Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Calvinism's Deadly Doctrines


"Then he who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.' 'And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.' "But his lord answered and said to him, 'You WICKED and LAZY servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. 'Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. 'For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. 'And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
(Matthew 25:24-30)

"Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, the Master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers
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(Luke 12:43-46)




Calvinism is the exact doctrinal position of the wicked and lazy servant who hid his talent in the ground and faced eternal judgment. It rewards a fruitless life before God, defames God's Character, promotes faithlessness, devalues the devotion of personal sacrifice when taking up ones cross to follow Jesus, it has been used to justify ones' personal laziness and a "do-nothing for God" Christianity, it conditions people to adopt a powerless, intellect-driven belief-system where its adherents are prone to stray from God by blaspheming the Holy Spirit as they call the demonstration and gifts of the Holy Spirit demonic, and Satan has used Calvinism as a stepping stone into leading people to accept the heresy of universalism.

I will always respect people who consider themselves Calvinists. I know that most of them may be saved by grace and are heaven-bound. However, I still believe that Calvinism doctrinally can lead a person to justify Universalism. I find that the more Calvinism is preached the less Fruit there is from the individual’s personal evangelism. It is not my place to rationalize away the power of God as if the Gifts and work of the Holy Spirit were no longer for today, while betting that the nature of God is that like the one talent servant viewed God (who through back at God only what God had given him as if God did not require fruit) We must not avoid the scriptures.

There is no substitute for preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and express love for one another. Allow Jesus Christ live His life out through you all. What this world needs to see is a demonstration of the power of God that changed us from the inside out and has delivered us from a lifestyle of compromise and sin. Let's not quarrel with each other. (I confess that sometimes I in the past have and in the present can get off track from the message) But the Lord reminds us to hate sin, buy and live out the truth, express your love for God and people with action.

Simply put, Jesus paid for all the sins of the world therefore Jesus Christ is fulfillment or the weight and embodiment of the entire Law and all the judgments rendered.

"The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 29 & 36)

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. "And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: "OF SIN, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN ME;" of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged....when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you." (John 16:7-15)

"Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS, to all and on all who believe...." (Romans 3:19-22)

"knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. (Galations 2:16)

"But the Scripture has confined ALL UNDER SIN, that the promise by FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST might be given to those who believe." (Galations 3:22)

"For you are all sons of God THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS."

It is not God's Choosing that redeems the soul. Every redemptive hope man has is through, is by, is in, is with, is on, and is from JESUS CHRIST the LORD. Commas are not inspired in scripture and the bible reader must make the habit of reading the entire verse, verses around the verse, the whole chapter and read the entire Book in order to get an understanding of its scripturally significance. In the first chapter alone Paul uses the term "IN HIM" or "IN CHRIST" in reference to the spiritual blessing that believers have as believers Jesus Christ already covenant with God.

Ephesians 1:3-6
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places IN CHRIST just as He chose us IN HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons BY JESUS CHRIST TO HIMSELF, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of HIS GRACE, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

The problem with the Calvinist interpretation by taking a phase out of context such as "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world" then stop as if there was a period in the middle of the text - is that it would mean that all the people that God would ever save must have Co-existed with Jesus and God before the foundation of the world or before the earth was formed. That is the Mormon heresy. Our beginning began "IN ADAM" not in Heaven with Christ. Our humanity began in Adam but our regeneration into a new Creation began in Jesus Christ, not in a predetermined divine choice.

The fact that Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world means that God had a redemption plan for the sons and daughters of Adam planned. The reason that we were predestined to be conformed to His likeness in because God's original intent was for us to look like "THE WORD OF GOD" Jesus Christ the Lord just as the first Adam before lost it. God's Word (Jesus) became flesh to become the Second and Last Adam. Once a person is grafted into the NEW COVENANT of Christ they have entered into an agreement with the Eternal God our Father.

"For whom He foreknew, He also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified." (Romans 8:29)
A basic understanding about the nature of God tells us that the father is Omniscient (all knowing and all wise. Notice the word in the greek is "Called" not Chosen. Those who accept or received the call (to repent) are chosen. They are among the “Whosoever's” that called on the name of the Lord. Many are called but few are chosen because few accepted the call in order to become the people, which God would foreknow. It is a distraction and a whimsical waste of time for us to think about separating or dissecting God from His foreknowledge. God is one. God is equal and one with His Nature. For example, God is Love, not has Love. Only as that nature is expressed to us in the English is what that God “has for us.” On the other hand, whatever human’s possess is due to the fact that it came from somewhere else. a fallen nature from Adam and we

Ephesians 1:7-12
IN HIM we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things IN CHRIST, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—IN HIM. IN HIM also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, THAT WE WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.

Paul is still not emphasizing predestination or how God choose of to be saved and how we all have no choice. He is still listing the spiritual blessings that we all have IN CHRIST and how the process all started because WE FIRST TRUSTED IN JESUS.

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us THROUGH CHRIST JESUS. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:4-10)

Satan has so twisted the scripture that he has caused even the great preachers of our day to depart from the context of Scripture. Faith is not the gift of God, GOD'S GRACE IS THE GIFT which is God's help and power become justified before God and to live a life pleasing to Him. Faith is our outward confidence that is manifested and demonstrated when we trust God and His Word which sets us in the position to receive from God. God CHOSE the PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST before the foundation of the world to be the source for what makes it all possible for those who are spiritually dead before God's eyes to come alive. That's why He calls Himself the Resurrection and the Life. Therefore if anyone throughout all human history ever hoped to become His workmanship or to become conformed to God's image, it is all made possible through Jesus Christ and ever one goes through the same way, not from a fatalistic divine choice.


"But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ." (Ephesians 2:13)

"And it shall come to pass, [that] WHOSOEVER shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. (Joel 2:32)

"And it shall come to pass, [that] WHOSOEVER shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Acts 2:21)

"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES. For Moses writes about the righteousness, which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them." But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down from above) or, "'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the WORD OF FAITH which we preach):" (Romans 10:4-8)

It is no wonder so many Christians have been robbed stripped by Satan from their authority as believers these modern day False-teachers of Calvinism and the emergent Church have preached against Faith and the process of receiving from God. Powerless Preachers and their powerless messages leaving the "believer" continuously left on the edge of uncertainly about the condition and position of their soul with God. From one side they preach about sin and judgment and from the other side they made light of the power of God as for today and shut down praise worship and the operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit while defaming the very person of God responsible for one's own salvation! The spirit of the Pharisee does not want the people to realize that the Holy Spirit is the guarantee (Ephesians 1:14, 2 Corinthians 5:5, 2 Corinthians 1:22) deed that we actually belong to Jesus and the fact that the Spirit of God can grieved and depart from someone. (Mark 3:29, Luke 12:10, Hebrews 6:4-6) One's unbelief can sever ones relationship with God. (Romans 11:20-23)

Ephesians 1:13-14
IN HIM YOU also TRUSTED, AFTER YOU HEAR THE WORD OF TRUTH, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, HAVING BELIEVED, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

There it is again. Faith is not the gift of God and it is not by-product of God's Grace or divine favor. It is believers response of trust after HEARING THE WORD OF TRUTH which is the gospel,

Sure there is a variety of faith that is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But by accepting and merely honing of the gift of faith as in operation today means that they have no reason to ignore the other gifts of the Holy Spirit that their man-made doctrinal traditions and ungodly beliefs have stated. In that same passages of Scripture, it talks about miracles as for today by the very same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead along with healing, tongues (unknown), Word of Knowledge, and word of Wisdom, Prophecy, etc.

"There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. (Holy Spirit) There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. (Jesus Christ, God the Son) And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. (The Father) But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another FAITH by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. (1 Corinthians 12:4-11)

The Gift of Faith enables a person to believe God for the supernatural and the impossible. It is the power to carry out divine assignments and power to see them come to pass on the earth.

In order to sell Calvinism, false teachers have spiritually handicapped their people by creating a sense of uncertainly over God's word and His will and His ways. Therefore doubting, critiquing and rationalizing God's word has slowing replaced actively taking it to heart. That's why so many fall away from the faith because human pride and opinion has exalted itself over ones relationship with God and the act of faith is distorted to spiritual laziness where even that is something we cannot have or extend God's way. People should not expect that they will ever be pleasing God without faith.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." (Hebrews 11:6)

The reason Calvinism is a distraction to the Gospel of the kingdom of God because it keeps peoples minds and focus away from the person of Jesus Christ and suspends it into speculation about the choices that God may or may not have made. The religious leaders of calvinism have done more debating amongst themselves and other christians than preaching the soul saving Gospel to the lost. No wonder the lost and the next generation are not being reached. Calvinist have used their doctrine to rationalize justifying the unbelief and disobedience of the listeners who, they feel, have rejected, dismissed, or taken lightly the message of gospel - as if God is the cause of every person's disobedience to His own word.

Doctrines that imply such a world-view are blasphemous and Demonic in two ways. It defames and dishonors the holy character of the God of the Bible and it let's every listener to the gospel off the hook (not responsible) for repenting of sin and believing on Jesus. I am convinced that the lawless in hell will be trying to justify themselves before God for eternity screaming in torment, "Why didn't you just make me believe" or "If God really loved me he would have forced me to believe in Jesus against my will." But these religious rebels forgot that even Jesus Christ could do no great works of salvation, healing, or deliverance in certain areas during his earthly ministry because of the peoples' unbelief.

When the spirit pride takes over a persons heart, they stop looking at God and start becoming focused on themselves. Soon, rebellion and stubbornness to their own way set in. God is not required nor responsible for believing in us or for us; we are expected to believe on Jesus and have faith in Jesus if we ever hope to receive anything from God.

Only unto those who have received Jesus Christ as Lord and have believed in their heart that God has Raised Him from the dead is a covenant between God and man forged through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ (who bore our sins past, present, and future on that Roman Cross, and simultaneously bore within his body the full Holy wrath of the Father that we all deserved) - thus making all those who God has redeemed and owns responsible for conforming to His image (Christ), upholding His Holy reputation, and expanding the influence of His Kingdom of the Earth as His Faithful Ambassadors.

"Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:20-21)

The problem with the Doctrines of men is that they have somehow found away to turn a person's obedience to Christ into an act of works equivalent to man's attempts to fulfill the perfunctory laws of the Old Testament.


You see...God saved and redeemed us for a purpose. Our salvation experience was just the beginning of a new thing, not the end of all things. I believe that's why people have become so confused by the doctrines of men such that when they read scriptures about "servants" in the gospels who were called by God to do a work and knew about God, but were caste into outer darkness because they were unfaithful, wicked, unforgiving, unfruitful, or lazy. (Matthew 25:26, 30 )

"Get off your blessed assurance and do something for Jesus!"


Jesus expects His servants to increase and bear fruit to God in every way. In faith and in Forgiveness. Our obedience to God is expected - not overtly appreciated.

"And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down to eat'? But will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink'? Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not. So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, 'We are UNPROFITABLE servants. We have done what was our duty to do.'" (Luke 17:7-10)

The principle is this: God expects us all go the extra mile and do MORE for God than what He originally gave to us. Jesus Saved us not just so that we could get to heaven, He saved us so that we could become active members of His Body on this earth in order to get God's will done and Advance His Kingdom (system of things) on this Earth.

When God said that He never knew them, it was not a contradiction (in that by His Nature He ought to know everything); it means that He was never intimately acquainted with them. It is easy to overlook scriptures that appear to address the judgments of those who should have known him, but be not surprised that there will be a judgment between the sheep and the goats. (Mat 25:32-33) Salvation is not a possession that you can lose or keep; Salvation is an event in time. Jesus Christ is the embodiment of the Salvation of God, and only an encounter with Jesus Christ can make a person right-standing before the One and Only Holy God and through Him are we able to bare fruit to glory of God the Father. Salvation is not merely an act that took place in the distant past or witnessed somewhere in the unforeseen future; it is experienced and guaranteed in the continuous present through the person of the Holy Spirit.


P.S. Furthermore, If a person's freewill was so damnable, why did Yahweh, the God of the Bible endorse and support "freewill" Offerings from His people? Lev 22:23, Lev 22:21, Lev 22:18, Lev 23:38, Num 15:3, Num 29:39, Deu 12:6, Deu 12:17, Deu 16:10, Deu 23:23, 2Ch 31:14, Ezr 1:4, Ezr 3:5, Ezr 7:13, Ezr 7:16, Ezr 8:28, Psa 119:108

Certainly Jesus Christ is a type and shadow of the final sacrificial offering for our sins and says "whosoever" will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Why would Jesus Christ and scriptures say in John 5:40, "But you are NOT WILLING to come to Me that you may have life" if the power of being willing to respond in obedience to Christ was not in our capacity? "'Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are NOT WILLING to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins." Lev 26:21 That's why I believe ultimately Calvinism is an indictment against the righteous character and nature of God - and the Devil knows it and has used "Christians" to level such indictments.

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