Back when I was
Anyway, in the “cults” class, the teacher was in the practice of referring to the heretic churches’ beliefs about God as “their God,” and beliefs about Jesus as “their Jesus.” So there was a Mormon God, a Jehovah’s Witness God, a Christian Science God, a Unitarian God, and so forth. Using this kind of language gave you the idea each of these groups had their very own god. Who certainly wasn’t our God, the L
Oh, the teachers totally meant to give us that idea. Because that’s how they believed. They didn’t simply believe these heretics were wrong about God: They believed these heretics were worshiping a whole other god. A devil who was pretending to be God, who borrowed
Where’d they come up with this idea? They loosely got it from the bible.
1 Corinthians 10.19-20 KWL - 19 Then what am I implying?—that idol-sacrifice is real, or that idols are real? No.
- 20 Instead that they sacrifice to lesser gods. They don’t sacrifice to God.
- I don’t want you to enter a relationship with lesser gods.
- 21 You can’t drink from the Master’s cup and from lesser gods’ cup.
- You can’t eat at the Master’s table and from lesser gods’ table.
- 22 Or do we want the Master to be jealous?—we’re not stronger than him.
Pagans don’t worship real gods, but
Anyway, what the Fundies are doing is claiming, first of all, that heretic Christians aren’t actually Christian—they’re pagan. And as pagans, the God they believe in and worship can’t possibly be the real God. It’s gotta be some other god—one of those lesser gods, like Paul and Sosthenes pointed out in 1 Corinthians. A demon. They’re worshiping a demon.
Yikes.
Now let’s get to where the scriptures indicate that belief is entirely wrong.