Of Boring Sermons and Religious Rights

Aug 8th, 2007 by Bro. Eli

Bro. Eli,

How dare you to tell us that your church is the real church. You don’t have any rights at all
because I was there when you deliver your talks last week and it didn’t convince me at all. You
are interpreting your bible in a shallow or literal meaning. All your talks are scripted and I hate
to tell this but I find your talks so boring, irritating and nauseating. Sorry about that but i think
you need to know this coz you are trying hard and you cannot fool people especially those
educated ones and with great faith in our catholic church. Our church is not discriminatory or
trying to step foot on others faith. Focus on your own followers. Respect other religion coz we
are not a fool to digest all your shallow explanations.

Lillian Fernando

Dear Madame Fernando,

I am very sorry to hear from you that I have no right to say that the Church of God is the true
Church. For your information, Madame, it is not only the right of a person to think or to believe
he is right, but it is of the highest level of sanity. Because, if you believe that you are wrong and
you still have the guts to say that you are right that is the highest level of insanity — as far as my
opinion is concerned.

(1 Corinthians 10:23) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things
are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

But of course, it is a basic human right — you are entitled to your own opinion; but don’t forget
mine.

(Matthew 7:12) Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

The Catholic Church spearheaded the notion and claim that it is the only one true church in the
world, and there is no salvation outside of it.
Others followed suit.

(This was taken from Iglesia ni Cristo’s (Church of Christ by Felix Manalo) official magazine
called “Pasugo” (God’s Message)

(Jose Luis Miranda, leader of the group “Growing in Grace” )

The true Church in the Bible never claimed that it is the true church because it does not have any
feeling of guilt or insecurity. In fact, with the help of your computer, you can easily type the
phrase “true church”, and instantaneously find out that there is no such term in the Bible. If I say
that the Church of God is the true church because I believe in the Bible, it is my religious right;
and I am not saying — and never will I — that my church is the true church (as you have
accused me of), because I do not have any church of my own; only preaching the Church written
in the Bible.

If you open your Bible (particularly the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church), the church
in the Bible is the Church of God.

(Acts 20:28) Take heed to yourselves and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath
placed you bishops, to rule the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood.
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And because it is the church which is written in the Bible, don’t I have the right to believe that it
is the true church?

The official name of your church, “The Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church”, is not written
in the Bible. It only acquired its official name in the Vatican Council of 1870. So, it is
understandable that it is not the ‘true’ church in the Bible. (See reference below)

Imagine, a church that claims that it is the original, having its official name only after eighteen
hundred long years!
You said “that you were bored listening to me”. I respect your right; but you see, when I also
listen to sermons of priests, I am more than bored because they do not teach the Bible — but
their own opinion. Want an example?

The Catholic Church, for centuries, taught its followers the existence of limbo. Millions have
died believing in it; but now, your present pope declared that limbo does not exist, so, it is a mere
opinion of the past popes, or its non-existence is also an opinion of the present.

Here is another opinion of your leaders, which is blatantly non-biblical. We came from apes?
Biblically, we were created directly by God as humans.

(Genesis 2:7) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Your pope now said “that there is substantial scientific proof of the theory of evolution”, which
declaration proves the ignorance of your leaders regarding the Bible.
(God’s gift … Pope Benedict has been given reason enough lately to believe in the theory of
evolution / Reuters / Reuters)

Pope Benedict admits evidence for evolution

Herald Sun Australia/ July 26, 2007
POPE Benedict has said there is substantial scientific proof of the theory of evolution.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22136550-5002700,00.html

You said that, I am “trying hard, that I am fooling people”, which you did not substantiate with
any evidence — biblical or outside of the Bible. For this I have to say that it is the opposite. I am
not trying hard because it is very easy for me to prove that your practices in your church like,
kneeling before idols, praying before idol of stones and woods are prohibited by God.

(Deuteronomy 5:7-9) Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight. Thou shalt not make to thy
self a graven thing, nor the likeness of any things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the
earth beneath, or that abide in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not adore them, and
thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me…
DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION

(Acts 17:29) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the
Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.

You said that “I am fooling people”, but I am not the one fooling people because I am reading to
them the words of God in the Bible, but your priests do not — as often as I do!

You also said that, “our church is not discriminatory or trying to step foot on others faith.” To
this, I say, as a brotherly advice to you, that you must do a little research. Your church does not
only trample the rights of other faith, but executes or murders those who do not want to believe
in her doctrines. To this, the late Pope John Paul II, I call as my witness.
The most disgusting of your comment is “Respect other religion coz we are not a fool to digest
all your shallow explanations.” You should have said this to your leaders. I respect other’s faith,
but I have to follow my God’s instruction to shout and tell people the truth.

(Isaiah 58:1) Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

I am sorry to hear from you that you “can not digest my shallow explanations”. It is your right.
But if my shallow explanations can not be digested by you, the more your digestive system will
be in trouble if you encounter the deeper things of God in the Bible.

(1 Corinthians 2:10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God.

It is the Spirit that reveals the truth of the word of God in the Bible in the heart of a man, not the
explanation of anybody — including Brother Eli.

(Acts 16:14) And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira,
which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the
things which were spoken of Paul.

I pray to God that He may enlighten you.