Introduction
The narrow-mindedness of religious Christianity is too small. Some believers hold on to restrictive beliefs and condemn disagreers to Perdition. God doesn’t want His people cramped by the confining bonds of Christianity. He wants us to enjoy the freedom of Holy Spirit and agape love.
Religious Restrictions
There are Christians who have been taught and, zealously believe, that the King James Version of the Bible is the only true Word of God. Anything else is a corruption of Scriptures. They don’t believe in the inaccuracies of that translation, the archaic wording that binds them to false understandings of God’s Truth.
There are those who hold to a narrow, Bible-based understanding of theology, especially about God’s sovereignty. They don’t believe in people’s freedom to choose God’s Kingdom and to make a difference in the world. This, too, is a false understanding of God’s Truth.
Other Perspectives Are Valid
Doctrinal purity is not the most important thing. Doctrinal purity gave Christians the Inquisitions, the Thirty-Years-War, and divisions into denominations. Thought leaders taught them that being wrong destined them for Hell. And those thought leaders brought Hell into the lives of the people under their control. That was not God’s Truth. They gave power to small-minded people who went out to steal, kill, and destroy.
Paul wrote that the greatest thing is agape – God’s supernatural love, worked into and through believers’ hearts. It is acceptance of those who aren’t right, yet, in their thinking.
Jesus mentored twelve guys to become the first leaders of His kingdom. Time and again, He expressed exasperation at the wrongness of their thinking (Matthew 17:17, Mark 9:19). Yet, He did not cast them out. Only when the time came for Holy Spirit to fall on them did Peter speak the truth of His resurrection (Acts 2:22-24). And then, Peter needed further revelation to allow the acceptance of Gentiles without the restrictions of Jewish Law and customs (Acts 15).
God’s Now Revelations
Holy Spirit has been giving new wine to His people – new revelations for today, beyond the confining bonds of Christianity. The old wineskins of religion become too stretched, too inflexible to hold this new wine (Luke 5:37-38). God’s people must give up the narrow perspectives of their KJV idolatry and old doctrines of sovereignty. God’s people must open themselves to the “new” truths He’s revealing. Yes, we must validate them by Scripture, but not by the old, narrow understandings of Scripture.
God’s new revelations are meant to bring us into the wide open spaces of freedom in spirit realms and of governing on the Earth. Liz Wright speaks of this in her podcast episode, Effective Kingdom Governance w/ Justin Paul Abraham (24:30, ff).
Questions
Can you trust God to give you new insights, directly or from others, and not allow you to be deceived?
Can you accept a little bit of wrong thinking for the sake of going further in what He is doing today?