MZTV 1693: Oh No! Satan Has Bamboozled One of My Dearest Brothers

What makes Satan happy? It's when his most damaging and deceptive doctrines (doctrines such as Human Free Will, Eternal Torment, and the Trinity) are dismissed by Pauline evangelists as harmless.

It ought to be evident to every logical mind that salvation by human willpower opposes salvation by Christ and that, since God can't die, anyone believing that Jesus is God cannot, at the same time, believe that Jesus died. These teachings (considering for the time being "Free Will" and "the Trinity") do nothing less than keep people from believing the two foundational elements of Paul's gospel: 1) "Christ died," and 2) "Christ died for our sins." The Scriptural way to put this is: "Satan blinds the apprehensions of the unbelieving" (2 Corinthians 4:4). He blinds them by means of "doctrines of demons" (1 Timothy 4:1).

Imagine my shock, then, when a man who has been teaching the gospel of Paul for decades publicly announces—in essence—that a belief in human willpower for salvation is the same as a belief in Christ for salvation (i.e. there's no difference between the two), and that a belief that Jesus Christ did not and could not have died is the same as a belief that Jesus Christ did indeed die.

This is like a criminal putting arsenic in one pot of coffee while leaving a second pot untouched, and the maître d' serving the coffee—knowing what has been done—insists to diners, "Here are two pots of coffee; it doesn't matter which pot you drink from."

Then, when people start keeling over dead, the maître d' says, "Oh. I didn't know that arsenic was poisonous. Should I have known that? Would that have made a difference?"

Who the hell doesn't know that arsenic is poison? What man, working in the evangel of Paul for decades, fails to realize that doctrines of demons are designed by Satan himself to keep the world from apprehending Paul's gospel? What man, knowing that the pure gospel has been compromised (poisoned) then says, "It doesn't matter what you believe. You can believe the poisoned gospel, or you can believe the true gospel. In other words, you can believe in yourself for salvation, or you can believe in Christ for salvation. There's no difference. You can believe Christ died for your sins, or you can believe He never died for your sins. It makes no difference."

Should such a man who doesn't know deadly poison when he sees it even be considered competent to teach the gospel? He may be competent to teach it, but certainly not to defend it. He cannot defend it because he fails to recognize the enemy. He cannot sense the emergency. If we do not fire the maître d' in charge of the coffee, should we not at least educate him as to the deleterious effects of arsenic? And perhaps make him pay for funeral expenses?

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