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Sacred Name Cults and their Strife’s of Words
Then there are the Sacred Name Cults which contend over exactly what sacred name is to be used in the baptism of a Believer. These cults have many convincing arguments which play heavily upon the Believer’s logic by twisting true historical facts in order to question the trustworthiness of the believer’s present spiritual reality. And they do such so that they might shake the true Believer into questioning his faith and accepting their falsehoods.
In order to escape such cunningly devised deceptions we must study to show ourselves approved unto God. For it is written: “Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting (apostasy) of the hearers. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.” 2nd Timothy 2:14-16
In other words Paul is saying that the only profit (service or end result) their strife of words will lead to, is that of the subversion (overthrowing and destruction) of the hearers unto apostasy. Meaning that there is absolutely no good that will come out of it.
Paul had already warned Timothy against those who were “...proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words…” (1st Timothy 6:4) This term “strifes of words” means: “a disputation about trifles (logomachies)” which is the practice of logomachy. Webster's defines “logomachy” as being: “strife or contention in words only, or an argument about the use of words.” One thing that I have noticed which really gives these sacred name cults away as being of that Wicked One. Is that without fail they all stand violently opposed to and hostile towards not only the name of “Jesus Christ?” But also against God’s Holy Bible which is God's Word: The tried, true and trustworthy Old Authorized King James Version Bible.
Think about the serious implications and consequences of the sacred name cults’ satanic agenda to destroy both the Name and Word of Jesus Christ in the Believer’s life by turning the Child of God against the mightiest weapons that we as Believers have at our disposal to combat the powers of darkness. There are just too many verses in the Bible to list about the power of standing on God’s Word in prayer in the Name of Jesus. Yet the most controversial, rejected and hated of them all is the promise of Mark 16:15-20 in the Old King James Version Bible:
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.” Mark 16:15-20
Stop and think! Who else but Satan could gain the better advantage of destroying our trust in the Name and Word of Jesus Christ? And yet the sacred name cultist will sit back in the arrogance of their satanic pride saying that the letter “J” is only so many hundreds of years old and “Christ” is not really the last name of Jesus so nothing that the New Testament Bible says can be trusted anyway. Yet if that were really the case then we must believe that it has been wrong to call John the Baptist “John” all these years because after all, his name begins with a “J.” And what about the Apostle “James” or the Prophet “Jeremiah” or “Job” or the term: “the Son of Jesse” or the names “Jacob” and “Joseph?” does this mean that we have been lying against the Word of God all these years simply because we have naturally used the transliterated Hebrew and Greek into the modern English language which we speak, read and write? That’s insane!
And once these satanic liars convince you that the name of “Jesus” comes from pagan origins (which is a lie) and it is not the true sacred name of the Messiah. They will then begin to attack the integrity of the Old King James Bible by critically juxtaposing the Old Testament against the New Testament by comparing verses in order to try and prove the unreliability of the New Testament based upon their own flawed and erroneous delusions that it is a sin to use any other language but the original Hebrew. That is why so many of their followers use the Hebrew pronunciations for New Testament English words that have been derived from the Greek. Some become so twisted and destroyed in their faith that they end up renouncing Christianity all together and become strict followers of “Judaism:” Spelled with a “J” mind you. Yet that is only to be expected since the foundations of the Word and Name of Jesus Christ have been undermined and nullified in their lives.
I know that there will be some reading this article who have become ensnared in these blasphemous cultic teachings and I pray that the Spirit of God will convict them to consider the fact that they were once saved, cleansed, delivered, blessed, graced, helped, rescued, loved, protected and healed in the Name of and by the blood of Jesus Christ! If “Jesus” was really the name of a pagan deity, then why did God use the Gospel of Jesus Christ to bestow such mercies and blessing upon us to begin with? Are we to really believe that God is so powerless that He left us hanging out here to figure out such confusing and complex questions about the Historic uses of Names and terms just to be saved? And are we to actually believe that God was able to preserve His Word through thousands of years of persecutions and attempts by World Empires, Religions and Governments to destroy it, but after the resurrection a small band of Jewish Scribes were able to succeed in a conspiracy to conceal, pervert and change the name of the Messiah? The Roman Empire, the Catholic Church and Communist Russia with their vast armies and followers could never destroy the Word of God and Church of Jesus Christ. So are we to believe that Jesus lied when He said: “upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.(?)”
“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.” Matthew 16:13-20
According to their own teachings, the Sacred Name Cults will tell you that instead of “Jesus” the preceding text should contain whatever sacred name it is they are contending for, depending upon which ever cult group you are dealing with. Yet if that is indeed the case, then they have a serious problem because according to their own teachings, the gates of hell have already prevailed against their Sacred Name Messiah and his Church. In that, they themselves teach that Satan has succeeded in concealing the true name of the Messiah for the last two thousand years. Hello?
I’m no linguistics expert. As a matter of fact the only Hebrew I've ever seen was in a concordance. I do not have all the answers. Yet I myself was once ensnared by the wicked error of “Yahwehism” because I heard a man who calls himself “Brother Jerry” on the Christian Radio. He was challenging people to prove that “Jesus” was really the name of the Messiah. And he seemed to have such a convincing argument. So I received their tracts in the mail and against my better judgment I was swayed to believe that my whole Christian experience was a huge deception based upon their arguments against the name of Jesus. Arguments which these tracts deceptively presented claiming that the name “Jesus” is paganistic.
I also believe that I was so easily swayed because I was looking for another kind of Christian Church that would be more honest and less hypocritical than the entertainment mad Christianity that I was already so disillusioned with. Yet what I found in the Sacred Name Cult was just that, it was a cult. And I can only testify that when I began to believe that the name of Jesus was pagan, I mistook my own soulish zeal for being the life of God. You see, there is something very powerful and self deceptive about believing that you have been chosen to see through a conspiracy as great as believing that the very name of the Messiah has been covered up. And as you follow all the clues which seem to prove your case, it can be very spiritually intoxicating.
But as the excitement of this new thing wore off, I began to realize that I had lost my inner peace and all sense of the true spiritual life that I had known for so long. And in the place of my former confidence there was a deep spiritual confusion that began to express itself in many inner doubts both mentally and spiritually. And yet is it not written: “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” (1st Corinthians 14:33)
What I’m telling you is that Instead of a glorious break through in finding the true Gospel of Yahweh, I found myself in a spiritual waste land. The inner spiritual life I had known by the Word of God in the Name of Jesus was gone. Everything became lifeless because I was deceived into thinking that I could not really trust my Bible, and so there were no longer any living waters to drink from. There was only the spiritual death of the poisonous and stagnant waters of being lead in my Bible studies to prove that the name of Jesus was pagan! And yet I struggled in my spirit against their lie that the Old King James Version Bible was wrong. Even when they proved what seemed to be contradictions that I saw with my own eyes, I began to have a very deep sense that they were liars and I was not seeing things correctly. Because it came back to me how that God once told me that the Old Authorized King James version Bible was the true Word of God and I was to never turn from it to right or to the left. And yet there was so much doubt and confusion being planted inside of my heart and mind that I was not really sure how to interpret even my own inner senses. I was not sure about anything anymore.
What is certain to me now as I look back in retrospect considering this cult’s teaching and what I have heard of other sacred name groups out there; is that, no matter what sacred name these cults use, they all share the same bitter hatred against the name of “Jesus” and against His Word the Old tried and true KJV Bible. And the longer they remain deceived by their error, the greater their lives will be marked by the bitter strife of always seeking to argue for their heresy in order to prove that the name of “Jesus” is pagan. Thus, their motives give their hearts away because theirs is not a love for souls; but rather, every thing that they do is motivated by their bitter hatred against the Name and Word of Jesus Christ. Many in this hour have fallen into this snare and of their lot there are those who have turned themselves over to Satan and the reason that they so hate the Old King James Version Bible is because it exposes them and their works as being evil. For it is written:
“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.” James 2:14-18
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