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Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology - Introductory Note - New Stuff
This article was originally on the site of
The Saviour of All Fellowship (linked below)
The "God" of christianity
vs.
the GOD of the Bible
by
Ray Van Dyke
The "God" Of Christendom
God, in the beginning, created a perfect Angel called the “Anointed Cherub” whose name was Lucifer.
This perfect Angel one day fell in sin, and became a devil, ruining much of God’s universe, and is the cause of all sin and evil, and also the cause of ruin and sin in other perfect angels, now called demons.
Author's note: This reminds one of a man
who
invents a machine or creates something
for the good of himself and humanity, and then this machine goes out of his
control and ruins all, against the original will and intention of the inventor.
God then was fortunate to have a son who, being purposed to die on Calvary, could at least salvage part of the ruin.
God
then wanted human beings by the millions to
love and serve and worship Him, and He “willed
all mankind to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.”
But
alas, the newly created Adam and Eve also
went bad on God, and again God’s intention with
the
human race failed. Again He blundered.
The
best that God can now do since Adam, is to
appeal and beg and plead with sinners so He at
least
gets some in heaven, otherwise the Devil gets
them
all in hell.
The
Devil is also appealing to sinners not to accept
Christ, and thus He is trying to get as many as
He can
into an endless hell. God is trying to get as
many as
He can into heaven.
“God’s” Failure and Satan’s Victory
Author’s note: Thus the conclusion must be reached
that the Devil’s
will is more powerful and successful
than God’s. Hell
must then be forever and ever a
monument to God’s
failure and to Satan's victory.
God foresaw
all of these millions and billions of
human beings when He
created Adam and Eve, and He
must have seen what an
expensive proposition it would
be; what a gamble; for
He would have to send about
500 or more to an
eternal hell for each one which He
gets in heaven.
Then at the Tower of Babel, He deliberately upsets
the one language of the
world, and makes it that much
more difficult for
heathens and sinners to get saved.
For, when viewed from
present day missionary appeals,
what a boon one
language in the world would have
been! Now the student
must study two years or so to
learn a dialect or
language, and in the meantime
thousands of heathens
die and are eternally lost.
Then during the dark ages, either God would not or
could not give the
world, for hundreds of years, printed
Bibles, tracts, radios,
printing presses, etc. And even to
this day there are
millions of heathens not reached,
who, for the most part,
must be lost, or we would not
send missionaries and
money to the foreign fields.
God is weak enough to get the infants into heaven,
but when they mature,
the Devil gets most of them.
Fortunate for the baby
and for God when babies and
little children get
killed.
Then in
conclusion, God miraculously keeps these
billions of sinners
alive forever and ever so they can
undergo their eternal
“gnashing of teeth” in fire and
miraculously be kept
burning. What profit this is to
God or to the billions
of culprits in Hell we are not told.
And, when we
begin to ask a few questions, we are
immediately hushed and
told that we must not ask such
questions; however, we
are supposed to believe in this
blundering, weak,
failing god of protestantism and
catholicism, the
popular god of Christendom.
The thing that amazes the author is that most
Christians dare not
face the conclusion of their own
religious beliefs.
THE GOD OF
THE SACRED SCRIPTURES
1 Tim. 4:10 He is the Saviour of all
mankind.
(Not of believers and infants only).
1 John 2:2 He is the propitiation
for Our sins,
and not ours only, but for the whole
world.
John 1:29 He is the Lamb of God
which takes away
the sin of the world. (Not believers only).
Rom.11:32
He locks all up in stubbornness (Jew and
Gentile) that He may be merciful to all.
1
Tim.1:15 He came into the world to save sinners.
(Not to save non-sinners, or lose 90 per
cent of them).
1
Tim.2:3 He wills all mankind to be saved
and
come to a knowledge of the truth (cp
Eph.1:11).
Prov.16:1-4
(Rev.4:11) He has made all for Himself.
(Not 90 percent for the Devil eternally).
Col.1:20,21 He will future reconcile all.
(In verse 21, He has reconciled us now.
He has made us a "firstfruits"
(not "only fruits").
Rom.8:19-26
He subjects the whole creation, and it
waits in hope (vs. 20).
1
Cor. 15:22 He is capable of restoring all the
damage under the first Adam (cp
Rom.5:18,19).
1 Cor.15:28 He shall some day be “All in
all”
(not “all in some”).
“For
all is out of Him, and all is through Him, and
all is for Him; to Whom be the glory
for the eons.”
Amen (Romans 11:36).