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Did God miss the mark?

What could God have done to ensure that His creation would never know the depths of His love, reconciliation, and grace? All He would have needed to do was create them perfect, never needing His love, reconciliation, and grace. Hence, God’s creation would never know nor need the depths of God.

A Christian once told me that we know God loves us because He sent His Son to die for us. Well, if Christ’s appearing and subsequent death is such a great expression of God’s love, then how could God show this love if ‘sin’ did not exist? Without sin, there is no need for a Savior. Therefore without sin, we would not know the full extent of God’s love.

The religious world attempts to relieve God of His responsibility in the creation of sin. However, in doing so, they actually make God a sinner.

Let us first define ‘sin’ in scripture:

hamartanó (Strong’s 264): to miss the mark, do wrong, sin Original Word: ἁμαρτάνω Definition: to miss the mark, do wrong, sin

So, sin has a literal definition of ‘to miss the mark.’ Any mistake, failure or inability to hit a target is sin. When you miss a free throw in basketball…its a sin. When you shoot an arrow that misses the intended target…you sin.

Now, of course there is moral sin as well. Such as committing adultery or lying, perhaps failing at a relationship with a family member, spouse, or friend. Either way, sin is missing the mark. So, if I’m a potter making a vase that falls apart the moment I put flowers in it…did I sin in making that vase? Of course I did because the vase did not hold the flowers like it was intended to do. So, I sinned in making that vase.

If a science fiction movie soon became reality and Artificial Intelligence created by man goes rogue and destroys humans, would you blame the AI or man? Man would be to blame because the creation had the capacity to do horrible things.

So I ask…Did God sin when He created Satan? I can answer this question no better than A.E. Knoch in his book ‘The Problem of Evil and the Judgements of God:’

• Did God sin in creating the Adversary? The answer will depend entirely upon the object He had in view. Was it God’s intention that sin should invade the universe or was it due to an error on His part? Remembering our definition of sin, if sin’s entrance was a mistake, then God sinned! -Problem of evil p. 21

The bottom line is this: If God created man ‘not to sin’ and they did, then God missed the mark and sinned. If God intended for man to sin and they did, then God remains the perfect God of the universe. Many people credit Satan or mankind as the source of sin. However, if sin is needed for God to show His great love then are these same people going to credit Satan in introducing Christ to the world? Of course not!

In fact, Satan and sin and all evil are creations of God that will eventually glorify God in a greater way than would have been possible if they never existed.

Well, the answer of sin shocks the Christian but it is this: God intended that sin should invade His universe. Without sin, there is no need for a loving Savior to die for unworthy sinners and thus…showing all creation the depths of God’s love.

Christians want to sing of God’s love shown through Christ but want to ignore the stage that was set in order for this love to occur. The ‘deceived’ person will credit God with love but deny that God had anything to do with setting up that love.

So, did sin create the need within God to love and save His creation? Or did God love His creation first, then created ‘sin’ in order to reveal that love through His Son? As if God didn’t think about loving and saving His creation until sin entered the universe. As if God said, “SIN! What is the meaning of this…how did this happen? Wait! This gives me an idea…maybe I can show my love by sending my son.”

Nonsense!!!

Christ was slain before Adam and Eve sinned, from the disruption of the world. God planned how He would show the world His love by killing Christ, before sin entered the scene. THIS MEANS THAT GOD PLANNED FOR SIN TO OCCUR!

8 And all who are dwelling on the earth will be worshiping it, everyone whose name is not written in the scroll of life of the Lambkin slain from the disruption of the world. – Revelation 13:8

In 2 Timothy 1:9, Paul says that grace and Christ Jesus is given to us BEFORE TIME EVEN BEGAN! Why would we be given grace and Christ Jesus before time began if SIN wasn’t planned by God. There would be no need for God to give us grace and Christ Jesus before time began if ‘sin’ was not in the works.

9 Who saves us and calls us with a holy calling, not in accord with our acts, but in accord with His own purpose and the grace which is given to us in Christ Jesus before times eonian, – 2 Timothy 1:9

Before everyone gets huffy and puffy about ‘sin’ and accuse me of calling God evil…hear this: Man sins according to God’s plan and man will be held accountable and corrected for this behavior. It will give man a deeper joy and character having experienced this sin once He is filled with God and perfected. All these sins will be dealt with and have been dealt with by Christ!

God, however, does not sin because He uses man’s sin to fulfill an ultimate, good purpose. So, God uses sin for good. Therefore, when man sin’s, he is evil. But, God is not. I’ll end with an example to illustrate my point.

Acts 4: 27-28 says this:

27 For of a truth, in this city were gathered against Thy holy Boy Jesus, Whom Thou dost anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the nations and the peoples of Israel,
28 to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel designates beforehand to occur.

Herod, Pilate, the Jews, and the gentiles did terrible things and sinned by murdering Jesus. No doubt, killing Jesus was a horrible thing they did and judgement is coming. However, God planned this as His counsel designated beforehand for this to occur. God caused these evil actions in order for Jesus to be killed so that all creation will eventually be saved. So, even though man was evil in doing this…God purposed it for Good in that ALL CREATION was saved.

Though man is evil, God is not. Though God causes evil actions, He purposes it for an eventual good. God is the only Being that can do this because He is not a man…He is God. The evil that a man does is simply evil.

Need God’s own words to prove this?

How about Genesis 50:20? I’ll even use the KJV and NIV:

New King James Version
But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

New International Version
You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

God created evil and sin to fulfill His purpose of love. Once God’s plan is complete and all are saved, evil and sin are done away with forever. Oh, my prayer is that we believe these words in 1 Corinthians 15:

21 For since, in fact, through a man came death, through a Man, also, comes the resurrection of the dead. 22 For even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also, in Christ, shall all be vivified.
23 Yet each in his own class: the Firstfruit, Christ; thereupon those who are Christ’s in His presence; 24 thereafter the consummation, whenever He may be giving up the kingdom to His God and Father, whenever He should be nullifying all sovereignty and all authority and power.
25 For He must be reigning until He should be placing all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy is being abolished: death. 27 For He subjects all under His feet. Now whenever He may be saying that all is subject, it is evident that it is outside of Him Who subjects all to Him. 28 Now, whenever all may be subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also shall be subjected to Him Who subjects all to Him, that God may be All in all.) – 1 Corinthians 15: 21-28

All enemies are abolished and put under Christ’s feet once creation is perfected. This includes sin and evil. Jesus Christ’s death for sin, His entombment, and His resurrection will save every single man, women, child, and creature that has ever lived.

Grace and peace to you all!

Tradition and Fastasy create deadly bible mistakes

King James Bible
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; -Titus 1:2

New King James Version
in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, -Titus 1:2

In the above bible verses, we have the word ‘eternal’ to describe eternal life and the word ‘world’ or ‘time’ to describe the phrase ‘before time began.’ Okay, so what’s the problem?

The problem is that its the same Greek word. How can the same word both mean ‘eternal’ and ‘time?’ Eternal is the absence of time and therefore cannot be ‘time.’ In this verse, the bible translators prove that they have mistranslated this word ‘aionion,’ Strong’s word 166. This word means ‘age, pertaining to an age.’ However, the King James version and many other versions, improperly translate this word to mean eternal. But, in this verse they have to use the correct meaning the second time the word ‘aionion’ is used because they know nothing can happen before ‘eternity.’

If the translators were consistent, honest, and knew that this word meant ‘eternal’ then this is how they would have rendered this verse:

In hope of eternal (aionion 166) life which God, who cannot lie, promised before eternity (aionion 166) began,

Nothing could happen before ‘eternity’ so the correct translation of this word is proven to be ‘time’ or a ‘period of time.’ This is very important because this is the word used to falsley prove that punishment or correction from God is eternal. Here, we see that the word ‘aionion’ is related to time. Therefore, punishment, correction, separation from God is for a period of time, not eternity. The life spoken of in Titus 1:2 and by words of Jesus relate to aionion life, not eternal life.

One of the great mistakes people make with scripture is that they use traditions and religious folklore to define words. Therefore, these words that have a conclusive, direct, and simple meaning are confused for something else.

For instance, the Greek word ‘aion’ means ‘age.’ Simple enough…isn’t it? Well, I recently had a man tell me that ‘aion’ actually means ‘age pertaining to eternal hell.’ What? How can one word that clearly means ‘age’ be turned into a phrase that completely contradicts itself? Tradition, folklore, and brainwashing, that’s how.

Another major reason why people continue to believe in the false, Satanic doctrine of Eternal hell or annihilation is that they apply tradition and fairytales in determining the meaning of words. Simply put…they use the wrong word.

I’ve done this before and there are so many examples I can use. However, for time’s sake, I’ll just use one simple example.

First, I think we can all agree that a person cannot do something literally ‘forever’ if that something has an end. For instance, I cannot teach at West High School forever if I retire at some point.

Well, let’s look at Revelation 11:15. First, I’ll use the King James faulty translation. Then, the correct translation.

Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” -King James version

15 And the seventh messenger trumpets. And loud voices occurred in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of this world became our Lord’s and His Christ’s, and He shall be reigning for the eons of the eons! Amen!” -Concordant version

The Greek word used in this verse is ‘aion,’ Strong’s word 165. Nevermind for a second that the word is defined as ‘age.’ That should be enough, however, tradition gets in the way. Let’s look at how the truth of scripture confirms the meaning of this word.

In the above verse of Revelation 11:15, we have the word ‘aion’ translated to mean ‘eons of the eons’ and ‘forever and ever.’ So, which is it? Does Christ reign for the ‘eons of the eons’ or ‘forever and ever?’

Let’s go no furthur that 1 Corinthians to find the answer:

25 For He must be reigning until He should be placing all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy is being abolished: death.
27 For He subjects all under His feet. Now whenever He may be saying that all is subject, it is evident that it is outside of Him Who subjects all to Him.
28 Now, whenever all may be subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also shall be subjected to Him Who subjects all to Him, that God may be All in all.) -1 Corinthians 15: 25-28

In the above verses, Paul goes deeper into the future than yes, even the book of Revelation. Verse 25 says that Jesus Christ regins UNTIL He should be placing all His enemies under His feet. That means that all enemies are put at His feet and the last one, death, is then abolished. Christ reigns UNTIL this happens. When it does happen, Christ NO LONGER reigns. In fact, the rest of these verses say that Christ Himself will be subject to God.

In the book of Revelation, Christ is still reigning so not all enemies have been put at His feet. Here, Paul is speaking of a time after Revelation and after the ages of time. He is speaking of a time when Christ has perfected all creation and there is no longer a need for Him to reign. Why? Because of His death for sin, His entombment, and His resurrection, God is All in every creature ever created. Why would their be a need to reign anymore when God is All in everyone?

This proves beyond all doubt that Jesus does not reign FOREVER and especially not ‘FOREVER AND EVER’ as if its possible to have two forever’s anyway. I know Christians conveniently forget what the word ‘UNTIL’ means. However, if I said that I would write this article UNTIL it was finished, everyone would know that once I finished the article I would CEASE to be writing it. Then, why don’t we believe that Christ’s reigns UNTIL all enemies are under his feet? When all enemies are under His feet, He ceases to reign…as clearly taught in scripture.

So, back to Revelation 11:15. How can, as the King James Version says, ‘aion’ mean that Christ’s reign is ‘forever and ever’ when Christ does not reign forever? Simple. It is a mistranslation that stems from tradition, folklare, and lies. It sounds good to say Christ reigns FOREVER AND EVER. You sound spiritual when you say it. However, it is wrong. The proper translation is that Christ reigns for the ‘eons of the eons,’ the last two glorious ‘eons/ages’ before the consummation.

This fits perfect with scripture that speaks of two, yet future, ages or eons to come. The ‘1000 year Milenium Kingdom of Christ’ and the ‘New Heavens and New Earth’ age. These future ages are clearly spelled out by Christ, Paul, and in the book of Revelation. What a glorious time these final two ages will be and that is exactly why they are called the ‘eons of the eons.’ Christ rules during the 1000 years and the new heavens and the new earth ages and therefore, these two ages are the greatest of all the ages…thus…eons of the eons.

At the conclusion of these two glorious eons, all of God’s creation will be reconciled to God through the blood of the cross (Colossians 1:15:20)…Not before. During these final ages of time, Christ is reigning so not all creation is subject to Christ and not all enemies are abolished, under Christ’s feet…YET!

This is where ‘not understanding’ words in scripture is devastating to the Christian. They apply what is temporary to the eternal and therefore, miss the completion of God’s plan. Scripture talks about agelong life for the 1000 year kingdom and agelong life in the new heavens and the new earth, not eternity. Many, much to the satisfaction of religious self righteousness, will miss these glorious ages of time. However, at the consummation, all will be given the immortality of Christ and live with God forever.

There is no eternal life! Eternal life has no beginning and we all had a beginning! Scripture does not talk about eternal life. Scripture talks about agelong life. We know that we will live forever because we put on Christ’s immortality, not because we earned eternal life.

Believers are given immortality to live forever, early, before everyone else. Those unbelievers will undergo judgement, correction, and many will be dead and not have immortality during the last two ages. However, they too will receive immortality when death is abolished.

The false words of tradition are used by Satan to hide the true God and the successful Savior. The true words of scripture reveal a God and a Savior beyond anything we could possibly imagine.

God uses Satan and his false words in order for those He chose to be separate from those He did not choose. Those that are chosen by God will be given the determination to search out these words and find the truth. Those that have not been chosen will not search and will stick to the easy road of tradition and false expression.

These people fill the churches today!

It is the glory of Elohim to conceal− a matter, And the glory of kings to investigate− a matter -Proverbs 25:2

What happens to God’s enemies in the end? I mean, the end of the ages of time, the consummation. Whether a creature, principality, philosophy, power or death itself—what happens to all of God’s enemies in the end?

THEY ARE ABOLISHED! Done away with, rendered inoperative, no longer in existence in God’s creation. I’ll get to the scripture in a moment.

Why, then, do Christians glorify God’s enemies as lasting forever? How can something that is abolished exist forever?

The problem that most Christians have is that they apply to ‘forever’ what is ‘temporary.’ They make God’s enemies last ‘forever’ when scripture says God’s enemies are temperol. The Christian would have God’s abolished, inoperative, non-existent, temporary enemies hold God separate from His creation…forever!

Giving ‘glory’ is to give praise and honor for a notable achievement. The ‘notable achievement’ for God’s enemies is keeping people apart form God forever when God sent His Son to reconcile all of His creation. This is heresy in the highest order. No enemy achieves anything for eternity when faced with the cross of Christ. All these enemies will be placed where they belong…at Christ’s feet.

What would happen if the Christian knew that God’s ememies exist for a period of time and for a specific purpose and once that purpose comes to pass, then so does the enemy itself? Well, they would know God and scripture.

You see, anything that keeps a human being separate from God is an ‘enemy’ of God. Therefore, if scripture says that all enemies of God are eventually abolished, then it is impossible for these ‘enemies’ to continue to separate creatures from their Creator.

25 For He must be reigning until He should be placing all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy is being abolished: death.
27 For He subjects all under His feet. Now whenever He may be saying that all is subject, it is evident that it is outside of Him Who subjects all to Him.
28 Now, whenever all may be subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also shall be subjected to Him Who subjects all to Him, that God may be All in all.) -1 Corinthians 15: 25-28

So here we have definitive scripture that says all of God’s enemies will be abolished or destroyed. Death is the last one to be abolished so that means that all other enemies go before. Let’s take a closer look at what the word ‘abolished’ actually means in the Greek translation.

The Greek word for abolished is Katargeo and it means to abolish, to nullify, to render ineffective, to bring to an end, to make inactive.

katargeó: To abolish, to nullify, to render ineffective, to bring to an end

Original Word: καταργέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: katargeó
Pronunciation: kat-ar-GEH-o
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-arg-eh’-o)
Definition: To abolish, to nullify, to render ineffective, to bring to an end
Meaning: (a) I make idle (inactive), make of no effect, annul, abolish, bring to naught, (b) I discharge, sever, separate from.

I’ve heard ridiculous arguments like, “Yeah, God’s enemies are abolished but the damage is done and whoever rejected Christ is lost forever.” Well, in this case, rejection of Christ driven by the adversary is an enemy of God. Therefore, in this line of thinking, the effects of this ‘enemy’ still remain because people are separate from God BECAUSE OF THIS ENEMY. As a result, the enemy was not truly abolished. The abolition of enemies means that THE EFFECTS and THE ENEMY itself no longer have a hold on God’s creation.

God declares His enemies abolished, yet the Christian says that God’s enemies are effective and in operation forever.

It is dishonest to say that God’s enemies are abolished but what the ‘enemy’ did still remains. The truth is that the enemy and all that the enemy has done is gone forever. You see, 1 Corinthians 15: 55-56 does not just talk about Christ’s victory of death. It taunts the ‘sting’ of death as well. So, Mr. Christian, how can even one of God’s creatures be dead and separated from God forever? If even one person has this fate then the ‘sting’ of death is still in operation.

The sting of death is sin and this death, sin, and every enemy of God is eventually abolished through the victory of the cross.

The Christian simply does not believe in the power of the cross and in God’s complete abolition of all His enemies. God annihilates His enemies without annihilating a single creature.

Some hard core religionists would say, “it was YOUR choice to reject Christ,” implying that human decision determines a man’s fate. However, this decision would be AN ENEMEY OF GOD. An enemy that is abolished. But yet, the religionist says it lasts forever. You can’t have it both ways.

You can’t have the truth of scripture and hold on to the lie that God’s enemies and their effects are going to last forever.

GOD’S ENEMIES ARE ABOLISHED BY MAKING EVERY CREATURE PERFECT THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE CROSS!

• SIN is an enemy of God and will be abolished, Christians say that sin will and its effects will remain forever in hell or annihilationism.
• DEATH is an enemy of God and is the last enemy to be abolished, Christians say that death will remain forever in the lake of fire (second death).
• UNBELIEF or REJECTION OF CHRIST will be abolished when God is All in all, Christians say this UNBELIEF AND REJECTION and/or its effects remain forever.
• BAD BEHAVIOR will be abolished by our Christ given immortality, Christians say that bad behavior and its effects remain forever.

Scipture does not say that God’s enemies will only be abolished in a certain group of people. As if God would save only part of His creation and the enemy will retain the rest forever. What kind of victory would that be? No, it says that God’s enemies will be abolsihed completely and totally. That is victory. That is the cross of Christ. That is God.

In Conclusion, God’s enemies were not created to stand against Him forever, but instead to bring greater joy and fulfillment to His creatures once they are abolished. God’s enemies serve as part of the creative process God uses to perfect all mankind, without which, Christ never would have been introduced to the world.

This is why scripture says that God created evil (Isaiah 45:7) and this experience on earth is an experience of evil (Ecclesiastes 1:13). Without the enemies of God, then what need would there be for Christ? The enemies and their effects are there for Christ to overcome. It is the Christian and the religious person that says these enemies will remain.

Those that choose Christ do not abolish God’s enemies for themselves as the enemy remains on the rest of creation. No, No, No… 1 Corinthians, chapter 15 eplicitly details how Christ will wipe ALL ENEMIES from existence by PERFECTING ALL CREATION effected by God’s enemies and turning every enemy into a friend.

May we believe the power of the cross to nullify every enemy!

Grace and peace to you all.