False Religions

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2014, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

A false religion is a religion that will lead you astray, a religion that will take you in the wrong direction, a religion that won’t get you to heaven.

There are religions invented by man that are simply full of lies.

Some people might not think of Evolution as a religion, but to people who espouse Evolution instead of believing the Bible account of God’s creation in the Book of Genesis, for some of those, Evolution is what they have instead of religion.  It becomes their religion.

A religion usually has something to do with faith or beliefs.  The Evolutionists put their faith in the Theory of Evolution, and they are believing a lie.

Evolution is not how we got here.  God created us, and the animals, and the birds, and the fish, and the Sun, and the Moon, and the planets, and the stars.

In the United States, we have freedom of religion, and you can make Evolution your religion, but there’s no advantage to believing that lie.  And there are very serious disadvantages.  Many who believe in Evolution don’t believe in God.  If you don’t believe in God, you probably don’t believe in Judgment Day, or heaven, or hell.

And if you don’t believe in those things, as explained in the Bible, then you probably see no reason to get right with God so that you can avoid going to a fiery hell, where Jesus said most people go.

Speaking of a fiery hell, the Jehovah’s Witnesses say there’s no hell.  But Jesus said there is a fiery hell, where there’s crying and gnashing of teeth, and where their worms don’t die.  So, someone’s lying.  Either Jesus lied, or the Jehovah’s Witnesses are lying, and I know Jesus wouldn’t say there’s a fiery hell if there’s not.

Jesus also said that most people go to hell:   “Broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go there.  Narrow is the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

Another lie from the Jehovah’s Witnesses is that only 144,000 will go to heaven.  But John the Revelator, in the Book of Revelation, looked into the future and saw thousands of thousands in heaven.  One thousand thousand is a million.  There will be millions of people in heaven, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses are teaching lies.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses also have their own counterfeit Bible called the New World Translation.  A Jehovah’s Witness man who was a neighbor of mine showed me that they have removed John 5:4 from their Bible.  I mean, they took out the whole verse and replaced with a long dash.

If you look over at the end of the book of Revelation, it says if you take anything out of the book, your name will be taken out of the Book of Life.  You must have your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life to go to heaven.

You can’t go taking verses out of the Bible, or God will severely punish you.

Also compare 1 John 5:7 in the Jehovah’s Witness Bible with the King James Version.  It’s twenty two words in the King James, but only six words, as I recall, in the Jehovah’s Witness Bible.

A Jehovah’s Witness tried to tell me that 1 John 5:7 in their Bible says the same thing as in the King James Version.  No, don’t try to tell me you can say with six words what someone else took twenty two words to say.

God says don’t take anything out of my book.

There is the religion Islam.  People who have Islam as their religion are Muslims.

The Muslims say that Jesus was a good man and a prophet, but not the Son of God.  In saying that, they contradict themselves.  Jesus said he’s the Son of God to the Jewish High Priest, and to his disciples in the Bible.

So, if the Muslims are right that Jesus is not the Son of God, then Jesus is not a good man, but a liar;  not a prophet, but a false prophet.

But it is the Muslims who are wrong.  Jesus is the only begotten Son of God, and the Savior of the world.

Is this just a minor Theological error on the part of the Muslims?  Certainly not.  It means their whole religion is based on bad Theology, and contrary to the Bible.

The Muslims say that God’s name is Allah.  But their Allah doesn’t have a Son, Jesus.  The real God has a Son, Jesus.  So, I don’t really know who Allah is.  My God doesn’t call himself by that name.

Buddhists do their chants and have some principles to live by.  But what they don’t have is salvation from sin and hell through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Without Jesus as Savior, you don’t get born-again.  And Jesus said, “You MUST be born again.” (John chapter 3.)

The Mormons (or, “Latter Day Saints,” L.D.S.) have a religion that seems a little like Christianity, but it was founded by a false prophet named Joseph Smith.  Smith said that God the Father and Jesus appeared to him and talked with him.

But God told Moses, “No man can see my face and live.”  So how did Smith see God, and live to tell about it?  Well, he didn’t, of course.

Smith also wrote the Book of Mormon, which is a pile of garbage.

There is a religion called Christian Science.  That name is a lie.  They are neither Christian nor scientific.

Christian Science teaches that diseases like cancer are simply error in thinking, and that by correct thinking, the disease can be eliminated.  Wrong.  Jesus said, “Which of you by thinking can make himself eighteen inches taller?”  The answer is no one.

Cancer is generally caused by demons, which are fallen angels, who rebelled against God when Satan did.  But I guess there is one form of cancer, Mesothelioma, that is apparently caused by exposure to asbestos.

If demons are behind a disease, they must be cast out by a real Christian (not a Christian Scientist).

If you desire false Theology and lies, Christian Science has it for you.

The Church of Religious Science is also on the wrong track, and basically doesn’t believe the Bible.  They won’t get you to heaven through salvation in Jesus.

I know a man, Bob Ralston, who started out as an evangelical Christian, and fell into that Church of Religious Science junk.  I expect he’ll wind up in hell.  “He that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”  That passage of scripture is talking about going to hell.

Judaism is the religion of the Jews.  Judaism used to be the world’s number 1 religion, until about two thousand years ago.  Then Judaism slipped into the number 2 spot, and Christianity became the world’s number 1 religion.

Actually, Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism.  Judaism looks for a Messiah, a Savior.  The Messiah came, and his name is Jesus.  Some of the Jews accepted Jesus as Messiah, and most of the New Testament part of the Bible was written by Jews.

But the majority of Jews reject Jesus as Messiah.  I guess one of the main problems for the Jews is that they expected the Messiah to set up an earthly kingdom.  But Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world.”

Judaism gave us Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and King David, and the Old Testament Prophets, and the Psalms.

When Jesus, the Son of God, came down to earth to walk as a man, he was born of a virgin, Mary, into a Jewish family.

The Bible says, “He came to his own, and his own didn’t receive him.” (John 1:11)

Jesus said, “You must be born again.” (John chapter 3)   But to get born again, you have to believe in Jesus.  Romans chapter 10, verses 9 and 10 says:

“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you’re saved.  For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made for salvation.”

By rejecting Jesus, the Jews are still looking for their Messiah.  They’ll find a counterfeit Messiah called “The Beast,” by the Prophet Daniel, and called the “Antichrist” in the New Testament.

The Catholic religion likes to think of itself as a Christian religion, but they have a prayer called The Rosary that is addressed to Mary.  Even Pope Francis prays to Mary, as we recently heard on the news.

To pray to Mary is to commit the sin of idolatry, in violation of the Ten Commands of Exodus chapter 20.

In Rev 18:4, Jesus said, “Come out of her my people.”  I believe the Catholic church is “the Great Whore that sits on the waters,” of the Book of Revelation (the waters represent people.)   I believe the Babylon of the Book of Revelation is Rome.

Either the Catholic church, or the Catholic church merged with some Protestants, as predicted by David Wilkerson.

When Jesus says, “Come out of her my people,” I believe Jesus means come out of the Catholic church.

Martin Luther came out of the Catholic church and became a Protestant.  Nice going, Martin Luther!

The Catholic church has taught that the Pope is infallible, he can’t make a mistake.  Come on.  “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Rom 3:23)  That includes the Pope.

In the Catholic church, people go to a confessional and say, “Father I have sinned,” and confess their sins to a priest.  Then he tells them their sins are forgiven.

If that priest is actually anyone’s father, he has broken his vow of chastity.

Also, you don’t need some priest to forgive your sins, you need God to forgive your sins.

I don’t need a man to go between me and God other than Jesus.

1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins (to God) He is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  And I get that straight from God without one of their priests, who is a sinner himself, and some of whom are pedophile priests.

Since when does any man on earth have any authority to get rid of my sins?

“Come out of her, my people.” (Rev 18:4)

Jesus said, “Call no man on earth your father.”  Why then do the Catholics call their priests father?

Chapter 2

There’s a Bahai religion, but it’s not Christian.

Hare Krishna is not Christian.

There’s Voodoo, but it’s of the devil.

Satan worship, or demon worship, or worship of the Sun, or worship of anything other than God and his son Jesus is a false religion.

When Martin Luther started the Lutheran church, I expect they were quite zealous for God.  But these days, I think the Lutherans mostly don’t have the Baptism with the Holy Ghost with the speaking in unknown tongues.

Likewise the Baptists.

Likewise the Presbyterians.

Likewise the Methodists.

Likewise the Congregationalists.

Unitarians are not followers of Jesus.

Norvel Hayes said the Lord told him, “Now these are the most important words that ever came out of my mouth.”

And he meant the words in Mark chapter 16:17,18,   “These signs shall follow those who believe, in my name they shall cast out devils (from people), they’ll speak with new tongues (unknown tongues), …they’ll lay hands on the sick, and they’ll recover.”

In Mark 16:20, it says Jesus is supposed to confirm the word with signs following.

Hayes said the Lord told him, “You don’t have to go into a church and sit and judge.  Just wait until the end of the service, and see whether I confirm the word with signs following.”

If the church you’ve been going to doesn’t have the signs following of Mark chapter 16, start praying about a better church to go to where they do have the signs following of Mark chapter 16.

Atheism, of course, is not really a religion.  They say that there is no God.  God has something to say about Atheists.  God says, “The fool has said in his heart there is no God.”

Agnosticism says you can’t know whether there’s a God.  But as a Christian, I know there’s a God with a son, Jesus.

Jesus has even spoken to me a couple of times.

At one church, I saw things go in a wrong direction.  The question in my heart for the Lord was, “Why would you let that happen?”  The Lord answered me with seven words:  “Let both grow together until the harvest.”  However, that message from the Lord might have been relayed to me by an angel.

Those words are from the Parable of the Tares and Wheat.  If the Lord plucked up the tares now, some of the good wheat would be lost.

He’ll wait until the end and take care of it.

Hinduism is a false religion that has many gods.  Some of those Hindu gods are actually demons, as shown in a TV documentary about “The Man Who Loved Numbers.”

He was very good at a kind of mathematics called “sums,” but these days, I think we would call it Integral Calculus.

He was asked, “Why are you so good at sums?”  He answered, “The goddess so and so (I don’t remember the name) comes to me at night and teaches me.”

I believe that so-called goddess was actually a demon, and though the man was good at math, I believe he went to hell.

Shintoism worships ancestors, and is not Christian.

The Episcopal church is related to the Anglican church in England, and they’ve both allowed homosexuals into their clergy.

But in 1 Cor 6:9,10, God says homosexuals can’t go to heaven.  (The King James Version says the effeminate, which is homosexuals.)

If homosexuals can’t go to heaven, how can they be qualified to be clergymen?  How is that homosexual standing in the pulpit going to teach me anything worthwhile and that would help me get to heaven, when he is on his way to hell?

So here’s what I’ll do, I’ll  “go from the presence of that foolish man” because I’ve perceived that he doesn’t have the lips of knowledge.

Stay away from Episcopal and Anglican.

Churches that call themselves “Apostolic” are generally “Jesus Only” people.  The Bible teaches there is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit (see the last chapter of Matthew).

The Jesus Only people think those are all just different forms of Jesus.  But when Jesus prayed on earth “My Father, if possible let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not my will but yours be done,” who was he praying to, himself?   No, he was praying to his Father in heaven, who stayed behind in heaven when he sent his son, Jesus to earth.

The United Pentecostal Church is also Jesus Only.

I had a Jesus only guy try to tell me I would probably go to hell because I wasn’t baptized (in water) in the name of Jesus, like Peter said.

But in the last chapter of Matthew, Jesus said baptism is in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.  That’s how I was baptized, and I’ll get to heaven just fine, thank you.

If you have to choose between following Peter, or Jesus, better choose Jesus.

Eckankar is a false religion.

Church of Scientology is a false religion.

Seventh Day Adventists I guess are Christians, but they adhere strictly to having church on Saturday.  If they want to find fault with me for going to church on Sunday, I think they need to read John 20:19, where the believers were meeting on Sunday.

I heard a Bible teacher refer to “Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words,” so I obtained one for myself.

But when I saw that Vine was trying to justify calling people father, I got rid of Vine’s.

A man in Santa Ana, CA was proud of his “Matthew Henry’s Commentary,” and showed it to me.  But when I saw that Matthew Henry was trying to explain away one of the miracles Jesus did in the Bible, I knew I don’t want Matthew Henry.

“Go from the presence of a foolish man when you perceive that he doesn’t have the lips of knowledge.”

Smith Wigglesworth was an important man of God.  I wrote a book about him.  Wigglesworth said, “Read the Bible, not commentaries.”

Wigglesworth never read a book other than the Bible, and achieved spectacular results in his ministry.

Beside the Bible, I sometimes read technical books related to my field of technology, but I seldom read books other than the Bible or technical books.

Dr. Charles Stanley says the Baptism with the Holy Ghost with the speaking in other tongues has been done away with.  Stanley is dead wrong about that.

If the Baptism with the Holy Ghost has been done away with, how did I get it when I was about 13 or 14, and how have I been able, every day since then, to pray in a language I never learned, and don’t understand?

“Go from the presence of a foolish man when you perceive that he doesn’t have the lips of knowledge.”

I met a man in Houston and we got to talking.  I asked him his religion.  He said, “I’m a Messianic Jew.”  He’s a Jew who accepts Jesus as Messiah.  He’s a fulfilled Jew.

___James chapter 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,

3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.

4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.

11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.

21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,

24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2

1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,

3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"

4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

6 But you have despised the poor.  Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?

7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?

8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,

9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill."  Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.

12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.

14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works?  Can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,

16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?

17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."

19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?

22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."

24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3

1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.

2 For in many things we offend all.  If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.

4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.

5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  See how great a matter a little fire kindles!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.

7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,

8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not to be.

11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries?  Or a vine, figs?  So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you?  Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.

15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?  Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?

2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.

5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"

6 But he gives more grace.  So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.

11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers.  He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?

13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"

14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."

16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5

1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.

3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.  You've heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.

5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.

6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

8 You also be patient.  Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.

9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.

10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 See, we count them happy that endure.  You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.

13 Is anyone among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is anyone merry?  Let him sing psalms.

14 Is anyone sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.

16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.

17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,

20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.