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How Many Lies Are You Living?

by Ralph Hornberger

84 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-1286; ISBN 1-4120-0917-0; US$18.00, C$21.95, EUR13.95, £9.95

It is high time for truths to triumph over erroneous ideas and practices perpetuated by church traditions.

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About the Book Commonly held beliefs, propagated by modern religion, are branded as lies. They are refuted by scholarly interpretation of the scriptures. Subjects which are included are baptism, communion, salvation, tradition, and "the church." The author answers questions like: "Why do people believe what they believe?", Why are people blind to biblical truths?", and "How many lies are folks living?"

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About the Author Ralph Hornberger has always loved to write, but until recently his works have been short in content: editorials, essays, poems, newspaper columns, and a club newsletter. Author of The Last Chess Game or How To Be A Winner Mr. Hornberger has now written his second book, How Many Lies Are You Living?. In his heavily, Bible-quoted volume, he tackles the individual as concerning his beliefs. What do people believe, and why do people believe such? The issues treated largely have to do with the topics of "religion," such as the 'church', salvation, sinning, the future, hell, the rites of communion and baptism, and Jesus Christ. Hornberger attempts to refute erroneous ideas and practices which are largely a result of tradition. His purpose for writing is to have the reader come to grips with truths which are concealed because of the 'church' influence and established customs. In this book there is much food for thought. A retired public school teacher, Mr. Hornberger has participated in a wide range of part-time jobs, and thereby has had a wide range of experiences. He earned a Master's Degree in Education at Philadelphia's Temple University, following a two and a half year stint in the United States Coast Guard on Ellis Island. Besides loving to read and write, he enjoys crossword puzzles, and playing chess. He prefers classical music, and likes to watch professional tennis. In the past he has been very active in his church, serving on the church council and as chairman of the missions committee. A born-again Christian, now at age 73, he is living a quiet, although busy life, with his wife Joan, near Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

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Table of Contents and Sample Excerpt

Title Page
Preface
Foreword
Dedication
About The Author and His Book
Chapter 1: All Of Us Are God's Children
Chapter 2: My Church Is The Answer
Chapter 3: Communion Absolves Me Of Sin
Chapter 4: Baptism Ensures Me Of Eternal Life
Chapter 5: It Is Possible For One To Lose His Salvation
Chapter 6: I Can Get Away With Sinning
Chapter 7: It Doesn't Matter What I Believe
Chapter 8: Jesus Christ Is Just One Of Many Religious Leaders
Chapter 9: There Is No Life After Death
Chapter 10: I Don't Need A Saviour
Chapter 11: There Is No Such Place As Hell
Chapter 12: The Bible Is Not The Inspired Word Of God
Chapter 13: No One Can Foretell The Future
Bibliography

excerpt from Chapter 1: All Of Us Are God's Children

All of us are God's children. Says who? I tend to believe that many are fooled into believing this lie because they have it equated with the fact that all of us are God's creation. And since we are all created equal, then we all have an automatic equal inheritance from our Father, and we are His equal children. They think. Or many have been fooled into this lie by having been taught to believe it by those who hold elevated positions in the ecclesia. Unfortunately, there are blind leaders of the blind. Those who are in places of spiritual leadership have a very responsible, if not awesome, job. They are supposed to represent the truth. I say "supposed to", but suppose they are in error! This is the big, big problem. Some leaders are considered to be infallible, are upheld as idols of worship. People become imprisoned inside arenas of spiritual belief with no more assurance of truth than that they are blindly following their forebears which have made their "religion" to be devoid of error. And so I am calling attention to the fact--an explosive fact--that there can be, and often is, error in the church. In any church! Churches are made by man and are run by man and therefore subject to fallible man/men. Beware of placing one's unguarded trust in a man on in a system or in a religion in such a blind fashion as to accept all and question nothing. That is subjecting oneself to slavery. One wants to be free; and since the truth will set you free, you need the truth. Where does is come from? From God thru His Holy Word!

excerpt from Chapter 3: Communion Absolves Me Of Sin

Now another place where wrongful interpretation enters, is the passage of 1 Corinthians 11, verses 23 thru 34, but particularly in the section of verses 24 and 25. The problem arises with the Lord's words, "This is my body", referring to the broken bread, and "This cup is the new testament in my blood.". Now how can the bread be His body, and how can the cup be the new testament? Since Christ was present there at His saying, "This (the bread) is my body", how can anyone believe He meant that the bread was literally His body? If so, then was His body not His body? And in saying, "take, eat", He would have been endorsing cannibalism if, indeed, a literal rendering was (or is) meant. Similarly, with the cup. Would Christ have had His followers drink literal blood? Perish the idea. Absurd. Ridiculous. No, the cup and the bread obviously symbolized His soon-to-follow act of sacrifice on the blessed cross of Calvary. (see verse 26). He said, "...this do in remembrance of me", once in verse 24 and again once in verse 25. He didn't say, "This do for the remission of sin". He emphasized remembrance and we must accept that He meant remembrance; and if He meant any thing more than remembrance, He would certainly have said so. We must not put words and any meaning into Scriptural passages which give us false information. The Lord's 'supper' was a time of coming together for communing unto remembrance, and to "show the Lord's death till He come" (verse 26).

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The renowned Bible teacher. H.A. Ironside, wrote, "Every time the Communion feast is celebrated, the great fact is emphasized that it is the blood, the blood of Jesus alone, that cleanses from sin and gives access to the presence of God. (But) there are those that have added it (the Lord's table) a great many unscriptural superstitious practices and have made it a strange and weird mystery..."

What cannot be understood is why there are those who want to believe that Christ here is saying that partaking of the drinking of the cup amounts to the remission of sins. No, no! He says, "...my blood...is shed...for the remission...". It was His doing which resulted in taking care of sins. If the communion, the partaking of the supper by the disciples (the people) results in taking care of their sins, then the sin question is dependent upon their doings, and therefore NOT on Christ's doing. Which, of course, is contrary to what the Scriptures teach.

excerpt from Chapter 4: Baptism Ensures Me Of Eternal Life

Widely-known teacher and pastor, Charles J. Woodbridge, has written, "The Baptist churches...do not baptize infants, but only people who have personally made a profession of faith in Christ. they find no scriptural warrant for the baptism of children. Moreover, they immerse in water those whom they baptize. The new Christians are thus "buried with him (Christ) by baptism..." (Roman 6:4), and; emerging from the water, spiritually raised with Christ to newness of life."

Baptism to obtain eternal life? No way! Let's be safe by sticking to Scriptures and not distorting what God says. Yet, there are die-hards who want to follow traditional churchy rituals. There are some of these who are sincere, by they are sincerely wrong. Some may be Bible students (?) who want to support their erroneous beliefs with Scripture, but what kind of Bible could they be using?

excerpt from Chapter 5: It Is Possible For One To Lose His Salvation

Any Scripture which may seem to indicate that a saved person is subject to losing that salvation must be carefully studied to ascertain what is truly meant. People who believe that salvation, once attained, can be lost, think this is so because they continue to sin. Unfortunately, they miss the vital point that Jesus's shed blood washes away all sin, and all sin included future sin. In fact, all your sins were future sins when Christ died on the cross hundreds of years ago. If Christ's shed blood cleansed us from just some sins, which ones were cleansed and which ones were not? Silly thought that the efficacy of the Saviour's shed blood was a partial redemption.

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