Concerning Those Who Deceive You

Concerning Those Who Deceive You

Writer: Evangelos D. Kepenes (February 22, 2025, 13:30)

"I have written these things to you about those who deceive you. And the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him." (1 John 2:26-27)

The beliefs of modern self-proclaimed Christians do not stem from the anointing—that is, the Holy Spirit, which leads those who love God into all truth—but from ambitious, egotistical self-proclaimed "servants of God." These individuals interpret "Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ" (1 Cor. 11:1) merely as a justification to establish churches and manipulate the untheological and biblically uninformed, feeding them with myths and imposed religious delusions that have plagued humanity for centuries.

The phenomenon of "Myth" and "Deception" was already active from the foundation of Christ’s Church, inherited either from the esoteric Jewish scriptures and Judaizers or from Gnostic Christians and it was highlighted by Paul's letters to the church "not to pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who turn away from the truth." (Titus 1:14)

Interacting with each other, these fallacies gave rise to various post-apostolic utopian mystical movements—sometimes even armed ones—which appealed primarily to poor and uneducated masses who envisioned an ideal new world free from poverty and oppression by the elite (James 2:6) and a forthcoming divine slaughter of unjust usurpers of wealth and power.

Thus, in combination with the geopolitical and political trends and economic interests of the early centuries AD, new religions emerged, new theological doctrines, new career opportunities in the religious industry, new fearmongering (Antichrist, eternal suffering of unbelievers, doomsday), new antisocial and world-renouncing monastic tendencies fixated on death’s study (Plato), new "divine" methods of violent Christianization, new institutions of the Holy Inquisition and Holy Punishment for the disobedient, and new "Sacred Instruments of Torture" to enforce new syncretistic theological ideas.

The birth of the new religion of the Gnostic church fathers—"Hellenic Christianity" or "Helleno-Orthodoxy" as evidenced by their own Nicene Creed—led the charge in the "pagan extermination" with the backing of its ally, the Roman Empire. It launched a relentless persecution against the Greeks, their religion, customs, festivals, calendar, books, temples, and altars—everything reminiscent of their culture and way of life—spreading spiritual darkness that remains indelible to this day, manifesting in the decline and collapse of Western civilization.

Of course, some Greek temples, altars, statues, and cities had already been looted by earlier conquerors, and many exquisite works of Greek art had been stolen by emperors and wealthy Romans to adorn their palaces, cosmopolitan cities, and villas.

The Christian chronicler Sozomen states: "Almost all Hellenists were put to death; an order was given to burn some and kill others by the sword. And along with them, for the same reason, throughout the empire, those who excelled in philosophy also lost their lives. But even people who were not philosophers but simply wore similar clothing were executed." (Ecclesiastical History, Book VI, Chapters 35 & 36)

The historical outcome of these deceptions was the defamation of God's character—"God is love" (1 John 4:8)—causing social unrest, hostility, heresies, excommunications, religious revolutions, and "holy crusades," which banished all biblical truth and transformed "love one another" into "bite and devour one another" (Galatians 5:15), all for the sake of "Helleno-Orthodox" doctrinal supremacy and the interests of its representatives.

The completion of the intellectual stupefaction of all the religious—regardless of denomination—is always achieved through fear-mongering, threats, and the anticipation of disasters brought about by vague forces of Evil. According to the Greek Orthodox dogma of fatalism and eschatological post-mortem fantasies, these are inevitable—unless the “believers” remain attached to the imposed religious system and obedient to their spiritual rapists.

The verses "For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap" (Galatians 6:7) and "Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life" (Proverbs 4:23) are merely decorative quotes for the preachers of doom.

The fact that the misfortunes and hopelessness of the present and future world are due, on the one hand, to the distortion of apostolic teachings by the architects of religious institutions and, on the other hand, to the policies of opportunistic "hope-sellers" in every government is of no concern to them. When ethics, virtue, justice, solidarity, health, logic, hope, love, and truth are sacrificed on the altar of profit and self-interest, the result is decline, pain, misery, and spiritual sorrow.

In the madness of post-apostolic religious disputes, conflicts, revolutions, assassinations, cultural destructions, fearmongering, eschatological fantasies, and the devaluation of human dignity, the anticipation of the coming of ultimate evil in the form of the Antichrist, as world leader, has always prevailed—a time of lawlessness, chaos, torture, massacres, branding, and the enslavement of humanity. The irony of these beliefs was that humanity was already living—and still lives—under such conditions due to religious and political intolerance.

As Norman Cohn states in his book "The Pursuit of the Millennium," any religious or political ruler was labeled as the Antichrist. When they died without fulfilling the prophecies of the "Last Days," they were downgraded to the rank of "forerunner," and the expectation of the embodiment of evil would begin anew.

Today, the refusal to accept the biblical reference to the historical Antichrist as a Jewish sorcerer who performed false signs and wonders within the earthly Temple of fleshly Israel—among the Jews who rejected the love of the truth, Jesus, for salvation—leads to confusion, false prophecies, divisions, fears, fanaticism, psychological disorders, and the deprivation of believers from experiencing the joy of earthly life, the security of the Lord, the comfort and paternal love of the sacrifice of God's Son, and the joy of the gift of posthumous immortality granted by Christ.

Flee from religions—Christ is our life.

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