Man keeps the best to himself and gives only what he can afford.
God had given the Best from Heaven.
Rules and regulations are given by man to make man measures up to God’s standard.
Grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Man is behind Religion in reaching God.
God is behind relationship in reaching man.
Ritual and ordinance be yours in abundance through the knowledge of Religion.
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Religion makes level places with high and low, makes life in peak and in valley, makes straight path crooked and makes rough what God had made smooth.
God made every high place level, every valley filled up, every crooked place made straight, and even the rough places were made smooth.
gods is both the invention and property of Religion.
Mankind is both the invention and property of God.
In the mind of Religion, the leaders immediately represent God.
In the mind of God, Jesus immediately represents mankind.
Religion entertained and enslaved man with rules and regulations to work out the conduct through disciplines of willpower.
God introduced the initiative of faith to reconcile Himself with man. "Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world."
Religion insults God with their wisdom in keeping the laws and regulations.
God insulted Religion with His wisdom at the Cross through Jesus’ Finished Work!
Psalm 8:3 ~ 4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor un-circumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even to the Israel of God. (Galatians 6:14-16)
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