When looking at today’s brand of Christianity through the spectacles of the Holy Bible we find so many discrepancies it is almost too discouraging to say or write a word in opposition against it. Man’s religion is in such a state of decay that we wonder if there is any hope of reformation of true religion at all. If so, the hope is with the Lord who alone is Omnipotent. I stand with the ancient prophet looking over a vast valley of dry bones, and as the Sovereign God demands, “…Son of man, can these bones live?” I reply, “O Lord God thou knowest.” (Ezekiel 37:3) The flaw in most folks’ religion today is that it is upside-down and backward. The cart is directly in front of the horse, which makes it impossible to make any spiritual headway. Man has God off the throne and himself on it. Every time I see a new religious edifice going up with all its elaborate trimmings I say in my mind, well there stands another monument built to man’s misconception of the Sovereign God of the Bible. I say men have this thing turned around backward. They have God off His throne and man on it. Men have God begging and pleading with sinners and sinners demanding God. Men have sinners independently plea-bargaining with God, and God dependent on sinners to make Him happy. Falsely they declare that God cannot make men spiritually alive (born-again) until they make up their mind to believe. They have the self-sufficient Jehovah God ringing His hands in frustration as He waits upon the sinner’s willingness to agree with Him that heaven is the best place for them. My dear, dear readers, this is devilish deception. If what they are leading me to believe is true, then they become their own saviors, and there was no need for the Son of God to come at all. Men have been told, and many believe it, that “God has done all that He can do and they must do the rest,” that “God has taken the first step and that they must take the next.” The fact is that if you can take one step you may take them all. But is this the case as clearly defined in the Bible? No! Man is spiritually dead (Ephesians 2:1). He is totally unable to make the slightest motion toward God and heaven until made alive by the quickening power of the Holy Ghost, and for this man is absolutely shut up to the Sovereign pleasure of God. Read the dialogue between Christ and Nicodemus in John 3. “The wind” (symbol of the Holy Spirit) “bloweth where it listeth (wills).” Also in John 1:13 the Bible makes perfectly clear that those who are said to believe and receive Christ (v.12), did so because they were “born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, BUT OF GOD.” Biblical Christianity is cognizant that there can be no spiritual belief in Christ without divine life in the soul, and that life must be imparted by God.
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