How Pantheists Violate every Commandment
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rob sterbenc
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Pantheism violates every single commandment of the Law
Dear Forum,
Here is how
pantheism and its teachers can be shown, like the papacy, to violate every
single commandment individually:
1. The
creation is worshipped as God, as pantheism teaches that God is everything,
and God is in everything. Thus since the creation is
worshipped as God (Romans 1), another god is worshipped, so
violating the first commandment.
2. The graven
images of idols from a variety of false religions are embraced in pantheism,
since the god of pantheism
embraces all religions, and the pantheistic god is in all, and is all.
Commandment number two is thus broken.
3. The
teachers of pantheism take the name of the Lord God in vain by proclaiming
that they themselves are
Gods (see Psalm 82:6) but they will die like men. Thus, they use the
name of the Lord in vain by misusing
the title and applying it to themselves, in a similar manner that the Roman
Papacy does (2 Thess 2:4).
4. Pantheism
exalts nature above nature's God. Thus the sun, moon and the stars as
well as ''mother earth"
are God, according to pantheism. Since the sun is God according to
pantheism, it prepares the way for
the inhabitants of earth to accept SUNDAY as the sabbath, the papal mark of
the beast. Thus the very
character of pantheism will lead the multitudes to accept the mark of the
beast (Rev. 14:9, 10). Therefore
in a seductive but very real way the teachers of pantheism violate the
fourth commandment.
5. Adam and
Eve were our first parents (Gen 3:16; 4:1, 2; Gen 1:28). They did not
worship nature. They still
worshipped God even after disobedience. The sacrificial service
was taught to them prior to begetting their
second
son Abel, following Cain. Abel offered a slain lamb and the fat of
lambs as an offering for sin.
The teachers of pantheism, however, exalt nature above the God of nature;
thus they dishonor our first
parents
even after they fell.
6. The teachers of
pantheism, in a real sense, seek to ''kill'' the personal God, the Creator,
the Almighty.
By seeking to destroy the personality of God and replace Him with a
pantheistic God that seeth
not, they have violated the sixth commandment.
7. By following after
other gods, the teachers of pantheism, many of whom may have been former
Christians,
have committed spiritual adultery against God (Hosea 7:4, 9:10) and His
Son. These teachers prophesy falsely, and
the people love to have it so (Jeremiah 5:30,31). Such false teachers
violate the seventh commandment.
8. The teachers of
pantheism have stolen the name of God and have applied it to themselves,
since according
to their doctrine, they are Gods and God is in them. The ninth commandment is
thus broken.
9. The teachers of
pantheism are false prophets who divine lie after lie, with falsehoods
built on top of other
falsehoods. Bearing false witness against the Lord and even their
neighbor who might believe in the true God,
they violate commandment number nine.
10. The teachers of pantheism
covet God's name just like the papacy does. They proclaim with a loud
voice,
''We are God! God is in us! God is in you!'' and the like.
Just as Lucifer coveted the position of God in
Isaiah 14:13,14, so do these false prophets covet the title of God.
Thus the tenth commandment is
broken.
All praise to God and His
Son Jesus Christ, the Everlasting Wisdom, begotten of the Father, full of
grace and truth.
Blessings to all of you -
RS
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