Defining God Just However Ol' Way We Want

I find it rather interesting that when man was created God said,

What's interesting about this statement, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness..." (aside from plural possessive "our" being used, to indicate the Father and the Son in my view), is the fact that so many people who call themselves Christians do the exact opposite: they make God to conform to their own image and do not have a single concern about what He is really like.

Each one builds his "little g" god to suit himself and thereby ignores the real and living God and what He really is and expects.

It's as if the "Believer" enters into a completely narcissistic one sided relationship where only he decides and defines God and His attributes without getting to know God at all.  Super easy way to approach it.  You don't have to get to know anything at all about Him, and since you define this god you're creating, he can be anything you want.  Talk about building an idol.

The best metaphor would be if, say, for example, you met a 6'4" male with dark hair and brown eyes and then described him to yourself and others as a 5'3" female with blonde hair and blue eyes.  Describing the 6'4" male with the characteristics of the female doesn't make it so, and the lie itself would be offensive to the one so falsely being described.  Who wants to be thought of in a way that isn't true?  Narcissistic abuse victims know all about this.  Doing the same thing to God is even more narcissistic.

Is it any wonder that if we define our own Maker in any old way we want, why then, we can just decide what we are, too, even when our new definition isn't true?.  Born a man but want to define yourself as a  woman?  Why not?  

But I digress and return to the main point: we can not just decide who God is and expect it to be so or expect Him to just to acquiesce to these wishes.

But such is the way people approach a faith in God.  They cherry pick the characteristics they want to apply to God to suit themselves, and invariably these characteristics also suit the sins they want to continue to commit.

Want to celebrate pagan holidays like Saturnalia, Sol Invicta, and Nimrod reincarnated as a fur tree and call it the birth of Jesus, though there is no way He was even born in the winter?  Go ahead, the god you created could care less.  

Want to apply the resurrection of Jesus Christ to spring equinox celebration revolving around a merciless goddess of fertility and war named ashtaroth or Ishtar and blend its satanic paganism with the worship of the God who says to "have no other gods before" Him?  Why not, go ahead.  Your god, "knows your heart" and your real intentions.  But I hear the Lord, "You honor me with your lips but your hearts are far from me."

Want to celebrate the sabbath on the pagan sun god's first day sabbath and change God's Sabbath from the Fourth Commandment's definition of it being the seventh day, well, hey man, your god accepts it just fine.  There is no Sabbath.  Every day is the Sabbath.  Why would Jesus warn to "pray that your flight be not on the Sabbath day" during the tribulation if He planned to do away with it?  Oh, that's right, you define God and His feelings on matters and don't really care what He thinks.

If you read about God in the Bible you will find He is deeply offended by paganism, because that means you are celebrating demons and even Satan himself.

You are literally cheating on God with the devil when you do these things, but again, the god you created in your mind sees that you have good intentions in what you're doing so it's all good, even though He's forbidden these practices in every generation through ALL of His prophets.

But again, Jesus spoke it well when quoting Isaiah, "You honor me with your lips but your heart is far from me."

Want to live with a "partner" and have sex without a lifelong commitment? (I'm not even saying to get married with a state certificate.) Why not, God will overlook it.  Even though adultery and sex outside of marriage are strictly forbidden.

Still, your god will be alright with it.

But the point is the God of the Bible who created those Ten Commandments and the rest of the Law found in the Torah will not.  And it's by these commandments you will be judged.

The writings of Paul may indicate to you otherwise, but this is not what Jesus came to teach and preach to us.  Jesus said not one or jot or tittle would be done away with in the law until heaven and earth pass and all will be fulfilled.  He said the person who teaches the law shall be considered great in the kingdom of heaven, the one who opposes it, the least.  He never said we couldn't keep the law, even though the writings attributed to Paul and the book of Acts attest that keeping the law is impossible.   Jesus never once said that. He said, "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak," but He never once said keeping God's commandments was not in our power.  And how much so is in our power now that we've been filled with His Holy Spirit?

But the Bible we've been given, in this sense, as far as Acts and the epistles go, has been corrupted.  This all started with Marcion, who was the first to aggregate together the epistles of Paul, or at least ten of them.  And even though in his day Marcion was branded a heretic, those who later pulled together what became our New Testament used Marcion's New Testament as a starting point.

But Marcion, in his own words, hated the God of the First (some call "Old") Testament and said He was not the same God as the one who sent Jesus Christ.  That God, who sent Jesus Christ, according to Marcion was the "Supreme Being" and had nothing to do with what he saw as the tyrannical God of the First Testament.

This means that the apostles' writings, that is, the writings of the disciples who were actually with Jesus, were in his view heretical, unusable.  They, according to him, were too blinded to know that it was not the God of the First Testament who sent Jesus you see.  Marcion knew better. In fact, Marcion said that Paul was the ONLY APOSTLE and what we know as the REAL APOSTLES were DISQUALIFIED, and that Paul's gospel as defined in Galatians was the only true gospel, and as Galatians says, anyone who preaches another gospel than his is cursed.  

But if the true apostles of Christ were disqualified, then why this honor bestowed them in the New Jerusalem?

There's no mention of Paul there, right?  Why doesn't he get his name on one of the foundations if the gospel he brought was so integral?  His name is not there because the gospel he brought was a flat out lie.

And how on earth did he so take over and redefine the gospel of Christ? Satan's servant Marcion started it, and the Roman as well as the masonic mainline denominations and false movements (such as prosperity gospel, charismatics, NAR, etc.) keep it going to do this day.

Most Christians have had very little of the true gospel preached to them.  They have all the words of Jesus right there in the Bible  but Paul's writings override His words as far as their concern, just as they did in Marcion's day.  In fact, most churches do just as Marcion, and exclude the teaching Jesus encouraged us to teach from the First Testament. 

But no matter that we have this evil in our Bible, and we most certainly do have evil in it in Acts and the epistles, it is up to us by the power of the Holy Spirit of Truth to see the contradictions and dig deeper than we ever have for the Truth, to figure out that our only Savior is Jesus Christ and it is His gospel we are accountable to, and no one else's, and especially not that of the epistles or of our own person definitions that exclude the Truth about who and what God really is.

If we don't, then all we have is another definition of God that isn't real.  We are describing the 6'4" male as a 5'3" female.  All the describing and the writing and the preaching that it is so DOES NOT MAKE IT SO.  Not only does it do a disservice to the Truth but it is offensive to the very God we claim to serve.

If you can't see that what Jesus and the works attributed to Paul (as well as Acts) taught are two completely different and contradictory things, I beg of you to dig deeper.  Don't just stay on the surface in the shallow end.  You must go deeper to find these truths. This is the only way the Church itself, the Body of Christ, can prepare itself for the return (after the tribulation) of our Savior.  

We must get ourselves ready and seek to be pure even as He is pure. The only way to become so is to love Him by keeping His commandments.  If you're not doing so, you can't know God.  You know some aberration of Him that just isn't true.  You must come into line with the Truth about who God is and recognize all the lies we've been told, even since the Church began.  

Our minds must be cleared of the lies so that God's Holy Spirit can lead us into all truth.  I pray you will decide to do this today, that you will stop trying to define God as you want Him to be, or believe words and teachings that are contrary to Jesus Christ, but to let the Truth of who He is be revealed in your life so that you may be called part of His kingdom and actually know how to serve Him.  Until then, that is, if you continue to serve your own definition of Him rather than who He really is, you will actually be serving devils.  Time to make this right.