Ummm-Christian? Not According to Jesus Christ

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Aug 12, 2011 at 16:38

So we have here the central and seminal reasoning of why the nominal Christianity is so poorly understood, by both those who claim it and those who would rather do without it. We do not need to refer to any extra-Biblical source to determine the real truth of who can claim to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ; and the Norwegian Terrorist does not get it.

Let's start with, "He was born a Christian and did not repudiate his faith. Conventionally, that means he is a Christian." Really? Just where in the Holy Bible, the WORD of the LIVING GOD, did Jesus Christ say that? Clue: He NEVER Did!

John 3:16: Jesus says you MUST be born again to claim the faith the Jesus Christ says is necessary to be one of His disciples. Breivik never makes that claim: he is not a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. Instead, he takes up the ecumenical argument that was spawned from the earliest dissentions of the protestant movement which has come full circle with many in main stream 'Christian' circles thinking that the split needs to be mended. Whether a church member believes in true faith in Jesus Christ or not is immaterial to the welfare of the 'Christian' community at large. Meanwhile, Islam looks on with fascinated anticipation.

Read the interview more closely and understand, while one may be born into a 'Christian' environment, that does not make it so. I was born into a 'Christian' environment, but was not born again as Jesus Christ requires until becoming an adult. But Breivik's conflicts of being 'Christian' evidently worked out in ways no believing disciple of Jesus Christ would encounter, getting lost in the battle of human reasoning that results when divested of the truth of the Holy Bible. Of such are the ecumenical tomes of logic that now pervades the mainstream religious mindset that has forsaken Jesus Christ's commands.

If anything, Breivik's actions should be put into the fuller context of the reasoning that Muslims employ when asserting their religion is better. Breivik's interview provides all the reasoning that Islam has said would be the downfall of the 'church' that has forsaken the Hebrew WORD of the LORD for its inspiration. In fact, the Revelation has specific details that will be integral to the collapse of the mystery Babylon, and Breivik's interlude into ecumenicalism is just the kind of rhetoric I expect will be the fuel in inciting the masses to the rally of that time.

So, in the final analysis, Breivik does not know Jesus Christ as his Savior to be a true Christian and will have a lot of explaining to do when that time comes.

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