[Shincheonji Study] True Religion, False Religion

↖↖ True Religion,↗↗

 

 [Shincheonji Bible Study]

 

 ↙↙ False Religion↘↘

 

Main references:  Malachi 2, John 14, 15, 16, Revelation

What is true religion, and what is false religion?

Let us examine what is the religion of the true God and what is a false religion.

 True religion is a teaching that comes from the true God of heaven, and false religion is an arbitrary teaching (religion) or a teaching that does not come from God but from other gods. All religious people claim they believe in God, say that the word they learn and teach is the words of revelation that came from God, and believe their religion is the best.

Various religions claim to believe in God, but they all differ from each other because the gods they believe in are not the same. And the reason why religious conflicts cause approximately 80% of the world’s wars is that those religions are not God’s religion. God is the Creator of heaven and earth and He loves His creation. He commanded the people He created to be fruitful and to increase in number. He also told them to forgive, love, and bless one another. In other words, God did not tell them to fight, kill, and curse each other. Thus, the reason religions fight, kill, and curse is that their gods are different. 

Many false religious groups were established from mistaking religions created by people, states, superstition, arbitrary thoughts, and cultural traditions for the true religion. Even a child knows that religions today are corrupt. If the people of a religion truly believe in righteousness, truth, perfection, and God, they must throw away their corrupt religion before the true God and become one within God. Hence, at the 2014 Peace Summit, members from each religion made a pledge in sight of God, the heavens and the earth, all peoples of the world, and the Peace Advocate to become one under God by unifying all religions. This is the only way to cease all wars in the world and to achieve peace—so that it can be left as a legacy to the future generations.

Many religious people claim that they believe in God and that they teach with the things belonging to God. However, their religions’ names, scriptures, deeds (deeds according to the religious standards), and rituals are all different from each other. According to God’s promise, a priest, who is a pastor that leads service, is one who walks with God. From his mouth comes truth through the Word of God, and from his mouth people must seek the truth. He must become the messenger of God. This is the covenant made between God and the priest (the pastor), as written in Malachi 2.

The testimony of a religion must be based on the Five Whs and One H (who, what, when, where, why, and how), and its genealogy, generations, and flow must make sense. Also, the prophecies that have endured from long ago and their fulfillment must continue on to this day, and there must be evidence of the prophecies’ physical fulfillment. God’s promised pastors who appear in each era are the pastors whom God promised beforehand in the previous eras. Therefore, there must be things promised (prophecies) regarding the promised pastors, and they are those who appear according to the promises and who perform the works that had been promised.

A promised pastor had already been determined in the Scripture (the Bible) to appear in the kingdom that is created today, at the end of age. Because this pastor comes according to the promises of the Scripture and fulfills what had been promised, he is the pastor promised by God and is acknowledged as the pastor whom God sent.