Five Lies Many Christians Believe

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Someone once said that if a lie is told often enough, it will be believed as truth. Unfortunately, this has happened in Christianity. Growing up in the church, you meet a lot of different people who have an interesting way of interpreting the Bible. I believe that many of these lies often came from a folk theology which creates a hybrid of tradition and Scripture, thereby creating a Faux-ology.

Here are five lies that many Christians believe, but should not:

1. The Christian Is Primarily A Sinner. If you confess that Jesus is your Lord, and by grace through faith have believed that Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross was sufficient for you – you are primarily a Saint, not a sinner. Your identity is a child of God.

You will sin but you are set apart from the power of sin.

Instead on focusing on what sin not to do, you continue to focus on the Savior, who saved you from your sin.

It is not about who you are because of your sin, but rather whose you are because of your Savior, Jesus.

2. God Wants People To Get Sick So He Can Teach Them A Lesson. Ultimately, God has never desired for you to be sick. He created everything perfect and initiated a shalom that should not have been disturbed. Why in the world would a Father God want His beloved children to be sick? Will you grow spiritually in light of a sickness? Absolutely! The sickness you have was meant to make you weak, but God will use it to make you strong.

Sickness is a result of sin in this world, not necessarily a sin that you personally committed.

3. God Is In Control Of Everything That Happens In My Life. Not everything that will happen in your life will be God’s will. But everything that happens in your life, WILL be used to fulfill God’s will.

We do not have a free will to do whatever we want. We have a freed will to do what God wants.

And sometimes, we do not. God does not make us do things contrary to His nature. We do that on our own. So, if I make poor decisions and have to reap the consequences – that is my fault – not God’s.

4. Pastors And Missionaries And Church Leaders Are More Holy. I do believe that when Paul wrote to a young Pastor named Timothy and gave him qualifications of an elder – this was meant specifically to pastors in the church – but in addition to that – this is generally meant for everyone who calls themselves a follower of Jesus. God has provided different people with different gifts. And some gifts should be more desired by us, such as prophecy – so that more people would understand the things of God.

Whether you are a deacon, usher, community group leader, pastor, elder, sunday school teacher, ceo, business owner, mother of six kids, a wife of one husband or a student or an athlete – all of these are called to fulfill the will of God and to serve Jesus with the gifts granted to them.

5. If You Are Not On A Stage In A Church, You Are Not Doing Real Ministry. This particular lie has been very evident in the Russian Church circles. From an early age, kids were ushered on to the stage to say recited poems and sing songs. Young guys who could not even shave yet, were given opportunities to preach. Crowds of youth would also go on stage to sing group songs, etc. All these things are not necessarily bad. In fact, they are actually really good! But what happens is when a good thing, turns into an ultimate thing and inevitably becomes a “god” thing.

The young guy who did not end up going to seminary is now scolded by his parents as to why he did not pursue a higher calling for his life. Why did he settle to go into business or the arts or even entertainment.

It is almost as if the church stage has the monopoly on Christian effectivity.

We have a tragedy going on in the Christian church right now where we started going to church and stopped being the church.

Mothers prefer that their daughters get married to someone who is preaching and going in to full time seminary and ministry. As if other guys who do not have a burden for ministry upon their life, won’t be a lucrative choice for a future spouse.

This is a lie. The church is about unity, not uniformity. People are called to fulfill different roles and usher in others into the same Kingdom where Jesus is King, not the church stage.

As you read this list, my desire is that it de-bunked some myths you had about Christianity. Maybe some of these things have been holding you in bondage for many years.

Today is the day of your liberation.

Jesus wants to set you free from the opinions of people and set you in to His opinion – which is to love Him and to love the people around you – in the specific area in which you are placed and called.

Question: What other lies have you believed in or have been offered? What lies has God shown you not to be true as you progressed in your walk with Jesus? 


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10 responses to “Five Lies Many Christians Believe”

  1. “..what happens is when a good thing, turns into an ultimate thing and inevitably becomes a “god” thing.”
    Really been meditating on this this past week. Amazing how its been mentioned in like 3 completely different and unrelated places for me. The things we turn into “god” things end up failing us and then we wonder why we are unsatisfied.
    Great post Bogdan, Keep it up

    1. Hi Paul, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and it spoke to you!

  2. I’m going to have to meditate on #3 for a while. That’s some kind of Jedi mind trick lol. It depends on how many wills you think God has. 🙂
    Although I don’t disagree with the statement as a whole.

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    David

    The lie that the gospel is the ABCs of the Christian life instead if the A-Z

  4. Lie I’ve been struggling with lately; “Christians cannot struggle, be depressed or sad. They must always be happy, cheerful and not acknowledge they are having a problem or issue.”

    Being depressed is highly frowned upon in Christianity. It’s sad too because there are so many suffering in silence when the compassion and love we talk about showing, could be used to help that person.

  5. Thank you Bogdan, love reading your posts, stay strong for the truth.

    The Bible was written for the common people, for everyone to understand. Many people are taught to read the Bible using a specific format. They tend to dig deep into the Word as if they are looking for some mysterious, hidden treasure. That is where confusion and lies are formed.

    – First by understanding something in your own way, and disregarding the context the Word was written in, many people begin to misinterpret scripture.
    – Second if a specific word in a sentence is not familiar to the reader, then it should be defined and understood. Reading the sentence with disregard for that unknown word or phrase can be lead to extreme bias.

    1. Great point and thank you for your encouragement!

  6. 3 years ago I come to know Christ and come to church through this amazing girl I loved. She didn’t love me and ripped my heart out. People said God had just used her to bring me to him after years of a terrible life. 3 years later I still love her and she thinks me as a good friend and doesn’t know how I feel. I also have kidney disease that has basically stopped me from having a life at all. Which has made me weak and not strong- physically and spiritually. Yet I go to church and they talk about thriving as a christian, receiving an overflowing of blessing, and healing, and how prayer can change any circumstances. In three years I’ve not had one prayer answered, that I’ve prayed for me or anyone. I think Church is where the lies begin, they don’t talk enough about the fact most of the time God doesn’t actually do anything. I still love God like a son loves a father, but the reality is God doesn’t do half the stuff the church goes on about.

    1. Mark hi – I am sorry to hear about a bad experience you may have had in the church. What encouraged me though is the fact that your faith has gotten stronger through your experience. Keep clinging to Christ and rely on Him. Just like you said, He is a loving Father who is in love with you.

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