Path: paganini.bofh.team!newsfeed.bofh.team!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: NightBulb Newsgroups: alt.bible Subject: The Gospel of Cain Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:46:23 -0500 Organization: Baggy Jeans Mafia (sybershock.com) Message-ID: <85a14d5cc64b7345c9a946762458ff20$1@sybershock.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3210227"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="yZybWhCr+jI4C3MuGpPde+DhCwsjQrVZrsCOigcx7fM"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Newsreader: 3883.7766 Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:670251 False teachers and judaizers often preach the gospel of Cain. They speak li= es in hypocrisy. They claim to love god by offering the fruit of the ground= as a sacrifice instead of the acceptable sacrifice that God provided with = righteous Abel. The gospel of Cain is a gospel of religious works and pretended declaration= s of spiritual superiority. The false teachers say that one must keep a law= or set of rules to be saved and accepted by God. One of the most nefarious versions of this false gospel is the version that= proclaims you must love God to be saved. And this requirement to love god is a lie. You do not need to love God to b= e saved. The entire Law of Moses is summed up in, "loving God." "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD= thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy migh= t." (Deuteronomy 6) No man can keep this commandment. Yet Jesus taught that this commandment is= the entirety of the Law of Moses: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Th= ou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, a= nd with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the seco= nd is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two = commandments hang all the law and the prophets." The way of Cain teaches that you must offer a sacrifice of this love, being= feigned and fake, as the 'fruit of the earth' or the fruit of the law. Cai= n's gospel demands that to be saved you must keep the greatest commandment = which equates to keeping the whole of the law of Moses. But we know that no= man is saved by the deeds of the law. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his= sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3:20) "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds o= f the law." (Romans 3:28) The command to love God is a deed of the law. The sacrifice of Abel is different. Abel chose an acceptable sacrifice of t= he firstling of the flock. Abel's sacrifice is the sacrifice that God appoi= nted and provided. Cain's sacrifice is what Cain provided by forcing the gr= ound (religion, law) to bear fruit (outward deeds, creeds). And we know that Cain was a murderer and hated righteous Abel. So we should= examine the difference between the sacrifices of Cain and Abel to understa= nd how Cain perverts the gospel. =46rom time to time the reader may see false teachers advertising the false g= ospel of Cain as the only way to salvation. These false teachers will say t= hings like this: "You must love God with all your heart, soul, and mind." It sounds reasonable to those unlearned in the way of truth. But it is not = reasonable and it denies the truth. Jesus came to save not the righteous, b= ut to save sinners. The Law of Moses kills the sinner, rather than saving h= im. No man can keep this law to have perfect love for God. No man has the p= ower to love God. No man can choose this love. Rather it is God who chose t= o love man: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso= ever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The way of Abel is to trust in the lamb, which God caused to grow fat and a= cceptable as a sacrifice for sin. Jesus is the unblemished firstling of the= flock that takes away sin. Cain's sacrifice is the result of Cain's own wo= rk, rather than the work of God. The way of Cain is to toss around pithy platitudes about how a man must eke= out his salvation by pantomiming that he has great love for god and is lov= ing god with all his mind, and showing it in his works, or in his own sacri= fices and declarations of piety. If a man tells you that you must love god to be saved, he is denying that w= e are saved because God loves us. He is preaching works as the means of sal= vation, offering up your own fruit for sacrifice in place of the lamb that = God has provided. We learn this also from Abraham: "And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said,= Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is= the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide = himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together." Abraham said that God will provide himself a lamb for the sacrifice. This i= s the way of Abel. The way of Cain is for men to provide their own sacrific= e of creeds, deeds, and high-minded screeds which have no power to save. Yo= u can have creeds, deeds, and screeds. Or you can have the word of God. One= is death. One is life. So the liar that preaches that you must love god to be accepted by God, is = teaching that you must offer your own righteous sacrifice, a thing that no = man can do. Every sinner already is at enmity with God and can't love God b= ecause of sin. Yet the gospel of Cain demands that you must first love god = before God can love and accept you. Instead, the true gospel teaches we mus= t trust in the sacrifice that God provided for us to be saved: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth no= t shall be damned." The prescription for salvation is simple: believe on Jesus Christ. Pretendi= ng to love god with all your mind cannot merit salvation. Such false piety = is the gospel of Cain which merits damnation. The modern gospel of Cain is = sacrificial judaism disguised under a false Jesus mask. Cain denies the sim= ple gospel of child-like faith and replaces it with a bellowing dragon that= demands perfect love from imperfect souls, and threatens constantly to pun= ish them for failing to do the impossible. With man it is impossible to ple= ase God, but all things are possible with God: "But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; bu= t with God all things are possible." Perhaps that is why Cain was so angry and persecuted his righteous brother.= His righteous brother did nothing to earn God's love and approval. He simp= ly took hold of the sacrifice that God provided, and God did the impossible= for him. Whereas Cain has his own righteousness to boast of, a righteousne= ss that Cain planted himself and toiled hard to grow, and God rejected it. ''' ---------------- And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of= a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then= can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but= with God all things are possible. ---------------- (Matthew 19) ''' The rich man is the religious man, rich in the religion of the world, or ri= ch in the fruit of the ground grown up by Cain's work. We see these modern = Cains polluting the gospel of grace with their holier-than-thou and lovelie= r-than-thou and more-biblical-than-thou spiritual mumbo-jumbo. Mark them an= d avoid them. Do not trust in your own righteousness to be saved. Trust tha= t Jesus took away your sin, and you shall be saved. You will falter. You will fail. You will doubt. You will make mistakes. Non= e of this can undo what God has already promised to those who trust in Jesu= s Christ. Jesus will guide you into all truth. He will guide you into the p= erfect love of God. Once you trust Jesus and are saved, then you will have = power to love the Father. The gospel of Cain puts the cart before the horse= , and requires you to muster up love for God in order to be saved. But it i= s God's love that saves us, not our own love for Him. Cain is still in the world today. Cain is still murdering righteous Abel. C= ain has risen up in the field using his false gospel as a cudgel to beat th= e life out of those who trust in Jesus instead of their own works. And like= his father, the devil, he does it with a lie, teaching that salvation come= s from your own will to choose righteousness. Don't be deceived. God is the= chooser. God is the accepter. And God is the one who provides the sacrific= e. ''' ---------------- Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his = sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witne= ssed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all an= d upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Chris= t Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to= declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through= the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, a= nd the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by = the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of= the law. ---------------- (Romans 3) ''' The command to, "love God" is a deed of the law. If you are required to fir= st love God to be saved, then you are doomed. But if you believe that God l= oves you and gave Jesus as a sacrifice for you, then you are saved. Having = love for God will be something God works in you, not something you work for= Him. And we know who loves God--those who love the brethren and speak the = truth without hypocrisy. This, Cain does not do. For Cain this is impossibl= e. Cain hates the brethren of Jesus and wants to destroy them with his fals= e gospel. --=20 NightBulb | https://blog.nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch.