord our God is one,” and Genesis using the plural-word “Elohim” for God, we have many ways to explain how the Trinity can be both three and one. For example, I’m a husband, father, and pastor—no wonder I'm tired—but which one is not me? Being made in God’s image, you and I have a spirit, soul, and body, but which is not us? We can also mathematically represent the truth of Trinity:; Jewish people believe the New Testament’s depiction of the Trinity means the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit must be represented as 1 + 1 + 1 = 3, but the Bible tells us it is 1 x 1 x 1 = 1. So, even with the mathematics of God, three can be one. Yes, God presents himself as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but He is still one guy, one Elohim saying, “Let us make man in our image.” Then there is the classic example: When water is left alone, it presents as a liquid, but when frozen water becomes a solid, and when heated
it turns into a vapor. Which one of those is not water? | image tagged in trinity,god,jesus,holy spirit,christian,bible | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yvj94.jpg)
![DO JEWISH PEOPLE THINK CHRISTIANS WORSHIP THREE GODS? [1 of 2] When witnessing about Christ to those in the religion of Judaism, you may hear them say Christians believe in three Gods, but Jews have only one. Jewish people choke on the idea of the Trinity, though a quick explanation shows it is not an issue. In fact, even Jesus taught that there is only one God: Christ quoted Deuteronomy 6:4 from the Jewish (and Christian) Old Testament when questioned by a scribe who asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”; Jesus answered, “The most important one is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.’ ” So, Christ certainly supported there being only one God. And we can reciprocate with this challenging question for a Jewish person: Who is Scripture talking about in your—and Christian’s—Old Testament book of Genesis (1:26), when God says, "Let us make man in our image." Genesis uses the Hebrew word “Elohim,” which means a plural
number. Hmmm, there's some food for thought, and that's in the first chapter
of the Jewish Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament). | image tagged in jewish,christian,trinity,god,jesus,holy spirit | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yvipm.jpg)
![WHAT IS ORTHODOX JUDAISM? [4 of 5] Self-focused individuals, living with billions of others around the planet, want to feel special. But every human is already exceptional: God fashioned each of us in our mother’s womb, every one of us a unique, notable, special creation. But the vast majority of humanity—the broad swath (road) mentioned in Scripture—do not take the time to learn God’s Word in the Bible, where each person would find out that he or she is completely unique, made exactly the way God wanted them. Unfortunately, most people do not put the Armor of God by reading the Bible, so they easily fall for even the simplest
of deceptions that are constantly put out by people doing Satan’s
bidding—whether those satanically duped people know it or not. Men and women easily become enamored with false teachers claiming to have secret knowledge that has never been taught before. These charlatans claim they received their special knowledge as a direct download from God, and He personally picked this (false) teacher to receive information that no one else was given. Now they are being gracious enough to pass it onto you and me. But these self-aggrandizing frauds are just tossing us trash, the same old recycled garbage. Yet, plenty of unknowingly deceived people will slave for those lies and pay out a lot of money to them—all resulting in an
eternity in hell, if they don’t find Jesus before death. | image tagged in orthodox,jewish,judaism,works,god,bible | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yrqvq.jpg)
![WHAT IS ORTHODOX JUDAISM? [3 of 5] The branch of Orthodox Judaism called Hasidim Orthodox (Hasidic-Orthodox Jews) is where we find the practice of Jewish Kabbalah. And those beliefs closely resemble some of the Grecian-originated ideas that surround "gnosis," which means "knowledge" in Greek. Practitioners of gnosis (Gnostics) claim to have special knowledge of spiritual mysteries. When you place an "a" in front of “gnostic,” you get "agnostic," which means a person with "no” knowledge. In practice, agnostics profess that they don’t have enough knowledge to determine whether God does or does not exist (atheists claim to believe there is no God). Near the time of its manmade origins, Gnosticism involved people and ideas that even the
New Testament’s Apostle Paul had to deal with. Two thousand years later,
Kabbalah is a kind of a warmed-over version of Gnosticism, and it has the
same feel as Westernized Hinduism, which is the root of the relatively
recent religion called New Age—which also grew out of Kabbalah. Again, Satan only recycles old lies, like the false beliefs of Gnosticism, just repackaging whatever has been previously successful at fooling a lot of people. Of course, this is why we must learn history, especially the biblical record. Normally, an initial version of Satan’s lie can dupe many generations, but only until biblically sound people counter it with God’s truth. That’s no problem for Lucifer; he just waits a while and then repackages the same core deception, like how he turned the discredited religion of Gnosticism into Kabbalah, and then waited a few more generations to relabel the same occult practices as New Age. In fact, you can trace the sewage pipe of occultism all the way back to the Tower of Babel, where God judged their satanic
practices by confusing the language, which caused common-language groups to
spread out around the world, landing in places like the Indus River Valley. There
in what is now India, those Babylonian occult practices became Hinduism.
Again, elsewhere it developed into Gnosticism that became modern-day
Kabbalah, which produced the New Age movement. | image tagged in othodox,jew,judaism,god,bible,hindu | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yrq5f.jpg)
![WHAT IS ORTHODOX JUDAISM? [2 of 5] Orthodox Judaism encompasses both the academic-focused Modern Orthodox, as well as Hasidim Orthodox, the latter being the more mystical practice. Hasidic Jews are the men you see wearing skull caps and black or dark-gray suits. These Jewish mystics exhibit similar spiritual behaviors to those in the Charismatic movement that is a part of the modern, American, Christian Church. Mystical Judaism today is called Kabbalah, and the highly influential singer Madonna is one its major followers and promoters. The roots of Kabbalah’s mystic practices developed between the 500s
and 1300s AD, among late-Babylonian, Italian, French, and Spanish
Jews. Kabbalah means "to receive," meaning the followers claim
to receive ongoing, higher, better, and newer revelations from God—; —just as today’s Charismatic community claims. Earlier in Judaism, Kabbalah was mainstream, but then later came to be the practice of only a few “special” Jews who God exclusively blesses with some supposed “true meanings” of Scripture—they get so-called secret knowledge. Because God singled them out to receive His “real truth,” how dare we question them? And doesn’t that sound similar to the attitude of Roman Catholicism, where followers are taught to refrain from interpreting the Bible for themselves—that’s reserved for the learned Catholic priests. Only they possess the unique “specially given ability” to understand and interpret Scripture. The
same sort of claim comes from Kabbalah leadership who run
a cult organization performing occult practices. | image tagged in orthodox,hasidic,jew,judaism,god,bible | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yrotf.jpg)