COVENANT MINDED MINISTRIES

Other Religious and Christian Cults

Anthroposophy(Rudolf Steiner): "[Jesus] ... must be designated in the truest sense of the word as a 'mere man."

Association For  Research and Enlightenment (Edgar Cayce): "He [Jesus] is an example for man, and only as a man, for He lived only as a man, He died as man.”   

Astara (Earlyne Chaney): Jesus is "the Master Mystic of all time" who realized the Christ, a state of higher consciousness. Jesus is not the Savior from sin and only incarnation of God.

Baha'i Faith (The Bab; Baha'u'llah): "Jesus was not the only-begotten Son of God come down from Heaven, crucified and resurrected, nor the unique Saviour."

Christadelphians (John Thomas): "Jesus Christ did not exist as a person from eternity as one of the triune Godhead .... He did not actually come into being until He was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born in Bedilehem."

Christian Science (Mary Baker Eddy): "Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus Himself declared, but is the Son of God.”

Christian Spiritual Alliance (Roy Eugene Davis):   “Jesus was not the only be- gotten."

Church of the New Jerusalem (Emanuel Swedenborg): "This [belief in the Trinity] is the source and only source from which have sprung monstrous heresies concerning God ... [and] introduced into the church ... death as well."

Church Universal and Triumphant (Elizabeth Claire Prophet): "God the Father did not require the sacrifice of His son Christ Jesus or of any other incarnation of the Christ, as atonement for the sins of the world."

Divine Life Society/Integral Yoga Institute (Sivananda, Satchidananda): "Remember that, Christ is not a person. Ifs an experience-Christhood. Like Nirvana or Buddha. Ifs an experience."

Divine Science (Nona Brooks): "Someone has said that the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century was Jesus Christ. He was rediscovered and rescued from the superstitious misconceptions regarding him, in which he was thought of as a superman of extraordinary powers which were and ever would be beyond the rank and Me of the race."

Eckankar (Paul Twitchell): ". . do not put Him [Jesus] in a special category, for all saviours and prophets who came to earth to help mankind did their part and passed on to the glory of the heavenly kingdom."

Foundation of Human Understanding (Roy Masters): "You must not have any concepts of what Christ is like or God is like. It all must be an inward revelation process."

Free Communion Church (Da Free John): "The conventional cultic and exoteric interpretation of the life and person of Jesus considers him to be an exclusive manifestation of God, representing a history, a way of life, and a destiny that no one else can enjoy or duplicate . ... Such was absolutely not the point of view of Jesus himself."

Gurdjieff Foundation (Gurdjieff): "[In a conversation] Gurdjieff said: 'I hate your Jesus, poor Jewish boy' ‘the emphasis being on 'your.'"

Hanuman Foundation (Ram Dass): "I have a relative [a brother] who is in a mental hospital. He thinks he is Christ. Well, that's groovy. I am Christ also ... as far as I'm concerned we are all God."

Himalayan Institute (Swami Rama): "The Christ is your Soul and you should learn to see Him in all beings."

Holy Order of Mans (Paul Blighton): "The Master Jesus never made any claims for himself... [He] was a man, and through discipline and striving became receptive enough for the Christ force to enter and change him."

Integral Yoga (Sri Aurobindo): "If Jesus re- turned today, He would not recognize in Christianity what He Himself taught"

InternationalSociety for Krishna Conscious- ness (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada): "Christ's claim to be the only son of God is often misunderstood .... When Jesus Christ taught His doctrine in the Middle East@ he appeared to be God's only son, or pure devotee.... [But] why should God have only one son? ... God can have billions and trillions of sons and ... each and every one can be His 'only' son."

Jehovah's Witnesses (Charles Taze Russell): "The incarnation is scripturally erroneous. In- deed, if he (Christ) had been an incarnate being, he could never have redeemed mankind.”

Local Church (Witness Lee): "He has God's nature, and we also have God's nature. He is no longer God's only begotten Son: now by His resurrection He has become God's firstborn Son (Romans 8:29) and we are the many sons of God (Hebrews 2:10)."

Love Family/The Children of God (David Berg): "[There is] no reason why He [Jesus] shouldn't enjoy the sexual fellowship of Mary and Martha! AND HE DID BECAUSE I SAW MARY MAKING LOVE TO HIM in a Vision.”

Lucis 'Trust (Alice Bailey): “The Incarnation, which is for popular Christianity synonymous with the historical birth and earthly life of Christ, is for the mystic not only this but also a perpetual cosmic and personal process."

Masonic Lodge: A former Mason reports, "Freemasonry 'carefully excludes' the Lord Jesus Christ from the lodge and chapter, repudiates His mediatorship, rejects His atonement, denies and disowns His Gospel, frowns upon His religion and His church, ignores the Holy Spirit…”

Mighty I AM (Guy Ballard, pen name Godfre Ray King): "I [Jesus] wish it distinctly understood by all who may receive this or ever contact it, that I am not and never was a Special Being created of God different from the rest of humanity!”  [Alleged revelation from Jesus.]

New Thought: "We revere Jesus the man ... as one who exemplified ... the great Principle of perfection and wholeness. Jesus was a Way- Shower-the Savior-in the sense that He drew us out of our limitations."

Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (Daisaku Ikeda): "The doctrines of the divinity and the resurrection of Christ are outside the province of rational thought ... Christians are schizophrenic."

Living Enrichment Center / New Thought Christian Church  (Mary Manin Morrissey): “Now it is very likely that because God is God, he belongs to everybody. For Hindus he is Raum. For Christians he is called God. For Sufis he is Allah. For Zoroastrians, he is Zarathustra. Everyone calls Him by a different name.” But God is one, and God is present. One Presence, One Power. God. (Articles of faith.. First Belief)

... you know it’s okay to think that your path will get you there if you found that it works for you, wonderful. Take it. Take it. But honor the paths of the others, and when you find that, when you touch that God, that Presence, you will find it is so real that you can go into a mosque and be with the Moslems, who are devoting in one of their five times prayer, leaning east to Mecca, and you will find God. And you will go into a temple, and be with your Jewish brothers and sisters, and you will find God. And you will go into a Hindu temple, or a Buddhist temple, or you will go with your American brothers or sisters, American Indian brothers and sisters, or whatever, whatever form where love is real and you will find God, always. It doesn’t matter the path; it matters the experience. (Articles of faith. Third Belief)

Radhasoami/Radhaswami/Radha Soami (Charan Singh; Sawan Singh Ji): "Actually there is no statement in the New Testament, except possibly one or two interpolations, in which Jesus makes any claim to an exclusive divine sonship. This idea was not incorporated into the Christian religion until long after his death."

Rajneesh Foundation International (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh): "To tell you the truth, Jesus is a mental case.... He is a fanatic. He carries the same kind of mind as Adolf Hitler. He is a fascist He thinks that only those who follow him will be saved."

Rosicrucianism/AMORC (H. Spencer Lewis): "Nowhere in the teachings and practices of Jesus can we find the least intimation that His great system was intended to bring salvation to the physical body of man. Even the salvation of the soul was not taught by Jesus, and all references in the Christian Bible to the salvation of the soul constitute a misinterpretation, a misunderstanding, of the secret [Rosicrucianism] principle that Jesus taught"

Rudrananda Foundation (Swami Rudrananda; Rudi): In Spiritual Cannibalism Jesus is described as "a god," a "realized" man, like Buddha and other teachers.

Ruhani Satsang (Kirpal Singh): "Everyone is under the impression that Jesus Christ remains forever. The Christ Power remains forever [not Jesus]; but they [Christians] identify Christ with Jesus, the [solely] human pole, which is not right."

Sai Baba Society (Sathya Sai Baba): "The inner mystery of the Incarnation [is] God incarnating in all. All are One; the One is All."

Science of Mind (Ernest Holmes): "Jesus is the name of a man. Christ means the Universal Principle of Divine Sonship."

Scientology(L Ron Hubbard): "Neither Lord Buddha nor Jesus Christ were OTs [Operation Thetans, enlightened beings] according to the evidence. They were just a shade above clear [relatively low on the Scientology scale of spiritual advancement]."

Self-Realization Fellowship (Paramahansa Yogananda): "In Christian Scriptures it [Christ] is called the 'only begotten son.'. . . It is the universal consciousness, oneness with God, manifested by Jesus, Krishna, and other avatars."

3HO (Happy, Healthy, Holy) Sikhism (Yogi Bhajan): Jesus was a man of God only, who had to become qualified for his spiritual role. He didn't know if Joseph was his father, and his mother created "her son to really be a Christ," but not a savior.

Sri Chinmoy Centers (Sri Chinmoy): "[To] say that Christ is the Savior and the only way to salvation is a mistake.... He laughs when His followers say He is the only Savior...."

Tibetan Buddhism (Chogyam Trungpa): "Any kind of savior notion will not function a hundred percent.... Worshipping a "deity of any kind" is "the wrong way," and taking refuge in a Father God "is truly self-defeating."

Theosophy(H. P. Blavatsky): "Nowhere throughout the New Testament is Jesus found calling himself God, or anything higher than 'a son of God,' the son of a 'Father,' common to all."

Transcendental Meditation(Maharishi Mahesh Yogi): "[When] Christ said, 'Be still and know that I am God,' [He also meant] 'Be still and know that you are God.'" "I don't think Christ ever suffered [on the Cross].... Those who count upon the suffering, it is a wrong interpretation of the life of Christ and the message of Christ It is wrong."

Unification Church (Sun Myung Moon): "It is a great error to think Jesus was God Himself. Jesus is no different from other men."

Unitarian/Universalism, Unitarian Universalist minister Waldemar Argow states: "They [Unitarian/Universalists] do not regard him as a supernatural creature, the literal son of God who was miraculously sent to earth as part of an involved plan for the salvation of human souls."

Unity School of Christianity (Charles Fillmore): "Most of our religious beliefs are based on the [erroneous] idea that Jesus is the only be- gotten Son of God."

Vedanta (Swami Prabhavananda): alleges that we "cannot accept Christ as the only Son of God. Those who insist on regarding the life and teachings of Jesus as unique are bound to have great difficulty in understanding them." 48

Walk (John Robert Stevens and the Church of the Living Word): "The Lord puts you through a process that will bring you into sonship, into deity... God becoming man means nothing unless we become God, unless we become lost in Him." 49

Way International (Victor Paul Wierwille): "Trinitarian dogma placing Jesus Christ on God's level degrades God and leaves man UNREDEEMED!" (Advertisement for Wierwille's book, Jesus Christ Is Not God). "Our very redemption ... is dependent on Jesus Christ’s being a man and not God.” 50

Yoga Fellowship (Swami Kriyananda): "What is Christ? St. Simeon the new theologian wrote, I move my hand, and Christ moves, who is my hand.”

Zen Buddhism: The Gospel According to Zen quotes Meister Eckhart: "Who is Jesus? He has no name," and "Jesus" declares, "Split wood: I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there." 

Sin and the Temple of God 

Sin is lawlessness, that is, not the absence of the law, but active rebellion against the law.

The body is the “temple of the God,” where the “Holy Spirit” resides in the “children of God.”

We are to glorify God in our body and in our spirit, which requires us to get rid of any filthiness and uncleanness of the flesh and of the mind. 

The “temple of God ” should be kept continuously clean for God to use as He wills for His glory in being witnesses to the world of His continued presence.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. (1st Corinthians 6:18)

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (1st Corinthians 6:19)

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. (1st Corinthians 6:20)

God's Church Under Siege

Siege is defined as the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies,

for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible. 

Unfortunately, leaderships being deceived by deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons have allowed Satan to infiltrate (enter or take up positions in surreptitiously or in gradually, as for purposes of espionage or takeover) God's Church.

Rather than transforming the world, the world has susceeded in transforming many churches to conform to its doctrines and practices which it declares as being righteous.

Sin has become a sport (something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything), rather than being shunned (something kept away from or avoided consistently); or is not looked upon as sin at all.

False teachings coupled with false musics have infiltrated the very core of many churches, as they find themselves practicing idolatry.

Such teachers and musicians are throwing out platitudes (trite or banal remarks or statements, especially ones expressed as if they were original or significant),

that lack originality or triteness (power to envoke interest through overuse or repetition; frayed or worn out by use).

Much of the musics, in particular, but not limited to Christian rap, are sensual (lacking in moral or spititual interests; worldly), even though Christian terminologies are utilized.

Christian terminology utilization is not the determining factor as to whether a speaker or musician is a vessel of honor for the Lord's work; but rather, his or her works themselves.

Therefore by their fruits you will know them. (Matthew 7:20)

Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: (Matthew 15:7)

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. (Matthew 15:8)

And in vain they worship Me,        Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” (Matthew 15:9)

When the Holy Spirit makes a judgment, it's true and final; you don't need confirmation from anyone else.

His judgment is not make of Himself, but of the Father, who sent Him in the name of the Son, Jesus Christ.

There is no higher authority; when the Holy Spirit reveals something or someone to you, receive it and move on it with faith in the name of the LORD.

The Holy Spirit's Ministry

The Holy Spirit's ministry is threefold: (1) to guide us into all truth, (2) tell us of the future, and (3) help us glorify Christ. 

He guides us by revealing unto us not only the truths emboided in Jesus' life, but also the glorious future of all who believe and trust in Him.

The source of all truth is the Holy Spirit, who does not compel or carry us into truth; He leads us, and our job or commandment is to follow Him. 

All truth necessary to be mature saints and throughly equipped servants comes from the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit glorifies Christ by declaring Him or making Him known.  It is the work of the Holy Spirit to throw light on Jesus Christ, who is the image of the invisible God. 

He puts Jesus Christ on center stage, which is the will of the Father and the Spirit.  The focus is on Christ because He is the image of the invisible God.

I (Jesus) still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. (John 16:12)

However, when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. (John 16:13)

He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. (John 16:14)

All things that the Father has are Mine.  Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you. (John 16:15)

Run to Christ While There's Time

The LORD God Almighty is calling you!  Come on in and make Him LORD and Savior of your soul.

You do not have to die and be lost eternally because of an unwise decision that many before have made and are now suffering the consequences. 

Hear His voice and accept His work on the cross as your means of redemption.

Don't be wise in your own eyes and miss out on salvation by believing the lie and rejecting the truth.

The Holy Spirit always tells the truth, because He is the Spirit of truth from God sent in the name of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. 

The spirit of error always tells the lie, because it is from Satan, the father of the lie, and there is no truth in him.

People of the world are under the controlling influence of the devil, and believe the lie rather than the truth.

They cannot hear and receive the truth unless they humble themselves under the mighty hand of God and receive the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

Once being convicted and making the decision to repent and become children of God; then they will have hears to hear, what thus says the LORD.  Let it be you today!

Today is the Time!  Come Now!

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:  "Today, if you will hear His voice, (Hebrews 3:7)

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, (Hebrews 3:8)

Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. (Hebrews 3:9)

Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’  (Hebrews 3:10)

So I swore in My wrath,‘ They shall not enter My rest.’” (Hebrews 3:11)
   
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; (Hebrews 3:12)

but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (Hebrews 3:13)

For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, (Hebrews 3:14)

while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”  (Hebrews 3:15)

The Spirit of Adoption

Children of the devil do not have to remain his children.  Jesus died for sinners (unsaved persons) that they might become saints (saved persons) through faith in Him and become children of God. 

God is constantly calling those of the world to come out of darkness into His marvelous light; His arms are open and all one has to do is come.

Children of the devil is a status retained only by choice.  Those who desire to become childen of God only need to hear the Holy Spirit's conviction, desire Christ, deny themselves, pick up their cross daily, and follow Jesus.

Otherwise, those who reject Jesus as LORD and Savior will remain children of the devil and suffer the wrath of God to come.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. (Romans 8:14)

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15)

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, (Romans 8:16)