The Jacobus Arminius Heresy

I certify, at the outset of this post, that the gospel that I teach on this blog is not from man. Because I neither received it from any man, neither was I taught it by any man; but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Arminianism, or, the "Arminian gospel,"as I say (in order to specify that I am referring to his gospel, and not to any of the other numerous doctrines he taught), is the gospel as first prominently promoted by Jacobus Arminius. This is the gospel, dear Christian reader, that you know and believe, unless you are a Calvinist. The Arminian gospel is the gospel taught by essentially every Christian denomination. Interestingly, it is also not substantively different from the gospel as taught by the Catholic Church. The central point of Arminianism is that human beings are not justified/saved/redeemed/born again until and unless they accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. This is not correct (as clearly demonstrated by Paul in Romans 2.14-16, and John 3.3-8), and I am exercising restraint in simply saying that it is not correct. So let me be more clear about the matter. The Arminian gospel is blasphemous heresy. The Arminian gospel claims that one cannot bear good fruit or shine a light in the world without accepting Christ. This is clearly not true, and not consistent with the everlasting gospel. Arminianism is not the everlasting gospel. Notice that, logically, Arminianism makes man into his own Savior. This is unavoidable no matter how hard you want to try, as the only difference between one man and another, within the Arminian viewpoint, has to do with choices and actions taken by the man. This means that man saves himself by agreeing with the good advice and taking action on it. He can then boast about himself as compared to those who have not heard, understood, and acted on the good advice. Arminianism is what the SDA church currently teaches, and it is what pretty much all of Christendom teaches. It is NOT the true and everlasting gospel. The Arminian gospel is not good news, it’s good advice. While if one takes a very gracious view of Arminianism, one can indeed say that it is very very good advice, nevertheless, it is not good news. The everlasting gospel is without question good news! The good news is that all of humanity has been redeemed! This is what Romans 5.18 is speaking of very clearly. This is given to all men, the light that lighted all men (John1.9). Redemption is not different for those who don’t know Christ as compared to those who eventually do come to know Christ. All human beings have the new birth/quickening/redemption as a birthright delivered to them, without their knowledge or consent, and before they even have use of reason.

I will close by pointing out that my emphasis in everything I have said previously in this post about the gospel, is on elucidating the everlasting gospel, and is not on elucidating the process of sanctification which involves ever-increasing compliance with the law of God. The startling liberality of the true everlasting gospel should not lead anyone to fears regarding increased sinning so that grace might abound, as such ideas are diametrically opposed to the very core of the gospel, which is that redemption is given for the purpose of eventual entire restoration (Eph 4.13). The everlasting gospel is a doctrine distinct from the doctrine of the law and sanctification. Of course these two dontrines inextricably and beautifully intertwined. But they should not be spoken of as if they were one and the same thing. The good news is the good news, not the good advice. Keeping the law is good advice. Indeed keeping the law is very good advice. But when we are attempting to clarify the one and only true everlasting gospel, which has never before been taught in modern times, we should be very careful to distinguish it from the fulfillment of the law in us. The fulfillment of the law in us is a beautiful and necessary thing, but it is not the gospel. In fact, without the understanding of the true everlasting gospel, the fulfillment of the law in us becomes a very questionable affair.

In The Kingdom of God Embassy, September 13, 2023 - with apologies to Thomas Jefferson, et. al.!

The Unanimous Declaration of the members of the Kingdom of God Embassy, 

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the religious bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the ecclesias of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Jehovah entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that God is One being, and that His name is Jehovah. That He is not a mystical illogical self-contradicting three in one monstrosity, but is simply One Being, and there is none beside Him! That Jesus Christ is a man, and not a second god (though he has now been glorified and set at the right hand of the Father's Throne!). That Jesus is God's son precisely because Jehovah miraculously brought about his conception and birth. That Jesus being fully and only human is absolutely the only way in which his perfect life, sufferings, death, and resurrection is of any usefulness to the rest of humanity and to Jehovah in His Supreme Court of the Universe. That the Holy Spirit is the spirit of Jehovah, and is not a separate god. That it is also a reference to the spirit of Christ, and that the context of the passage will clarify whose spirit is being referred to. That the Law of Jehovah is the eternal manifestation of His Person, and that Christ has perfectly fulfilled His Law and is therefore our perfect personification of The Law of God. That by allowing Jehovah and Jesus to transform our spirits so that we are in perfect harmony with the mind of Christ, we can thereby perfectly fulfill God's Law in our own lives. That all followers of Jehovah and of His son will themselves keep, and will teach others to keep all of His Commandments, not just the ones that are convenient for them. That the Everlasting Gospel includes the fact that Christ, the second Adam, has redeemed all mankind, without their foreknowledge or consent, and has thereby overruled the condemnation they received, without their foreknowledge or consent, from the first Adam. That the Everlasting Gospel also includes, as a central emphasis, the soon coming of Jehovah, with Christ at His right hand, to establish His Kingdom among men forevermore! 

That all men are sovereign over their own consciences, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are liberty and the pursuit of God in the manner in which their conscience constrains them. That to secure these rights, ecclesias are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the Word of Jehovah.  That whenever any ecclesia becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, or leave it, and to institute a new ecclesia, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. That this Foundation can be nothing other than the Word of Jehovah. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that ecclesias long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that christians are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of doctrinal and ecclesiastical errors, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a ecclesia, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these present ambassadors of the kingdom of God; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of ecclesia. 

We, therefore, the Representatives of the Kingdom of God Embassy, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority Jehovah has granted to us, as to every man, solemnly publish and declare, that the Kingdom of God Embassy is, and of right ought to be a free and independent ecclesia. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to Jehovah our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

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Adam, or Jesus Christ, who is ruling in your life?

Today I want to talk about a Bible verse, and a truth, that is seldom addressed. I want you to think about this: in your mind/heart, who is more powerful, Adam, or Jesus Christ? You see, we haven't thought about it like this, but what we have been taught is that Adam is more powerful than Christ. You say, "well I don't believe that, even if I have been taught that in some way; and I don't think I have been taught that!" Well, you have been taught that Adam's sin resulted in your condemnation, before you were even born from your mother, and without you yourself consciously committing sin, and entirely without your knowledge or consent. You were taught this, and you accepted that you were learning about it after the fact, after it had already happened. You came to know that it is a reality despite you not being aware of it. All this is certainly biblical truth, as clarified in Romans 5.12-14, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." Notice that death passed upon all men, even on those who had not sinned like Adam sinned. And death passed upon them because they sinned "in him." Notice that God did not impute sin on them, but they died anyway. Why? Because they were in Adam when he sinned, and they therefore received their guilt in him/from him. Now this is not the part that most Christians, and most Christian teachers, have a problem with. Most of us are not foolish enough to think that we were somehow born perfect and righteous, and only became sinful when we ourselves committed conscious sin. We understand and agree with King David, who said, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." Psalm 51.5. 

None of the above is false. It is all Bible truth. The problem is that because the masters in Israel have not rightly taught us the better Truth, we have/are living our lives with Adam ruling over us! Now today, I want us to carefully consider these things and begin from this day forward recognizing that Christ is more powerful than Adam, and that from now on we will live the Truth that Christ is the One ruling in our lives! Let's stop letting Adam rule over us!!! Let's have Christ rule over us!!!

Here is the Bible truth we need, which will clarify this for us, and help us rightly understand where our inheritance comes from!

"Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." Romans 5.18

Notice that the free gift comes "even so" as the judgement came. The judgement unto condemnation came because of one act of one man; and it came to all, without their knowledge or consent. It is in this same way that our redemption/justification came upon us!!! Redemption came upon the whole human race, by the act of one Man; and it came upon all men without their knowledge or consent!!!

Unless you think Adam is more powerful than Christ! Do you think that while you did not have to help Adam in order for his act to result in your condemnation, you DO have to help Jesus Christ in order for His act to result in your justification? Well, let's see; do you think, have you been taught, that you are not justified/redeemed unless and until YOU accept Christ as your saviour? If you believe that, then you are saying that Adam is more powerful than Christ, and you are also making yourself your own saviour (if the only reason you are saved, as compared to those who are not saved, is that YOU did something, then you are your own saviour). That is not what the Bible teaches! The Bible plainly states that your justification/redemption came to you by the act of One; not by One and with your help!

Stop making Christ out to be weaker than Adam!!!

"But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5.20-21