A Testimony In 1996, while I was in college, I was given a evangelism tract by a friend. This small booklet explained to me (a humanist at the time) the full Gospel: man’s fallen state, through Adam; our separation from God, who is perfect and holy; and what He (God) did to take away this separation. I read the tract, was convicted of my sin, repented and acknowledged Jesus Christ as 1. The Son of God, who is God 2. The Lord and sovereign of my life 3. My Savior from death and Hell. I did not realize then, that what happened at that moment, had not only saved my soul, but was going to keep me from falling…over and over again. Doctrines of demons…in the House of God “God’s Word is not scripture, God’s word is the message you are hearing from God, and then you speak forth and you attract the reality that you speak.” This above quote from Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now, is a New Age/New Thought teaching known as the Law of Attraction…and is a mainstream teaching in but not restricted
When Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a Wittenberg church door, on October 31, 1517, it wasn’t to begin a reformation: Luther as a Catholic monk had been shocked to realize that the people of his province were being fleeced by so called monks, who were selling indulgences (basically you could buy your dead relative out of purgatory - or reduce you own time spent there, through an indulgence: But it would cost you!) Luther was appalled at this, so he nailed 95 theses or debate points, to the door of the prominent Castle Church in Wittenberg, as an invitation for a debate (as was the common practice in those days) These were meant to be debated by theologians within academic circles: But Luther had reckoned without the newly invented printing press - and the desire of the printers to make a sale! Luther’s critique of holy Roman indulgences was exactly what the printers (or the “press pack”) had been looking for. Before Luther realized what had happened, his 95 theses had gone throug