church of Christ

1
Does Everyone Have a Right to His Own Belief?
church of Christ
Lutheran
Baptist
Assembly of God
Attend the Church of Your Choice!
Catholic
Methodist
Mormon
7th Day Adventist
2
Does Everyone Have a Right to His Own Belief?
And do not fear those who kill the body but
cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is
able to destroy both soul and body in
hell. Matthew 1028
This is My beloved Son. Hear Him! Mark 97
Revelation 2218-19
Acts 322-23 Matthew 721 Hebrews 59
All authority has been given to Me in heaven and
on earth.
3
Bible Examples Demonstrate That Man DOES NOT Have
a Right to His Own Belief

• Cains worship
• And in the process of time it came to pass that
  Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the
  ground to the LORDbut He did not respect Cain
  and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and
  his countenance fell. (Genesis 43, 5)

4
Bible Examples Demonstrate That Man DOES NOT Have
a Right to His Own Belief

• Cains Worship
• By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent
  sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained
  witness that he was righteous, God testifying of
  his gifts and through it he being dead still
  speaks. (Hebrews 114)

5
Bible Examples Demonstrate That Man DOES NOT Have
a Right to His Own Belief

• Nadab and Abihus worship
• Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each
  took his censer and put fire in it, put incense
  on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD,
  which He had not commanded them. So fire went out
  from the LORD and devoured them, and they died
  before the LORD. (Leviticus 101, 2)

6
Bible Examples Demonstrate That Man DOES NOT Have
a Right to His Own Belief

• Jeroboams Worship
• Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves
  of gold, and said to the people, It is too much
  for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your
  gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the
  land of Egypt! And he set up one in Bethel, and
  the other he put in Dan.(1 Kings 1228, 29)

7
Some Things About Which One Has No Personal Right
to His Own Belief

• The church to which he belongs
• Jesus established only one church
• Matthew 1618
• He is the head over all things to the church
• Ephesians 122,23
• Denominations are mens religious plants
• Matthew 1513,14

8
Some Things About Which One Has No Personal Right
to His Own Belief

• Choosing what name to wear
• Some think we can choose to wear any name.
• 1 Corinthians 619,20
• New Testament disciples were called Christians.
• Acts 1126
• Paul rejected the use of mens names
• 1 Corinthians 111-14

9
Some Things About Which One Has No Personal Right
to His Own Belief

• Determining how to worship God
• God gave us a pattern for worship
• Singing (Ephesians 519)
• Praying (Acts 242)
• Communing (Lords Supper) (Matthew 2626-29)
• Giving (1 Corinthians 161,2)
• Preaching sound doctrine (Galatians 16-9)

10
Some Things About Which One Has No Personal Right
to His Own Belief

• Determining how he will be saved
• God revealed the conditions we must meet.
• We do not have the right to alter them!
• Hear (Romans 1017)
• Believe (John 824)
• Repent (Acts 1730)
• Confess (Romans 109,10)
• Be baptized (Acts 238)
• Remain faithful (1 Corinthians 1558)

11
That they all may be condemned who did not
believe the truth but had pleasure in
unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 212)
God made us creatures of free moral choice We can
choose to obey or disobey (2 Thessalonians 17-9)
The man who teaches that everyone has a right to
his own belief is looking only at this world and
his own civil rights.
Matthew 624
MA N
God
or