Vindicating God Ministries: December 2017

Saturday, December 23, 2017

The Satanic Rebellion (Part 3)

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Friday, December 22, 2017

Church Father Tertullian and the Origin of Sickness

A slide from a series of Bible studies on the fact that God does not send sickness and disease and that it was never His idea. Later Judaism before Christ now the early church believe that sickness originated with God. On the contrary, Satan is given full credit for this.

Sadly, there are some in the church who believe that God either personally inflicts sickness on people as punishment or that He "blesses" people with it for His glory and to help build their character. God does not use satanic tools born of evil to do His holy work in us.

Acts 10:38 says, "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." We need to recognize, as Scripture does, and as those who followed in the footsteps of the apostles did, that sickness originates from evil entities. Sickness must be RESISTED by God's power and NOT EMBRACED.

Saturday, December 16, 2017

The Satanic Rebellion (Part 2)

https://youtu.be/fIEG9upby6M

Friday, December 15, 2017

Does God Cause Unbelief?

Calvinism as a whole is cultic and contrary to Scripture. But among some of their most outlandish unbiblical ideas is the teaching that God Himself causes the unbelief of sinners. This flies in the face of Scripture where Jesus commends faith and rebukes unbelief as well numerous other places in Scripture where we are warned against walking in unbelief.

Of course, Calvinists have their "proof-texts". However, when we examine them carefully we can still see that their proof-texts do not teach what the Calvinist claims.

It is indeed sad that Calvinists have doctrines that cast aspersions on God's character. Their only concern seems to be in proving their erroneous philosophical assertion rather than showing the world that we serve a wonderful God who created all in love.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Pope's Suggested Change to the Lord's Prayer

Some in the Christian community, particularly among Non-Catholics, are a little perturbed over the Pope's suggestion that we change a line in the Lord's prayer: "....the pope suggested a better translation of the Greek prayer from the New Testament would be something along the lines of, “Do not let us fall into temptation.”

Personally, since I am not Roman Catholic so I doubt that there is a whole lot the Pope and I would agree on. However, on THIS POINT the Pope and I agree 100%. Our Heavenly Father NEVER leads people into temptation. That line in the Lord's prayer needs to be interpreted in the light of the way language was used in the Near East in which God is often said to do that which He only permitted. The Pope is right to believe that this should have been translated in the PERMISSIVE rather than in the CAUSATIVE sense.

(For more on the Pope's suggestion see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/12/08/lead-us-not-into-what-pope-francis-suggests-changing-the-words-of-the-lords-prayer/?utm_term=.15d99e17b1c8)

Monday, December 11, 2017

John Calvin Versus Scripture

“The devil, and the whole train of the ungodly, are in all directions, held in by the hand of God as with a bridle, so that they can neither conceive any mischief, nor plan what they have conceived, nor how muchsoever they may have planned, move a single finger to perpetrate, unless in so far as he permits, nay unless in so far as he commands, that they are not only bound by his fetters but are even forced to do him service”
John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 17, Paragraph 11

“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8)

Comments: If God is controlling that Satan and evil men (influenced by Satan - John 8:39-44) are doing then Jesus came to destroy the works of God. Thankfully, we see that Jesus and God are ONE which means that the Father and Son and Holy Spirit are not controlling the actions of Satan and evil men. God came to destroy the works opposed to His character. John Calvin is a false teacher.

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Saturday, December 9, 2017

The Satanic Rebellion (Part 1)

https://youtu.be/6yCMEEW2bx8

Friday, December 8, 2017

God's Character of Love and Fairness

Joseph Woodward in his book, "Understanding TRIALS to Better Understand God" writes the following:

"I firmly believe that one of the most significant things we will see happening, as we advance toward the coming of Jesus, is a great revelation of the nature - the character - of God. His character is essentially loving, merciful, good, and gentle." (p. 175)

I also believe that the truth concerning God's character is one of the important end times messages. For too many centuries Satan has attempted to paint God in colors that is more like himself. The devil has blinded men to the Biblical truth about God by having "ministers" teach about a God who creates and distributes evil, and who is arbitrary, hateful, mysterious, and constantly angry.

The good news is that God is nothing like the devil or the way that the devil has made Him appear to be (using pulpit ministers to spread this propaganda about Him). God desires that we understand and know Him. He wants us to know the truth about His character.

God specifically wants us to know that He is loving, kind, FAIR (that is what is meant by "judgment") and has nothing to do with evil ("righteous"). He is not behind sickness, disease, poverty, accidents, or any of life's negatives. He is the deliverer from them all. You CAN UNDERSTAND AND KNOW this God.

Be blessed today.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Acts 2:23 - Calvinist Prooftexts Answered

Sometimes the way a verse is translated can appear to support the idea that God predetermined the murder of His Son. This is the way that Acts 2:23 is read and understood by many people, but especially Calvinists. However, the word used in the KJV for "delivered up" (ekdotos) can also be translated "given over" or "given". Note two literal translations of Acts 2:23:

....this One given to you by the before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you having taken by lawless hands, having crucified Him, you put Him to death. (Green's Literal Translation)

Him, being given you by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by a wicked hand have fastned to a cross, and slain (William Whiston New Testament)

Now take note of a very familiar passage:

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 3:16)

When you look at the literal translations cited above and compare them with John 3:16 we see that it was God giving Jesus for our salvation that was foreknown and predetermined by God's counsel, not His death. Did God know that the men would ultimately kill HIs Son? Yes (Isa. 53:4-10). However, the Calvinist is wrong to claim that God predetermined this murder to take place. The idea of murder was from thoughts planted into the minds of wicked men by Satan (John 8:39-44).

God gave these men the gift of His Son. That is what was predetermined. These men took God's gift and allowed Satan to influence them to murder Him. The murder was not God's predetermined plan. But oh joy of joys. Satan's act of hatred was turned over on him because, by killing an innocent man, he forfeited any rights that he had to rule mankind. Now the keys of death and hell belong to Jesus (Rev. 1:18). He offers freedom to all people trapped in Satan's kingdom (Acts 26:18; Col. 1:12-14).

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Friday, December 1, 2017

Acts 4:27-28 - Calvinist Proof-Texts Answered

Calvinists like to present a string of "gotcha" Bible verses to prove their awful doctrines that denigrate God's character. However, these verses are usually misquoted and often are mistranslated. Acts 4:27-28 is one of many used by the Calvinist to teach that God controls all of the actions of men, including sinful ones.

However, when the words from this passage are translated from the Greek and rendered in the correct order then it presents Christ as the predetermined one who men sought to kill. Note how the one literal translation renders the passage:

"For truly both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together against Your holy child Jesus, whom You anointed, to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel before-determined to be done." (Green’s Literal Version; Emphasis added)

From this we can see that it was not the acts of murder by the religious leaders that were predetermined by God but our Lord’s mission to seek and save that which is lost.

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