Flee the synagogues of Satan [Jn 8]

God is not going to play favourites. You are accountable for your sins. If you are a Jew, you are doubly accountable, for you have the law and the prophets. If you are a pagan, you are accountable. for the law of nature is in front of you and you know right from wrong. You are not an animal: you can reflect.

And if you are of Christendom, you are triply accountable, for you have had Christ Crucified to you and if you reject this, or look for a false church, you have rejected the law, the prophets and Christ.

For it is not your history, It is not the righteousness of previous generations. You cannot claim that you are of the tribe, or the descendant of elders and pastors and priests. It is very simple.

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If you do not turn to Christ you will die in your sins.

They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”

They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

(John 8:33-47 ESV)

The danger is that we will get distracted. We will think that we can make Jerusalem, that we can heal the world, that we can control government and all will be well.

That instead of doing good locally we should campaign for this politician, or go on that demonstration. That we should have quotas. That we should consider all traditions equal: for we have but the form of religion but not the power of it, which is the Spirit of God.

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This is a bit late in the thread to bring it up, but the idea of perfecting human society on earth through the efforts of individual Christians, as opposed to things only getting perfect after the Second Coming, is an old dream. There are a lot of Jews who hoped that Israel would be able to be the big brother to the world and a good example, and that the Gentile little brothers would just fall into line someday — and then the Messiah would come, not the Messiah would make that happen. There were a lot of Christians who took “Be perfect as My Father is perfect” as something that everybody could readily do themselves before Jesus came back; and that’s where Pelagius, the Montanists, and many other heretical groups turned into heresies. So we’re talking early Christianity there.

Most of today’s social justice nonsense has its roots in Joachim of Fiore’s silliness about the Age of the Holy Spirit (which is where all that Age of Aquarius crap came from).

The other thing to note is that most social justice nonsense isn’t at all interested in good works being done by individual Christians or individual church groups. Somebody else can do the soup kitchen, because the allegedly Christian SJW is much more interested in lobbying the government or putting out pamphlets and virtue signals. Many of them feel that good works are a bad thing, because taking care of your neighbor yourself gets in the way of government taking care of all the neighbors forever. The same thing is true for those progressive Jewish groups that have largely abandoned traditional charitable giving and charitable acts, in favor of giving money to dubious causes and going to demonstrations.

Good works are not the focus at all. They are the easily abandoned excuse.

The convergence that is being encourages id Satanic. Do not be fooled by the labels. It may say Jewish or Christian. But without Christ both are damned and both will fail.

If you don’t know if an organization is true. look at the consequences of its actions. If they do good and people come to Christ, the gospel is preached, and the lives around you reformed and sanctified, then it is of Christ.

But if they talk spirituality, are careful not to offend, support interfaith dialogue, and the baptisms, confirmations collapse, the gospel is not preached, and the lives of the congregation become more corrupt, then it is of the convergence. And flee that synagogue of Satan.