Scripture tells us how Satan deceives. In short, the Adversary becomes the very thing the masses believe he opposes. Most people think that this wily serpent opposes Christianity and that is exactly why he became Christianity.
13 For such are false apostles, fraudulent workers, being transfigured into apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel, for Satan himself is being transfigured into a messenger of light.
15 It is no great thing, then, if his servants also are being transfigured as dispensers of righteousness — whose consummation shall be according to their acts. – 2 Corinthians 11: 13-15
In the above verses, Paul says that Satan is transfigured into a messenger of light. His minions are described as being apostles of Christ and dispensers of righteousness. Now, everyone would claim that they are not and some other group is the false apostles of Christ. Some, I’m sure, would accuse me of talking falsely about Jesus. However, the proof is in the pudding. In this case, the proof is in what they are dispensing…righteousness!
Obviously, Satan and these false apostles are not dispensing the righteousness of God that comes through Christ’s faith (Romans 3:22). Indeed they are dispensing a righteousness though, while claiming to be apostles of Christ. So, what is the righteousness they are dispensing?
Here it is! This is why Satan became Christianity. Satan became Christianity to claim the name of Christ and tell lies about Him. Satan became Christianity to take the name of Christ, the righteousness of God and turn it into human righteousness. All the while, getting people to believe that it is Christ.
How does Satan do this? He does it by making the righteousness of God achieved by Christ contingent upon the human being. Put another way, salvation accomplished by Christ alone is now made effective or ineffective by human action, therefore the righteous act of humanity. Christ’s death for sin, His entombment, and His resurrection accomplished salvation for all mankind. However, Satan shifts the focus of the cross to only apply to those that righteously fight their own sin. Instead of letting grace through the accomplished work of Christ be our motivation, Satan makes salvation an attainment of human righteousness.
This is the righteousness that false apostles of Christ are dispensing!
You see, Christians always claim to have oil in their lamps (self righteousness). They claim to be rapture ready (self righteousness). They claim to overcome their sin (self righteousness). They also claim to make a faith decision independent of God for salvation (self righteousness).
If only Christians knew that this self righteousness is the false righteousness dispensed by Satan and his fakers. If only Christians knew that God’s righteousness comes in our unworthiness, our UN-readiness, and independent of any human act…and the only sin that keeps a person from aionion (not eternal) life is this:
The belief that a human can do anything independent of God to earn God’s righteousness.
God’s righteousness is only achieved through Christ alone. It is not achieved through Christ and human contribution. Everyone in the universe eventually comes to this realization and the timing of that realization is the order in which they will be saved.
Jesus Christ says that no one can come to Him unless the Father draws him (John 6:44) and then says that He will draw ALL to Himself (John 12:32). This means that God will bring all men to Christ. However Satan, through Christianity, says that no man will come to Christ unless that man makes the right decision.
Romans 5: 18-19 says that the same all that are condemned in Adam are justified by Christ. However Satan, through Christianity, says that Adam condemned all mankind but Christ can only justify those that live justly through righteous behavior. Adam’s act was so powerful that it spread to all humanity, but Christ is limited to justify only those who exemplify great human achievement. Thus, making Adam greater than Christ as Christ’s work is based on human righteousness and Adam’s is based on nothing from the human.
1 Corinthians 15:28 says that God will be All in all. However Satan, through Christianity, says that God will only be All in some. The ‘some’ achieve this status and allow God to fill them because of their rightous decision, their good works, their overcoming of sin, and on and on. In essence, the believer achieves salvation through their own rightousness, not that of Christ.
Colossians 1:20 says that All will be reconciled to God through the blood of the cross. However Satan, through Christianity, says that the cross reconciles no one without human contribution.
2 Corinthians 5: 19 says that God was in Christ conciliating the world to Himself, not reckoning their offenses to them. However Satan, through Christianity, says that God IS reckoning the world’s offenses to them and no one is conciliated unless the human acts righteously and accepts the offer.
1 Timothy 4:10 says that God is the Savior of all mankind, especially of believers. However Satan, through Christianity, says that God is exlclusively the Savior of only those that righteously excercised their free will to believe. Thus, salvation is based on human decision, not Christ.
Isaiah 45:7 says that God created evil. However Satan, through Christianity, convinces people that they have to choose good over evil in order to be saved. Therefore, its the humans ability to overcome evil that saves them, not Christ. So according to Christianity, evil is not a part of God’s plan that evenuates in good but is something created by Satan that human righteousness must overcome so that God can save them. Again, human righteousness is the deciding factor of salvation.
2 Timothy 1:9 says that God calls believers into grace before time began and that it is not in accord with human acts. However Satan, through Christianity, says it is all of human acts, human righteousness. In fact, Christianity says that God doesn’t make this decision before time began but humans make the decision long after they are born. Satan denies that human decision is a result of God’s, and in doing so, makes the human act of decision making the rightousness that provides salvation.
Romans chapter 9 says that God forms the wills of men and determines every detail of life before they are born. In fact, He is the Potter and we are the clay. However Satan, through Christianity, convinces people that man forms his own will and the clay makes itself into vessels of dishonor. The Potter, God, can only react to the righteous behavior of His clay.
Romans 11:32 says that God locks up all in stubborness, that He should be merciful to all. However Satan, through Christianity, says that God locks up all in stubborness that He should only be merciful to those that have overcome their stubborness. Again, God’s mercy is dependent upon man’s righteous act of overcoming his own stubborness.
Christ came to save sinners and He died for us while we are still sinners, while we are enemies (Romans 5: 8-11). However Satan, through Christianity, says that Christ only died for those that can stop sinning long enough to make a righteous decision. So, even though Christ conciliated us while we are enemies (Romans 5:10), we must stop being enemies in order for His death to apply to us. Again, salvation based on human ability and not the death of Christ.
Scripture says that Christ killed the old humanity of sin and death. However Satan, through Christianity, drags the old humanity out of death in order for the righteous Christian to kill it themselves.
I can go on and on…
My point is that God accomplished salvation for mankind through Christ Jesus. It is God that gives man belief and it is God that witholds belief. Eventually, each and every person ever created will come to the realization of God’s righteousness completed through and only through Christ Jesus. This realization will determine the order in which a human will be saved, however, everyone is saved by Christ’s work, not their own. Our work is a result of God, not the other way around.
Satan has taken the name Christ, the One that saves, and makes it about self. He makes God’s rightousness in Christ a result of a human act. Therefore, the salvation that is all of God can only happen through human righteousness. This is how Satan’s minions dispense righteousness. They appear to be righteous as they promote human rightousness, not the righteousous of God that is achieved apart from human contribution. These false apostles of Christ deny God’s true righteousness achieved by Christ alone.
As a result, Christianity makes everything about self. They love their decision, they love their worship, they love their love, and they reject the One true God in doing so. Religious people claim to love but this love is faked in order to prove that they are worthy of God. How do we know this? Because their fake love, like the love of their fake god, runs out and they condemn people to hell for not joining them is self worship.
Go to any church service and listen to the beautiful music that makes people mistake worship for emotional diversion. They claim to worship a God that saved them only if they were smart enough, sinless enough, and self righteous enough to save themselves. Why don’t they sing to themselves if its their decision that sends them to heaven?
Long story short, to late I know, but Satan has made billions of people think they are serving Christ. But, the truth is that these Christians put themselves in front of Christ. How do we know this? Because everything they claim they have from Christ, including salvation, is not theirs or can be lost if THEY don’t do the right thing. False righteousness.
The true righteousness of God comes through Christ’s faith, His death for sin, His entombment, and His resurrection. Each come to a realization of this in God’s timing and order. God gives faith, God gives repentance, God gives everything.
We as humans need to stop crediting ourselves with doing the things that only God can do. This is the very false righteousness dispensed by religious folk talked about by our apostle in 2 Corinthians 11:15.
Grace, peace, and God’s righteousness to you all.
Saved ignoble 
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