This society which stands before us today, has a systematic way of living to keep the masses of people confined as human resource. By the people being human resource, they are not in control of their consumption of food, their educational learning, their social needs, their economical achievements, their political caps, their spiritual intelligence, and their right to procreate freely without burden, all simply because they don't make the money in which they spend. He who controls the dollar, controls the society, therefore those seeking to earn the dollar, are nothing more than chattel cattle to the Elite powers. So in order to keep the masses of people divided and under the authority of the Elite powers, the Elite had to put key associates into prominent positions and make them authority and leader figures and a reference check guide for knowledge. So they hired scribes to tailor certain text passages and words in the bible, to fit around their political, economic, and spiritual agenda. Then set aside key associates to become learned in their systematic way of control, then ordained them to be scholars.
So in order to accomplish their political, economic, and spiritual agendas, they had to figure out a way to enslave the masses of the people into a system, that not only would make the people serve them physically, but politically, economically and spiritually. So around the 13th century, they begin to dabble into one of the most corrupt languages on the planet, and that is the Latin. So after deceitfully prowling through the Latin language, they chose the Latin word Ligare's meaning, to be the meaning of their new created system, which they called religion. So having accomplished this, they could then say and show that the word religion derives from the Latin word ligare, which means to join, to link, with the prefix re- meaning "to do again". So upon accomplishing this, now they could push their agenda of deception for Satan, by saying religion means re-joining or re-linking. So because they created this word and then stuck it in the bible around the 13th century, that's how come you won't find the word religion nowhere in the Old Testament, you only find it in the new tampered texts that they hired scribes to alter.
So therefore, the understanding of the word religion that the masses of the people would have, would be that religion is the reconnection of all humans to the divine authority of God Almighty, who is the creator of all things, when its really the reconnection of all humans to the authority of Satan by way of false belief and incomplete understanding. This is why you only find the word religion written only five times in the entire bible which consists of sixty six books. Satan is the author of confusion and confinement, which is why you see so many different religions in this society, but yet they all carry one book which speaks of one Supreme Creator known as the Most High. Out of all the precepts in the bible and principles and words that one could use to wickedly format another gospel, it has been brought to my attention that the word Holiness has been made out to be a religion as well. Charles Grandison Finney sparked the the flare of what is considered to be known as the Holiness movement during the pre- Civil War America in a reaffirmation of the doctrine of "Christian perfection.
In this time period, at least three major strands of the movement developed Early Oberlin College, with Charles Grandison Finney as professor of theology, but especially under the influence of President Asa Mahan, he moved toward perfectionism in the 1830s. Two groups were formatted, with one being the abolitionist Wesleyan Methodists (1843) and the ethically "rigorist" Free Methodists (1860) who split from Methodism and adopted "perfectionist" planks. Finally, and perhaps most important for later developments, there were the circles that clustered around lay evangelist Phoebe Palmer in New York city. In 1836, two Methodist women, Sarah Worrall Lankford and Phoebe Palmer, started the Tuesday Meeting for the Promotion of Holiness in New York City. A year later, Methodist minister Timothy Merritt founded a journal called the Guide to Christian Perfection to promote the Wesleyan message of Christian holiness. John Wesley who is credited with his brother Charles Wesley as being the founders of Methodism, is highly credited for carrying Finney's concepts of a Holiness movement.
In a letter to the Rev. Thomas Church in 1746, John Wesley listed holiness as the first priority of Methodist preaching, in which he stated, “Our main doctrines are three, that of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next the door; the third, religion itself.” So as you can see, John Wesley is responsible for making Holiness into a religion, he went on further to say this, " Wherever we have remained true to our evangelical birthright, we have echoed our founder’s words—holiness is “religion itself.” With him, we have also understood holiness as “that habitual disposition of soul” that “implies the being cleansed from sin, ‘from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit,’’’ and “the being endued with those virtues which were also in Christ Jesus, the being so ‘renewed in the spirit of our mind,’ as to be ‘perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect.” Negatively, then, holiness means deliverance from sin; positively, new creation in Christ." During the early days of the Methodist church, one of the goals was to "spread holiness" across the continent.
In practice however, this doctrine of perfection was generally ignored or given a secondary status by most Methodists. So by 1843, however, a number of Methodist ministers withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church and formed their own Holiness church group named the Wesleyan Methodist Church. This church attracted quite a few people from poor and rural areas across the American South and Midwest. Today there are a number of Holiness denominations in the United States, including the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, the Church of God, which later was extended by African Americans as being called The True Church of God in Christ which was founded by Bishop Charles Mason in 1895, and many more Holiness Churches have been established under the name of God and Christ, with both usually being combined. William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, had a strong Holiness background and included Holiness doctrines in his own organization. Even today, Sunday morning services in the Salvation Army are described as "Holiness Meetings." The Church of the Nazarene is, however, the largest Holiness denomination today. So lets dive right into the book of scriptures and see if the precepts they use to support Holiness as being a religion, are valid and correct teachings.
Question: What are the first precepts they use to support their claim of Holiness being a religion?
1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1 Peter 1:16 - Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
FYI: As "he", is in reference to the Most High, hath called, which is set aside or chosen or separated, which this calling can be found back in Leviticus 11:45 and Ephesians 1:4, hath called you is holy, is identifying the characteristic and manner of the Father. When a man begets children, a segement of his DNA is going to be involved in producing a polypeptide chain, which it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons, thus becoming considered a unit of heredity. That unit of heredity are his genes, and when he begets children, his genetic makeup is instilled in the inward parts of his children, same as with the Most High. That which is instilled in the inward part of those who have been set aside or chosen, is the DNA proof of existence of the Father within his children, and that is his holy spirit. So as being obedient children, you will reflect him that begot you in all manner of conversation. What is conversation? Conversation is your course of life or conduct that corresponds your outward walk and behaviour in all respects to that of your inward man. So who you are is within and not out you see, which means how you live out should reflect the genes of him within you, and that is the Spirit of the Father.
FYI: So just as he is distinguished from all others, and is without sin and pure in heart and righteous and faithful and loving and merciful and forgiving, so ought his children to be a reflection of him in their living by being without sin and pure in heart and righteous and faithful and loving and merciful and forgiving. This is what Yashayah (Christ) was trying to get the people to understand when he said in Matthew 5:48 - Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Why? Because he knew that we ought to be ye therefore followers of the Father, as dear children as it is written in Ephesians 5:1. The children ought to reflect their Father, and as obedient children, it should be their desire to seek to please and to be like their Father. The Father dwelt in the Son, by way of his divine spirit which is how the Son was declared to be the Son of the Most High. This is also why in Romans 8:14 it says - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God, cause without the Spirit of the Father within you, you are not children of his, you belong to another, and that would be Satan who deals in the lust of ignorance.
FYI: Which is why the precept said in 1 Peter 1:14 not to fashion yourself according to the former lusts in your ignorance, cause doing so doesn't reflect him who hath called you to be holy. So as obedient children, you will seek to please and to be like your Father, by exemplifying the characteristics of him, and walking in the fruit of his Spirit, this is how you be ye holy as he is holy. Becoming holy is a cleansing process, in which you cleanse yourself from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Most High. So as you can see, be ye holy as he is holy, is not talking about a religion or being in one, instead its talking about living a life that resembles the Father, in which the Father is not a religion, so how can those who are in religion resemble the Father outside of what he is? They can't, so no longer can these two precepts here in Peter be used to create something the Most High never did, so Holiness is not a religion. So lets move on to the next precepts they use to support Holiness as being a religion, and get some understanding on the meaning of them, so this deception of holiness being a religion, can cease to exist.
Question: Whats the next precept they use?
1 Thessalonians 4:7 - For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
FYI: When the precept says "For the Most High hath not called us unto uncleanness", its letting us know that the Most High hath not called us for the purpose of impurity. When something is impure, its unclean and dirty thus making it defiled and contaminated. For example, when a child drops their pacifier on the floor, the particles within the floor absorb into the nipple of the pacifier. The debris on the floor, becomes attached to the head of the nipple, thus bringing the pacifier unto uncleanness. So before that pacifier can be accepted by the child, its needs to be purified unto the clean standard in which it was purposed upon creation. (lol follow me here). When you purify that pacifier, you remove impurities that were absorb into the nipple of it, from it, thus increasing the concentration of it, you began to separate the uncleanness through the process of distillation. So when you hear the word of the Most High in its purest form, it begins to call attention to the uncleanness you have absorbed while you were on the floor of the world. The particles within the world have been absorbed into the nipple of your heart, therefore causing you to be unclean mentally which leaves you physically dirty thus causing you to become spiritually contaminated. So before you can be accepted by the Most High, just like that pacifier, you too need to be purified unto the clean standard in which you were called or purposed to be before you were created. What does the precept say? 1 John 3:3 - And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
FYI: When you begin to get an understanding of the word of the Most High, and you begin to exemplify that which is written in his word, the impurity that was in your heart which you absorded from off the floor of the world, begins to detach itself from you. So upon you repenting of your uncleanness, and you go down into water by way of baptism, your heart gets healthier because you are freeing it from sin, and the particles of the world and other things that the word of the Most High considers as defilement or contaminate. This cleansing, separates the uncleanness through the process of sanctification known as holiness. So by having the spirit of the Most High within the faucet of you, your heart now has a filter, that will enable you to be able to discern unclean and contaminated particles that are not acceptable to the will of the Father. So what one takes in to their mind, begins to be governed by the spirit and not the flesh, therefore their thought process, their speech, their dress, and their actions all exemplify that which is written in the scriptures as holy, thus upon this embodiment of the word, they become a living and walking epistle reflecting the light of the Most High. So again you see this precept is not talking about holiness being a religion, its simply saying that the Most High hath not chosen us or set us apart so that we can live a life of sin, its identifying a purified purpose of a way of living in which he has chosen for us to live by. So lets move on to the next precepts they use to support Holiness as being a religion, and get some understanding on the meaning of them, so this deception of holiness being a religion, can cease to exist.
Their Claim - "Holiness is the only religion the Most High has ordained before the foundation of the world". So lets get the precept that they use to support their claim, and lets see if that is what it is saying.
Question: What did the Most High do before the foundation of the world?
Ephesians 1:4 - According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
FYI: According as he, in which the he is in reference to the Most High, hath chosen us, in which the us is in reference to a peculiar people whom the Most High hath chosen, in him, in which him is in reference to Yashayah (Christ), thus showing the Most High hath chosen a peculiar people to be redeemed or adopted back in his Son. So this peculiar people the Most High hath chosen before the world was ever formed, were predestined to be his people. These people were to be holy, meaning separated from sin, exemplifying the characteristics of him, and walking in the fruit of his Spirit. They were to be set apart unto the Most High Ehyeh by way of him whom he sent redemption through, which is his Son Yashayah (Christ). So as you can see this precept is speaking as 1 Peter 1:15-16 said and 1 Thessalonians 4:7, but this one is identifying the people whom he hath chosen or set apart and called out unto a clean way of living. So how do we know this is talking about certain or peculiar people and not holiness being a chosen religion for this peculiar people in general? Lets examine closely the next precept.
Ephesians 1:5 - Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
FYI: When you predestinate something, you decide beforehand. In Leviticus 26:46 and throughout the whole entire Old Covenant (Testament), we learn that the Most High gave unto this people, judgments, laws, statutes and commandments only, by the hand of Moses. This people went away from what the Most High gave them, and therefore were given up throughout the 4 corners of the earth for their disobedience. So if the Most High never gave them a religion, then how could he adopt them back to something he never ordained for them beforehand? The teaching of this precept being in reference to the Most High calling us to a religion, is totally incorrect. Nowhere in the precept did he say he called us to any form of religion, religion creates and binds sin, as where here the Most High called us to be holy, which to be holy is to be separated from sin. So the teaching of holiness being a religion and the usage of these precepts as support for that claim, is false and those who teach it are without understanding. Nowhere in the bible does the Most High ever testify to being a religion, in which religion was created until 1303, and the Most High is everlasting.
Isaiah 35:8 - And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
FYI: The way of Holiness is in reference to the righteous who have kept the laws and statutes and commandments of the Most High, and the way in which is being referred to here, is the way leading them the redeemed or remanant of Israel back to Jerusalem, and the leader of that way is Yashayah (Christ). Through the Son is how the righteous are led back to the Father, and this way which this precept speaks of, is a way in which the end of it shall be everlasting joy, and rest for the soul. So as you can clearly see, this is not talking about Holiness being a religion, this is talking about a clean undefiled separated sinless and pure and perfect way of living, that those that are righteous shall see at the end of this journey. So lets look at another precept and see just how blind these people really are who are teaching that Holiness is a religion.
Question: Whats another precept they use?
Psalm 29:2 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
FYI: Honour is to be given unto the name of the Most High who is above all the earth, he is to be exalted far above all other gods. Our hearts and minds ought to be filled with great and excellent and high and honourable thoughts of the Most High's goodness and mercy, in the holy adoring of him. We ought to bow down and submit ourselves and pay homage unto the Most High and be obedient unto him, doing so gives him the glory due unto his name. This worship ought to be concreted in into our conscious, thus giving life at the sound of his name. When it came down to worshipping the Most High, a certain few out of the people were chosen to sing unto the Most High, and some were chosen to praise the Most High in holy attire as some did before they went out before the army. This way, was considered the beauty of holiness, by being adorned in the holy attire set apart for worship, and giving sole honour and homage unto the name of the Most High as the creator of all things in heaven and on earth. So again you see this has nothing to do with Holiness being a religion. So lets move on to the next precepts they use to support Holiness as being a religion, and get some understanding on the meaning of them, so this deception of holiness being a religion, can cease to exist.
Question: So what other precept do they use?
Luke 1:75 - In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
FYI: This is simply in reference as to how we ought to live out the days of our lives upon this earth, in which is in regards to living a set apart life unspotted from the world and free of sin. This is the new man that Ephesians 4:24 speaks of that we put on, which this is talking about the Spirit of Holiness that Yashayah had as we learn of in Romans 1:4. So again, this is not talking about holiness being a religion, its talking about sanctification by way of the Spirit which is after holiness which is a righteous clean sinless separated way of life. So lets move on to the next precepts they use to support Holiness as being a religion, and get some understanding on the meaning of them, so this deception of holiness being a religion, can cease to exist, by now it should.
James 1:27 - Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
FYI: We know this is not talking about religion without even having to go into the Greek to see the word that was in place before the word religion was added here in the precept in which that word was threskeia, which meant worship. So this precept is talking about the worship which is pure and undefiled and acceptable before the Most High, its not talking about a religion. You know that, because it said to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, in which to do is a physical move requiring legs, and a religion doesn't have legs, but an individual does. Which is why it goes on to say and to keep "himself", in which him is a person, not a religion. So again this is not talking about Holiness being a religion or any other religion period, its simply taking about pure worship that's acceptable before the Most High.
Question: What did Abraham obey and keep, was it the religion of Holiness or a religion in general?
Genesis 26:5 - Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
FYI: Where in the scripture did it say Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my religion? Nowhere, but yet he was called a friend of the Most High, so if religion was of the Most High, why didn't he tell his friend Abraham about it so that he could worship him in it? Wakeup, you have been deceived folks.
Question: Who does the Most High show mercy upon?
Exodus 20:6 - And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
FYI: Where in the scripture did it say showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my religion? Nowhere!
Question: What did the Most High tell Moses to do and what did he say he will give him, was it his religion?
Exodus 24:12 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
FYI: Where in the scripture did it say the Most High gave Moses a religion to give unto the people? Nowhere, he said I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments, which he himself hath written, so if one is professing Holiness or anything else to be a religion, its something man has written.
Question: What did the Most High give the people?
Nehemiah 9:13 - Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
FYI: Where did it say the Most High gave them a religion? Nowhere, judgments is not a religion, true laws, is not a religion, good statutes and commandments, are not a religion.
Question: What did the Most High tell the people?
Leviticus 18:4 - Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 18:5 - Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
FYI: Where did it say the Most High said this is my religion that I ordain? Where did he say you shall keep this religion? Nowhere!
Question: What did Moses tell the people?
Deuteronomy 4:1 - Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Deuteronomy 4:2 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
FYI: Where did he say hearken, O Israel, unto the religion which I teach you? Nowhere! Where did he say that ye may keep the religion of the Lord your God which I command you? Nowhere, so who commanded you to be in a religion if the Most High never gave one to Moses or his prophets or disciples?
Question: What did Moses say he taught the people?
Deuteronomy 4:5 - Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
FYI: Where did he say behold I have taught you a religion, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should be in, in the land whither ye go to possess it? Nowhere!
Question: So what are we commanded to do?
Deuteronomy 4:6 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
FYI: So seeing as how the Most High didn't give Moses a religion to teach the people, then what wisdom and understanding do the people have who are in something the Most High never ordained? He taught them statutes and judgments, as the Lord commanded him to, and here is telling them to keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations. The other nations where not going to recognize that we were the Most High's chosen people by a religion, but instead they would recognize us as his people by our actions, our speech, our walk, our dress, our behavior, our fear and charity towards him, that's how we would be identified as people of the Most High. For example, how do people know you have a job? They know by your actions, cause you get up and leave out a certain period of time, they know by your speech, cause they hear you talking about what you do, they know by your walk, cause your consistent, they know by your dress, cause you have on the requirements to be identified with that job. Same thing as being children of the Most High. So folks don't let nobody deceive you, Holiness is not a religion and the Most High never ordained a religion.
