Tuesday, June 11, 2024

About False Gospel

      The Gospel of Jesus Christ isn't about gender. It's not about family values. It's not about whether someone is gay or straight. These kinds of discussions are a distraction, a sideshow, and lead people astray so that they don't actually learn what the Gospel is actually about. Because if people knew what the Gospel of Jesus Christ actually taught, then financial, political, and religious empires would fall. 

     The Gospel of Jesus Christ is about one thing, and that's Jesus Christ Himself, union with Him, and His acting and speaking through His disciples. The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news of Jesus Christ, is that we don't have to be enslaved to our own fear, our own aggression, or our own bodily cravings if we submit to and cooperate with the Spirit of Christ with whom we have been made one through the birth, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

     The Good News of Jesus Christ is God with us, and God within us becoming the source and origin of our behaviors and responses. It's about letting go of the fear which dominates every aspect of our thinking and embracing the God who is Love so that His love is manifested within us and out through us to all those around us. It's about being and manifesting Jesus Christ for all those around us.

     If the Gospel anyone is preaching doesn't center on this, then it's a false Gospel. Gender, sexual orientation, race, financial status, and so on have nothing to do with it, because none of these exist for those who are submitted to and cooperating with the Spirit of Christ, connected to Jesus Christ as the members of a body are connected to their Head.

     The next time someone says that being kind, considerate, or compassionate to someone who is gay/queer/transgender, or of a different race, or even of a different religion is a "false Gospel," understand that this person has neither part nor parcel in Jesus Christ who taught us to love every single person without exception: God, those closest to you, strangers standing next to you, and even your enemies. If a person is preaching hate for anyone, they are preaching a false Gospel and preaching against Jesus Christ. The person who teaches to hate is antichrist.

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