Law and Persecution

Satan has used law through the ages to fight God and destroy mankind. This is not only God given law but human law. Satan accused God and Job, one of using reward to guarantee love and the other of being Godly simply for God's rewards. I think Satan is right in that many people have love from payment and not real natural love for God and each other.

Satan was wrong about God in his accusations, God loved while we were yet sinners, a concept Satan can't fathom.

Satan is called the accuser of God's people, he can't accept love of sinners in his accusations.

Rev 12:10  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Satan's job was to accuse people of wrong doing, and this requires a standard or law.

Thus Satan uses xtra biblical religious law such as the Muslim Koran and the Catholic Canon to establish grounds for accusation and persecution. This will then force man to comply with law that will never save and establishes spiritual death.

Mankind is given a choice between Christ's law that saves and human law that leads to condemnation.

Though law establishes order, compliance and order isn't always of God when it evokes compliance to other religions.

Muslim and Catholic for instance claim law is needed to establish order, but order can be established without forcing compliance to any set religion. Religion must come from faith and love and not just fear or reward.

Job establishes a precedent for affection without perfection.

Even faith only groups use law to condemn others. They teach good works come after salvation, thus using law to test man's conversion. It is a satanic ploy to accuse mankind and testify their conversion and baptism were not real.

In the sermon on the mount Christ dealt with sin that would not be tolerated without some repentance.

It is better to pluck out an eye that causes sin than to be cast into hell. The sermon dealt with sin such as murder, idolatry, and adultery.  Plus the underlying causes of hate and lust. Thus the Christian view that some sins cause mankind to be lost if no conversion takes place.

Human law may allow what God condemns. It may force compliance to what God has not designed. Infant baptism may be forced while some sins allowed. Catholics claim to allow drinking but exclude drunkenness. Yet their idea of drunkenness differs from the biblical definition.

Peter used a word meaning to bubble, or to have condemned speech. Once a person changes the way they would speak it is drunkenness. One doesn't have to fall down to be drunken. Catholics drink well beyond the biblical definition.

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We must concern ourselves with what Christ has said will cost salvation.

Gal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Gal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Gal 5:18  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Infant baptism is based in idolatry, following other standards than Christ, following the God's of the Roman empire vs. Christ.. Instead of infant baptism saving it condems, because it was used in the Roman Empire for infant initiation toward the Gods.

The parents brought an oblation to the God's and promised to raise the child in honor of the God's.