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Three Colors of Death
Green & White & Red
The Old Path Magazine | Vol. 1 No. 3 | 2005 |
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WHITE is for living in the world of lies
Among these three colors, it is the white that plays
it big, the white horse symbol in Revelations. White
is for living in the world of lies, made possible by
false religions through their teachers. False
teachers have crept into the fold and drawn
followers to themselves, since Christ founded the
Christian Church. This is evidenced by what is
observed as fruits – the supposed “Christians” that
have been formed out of their teachings for ages.
This has continued until today, as heresy after
heresy infiltrated the doctrines of the church –
with so many “Christian” churches warring at each
other for differences of doctrines. With these many
differences, one can tell there is lying, there are
lies, and there are liars.
Apostle Paul warned of false spiritual leaders as
"speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience
seared with a hot iron.” These are preachers with
consciences that have become so calloused, they are
no longer sensitive to the hypocritical nature of
their existence. Having lied so long, they are
desensitized to lying.
There are those who parade themselves as
representing God, when in fact, void of the
knowledge of God and the salvation they say they
proclaim. Starving, they supposedly offer true
bread, and warn other men of a hell that they
themselves will populate. Many appear to feed and
cloth the flock of God while in reality they ravage
them, and for a pretense they make long their
prayers.
False teaching is a mixture of truth and error.
Thus, people may at the same time be encouraged and
nourished by some things that are true but
unknowingly accept error along with it. But even a
small amount of error may be dangerous.
A lot of these false preachers are said to be on
television networks. Their sermons are so strong,
with seemingly interesting topics, deceiving even
the very elect, if possible. Some are said to
falsely mistake smiles, handshakes, fine clothes and
money, discipline, attendance records, and smooth
talk for love, spirituality, holiness, blessings and
Biblical preaching. Education is so important to
them, not as much wisdom; and church promotions have
taken over seeing to others’ burdens. Hard, straight
Bible preaching and teaching is unheard of.
One described television Christianity as producing a
theatrical church whose job is to entertain, excite,
please and gain - a characteristic of a false church
- instead of to enlighten, rebuke, correct, and
produce Bible believers. In fact, all false churches
can be said to teach liberal theology that almost
rejects the bible as being the divine Word of God.
Although they use Christian jargon, and at times
share principles with true Christianity, these
groups severely twist and contort the message of the
Gospel. Basically, their ministers make it easy for
their members to stay on. In summary, false churches
have the following habits -
1) Adding to and subtracting from the word of God
2) Subtracting from the Person of Christ usually by
denying the fact that He is God.
3) Putting trust in the Organization instead of God.
Tons of Lies. One church claims to be 'the only true
church’ which Christ Himself started. This church
was named after Christ, by Christ Himself, they say.
If you do not belong to this particular church, you
cannot be saved, since this church alone is the
sheepfold of Christ.
In this church they teach what they believe in,
taking Scripture passages to make it fit their
beliefs. Hence, instead of the biblical emphasis of
end times, their emphasis is on an end prophet.
Instead of Jesus being God, he is mere man. There
are yet many other distortions as in the reckoning
of time for holy supper, the equation of anything or
anyone sent as angel. Protestant churches have been
dismissed by them as false religions, yet their
services were made use of, most remarkably in the
baptism of their own leader and founder. The members
are not encouraged to read the Bible but depend on
their ministers to tell them what it says.
One church also claims to have recordings of God’s
voice in Chinese, and each year packs an average of
300 tons of books and tapes that are distributed
throughout the world. And yet, all of these - as
God’s voices - are not true.
There are many yet examples of claims and lies of
all kinds. An anatomy of lying was recorded as
saying that, to a liar, falsehoods roll effortlessly
from the tongue, and yet it never bothers one to
differentiate fact from fallacy. It is a habit as
habit can be.
Abuse of Communication Media. The problem with false
preachers is that they have underestimated print
media and its role in propagating truth. With
broadcast media and its loose medium, one can splice
tapes of different settings and make it appear as
one. The result is a pack of lies. False preachers
can do this with their enemies and deceive
listeners.
But with print media, it’s different. Once you print
your message, it is there for the entire world to
see, as long as there are tenable hard copies to
show. Therefore, musings of one pretending to be a
messenger can be examined from all angles for truth.
It is said understanding is added from time to time
as revelations come, which revelations are not done
in a flash flood. They come at proper times when God
allows. A pretender, therefore, can be cornered in
his false teachings when one sent by God comes to
the fore and examines his propositions.
One sent by God is expectedly taught by God, and
this explains why his teachings have stood the test
of time. Bro. Eli Soriano has been correcting the
false teachings of false teachers over time –
without letup, without fear, but with tireless
efforts. In the arena of debates where reasoning is
tested, his knowledge of the Bible has not been
surpassed by anyone. And time has shown him to be
incomparable as a teacher of God’s word. His stamina
may be found in his fear of God, his faithfulness in
handling the Word of God, and his acumen in his
stewardship of his congregation as God’s nation.
One can say the print media is God’s ally in
spreading the Word of God. The existence of the
Bible and its power in reaching great populations
over time is proof enough. To think of using print,
therefore, to propagate false stories will not hold
water, because apparently that is not God’s purpose
for this medium. The readers are not that stupid
that they cannot tell a lie from truth.
To be able to prop up false stories in print media,
one needs to build lie after lie after lie. But
readers have grown fast since the internet
technology has made its impact on their lives.
Despite, for example, the various expertly-drawn
emails about treasures and wealth left behind by
so-called philanthropists and that the receiver is
the recipient of such, SPAM or delete is all the
receiver does. No one is that gullible anymore to be
swallowing information hook, line, and sinker. Gone
are those days.
So, if you produce comics illustrated of some
celebrity’s supposed life like that of Bro. Eli
Soriano, those comics remain mere comics – something
to entertain and feed the lewd mind. That is only as
far as it goes – for people who really know him.
Actually, these comics - with no sources or writers
to boot - can be said to be the direct cousins of
those “god messages” printed decades ago by a
so-called true church. They go together by type and
they re-enforce each other, if motives are to be
reckoned with. In fact, this group endorsed these
comics in their TV program and invited the Ang
Dating Daan members to read them and widely
distribute them to their relatives. This is because
the obvious objective is to destroy the person of
Bro. Eli Soriano.
That is the nature of lies. They form links and
depend on each other in order to thrive, as long as
they want to remain lies and no one among the liars
stands up to say – “It’s time we correct ourselves.”
Nature of Comics as Medium. Anyone wanting to ally
with God may fairly use the print media. In dealing
with truth, there is nothing to hide, nothing to be
ashamed of, and from all angles may be examined.
This is the reason false preachers cannot use the
print media squarely. It is not safe from the
scrutiny of the true preacher who comes armed with
the full knowledge of God’s Word. But even by now,
false preachers do not realize this – imagining that
by producing more comics, they can be believed.
First of all, comics are comics – illustrations of
images one wants to depict. They lack the
argumentative flow of text where reasoning can be
examined, where one truth could be linked to another
and probed for validity, soundness, and truth. This
is the reason liars prefer the medium of comics over
full text – depending on what illustrations could do
to emotions– because they lack the
rock-steadfastness of text for the mind.
Gathering all the text of one issue of those comics
on the supposed life story of Bro. Eli Soriano may
not even fill up half page of an 8” x 11” bond
paper, if encoded single space in Times New Roman,
10 points. Granted that one can gather one whole
page, is that enough length to effectively build a
case on just one contention of those alleged
anomalies? How much really is in there worth
examining for truth when you distill the comics to
mere text? Can you place arguments on simply comics?
Can the mind fairly examine material simply meant to
play on emotions? There is not even one writer named
to claim responsibility for the contents, if they
really are true as eagerly advertised by so-called
ministers. The playing field is not even when you
make pot shots at someone and hide your identity.
When you disown printing it, but readily advertise
it - contrary to your supposed beliefs against
sexuality - it could only mean you had a hand in it.
Liars want to do things short cut. They hide through
artwork for want of something tenable to say. Their
eyes are only on their objectives, but along the way
they stumble from their tunnel vision. People were
not born just yesterday; they can see through those
piles of negative adjectives without premises for
support. Applying “seaman” on Bro. Soriano, and
naming all sorts of mischief, for example, is
overkill and spells of desperate moves.
And liars can only come halfway - splicing tapes,
employing comics for lack of argument buildup, but
can never use print media fair and square. And that
maybe the reason they cannot employ the Bible
properly.
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