Apostate Protestantism: words that go together well.

Rogue Physicist · sentient bipedal physicist Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 78

I was honestly surprised by the subtitle to this forum.

I also feel that many forms/branches of Protestantism have become Apostate.

Take for instance the fact that a mere hundred years ago even the most ignorant peasant knew what gluttony was: a major sin leading to great injustice. Now with 60-80% of North Americans overweight, and no one even daring to call pigs pigs, but rather 'victims', its more obvious than ever.

One of the nice things about SDAs is they still at least pay lip service to the biblical food laws, which are common sense. With whole generations growing up in cities, people are so out of touch with the obvious it hurts.

Every farmer, no matter how dumb knows that each animal has its own diet, and the farther that animal strays from it, the quicker it gets sick and dies. Man is no different, and it is pitifully obvious that contrary to the teachings of most Protestant (and even Catholic) churches, when Man strays from his God-given diet, he sickens and dies.

When a Protestant jumps up and tries to misquote Paul in support of his self-indulgence it is tragically obvious that the 'spirit' inspiring him is not the Holy Spirit of God. THAT Spirit would have followed Paul's own humble attitude: "If *anything* I do causes my brother to stumble, I would cease." The opposite Spirit to the one who jumps up and says,

"I can eat anything I want. Jesus nailed the Law to the cross. The food laws are only for Jews. You are a Judaiser, trying to put us back under the Law, and away from the freedom of Christ." etc.

Everyday I have to talk to 'Christians' like this, who are dying of obesity, diabetes, lung-cancer etc., and who try to draw every other Christian into their sickening co-dependance on garbage and drugs.

I have seen the words of Jesus justify the most ridiculous things, from smoking pot to selling cigarettes at pork-roasts and gambling casinos.

Next time such a person tells you:

"What goes into the mouth doesn't defile a man: but what comes out if his heart."

Remind him of this:

The vision of Peter in Acts wasn't about food or food laws, but about racism. Like all biblical visions, the interpretation is provided right there in the next paragraph.

If Jesus declared "all foods clean", Jesus certainly didn't declare all things food. Cat feces is still cat feces, and can cause miscarriage and child-death: Its so dangerous, even 2000 years after Jesus' Advent, that doctors issue health warnings about it.

Cigarettes cause the same amount of lung cancer in Christian Protestants as it does in the rest of the population.

A Christian drug-addict is still a drug-addict, and of little use in forwarding the work of the Lord.