Template:Christian Chart
Modern Christians | Early Christians |
Modern Christians practice Religion | Early Christians practiced Pure Religion |
Modern Christians depend on civil Benefactors. | Early Christians provided social welfare with Charity because Jesus said so. |
Modern Christians think they just have to imagine they believe to obtain Eternal life. | Early Christians thought they had to seek to keep the commandments to obtain Eternal life because Jesus said so. |
Modern Christians think they just have to say they believe. | Early Christians knew they had to strive[1] to be do the will of the Father if they believed. |
Modern Christians make men their Father by applying to them all the time, | Early Christians did not call any man on earth their Father |
Modern Christians think it is okay to covet benefits provided by men who take from their neighbor. | Early Christians knew that they could not inherit the kingdom if they were covetous.[2] |
Modern Christians think they are saved no matter what they do. | Early Christians know they must seek the righteousness of God if they are to inherit His kingdom[3] |
Modern Christians think they are saved by what they think is true faith | Early Christians know that faith with out works is not real faith and is dead.[4] |
Modern Christians sign up for every socialist program from public education and social Security to welfare and healthcare despite Christ's warning about the Corban of the Pharisees. | Early Christians died rather than sign up for the public welfare programs of the governments of Rome and other countries which brought about the Christian conflict. |
Modern Christians take oaths and swear binding themselves to the will of others. | Early Christians and for centuries Christians were persecuted and executed because they refused to take oaths or even affirm because Jesus and James said above all else stop the taking of oaths and swearing.[5] |
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== Footnotes ==
- ↑ Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
- ↑ 1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
- ↑ 1 Corinthians 6:9 ¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- ↑ James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
- ↑ Matthew 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne: ... Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
- James 5:12 ¶ But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oaths: but let your yea be yea; and [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.