Any true blue, born again, blood bought, spirit filled Christian knows that many of their allegations are obvious falsehoods but to all of you novices to God and His Church let me correct them as the Apostle Paul said to Timothy. I’ll try and be patient. As all of you know all too well, these ideas are important to me and I cannot ignore this chance for a necessary rebuke.

“Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction” (1 Timothy 4:2).

First of all there is a big difference between religion and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as all,genuine Christians know. See my http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0808/grateful.html. Large religious institutions like the Catholic Church are often pharisaical and legalistic and have blood on their hands because of the Crusades, Inquisition and pogroms and even because of their culpability in the Holocaust where Jesus Himself is love.

“Jesus said love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).

“Jesus is the first born of the dead and to Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood” (Revelation 1:5).

Look, I am not the Grand Inquisitor of the Inquisition here that wants to burn these guys at the stake but Scripture says that “God is not mocked and we reap what we sow” (Galatians 6:7). These people must be held accountable for their false teachings. I know that “the message of the cross is foolishness to those that are perishing but to those of us who are being saved it is the power of God” (1 Corinthians 1:25). That is the problem. These people are trying to teach you what is wrong with the word of God and the Church when they have no idea of what the truth really is. They are preaching to you a false gospel. They are all basically equating religion with a personal commitment to Jesus Christ and these are often not the same. God help us from religion.

Doc Edwards, the self described Spiritualist on his website, has some worth while things to say about the modern often overly rational (spiritually dead) Church, is in my mind merely speaking of so called psychic abilities in the Bible to justify his own exploits. Even when there were prophetic utterances in the Bible, they were only accepted from those Christians who were filled with the Holy Spirit. Magicians and demons also prophesized. His comment about "religion being the wicked step sister of spirituality” says it all. And by the way, the Bible does warn against psychic phenomena as well as divination (Seers).

“There shall not be found among you anyone who practices divination…or witchcraft… or who interprets omens… or is a sorcerer… or who casts a spell… or is a medium or is a spiritist…or who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord” (Deuteronomy 18:10-11).

Thus Doc Edwards fails on most counts.

Ron Murdock talked of developing his higher consciousness and communing with the Universal Spirit so as to forsake religious illusions. He longed for a woman as nature intended but he said that he was told that if he had sex he would lose his place in heaven and Jesus leaves the room when sex happens. Here is where a little truth is muddied by a large lack of Bible knowledge. The Bible clearly says that Jesus is all one needs not some Gnostic machinations of higher knowledge or consciousness or some Universal Spirit. Sex with a woman out of wedlock (fornication) is a sin but not sex with your wife. Jesus cannot look on sin and thus in the former case I guess he would leave the room. The Catholic concept of celibacy for priests is false, however, because even the Apostle Peter (the so called First Pope) had a wife (1 Corinthians 9:5) and thus sex for clergy was not a bad thing. The Bible does say to be fruitful and multiply. Many of the inhibitions about female pleasure were cultural not religious. Look how Islam treats women. They need to wear burkes and cannot drive nor own property. It even sanctions circumcision of females in some countries and encourages child brides as was the case even for Muhammad.

The Pravda article again fed this falsehood that the Church turned against sex in the 13th century. It stressed restraints on so called forbidden fruit and free love as a way for the Popes and clergy to maintain control and keep women subservient and pleasure less. Let’s face it, sin often feels good. That is why we all do it but it goes against the requirements of a stable, moral society. There are many unintended consequences of unbridled sin like unwanted children and divorce and AIDS etc. Sin and debauchery breed anarchy. One of the most erotic pieces in all of literature is the Biblical book Song of Solomon. So much for the nonsense that the Bible frowns on men and women in wedlock pleasuring each other.

Tony Elliott said that “many of faith fear the natural pleasures such as sex, gambling and other natural gratifications.” Sex, he also said, was one of the taboos of the faithful.” That is nonsense. Illicit or unnatural sex may have necessary taboos to maintain social order but it does not include gratification between husband and wife in Christianity at least. Again Tony stresses sex and other so called natural pleasures in the face of Church restraints. As I said before, sin feels good but there are dozens of unintended negative consequences.

He said that the religious fear becoming spiritual. He said that God doesn’t care what church you belong to or who you have sex with, Believe it or not, I agree with Tony in part at least here. Many religious people as well as many non religious people fear a relationship with Jesus Christ. They do not want to give up their sins and have Christ be the captain of their ship. And that goes for Priests and Popes and Pastors as well. I am not talking about religion here but about a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Only He can bring you salvation and true peace (Acts 4:12). Sure there are many former bad people in Heaven as long as they repented for their sins and were washed clean by the blood of Jesus as well as many good people in Hell like Popes and priests and Pastors who did not really have a personal relationship with Christ. But God does care who you have sex with for your eternal soul. In His word, He cautions against premarital and extramarital sex along with homosexuality and bestiality. Free love and forbidden love have real life consequences and need to be avoided.

The Book of Jude deals directly with Doc Edwards, Tony and Ron as well as Pravda.

“In the last times, there shall be mockers following after their own ungodly lusts… These are some who cause division and are worldly minded and devoid of the spirit… (Jude 18-19).

But Jude also gives the solution to this type of behavior and also gives my reason for confronting them.

“Have mercy on some who are doubting…Save others snatching them out of the fire… Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling and to make them stand in the presence of His Glory blameless with great joy… And to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory and Majesty, Amen “(Jude 21-25)

“All who call upon the name of the Lord (Jesus Christ) shall be saved” (Romans 10:13).

In Galatians 1:8, it says that “if an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to that we have preached to you let him also be anathema”. How can angels, messengers of God, possibly preach a false gospel? These are the fallen angels (what I call the extraterrestrials) “who did not keep to their own domain but abandoned their proper abode and went after strange human flesh” (Jude 6-7). Sons of God (fallen angels) mated with daughters of men and produced the Nephilim hybrids (Genesis 6:2-4). God destroyed them in the great Biblical flood, for if God did not spare these angels when they sinned (2 Peter 2:4) what about us?

When these fallen angels and their followers and supporters (Negureanu, Morris, Alexander, Komarek et al) on UFO Digest preach that we are all one or that Christ or God is an alien or that they are coming to save us and the earth from destruction, let them be abhorred also for preaching a false gospel. Jesus is the Name above all names (Philippians 2:9) and the only name by which we can be saved and at it aliens tremble and flee (James 2:19). Moses and Buddha and Krishna and Muhammad and Sai Baba are all still in their graves. Only Christ’s tomb is empty because He alone conquered death and all who believe in Him will also live forever.

“There is only one God and only one mediator between Man and God and that is Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).

Therefore if you want eternal life forget these alien gods and false saviors. They will be of no help to you and I may have to also try and snatch you out of the fire.