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In this blog you will find some of the most powerful quotes from You Have Nothing To Do With It. I encourage you, by the Spirit of God, to find some time to prayerfully reflect upon them.
In Romans 10:5 and Galatians 3:12, Paul quotes Leviticus 18:5 and defines the law within this phrase: "The man who does these things will live by them." These texts, along with many others, represent the primary principle of the law you were arranged under/subjected to (Chapter 1), which is: Receiving from God depends on you. If you do x, God will do y. This concept forms the foundation of the law for righteousness in the Old Covenant and is universally taught in today's Christian/Catholic church as the New Covenant.
The purpose of FakeYouOut.com is to demonstrate that the degree to which you experience God in your life does not depend on you, it depends on God. The flesh, the world, the devil, and "the church" teach and propagate that it depends on you.
Jesus is the author and finisher of faith. Faith is authored, not offered.
Our faith is His work, NOT our choice.
The causal force giving birth to faith is God, not "free will." Therefore, if a man or woman does not have faith, it is because God has not authored it yet. We play no causal role in our experience of faith.
Christian/Catholic orthodoxy calls torment in hell for sins the expression of a just God. Nothing could be further from the truth. Redemption from sin (for ALL of humanity) through the suffering of Jesus is THE expression of God's justice.
"Saved by the grace of God, IF you believe," is a contradiction. Grace means no conditions.
By insisting humanity (each individual) plays the causal role, not God, regarding experiencing redemption/salvation, and faith/power to live a holy life, "the church" has exalted sinful human nature and reduced God to a servant of its expression.
According to Christian/Catholic orthodoxy, the degree of God you experience in your life depends on you (Old Covenant of Moses), but according to the New Testament, it depends on God (New Covenant of Jesus.)
"Christianity" teaches that our sins separate us from God. They do not; they are the evidence of our subjected separation, and powerlessness to do anything about it.
Sin and condemnation came to us all through Adam. His sin was the cause of our sinful state, not ours. Nowhere in the New Testament are we told the human condition of being under sin is the direct effect of us sinning.
Romans 8:20 and 1 Peter 1:18, respectively, tell us we were subjected to futility and inherited our sense of emptiness and lack of meaning. These are mental/emotional states we all experience and suffer from because we are subject to them.
We cannot avoid feelings of guilt, shame, emptiness, futility, unbelief, and the like. They are part of the fabric of life, and our attempts to rid them are a never-ending game of Wacomole because human nature does not have within it the ability to cure human nature, and God arranged us under sinful human nature.
Your redemption and reconciliation, in and through Christ, was God's plan before creation, and was fulfilled (past tense) through His primary expression of love for you; the death and resurrection of Jesus: You Had Nothing to Do With It.
The earth is not round because we believe it is. In the same manner, what God accomplished in Christ is true whether we believe it or not. Human faith played no causal role in the purging of ALL sins on the cross. Likewise, your faith played no causal role in the purging of your sin.
1 Corinthians 15:21-22 – “For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ, all shall be made alive.”
"All shall be made alive in Christ," does not mean "only the few who believe" are made alive in Christ. All who died in Adam are the same all made alive in Christ. Who uses the word all in reference to a few?
Christian/Catholic orthodoxy tells us the word all cannot mean all in regard to salvation, because most of humanity ends up in hell for their sins. Does it never occur to them, that perhaps no one ends up in hell because the word all means all? Ask a pastor or priest if all die in Adam, and the answer will be "Absolutely." Ask them if all are made alive in Christ, and the answer will be "Absolutely not!" How is that not completely non-sensical?
Every one of us knows intuitively we were born sinners (through no fault of our own), so why is it crazy to believe God will redeem us ALL from this subjected state? Are you aware the current representation of God in "the church" claims He allowed us to be born sinners, knowing billions would suffer forever as a result, and declared this suffering to be an expression of His justice? (Note: To categorize this line of reasoning as absurd is an understatement. Beyond all doubt, the doctrine of hell for sins is anti-Christ.)
God sent Jesus as the Savior of the world, not the potential Savior of those who . (Fill in the blank according to what you have been incorrectly told.) Therefore, He is the Savior of the world. Isn't it fascinating how this simple, straightforward claim - Jesus being the Savior of the world - is heresy in Christian/Catholic culture?
Reconciliation and redemption for all is truth, and not because we believe it; It is the truth because it happened; You Had Nothing to Do With It.
Our faith does not make what happened on the cross true. (Just as our lack of faith does not mean it’s not true.) YES, faith is central to a believer’s relationship with God, but it is critical to understand what happened on the cross, and for whom, had nothing to do with our faith. Think of it this way: What took place through the death and resurrection of Jesus, and for whom, is the gospel (good news), and faith comes when we hear the gospel. (Romans 10:17) Notice the distinction. Believing occurs AFTER we hear that it is true. Our belief does not make it true. (That's a New Age tenet/doctrine of demons that makes us cause and God effect.) What God accomplished in Christ on the cross is reality regardless of whether anyone currently believes it. What happened and belief in what happened are two separate things. Did Jesus purge the sin(s) of humanity on the cross, then sit down at the right hand of God and declare, "If you believe this, it's true?" (Of course not! Please think these ideas through.)
The sole causal force of faith is God. Man can't produce; therefore, he is not responsible for producing New Testament faith. God does NOT offer people faith, then leave it up to them to accept or reject it. This concept is according to the flesh, man-made, and anti-Christ...it does not exist in the Scriptures.
Romans 10:17 - So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the (spoken) word of Christ.
To say faith comes, then we must choose to believe is non-sensical.
Philippians 1:29 - For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him but also to suffer for His sake.
When God grants faith, you have faith; there's no "you must choose to receive it" step. Do you have to choose to receive suffering?
John 6:28-29 - Then they said to Him, "what must we do to work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "this is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
According to Jesus, our faith is the work of God. God is cause; your experience of faith is effect.
The current (false) understanding of John 3:16 assumes human causality regarding faith, while the correct understanding assumes Divine causality. "Whosoever believes," or "whosoever believing," refers to the work of God, not an act of human "free will."
For God so loved the world (Divine causality), that He gave His only begotten Son (Divine causality) so that whosoever believes in Him (Divine causality) shall not perish (Divine causality) but have everlasting life (Divine causality.)
You Had Nothing To Do With It.
Religious leaders insisting they teach "salvation by grace," doesn't mean they do. I've been in and around hearing the Christian/Catholic "gospel" for over 40 years and can assure you they don't...but swear they do. The current foundation of Christian/Catholic doctrine the world over is not Christ as your righteousness because of Him, it's the law for righteousness because of you.
Ironically, but not surprisingly, the "Christian/Catholic" solution to sinful human nature is itself a product of sinful human nature. If redemption is because of Christ alone, then believing "it depends on you/them" is anti Christ.
God is the cause of redemption, not our response to God.
Christianity is correct to say righteousness is by faith, but incorrect to say having faith depends on you.
John 6:28-29 - "Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
Note the difference between what they asked, and how Jesus answered. They wanted to know what they have to do (sound familiar?), and He answered, "This is the work of God…" He didn't tell them they need to confess to a priest; He told them the Spirit gives life, and the flesh profits nothing. (Confessing to a priest is a work of the flesh.)
Your experience of faith in Jesus is the work of God; you play no causal role.
The perception that believing is a choice we must make, reveals our self-righteousness under the law for righteousness.
What we're hearing from our pastors, priests, and teachers about "how to live a Christian life," is not empowering us, it's giving strength to sin (self-righteousness) and the works of the flesh as defined in Galatians 5:22. (I have over 40 years of experience under this dynamic of futility. How long has it been for you?)
Most counsel from Christian leaders concerning "how to live and please God" is not inspired by the Spirit of Truth, it's inspired by sinful human nature under the law. It's the Old Covenant all over again, deceptively labeled as grace.
God's active work in your heart and life plays out according to His love, His wisdom, His will, His power, and His timing, NOT your obedience.
Today's Christian/Catholic voices persuade you to believe the degree of God you experience in your heart, and day-to-day life depends on you. So long as you do (or don't do) x, God will do y. You're the cause; God's blessing, favor, leading, answer to prayer, etc., are the effect. Their message is no different than the one found in self-help and New Age books sold everywhere. It's all "the law for righteousness," and the lie we (understandably) hold onto to survive, as it sabotages our every "good intention." (See Romans 7:21-25)
Our attachment to the idea that the experience of God's favor/blessing depends on us is an artifact of human nature - separate from God's nature - and leads to practicing sin and condemning others for doing the same. This is why Christians are widely, and rightly, known as hypocrites. Romans 2:24
Our steadfast embrace of "if you believe" and "if you do the right thing" as conditions to living a life worthy of the Lord, and experiencing His favor, doesn't prove our faith, it exposes our self-righteousness, hypocrisy, and pretense.
When you teach people what they have to do to be right with God, stay right with God, and experience His favor, sin and hypocrisy abound, not grace. There's no getting around this, and an honest assessment of our walk with God proves it.
“Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; There is one who accuses you – Moses, in whom you trust.” (John 5:45)
God's primary purpose for arranging us under the law was to reveal our sin (self-righteousness) and give it strength.
Today's Christian/Catholic teachers and leaders preach the law for righteousness. They have determined the experiences of redemption, faith, and living a good Christian life depend on you, not God. In their "gospel," God's favor and blessing are always conditional, therefore hanging in the balance. In their worldview, experiencing His grace depends on us; nothing is given freely, we are always required to do something first, and never forget: The crazy-making language they use to convey this message is: "Everything we have is by God's grace and given freely; you're never required to do anything first.")
In Romans 10:5 and Galatians 3:12, Paul quotes Leviticus 18:5 and defines the law within this phrase: "The man who does these things will live by them." These texts, along with many others, represent the primary principle of the law you were arranged under/subjected to (Chapter 1), which is: Receiving from God depends on you. If you do x, God will do y. This concept forms the foundation of the law for righteousness in the Old Covenant and is universally taught in today's Christian/Catholic church as the New Covenant.