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Date Posted: 15:01:50 03/19/11 Sat
Author: George
Subject: Re: How Many Christs are in the Bible?
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Re: How Many Christs are in the Bible?" on 12:52:26 03/19/11 Sat

>>We have met with a plethora of "christs" in
>>Christianity lately.
>>
>>I have found three of them in the Bible (besides, of
>>course, Jesus Christ.) All these false christs pass
>>themselves off as the real thing, and often whole
>>denominations go chasing off after them, in the
>>mistaken believe that the Christ they are following is
>>Jesus.
>>
>>Different Christs:
>>
>>Gehazi Christ
>>Gehazi was a cynical, self-serving lowlife who was the
>>servant of a real prophet. Being such a servant with
>>such divine connections, Gehazi decided that he could
>>better his personal portfolio by accepting gifts that
>>had been a freewill offering by Naaman in gratitude
>>for a miraculous cure of leprosy. The real prophet
>>refused the gift, but Gehazi surrepititiously
>>approached Naaman later and said that the prophet had
>>repented and asked clothing and funds to assist lower
>>level mission work.
>>
>>Judas Christ
>>
>>Judas was yet another cynic. He thought that he had
>>the ability to manipulate God himself in order to get
>>the kind of change in the world that Judas thought
>>necessary. He also was not opposed to making a profit
>>while doing it. What tuned me in to the status of
>>Judas as a false christ was Andrew Lloyd Webber and
>>Tim Rice's rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar," in
>>which Jesus is depicted as being crucified, dead, and
>>buried -- PERIOD -- while Judas returns from the dead
>>after having hanged himself to taunt Jesus
>>rhetorically. Some of Judas' comments about Jesus
>>being foolish to show up in an era predating mass
>>communication seems to echo some of the contempt that
>>the writers of the Position Papers have for the
>>Restoration.
>>
>>It was one of our CofC functionaries who recently gave
>>a glowing recommendation of one of Webber's songs,
>>(not from "Superstar") indicating that it would be
>>spiritually uplifting for any participant on the forum
>>who were to listen to it.
>>
>>Moses Christ
>>The CofC is acutely aware of Moses Christ, the Christ
>>who will save all of us and give us temporal/spiritual
>>blessings if we just follow the Torah to the letter.
>>It has rejected Moses Christ. However, in its rush to
>>do so, it has adopted a false christ who is a
>>composite of both Gehazi Christ and Judas Christ. When
>>you hear pleas for money, ostensibly to spread the
>>gospel of Jesus Christ, when it is actually intended
>>to promote the personal agenda of the homosexual
>>members of the priesthood and homosexual relatives of
>>priesthood members, you hear a hierophant with a
>>familiar spirit who is channeling Gehazi.
>>
>>I have not made a systematic study to find other false
>>christs by name in the scripture. Does anyone here
>>know of any other scriptural figure whose known
>>personal characteristics has been rolled over into a
>>warped description of Jesus, either expressed or
>>demonstrated?
>>
>>George
>
>George,
>
>Well, how about Satan? Doesn't he qualify? He keeps
>telling people in the name of "God�s Spirit", "the
>Holy Spirit", "Christ Jesus", "God�s eternal being"
>and other such phrases to "do what you want"?
>
>Lois
>

Lois, I don't believe that Satan qualifies as a false christ, or false messiah, because he is not, and never has been a man. I personally believe that the correct understanding is that Satan promotes false christs, but he has never been one himself.

That's the reason why there are so many "fully franchised" salvation outlets in the world. In order to discredit Jesus as Lord and only Savior, Satan has set up false salvation under other names and guises. Only one will not do, because ultimately, being false, they are all unsatisfactory. In light of this, Satan has to provide a cafeteria to pick from. Likewise, he need not be concerned with whether these multiple religions are logically consistent with each other, because chaos suits his purposes. If the world can be persuaded to see salvation as nothing more than a fraudulent secular free-for-all, with different religions competing for market share by offering unverifiable afterlife benefits in exchange for labor, devotion, and MONEY$$$$$$ -- with Jesus just another competing franchise peddler like Ray Kroc -- Satan can achieve his ends.

It isn't just "silly women" who can be "led away captive." Some of the best minds in the church are male, and they have been giggling and blushing at Satan's pickup lines.

George

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Re: How Many Christs are in the Bible? -- Lois, 16:52:21 03/19/11 Sat