What is Your Statement of Faith

I am not doing this to change anyone's mind about what they believe, rather to exspose satans tactics of keeping us from unifying and fighting the real enemy (satan,lucifer,old slew foot,prince of darkness,etc,etc,etc) we are not each others enemy.In Ephesians 4:4-7 there is one body,and one spirit.........one Lord,one faith ,one baptism...........one God who is father of all (read it let it sink in).In Frank S Meads Handbook of denominations (new tenth edition) he offers updated information onover 200 religios groups in the United States. 200 different statements of faith. This amounts to aword confusion. Man is saying take any road you choose you will still be get there.God is saying through Paul one way.Looking at definitions of words let us ponder the meanings (please ponder)Denomination: in the American Heritage dictionary says a name esp.the name of a class or group.
2. A unit having a specifed value in a system of currency or weights.

3. an organized group of religious congregations

the second meaning is an arithmetic term this divided by this equals this. So to put it another way a Christian Divided by another Christian equals confusion.Confusion: to mislead; mix up; to fail to distinguish between; to make unclear.In 1 Corinthians 14:33 the bible declares " God is not the author of confusion" understanding that this chapter is dealing with spiritual gifts and the spirit of prophecy working in the body of Christ looking at the definitons so far we can conclude that God would not be behind division in his body of believers. in fact paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1;10 " that you all speak the same thing, and thatthere be no divison among you;but that you be perfectly joined together in the SAME MIND and in the SAME JUDGMENT. but we have many ways and many minds,( confusion)So then if God did not bring division to the body where did it come from? I am glad you asked his name is satan,the devil, who Peter tells us in 1 Peter 5:8 "he is a roaring lion walking about seeking whom he may devour" Jesus calls him a theif in St John 10:10 and that he comes to steal kill and destroy. 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 " for such are false apostles,deceitful workers,transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. and no marvel (DON"T TRIP) satan himself is tramfromed into an angel of light.therefore it is no great thing if HIS ministers also be transformed as ministers of righteuosness. What!!! you mean satan can have some people preaching and teaching and all the time they have been working for him (SATAN)!!!!!!!!! Lord allow our ears to hear what you are saying.When Jesus was confronted by the Pharisees for casting out a demon ( imagine that) he responded with some words I believe satan used to divide the body of Christ and from the response I got back from mychurch.org it is still working today. Jesus told the Pharisees in Matthew 12:25 Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand" and if christians cast out other christans,I mean satan cast out satan how shall his kingdom stand. have you ever heard that saying together we stand divided we fall.look at all of the division in the body of Christ over the one thing that is suppose to unite us THE WORD OF GOD.I can see it now you have to pray in the name of the Father, the Son,And the Holy Ghost. No my brother the word says whatever you do in word or deed do it all in Jesus. No you all are wrong you have to pray to Mary.Now if you speak in tonges and that demon will come out.Now only the Pastor can pray and you can put spring water on their head and money cometh. No you have to set the atmosphere with some annoited music.Mean while satan and his crew just sits back grabs a bag of hot buttered popcorn and watch the fights begin.When the Church started there was only one Church not baptist, not metodist, not catholic,not (fill in the blank) whatever you want to call yourself. Satan is responsible for the division not God.I understand that doctrine divides but that is the point of this blog there is only One Lord,one faith,one baptism and it is even more difficult for us to sit down and talk or even debate without hate coming in and causing us to call each other names.That is why God had Paul to write in Ephesians 4:11-13a" that is was he(GOD) who gave some to be apostles,some prophets,some tobe evangelist, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up UNTIL we ALL reach (not our own statement of faith) but unity in THE faith. not MANY but THE one faithWhat is your statement of faith? history tells me that man through the influence of satan changed the one lord,one faith,one baptism into many lords,many faiths, many baptisms. Also we don't have the original manuscripts so ther has been a lot of changes to the bible over the years enough to make it almost impossible to know who is right.(I said almost) when I get to a passage that I can't figure out because every commentary I have says something different about the text I pray to the one who wrote the bible.i will give you an example.I am not legally blind but I have a temporarycondition that makes the vision in my both my eyes blurred. so my son has been typing the words that are coming from my mouth ,which is coming from my mind, which is coming from the holy spirit in me. So then God is the author of the bible but 49 jews and 1 gentile wrote down what he spoke to them because they were filled with his spirit. Did you know that in the 1500 the bible was taken away from the common man and they burned them and had it wrote in latin so if you did not know latin you could not read the bible. Then King James had the bible translated and the people who wrote it wrote how they viewed the bible and their thoughts were far from original.So the next time you come to a passage and you don't know or you are not sure pray to the one who wrote it and he will give you illlumination on what he truly meant in Chapter...Verse.... I love you all with the love of Jesus and this is done in the spirit of Love and a desire to see the body of Christ united and fighting the real enemy SATAN.In the name that is above every name JESUS,Yours in Christ Pastor Elam