The New Testament is one book made up of several books, but it has two gospels; it has a Jewish doctrine that demands people keep some of the Jewish Law, and it has a gospel of grace where it makes no demands on anybody and also abolishes religious law. People can choose which gospel they want.
Heresy means “choice.” People who don’t want others to have a choice made choosing a bad thing. As both government and church, Christianity put people to death based on their choice, i.e., “Heresy.” Religion wants conformity, not freethinkers.
The gospel of grace gives people the freedom to choose what they want to do in life. In other words, it provides people with personal responsibility. The gospel of grace lets people select and, therefore, makes all people heretical because they have the freedom of choice.
The New Testament is a story of two gospels; one isn’t a gospel at all because Christianity denies people the freedom to choose how to live their lives. Christianity has a list of rules and laws that people must abide by to be good Christians.
It’s not a bad thing that the New Testament is heretical. Why? Because it makes people stand either for grace or for religious law being the way to live a freed life. The New Testament is like writing out pros and cons for something I’m about to buy. Except I get to write down the attributes of grace versus the characteristics of living by religious law. When these differences are evident, then I’m free to be the best heretic I can be by making the best choice for me.
Being a heretic is a good thing! And that’s no bull!
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