Are You a Child of Wrath With Sinful Flesh and a Sinful Nature?
Are You a Child of Wrath with Sinful
Flesh and a Sinful Nature?
The devil (Azazel) wants you to believe that you were born with
"sinful flesh, a sinful nature, and are by "nature a child of wrath,"and just as
a leopard cannot change his spots, you will go on sinning until the day you die.
He wants you to believe it was you who put Yahshuah on the cross and that you
will go on crucifying Christ every day of your life.
Let's see what the
Scriptures say
Genesis says on the Sixth Day
"Yah created man in
his own image." (Gen.1:27)
"Yah saw all that he had made, and it was
very good. And there was evening, and there
was morning-the sixth day." (Gen.1:31)
So the flesh and the
nature Yah gave Adam was "very good".
Apparently that would mean
anyone born with a very good flesh and a very good nature would be acceptable to
Yah. That appears to be what Yahshuah taught for he said of little
toddlers:
"Then little children were brought to Yahshuah for him to place
his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought
them. Yahshuah said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder
them, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. " When he had placed his hands on
them, he went on from there." (Mt.19:13-15)
"At the same time came the
disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And
Yahshuah called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And
said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little
children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." (Mt.18:1-3)
So
where do the preachers get the idea that children are born with defective sinful
flesh and are by nature children of wrath?
The preachers will tell you
that you inherited the original sin of Adam. What does the scripture says about
inheriting sins?
"The son shall not bear the iniquity of the
father."(Ezek. 18:20)
So we do not bear the iniquity of our
great-great-great
-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great
grandfather Adam.
Were You Conceived
in Sin?
"Wait," the preachers cry, "you are wrong! We were in sin from the
moment we were conceived. David says in Psalm 51:5: "Behold, I was brought forth
in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me."
Well that may be
true of David. It appears that his father Jesse may have thought there was
something suspicious about David's conception because when Samuel told David's
father to present his sons, Jesse deliberately did not bring David. Samuel asked
if Jesse had any other sons, and so he called in David. What did Jesse know
about David's conception that we don't? Perhaps David was conceived in iniquity,
but that does not make everyone else's conception sinful. Preachers will too
often take one obscure line from the Old Testament and build a whole theological
structure from it. If you stick to the red letter words of Yahshuah you can't go
wrong. There are many things in the writings of David that are dubious. Like
when he said How happy will be the man who grabs his enemy's babies and smashes
their heads on the rocks. "Yes, a reward to the one who grabs
your babies and smashes their heads on the rocks!" (Psalm 137:9)
Are You Really Wicked By
Nature?
Once again I ask the question where do the preachers get their ideas
about sinful flesh, and natures of wrath? They didn't get it from Yahshuah, it
comes from the Gospel of Paul. Paul says in Ephesians 2:3 we are "
by
nature the children of wrath."
Paul is teaching pure
gnosticism.
"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through
the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh: (KJV) (Rom.8:3)
Rom 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)
dwelleth no good thingThe Gnostics taught that all matter was
evil and the soul, being a spiritual entity, was trapped in matter. Yahshuah did
not teach this.
According to Paul's Gospel, Yahshuah too must have had
sinful flesh. Paul says "there in none righteous no not one". That
means for Paul even Yahshuah was unrighteous.
The Bad News Gospel
The preachers following Paul's Gospel, insist that infants are
sinful from conception and come from the womb with sinful flesh, and sinful
natures, incapable of saying no to sin. They progress through life without being
able to do good, or be good, and die the same, and that it's OK because by
placing their faith in Jesus, they won't fry when they die, but get pie in the
sky in the sweet by and by. The preachers preach a God who can't make good
babies because one man, thousands of years ago, ate some forbidden fruit, and so
now God has to make sinful beings with evil flesh and depraved natures. The
preachers then say this God will torment people forever in the fires of hell for
doing what their natures make them do, unless they place their trust in the
gospel Paul preaches. The preachers take another obscure Old
Testament verse and shout, "You cannot do even one righteous deed. ''All
your righteous deeds are filthy menstrual rags'' (Isaiah 64.6)." He calls this
"The Good News".
How about some better news? God made you very
good. You can live sin-free. Yahshuah broke death's power to
hold you in the land of death. You do not have to sin, but if you do, you
can be forgiven, as you repent and forgive others. If you follow the
teachings of Yahshuah, your righteous deeds are righteous and not
filthy rags.
The truth will set you free. "If the Son therefore shall
make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John 8:36).
You Did Not Crucify Yahshuah
Here is some more good news, neither you, nor your sins put
Yahshuah on the Cross. He surrendered to the forces of darkness in the
garden of Gethsemane of his own free will. He knew that Azazel would
try to murder him and that if Azazel killed an innocent man, he would lose all
power to hold Yahshuah's followers in the land of death. Azazel manipulated the
Romans and Rogue Jews into putting Yahshuah on the cross. When you sin,
you do not put him back on the cross. He suffered once and for all ,and will
never be back on another cross. Don't let the devil lay guilt and fear and
condemnation on you. When you sin, you will feel guilty. and that is the way it
should be, as guilt moves you towards repentance. But don't carry guilt for
something you never did.
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