Saturday, May 29, 2010

Why didn't Jesus mention specifically the name of His church in the Bible?


Why didn't Jesus mention specifically the name of His church in the Bible?

There are so many religions today who claim to be Biblical because they use Bible terms and words and claim to be Biblical.

RELIGIOUS TREND
Religions today are proud of the name of their church as Biblical names. Most if not all religion teaches salvation through church membership. It is imperative to be a member of the church to be saved.

Argument #1: If church membership is God's way of salvation, there is no saved in the Old Testament believers since there is no church yet.

Argument #2: If being a member of the church is a way to go to heaven, John the Baptist who initiated baptism is not saved because he is not baptized. No one baptized John the Baptist. This make me laugh, the one who perform baptism is not saved.

Argument #3: If church membership is Jesus' way of salvation, the thief on the cross when Jesus was crucified is not saved because there is no more opportunity for him to be baptized and be a member of the church.

Argument #4: If church membership is God's way of salvation, the founder of that religion is not saved, for one reason, who baptized him? From where did he got his authority to baptized?

Sa sino mang relihiyon na nagsasabi na ang bautismo at pagsanib sa relihiyon ay paraang ng Dios sa kaligtasan, isang bagay na tiyak ang nagtatag nito ay hindi ligtas. Sapgakat sino nagbautismo sa kanya at saan siya kaanib bago niya naitayo ang relihiyong kanyang pinangungunahan ngayon.

RELIGIOUS IGNORANCE
Romans 10:2-3
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Most often, religious teachers are telling his audience that they are the true church because they have Bible verse to support the name of their church.

I have search from the internet names of churches who are biblical by terminology and these are:
Church of Christ
Church of God
United Church of God
United Church of Christ
Church of the Christ in the Latter Day Saints
United Pentecostal Church of Christ
Etc...
There are so many, even in not searching the internet in just hearing radio, watching TV and even looking around you can find these names of churches. Most of these religions teaches salvation by baptism and church membership.

Observation #1: To point the ignorance, all of them is saying that they are different from the other. They even have their debates about who is true this certain church of Christ or this certain church of God.

Observation #2: But in using Bible terms, all of them will be true in their own ignorance.

Observation #3: To use the Bible terminology in naming a church is not specifically God's way or Biblical.

IS IT REALLY A NAME?
Is the phrase church of Christ or church of God a name?

Basically, it is not a name but an ownership.

Example #1: What is the name of your car? Can you answer it this way, The name of my car is "car of Job" It speaks of ownership not a name. That question can be answered, The name of my car is "Volkswagen".

Example #2: Let us put it this way, what is the name of Christ's church? Can you answer it this way, The name of Christ's church is "church of Christ" or "church of God". Do these answers has any sense?

Therefore all who uses the "Biblical terminology" to name their church is not really Biblical.

WHY IS IT THAT JESUS NEVER MENTION THE NAME OF HIS CHURCH IN THE BIBLE?
John 20:30-31
30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

The name of the church Jesus built is not mention in the Bible because it is not God's way of salvation. Jesus is the way.

Hindi paraan ng Dios sa kaligtasan ang pagsanib sa relihiyon. It is on believing in the name of Jesus.

HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS?
Paano kaya kung pinahintulutan ng Panginoon na isulat ang pangalan ng church na itinayo Niya, this could lead to a great spiritual damage.

Eh, kung ito nga hindi pa naisulat ang pangalan ng church na itinayo ng Panginoon lahat sila nagsasabi na tama sila ang gulo na, lalo pang gugulo yan.

Kaya napakatalino ng Panginoon. Nalaman tuloy natin ang mali.

God bless you all.

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