Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

When we see God's actions in events in the Bible, do we pin down the group it applied to and say those actions were only *promised* to that group, or do we box in the action and say that it must be that precise sequence and those specific actions? Both might be true or false! We make errors by picking one interpretation as the strategy for all. We make other errors by failing to apply the lessons of the interpretive strategies that we have seen applied successfully to different passages throughout the Bible. Consider when God told some that they would face government officials for their association with Him. He told them not to worry about what to say then, because The Holy Spirit would tell them what to say at the time. Doesn't that reveal God's method, and can't we apply the lesson to generally trust that He has our backs? Or do we say that it was a mere description of a specific miracle for those people? Or do we say that any Christian can expect that exact thing but...

Repentance is to change. Repentance for salvation is to change your stance toward Christ, which is to believe 4 things (listed in 1 Corinthians 15:3b-8; see 1-3a for the setup, especially verse 2 which makes that list both the necessary and sufficient set of beliefs to be saved) and to do 1 thing (emphasized 3 times in Romans 10:9-13) to be saved (Romans 10:14a ties the belief to the action). Repentance for sin (sin-nature, not each individual sin as they happen - this is for salvation, remember!) - that repentance is to turn toward Christ by believing and doing what God has told everyone to believe and do to be saved. Paul said it (from the very beginning of his ministry and throughout) and Peter said it (in Acts 2, before the conversation was changed by verse 38; except Peter left out the fact that Jesus was buried in that passage). It's THE gospel. And it has NOTHING to do with us being good, dominating our sins, or not living in unrepentant sin! Shunning Christians has to do wi...

Should we boycott the Olympics due to its open mockery of Christ? Consider this: Everyone in the World is openly against our Master Jesus Christ.. Your friends in the World (which is enmity against God), your co-workers, children, etc., who are against Christ by not believing His great saving work to be saved from the deadly consequences of their sin - they are ALL as evil as open Satanists, Buddhists, Atheists, etc.. AND what are we supposed to do about the World? Love your enemy. Wake up to the fact that these are not benign people, regardless of their demeanor or how they talk to you; they are our enemies. And we do loving things to them anyways. We also don't accept their evil, because we continually clean our minds of every evil thought (taking it into captivity to make it obey Christ). Also, Paul told the Corinthians that he wasn't talking about the World when he told them to stay away from sinners, but he was talking about staying away from Christians living ...

 The concept that the king can do no wrong is false. The whole community does not hinge on it if we all know that all of humanity is evil but Christ's slaves are righteous in Him and, uniquely, have the ability to do what is right by His Spirit of Holiness in the Resurrection from death, which is the outcome of sin. The concept that the king can do no wrong is supported by the false assumption that if the king is undermined then the kingdom is undermined, but that is false. We know it's false by many, many (many) examples. Just loads of them. It's patently false (can I put it more strongly?!)! The king isn't even the real leadership, and governance is not vitally connected with politics, though the lies that politics affords seems to cover those who control those middle managers who do the governing. Kingdoms, nations, states, and empires come and go, but Satan's rulership has been and will remain unbroken until the King of Kings (that's God's Christ, our Ma...

[Transcript from "Sunday Morning LIVE at Cornerstone Church - 8:30am - Sunday July 14th 2024", "Hagee Ministries", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCwK_rTqvc, retrieved July 15, 2024.] Here's a typical salvation message, and it does not tell the whole truth. This is extremely sad and wicked. There are two false aspects, one implied and one directly asserted, which lies about biblical Christian salvation. See if you can spot them, then I'll say what I saw afterward. ~~ TRANSCRIPT QUOTE ~~  you recognize that if Christ were to return 1:20:10 today there's something in your life that's out of 1:20:16 order there's something in you that needs 1:20:23 him and today you say father I want to bring that to your altar I want to lay it down and I want to walk out of here 1:20:28 set free forgiven and ready to see you face to 1:20:39 face if that's you I want you to raise your hand right where you 1:20:48 are say Pastor today I need to get on an ark be...

Just because heroes aren't good, that doesn't mean we're hypocrites if we keep ourselves from lauding villains. Only God is good. Remember that. We all deserve Hell. God sent His own son from Heaven to Earth, put him into a human body, and arranged time and place and so forth to ensure that those who would do such evil in fact managed to murder Him, even though He really is entirely innocent, even more than the gentlest baby. His Father is God, so He didn't inherit sin, and death had no hold over Him at all. God allowed His son to be murdered in order to provide the only acceptable blood sacrifice to put into remission the sin of everyone who believes on Him and calls on His name for salvation, freely! Freely, because we can't do anything about it for ourselves in any way or in any amount. Just because heroes are not good, don't think that your only rational choice is to hopelessly give in to your own evil entirely. Being heroic was never your way out; it never ...

People sometimes have conversations about faith and reason. In these conversations, the value of human reason is strictly extolled by one or both sides (depending on who's having the conversation!) - after all, hundreds of years since the Enlightenment have built toward the goal of reason over subservience to God. Subservience to humans falsely claiming to be the voice of God is sickeningly wicked, but subservience to YHWH God by way of His Son Jesus is good. Also in these conversations, faith is made be seem like a psychologically or sociologically induced philosophical framework for living. Christ is Life, but these labels are meant to denigrate faith to ultimate subjectivity when it is really ultimate objectivity, because I don't trust my knowledge of God, I trust God, Himself, even when I don't do or understand or will rightly. Human-level reasoning based on our perceptions isn't nearly as reliable as trusting God the Creator of the Universe! That statement is obvio...