IF YOU DON'T WANT TO OBEY GOD'S RULES, JUST CHANGE THEM

I was raised in church and I grew up reading the Bible. I’ve attended several different churches and I often wondered why there were so many different denominations. We have the same Bible but there are so many different interpretations of the same scriptures. All Christians have a few doctrines that we believe pretty much the same as other Christians but each group seems to have a few things that are vastly different from all the other groups. This is the reason for so many different denominations. It seems that all denominations began by following one man or a few who believed certain doctrines that were not excepted by the group they were currently associated with. When there were strong disagreements on doctrine, one group would leave and start their own church. I’ve seen that happen in my lifetime.

The fact is, the Bible is God’s word. It was inspired by the Holy Spirit and preserved for us by God for thousands of years, so we would be able to know God better and understand His great love for us and what He expects from us. He never meant for us to have more than one denomination. It doesn’t matter how many different beliefs we may have, there’s only one truth and there’s only one place we can find it. It’s in God’s Holy Book, the Bible. For proof that the Bible is God’s word, read the article entitled “Is The Bible Really God’s Word?” *

When Jesus was being questioned by Pilot, his final question was, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) He didn’t wait for Jesus to answer him, though. If he had, I’m sure Jesus would have told him the same thing he said in John 17:17 when he was talking to God. Jesus said, “Sanctify them through Your truth: Your Word is Truth.” The word of God, the Bible, is TRUTH. When we need to know the truth, the Bible will show us. Many today, though, don’t believe the Bible is true, even Christians doubt it. Many people pick and choose what to believe and what not to believe based on what they want to do and don’t want to. The Bible says, “don’t kill” but they want to kill, so they just redefine what killing means.

Proof? Abortion. Life is life, no matter what stage it is in, but some said, “No!” They changed the definition of an unborn baby to a “fetus” and said it’s okay to kill a fetus as long as it is not old enough to live outside the womb. Then they changed that and introduced late-term abortion. Later they introduced partial-birth abortion where the baby is killed after it is almost out of the womb. Thank God that awful procedure was made illegal in 2003. Now they’re trying desperately to make the world believe a child doesn’t develop a conscience until they are five years old and therefore they are not a human being before then. This is just another step in redefining what killing is, simply because many humans don’t want to obey God.

Another example: The Catholic Church changed the Ten Commandments by getting rid of the second commandment completely because they didn’t want to obey God when he said not to worship carved or sculpted images. They split the tenth commandment into two, so there would still be ten. By the way, the Catholic church claims they moved the holiness that God placed on the seventh day Sabbath at creation (Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:8-11) to Sunday, the first day of the week.

That’s another example: The fourth commandment. The Sabbath commandment, which states “the Seventh Day Is The Sabbath Of The LORD Your God”. It IS a commandment, NOT a suggestion, but some people decided they didn’t want to obey God so they started using the first day of the week instead of the seventh. By the way, this happened long before there was ever a Catholic. They used the day of the sun, or the sun day to worship the sun god Tamoos. Constantine was the first Roman emperor to profess Christianity. In 321 A.D. he made an edict that forced Christians to worship on Sunday instead of Saturday, which he saw as Jewish. In 364 A.D. the Council of Laodicea made the following decree.

“Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday (Sabbath), but shall work on that Day: but the Lord’s Day, they shall especially honor; and as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ. **

This is what happens when men don’t want to obey God’s laws. They change them. There is not a bit of proof in the Bible that God changed his fourth commandment in any way, but millions of Christians defend the change with vigor and refuse to worship God on the day he said to. Sure, some have been deceived, but many know the truth but still will not obey God.

These are just three modern-day examples of what happens when people don’t want to obey God. To make ourselves feel better about sinning, we “change” the rules, or the definition of terms or just ignore them altogether. Whatever helps us sleep at night. We are just fooling ourselves though. No unrighteousness will enter the kingdom of God. (Matthew 7:21; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:1-20) We have to obey God to get to heaven, and we need to stop twisting the scriptures to suit our own beliefs. (2 Peter 3:16) We will be judged by whether or not we obeyed the words of the Bible. (John 12:48) It is God’s word. It is TRUTH.

* Is The Bible Really God’s Word?

** Council of Laodicea Decree

*** Catholic Church Admits They Changed Sabbath From Saturday to Sunday

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IN THE BEGINNING

In The Beginning, God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). 

1) WHAT DOES THE BIBLE MEAN BY “IN THE BEGINNING?”

Hebrews 1:10 
10 And, you Lord, in the beginning, have laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

Isaiah 40:21 
21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Have you not been told from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 

Isaiah 64:4  
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that waits for him. 

Act 15:18
18 Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 

Ephesians 3:9  
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ: 

2 Peter 3:4  
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 

So “In The Beginning”, in Genesis 1:1, the bible is referring to the beginning of our world; the creation, not just of the earth and its atmosphere, but our entire solar system; Our Galaxy. That leads to some other questions. 

2) WHEN WERE ADAM AND EVE CREATED?

Matthew 19:4
4 And he answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female, 

Mark 10:6
6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. 

The Bible tells us that God made Adam and Eve at the beginning of our world. He made them on the 6th day (Gen 1:24-31). 

3) WERE THERE OTHER PEOPLE BEFORE GOD CREATED ADAM AND EVE? 

1 Corinthians 15:45  
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; 

The Bible plainly says that Adam was THE FIRST MAN on earth. Look at the genealogy in the books of 1 Chronicles and Luke.

1 Chronicle 1:1 
1 Adam, Seth, Enos, 

Luke 3:38  
38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. 

In 1 Chronicles 1, the genealogy of mankind starts with Adam and moves forward toward Jesus. In Luke 3, it starts with Jesus and goes backward to Adam, then says he was the son of God. Clearly, Adam WAS the first man, and he was created by God at the beginning of this world. Look at the next 2 verses.

Genesis 2:20  
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field.

Genesis 3:20  
20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living.

These verses show Adam naming the living creatures God had created, including his wife, Eve. Gen. 3:20 also confirms that Eve was the FIRST woman. She was the mother of the human race. 

Genesis 5:1-2 
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God; 
2 He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day that they were created. 

Some people believe Genesis chapter five refers to the second time man was created after some catastrophe wiped out the world. We have already seen from the Bible that Adam and Eve were the FIRST people on the earth. Chapter 5 is a recap of the beginning. Look back in Genesis chapter four, and you’ll see Adam and Eve have three sons; Cain, Abel, and Seth. In Genesis chapter five we see Adam and Eve have a son named Seth to replace Abel, the son Cain killed. Clearly, these two accounts refer to the same people. How anyone could say these are two different stories involving different people is beyond me.

Genesis 4:25  
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she gave birth to a son and called his name Seth, and she said, for God, has given me another child instead of Abel, whom Cain killed. 

Genesis 5:4  
4 And all the days of Adam after Seth was born were eight hundred years, and he had sons and daughters:

This process of retelling events is used throughout the Bible. There is a story, and later a recap or synopsis, usually adding more details. Look at the story of Noah and the flood in Genesis chapters 6-8, for example.

4) DID DINOSAURS LIVE MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO?

Romans 5:14
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses,

Romans 5:12
12 Just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death is passed on to everyone because all have sinned:

1 Corinthians 15:21-22
21 Since death came through one man, the resurrection of the dead came through one man also. 
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive. 

There was no death before Adam sinned. Death entered our world because Adam disobeyed God. The Bible says Adam was the FIRST man on earth, and DEATH came from his disobedience. Therefore, Dinosaurs could not have lived and Died before man, millions of years ago because there was no death before Adam sinned.

God created dinosaurs along with all the other land animals on the sixth day before he created Adam. Then he brought all the animals to Adam to see what he would call them (Gen. 1:25). 

5) DID GOD TAKE THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO CREATE EVERYTHING?

2 Peter 3:8  
8 But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day.

This verse has been used by some to say a day in scripture equals a thousand years, or some extended period of time, trying to reconcile the Bible with “scientific” reasoning that the earth is billions of years old. We need to line our “scientific” discoveries up with the teachings of God’s word, not the other way around. God’s word has its own dictionary. The meaning of most things we read in the Bible is found somewhere in the holy scriptures. The next verse explains what 2 Peter 3:8 means.

Psalm 90:4  
4 For a thousand years in your eyes are as only yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 

This verse explains that a thousand years to God is just a small amount of time. 

In Numbers chapter 7, when the tabernacle in the wilderness was finished and it came time to dedicate the altar, God told Moses to have the Princes of Israel bring their offering, one tribe each day. This took 12 days; 12 literal days, not 12 extended periods of time. Why would this passage of scripture be literal 24 hour days, and Genesis chapter 1 not be literal days?  

Exodus 20:8-11 says
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work: 
10 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God: in it, you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: 

Why? Read the next verse carefully.

Exodus 20:11
11 Because, in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day. So the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 

Here, we are commanded to remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy because God created the heaven and earth and everything in them in six literal days, NOT 6 extended periods of time, NOT 6000 years. He worked 6 literal days and rested on the 7th day. We are to work 6 literal days then rest on the 7th day. Plus, at the end of each day, the Bible records that the EVENING and the MORNING (Night and Day) was the 1st day, the 2nd day, etc. Therefore these verses prove a literal 6-day creation.

6) WHAT ABOUT “THE HEAVEN” IN GENESIS 1:1?

Genesis 1:1 
1 In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

Notice that the heaven is singular, not plural.

Exodus 20:11
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. So the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 

Genesis 1:6-8 shows the creation of the heaven.

Genesis 1:6 -8 
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 
7 And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. 
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning was the second day. 

In the Hebrew language, the word firmament means EXPANSION or EXPANSE. In English, it means a space. We simply call it SPACE.

Notice that the SPACE God made to separate the water did not stop at our atmosphere.

Genesis 1:14-15
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven (SPACE) to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years, 
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and it was so. 

7) WHAT WERE THESE LIGHTS?

Genesis 1:16-18  
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 
17  And God put them in the firmament (space) of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 
18  And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness, and God saw that it was good.

Jeremiah 31:35  
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar. The LORD of hosts is his name: 

Clearly, these lights that God created and put in (the) SPACE are the Sun and Moon. Notice, he had already made the Stars at some earlier time. The firmament stretchered out into space. The firmament IS space, where our galaxy, our solar system, was created by God, IN THE BEGINNING of our world.

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