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Gnosticism in Church?

The “church” has left the foundation of exclusive worship of the Father and is morphing into an environment where, utterly illogical and unthinkable, the worshiper esteems and exalts self above the One worshiped. Ancient apostasies are returning full circle as age-old Gnostic teachings are dramatically changing the religious landscape. They called it New Age, but there was nothing new about it. It was as old as Babylon and even older. This heresy that says we humans are really "gods" reaches all the way back to the Garden of Eden, when Ha Satan enticed Eve that she could be "divine" if she followed his instructions to defy Yahweh. --- Popularized by the ‘80s New Age Movement, the dogma of self-glorification moved into mainstream culture and now into the Main Street church. Ancient mystery worship is back. One of its daughters, Gnosticism, began to permeate the New Testament movement early on and to pollute true teachi

What Happens to the Dead?

What happens to the dead? The common belief is that those who are good in this life will automatically end up in heaven, while the wicked will suffer forever in the sulfurous agony of hellfire. Perhaps no other passage is cited more often in support of this belief than the parable of Lazarus and the rich man found in Luke 16. In the parable two men die. Lazarus, a beggar, ends up in good graces while the rich man is tormented. This allegory is taken literally by some because in it Yahshua the Messiah uses the name of a real-life Biblical person , Lazarus . In the parable these two dead men are alive and communicating. We immediately encounter a major problem with taking it at face value. According to Psalm 6:5, when you die your thinking and your awareness of everything stop. “The dead know not anything,” Ecclesiastes 9:5 says, “for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave wither you go,” verse 10. Clearly Yahshua animates these individua