The Good, The Bad and The Religious

In a world that seems to be spinning out of control, people have always searched and continue to search for God.  People want to make sense of things; but with our finite minds, we often cannot answer many of the questions that take us beyond death.  There are so many churches scattered throughout America; and many of them claim not only to have the answers, but that they are the only ones with the answers. Then we have the Bible, (thank God), that is used by almost all of these churches to prove their point of view.

Unfortunately, folks don't come into this world with a knowledge of what God says in His Word; nor do they have the wisdom to rightly divide the word of truth.  In America we have the freedom to choose; and along with this freedom to choose comes the freedom to believe whatever you want.  While God wants us to make the right decision, His will is never forced upon us. His plan for us, however, is not very difficult; at least not more difficult than we make it.  While the road might be narrow, millions have made it.  Perhaps we can too if we follow the right path.

Choosing the right path is not as difficult as we were led to believe

The first path is the Good path, the right path and the only path that leads to life eternal.  With so many religions and so many voices that interfere in our lives it might seem like a hard path to find. In the military we used to orient ourselves to the map so that we could navigate from one point to another.  We'd look for known points on the map to figure out where we were and where we wanted to go. The Bible is the only map we have.  If we are looking for a church or looking for a path, we need to look for what we know is right to ensure we are on the right path.  Now Hebrews 10:25 says: "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Many use this scripture for their own purposes, but if you are going to follow someone you better make sure they are on the right path before you choose to fellowship with them.  It doesn't say anything about assembling ourselves together in a church building that you have to pay for.  It doesn't say that we have to assemble ourselves together with teachers of false doctrines.  People take one scripture out of the bible and bind themselves to it, and in the process they violate a dozen other scriptures.  If you have chosen the good path, and you have surrounded yourself with good people, then you probably will want to be around them.  It's not a forced thing.  If you are required to be around someone 5 times a week, than they must not be the type of people you would want to be around or they would not have had to make it a requirement.  The difference between good and bad is like night and day.

You can recognize the bad path because it is traveled by bad people.  They know they are bad and they don't try to hide it. Unfortunately our nature wants us to take this path and be around the others who choose this path.  Our flesh loves this path because it is full of things that are bad for us and that take us in a different direction than God wants us to go.  The Map we were given warns us not to go down this path and if we choose this path it's not by accident, nor is it by ignorance.  We know we are wrong if we choose to do the things that 'everyone else' is doing.  The people that walk in this direction ignore love and desire only to fulfill their own lusts and desires.  As bad as this may sound, there is more hope for the people on this path than there is for people on the religious path.  The difference is that the people that have chosen the bad path are the ones that God usually ends up saving, while the people on the religious path don't acknowledge that they need to be saved.

The religious make up a large percentage of the population of America.  The people that travel down this path have chosen to have the best of both worlds.  They expend a great deal of energy trying to convince others that they are on the good path but their footsteps are not following the map to heaven.  They present a standard that is impossible to live by, and they expect others to conform to, while their own actions are hidden in the darkness that surrounds their hearts.  In many ways they are worse than those who are on the dark path because they fight against the good and try to tear them down while their own desires are to profit from them.  The religious are made up of a mixture of good and bad.  The religious also fall into the ugly category because what they do to people is ugly and they do things that are so wrong that even the bad people cringe at the thought of their deeds. When you get involved with a religious group that was set up by a con artist, you find yourself among the worst of the worst.  These types of people are usually sexually perverted and they make money off of your suffering.  The only way to escape a group like this is to read your bible and compare it closely to the lives of your leaders.



We have determined that the ntcc is religious and the only good that exists within the organization are the people who are not willfully deceiving others but are lost and not using their map to navigate their way out.  They have good intentions and they may know that things are not right but they allow others to influence their thinking to the point where not even God can get their attention.  The ntcc preaches good, but lives bad and covers it all up with ugly religion.  The ntcc specializes in placing a calling on your life that exists only for their own greedy and selfish benefit.  People feel like they have to belong to a religion or a church because of Hebrews 10:25.  The ntcc uses that scripture to convince people to attend 5 or more church services per week, but even with that busy schedule the leaders of the ntcc have found time to visit whorehouses on your dime, molest young girls while their equally religious parents turn a blind eye or even make the arrangements themselves and build a real estate empire bought and payed for by your tithe dollars.  If they can convince you to pay tithe contrary to the New Testament, what else can they get you to do.  You are lost inside an organization. They have deceived you and used you for their own gain.

I was not exempt from the blindness and the religious nightmare that so many have awoken from. When it happened to me and I was so messed up when I got out, I chose to travel the bad path.  I didn't want anything to do with good anymore because I didn't really know what good was.  I thought good was paying your tithe and going to church and attending conferences.  It's easy to get lost inside a cult.  The leadership kept everything hidden from me.  Al Gore had just invented the internet and at that time Factnet and the blogs didn't exist, but even if they did, I probably wouldn't have believed anyone that had anything 'negative' (truthful) to say about the ntcc.  For me, I was better off taking the bad route.  It gave me enough freedom in my mind and control over my life that it cleared my mind enough so that when the truth was finally presented to me, I was able to see the difference between good and ugly religion.  In the process I also learned that nobody is perfect.  As much as you strive to be like Jesus, you will always fall short.  That's why Paul always opened his epistles with grace and mercy to all.  I hated the darkness that I lived in, but it was actually better than the religious lie I was living in the ntcc.  I don't recommend the bad and dark path to anyone, because it is not necessary. There is enough information on the internet to show you what kind of a religious cult the ntcc really is.  Their true colors have been exposed and when you see that for yourself you can make good choices.  Before the ntcc, I thought there were only two choices, good and bad.  Right or wrong. Everything was black or white.  Beware of false prophets and beware of hypocrites.  Follow only Christ and if you are fortunate enough to be around other believers who are not extorting the people of God for money and sex, don't forsake them.  You don't have to be around them 24/7, you have a life to live and so do they.  There is freedom in Christianity.  Don't let the religious twist the scriptures just to keep you in financial and spiritual bondage to them.