04/14/26 SPECIFIC FREE WILL
God gave us free will to choose or reject Divine truth. Free will does not mean that we create our own reality. It means that we choose to live in a faith and submissive relationship with God or live according to another authority. A faithful, loving submission to God is the choice to live in eternal, loving, Divine presence. Rejection of Divine rule in our lives will bring eternal judgment, separation, and punishment.
God does not want us to be "lost." He wants us to be "saved" from sin, separation, and eternal suffering. God has provided a way of deliverance and reconciliation. Whoever it is, who will be lost for eternity will be lost because they have willfully sinned (rebelled) against God, and they have chosen to never submit to Him.
A lot of religions claim to be God's revealed plan to reconcile lost men with God. However, there is only one way, one truth, and one life of reconciliation. Living faith in the living Lord Jesus is God's provision for anyone who will believe on and receive Christ as Lord and Savior.
The Holy Bible (made up of sixty-six books) is God's complete and final revelation of His salvation plan. A person can choose to believe anything he wants to believe, but belief is only salvific if it is based on Divine revelation.
A person can believe in whatever religious system he chooses, but if it is not God's revealed truth (the Holy Bible) then it is not Christian.
Jesus said that He was the Way, the Truth and the Life, and no man comes to the Father, but through Himself (Jesus).
The teachings of men, intelligent men, informed men, sincere men, influential men do not supersede the authority of the Holy Bible, since the Author of the Holy Bible is the all-wise, all-knowing, all-powerful God of the universe. Those who seek to change the teachings of the Bible, or add to the teachings of the Bible, or take away from the teachings of the Bible are presenting another (a different, a counterfeit) Jesus, another Gospel and another Spirit (than the Holy Spirit).
The counterfeits began showing up during the days of Christ, multiplied after the birth of the Church on the Day of Pentecost, thrived after the Apostolic age (the years of the Apostles) and almost completely hid the teachings of the Bible from the days of the early Church until the Reformation. Even the Reformation was only a partial re-discovery of long abandoned truths.
The Church spread quickly, beginning in Jerusalem. Apostles and other believers took the message of salvation throughout the Mid-East, Asia Minor, Turkey, Arabia, the Balkans, Armenia, Greece, Rome, Egypt, Ethiopia, Europe (southern, eastern, northern, western), India, Nepal, Libya, Persia (Iran), Afghanistan, Russia and eventually to China. This is a partial list of the growth of the early Church.
With this growth, non-Christian influences sprang up and caused divisions and corruptions and false doctrines to spread.
The rejection of corrupted, of early Christian movements in Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Ethiopia, Assyria, Europe (northern and western) were challenged by the Protestant Reformation. But this was only the beginning of a rediscovery of Biblical salvation and a return to New Testament Christianity.
Today there are a plethora of doctrinal attacks from ancient systems, reformed systems, errant beliefs in many denominations, cultic beliefs, and totally anti-Bible religious groups enslaving lost souls to false religion.
You can be a Catholic, an Eastern Orthodox, a follower of sinning religion, a slave of a legalistic group, enamored with man centered and miracle mongering "churches" or a follower of new age, modern cult pretenders to the faith.
If a person wants to be Catholic, Mormon, Watchtower, Seventh Day Adventists, New Apostolic Reformation, Prosperity (Name it Claim it), Reformationists (those who believe that God does not love everyone, that Christ did not die for everyone, that God does not save His people from sin and sinning in this present evil age, those who don't believe a person will not be cut off from God if he returns to sin after being saved), then they are free to do that. However, when you have another Jesus, another Gospel, another Spirit, another authority, then you are not a Bible-believing Christian.
I don't hate those who follow false doctrine. But you cannot take the name of the Lord God in vain, while following a false Christ, without facing the judgment of God.
The attack is ramping up these days, through the internet and public ministries of popular "Christian" speakers, music bands, and organizations.
Two of the main signs of the end times are deception and lawlessness abounding. You better find the right path and live in it faithfully.
If you have serious questions about a group or a person you are following, let me know. Maybe we can talk about it.
