Making Christ omnipotent for easy salvation!
Christ is not omnipotent as he can’t do everything. He confessed his limitations. Even God, the best unity of good is not omnipotent as He can’t destroy Himself. Nothing can be omnipotent. But God, the greatest unity, is the nearest. Smaller the unities, further they are from it.
Christ always stressed on our actions of love. He said “follow me carrying your cross.” Faith practice is actually love-practice, which strengthens faith in us. Only love-practice strengthens love in our soul, which in turn love-integrates our soul parts empowering us within and with Christ. Then no suffering or death can break apart our soul destroying it. That is salvation. No one can give it from outside as in the case of learning. But Christ can help from outside like a teacher.
But the fake preachers greedy for popularity presented the idea of a fake Christ of cheap grace, who can grant us salvation with the minimal work of just confessing him vocally (of course no one can inspect confessors’ hearts to warn him). Then salvation will be automatic! Faith in the heart counts and that too comes by practice of faith by love-works. Never by flattery-worship as Christ or Father never seek it. But we need it to orient our hearts to them. If that orientation doesn’t produce love-works it is futile.
Salvation by faith only doctrine is a suicidal caricature of Christianity. Though, this fake faith can give an initial peace of mind, even short euphoria, but it never regenerates. Europe’s and European heritage people’s rapid spiritual degeneration is the root of it. Bonheoffer accused that cheap Christianity for the degeneration of the German nation and rise of Hitler. Now their degeneration is so much that it is about to destroy humanity by ultimate weapons. That fake faith-only-Christianity has turned into a destroyer than a saver.
It is time to turn to cross bearing Christianity. Though ease loving humanity will reject that, let it be. Then their sins wouldn’t be in the name of Christ. He never came to be popular but to proclaim the truth often unpalatable. So he was crucified and Bonhoeffer was hanged. Let us not to be guided by the greed of acceptance or fear of rejection.
Let those greedy for acceptance popular preachers make easy caricature of Christ for destruction. We can’t stop them but shouldn’t stop announcing that they are wolf in sheep’s’ skin.
Christ is not omnipotent as he can’t do everything. He confessed his limitations. Even God, the best unity of good is not omnipotent as He can’t destroy Himself. Nothing can be omnipotent. But God, the greatest unity, is the nearest. Smaller the unities, further they are from it.
Christ always stressed on our actions of love. He said “follow me carrying your cross.” Faith practice is actually love-practice, which strengthens faith in us. Only love-practice strengthens love in our soul, which in turn love-integrates our soul parts empowering us within and with Christ. Then no suffering or death can break apart our soul destroying it. That is salvation. No one can give it from outside as in the case of learning. But Christ can help from outside like a teacher.
But the fake preachers greedy for popularity presented the idea of a fake Christ of cheap grace, who can grant us salvation with the minimal work of just confessing him vocally (of course no one can inspect confessors’ hearts to warn him). Then salvation will be automatic! Faith in the heart counts and that too comes by practice of faith by love-works. Never by flattery-worship as Christ or Father never seek it. But we need it to orient our hearts to them. If that orientation doesn’t produce love-works it is futile.
Salvation by faith only doctrine is a suicidal caricature of Christianity. Though, this fake faith can give an initial peace of mind, even short euphoria, but it never regenerates. Europe’s and European heritage people’s rapid spiritual degeneration is the root of it. Bonheoffer accused that cheap Christianity for the degeneration of the German nation and rise of Hitler. Now their degeneration is so much that it is about to destroy humanity by ultimate weapons. That fake faith-only-Christianity has turned into a destroyer than a saver.
It is time to turn to cross bearing Christianity. Though ease loving humanity will reject that, let it be. Then their sins wouldn’t be in the name of Christ. He never came to be popular but to proclaim the truth often unpalatable. So he was crucified and Bonhoeffer was hanged. Let us not to be guided by the greed of acceptance or fear of rejection.
Let those greedy for acceptance popular preachers make easy caricature of Christ for destruction. We can’t stop them but shouldn’t stop announcing that they are wolf in sheep’s’ skin.