Universal Salvation

By Leith Cunningham

My dear brothers, sisters, and friends in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Christ in me has given me a specific talent for expounding upon His word. He continues to use my talent in teaching others the most valued message that will ever be heard on this earth. I have done the best that I know to do with what God has given me to work with on the present understanding He has given me. This book is intended to teach you the truth of God that is being withheld from you by this world's deceived Christian religion around the world. Whether it is by way of their spiritual ignorance or by omission, by purposefully failing to teach it, in either case I am exposing them all to you as the tools that Satan has been using since Christ was here on earth, in teaching us the real and factual truth of God. Somehow, God has put this book in your hands. It is my hope and prayer that you will find it useful and are able to glean from it the message it contains. It is not by any accident that you have this book in your hand and are reading these words at this moment in time. If these words mean nothing at all to you, it is either because I have not done a credible service in my over half century of study in searching and seeking out the truth of God to impart to others, or God simply is not calling you at this present time. But that in no way diminishes His unconditional love, care and concern for you and your physical life here on earth. The truth is, if God is not calling you at this time, you cannot come to Him. On the other hand, if you have found something within this book that uplifts, encourages, motivates and you feel a sensation as if some unseen force is drawing you into a seemingly brighter outlook on life and the time you are spending here on earth, God may very well be calling you. Then what you do, is your own decision to make. You do not need me or any man to teach you, the Holy Spirit of God will lead you into all truth. If you are looking for a way to get started in acquainting yourself with the word, the way, and the truth of God, you are welcome to visit our website www.thetruthstandsout.com, It is free of any charge of any kind. Leith Lyman Cunningham

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781645694335

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Chapter 1

The Church That Christ Is Building

There is nothing that even comes close on this orb we call earth to being as important as learning, accepting, believing, following, and understanding the truth of God. Many would agree with that, assuming within their own spiritual understanding, that all it requires for one to do that is to just go out on the street and start walking, most likely to the first corner, and there you have it—a church that will teach you everything you’ll ever need to know about the truth of God. The brick-and-mortar church will be there, all right, but you’ll not get one ounce of truth from out of it, because in not knowing and understanding the word of God themselves, there isn’t any way possible that they will be able to teach it unto others. They are the people of God to be sure, while being in denial of His truth.

They will make a stab at it with much talking and reading of scripture and believe themselves that they have preached the truth to you, at least, from their own perspective of what constitutes the truth of God. But is that the truth of the matter? Well, no, it is not the truth at all; it is a counterfeit teaching that Satan has brought into the church. The truth can be illusive. Some say it is here and some say it is there. One must know what they are looking for before they go looking for it. Therefore, a person must somewhat acquaint themselves with a least a beginning understanding on what the truth is so as to recognize it when they find it. On this matter, we do not have to wonder at all, because Christ has not left us in the dark to grovel and stumble around like a blind person as we try and determine for ourselves what the truth is and where to find it.

Twenty-Four Bible Verses about God’s Word Being the Truth

Psalm 119:160 - The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting.

2 Samuel 7:28 - Now, O Lord God, you are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.

John 17:17 - Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

1 Kings 17:24 - Then the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.

Psalm 19:9 - The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.

Psalm 119:43 - And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, For I wait for Your ordinances.

Psalm 119:151 - You are near, O Lord, and all Your commandments are truth.

2 Corinthians 6:7 - In the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,

Psalm 119:142 - Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.

Matthew 22:16 - And they sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any.

Mark 12:14 - They came and said to Him, Teacher, we know that You are truthful and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

Luke 20:21 - They questioned Him, saying, Teacher, we know that You speak and teach correctly, and You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth.

John 18:37 - Therefore Pilate said to Him, So You are a king? Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king for this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.

John 5:32 - There is another who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.

Romans 2:20 - A corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,

Galatians 2:5 - But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

Ephesians 1:13 - In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Colossians 1:5 - Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel

2 Timothy 3:16 - All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

1 John 2:8 - On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.

Revelation 21:5 - And He who sits on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new And He said, Write, for these words are faithful and true.

Revelation 22:6 - And he said to me, These words are faithful and true; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.

1 Kings 22:16 - Then the king said to him, How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?

Daniel 8:26 - The vision of the evenings and mornings Which has been told is true; But keep the vision secret, for it pertains to many days in the future.

These scriptures should be beyond sufficient in letting us know that, indeed, the Word of God that Jesus Christ is, He is in fact the truth and nothing but the truth. That we can and should wholeheartedly put our trust and confidence in it as being such. The word of God is what should be referred to as revealed knowledge. God the revelator, who cannot lie according to Titus 1:2, has been revealing His truth to us through the pages of the Bible for many, many years now. God Himself changes not, He is immutable. And even though the multiple thousands of so-called Christian churches and differing denominations and splinter groups off other splinter groups continue on teaching a different gospel message than Christ taught, the truth of God will always remain the same. The church that Jesus Christ is building here on earth that the gates of hell shall not prevail against, will also be teaching the truth of God, Christ will not allow His church to teach anything else, apart from the truth of God.

Acquired Truth

Another type of truth that mankind uses to teach others with goes through a metamorphic type of trial-and-error process to determine what classification it belongs in. This method is called acquired truth. It is accepted as truth after a testing of a step-by-step process to a logical point of reasonable, proven acceptance of being true. For example: A hypothesis is either a suggested explanation for an observable phenomenon, or a reasoned prediction of a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena. In science, a theory is a tested, well-substantiated, unifying explanation for a set of verified, proven factors. Here are some synonyms for hypothesis: proposition, thought, impression, judgment, surmise, affirmation, attribution, derivation, theory, premise, suggestion, supposition, proposition, guess, assumption. So, a hypothesis has to be subjected to rigorous and often a prolonged process before arriving at becoming considered to be theory before becoming the truth. In too many cases, mankind has accepted unproven hypothesis moved into theory as the acquired truth instead of the revealed truth of God.

Will Robots Take Over the World?

Now a new revelation quickly entering into the picture is AI, or artificial intelligence, the new toy mankind is hell-bent in learning to harness and put into practical use to maintain control over others that are just as intent in doing the same thing in return. They have already developed robots in all sizes and shapes to do everything to assist mankind, from complex brain surgeries to developing strategies for the unknown and uncertain future of mankind’s ability to rightly govern ourselves. A fear among those who are playing around with these efforts in their developing stages are already concerned, and present knowledge indicates the distinct possibility or actual certainty if extreme caution is not being adhered to, a robot or robots could and likely would very quickly develop an intelligence superior to that of mankind, to the point that they would not accept being controlled by man, and would then expand at such a rapid pace as to make all of their own decisions, whether good or bad for mankind. At least this is what many in the know are concerned about. Should the brakes be put on implementation and use of AI to slow it down before we create one more technological monster for mankind to have to deal with?

Gods Truth Shall Stand

While there seems to be a lot of buzz going on about AI and all that technology has brought upon the world on which we have to live, breathe, and continue to exist upon, we must remember too who it is that we worship and serve. Before we get ready to dig a big hole and jump into it and pull the dirt back in over our heads, because of what might happen in the future, we need to reaffirm what we have already accepted as the truth of God, that He is in control of everything and all of the time. That His Word is the truth now and always has been and always will be. There is never going to be anything in all heaven and earth that will equal the omniscient (having all wisdom, understanding, and knowledge) God that we worship and serve. God would never allow Himself to be replaced by a man-made machine. Therefore, the revealed truth of God is true and will never be made false or untrue by what mankind can create for ourselves. Satan and his ministers masquerading as angels of light have been given the authority from God to deceive His people by causing them to believe a lie. You don’t believe it? Then get out your Bible and read 2 Thessalonians 2:11. But God’s truth shall stand!

With all of this being said, I am not trying to squelch, criticize, stamp out or belittle, or put a screeching stop to AI. I couldn’t even if I wanted to, and it is not what I am suggesting. God is uniquely aware of all things happening within the cosmos and the expanding universe. He knew we would come to this point in our wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, and is not at the least surprised or shocked by it. He knows as well about the artificial intelligence that is becoming vogue on today’s scene. It could not have been avoided, as we have all been created by God to become as He is; it is inevitable that we as the creators that our Father God is and is reproducing Himself in us that we would arrive here today with such seemingly unbelievable ability, wisdom, power, and understanding to do as God knew at the tower of Babel we would reach this present ability to create anything that our mind could conceive of.

"And the Lord said, ‘If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them. Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech’" (Gen. 11:6–7). And as God knew they or we, His people, eventually would be able to overcome the speech differences and devise a way to communicate effectively, so have we achieved that which God knew we would. Within the past recent decades, we have achieved the proclivity, inclination, tendency, leaning, bent, bias, penchant and predisposition today, to be able to do great things never before realized.

So, in conclusion, all wisdom, understanding, and knowledge becomes a good thing, regardless of its origins, while being held within the hands and control of dedicated God-fearing people seeing to it and making certain that every use of it be done in an open and upright way that produces God’s righteousness. The church that Christ is building here on earth with members scattered all around the world in faraway places and a diverse and dedicated people doing their level best to worship and serve God in the way that He would have us to do it, and not by their natural and carnal lone wolf way of self-first, but by keeping in mind and in heart that our avowed purpose at this point and onward in our growth and development as gods is to decrease ourselves, our carnal nature, and to increase Jesus Christ and His spiritual nature within ourselves.

Chapter 2

Who Is the Rock That Christ Is Building His Church On?

We all know what Christ said in Matthew 16:18: And I also say to you that you are Peter [a small pebble], and on this rock [Rock that I am] I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

(The mother of harlots, in today’s language, would be referred to as the mother of whores, those identified in Revelation below.)

A mysterious name was written on her forehead: ‘Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World’ (Rev. 17:5, NLT).

The Catholic Church, being the most sinful so-called Christian church ever known to mankind—according to all of the nasty, evil, filth, and deception I have read about from well-documented writings from the Bible, in encyclopedias, and from scriptural scholars—have since the death and resurrection of Christ set themselves up and have laid claim of being the church that Christ is building here on earth, that St. Peter was the first pope and the line of popes ever since were picked by Christ to preach and teach His truth to rank and file, but naïve and gullible Catholic church membership. They have no truth to teach, so they busy themselves with force-feeding their flocks from the table of demons. I have documented many of their false teachings in this book. The protesting Catholics nowadays known as the Protestant church have all been cut from the same piece of cloth. Neither of them, along with the endless number of churches around the world, with the exception of the one that Christ is building, bothered at all to be concerned about the truth of God. According to the Word of God below, in 2 Corinthians, Satan has deceived them all. God doesn’t leave us in the dark on understanding what has happened to Christianity.

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe [counterfeit Christianity]. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News (2 Cor. 4:4).

(It seems best to understand that Jesus in Matthew 16:18 was praising Peter for his accurate statement about Him and was introducing His work of building the church on Himself.)

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ (1 Cor.