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My last message (n/m) was only to log in. I hope this message goes through.
There are many people in the world who CALL themselves Christian, but because of their hardness of heart (Ephesians 4:17-19), are blind in their heart and cannot understand (or will not understand without us spreading the word) the wisdom from above.
Tom Brokaw, the newscaster once said "This world is composed of perception as much as reality". GOD IS REALITY, but they can only understand worldly matters (for instance, armies have a chain of command...private, sargeant, lueitenant, major, general) and that worshipping God should also require a command structure (priest, monsignor, cardinal, etc.). Many people join a religion because of their hardness of heart and can only honor God (Mark 7:7) with their lips. That is because satan has formed their PERCEPTION of God as a mere institution. But, we know that God is not an "institution" because we have not allowed our consciences to deny Him and He has rewarded us with the wisdom to seek His truth (Hebrews 11:6). That is REAL "Christian disunity", because many people only call (and think) that they are truly worshipping in spirit and truth, but are only serving "humanism" (the wordly understanding of God, the 66 books of the bible according to the understanding of the 6th day creation...MAN, there are many ideas of exactly who 666 is, this is only mine).
There is also a MISTAKEN disunity that is actually only a cultural misunderstanding based on our upbringing (for instance, in Africa, Jesus Christ is not pictured as wearing white robes, Jesus wears RED. Not all spirit filled Christians are the same, but this is not REAL disunity, anyway.