Last time we were together I spoke about what we need to have faith in, and now we need to understand the other side of that argument- which faith is useless, maybe even deadly.

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I am going to tell you the first, and most important thing NOT to have any faith in, and this will probably shock you- have no faith in a religion.

And yes, that includes Judaism, although if you have to faithfully believe anything, Judaism is the closest thing to what God said to do. Yet, even within Judaism, there are so many Talmudic things which are not in the Torah (or even go against the Torah) that you need to watch out for.

Within Christianity, well…there is one unchanging God, yet there are some 64,000 (Yes, THOUSAND!) Christian religions, all claiming that they are the one, correct way to worship God!

So, how can that be?

Overall, having faith in any religion that tells you the law was done away with by the son of God is misplaced faith.

Think about it: sin is breaking the law of God, right? And God gave us the Torah which identifies what sin is (Romans 5:13), so if there is no longer any Torah then there is no longer any sin, right? I mean, how can you break the law if there is no law?

And (here’s the real kicker!) if there is no law, then there is no sin, so there is no need for a Messiah anymore- he doesn’t have to return. With no law there is no sin, so everyone goes to heaven and there can’t be an Apocalypse because it would be wrong of God to punish people for sinning if there is no sin.

Bottom line?- if Yeshua did away with the law then everything in the New Covenant about the End Days is wrong.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t put any faith in that statement.

Another thing not to put any faith in is a human being because, as I said the last time, humans are innately sinful, selfish, and self-absorbed.

And we are easily fooled, so even someone who thinks they are doing what is right can be led to reject God and bring others along with them on that path to destruction.

Here’s a good example of how easily we can be fooled into doing something hurtful: you know those posts that say something very compassionate and then challenge you to copy and paste it if you feel the same way? Or maybe you see a post or saying on Facebook that you love, sent to you by someone you know, so you copy and paste it then send it to everyone you know because it is such a wonderful, compassionate statement.

Well, that is how many viruses are spread. You see, in HTML (the language of the Internet) a series of coded statements, including an executable (which runs a program) can be hidden within a paragraph of text. All the person has to do is codify that section of writing as (0,0) and it will not be visible to the reader, but it will be there, all the same, and the computer will recognize it, and perform it.

Faith in what you see on the Internet is just plain ignorant and foolish, and that means ANYTHING you see on the Internet whether it be news, posts, quotations from famous people or whatever. There are no rules of validation or requirement to be true for anything on the Internet.

Another reason not to place your faith in a religion is because God has no religion: he only has his rules for how to worship him and how to treat each other. That isn’t a religion, it is a lifestyle.

Men created religion so they could have power over other men, so the more faithfully you follow a religion the more you are putting your faith in people, and we just went over why that is foolish and leads you to the path of destruction.

Now, I do not want you to think I am suggesting that you never follow any religion. I am trying to say that you should not blindly put your faith in any religion. What you need to do is read the Bible and be aware of what God says so that you can tell when a religion is going in the wrong direction.

You will find the only place where God says what he wants us to do is in the Torah- everywhere else when he speaks (as he does to his prophets) he is not giving any new instructions; what he is doing is to warn the people to get back on track with the original instructions.

And the only time God speaks in the entire New Covenant is when he tells us Yeshua is his son, whom he loves and we should listen to him.

So, put no faith in people or in a religion, and here’s another hard to accept statement: do not put faith in your version of the Bible.

You see, there are literally thousands of versions in hundreds of different languages, and every single version of the Bible is subject to the interpreter’s personal understanding of the original language, the correct cultural usage of the words and terms when the Bible book was written, and personal bias.

So, where are we? Put no faith in a human being and except for the commandments and laws found in the Torah, which were dictated to Moses by God, everything else in the Bible was written by humans, and we know about them.

I know, I know, if what I am saying is true then we can’t put our faith in anything, right? It seems that way, but there is one thing you can absolutely have faith in, and that is God and his Ruach haKodesh, his Holy Spirit, which will guide you to see God’s truth, no matter which version of the Bible you are reading.

Thank you for being here and please remember to share these messages with everyone you know, even non-believers. Hey, after all, you never know how fertile the soil is until you plant a seed in it.

That’s it for today, so l’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!