Chamber of Christianity

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The Babylon Encyclopedia is a living record — one woman's long search for the oil that never runs dry. It is not a sermon, not a religion to join, not a system to follow. It is arranged in Chambers, each one a doorway into a different world of ancient knowledge: from the Bible into Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, through the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi library, deeper into the Gnostic texts, and onward through Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Cosmology, Astrology, and Psychology, until we arrive at the heart of Kabbalah — a mystical journey into the Hebrew alphabet itself. Every Chamber stands complete on its own, yet every one leads back to the same hidden thread: the Father, the Fall, the gods, the Material World, and the Rescue by the One who came as the Messiah, the Savior.

The Chamber of Christianity is the first great doorway. It begins at the very beginning — in the Garden, with Adam and Eve, the Fall, and the long silence before the Messiah came. It walks through the life, death, and resurrection of Yeshua, the writings of the Apostles, the Canon Wars, the hidden texts of Nag Hammadi, the rise of the Vatican, the Great Schism, the Crusades, the Protestant Reformation, and the fractured modern church. It tests every denomination against the Bible's own markers. It enters the heated debates — the Rapture, Hell, the Trinity, Salvation, the Second Coming, and Revelation. And it asks the one question that cannot be avoided: if Christianity claims to follow Yeshua, why does so much of what was built in His name stand in quiet contradiction to what He actually said?

Yeshua's Journey on Earth ✨

After 430 years of silence — no prophets, no fresh visions — the fullness of time arrived. Right on schedule with Daniel's 70-weeks prophecy, the promised King stepped into human history. Born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, baptized in the Jordan. For thirty quiet years he worked with his hands. Then, at thirty, he stepped into public ministry and walked the dusty roads of Galilee and Judea for three to four years — teaching, healing, and showing the world exactly what the Father looks like in human flesh.

He touched lepers and they were cleansed. He raised the dead. He calmed storms with a word. He fed thousands from almost nothing. He opened blind eyes, cast out demons, and walked on water. Every miracle was not spectacle — it was restoration. Visible proof that the Kingdom of God had arrived and the tyranny of sickness, scarcity, and death was being overthrown from the inside out.

His words were just as radical as his miracles. "The Kingdom of God is within you." "Love your enemies." "I and the Father are one." He ate with sinners, challenged the religious elite, and cleansed the Temple. To the authorities, he was a threat. To the people, he was the long-awaited answer. And both of those things led straight to the cross.

Yeshua's Death

After three years of walking the earth — healing, teaching, and openly claiming to be the King of the Jews — Yeshua became a threat too large to ignore. Both the Jewish religious leaders and the Roman government wanted him gone.

He was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane in the middle of the night. The Sanhedrin tried him for blasphemy — illegal under their own law to hold at night. Then they dragged him to Pontius Pilate, because only Rome could order an execution. Pilate found no crime worthy of death. He said so three times. Then he washed his hands and handed Yeshua over anyway.

The soldiers beat him, crowned him with thorns, and forced him to carry his cross to Golgotha. By 9 AM he was nailed to it between two criminals. The charge above his head read in three languages: King of the Jews.

Both systems — Jewish religious law and Roman imperial power — worked together to remove the Light. The religious leaders feared losing control. The Romans feared rebellion. Neither could afford to let him live.

And from the cross, his last words were: "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."

Three days later, the tomb was empty.

The Resurrection

Three days after the crucifixion, while it was still dark, the women went to the tomb to finish anointing his body. The stone was rolled away. The tomb was empty. Angels met them: "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here. He has risen."

Over the next forty days, Yeshua appeared alive to eyewitness after eyewitness — not as a ghost, not as a vision, but in a real, physical body. He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, who thought he was the gardener until he spoke her name. He appeared to the disciples behind locked doors, showed them his wounds, and ate fish in front of them to prove he was not a spirit. He appeared to Thomas, who touched the wounds and declared "My Lord and my God." He appeared to more than five hundred people at once. Finally, he appeared to Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus in a blinding flash of light.

After forty days, he led them to the Mount of Olives, blessed them, and ascended into heaven. Ten days later — Pentecost — the Holy Spirit fell like fire on 120 believers gathered in one room. Peter preached with a boldness he never had before. Three thousand people were baptized that day.

The tomb was empty. The sending had already begun. The golden thread did not end at the cross — it blazed brighter than ever.

The Apostles

Yeshua did not choose the religious elite, the scholars, or the powerful. He chose fishermen, a tax collector, a political revolutionary, and women that the world had already written off. He spoke their names, and they left everything.

The Twelve walked with him, watched him die, and then saw him alive again. Peter — bold, impulsive, crucified upside down in Rome. Andrew — quiet, faithful, crucified on an X-shaped cross in Greece. James — the first apostle martyred, beheaded by Herod. John — the beloved disciple, the only one to die of old age. Thomas — the doubter who touched the wounds and then preached all the way to India, where he was speared to death. Matthew, Philip, Bartholomew, Simon the Zealot, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus — each one carried the Light into a different corner of the world, and most of them paid for it with their lives.

And then there was Mary Magdalene. Yeshua had cast seven demons out of her. She stood at the foot of the cross when most of the disciples had fled. She was the first person the risen Yeshua appeared to — and he chose her to carry the first announcement of the resurrection to the others.

These ordinary, transformed people became the foundation of everything that followed. Their eyewitness testimony, their willingness to die for what they saw, and the letters they wrote became the living heart of the New Testament.

"Follow me." That was all he ever asked.

The New Testament

After the original disciples walked the earth, Yeshua had already chosen the man who would carry the message to the Gentiles — a fierce Pharisee named Saul of Tarsus, who was actively hunting down and persecuting the early believers.

Then a blinding light from heaven knocked him to the ground on the road to Damascus. "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" For three days he could not see, could not eat, could not drink. When Ananias laid hands on him, the scales fell from his eyes — and Paul was born.

He disappeared into Arabia for years of study and purification. When he emerged, he became the most tireless missionary the church has ever known — planting churches across the Roman Empire, enduring beatings, shipwrecks, and imprisonments, and writing the letters that now form a massive portion of the New Testament. Tradition holds he was beheaded in Rome under Nero, faithful to the end.

His letters — written twenty to thirty years after Yeshua walked the earth — now sit at the center of one of the church's deepest tensions. The same church that declared them divinely authoritative quietly sets aside the parts that feel inconvenient. We pick and choose which commands we will actually obey.

"If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

The question the New Testament leaves us with is simple and uncomfortable: Are we seeking the church Yeshua actually intended — or have we built something else while still claiming His authority when it suits us?

The Canon Wars

After Yeshua ascended, a flood of writings began to circulate among the early believers — gospels, letters, apocalypses, wisdom teachings, revelations. Many were attributed to the apostles or their closest followers. Some were cherished everywhere. Others were embraced only in certain regions. Others were quietly set aside. And some were actively destroyed.

This three-century battle over which writings would be declared sacred scripture became known as the Canon Wars. It was never one dramatic council. It unfolded slowly — shaped by theological debates, responses to heresy, the need for unity under Roman persecution, and the very practical question of what would be read aloud in worship.

The decisive moment came in 367 CE, when Athanasius of Alexandria listed the exact 27 books that now form the New Testament — the first time that precise collection appears in history. The Councils of Hippo and Carthage ratified it shortly after. The line was drawn.

What made the cut: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Acts. Paul's letters. The General Epistles. Revelation.

What didn't: The Gospel of Mary — where Yeshua gives Mary Magdalene special post-resurrection teachings. The Gospel of Thomas — 114 secret sayings of the living Yeshua, promising that whoever finds their interpretation will not taste death. The Gospel of Philip — on the Bridal Chamber, spiritual union, and the mystery of opposites. The Apocryphon of John — a detailed revelation of the Pleroma, the fall of Sophia, and the prison of the material world. Pistis Sophia. The Books of Jeu. Thunder: Perfect Mind. Dozens more.

Most of these texts were ordered destroyed. But someone buried them instead. In December 1945, farmers near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt unearthed thirteen leather-bound codices containing 52 texts — hidden in the sand for 1,600 years, waiting.

"You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life."

Even the most careful lists could never replace the living voice they were meant to point toward.

Nag Hammadi

After Athanasius drew the line in 367 CE, monks who still treasured the excluded writings faced a stark choice: burn them or bury them. Many chose the sand.

In December 1945, a farmer named Muhammed Ali al-Samman was digging for fertilizer at the base of a cliff in Upper Egypt when his mattock struck something hard — a large sealed clay jar. Inside lay thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices, carefully wrapped and hidden for nearly 1,600 years. Over fifty texts, written in Coptic, copied from earlier Greek originals. Buried the very year Athanasius ordered them destroyed. For the first time in modern history, we could read the actual words of the Gnostics — not what their opponents said about them. Their own words.

What was inside: The Gospel of Mary — Mary Magdalene receiving secret post-resurrection teachings from Yeshua on the soul's ascent past hostile powers. The Gospel of Thomas — 114 direct sayings of the living Yeshua, opening with the promise that whoever finds their interpretation will not taste death. The Gospel of Philip — on the Bridal Chamber and the soul's reunion with its divine counterpart. The Apocryphon of John — a full cosmology: Sophia's fall, the Demiurge Yaldabaoth, the archons, and the material world as a prison. The Books of Jeu — cosmic maps, passwords, seals, and light-baptisms for the soul's ascent through the invisible realms. Thunder: Perfect Mind — the voice of divine feminine wisdom: "I am the first and the last. The whore and the holy one."

Two other key collections had surfaced earlier: the Bruce Codex (Oxford), preserving the Books of Jeu, and the Askew Codex (British Library), containing Pistis Sophia — eleven years of post-resurrection teachings Yeshua gave the disciples, especially Mary Magdalene, on the soul's journey back to the Treasury of Light.

These texts show that Yeshua brought both a public message for the multitudes and secret inner teachings meant to awaken the divine spark inside every soul.

"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

The Vatican

In 313 AD, Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity. In 325 AD, he called the Council of Nicaea. What had been a persecuted movement of house gatherings — people who shared everything in common and looked only to the living Yeshua as Teacher — suddenly had legal protection, wealth, and the full favor of the Roman Empire.

Power centralized fast. The Bishop of Rome began to be called "Pope" — father — and the claims of supremacy grew with every century. By the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church had become the most powerful religious institution in the Western world.

Along the way, layers of doctrine appeared that are nowhere in the teachings of Yeshua or the original apostles. Papal Infallibility — declared in 1870 — the Pope cannot err on matters of faith. Yeshua said: "Do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven." Veneration of Mary and the saints — praying to Mary for intercession. Yeshua said: "When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen." Purgatory and indulgences — a place of purification after death, and the selling of pardons to reduce time there. Transubstantiation — the bread and wine literally become his body and blood. Confession to a priest — sins must be confessed to a human intermediary for absolution.

And then there is the wealth. Conservative estimates place the Church's global assets — real estate, art, investments — at one to two trillion dollars or more. Yeshua said: "Sell all you have and give to the poor." He said: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

The questions grow louder. What happened to the pure, unadorned Way that Yeshua walked and taught? Where is the golden thread when 1,700 years of tradition have covered it?

The Great Schism

After the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, the church had already begun drifting apart along East–West lines — different languages, different cultures, different daily practices. For centuries the tension quietly built. Then in 1054 AD, it finally broke.

Cardinal Humbert, representing Rome, and Patriarch Michael Cerularius of Constantinople exchanged mutual excommunications. The Western church became the Roman Catholic Church, under the supreme authority of the Pope. The Eastern church became the Eastern Orthodox Church — a family of self-governing traditions: Greek, Russian, Serbian, and others that still exist today.

The official disputes: Rome claimed supreme universal authority over all Christians. Constantinople said the Bishop of Rome was only "first among equals." Rome had unilaterally added the word "and the Son" (Filioque) to the Nicene Creed — the East called it an unauthorized and theologically dangerous change. There were also fights over fasting rules, whether priests could marry, leavened versus unleavened bread in communion, and the role of icons.

Beneath all of it: politics, power, cultural identity, and the struggle for control. Both sides used doctrine to protect their own influence.

Yeshua said: "Call no one on earth 'father,' for you have one Father and he is in heaven." He said: "The Kingdom of God is within you." He said: "Sell all you have and come, follow me." Neither Rome nor Constantinople built what he described.

And it didn't stop there. Forty years later, Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade — calling Western knights to take up arms and reclaim Jerusalem. The man who said "Love your enemies" now had armies marching in his name

The Crusades

After the Great Schism fractured the church in 1054, a far more violent chapter began. In the seventh century, Islam had risen in Arabia and swept across the Middle East, North Africa, and into Spain within a single century. For hundreds of years, Christians and Muslims lived in uneasy coexistence. Then in 1095, Pope Urban II stood before a crowd at the Council of Clermont and called for the First Crusade.

He promised full remission of sins and immediate entry into heaven to anyone who took up the cross. "God wills it!" became the battle cry. Thousands sewed red crosses onto their clothes and marched east.

What followed were nearly two hundred years of holy war (1095–1291). The First Crusade captured Jerusalem in 1099 in a bloodbath that shocked even medieval chroniclers — streets ran with blood up to the knees of the horses. The Second Crusade. The Third, led by Richard the Lionheart. The Children's Crusade. The sack of Constantinople in 1204 — by fellow Christians. Castles built, kingdoms carved out, rivers of blood spilled on all sides. What began as a call to "liberate" the Holy Land became conquest, massacre, and political empire-building dressed in religious language.

Yeshua had already spoken directly into this. When Peter drew a sword to defend him in the garden, Yeshua said: "Put your sword back in its place — for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." Before Pilate he said: "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would have been fighting."

How did the One who said "Love your enemies" become the banner under which armies marched and cities burned?

Translation

Language is alive. It breathes, it shifts, it puts on new clothes with every generation — yet the living intent behind the words can still pierce straight to the heart, if we are willing to step inside the world of the writer.

The Old Testament was written in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic. Around 250–150 BC, Jewish scholars in Alexandria translated it into Greek — the Septuagint — so that Jews living outside Israel could read their own scriptures. The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, the common street language of the Roman Empire. From there, every new generation had to copy it by hand and translate it again as the faith spread into new lands and new tongues.

Three generations alive right now all say the same thing differently. Grandma says "Ten-four." Mom says "Got it." Daughter says "Bet." Same heart. Different clothing.

Yeshua's teachings work the same way. When he said "If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out" — he was not giving a literal command to mutilate the body. He was cutting straight to the heart: even the secret gaze, the hidden fantasy, the lust that objectifies another human being is already adultery in God's eyes. Today we might say: "Even looking at pornography is adultery in your heart. It's better to cut off the hand you're using than let this poison destroy your soul." Same blazing truth. Different clothing.

To truly hear him, we cannot stay on the surface of the words. We have to walk into the worldview of the writer — feel the dust on the roads of Galilee, smell the Roman occupation, hear the hunger of ordinary people for a kingdom that actually sets them free. Only then does the living intent rise up and speak directly to us across two thousand years.

The words may shift with every generation. The golden thread of his heart never does.

The Protestant Reformation

By the early 1500s the Roman Catholic Church had become one of the wealthiest institutions in Europe. Pope Leo X needed funds to complete St. Peter's Basilica, so he authorized the aggressive sale of indulgences — certificates promising to reduce time in purgatory for the buyer or their dead relatives. A friar named Johann Tetzel preached it openly: "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs."

On October 31, 1517, a German monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. What began as an academic call for debate spread like wildfire across Europe — carried by the newly invented printing press. Luther's argument was simple and explosive: salvation cannot be bought or earned. It is a free gift of God's grace, received through faith alone. Scripture — not the Pope, not church tradition — is the final authority. And every believer has direct access to God without a priestly hierarchy standing in between.

Summoned to the Diet of Worms in 1521 and ordered to recant, Luther refused: "Here I stand. I can do no other." Excommunicated and declared an outlaw, he was hidden in a castle and translated the New Testament into everyday German so ordinary people could read it for themselves.

The movement exploded. Zwingli and Calvin pushed further in Switzerland. King Henry VIII broke with Rome in England — for his own reasons — and the Anglican church was born. Anabaptists and early Baptists insisted on believer's baptism and separation of church and state, often paying with their lives.

From this eruption came the entire Protestant landscape we see today — Lutheran, Reformed, Presbyterian, Anglican, Baptist, Pentecostal, non-denominational, and thousands more. Each one still wrestling with how to live out the simple Way of Yeshua amid new structures and new divisions.

The golden thread flickered back to life for millions. The oil has not gone out. We keep walking.

The Modern Church

After the Great Schism and the Protestant Reformation, the single visible church that existed for the first thousand years fractured into the many expressions we see today. Walk down almost any street in America, Europe, Africa, or Latin America and you will see crosses on every corner — on towering steeples, on gold necklaces, on giant billboards advertising megachurches with coffee bars, rock-concert worship, and livestreams. The symbol is everywhere. The simple, radical Way of Yeshua is often buried beneath it.

Here is what we are actually looking at today:

Roman Catholic Church — Over 1.4 billion members. The direct continuation of the Western church under the authority of the Pope. The largest single Christian body in the world.

Eastern Orthodox Church — The continuation of the Eastern church that split in 1054. Greek, Russian, Serbian, and other self-governing traditions emphasizing ancient liturgy, icons, and tradition.

Protestant Churches — The families born from the 16th-century Reformation: Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Non-denominational. Within this family also live the Anabaptist streams — the Mennonites and the Amish — who trace their roots to the Radical Reformation and still insist on believer's baptism, pacifism, and separation from the world.

Latter-day Saints — Founded by Joseph Smith in the 19th century. They accept the Bible but also additional scriptures and believe in continuing revelation through living prophets.

Jehovah's Witnesses — Founded in the late 19th century. They reject the Trinity, refuse military service and blood transfusions, and are known for door-to-door preaching.

Every one of these branches claims to follow Yeshua. They look very different in practice, structure, and emphasis. To find the true church of God, we do not need the largest, the oldest, or the most powerful institution. We have the markers Yeshua himself gave us — straight from his own mouth.

Next we test them all.

We have left the quiet world of the Amish behind. We are now standing in the heart of America — megachurches with coffee bars and stadium seating, 24-hour Christian television, prosperity pulpits, basement Bible studies, and furious online debates that never sleep. This is where the loudest fights happen. This is where sincere believers draw the sharpest lines. This is where families split, congregations fracture, and entire movements rise and fall over the same handful of questions.

These are not minor theological footnotes. They are the fault lines that have kept millions of sincere hearts locked in tribal warfare instead of walking the long road home to Him.

1. The Rapture — Will believers be secretly caught up before the tribulation, or will the Church go through it? Pre-trib believers see it as God's merciful rescue; post-trib believers call it a dangerous fairy tale that leaves people unprepared for real persecution. It has split Bible colleges, ended friendships, and filled prophecy conferences for decades.

2. Hell — Eternal conscious torment? Temporary purification? Or annihilation — the wicked are judged and simply cease to exist? This one cuts to the heart of God's character. Is He infinitely just and loving, or infinitely cruel? It has caused quiet exits from faith across every generation.

3. The Trinity — Is God one Being in three co-equal, co-eternal Persons — or three separate gods united in purpose — or ranked beings — or different modes of one God? This is the most foundational doctrinal fight in Christianity. It determines who Yeshua really is. It has defined orthodoxy for centuries and remains the sharpest barrier between groups.

4. Salvation — Grace through faith alone? Or faith plus works, baptism, sacraments, obedience, temple ordinances? Can salvation be lost? This is the classic faith-versus-works war. It launched the Reformation. It still divides families and churches today.

5. The Second Coming — One visible event after the tribulation, or multiple stages? What signs must precede it? This shapes how people live now — urgent escapism or patient endurance. It affects politics, Israel, prophecy teaching, and daily hope.

6. Eschatology — The full sequence: a literal 1,000-year reign or symbolic? The Antichrist, the resurrections, the final judgment, the new heaven and new earth. This is the big-picture fight. It has produced entire prophecy industries and endless speculation.

7. The Prosperity Gospel — Does God guarantee financial blessing and physical healing to those with enough faith? Or is suffering part of the narrow road and true riches are spiritual? This is the most American of all the fights. Some megachurches thrive on it. Others call it heresy. It affects how people pray, give, and face hardship.

These seven fault lines keep millions of lamps flickering instead of burning brightly. They keep us arguing about the shape of the oil instead of filling our vessels.

I have read every side. I have wept in every camp. And still the same question echoes: Where is the oil? The actual thing that keeps the lamp from going out at midnight.

The thread is still pulling. The long road continues.

The Hot Debates

12 Questions to Ask Your Pastor

These are not trick questions. They are not attacks. They are the questions Yeshua and Paul left us so we would never stop testing. Bring them with an open lamp and a discerning heart.

1. Does this church reject all pagan practices — including statues, icons, relics, and holidays with pagan roots?
"Flee from idolatry." — 1 Corinthians 10:14 |

"You shall not bow down to them or worship them." — Exodus 20:4-5

2. Do the men worship with their heads uncovered and the women with their heads covered?

"Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head." — 1 Corinthians 11:4-5

3. Does this church observe the divine order of headship — and does it hold to what Paul taught about women's roles in the assembly?

"The head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God." — 1 Corinthians 11:3

4. Does your leadership go by titles — Pastor, Father, Reverend, Bishop — or do they follow Yeshua's direct command?

"Do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven." — Matthew 23:9

5. Does this church teach and model modest appearance — or does it celebrate wealth, status, and elaborate dress?

"I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes." — 1 Timothy 2:9

6. Does this church hold its leadership to a standard of sexual purity — and does it discipline those who fall into immorality?

"You must purge the evil person from among you." — 1 Corinthians 5:13 | "Anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." — Matthew 5:28

7. Does this church test every doctrine, tradition, and message against the pure words of Yeshua — or does it ask you to simply trust the leadership?

"Test everything; hold on to what is good." — 1 Thessalonians 5:21 | "By their fruit you will recognize them." — Matthew 7:16

8. Is this church truly non-worldly — or has it conformed to the patterns, aesthetics, and values of the culture around it?

"Do not conform to the pattern of this world." — Romans 12:2 | "My kingdom is not of this world." — John 18:36

9. Does this church observe the seventh-day Sabbath as a day of true rest and intimate communion with the Father — or has it moved worship to Sunday and turned it into another busy service?

"There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God." — Hebrews 4:9 | "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." — Mark 2:27

10. Does this church teach you to pray in secret, alone with the Father behind closed doors — or does it model public performance and endless repetition?

"When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen." — Matthew 6:6

11. Does your pastor teach Genesis 6 — the sons of God, the Nephilim, and the corruption that brought the flood?

"The sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose… The Nephilim were on the earth in those days — the heroes of old, men of renown." — Genesis 6:2-4 | "The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled." — Genesis 6:6

12. Does your pastor teach Psalm 82 — that God stands in the divine assembly and judges the gods of the nations?

"God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the gods." — Psalm 82:1 | "When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance… he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of God." — Deuteronomy 32:8 | "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods'?" — Yeshua, John 10:34

These are not suggestions. They are the unchanging standard Yeshua and Paul left us. Any church, any movement, any leader can be tested against them. The congregation will always be a direct reflection of its leadership. Choose wisely whose table you sit at.