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 Calvinism, also known as Reformed Theology, is a serious erroneous interpretation of Scripture that has captivated millions of nominal Christians. Calvinists teach that God will be glorified by bringing billions of people into the world for no other purpose than having them burn in hell for eternity. In my opinion, that is as close to heresy as you can get! To deny that Christ’s death makes salvation available for "whosoever will" is nothing less than ‘another gospel’ as it deviates radically from the fundamental teachings of Scripture.
In all honesty, I believe the teachings of Calvinism is a heretical theology that distorts the attributes and character of God, undermines the gospel of salvation and grace, and has created grievous chaos and division in the church. However, I think we should be cautious about consigning those who adhere to Calvinist doctrine to eternal damnation. Despite their many teachings contrary to Scripture, a person can be born again under their ministry because they firmly believe and teach the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of sins. If you think I am beginning to sound like an apologist for Calvinism, be assured I am not. I abhor their theological heresies: their denial of the possibility of falling away from the faith and their dangerous assertions of eternal security, also known as "Once Saved Always Saved," legitimizing sin. I cannot see this debate being resolved soon – if ever – during our temporary journey on this earth. Calvinism asserts that man is completely unable to repent and believe the Gospel of his own accord, and must, therefore, be regenerated first without faith by a sovereign act of God and only then will he be given the gift of faith to believe. I do NOT believe a lost person must be “born again” BEFORE he can repent and believe. I do NOT believe the Bible teaches that man is dead in his trespasses and sins to the extent that an unbeliever is totally incapable of responding to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I do NOT believe the Bible ANYWHERE teaches that God’s call to salvation is an irresistible call of selective regeneration that the lost person is compelled to respond to contrary to their own volition. I do NOT believe in unconditional eternal security – I DO NOT believe it is impossible to depart from the faith and forfeit your salvation. In Acts 17:30 God commands all men everywhere to repent so they can be forgiven and saved, but according to Calvinists, man does not have free will to choose, and the only way they can repent is if God irresistibly overpowers their will and gives them the ability to do so. Yet He holds those who fail to repent accountable by sending them to the Lake of Fire even though He has arbitrarily chosen them to be lost, and they have no choice [free-will] to either believe or not to believe. Why would God have given ‘all men everywhere’ the command to repent if it is impossible to obey, and He has already elected which ones are going to spend eternity with Him and which ones are assigned to eternal damnation? There is not one verse in the Bible that says prior to or after becoming believers, we are incapable of choosing our actions and making spiritual choices. Deuteronomy 30:19: “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, choose life, that you and your offspring may live..” Did only Old Testament believers have the ability to make choices? There is no biblical evidence that God cancels our ability to make decisions of our own. To deny we have free will means all choices are made for us by God – including the choice to sin. Calvinists always counter those of us who believe in free-will with the question, “Did the Apostle Paul have a choice when he met the Lord on the road to Damascus?” Paul had no choice in Jesus appearing before him, but he most certainly did have a choice to obey or not. Acts 26:19 gives us unequivocal proof of his choice. “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.” Apostle Paul makes it clear he could have chosen to disobey the vision of Jesus but instead he chose to obey. When Jesus said in John 15:16, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you . . . " He was referring to his choosing of his twelve disciples, NOT election, and predestination! Disciples (followers, students, learners) in Jesus' day usually chose the particular rabbi, or teacher, whom they wanted to follow. That is what this verse is referring to, and any diligent study of the text will make that crystal clear. Do not let anyone deceive you. Jesus calls ALL, and it is His desire that not ANY should perish. God does not "choose" or appoint some to salvation and others to hell. It is up to each of us to choose whom we will serve and where we will spend eternity. It is our choice to stay in the faith or depart from it. We have free will and that free will remains intact - yes, even after we accept Christ. The fundamental conflict I have with Calvinism is not sovereignty but God’s character. Calvinism distorts the very nature and character of God and misrepresents His divine attributes and His goodness, destroying His righteous judgment and mercy. Their distortion of God’s character is so unyielding it sounds more like the Quran than the Bible. The Quran also refers to Allah as the most beneficent, merciful, and compassionate, while he passionately hates the infidels (non-Muslims, non-elect) and encourages killing and shedding the blood of men if they refuse to convert. If God’s mercy is only for some people and not for others, if His offer of salvation is only available for a few and not for all, if He predestines some to eternal life and some to eternal damnation and they have no choice in the matter, how can Jesus’ words “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” be trusted? The parable of the wedding feast in Matthew chapter 22 strongly refutes Calvinistic doctrine that asserts God’s grace is ‘irresistible’ and that man has no free will to refuse, resist or reject His invitation. Yet, in the parable, those who the king initially chose to invite to the wedding refused to come. They were invited in and they declined and willingly rejected the king’s gracious invitation. Christ concludes the parable with the sad fact that “many are invited, but few are chosen.” In other words, many people hear the call of God, but only a few heed it. This defies Calvinism’s theology that man plays no part in their salvation. The main reason for this gross misrepresentation is because they deny God’s universal agape love for all humanity and His offer of divine grace and forgiveness to ‘whosoever will’ hear and respond to the gospel of salvation which is forever entrenched in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” [John 5:39-40] God predestined that whosoever will accept His free gift and then abide in Christ, remain steadfast in the faith, and endure to the end will be "chosen" and "elected" to be admitted to the wedding supper of the Lamb. Why would anyone desire to be in the presence of a God who chooses to extend mercy to some sinners, for no apparent reason, yet deny His mercy to others, for no apparent reason, and allow them to remain in their condemned condition? According to Calvinistic doctrine, God damns them forever in the Lake of Fire for not believing the gospel, yet they cannot believe unless He regenerates them and gives them the faith to believe--and yet He refuses to do so? These are characteristics that are inconsistent with God’s goodness. This is not the "God" of the Bible as revealed in Jesus Christ. The Lord despises injustice and partiality [Leviticus 19:5] Many Calvinists will claim that “God has a right to dispose of His creatures in any way He chooses.” But that is not in debate. I am not accusing God; I am accusing a certain belief about God—with being either morally ambiguous or making Him indistinguishable from Satan. I do, however, have some good news! God can, and does, save individuals who hear the gospel preached by a Calvinist preacher. But you also need to understand, God can save someone listening to John Piper, John Arthur or Joseph Prince as well IF they present a gospel message along with the rest of what they preach. Fortunately for the lost, God can and does use inept presentations of the gospel to touch lost men’s hearts and bring them to repentance and reconciliation. And we cannot deny that many have come to faith and brought forth fruit in keeping with their repentance as a result of Calvinist preachers who teach you must repent, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and forsake your sins. Scripture warns us that in the end times God will send a Strong Delusion; This deception is directed not only at those of the world that are lost in their sins, but specifically at false teachers within the Church and those who accept them, and believe their ungodly teachings. God is sending this strong delusion to all lukewarm, undecided, and disobedient Christians who do not love the truth. [Rev. 3:16; 2 Thess. 1:8; 2 Thess. 2:10-11] Those who have no love for the truth, will believe the smoke and mirror doctrines that are being taught today. Sound doctrine has value for godly living; false doctrine leads to ungodly living. Sound doctrine originates with God; unsound doctrine originates with someone or something created by God and can lead to heresy. It is our sacred responsibility to examine every doctrine to determine if it is true or false. It is of utmost importance that we examine the fruit of all those who claim to represent Jesus. Do not be indifferent to the voice of God. Read God’s Word for yourself with an open mind and pray that He would show you His truth as He meant it to be. Listen when God speaks to you and obey without hesitation. Turn away from lying prophets, preachers and teachers that are within many of the corrupt churches today. Hold no man or woman up as being worthy of your worship. Faith in anything or anyone other than Christ is a delusion that will cause you to be finally and eternally lost. God has not predestined you to eternal life without having any free choice in the matter, neither has he predestined you to eternal destruction without any possibility of being saved. The choice is yours whether you will accept God’s path or reject it; it is also your choice to either stay on God’s path or take a detour. By Lynette Hughes
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 IS GOD’S LOVE UNCONDITIONAL?
It’s misleading to call God’s love unconditional. From the very beginning, when God created Adam and Eve, there were conditions to remain in His favor. In Genesis 2:16-17 God told them “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” The relationship that existed between God and Adam and Eve had a condition placed upon it, and, of course, we all know how that worked out. All the promises of God have conditions attached, and in this sense, it’s misleading to call God’s love "unconditional." God's divine forgiveness is NOT unconditional; our salvation is conditional on repentance and faith in Christ Jesus. The first command of Jesus recorded in Mark's gospel is "repent and believe". Those are conditions. That is, we must humble ourselves before God in prayer, acknowledge we are a sinner in need of a Savior and believe in His Son, Jesus Christ, with a faith that obeys His commandments. If we do not meet the conditions to repent and believe, He does not forgive, and without forgiveness there is no salvation. Try as you might, you will not find the phrase "unconditional love" in Scripture, nor will you find the concept of “unconditional love” within the writings of the Church Fathers, nor will you find any other Christian author who used that term before the 20th century. Of the more than 800 instances of "love" in the Bible, none states or even implies that God's love is unconditional. God’s love is conditional on our keeping Jesus' commandments. Jesus said "IF you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love." Unconditional means ‘without conditions or limits.’ God's love is not 'unconditional' in any sense. The term unconditional love is a humanistic psychological term and not found in the Bible. For love to be unconditional it would require there be no moral judgement or expectation of something in return. Unconditional love is the acceptance of a person without him or her meeting any conditions, but this is quite contrary to the revealed Word of God, yet this is the greatest popular myth coming from the pulpits of Christian preachers and teachers today. It’s true that salvation is offered without conditions in the sense it is offered freely, and not based on our human merit or worth, but on God’s undeserved goodness and mercy. But His divine forgiveness is NOT unconditional: Scripture makes it crystal clear that salvation is conditioned on faith and obedience. Hebrews 5:9 says that Jesus "became the author of eternal salvation to all who OBEY him." No matter what Bible translation you use, you’ll discover that God’s love is conditional, but we have to be aware that the enemy will work hard to redefine and misrepresent God’s love. Many today are diluting God’s Word for the sake of loving others, mistakenly thinking they’re reflecting the love of God. Ironically, far from ‘unconditional love’ being a Biblical term it was actually coined in 1934 by Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst. Fromm was an atheist who rejected all forms of authoritarian government including God's, taught an unbiblical self-love, and argued strenuously against Christian faith. When this false love gospel made its debut in America in the 1960’s with the LSD-using hippies and flower children, it was condemned by preachers everywhere, and rightly so. The "Unconditional Love Gospel" perverts God's Word by twisting scripture to suit an agenda. Pastors and teachers who propound this gospel of false love notice that people like them much more when they don’t talk about God’s law, sin, guilt and repentance. So, they remove these topics from their sermons and fixate on the idea that ‘God is love’ to the exclusion of His other attributes. This not only improves their popularity but generates substantial financial gain. Prominent preachers and teachers have introduced the false doctrine of unconditional love into contemporary Christianity. The love that’s being preached today sounds to me like the over-indulgence of a doting grandparent instead of the vigorous concern of a Father for the best interests of His children. They’ve exaggerated the sentiment that "God is love" until His love has become an ooey, gooey, sickeningly sweet cliché. This corrupted doctrine ignores the other attributes of God's character, gives us a false view of God's temporary mercy towards the unrepentant, and takes away the fear of God's wrath. Biblical love demands that we preach the truth– what people need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. Most people today have no desire to hear the truth, because they DON'T love the truth. When you tell them the truth, they become angry, defensive and argumentative because it doesn’t fit their preconceived ideas and opinions; often, it doesn’t fit their lifestyle. This is really no different than what happened in the Book of Acts when Jesus’ disciples preached the truth. Mobs of angry people wanted to tear them to pieces, and many were beaten and martyred. But genuine love compels us to preach and teach the truth of God’s word even when it endangers our lives. Liberal churches are preaching love without truth which is blind sentimentality empty of real love. All the love in the world means nothing if you don’t have the truth. Love without truth is a distorted view of love that leaves us in denial about our own sins; it’s self-serving and hypocritical. Conservative churches are preaching truth without love: Truth without love is harsh, judgmental and self-righteous. (An example is Westboro Baptist Church who shoves hate filled signs in the faces of unbelievers.) Truth and love are inseparable! Romans 6:23 NIV says “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” God loves people unconditionally in the sense He has provided a remedy for our breaking His righteous laws. But unless we repent and trust in Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we cannot be reconciled to God and receive the gift of eternal life. God does not offer forgiveness and eternal life apart from faith and repentance. That’s called a condition. To say that God loves us with an unconditional love creates false ideas about forgiveness. If God were to love unconditionally, He would be compelled to forgive unconditionally. Unconditional love would require that God forgive the criminal, the pervert, the degenerate, and the reprobate without need for repentance, otherwise His love would not be unconditional. This false teaching of God’s ‘unconditional’ love leaves a person believing that even if they live an unrepentant, willful, sinful lifestyle after being saved God will forgive them. After all, isn't His love unconditional? But Scripture plainly tells us without repentance there is no forgiveness. Repentance is a condition we must meet in order to receive forgiveness for our sins. And Jesus says that sins against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. Whatever happened to God’s unconditional love? If God's love were unconditional then why did he destroy the people of Noah's day in a global flood? If God’s love were unconditional then why did He need His Son Jesus to die on the cross; it would have been unnecessary. The Bible teaches us that “the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” Why would anyone fear God if His love is unconditional? If God loved us unconditionally, there would be no reason for anyone to fear God. Sadly, our generation doesn’t know or comprehend the things that anger God. We have been force-fed the doctrines of unconditional love and self-esteem for so long that most people don't really view themselves as sinner’s worthy of divine wrath. God’s love, agape love, is to pay attention to someone’s need and do something to meet that need. God’s agape love is the kind of love that dies on behalf of those who have no legal right to exist, but God’s love is not corrupted human sentimentality that enables us in our sins and overlooks our transgressions. If God's love were unconditional, then everybody would be saved, since they would not have to meet any conditions. We would end up with universalism. But Jesus said: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him…” (John 14:23). Jesus clearly says if you love Him and keep His commandments, God will reciprocate that love. God’s acceptance and approval - His love - is conditional. We must love and obey His Son to become a recipient of His love. "Let no one deceive you with empty words....the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience" (Eph. 5:5, 6) We are not justified by God's love. We are justified by faith. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” When scripture says that "God so loved the WORLD," it is speaking of the universal love of God for the world of humanity whom He created in His image. The Greek word transliterated as "world" does not mean that God loves those who refuse to repent and obey Him, for every person who fails to do so will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. God’s love for the sinful, fallen, rebellious world of mankind is not the same as His love for those who repent and receive Christ and follow His commands. John 3:36 NKJV says, “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” Jesus says if we don’t believe, if we resist the conviction of the Holy spirit and reject His free gift of eternal life, we will be cast into the Lake of Fire; the place of everlasting destruction for those who do not obey the gospel. [2 Thess. 1:8-9] What happened to God’s unconditional love? The fact that at a point in time past God demonstrated His love by giving us a Savior, does not imply that God loves unrepentant wicked sinners. God loves and forgives everyone who follows His command to REPENT AND BELIEVE in Christ for salvation. The fullest expression of God’s love is revealed to us through sending His only Son so that ‘whosoever’ believes in Him will not die but will have everlasting life. The amazing and magnificent love of God is not diminished in any way by rejecting the fallacy that it’s unconditional. By Lynette Hughes  PREDESTINATION: DID JESUS CHOOSE WHO WOULD BE SAVED?
Calvinists use John 15:16 in an attempt to prove Jesus predestines people to be saved; however, this Scripture is not talking about who receives eternal life. Jesus is specifically speaking to the 12 apostles who were chosen for a specific task and purpose. He says “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.” Jesus is reminding them that He chose them out of the wider mass of His followers for the specific task of learning from Him so that they could do the things He did. To understand the Bible and avoid misinterpretations, we must study biblical passages within their proper context. Jesus is not speaking to us in 2025 as being one of the 12 chosen apostles, but He is speaking of the 12 disciples He chose to follow Him in service (Luke 12:13-16). He is not talking about who is appointed to receive eternal life, but who He chose for the purpose of preaching the gospel to the world. This speaks nothing of a predestination to either life or death. This is confirmed in Mark 3:13-14: “Now Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve so that they would be with him and he could send them to preach.” God chose these 12 disciples to be eyewitnesses of the life and ministry of Christ Jesus. They were chosen to witness the glory and greatness of His resurrection, so that they could convince the Jews that He was their Messiah and share with Gentiles that His salvation was available to all. God bases His election on His foreknowledge of those who freely choose Him. Jesus died for the sins of all mankind, and “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4; Titus 2:11; 2 Peter 3:9). God is not schizophrenic. He does not will for some to be saved and others not to be saved. How could God genuinely desire that all men be saved, if He does not give them an opportunity to be saved? God gives all men the opportunity to be saved, but He allows each person to decide for themselves whether to accept His offer or not. Let me rephrase that: We are ALL called by the gospel to be saved, and when a person (“whosoever believes”) answers the call of the gospel, then that is when that person is chosen by God to become one of God's elect (Matthew 20:16). Those who accept His offer of salvation are those who are “predestined" in the sense that God foreknows from eternity who will choose to accept His grace and who will reject His grace and be lost. God reaches out to us FIRST but we can ALSO clearly see that if, in our hard heartedness, we reject the offer of salvation extended to us then we will not be CHOSEN. Those who “walk worthy of the Lord’ and faithfully “endure to the end” are the ELECT of God who will be saved. -By Lynette Hughes  Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a German theologian and a major leader of the Protestant Reformation. Luther had bouts of disabling depression and anger and had to suspend his pastoral ministry for long periods of time. He also struggled with intrusive, unwanted “blasphemous” thoughts and images that left him confused and disturbed and was tormented by urges to use vulgarities and curse God and Jesus. He readily admitted he had periods when he hated God. If we look at Luther's prayer life, we will see that it was extremely demonic, at least at certain times of his life. He is recorded as saying that he could not pray without cursing. He would be considered verbally abusive today; someone in dire need of deliverance.
The following quote by Luther is well document in Protestant-approved sources: “Christ committed adultery first of all with the woman at the well about whom St. John tells us. Was not everybody about Him saying, "Whatever has he been doing with her?" Secondly, with Mary Magdalene and thirdly with the woman taken in adultery whom he dismissed so lightly. Thus, even Christ who was so righteous must have been guilty of fornication before He died.” [recorded in what historians refer to as his “Table Talks.”] It is difficult to fathom why these blasphemous statements fail to change the opinion of the man. He has been praised by enthusiastically by both Catholics, Protestants, and Reformers, and his defenders relegate his comments to ‘hyperbole. Luther was a man who was so arrogantly convinced of his rightness that anyone who disagreed with him was either stupid fools, grossly ignorant or wretchedly evil. For further confirmation of Luther’s dark side, one has only to read some of the shockingly evil things he advocated in a work entitled “The Jews and their Lies” in which he urged that synagogues and Jewish schools should be burned to the ground, Jewish people run out of their homes, their prayer books and Talmudic writings burned and the rabbis forbidden to preach or teach on penalty of death. The following are a few excerpts from Luther’s writings: "What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? ... I shall give you my sincere advice:" "First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians. For whatever we tolerated in the past unknowingly and I myself was unaware of it will be pardoned by God. But if we, now that we are informed, were to protect and shield such a house for the Jews, existing right before our very nose, in which they lie about, blaspheme, curse, vilify, and defame Christ and us (as was heard above), it would be the same as if we were doing all this and even worse ourselves, as we very well know." "Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead, they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God." Luther told Christians to “set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn. The Nazis executed his plan on the night of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” when they torched synagogues and destroyed Jewish homes, schools and businesses. Undoubtedly Hitler’s virulent hatred of Jews and his desire to annihilate them was satanically inspired by Martin Luther who Hitler himself called one of history’s greatest reformers in his autobiography, Mein Kampf. Undoubtedly his praise was due to the fact that Luther’s theological writings so resembled his own racial antisemitism and political policies. It cannot be denied that God mightily used Martin Luther as the catalyst for the denunciation of papal authority and the Protestant Reformation. His vitriol was of equal vehemence towards his theological enemies, including the pope and the Catholic church, as it was towards the Jews with words that are unfit to write. Sadly, the Protestant churches that came out of the reformation were daughters of the Great Whore of Babylon, the Roman Catholic Church, called the ‘mother of harlots’ because she was the first to commit spiritual adultery by corrupting the simplicity of the New Testament Christianity. Since the Mother of Harlots is a church, then her daughters are also churches. These daughters were inspired by the writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry VIII to break away from Catholicism and establish Protestant denominations retaining much of their mother’s paganized traditions of men. While Luther was an opponent of many of the false doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, he initiated and promoted a false doctrine of his own of such significant proportion that it persists to this very day. He taught that we can receive forgiveness simply by belief in Jesus without obedience or works of any kind. This doctrine was not part of Christian belief for the first 1,500 years of Christianity. Luther erroneously came to the conclusion that we are saved by faith ALONE, rather than saved by an OBEDIENT faith. Luther added the word “alone” to Romans 3:28 which at the time caused an outcry among theologians. Many passages of Scripture say we are saved by faith, but no passage says we are saved by faith ALONE. How can anyone believe in salvation by faith alone when the only occurrence of ‘faith alone’ in the Bible is James 2:24 and it says that salvation is NOT by faith alone. The Holy Spirit says PLAINLY that Jesus saves those who obey: "And having been made perfect he became unto all THEM THAT OBEY HIM the author of eternal salvation" (Hebrews 5:9). At the end of his life, Luther advocated for murder and mass expulsion of Jews from the empire and condoned polygamy based on Old Testament practices. He died of a stroke at the age of 62. -By Lynette Hughes  Demons love a mess. They control all hoarding, clutter, house full of tons of animals, darkness, smelly, dirt, un-kept filthy personal appearance, mice, junk, feces, bugs, and living in any unhealthy environment. It's a demonic stronghold to live in an environment where you are embarrassed to invite anyone over, including your own family.
It's direct reflection of someone's spiritual condition. If you try to confront them, watch out. You'll see the demon's get furious through them. They will do everything to hold on to their stronghold. They don't want to let go to have a clean,orderly, healthy environment. There is deliverance if you want it. A clean life and a dirty life are opposites. For, as light and dark cannot be mistaken for the other. The clean life is a life lived in a godly righteous way, for God is holy. A dirty life represents the sins of the world. Idolatry comes in many forms. For spiritual counseling information, contact: [email protected]  These were the famous last words spoken by what is considered two of the most wicked men to ever exist in modern times. Anton LaVey & Aleister Crowley. I'm sure many of you on my friends list have heard of both of these vile men before & know about some of their wicked exploits. As they both were leaving this realm of existence, they both realized they had made a HUGE mistake by how they lived & the things they were involved in. They realized right then & there that the master they served (Satan) had deceived them and there was no second chance, although they would taste the second death, in a place in outer darkness where there is weeping & gnashing of teeth. They are in torment for an eternity and they can never escape. It's too late now.
We ALL have a choice to make. and the MOST important decision a person can EVER make is to accept The Gift of Salvation while there is time. Tomorrow is NOT promised for any of us & today is NOT promised for many. Today is The Day of Salvation. Jesus is The ONLY Way, The ONLY Truth & The ONLY Life & no one can come to The Father except through The Son. We ALL must have our houses in order & be found in the safety of The Ark of Salvation. Time is a luxury we just don't have anymore as dark & strange as the days are now, Trust me when I say we ain't seen nothing yet. HEBREWS 9:27-28~And it is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment... So Jesus was once offered to bear the sins of many & unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto Salvation.  “Mother Teresa”
Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to helping India's poor, will be made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church after a second miracle was attributed to her. In the Roman Catholic religion, in order for a person to be sainted, they must be credited with bringing about two miracles AFTER their death through their intercession. However, the concept that one can be responsible for a miracle after their death is unbiblical, as well as the notion that the dead can intercede for the living. According to Scripture, a miracle originates from God and He performs them to arouse people’s awe and wonder and to bear witness of Himself. The miracles God performs cannot usually be explained by natural causes. When we study miracles in the Bible we see that they consistently point people to the one true God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Miracles supposedly done through the intercession of dead Catholics do not meet these biblical principles. They do not glorify God or point people to Christ, but instead bring glory to the dead Catholic ‘saint’ and point people away from Christ as the only mediator between God and man. God is the only one who can convert a sinner to a saint. Saints are the ones God has sanctified or set apart in Christ Jesus (1 Cor. 1:2). Of all the references to saints in the Scriptures we see they are alive both physically and spiritually. Mother Teresa's theology embraced a works-righteousness salvation and she saw no need to evangelize. She encouraged Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists to be better Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists. She never pointed people to Christ as the only savior, mediator and redeemer. Instead she taught a bizarre ‘pseudo-pantheism’ in which she believed Jesus was present in everyone. In her book “Life in the Spirit: Reflections, Meditations and Prayers,” she wrote, “We never try to convert those who receive [aid from Missionaries of Charity] to Christianity, but in our work we bear witness to the love of God’s presence, and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this, better men — simply better — we will be satisfied.” The widespread perception that Mother Teresa sought to relieve the suffering of the poor was the furthest thing from the truth. She believed suffering would help the poor make satisfaction for their sins. This is consistent with Roman Catholic theology which declares the sinner must "make satisfaction for" or "expiate" his sins by doing penance (Catechism of the Catholic Church, para. 1459). At the end of her life, Mother Teresa doubted the existence of God and heaven. In her private letters she wrote: "Lord, my God, you have thrown [me] away as unwanted and unloved. I call, I cling, I want, and there is no one to answer, no, no one. Where is my faith? There is nothing, I have no faith." Yet in spite of her lack of faith and her REJECTION of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the pope will declare her a saint.  Who and what are "Scapegoats"? Scapegoats are often the "truth-tellers" in the family. They say what cannot be said by anyone else. They are the ones who bring the skeletons out of the closet and throw them in the middle of the living-room to be confronted. They are usually godly and Christ followers. A dysfunctional, scapegoating family, confronted with their own transgressions, will often redirect all of their energy towards targeting the "Scapegoat" for their sins rather than owning their own behavior. The "Scapegoat" is often chosen by a narcissistic parent. That parent chooses that son or daughter because they remind them of someone who confronted them that they cannot stand from their own life or that child reminds them of who they are not, nor ever will be. The Scapegoating is a hostile pattern by which family members move blame and responsibility away from themselves towards the scapegoated person. It is practiced by feelings of hostility, inappropriate accusations and slander towards that chosen family member and it is EVIL to the core. The "Scapegoat" is wrongly persecuted, receives misplaced criticism, blame, condemnation and they are likely to suffer feeling of rejection from those whom the perpetrators are likely to influence.
It is very common for a narcissistic parent to have a "Golden Child". In the eyes of the narcissistic parent, the golden child is is the best and most wonderful and can do nothing wrong, even though they have done much wrong. Their most rival achievements are held up for admiration. Children in dysfunctional families are given these roles to play long before they are old enough to even talk. The "Black Sheep" is usually the one who causes all the troubles while the "Scapegoat" lives righteous. The narcissistic mother will NEVER defend or protect the scapegoated child from the attacks of others. In fact, she GROOMS the other siblings and family members to engage with her against the scapegoated child and they willingly comply. Most of the family members are narcissists just like the mother. Anything that goes wrong in their lives, just like the narcissist mother, is made to be the FAULT of the scapegoated child. She has taught the rest of the children to become "Golden Children" or "budding Narcissists". She SUPPORTS the abuse of the scapegoated child by the siblings and does NOTHING to prevent the abuse but actually encourages it. Especially since she blames everything that goes wrong in the family on the scapegoated child. Once the non-scapegoated siblings realize that they are NEVER going to be blamed for anything they do, they learn that they can mention the scapegoated child's name or actually make up some slander or lie and they are "off the hook." The more the scapegoat tries to defend themselves, the worst the abuse becomes. They become used to accepting the blame for all the family relationships. They can't do anything right no matter what they do and how much they sacrifice. They are the only ones who actually care, love, have empathy and are the givers but their narcissistic family are the TAKERS. The narcissistic mother and siblings begin a "smear campaign" to the rest of the family and anyone who they come in contact that may know the scapegoat, to destroy the scapegoats reputation and they are believed since there is power in numbers. They will tell their friends, nieces, nephews, cousins and even ministry clergy just how "evil" or "mentally ill" the scapegoat is, The scapegoated child who is now an adult, is not allowed to be angry for the abuse and they are not allowed to saying anything lest they invite more abuse through narcissistic behaviors such as gas-lighting, silent treatment, trauma, discarding, and the list goes on. They are told they must "forgive" since they call themselves a "Christian", so the cycle of abuse continues until the scapegoat removes themselves permanently from the family. These narcissistic families never get along with each other anyways. Once the scapegoat is gone, they will find another one to abuse. The scapegoat is usually the "righteous" godly one and the rest of the family members are the evil ones. The family members will never take any responsibility for the abuse they have heap on the scapegoated child. Those who hate the truth and love lies will naturally hate you. They will hate you just like they hated Jesus. So, the "root cause" of the friction between you and your family members is a "spiritual problem." Loving the truth is a guarantee that you will have enemies. Don't believe those who tell you that if you have a "right" relationship" with God you will have a right relationship with your family. The division in your family is not your fault. They are the EVIL ones. They actually ENJOY seeing the pain in your life they cause. They label you as the "mentally ill" one or the "crazy" one. In fact, if you try to explain this to others that know your family, they have a hard time believing you because your family has portrayed a different face to them treating them with kindness and respect and you with slander, abuse, disdain and lies. Satan is behind this. When every friend has betrayed our trust or deserted us, we normally turn to our family members for unconditional love and a safe place to fall. For the family scapegoat, just the opposite happens. The very people that we should be able to count on are actually those who betray us, mock us, make fun of us and ridicule us to our friends, and anyone who will listen. Healthy families do not have this scenario going on. In a healthy family system, family members are able to acknowledge their problems, discuss them openly and work towards change. They take responsibility for their own behavior. They believe change is possible and help each other make that change with workable solutions. They do not back stab each other, or slander each other or gang up on one family member and scapegoat them and attempt to get other family members to to disown the scapegoated person. The healthy family is completely opposite than the scapegoated family. They are honest with each other and do not engage in lies or act like they are in the "middle" when there are family disputes. They recognize right from wrong and good from evil. They do not keep "family secrets" from a member of the family. They have mutual love and respect for each other and they trust each other. They pray for each other and have others pray for them. They encourage each other. Siblings are able to express justified anger without fear of punishment. For a narcissistic mother to engage in abuse along with the siblings of the scapegoated child is pure EVIL. It is not to be tolerated. She, along with your siblings, make you look "crazy." Hitler tortured and killed 6 million Jews whether we understand why he did it or not. It's a "choice" he made. The children of the devil are just like him. The goal is to steal, kill and destroy. Are you the family scapegoat that feels like you are killed by your family in a slow deliberate way, stealing your identity and destroying your very soul? ANYONE, including your family, who does this to another human being is NOT of God. They are constantly attacking and slandering you. They will give an account to Him to is ready to judge the living and the dead. Until this type of family repents, you are to SHUN evil. You cannot have any relationship with any of them until they come to you with true and genuine repentance in detail for everything they have done to you. Not..."let's just forget about it." Please don't fall for that. They will pull you right back into their diabolical abuse. They are true narcissists. Genuine believers "love" one another. They are not genuine believers even if they profess Christ or go to church. By their fruit we shall know them. We are to forgive everyone from our hearts but it doesn't mean to forgive unrepentant sinners and have a right relationship with them (Luke 17:3). The Bible doesn't tell us to "look the other way" when someone is being abused OR to tolerate any type of evil! God HATES all types of evil and does not allow any excuse for someone to engage in it. These are generational sins. Remember, they do not love you. That is not love. They actually ENJOY harming you and that's why they do it. They feel NO REMORSE. Their conscience is seared. It doesn't matter if they call themselves "Christians." Christians do not do this. You, on the other hand would do anything for them because you are the only loving one in the family. This is what you have shown your entire life. Ask yourself why they do not do the same for you? God promises to replace the love you do not get from your parent, siblings and family with those in God's Kingdom who will truly love you. He is a promise keeper! "Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy" -Psalm 101:5 Not Peace, but a Sword 34“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Patricia Jones, MA. Dove Christian Counseling  I'm so sorry I must do this but...let me burst your imaginary life. The very life that is not real. I mean....it is real in your world, but it's still not reality. I will use an example. Let's say that you and I are having tea with cake. We are laying outside on the ground and a beautiful planet appears in the sky. This planet explodes and the debris is heading towards the earth right at us. I begin screaming meanwhile, you are looking at the sky smiling away. I am still screaming for you to take cover, but you keep smiling as though nothing bad was going on. The reality is...we are about to get hit with rocks going the speed of sound and....YOU...are in lala land. This is our current state of affairs in our world.
We have God's judgement hanging over each person living in sin or compromise and the rotten floor is ready to collapse under their feet with the flaming fires of hell. Yet man is consumed with the never ending thought that..."things will get better". Well guess what? You are in for a rude awakening. NOTHING is going to get better. In fact, let me burst your imaginary bubble. The Bible says....things will get worse and worse every day until the Battle of Armageddon. You see, Satan has blinded you. You can't see anything. You live in your own world that YOU have made up in YOUR mind in order to cope. You can't stand negativity. Not even when God is saying it, so you shut your ears to the TRUTH. The things that are written is the Bible seem pretty dreadful for our future. But most people only want "positive" New Age "vibes'. Well, those "vibes" won't work. Let me tell you what's coming and how to prepare. There will be wars and rumors of wars. 1/3 of the earth's population will be destroyed. There will be more plagues and famines. Men will wish they could die, but God won't let them. Some will die of heart failure from the fear of what they will see. More false prophets and false religion will be widely accepted, even by the Christian Church. The earthquakes are increasing with greater magnitude. There will be a false messiah on the scene. He will perform signs and wonders to even call fire down from heaven. I wouldn't be surprised if he lifted the covid virus and pretended to heal everyone on this earth. You will starve to death unless you take the Mark of the Beast. Homosexuality will be accepted as good and those who oppose it as evil people. Lawlessness will increase. Deception will be the greatest mark of the end times. The "Fig tree" generation will see the coming of our Messiah. I believe we are that generation. Your own family members will put to you to death. You will be hated by ALL Nations. There will be a counterfeit Christianity that most will fall into. You will be beheaded for following Jesus. A day's wages will buy a loaf of bread. One day, the true Christians will vanish and you will be left behind to face God's wrath on the humans during the Great Tribulation. The economy is going to collapse and this virus is not going away any time soon. Almost 100,000 people a week have filed for unemployment since the lockdowns began and the news will not report it. Most people are working from home and majority of business are out of business. 1/3 of all mortgages and renters have not been paying since this crisis began. Almost 500,000 dead in the United States from this plague. More plagues are coming according to the Bible. This current virus can mutate 17 times. The whole world is setting the stage for the Anti-Christ to come on the scene. He will be worshipped. The whole earth will take the mark on thier right hand or forehead and be cursed forever, except those who got beheaded for the name of Jesus. The vaccine is NOT the Mark of the Beast. You will not be able to buy or sell without it. God Himself will send the STRONG delusion to ALL those who did not love the truth and repent. The only way to be rescued is for you to REPENT. Do it now before it's too late. It's time to get your head out of the imaginary life you have been deceived to believe by Satan himself. He is a Liar and he will murder you. He was a murderer from the beginning. He is a Liar and the Father of all lies and liars. Jesus is the only one who can set you free from your imagination. The TRUTH (Jesus) will set you free. Please post a comment if you would like to hear more and you are ready to give your life to Jesus for real this time. Our hope in not in this world but in a King and a Kingdom that is not of this world. How glorious that day will be!!!! "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 22And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 23Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. 25See, I have told you beforehand. 26So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man." Matthew 24  There is nowhere in the Bible, where there is any book or any reference to a book written called: THE BOOK OF ENOCH. Even so, Christians around the world read this book. It was found in the dead sea scrolls, but so were multiple teachings that were heretical as well. It is a dangerous book because it contradicts the Bible. I can't tell you how alarmed I am. The last time I sat in Church in an "end times" bible study, the Pastor taught from this book. The people were sitting there as lambs lead to the slaughter house. They were soaking in all the false teachings as the Pastor was validating this book as true biblical "scriptures". At this moment in time, the red alarms were going off in my spirit. That alarm was the Holy Spirit warning me to RUN. I didn't realize just how fast until now. Jesus spoke of the leaven of the Pharisees. You see, a little poison in the water is undetectable, but it makes the entire water POISON. You cannot separate the poison from the water once it is in there.
Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees 5Later, after they crossed to the other side of the lake, the disciples discovered they had forgotten to bring any bread. 6“Watch out!” Jesus warned them. “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 7At this they began to argue with each other because they hadn’t brought any bread. 8 Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, “You have so little faith! Why are you arguing with each other about having no bread? 9 Don’t you understand even yet? Don’t you remember the 5,000 I fed with five loaves, and the baskets of leftovers you picked up? 10Or the 4,000 I fed with seven loaves, and the large baskets of leftovers you picked up? 11 Why can’t you understand that I’m not talking about bread? So again I say, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’” 12Then at last they understood that he wasn’t speaking about the yeast in bread, but about the deceptive teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. -Matthew 16 "This false teaching is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough!" -Galatians 5:9 1. THE BOOK OF ENOCH CLAIMS THERE WERE 4,500 FOOT GIANTS BORN FROM HUMAN WOMEN Enoch Chapter 7:2: "And they (human woman) became pregnant, and they bare great giants, who height was three thousand ells." THE TRUTH According to Deuteronomy 3:11, the bed of King Og was 13.5 feet long. So, we can estimate he was between 9 and 11 feet tall. Giants in the Bible are recorded to be between 9 and 11 feet in height. Nowhere in the Bible has there been any truth of any human being 4,500 feet tall. Noah's Ark was 450 feet long, so according to the Book of Enoch, giants had to be 10 times the size of Noah's Ark. 2. THE BOOK OF ENOCH CLAIMS WOMEN BECAME MYTHICAL CREATURES Enoch Chapter 19:2: "And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens." THE TRUTH The Book of Enoch states the human women who married angels gave birth to giants who were transformed into half-bird and half-human creatures. This proves the Book of Enoch promotes pagan mythology. You will never read about a human transforming into a mythical creature in the Bible. Sirens are creatures from Greek mythology. 3. THE BOOK OF ENOCH CLAIMS ALL SIN IN THE WORLD COMES FROM AZAZEL AND NOT FROM ADAM Enoch Chapter 10:8- "And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin." THE TRUTH The Book of Enoch attributes all sin in the world to Azazel. a fallen angel. This is completely contrary to the Bible. Advocates for the Book of Enoch claim that Azazel is Satan and that Satan introduced sin into the world. However, the Book of Enoch says that Azazel is bound in chains and locked up until the day of judgment (Enoch 10:4-6). The Bible says Satan is free to roam the earth (1 Peter 2:5:8, Job 2:2). Also the Bible clearly says, "Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man(Adam), and death through sin, and so death passed to all men, because all sinned." -Romans 5;12 4. THE BOOK OF ENOCH CLAIMS THAT ANGELS BUILT NOAH'S ARK "And now the angels are making a wooden (building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand upon it and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a change shall set in so that the earth will not remain without inhabitant." -Enoch 67:2 TRUTH Noah alone was given instructions to build the Ark, not angels. "But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 20 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive. 21 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him." -Genesis 6 The Book of Hebrews praises the faith and obedience of Noah for preparing the Ark, but the Book of Enoch robs Noah and destroys the example of faith spoken about Noah in the Bible. 5. THE BOOK OF ENOCH TEACHES GREEK MYTHOLOGY AS GODLY KNOWLEDGE "And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire. The chariot on which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and returns through the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he comes to the appropriate (lit. ‘ that ‘) portal and shines in the face of the heaven." Enoch 72:4-5 "And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is named the Moon. And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure." Enoch 73:1-2 THE TRUTH None of this is biblical. The Book of Enoch claims this is how the Sun and Moon operate in the sky. The Book of Enoch also claims this information about the Sun and Moon going across the sky in a chariot is knowledge given to Enoch from heaven. Yet, King Josiah, a righteous King, destroyed the chariot of the sun god. So, why would the angels from heaven teach Enoch these same pagan mythologies of the sun god and moon goddess? "He removed from the entrance of the LORD’s Temple the horse statues that the former kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were near the quarters of Nathan-melech the eunuch, an officer of the court. The king also burned the chariots dedicated to the sun." -2 Kings 23:11 6. THE BOOK OF ENOCH TEACHES THAT NOAH HAD LASER BEAM EYES Enoch 103:1-2 "And after some days my son, Methuselah, took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore him a son. 2 And his body was white as snow and red as a rose, the hair of his head as white as wool and his demdema 29 beautiful; and as for his eyes, when he opened them the whole house glowed like the sun—(rather) the whole house glowed even more exceedingly." The next passage describes how Lamech urged his father Methuselah to go and speak with Enoch (who had been translated to heaven) about Noah. We are forbidden to speak to the dead or anyone in heaven except Jesus. Enoch 106:7 "So I am beseeching you now, begging you in order that you may go to his (grand)father Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling place is among the angels.” THE TRUTH Genesis 5: 24 says: "Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him". Hebrews 11;5 says...Enoch was TAKEN AWAY. It would be impossible for Methuselah to go to the "ends of the earth" and yell for Enoch and for Enoch to come back to come back to earth to give Methuselah the answer he wanted about Noah. This is a heretical fable. Noah could not have consulted with Enoch since Enoch was translated decades before Noah was born. He was not around for people to talk to him. Once again, the Book of Enoch is contrary to scripture and introduces false heresies. If Jude was quoting from the Book of Enoch, then he would have had to reference 2 different scriptures in the Book of Enoch because there is not one single statement that matches Jude 1:14-15. "Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” Lastly... (1 Enoch 71:13-14, emphasis added): "And the Head of Days came with Michael and Raphael and Gabriel and Phanuel, and thousands and tens of thousands of angels without number. And he came to me and greeted me with his voice and said to me, 'You (are) that Son of Man who was born for righteousness, and righteousness dwells on you, and the righteousness of the Head of Days will not forsake you.'" This quote comes from The Hermeneia Translation. If this translation of 1 Enoch 71:14 is correct when it identifies Enoch as the Messianic figure, then this should impact how much significance we place on these writings. If the author of The Parables of Enoch intended to identify Enoch as this figure who fulfills these Messianic prophecies, then that puts The Parables of Enoch—that is, 1 Enoch 37-71—in direct conflict with the teachings of the New Testament concerning the identity of the Messianic Son of Man...Jesus. We are in the end times and DECEPTION is spreading just as Jesus said it would. Remember the parable about the leaven of the Pharisees. Remember the poison in the water. Once it's there, it's throughout the entire teaching. Please separate yourselves from false teachers and pastors and repent before you get into deeper deception. God will send the STRONG delusion soon. |
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