News from The Kingdom

We are saturated by images and messages designed to influence our attitudes about alcohol. Today’s advertisers not only want to sell us their products; they want to sell us a “lifestyle” based on an idealized image of what our lives will be like if we use their products. How effective would a wine advertisement be if it showed a lonely buyer taking a bottle home, to drink alone while watching television?

But there is another kind of “advertising” that make alcohol be so appealing—the attitudes of families and friends. People around us think of drinking as a necessary part of any successful family/friends gathering or social event. Most of our friends and family associate alcohol with fun and excitement—maybe even as a necessary ingredient for fun and excitement in our lives. Without realizing it, people of all ages fall victim to the glamorization of alcohol—the unrealistic portrayal of its role in a happy and successful life. (more…)

You have to choose between observing the “mass of Christ” (Christimas) — which pictures Christ as a helpless little child, and is surrounded by pagan concepts of the Yule log, the Christmas tree, Santa Claus and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer—OR, on the other hand, observing the biblical Holy Days that picture, step-by-step, the awesome PLAN that God is working out here on earth. You have to choose between following Christ and the original Apostles, or following the Catholic “fathers” of the Dark Ages who increasingly injected layer after layer of rank paganism into professing Christianity. (more…)

Sadly, most of us just “grew up” in Protestant churches—or in Catholicism—and basically took for granted all that we were taught about God, Christ and religion. Very few people usually bother—even after reaching adulthood—to actually study and genuinely prove WHY they believe what they believe. It just seems easier to “follow the crowd” and go along with whatever we have been taught. Have you carelessly ASSUMED that the Bible teaches us to observe Christmas and Easter? Have you assumed that Christ, our example, and the original inspired Apostolic Church observed Christmas and Easter? (more…)

Catholic writers say that the Apostle Peter had never been to Rome. The fact remains, many ecclesiastical authors of the second century, Justin Martyr among them, give information completely negating Peter’s supposed Roman bishopric. This is admitted by virtually all scholars — except conservative Catholics (Ency. Biblica, col. 4554). But, more important than this, the records of the True Church of God — the writings of the New Testament — absolutely refute the Roman Catholic claim.

It is time that the world gets its eyes open to the truth of this matter — the truth, which is clearly revealed in the Word of God. The Apostle Peter was NEVER the Bishop of Rome according to the Bible Teaching. There are ten major New Testament proofs which completely disprove the claim that Peter was in Rome from the time of Claudius until Nero. Any one of these Biblical points is sufficient to prove the ridiculousness of the Catholic claim. Notice what God tells us; The truth IS conclusive. (more…)

What Did Simon and the Samaritans Believe?

Church historians state that long before the appearance of Christianity, combinations of religion had taken place in Syria and Palestine, ESPECIALLY IN SAMARIA, insofar as the ASSYRIAN and BABYLONIAN religious philosophy with its manifold interpretations, had penetrated as far as the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Babylonian religion had come ESPECIALLY TO SAMARIA, therefore, Samaritans were largely Babylonian by race. The Bible tells us in II Kings 17:24 that most of the Samaritans had been taken to Samaria from Babylon and adjacent areas. Later on, Ezra informs us that others who were mainly of Babylonian stock came to Samaria (Ezra 4:9-10). These people amalgamated their Babylonian religious beliefs with some of the teachings from the Old Testament. But they NEVER DEPARTED basically from their own Babylonian-Chaldean religious teachings. (more…)