INDICTMENT

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INDICTMENT
OF

AMERICA’S CHRISTIANITY

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INTRODUCTION

An indictment is a formal written accusation bringing a charge against someone.

As you read this you may be unable to comprehend. You might not “get it”. You just don’t understand, you just can’t see. If that’s the case, there is a term that describes your mental situation and it is real. Cognitive dissonance is the modern term but, even in Christ’s day there were those who could not see:

"Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them : But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. KJMatt.13: 14-16

Perhaps this news story by Wray Herbert –in the June 19, 2007 edition of Newsweek can illustrate:

“The Nuer and the Dinka tribes of southern Sudan share an unusual custom. Both of these cattle-herding societies remove several of their kids' permanent front teeth as soon as they sprout: two on the top and four to six on the bottom. It's a very painful procedure, done with a fish hook, and it leaves all tribe members with a distinctive slack-jawed look and speech impediments.
This practice probably started long ago, when tetanus was rampant in central Africa. Tetanus causes "lockjaw," but the tooth removal would have allowed children afflicted by this infectious disease to drink liquids even when their jaw muscles clamped shut. Although there has been no tetanus or lockjaw in the southern Sudan for ages, both the Nuer and the Dinka continue the custom of extracting the front teeth. Indeed, they believe the sunken jaw and lower lip are beautiful. People with front teeth, they say, look like jackals.Social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson describe this odd custom in their new book, "Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)," as an example of the psychological process known as cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the extreme emotional discomfort we feel when two important beliefs, attitudes or perceptions collide. Humans cannot tolerate dissonance for long, so they ease the tension by making a change in belief or attitude—and justifying the change. In the case of the Nuer and Dinka, they "choose" to believe that the toothless look is aesthetically pleasing in order to justify the infliction of such trauma on their children.”

America’s Christians wallow in a morass of religion; seeking God and not sure if they have found him or which god they have found! Churches are everywhere, several in each town, often across the street from one another. Then there is TV evangelist and preachers of every hue, with religions each having different names and different emphasis so much so, you wonder if they are all actually following the same God.

Included in a representative sampling of major denominations are Assemblies of God; Church of God: Church of Christ; Episcopalians; The Baptist; The Methodist; The Presbyterian, each and all claiming to be Christians and followers of Christ. All place emphasis on the New Testament and First Day Worship, yet the Christ they claim to follow never neither preached a sermon from the New Testament nor ever went to church on Sunday!


And so, the indictment is brought but, what is the charge?
America’s Christians are charged with vanity!

They have ears to hear but they do not hear.
They have eyes to see but, they do not see.

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'GOD BLESS AMERICA'

Yes! But, which God?
The God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob says, "The Seventh Day is the Sabbath"

The Pope's Church says, "I have transferred the solemnity to the first day"

The Apostle Paul writes, "Know ye not to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are"

Friend, Look at the calender. Is Sunday the "Seventh Day" ?

We are coming down to the wire on this thing. We done got down in the short rows!
YOU, an't got a lot of time left. Use it wisely.
You need to make an informed decision. A deliberate Choice Choose who you will serve.

The choice is plain. "The God of this world" or "The Creator"

I love Easter and the part from the scriptures where the cloth wound around his head was left laying by it's self. The tomb was EMPTY!!!
Praise God!! I an't going to waste my time on nobody nor no religion that is going to let the man on the backhoe have the last word.

I will serve a God big enough to do something about it and not leave me in the grave. And another thing if he an't big enough to "keep" you, there an't no need fooling with him either. You see the Popes' god couldn't "keep" the priest from messing with them kids.

Poor 'ol Jimmy Swaggart's god couldn't keep him from fooling with them prostitutes.

If you think the Pope and his boyz can get you out of the ground when that 'ol boy loads that backhoe up and drives away from that cemetery you are wrong! You need to quit playing at religion and get real about it else wise your religion is VANITY