deadly white lies taught in the black church

DEADLY LITTLE WHITE LIES THAT PREACHERS PREACH TO BLACK AMERICA

1.) YOU HAVE AN INHERENT ETERNAL SOUL

EZE 18:4 BEHOLD, ALL SOULS ARE MINE; AS THE SOUL OF THE FATHER, SO ALSO THE SOUL OF THE SON IS MINE: THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE.

EZE 18:20 THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE. THE SON SHALL NOT BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHER, NEITHER SHALL THE FATHER BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE SON: THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE UPON HIM, AND THE WICKEDNESS OF THE WICKED SHALL BE UPON HIM. (EMPHASIS MINE.)

These two scriptures state clearly that the soul that commits sin shall die. Not live in heaven or hell after a physical death. Eternal life comes from God only as a gift, not something that is inherent in man's nature.

Romans 6:23 makes it even plainer

ROM 6:23 FOR THE WAGES OF SIN [IS] DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD [IS] ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

Now the next thing preachers like to say when they read these scriptures, that plainly state that the soul that sins dies, is that God is talking about the soul suffers from eternal damnation in hell's fire, which is a form of death. That the wicked soul is tormented forever by Satan and his demons for eternity. This is a big lie, and has caused many people to turn away from God because they see him as cruel as Satan. Many people quote Matthew 10:28 which states :

MAT 10:28 AND FEAR NOT THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY, BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL: BUT RATHER FEAR HIM WHICH IS ABLE TO DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY IN HELL.

They say God destroys you for eternity, torturing endlessly in hell fire. This friend is a doctrine of the devil used to slander the character of the Almighty and turn men away from him."Strong’s Concordance" defines hell in this scripture as the following:

Hell is the place of the future punishment call "Gehenna" or "Gehenna of fire". This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction.

Notice the word "future" in the definition of when the punishment takes place. Now if the punishment were to take place at the death of a sinful individual, would it not be occurring in what we call the present? Would not Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden (who is dead by the way) be burning in hell right now? Man does not have an inherent eternal soul. When a man or woman or boy or girl dies. They are in the grave. This leaves us to our second deadly white lie. Which is

2.)THE DEAD ARE AWARE OF THE LIVING AND CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THEM

ECC 9:5 FOR THE LIVING KNOW THAT THEY SHALL DIE: BUT THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANY THING, NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY MORE A REWARD; FOR THE MEMORY OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN.

PSA 146:4 HIS BREATH GOETH FORTH, HE RETURNETH TO HIS EARTH; IN THAT VERY DAY HIS THOUGHTS PERISH.

ECC 12:7 THEN SHALL THE DUST RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS: AND THE SPIRIT SHALL RETURN UNTO GOD WHO GAVE IT.

Now the unbeliever will look at Ecclesiastes 12:7 and say "hey it says the spirit returns to God who gave it. That proves that we go to heaven at death. No it does not. Let’s look at the translation of the word spirit in the context of this scripture.

The Hebrew transliteration of this word spirit is pronounced "ruwach "

This word means "breath" as in the breath of life that God breathed into Adam at his creation. It does not mean a man's conscious eternal soul living with God in heaven.  A man's breath is taken away and returned to God. So we can conclude that man does not know anything when he dies. Skeptics will say what about all those paranormal experiences that people encounter? Those are encounters with demons impersonating individuals and loved ones. This leads us to the next lie

3.) GOD IS STRUGGLING AGAINST SATAN TO WIN SOULS.

Now this lie isn't stated outright but the way today's religious preachers teach. It is implied that Satan is so powerful that God is in a constant state of distress over the lost souls who are in the devils camp, and that Satan’s hold is so strong that it takes a major effort to convert him back to God. This is not true. Read the following.

ISA 59:1 BEHOLD, THE LORD'S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED, THAT IT CANNOT SAVE; NEITHER HIS EAR HEAVY, THAT IT CANNOT HEAR:

JER 32:27 BEHOLD, I [AM] THE LORD, THE GOD OF ALL FLESH: IS THERE ANY THING TOO HARD FOR ME?

PSA 19:7 THE LAW OF THE LORD [IS] PERFECT, CONVERTING THE SOUL: THE TESTIMONY OF THE LORD [IS] SURE, MAKING WISE THE SIMPLE

Many people like to use the phrase "God is in control." but deep down they really don't believe it. They see the chaos that goes on in this world and they think that God is struggling to gain the victory over Satan. They see with their eyes and not the faith of Jesus. They don't study the scriptures so they don't understand why all this misery is necessary, or why God would allow suffering.

4.) THE SABBATH IS ON SUNDAY.

Nowhere in the bible is the first day of the week commanded by God to be kept Holy. God clearly commands all men that the Seventh day of the week (the day we call Saturday) is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Exodus 20:8-11 states:

EXD 20:8 REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY.

EXD 20:9 SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOUR, AND DO ALL THY WORK:

EXD 20:10 BUT THE SEVENTH DAY [IS] THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD: [IN IT] THOU SHALT NOT DO ANY WORK, THOU, NOR THY SON, NOR THY DAUGHTER, THY MANSERVANT, NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, NOR THY CATTLE, NOR THY STRANGER THAT [IS] WITHIN THY GATES:

EXD 20:11 FOR [IN] SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IN THEM [IS], AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY: WHEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY, AND HALLOWED IT.

Exodus 31:14-18 is even more direct in how God honors the Sabbath day.

EXD 31:14 YE SHALL KEEP THE SABBATH THEREFORE; FOR IT [IS] HOLY UNTO YOU: EVERY ONE THAT DEFILETH IT SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH: FOR WHOSOEVER DOETH [ANY] WORK THEREIN, THAT SOUL SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM AMONG HIS PEOPLE

EXD 31:15 SIX DAYS MAY WORK BE DONE; BUT IN THE SEVENTH [IS] THE SABBATH OF REST, HOLY TO THE LORD: WHOSOEVER DOETH [ANY] WORK IN THE SABBATH DAY, HE SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH.

EXD 31:16 WHEREFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL KEEP THE SABBATH, TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH THROUGHOUT THEIR GENERATIONS, [FOR] A PERPETUAL COVENANT.

EXD 31:17 IT [IS] A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FOR EVER: FOR [IN] SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED, AND WAS REFRESHED.

EXD 31:18 AND HE GAVE UNTO MOSES, WHEN HE HAD MADE AN END OF COMMUNING WITH HIM UPON MOUNT SINAI, TWO TABLES OF TESTIMONY, TABLES OF STONE, WRITTEN WITH THE FINGER OF GOD.

God clearly states that his children are to keep the Sabbath Holy forever. This is something that I am guilty of not always doing myself. However it does not change the fact that God's law supersedes what any individual may want or his or her behavior. The Sabbath begins at sunset on Friday and ends on sunset Saturday. Man has stated that a new day starts at midnight. This is not true God says a new day begins at sunset. The following verses in Genesis clearly states this:

GEN 1:5 AND GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAY, AND THE DARKNESS HE CALLED NIGHT. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY.

GEN 1:8 AND GOD CALLED THE FIRMAMENT HEAVEN. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SECOND DAY.

 GEN 1:13 AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE THIRD DAY.

 GEN 1:19 AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FOURTH DAY.

 GEN 1:23 AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIFTH DAY.

 GEN 1:31 AND GOD SAW EVERY THING THAT HE HAD MADE, AND, BEHOLD, [IT WAS] VERY GOOD. AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE SIXTH DAY.

This is a very dangerous law to break. For God said this will be a sign between him and his children. That the world may know who they are. When we break the Sabbath (myself included) we are stating to the world that we are not God's children, and if we are not his children we are in the camp of Satan. We need to believe God and take him at his word, and seek to earnestly obey it.

5.) YESHUA (JESUS) WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 25TH.

This is the most popular lie in America and perhaps the entire world. The lie that the Son of God was born on December 25th (Christmas day) in the dead of winter. December 25^th is not the birthday of Christ (in fact scripture does not even mention his birthday). December the 25^th was the birthday of Nimrod who married his own mother Semiramis. When Nimrod died Semiramis propagated a lie that Nimrod was raised as a spirit being that was symbolized by a evergreen tree growing overnight from a dead tree stump. She went on to state that Nimrod’s spirit returned to the tree every year and left gifts on it. This is where the Christmas tree originated. This was started centuries BEFORE the birth of Christ.  The bible does describe a Christmas tree however in Jeremiah 10. Let’s see what it says.

 JER  10:2   THUS SAITH THE LORD, LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN,  AND BE NOT DISMAYED AT THE SIGNS OF HEAVEN; FOR THE HEATHEN ARE DISMAYED AT THEM. 

 JER 10:3   FOR THE CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE [ARE] VAIN: FOR [ONE] CUTTETH A TREE OUT OF THE FOREST, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF THE WORKMAN, WITH THE AXE. 

 JER 10:4   THEY DECK IT WITH SILVER AND WITH GOLD; THEY FASTEN IT WITH NAILS AND WITH HAMMERS, THAT IT MOVE NOT. 

 JER 10:5   THEY [ARE] UPRIGHT AS THE PALM TREE, BUT SPEAK NOT: THEY MUST NEEDS BE BORNE, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT GO. BE NOT AFRAID OF THEM; FOR THEY CANNOT DO EVIL, NEITHER ALSO [IS IT] IN THEM TO DO GOOD. 

Read any encyclopedia or dictionary and find the true origin of Christmas, Santa Claus, and the Christmas tree. I recommend these sources because you won’t find Christmas in scripture. Don't take my word for it look it up for yourself.

6.) ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED

"All you have to do is believe and confess in the name of Jesus and you will be saved." this is the mantra spoken in the majority of America’s churches today. Especially the African- American churches. This message is only half of the truth. Satan is very subtle and cunning. He knows that many people do not want a struggle, and many people want to be comfortable. So he gives us a little part of the truth to lull us to sleep. Satan knows that many of us want an easy life here and the hereafter, that we deep down, fear conflict. We just want to get along with the status quo.

         African-American people have been spiritually and mentally socialized to expect others to do the work that is required for sustaining life and culture. We feel we are entitled to salvation simply because we want it. We also feel that because of our suffering as a people we deserve it no matter how we act or what we may do.

We are becoming spiritual snobs. We are smug and arrogant. Because we "attend church". We have decent careers and homes and cars to drive.  We came out of slavery and civil rights battles and got a little piece of the Babylonian pie and we sat our behinds down in the pulpits and pews and began to congratulate ourselves that the war has been won and that all we have to do now is just wait on Jesus. He's gonna take us all home now!

We no longer preach about salvation like we used too. We preach about manifestation. The manifestation of prosperity in this earthly realm, Satan’s kingdom. All the big time preachers are on this theme now because Satan knows that many African-Americans are friends with this hedonistic American culture and want to reap the pleasures that are offered. "We can do this!" many preachers are saying because we are already saved and born again. And since we are saved and we are God's children it’s only befitting that we receive the wealth that the world offers.

This belief is the root cause of the spiritual decay that has taken place today in black America. Especially in our black youth. We have rejected God and now he has forgotten our children as a result. Our youth have seen our disdain for God. They are eyewitnesses to our hypocrisy. The see us get drunk, screw around and then go to church on Sunday and sing and shout how we love the Lord. Then when service is over we cuss each other out, lie, steal and even kill one another.

Is it any wonder that they have decided not to go half-way in serving the devil? They don't want to be luke warm like us. They are cold. And believe it or not they are in better spiritual condition than we "Christians" are.

REV 3:15 I KNOW THY WORKS, THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT: I WOULD THOU WERT COLD OR HOT.

REV 3:16 SO THEN BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM, AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL SPUE THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH.

There you have right from the savior’s mouth. He would rather us be cold, totally at odds with him than to pretend we are on his side and still dabble in iniquity.

LUK 6:46 AND WHY CALL YE ME, LORD, LORD, AND DO NOT THE THINGS WHICH I SAY?

We have to make a daily decision to serve God. It has to be done every day, every moment of everyday and every second of every moment.

Paul understood this when he wrote in 1st Corinthians 15:31. "that I die daily."

1CR 15:31 I PROTEST BY YOUR REJOICING WHICH I HAVE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD, I DIE DAILY.

7.) THE SECRET RAPTURE AND SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION.

This lie states that God will whisk his chosen people away right before the earth goes through its worst period since its creation. They say God will whisk his children into his bosom in heaven while all hell breaks loose down here on earth. No one ever mentioned that God has never taken his children out of anything when trouble comes. He preserves his chosen people through the trouble. He does not remove them out of it. Let’s look at some examples:

• God told Noah to build an ark. Then he flooded the earth for 40 days and nights. Everyone on earth was killed except Noah and his family and the animals that were with him. God did not remove Noah from the earth and then transplant him back after the flood ended.
• God sent his angels to rescue Lot from the wrath that was to come. He did not do anything miraculous. He didn’t whisk them to another city where he would be safe. The angels did what any one of us could have done. They walked right up to Lot and told them who they were and that he and his family needed to leave with them. When Lot was hesitant, the angels grabbed him and his wife by the hand and literally pulled them out. No miracles, just divine intervention.
• God sent 10 plagues on the nation of Egypt. The purpose was to show the Egyptians that the Lord was God and God alone and that Israel was his chosen people. When those plagues were being inflicted, the nation of Israel was right there along with the Egyptians. They were not transported to a safer location. They were among the people who God was punishing. God provided provision and divine protection during this crisis. This is represented by the Passover. The people who covered their door sills with lamb’s blood were protected from the angel of death. While those who did not were killed. The covering of lamb’s blood was an act of faith. Those who did that showed faith in the future Lamb of God that will take away the sins of the world.
• Yeshua, was not spared either. He had to drink of the cup of God’s indignation. While at Gethsemane Yeshua asked

MAT 26:39   AND HE WENT A LITTLE FURTHER, AND FELL ON HIS FACE, AND PRAYED, SAYING, O MY FATHER, IF IT BE POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME: NEVERTHELESS NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS THOU [WILT]. 

God of course did not let the cup pass from his only son. So it suffices to say he will not remove his saints from the trouble that is to come upon this earth.

There will be rapture but it will not be a secret. Paul states this clearly in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

1TH 4:16   FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST: 

1TH 4:17   THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE [AND] REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD. 

1TH 4:18   WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS.

According to this many of God’s children will perish. Only a remnant will be alive at his coming. We have to understand that we have to get to the point in our lives that we would be willing to die for God. Just as he died for us, nothing short of that will be able to qualify us for admission through the pearly gates. Psalms 116:15 states:

PSA 116:15 PRECIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD [IS] THE DEATH OF HIS SAINTS

How often have you heard that scripture quoted in Sunday school or in the pulpit?