In the 19th century Americans started moving west and three institutions went with them. There was vaudeville, traveling entertainment. There was lyceum, traveling education and culture. And there was the itinerant preacher, offering a new style of preaching called "hell fire and brim stone". It was very entertaining, only loosely based on scripture, and pastors didn't even try to compete. Instead they switched to preaching public morality and philosophy. Eventually an entire generation grew up not knowing the first thing about the religion they claimed to believe. That is why most Christian churches don't teach doctrines, and most members don't know what they are supposed to believe.
2 Timothy 4: 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Q "Everybody believes God is on their side. Does the question become whose god? Free masons did and do not worship the God of the Bible" ========================================================================================
Everybody turns to the God they believe in, the one they pray to. Even when one group of people is pitched against another, on the battlefield or games arena, each group prays to its God for victory against the other. Sometimes it's the same God that is being asked by each group to make it the victor against the other group - quite a challenge for ANY God.
