Counterfeit Christianity: And The Counterfeit Christ
Note: All Biblical references to "God" as “Him” or “Father” have been removed to avoid offending any Counterfeit Christians.
Counterfeit Christianity seeks for people to accept Christ. The person who accepts Christ has done God a great favor by alleviating God's distress because of our rejection of God. It makes God's well-being dependent upon our response to Christ. Jesus is God "fishing" for people to see who might or might not respond to God's offer of the sacrifice for sin.
God is depicted as a desperate lover seeking to woo us. The Counterfeit Christian believes God puts no ultimate demand for holiness, purity, and obedience. Since we do God a favor by accepting Christ, there's no need for God to demand anything of us beyond being “nice.” All that matters is that people accept Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. This warms God's desperate and lonely heart.
God's love through the Counterfeit Christ opened a way for all to participate in the wedding feast of the Lamb. God welcomes sincere believers of all faiths. God includes everyone in eternity, much like Aslan accepted the Tash-worshipping Emeth in The Last Battle in the Chronicles of Narnia:
...the Glorious One bent down his golden head and touched my forehead with his tongue and said, Son, thou art welcome. But I said, Alas, Lord, I am no son of Thine but the servant of Tash. He answered, Child, all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me... I take to me the services which thou hast done to him, for I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oaths sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he knows it not, and it is I who reward him...
God's grace is God's ability in the Counterfeit Christ to overlook a person's sin while at the same time welcoming the sinner into God's presence. Any problem with sin is not our problem; it is God's problem. The good news is that God has made Godself acceptable to the sinner by providing a way for the sinner to be welcomed into God’s presence. In the end, the death of Jesus Christ was more for God's benefit than ours.
The Counterfeit Christ makes it possible for God to change. God is still speaking so God is still changing God’s mind. What God once called "sin" has now been rebooted by the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. God now sees through blood-stained glasses. God peers through the eyes of Christ. Now God's love is all-inclusive, ultra-tolerant, and universal.
The God of the Counterfeit Christ is no longer wrathful. God spent it upon Jesus. Christ has proven that God desperately loves us, and God includes all. This Jesus has ascended to the pantheon of gods and goddesses of all religions. And if we follow Christ, we will obey Christ's teaching that the ultimate work of Christians of all faiths seeks to eradicate injustice, prejudice, and intolerance.
The churches of the Counterfeit Christ are all about making everyone feel good. The sermons focus on 10 steps, 3 principles, or a self-help guide. The programs encompass the campus. The non-confrontational gospel is that we are making a difference in the world by walking in the wide path of peace at all costs.
God is the God of compromise, of middle ground, of tolerance; the God of the Counterfeit Christ.