If everyone were a child of God, why would God limit the entrance into His Kingdom to those who are born of the water and of the Spirit? And how can a person who does not have the Spirit of Christ be a child of God when they do not even belong to Him? Through the Bible, we quickly prove that the theory of everyone being a child of God is a lie.
Religion is a great source of deception. The worst part is not that it simply brings no physical benefits to people - because of its emotional faith - but the fact that religion promotes the idea of widespread eternal salvation!
 The practice of religion neutralises intelligent faith. Martin Luther, who would become the leader of the great religious revolt of the sixteenth century in Germany, tried to earn God’s grace by washing the stairs of a monastery. It was then that the Holy Spirit revealed to him that it is only through faith that one can receive God’s mercy and grace.
It is written, “Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”
(Hebrews 10.38)
“Why would God limit the entrance into His kingdom?”
How many people around the world are paying the price of having a faith that has no intelligence? For example, there are people who lash out and commit crimes without thinking. Religion had wrongly taught Luther that you have to earn the right to gain access to God, and that you have to go through penance before you can obtain grace. However, the truth is that the devil created religion in order to deceive people into having an emotional faith instead of an intelligent one. |
But what is intelligent faith? It is when faith and intellect are mixed. It is thinking before acting on faith.
When you act with an intelligent faith, you follow the guidance of the Word of God, instead of the rules and doctrines of religion. We know that religious doctrines are created by men who have ambitions that often oppose the Holy Bible. In such rules and doctrines, there is no intelligent foundation, only emotion. This is the argument used by atheists who justify their unbelief in God’s existence by saying that religions use emotion rather than reason.
However, at the UCKG HelpCentre, we recommend that you make decisions and live with an intelligent faith.
God bless you.
Bishop Edir Macedo
Leader and Founder of UCKG
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