Yadda wrote on Jan 24
th, 2016 at 9:07am:
Jesus in Revelation, and, in the Gospels, said that he hated those hypocrites, who use the authority of 'religion' [turning religion into a 'beastly', false, worldly 'spirituality'], so as to rule over men.
Almost every religion of man does this.
Some religions [more than others] going to extreme lengths, to exert their authority over their adherents/devotees.
John 12:42
Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
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For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Matthew 23:11
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men:
for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and they are life.
"The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible."Dwight L. Moody (American Evangelist, 1837-1899)