7 Lies We Believe About God

God is of My Denomination

So many of us feel that we own the truth. We simply take for granted that this or that denominational interpretation of the Bible—and subsequently, the character of God—is the “right” one. Because of this, we assume that God is firmly in our denomination of the Christian Church.

This couldn’t be more wrong.

While the fracturing of the Church into denominations isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it can build walls between Christians when people believe that God is confined to their own group. It is this attitude, not the existence of denominations, that truly fractures the Church.

In reality, God doesn’t belong to any denomination. He isn’t Baptist. He isn’t Methodist or Presbyterian or Catholic. He’s not even Calvinist or Arminian. He is God. He is above these man-made structures.

2 John: 9 reads, “Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.” So whatever flavor a church’s doctrine is, as long as that church embraces the essentials of Christ’s teachings, God is happy with it.

God is not confined by our denominations—He is far too big for that.