From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
       The Church. The Greatest Deceit in the History of the World   
      
   Most people think that the Church is the same as the Assembly of   
   God, the Body of Christ, but it is not the same. This word "church"   
   is an improper word for those who believe in Jesus and love him.   
   The Greek word "ekklesia" that is translated to "church", means   
   "called out", and those who are "called out" are only those who   
   believe in Jesus and have received him as their personal Saviour.   
   Please, read John 15:18-21.   
      
   The word "church" occurs not at all in the Bible. "The Assembly of   
   God" is a better name of those who love Jesus. Nowhere in the   
   Swedish Bible can we find the word "church" (kyrka). I never use   
   the word "church" or "kyrka" when I mean those who believe in   
   Jesus. In the year 1981 we got a new Swedish translation of the   
   New Testament where they have used the word "kyrka". This   
   translation is a falsification with many grave perversions of the   
   bible word. I would never give such a bible to anyone.   
      
   In everyday speech we use many words which we don't find in   
   the Bible. We may use the words that we need to use. When we   
   speak about revival, we use the word revival, and when we speak   
   about the church we use the word church. Nevertheless, we cannot   
   use the word church when we speak about the body of Christ.   
      
   Some Christians have sent E-mails and meant that I ought not to   
   use the Assembly of God as a name of the Body of Christ, because   
   many Pentecostal Churches use this name. Nevertheless, when I   
   use the Assembly of God as a name of the Body of Christ, then I   
   do right. But those who have taken this name and use it on their   
   churches, they do wrong. The Assembly of God is the Body of   
   Christ, and no church. I do not avoid this name only because many   
   use it on their churches. The church members think the churches are   
   assemblies of God. They may read 1 Cor. 12:13, Eph. 1:22-23, 5:23,   
   Col. 1:18, and consider, is this the same as the Body of Christ?   
   Perhaps it is only a church?! This may be a challenge against the   
   whole religious harlot-élite.   
      
   What is a church? It is an organized institution. And what is the   
   Assembly of God, those who have received Jesus as their Saviour?   
   It is a LIVING ORGANISM. Please, read 1 Cor. 12:11-31. It is an   
   essential difference between an organization and an organism, and   
   we must make a clear distinction between the Assembly of God and   
   the churches of this world.   
      
   In so called Christian books and newspapers we can read about   
   Catholics and about the pope as if they are Christians. Pentecostalists   
   also can have meetings with Catholics and have fellowship with them.   
   This witness about very great ignorance about the Catholicism and   
   what the Catholic Church in the reality is.   
      
   The pope is not more Christian than Hitler and Stalin were. The   
   pope's simulating to being a Christian makes him very treacherous.   
   The Church and the doctrine he represents are the worst deceit in   
   the history of the World.   
      
   Regarding the churches it is a great lack of knowledge among the   
   Christians. When representatives for the Church made the same   
   false pronouncement about the Christian's situation in the Soviet   
   Union as the communist leaders, then many Christians were   
   astonished and thought it was strange. Nevertheless, if we know   
   what the Church is, then we are not at all astonished when a priest   
   or a bishop stands up and lie. That is what we can expect from the   
   Church. This is the Church!   
      
   I read in a sheet of paper that representatives of the Church in   
   Russia were forced to lie, and they did not dare stand for the truth.   
   But the real representatives of the Church are not compelled to lie.   
   They lie of their own free will, and like willingly as the communist   
   leaders in the Soviet Union did. That was not only so that the   
   Church did not dare tell the truth. Instead it is so that the Church   
   has no interest to stand for the truth!   
      
   A usual argument in defence of the churches is, there are many   
   Christians within the churches who really want to live for God,   
   and therefore we cannot condemn the churches. We could use the   
   same argument concerning the Communism in the former Soviet   
   Union. There were many real Christians in the prisons in the Soviet   
   Union, and therefore we cannot condemn the Communist dictatorship.   
   There are many Christians within the churches but it cannot justify   
   the churches because the Christians are bound to the churches by a   
   false doctrine. If they knew what the churches are, then they would   
   flee from there.   
      
   Within the Catholic Church the confession is an effective method   
   to hold control over the people. In that way the Church can have   
   knowledge of people's private life and can exploit them. The   
   Catholics think, if they hide something for their confessor, then   
   they cannot get forgiveness and come to lose their soul. This is   
   only fright propaganda and lies from the Church. The Church has   
   no authority to forgive sin, and the priests have no freedom to say   
   what they think. The pope and the Church determine what they   
   permit the priests to say and they have to only obey.   
      
   We do not need to confess before any man to get forgiveness for   
   our sins. We may pray direct to God in the name of Jesus Christ.   
   "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our   
   sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:7-10,   
   2:1-2. We shall not tolerate any other confessor than God himself   
   and Jesus Christ. "For there is one God and one mediator between   
   God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom   
   for all, to be testified in due time." 1 Tim. 2:5-6.   
      
   If you want to clear up your sake before God and receive forgiveness   
   for your sins, then it is a matter between you and God, and nothing   
   for the Church to interfere. The Church has nothing to do with that.   
   Remember this! For the churches, it is no grace before God. They   
   have no share in Jesus' expiatory death on the cross, and they can   
   never receive forgiveness. When Jesus died on the cross he opened   
   a way to God for men, but not for Satan's churches! The churches'   
   falseness and hypocrisy must get its judgement.   
      
   "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the   
   blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated   
   for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having a high   
   priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in   
   full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil   
   conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."   
   Hebr. 10:19-22.   
      
   The salvation is a gift that God gives us of grace, without our merit.   
   "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:   
   it is the gift of God: Not by works, lest any man should boast."   
   Eph. 2:8-9. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only   
      
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