I agree. The other day I was listening to a preacher who teaches many falsehoods, yet when he died for a few minutes he told how happy he was wherever that was.
ONe of the ways that fakirs make money, is to write a book that talks about their "i went to heaven" experience.
Christians, tend to look for the supernatrual....so, a way to milk them of their money is to write a book about the "supernatural".
Ive read some of this stuff......such as by John Lake, or Smith Wigglesworth, or Aimee Semple McPhershon, or Kathryn Kuhlman.
And...One of the issues with their ministries, is.......they didnt seem to realize that all this "Acts" stuff they are chasing........
The Epislte is the "ACTS of the Apostles'.......not the acts of the Christians.......and the denominations that produced them.. also have not realized this.....yet.
So, when you have millions of Christians who are trying to be the "Acts of the Apostles" then you have a confused mess indeed.
So, if a person is going to chase the "mystlcal"....then they need to find someone who can teach it......and not chase the "Acts of the Apostles" Fakirs....They need to read the teaching of people who were genuinely touched by God, in an unusal way, and received from Him in an unusal way.
They might even have some good fortune and run across one of those on a "christian" forum.
See, Lots of "Saints" have had this and this is related to real spirituality ... vs the cut and dried "healing ministry" type of Show Business for the suckers that is so very common, and is such a carnally cheap ministry that brings in the BIG dollars.
A "Health and Wealth" ministry, is going to make someone rich., and that is why there are so very many of them, everywhere.
So, instead.......read Hildegard of Bingen, or St. Francis, or even someone like St. Bernadette, or Jeanny Guyon, as their stories and teachings are going show you supernatural experiences with God that are Legit.
And no, im not a Catholic., and they were........so, while their Salvation theology often isn't good, they were still touched by God, uniquely.
It got me to wondering how much truth we must know, or how much garbage we can teach and still go to heaven.
WE go to heaven because we are born again.
We are in the Light.
We are "not under the law, but under Grace"
We are already "in Christ"...."one with God"......"Seated in heavenly places."""
All of this is has happened the very instant we are born again., the day we were saved.
So, the best way to understand this.....is, regarding our Salvation, = we "Start finished"...>>"complete in Him".
And now being THAT......we begin our Chritianity ........and the Devil is going to come asap,= with a Cult theology and try to get you to spend the rest of your life in that deception.......while you are a Christian.
He can't stop you from going to Heaven, but he can ruin your faith with false doctrine that ruins your ability to get truth from God.
The person can still do good works, but theologically they are "faith broken", and that stops revelation knowledge.
This is when they turn to commentaries and get farther in to the dark.
Forums are filled with people who really dont read or study a bible, and their entire Theology is from some COMMENTARY series, or a few, as these have become their "bible'.
This happens to most., because theu never did what Hebrews 13:9 says you must do with your "heart", or a "doctrne of devils" or a few, will get you.
The Devil has plenty of those available to capture a Christian,.
MaryCult
Calvinism
Preterism
Mormon
JW
The "no Hellers".
The "errors in the bible club"
Universalism.
Mary Baker Eddy
"The Greek text club".
and many more, just waiting to trap the mind of a Christian, for life.