TRUE "christian"...HA, HA, HA, oh what a funny joke!.
No doubt, befurther, you are like the Athenians in Acts chapter 17 who admired the noble qualities of peace, truth, and justice. They also felt that these were the attributes of 'THE DIVINE' and that we each should be likewise.....peaceful coexistence (they simply didn't know the true identity of "the divine").
The god of confusion has played a great many tricks/jokes on humanity (likely, God also laughs,....or is it just me in my sick indifference?).
Historians call this joke on humanity "The Incident at Antioch" (look up at wikipedia). The Jews that had come to Jesus as their promised Messiah had decided that they no longer wanted to be called MEMBERS OF "the Way", so they invented the name "christianity" (the word "christianity" is not in scripture, nor is the word "bible")....
The modern day moneychanger prideful great master intellectual sholars and TEACHERS have "fed" believers and non-believers lies for 19 and a half centuries just to keep everyone returning weekly to shell out money/mammon.
Acts 11:26 "and in Antioch, the disciples were first called CHRISTIANS".
...Who woulda thunk?...but, but, this cannot be!!
Well, well, now we find THE BIGGEST SECRET IN THE WORLD to be that the true name of Jesus devotion is "the Way"...
John 14:6 "I am THE WAY...".
Paul was never a "christian". Even when Paul was SAUL, the chief Pharisee, he persecuted "the Way". Peter went along with the Jews and also dragged the disciples along with him.
Why did this remain such a big secret?...Well, you see, the "MONEYCHANGERS" never left the temple. As well meaning as alot of pastors/ministers, scholars have ever been, they have forsaken their God-given responsibility to ensure that we know TRUTH because all they want to do is MAKE MONEY, but we can't blame it all on them.
You see, we (humanity as a whole, but also EACH INDIVIDUAL) has always willingly and enthusiastically learned about the THREE manifestations of God (Father, Son, God's spirit,...OR 'creation, salvation, spirit'...whichever way you want to put it) in a certain way....AS THOUGH the 6th day creation (man) should be glorified instead of GOD ONLY (mind you, God does take particular exception to this 'THREE SIXES').
When God was speaking to Ezekiel about those who have taken idols/kingdoms INTO THEIR HEARTS, God explained that He would answer them HIMSELF (that's right, HANDS OFF, Ezekiel, "I" will take care of them MYSELF, Ezekiel 14:3)....He does this with a STRONG, STRONG delusion (the "strong delusion" is not a future event) and ALL WICKED, WICKED "deception" (2 Thess. 2:6/10).
Paul spoke against "SECTAS PERDITIONIS" (a "sect" is a group formed by an evil/wicked distrortion of truth). The "AS" means "of"....the word "sect" is in scripture....(no doubt, in Paul's time, there was a "DEFINITION" for the word "perdition").
According to Wikipedia, there is no known 'DEFINITION' anywhere in the world in any well-known standard language EVER for the word "perdition", only MEANINGS have been attached to it by various religious factions/groups (likely, secret societies wanted humanity to forget that the concept of "perdition" is real and legitimate).
So we find ourselves being the product/result/outcome/SON of perditious beliefs and teachings....(well, now we are getting closer to solving this "MYSTERY of lawlessness").
"THE FLESH" is not innately evil, it is simply the WEAKNESS of being mortal (human nature).
Of course, God was always well aware that FEAR would be used to CONTROL all who "worship with their LIPS" (lingo/jargon, "pray to").....I do not "pray", god is not EXTERNAL TO ME, He is INTERNAL, no need to CALL OUT to Him (my life/devotion/relationship is my continuous "prayer" to Him). I will not FLATTER, compliment, beg/plead, whine/complain to Him.
Isaiah 29:13 "Fear is a commandment of men".
In scripture, God's intention is to inform us how to be a better human being (a TRUE human being son of man) and the 'SIN SACRIFICE' that He sent to "PURIFY" us from COMMANDMENT SIN (Hebrews 1:3 and 9:14).
Jesus was the FINAL CLEANSING that the Jews didn't have (Hebrews 10:2).
Because we are already aware of the truth ("doctrine of Christ"/gospel), if we ignore having Jesus as our only foundation for spiritual cleanliness/purity, we are willfully/"deliberately" placing ourselves back under the SIN DOCTRINE of the MOSES LAW.......Hebrews 10:26 and Hebrews chapter 6 always scared the daylights out of believers because everyone has become accustomed to "FEAR" in devotion/worship and "interprets" everything in terms of FEAR (judicial inclination).
There are MANY, MANY lies, but moving on to a "MATURE" devotion with "solid food" instead of being force "fed" (TAUGHT) is what we need to do.
If we find the 'God seed' (1 John 2:27, spiritual common sense), we will be able to LEARN without "being taught"/fed, but we first not be a "FOLLOWER type of person".
We need to READ SCRIPTURE FOR OURSELVES, not the way we are taught (taught to ignore certain verses that don't fit into what we are taught/supposed to believe).
Be a MEMBER of the one who hung on the cross (John 2:19), not a 'following puppet of' man.