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Question

What is false religion? Are you distressed about crimes committed in the name of religion? Do the warfare, terrorism, and corruption perpetrated by those who claim to serve God offend your sense of justice? Why does religion seem to be at the root of so many problems?

The fault lies, not with all religion, but with false religion. A widely respected religious figure, Jesus Christ, indicated that false religion produces bad works, just as a “rotten tree produces worthless fruit.” (Matthew 7:15-17) What fruit does false religion yield?
False Religion . . .
MEDDLES IN WAR AND POLITICS: “Across Asia and beyond,” says the journal Asiaweek, “power-hungry leaders are cynically manipulating people’s religious sentiments for their own needs.” As a result, the journal warns: “The world threatens to sink into madness.” A prominent religious leader in the United States declared: “You’ve got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops.” His solution? “Blow them all away in the name of the Lord.” By contrast, the Bible says: “If anyone makes the statement: ‘I love God,’ and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar.” (1 John 4:20) Jesus even said: “Continue to love your enemies.” (Matthew 5:44) How many religions can you think of whose members engage in war?

SPREADS FALSE DOCTRINE: Most religions teach that the soul or spirit is some invisible part of a human that survives the death of the physical body. By means of this teaching, many of these religions exploit their members, charging money to pray for departed souls. However, the Bible teaches a different doctrine. “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” (Ezekiel 18:4) “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Jesus taught that the dead will be resurrected—an unnecessary action if humans had an immortal soul. (John 11:11-25) Does your religion teach that the soul does not die?

TOLERATES IMMORAL SEX: In Western lands, church groups ordain gay and lesbian members of the clergy and urge governments to recognize same-sex marriages. Even churches that condemn immorality have tolerated religious leaders who have sexually abused children. What, though, does the Bible teach? It plainly states: “Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men . . . will inherit God’s kingdom.” (1 Corinthians 6:9, 10) Do you know of religions that condone immoral sex?

What does the future hold for religions that produce rotten fruit? Jesus warned: “Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire.” (Matthew 7:19) Yes, false religion will be chopped down and destroyed! But how and when will this happen? A prophetic vision recorded in the Bible book of Revelation, chapters 17 and 18, provides the answer.
False religion exerts influence “over the kings of the earth”


“Get out of her, my people”
How will false religion end?
Picture the scene. A harlot is sitting on the back of a fearsome beast. The beast has seven heads and ten horns. (Revelation 17:1-4) Whom does the harlot represent? She exerts influence “over the kings of the earth.” She dresses in purple, uses incense, and is exceedingly wealthy. In addition, by means of her spiritistic practice, ‘all the nations are misled.’ (Revelation 17:18; 18:12, 13, 23) The Bible helps us to see that this harlot is a worldwide religious entity. She depicts, not any one religion, but all religions that produce rotten fruit.

The beast that the harlot rides pictures the world’s political powers.* (Revelation 17:10-13) False religion straddles the back of this political beast, attempting to influence its decisions and to control its direction.

Soon, though, an amazing event will take place. “The ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely burn her with fire.” (Revelation 17:16) In a sudden, shocking move, the world’s political powers will turn on false religion and completely destroy her! What will prompt this action? The Bible book of Revelation answers: “God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought.” (Revelation 17:17) Yes, God will call false religion to account for all the despicable acts she has committed in his name. In a stroke of perfect justice, he will use her political paramours as his instrument of execution.

What must you do if you do not want to share the fate of false religion? “Get out of her, my people,” urges God’s messenger. (Revelation 18:4) Indeed, now is the time to flee from false religion! But to where can you flee? Not into atheism, since its future is also bleak. (2 Thessalonians 1:6-9) The only haven is within true religion. How can you identify true religion?

How to identify true religion
What good fruit should true religion produce?—Matthew 7:17.

Answer 1

Since you don't allow emails ...

Besides being against Y!As guidelines,

Copy-pasting by any electronic means is Expressly Forbidden by the author/publisher of this copy-pasted information. Their name isn't even acknowledged, on top of that.



km 9/02, par 6 states:

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There are very good reasons behind that, and it is disrespectful to ignore them, even if one does not understand them.



It is both much easier & 'pleasant' to read it on the Official Web site, anyway. Don't you think?

http://www.watchtower.org/e/kn37/article_01.htm



Perhaps you were unaware that it was there ... ?

Answer 2

hmm the revelations of St Paul , one of those wonderful symbolic prophesy i could take and apply to just about every second major world event in History, did you ever wonder if it was actually a prediction of some truth coming to light that would exceed all the relgions of the world .and the christains have manipulated the wo9rding to make it sound bad



the false prophet has already come he bore the mark of the beast and created a system of belief , that would over ride the weak religions of the old world , so many ideas so many contradictions I have always wondered whether revaltions was just a prophecy that was altered to suit the means of Christainity , Maybe mohammed was the false prophet , then would that make Crowley the equal of the second coming of Christ , he gave us the ability to judge ourselves using the knowledge of God. hence forth he judged the living and the dead by opening a new path of thought with in humanity so it was able to see its past mistakes



crowleys orders openly uses sexual magick but i put this to you is it wrong to use sexual based meditation/ritual to achieve a higher level of knowledge of the creator , Amoral sex in our opinion is that which has no creative or divine purpose or that which is void of love and purely seeks physical pleasure



Crowleys believed in a higher self but out of curiosity what the hell is supposed to be re-incarnated if you don't have a soul you really haven't put a lot of thought into that one my friend ,you have contradicted yourself in all actuality, what comes back to the body to give it a life force at the time of resurrection , a soul incarnate is waht differentiates between a living thing and one which is not also further to that point even if the dead are to be resurrected it doesn't mean there is no soul it just means the souls that are not incarante at the time of the second coming will be resurrected into there last incarnate body



The man who wrote these prophcies in revaltaion was not even atrue disciple of christ he was part of the orthodox Jewish group who had requested Rome Slay Christ, although he apparently converted we do not knowhis true intention or state of mind when revelations was penned and for this reason your statement lacks logic of a scientific and relgious nature .



Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law, love is the law love under will, every man and every woman is a star ,



How much does this differ from love they neighbour as they or jesus preaching us to follow the true will of god , the statements are the same the messages they tried to portray are the same . no religion is false and no god medals in humanities free will this would defeat the purpose of the test

Answer 3

Yes ....I agree

The papacy is the oldest Intuition in the world .- How could it survived without the grace of God & the guidance of the Holy Spirit.........The Holy Spirit did not convert to Islam in 610AD or Lutheranism in 1517AD or Calvinism in 1540s AD ...There's no comparisons..check out this site;http://www.catholic-defense.com ..................The truth is , they Catholics give us the first Bible..the rest of religions intrepid it differently & formed counterfeit religion's groups...which inturn give us supermarket christens;.......pick & choose laws to suit themselves [ cool & new age stuff ] but has nothing to do with the scriptures....let me know what you think

Answer 4

dude where is your faith, you can quote scripture all you want.... but do you feel it, you can tell me everythingt thats wrong with religion but can you see the beauty in creation? Isn't all of this the way it is supposed to be? Whatever will be will be. no one knows the time.

Answer 5

What are you trying to do write a book? You got chapter one right there.

Answer 6

The rambling that no one will actually read?



That might be a better topic title, since this sure isn't a question.