It is often the way of the denominationalist to cause the person standing for the truth to doubt themselves. If they can get you doubting what you believe by showing you OTHERS would have to be perfect to meet your criteria, you leave the standard set in God’s Word and begin the self-examination every honest person would begin. The “catch 22” is to get you to forget what is right and wrong and begin to think YOU are the only weird person on the planet!! Being too critical, no one can come up to your standard of excellence and so since the problem is YOU, you are the one that is keeping all of God’s children separated in a small bunch!
If it is true that you have made rules and regulations not found in the Word, you have gone too far. IF it is also true that you are doing nothing but standing for the defense of the gospel, since it changes not, you have no place to stand unless you decide to fall into the regions of the damned and no one should be able to convince you otherwise!! This gets very hard especially if you live among the unfaithful!! Those who have determined they will go only SO FAR in obeying the message of salvation (of course they have not been honest and told you this fact) get to a place in their religion and intend to go no further. What you have read and studied is not important, “you are too critical”, “no one can live up to your standards”, “you find fault with every ones religion”, or “every one cannot be that wrong and you that right”!! In the ministry of the Lord the Jews wanted Him to become King, they had even decided to make Him king, even if by force. “When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take Him by force to make Him a king, He departed again into a mountain Himself, alone.” John 6:15 Jesus being a God did as we who are tested and tried the same way; GO BACK TO THE SOURCE OF YOUR STRENGTH and find yourself agreeing with its message.!! Jesus went into a mountain; we need only to retreat within its sacred pages.
Changing the Law of God to satisfy some one else is not ever going to appease those in error. Jesus commanded: “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved.” Mark 16:16 No denomination or non-denomination believes this. If the Lord would deny this truth and teach people to “pray a little prayer in your heart” just to appease Billy Graham or someone else of their ilk. It would not satisfy the situation, they would have to change something else of His Word!! The fact is, they don’t want peace, and they want to be the doctrinal director!! Th ey intend to have it THEIR WAY, no matter how small a change they have to make, even if it is only changing ONE letter! Peter wrote: “baptism saves us now”, 1 Peter 3:21, Dr. Jerry Farwell teaches: “baptism saves us not”. If God were to (in the interest of getting along) allow them to change His Word in this verse, they would then change baptidzo- baptism to rantidzo- sprinkling!! If you were to object to this false teaching they would cry: “you can’t get along with anyone”, “no one else makes it so distinctly different as you do”, “there is no way anyone can please you”, and “no wonder we are so small in numbers”. If you decided to change would it change anything in God’s Word? “Thy Word, oh Lord, hath forever been settled in Heaven”. The people who want you to deny God will NEVER get to the portals of Glory and if they cannot get there, they can never change His Word!!
“What if some do not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,”That Thou might be justified in Thy sayings, and might overcome when Thou art judged.” Romans 3:3-4 Be happy, my friend you have been given the truth and defend it!!
