The following is a response to an email and video outlining common christian fallacies. Names have been deleted.
1) The satanic belief in human free will: Let’s call it what it is…salvation by human will power. It is self-salvation and denies God and Christ Jesus. Paul says to heathen Greeks that in Him (God), we live and move and are (Acts 17:28). He gives to us life breath and all…and He gives this to all (Acts 17:25). We are reliant on God for everything as we can give Him nothing that He has first not given to us (Romans 11:36). This includes faith (Romans 12:3), repentance (2 Timothy 2:25), good works (Ephesians 2:10). He is the Potter and we are the clay and though we can go against His stated will and disobey, we can NEVER go against His intention (what He planned for us to do). Read Romans chapter 9 a hundred times if you have to and see if this is not true. It is a dangerous thing to believe that Christ’s work needs your free-will addition to it. Free will actually denies the completed work of Christ on the cross in favor of ‘self.’
2) Absolute vs. Relative: One must understand these concepts to understand scripture. The bible says that Pharaoh hardened his own heart and another scripture says that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart. Which is true? Both. God, in the absolute viewpoint, does everything. In the relative viewpoint, humans make decisions and live/move. Humans make decisions in the relative and in the absolute sense, God causes them to make every decision based on His plan from the very beginning. For instance, 2 Timothy 1:9 says that God has chosen believers since before the foundation of the world…that is absolute. Then, those who are chosen are born, live their lives, and eventually believe in the relative sense. All caused by God.
3) Ages of time: If one does not understand that God operates in ages of time and NOT ETERNITY then scripture will not be understood. God is eternal, yes of course, but He does not operate with us in eternity. He operates in ages. The Hebrew word ‘Olam’ and the Greek words ‘aionious and aion’ mean ‘agelong, pertaining to an age.’ These are the words used by erroring bibles to mean eternity. So every time you see the word ‘eternal’ it is actually ‘agelong.’ This can be proven easily by using the bible itself. Jonah 2:6 says that Jonah was in the belly of a fish forever (Olam). We know that Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights, not forever. The word is olam and it pertains to time, not eternity. It simply cannot mean eternity. Aion and Aionious are the Greek equivalent to Olam.
* Here is what the King James Version does: ‘Aion’ means age. The adjective form of ‘aion (strong’s 165)’ is ‘aionious (strong’s 166).’ Aionious is the adjective form of aion. King James Version translates ‘aionious’ to mean eternal. The adjective form of the noun cannot mean something different than the noun it is derived from. Example: hourly and hour—daily and day. Therefore, as proven in scripture, ‘aionious’ cannot mean ‘eternal.’ For instance, 2 Timothy 1:9 and Titus 1:3 say before times eternal(aionious). How can something happen before eternity began? It doesn’t, it happens before the ages were created. In revelation, Jesus reigns for the eternities of the eternities if you translate this word consistently with the King James. How can someone reign for two eternities? Makes no sense, not to mention that scripture says Jesus’s reign comes to an end. The word ‘aion’ means ‘age’ and the word ‘aionious’ means ‘agelong.’ God created the ages and every creature through Christ Jesus and when the ages end, every creature is saved by Christ and God is All in all (1 Corinthians 15:28). Christ Jesus gives up His reign because there is no need to reign anymore because every creature is perfected. He is a perfect Savior.
* Greek is the most exact language on earth, that is why God chose it. There is a Greek word that means ‘endless, unending’ and it is Strong’s 562 (aperantos), used in 1 Timothy 1:4. If God wanted to say ‘endless’ then this word would have been used. He didn’t because it is agelong, not endless. Thus, aion and aionious used.
* We are in the 3rd ‘wicked’ age as Paul describes. The last two ages are as follows:
Age 4 (1000 years) – the weeping and gnashing of teeth are those that are excluded from this kingdom, not eternity. This is followed by everyone being raised for the ‘Great White Throne’ judgement. Then, heaven and earth are consumed with fire.
Age 5 (New Heavens and New Earth) – nobody knows how long this age is…could be thousands of years. The curs, enchanters, paramours, murderers, etc. that have their part in the lake of fire are outside during this age, not for eternity.
Consummation – this is the end of the ages when death is destroyed by Christ Jesus giving His immortal life to all creation. This is what is explained in 1 Corinthians 15, Colossians 1, Romans 5:18-19, and many other places in scripture.
4) Eternal hell: It has been said, you included, that Jesus spoke about ‘hell’ more than anything else. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hell is an English word and was never spoken by Jesus or anyone in scripture. The word Jesus used was ‘Gehenna’ or in the Hebrew, the ‘Valley of Hinnom.’ This is a physical place outside Jerusalem that burned the bodies of dead people. This place was operational during the time of Christ and will be again during the 1000 year kingdom. The fire of Gehenna burns the bodies UNTIL those bodies are completely consumed, not for eternity. This place has nothing to do with eternal conscious torment. Jesus warned about being excluded from the 1000 year kingdom, not torturing people in eternal fire. While He was on earth, Jesus came for ‘the lost sheep of the house of Israel’ only (Matthew 15:24). He came to fulfill the patriarchal promises of Israel. All this has to do with the Millennial Kingdom. Paul’s message that he received from the glorified Christ explains the deeper meaning of the cross, beyond Israel.
*Therefore, those who are weeping and gnashing of teeth, are out of the kingdom and not in eternal hell.
* The curs, enchanters, paramours, murderers, etc. that have their part in the lake of fire are outside during the New Heavens and New Earth age, they are not in eternal hell.
* You and pastor Matthew confuse the end with the means. Unbelievers and the wicked are judged and many will be ‘out’ of the 1000 years and the ‘New Heavens and New Earth’ ages. Missing out on the two glorious ages that Christ reigns is a BIG DEAL. God doesn’t need to punish vindictively for all eternity, but instead, uses the ages of time to bring all under Christ. That’s the God of power and love, not the christian god.
5) Death is death: Death is not life somewhere else. The ‘immortality of the soul’ is a pagan doctrine and it simply denies the work of Christ. Ecclesiastes says that ‘the dead know nothing.’ Death is equated to sleep, unconsciousness, repose in scripture. There is no sensation, passage of time, nor any experience in the death state. It is non-existence. Scripture says the dead ‘cannot praise God,’ so they are not in heaven or anywhere else, because they are dead. In fact, 1 Timothy 6:16 says that Jesus ALONE and no one else is with Him has this immortal life. This was after the cross. Hence, we are not with Christ until the resurrection…from the dead. Daniel 12:2 – From those sleeping in the soil of the ground many shall awake, these to eonian life and these to reproach for eonian repulsion. Heaven and hell is not located in the soil, these people are dead.
The wages of sin is death, not eternal hell. We inherit death from Adam, not eternal hell. Jesus entered DEATH for us, not eternal hell. Death will be destroyed by Christ Jesus because of His death for our sin, His entombment, and His resurrection.
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