There was a time when I thought that idols were the little
gold statues, or big statues, that are worshipped in other religions. I know
now that idols are much more than that. Those are idols, sure, but so are the
many, many other things both physical and mental that are put before God.
I was recently in a large city where there stood on every
street corner…or so it seemed…large ‘church’ buildings. These buildings were
look-at-me buildings. They may or may not have been designed with the intent to
draw a person’s attention but the sheer size of them made sure that they caught
your attention.
I’ve driven through neighborhoods with houses made on the
same scale. Whatever the owner’s reason for building or buying such a huge
house it’s quite impossible to drive past one and not notice that it’s there.
And that’s just houses.
I’ve seen
cars that you couldn’t pass without looking at them, whether you liked them or
not there was something…the color, the size, the number of toys in the window,
the bumper stickers plastered on it…something that drew your attention. How
about stores? Playgrounds? Restaurants? The list goes on and on. As you drive
through any town, any area, there will be something that draws your attention.
On an old country road with no buildings in sight your attention may be drawn
to the biggest tree, the brightest flower, or the deepest pothole, but whatever
it is…your attention will go to something.
In nature your focus is at least on that which the Lord
created. A Christian might drive down that country road or walk through those
woods and think about the One who created such a display. But even a Christian
is hard pressed to find the Lord in the midst of the look-at-me everything’s
that our society has built.
My mind goes time and again to those large ‘church’
buildings. I’ve written of them before and will probably write of them again.
They simply stand out in such an extreme way that it’s hard not to think of
them.
There’s no doubt in my mind that those huge ‘church’
buildings are idols or at least a place to worship an idol. The building wasn’t
built to worship the Christ that was born into this world in a barn. They
weren’t put there to worship the God that hates the wicked.
The God I spoke of could care less about big buildings. He’s
more concerned with the condition of hearts than of outward appearances. He’d
rather have one of His true Children worship him from a cardboard box than a
million idolaters from inside a monstrous building.
There is no building that can get anyone closer to Christ.
But it isn’t just buildings that serve as idols in the eyes
of those that claim to worship Him. I could probably write a blog post every
day for a year on a different something that is worshipped, that’s an idol, and
I’d still have so many more things to write about that I could fill another
year with daily posts.
The other day my husband said that our country has reached
the point of being lovers of pleasure.
But
understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For
people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless,
unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having
the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. 2 Timothy 3:1-5
They
will become lovers of pleasure… What in our society hasn’t come to the point of
pleasure? What hasn’t moved from serving a purpose in our life to being
pleasure? Hunting has gone from a way to feed ones family to a sport. Fishing
has done the same thing. Cars have gone from a means of getting from one place
to another to a hobby. Clothes are collected to the point of overflowing
closets and dressers rather than having just enough to clothe us. And the list
goes on.
I
was surprised to discover the other day that there is…at least one…entire
website complete with forums dedicated to a certain kind of ink pen. I knew
there were websites with forums for flashlights, cloth diapers, parenting,
fertility, child raising… But a pen? What can anyone find to talk about a pen
enough to dedicate a whole website to it? But there it was before me. When I
stumbled on it I took the time to look around. Who wouldn’t? What is there to
say about a pen?
As
it turned out…pretty much what you’d expect. Designs, colors, types of ink,
colors of ink, ways to use the pen…
If
that’s anything short of idolatry I’m not sure I want to know what it is.
Basically if your mind is captured by something…anything…you can probably find
a website, and mega store, to support it.
But
it isn’t just things that become idols. It can be a person, a place, or even
the way you worship.
I
recently wrote a post on Arminianism. I don’t mind admitting that I felt ill
equipped to write that post. I simply didn’t know enough about Arminianism to
feel like I could adequately cover it but the need to write on that topic was
there and with research I learned what I needed to know to turn out that post.
It
wasn’t until after I finished the post that I began to think of something else.
I wrote the facts and my thoughts in that post but I failed to take note of a
rather large…rather glaring…detail.
The
Arminian belief is idolatry.
Yes, I said it. It is idolatry. I grew up
with that belief, have written many times of how I was taught to believe as a
child. I know that other people hold different beliefs than my family did. I
know that they practice those beliefs in different ways.
But I’ve noticed something among those that
hold to the Arminian belief system. Some of them hold so fast to what they
believe that they simply won’t accept correction. Not even if it’s delivered
straight from the pages of the Bible.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2 Timothy 3:16
How does a person that professes to believe
in the Bible refuse to take correction straight from the pages of the Book they
claim to base their most basic beliefs on, claim to learn from?
I’m not saying all Arminian’s are this way,
I’m saying some of them are. I know there are others that are easily swayed
from one type of belief to another and yet they all hold fast to the same basic
belief that if you accept Christ then you are saved. I don’t know enough about
the various denominations to be able to give examples of how they all do it but
the general consensus seems to be that you must accept Christ to be saved.
That belief puts the individual and their
decision, their choice, their free will, above God. And that becomes idolatry.
2 Timothy 3:6-7 goes on to say…
For
among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened
with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to
arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Something I learned while I was reading
about Arminianism was how Arminius started it. He accepted a position to teach
at a University that held to reformed beliefs. He pledged that he believed the
same way. Then while teaching what was required in his classes he turned around
and handed out private…confidential…papers that taught Arminianism.
He was a sneak. He didn’t just stand up and
admit what he believed then try to teach it to those that wanted to hear it. He
crept into a University teaching reformed faith and secretly taught something
that went against, not only his job, but the very Bible he supposedly believed.
He led students that trusted what he said was truth astray by teaching them a
different doctrine than the one they were supposed to hear at the University.
He poisoned their minds under cover.
And today the things he taught are the
number one type of Christianity in America. What he taught under cover in the
late 1500’s is now being openly taught in ‘churches’ across the country. It’s
filling books and movies. It’s even infiltrated the Bible to the point that one
must be careful when buying a Bible with any kind of manmade notes in it lest
they get one filled with the same heresy written within its pages.
That is idolatry.
Arminianism has become synonymous with
Christianity. When a person hears the term Christian they think of the Arminian
belief. When most people hear the name God they think of the ‘God’ of
Arminianism.
And anytime we think of anything higher
than we think of God…it’s idolatry.
We’re warned time and again in Scripture to
have no other gods, that our God is a jealous God, that idolatry is punishable
by eternity in hell and yet…Arminianism is taught as the way to Christ. Those
that hold to the Arminian beliefs scoff at those that see the Bible as it is
really written. They call the regenerate Christians that try to teach them the
dangers of their erroneous beliefs all sorts of names and often kick them out
of their ‘church’ buildings.
If their beliefs are the right ones
according to Scripture then why do they need to remove those that are using
Scripture to point out something other than what they believe? Why can’t they
simply use the Bible to contradict the reformed belief being presented to them?
Because idolatry isn’t easily given up. No
idol is. And because most of them don’t know the Bible well enough to be able
to use it to contradict anything.
Now
the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies,
outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,
drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I
also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not
inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21
The Arminian belief in ‘God’ is an idol
that gets them no closer to Christ than does total disbelief. What’s worse is
that in all their certainty…many are still going to hell.
What would the Armenians say about any
religion that believed something that went against the Bible? What would they
say about a person that believed their salvation lay in anything other than
Jesus? And yet they believe strongly in a system of religion that is based on
a gospel that isn’t taught in the
Bible. The gospel that was once taught by Arminius and is now so widely
accepted and believed was easily seen as being something other than the true
Gospel in the 1500’s. Today it is what is considered by most to be the gospel
of the Bible.
Arminius’ beliefs catered to the flesh
and became popular with in the secular world but was seen by the Church as a
heresy, as false doctrine. Arminius was very much a wolf in sheeps clothing. He
slipped into a University where only reformed faith was taught, lied about his
beliefs to secure a position there, then quietly and secretly set about
spreading his beliefs.
These were brand new beliefs, beliefs
that Arminius himself held and wanted to share. Like a burgler in the night he
snuck into places he wasn’t wanted and took what wasn’t his. He spread lies and
gained believers.
How?
Because the belief he shared was
something that the secular mind could grab onto. It was a ‘god’ that anyone
could have. It was a ‘god’ that man need only to accept to gain acceptance by.
Where the reformed church taught the Truth which stated that man can only be
saved by God and that unless God saved him he had no way of attaining
salvation, Arminius changed all that with a ‘god’ that man need only accept and
choose to follow.
No wonder the Arminian belief is so
popular today. No wonder it has thousands, millions, of followers. The modern
day ‘church’ in America has not only embraced the Arminian belief they have
grabbed onto it with both hands and refused to let go. It’s a life raft for a
drowning person. It’s hope when there is no hope.
The modern American ‘church’ has not
only grabbed onto the Arminian belief…they are chasing after it in large
crowds. They’re selling books, movies, and music that promote the belief’s they
hold dear. They have conferences and conventions that uplift and encourage,
they have revivals, they have Bible studies, schools, colleges, that all
promote the Arminian belief.
And they promote a belief that is an
idol and not the real Gospel. They promote a ‘God’ that isn’t the God of the
Bible.
People that hold to the Arminian belief
go into countries where people are desperate for help, they promote the same
‘gospel’ that Arminius did so many years ago, and they ‘convert’ hundreds and
thousands of people to a belief system that’s false. Then they report on the
vast number of people that have been reached ‘for Christ’.
All this is done because the Lord
allows it to happen. It’s done for reasons we can’t know. I have no doubt that
the Lord is using the Arminian system to save some of His elect…I’m proof of
that.
But it’s still a religious system that
not only believes in a false doctrine…they try and share it with as many people
as they possibly can.
Years ago mothers used to take their
children to what was known as chicken pox parties. The idea behind those
parties was that children needed to catch the chicken pox while they were young
so when one child came down with them other parents deliberately exposed their
child to them in the hope that they would catch them and get them over with.
Arminianism is much like a chicken pox
party only most of them don’t realize they’re spreading a false gospel. They
‘catch’ Jesus and then want to spread to it as many people as they possibly
can. So they go from house to house trying to share their gospel, they go into
impoverished countries offering to help the people there but in exchange those
people have to listen to the beliefs they hold dear. They share their ‘Jesus’ and
count the number of converts that ‘catch’ him.
And it’s a success because the numbers
keep climbing. Their brand of chicken pox has reached epidemic proportion and
they keep spreading it.
Never knowing that they’re spreading
lies to millions of people. What they believe in gives them hope on earth and
they want others to have it. There’s nothing wrong with that. Everyone needs
something to hope in. The problem comes in that what they hope in isn’t there.
And when you hope in something that isn’t there…there is no hope.
It’s all a smokescreen that serves no
purpose.
‘Here is my ‘Jesus’, accept Him and you
will go to heaven with me. We’ll be together in eternity.’ Only their ‘Jesus’
doesn’t save people. He can’t save people because he must wait for them to save
themselves. The heaven they think they’ve bought into isn’t waiting for them
because it’s being set aside for those that Christ has saved.
The same ‘Jesus’ that they’re sharing
with anyone and everyone is so sought after because he supports the secular
mind. He allows them to live as they want, to continue to chase after bigger
and better things. Their ‘Jesus’ is proud of their big tabernacles they call
‘churches’ and he applauds the sheer numbers of converts that ‘catch’ him.
Their ‘Jesus’ is a god of the flesh that puts few if any demands on how they
live their lives.
And he is happy when they sell him in
their ‘Christian’ books. Happy when they portray him in their movies. Happy
when they sing about him in their music.
Whole stores have been opened dedicated
to selling the ‘Christianity’ of Arminius. Walk into one of those stores and
you must look long and hard to find anything that promotes the true Gospel.
Where in that store filled with ‘Christian’ materials is the real Christ?
‘Christians’ are turning out books and other materials sold in those stores at
a rate that nearly rivals those in the secular world. ‘Christians’ are making
millions off their ‘Christian’ bookstores and the things that are sold there.
They’re making millions off false teachings that are spreading heresy.
And the ‘Jesus’ of Arminianism thinks
it’s wonderful.
Hollywood, and its miniature versions
coming from wherever they come from, have discovered that there’s money to be
made in ‘Christian’ movies and they’re turning them out. Some of the more
recent so-called ‘Christian’ movies are nearly impossible to find any form of
God in them. But people are making millions off these ‘Christian’ films and
‘Christians’ are flocking to them.
And the ‘Jesus’ of Arminianism is
thrilled because he is being sold to so many people.
The Arminian ‘Jesus’ is being taught in
the seminaries, new preachers are being turned out ready to spread their
‘Jesus’ to anyone that will listen. They’ve been taught where to find their
‘Jesus’ in the Bible and how to teach him to the masses. New ministers are
ready to go out and spread ‘Jesus’ far and wide. They’re ready to teach him
from their pulpits to people that trust everything they say to be true. They’re
ready to push him further by instructing the children they encounter by
teaching them ‘Jesus loves you’.
And the ‘Jesus’ of Arminianism loves
it.
Arminius taught a religion that the
secular mind could grasp and grab onto. The modern day preacher teaches the
same religion. It was a religion based on the work of man when Arminius taught
it and it is a religion based on the works of man today.
Arminianism has been called many things
from great to ‘deep darkness’ (Johnathan Edwards). I think I like the term deep
darkness best. There are many people out there that believe in nearly anything
but Christ. They chase their ‘gods’, and their beliefs that there is no God but
I think for me the saddest part is when they come so close. Some Arminians have
a deep belief in their ‘Jesus’. Some of them change their lives for him.
I heard a reformed preacher once
say…they will get to heaven and say I was so close. It was there before me.
Armenians are so close. They know that
Jesus is the Son of God. They believe that He is. And yet their belief is not
in the Jesus that the Bible teaches it’s in a Jesus that they’ve made up in
their own minds.
It’s in a ‘Jesus’ that is nothing sort
of an idol that stands in the place of Christ. Their ‘Jesus’ hangs on their
walls, speaks on their shirts, walls, and cars. Their ‘Jesus’ encourages the
spreading of him to as many uninfected people as they can reach.
Let me ask you something…Does that
sound like the Jesus of the Bible? It is the Christ that taught that he came
not to bring peace but a sword? Is it the Christ that said if they hated me
they will hate you?
Christians are told not to worship
idols…
Do
not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:4
That hasn’t changed. God’s people have
always been forbidden from worshipping idols. Idols are anything that are
placed as more important than Christ in our lives. They are things that take
His place in our hearts and minds and lives. They are what we seek after, what
we chase after.
There are gods for just about anything
man can think up. ‘Gods’ of fertility, gods of the stars, gods of prosperity.
There are gods of money, gods of things, gods of loved ones…dead and alive.
Their
land is also full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that
which their own fingers have made. Isaiah 2:8
Arminianism is just as much idolatry as
the worshipping of golden statues. It’s idolatry because it is worshipping a
god that doesn’t exist. It’s idolatry because it’s being spread like a disease
to those that are desperate for hope in a depraved world. It’s idolatry because
it takes the place of Christ and gives credit to a ‘God’ that isn’t the God of
the Bible.
Scriptures warns that idols are not to
be worshipped. Anything that is worshipped in the place of the one true God is
an idol and should be seen as such. But the Arminian ‘God’ can’t be seen that
way because he is promoted as being the God of the Bible.
This ‘God’ isn’t the God of the Bible.
He holds little resembalence to the God of the Bible even though that ‘God’ did
many of the same things that God did. That ‘God’ created the earth. That ‘God’
sent His Son to earth to die for sins. That God can be learned about in the
pages of the same Bible that the real God can be.
That ‘God’ takes what God is and
changes Him into some idea of what ‘God’ should be based on man’s ideas. The
God of the Bible is pushed aside, ignored, laughed at…forgotten…to make way for
the ‘God’ of man, the ‘God’ of Arminianism.
Because My people have forgotten Me,
They have burned incense to worthless idols. Jeremiah 18:15
They have forgotten God.
When Arminianism was first being taught
Arminius was investigated. His beliefs were seen as lies, they were seen as the
heresy that they are. Today most people in the American ‘church’ don’t know
that there’s any other God than the one that’s being taught from their pulpits.
I grew up in ‘church’ buildings,
surrounded by ‘Christians’, even went to a ‘Christian’ school and yet I had no
idea that the ‘God’ I was taught loved me was a ‘God’ that others said wasn’t
the God of the Bible. I never knew until long after the Lord had changed the
way I understood Scripture that the ‘God’ I had grown up believing in didn’t
exist. I’ve known many other ‘Christians’ in the Arminian system that don’t
know there’s any other God than the one that they’ve been taught. Though they
hold the Word of God in their hands they simply have no idea that what they’ve
essentially been brainwashed to believe doesn’t exist within the pages of the
very Book they base their entire belief on.
Most of them wouldn’t know the term
Arminian if you asked them what it meant. It was a term I never heard uttered
in the many years, the many ‘churches’, I was a part of that system.
The ‘Jesus’ of Arminianism is a well
guarded idol and most of his followers
have no idea that he is nothing more than an imaginary idol created hundreds of
years ago by a man that promoted him in secret.
Those who regard worthless idols
forsake their own Mercy. Jonah 2:8
How many people lose all hope of mercy
when they believe in this ‘Jesus’ that doesn’t exist? How many place their
faith in a ‘God’ that will do nothing for them? How many ‘Christians’ that
spent their lives believing in, teaching about, ‘Jesus’ are in hell right now?
How many of them cry from the depths of
torture ‘I was so close’?
What of the ‘God’ that wants only good
things for you? What of the ‘God’ that allows you to claim all the blessings of
this life? What of the ‘God’ that encourages chasing the things of the world?
For what will it
profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul… Matthew 16:26
Does that sound like a God that wants you to have prosperity
on earth? Does it sound like a God that wants to give man the many blessings
this earth has to offer? Or is it a god made up in the secular mind of man? A
god that has been created to cater to the earthly desires of man?
What
profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, the molded image, a
teacher of lies, that the maker of its mold should trust in it, to make mute
idols? Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is an image of god that
isn’t God? What good does it do to have a god that can’t save the people he
supposedly loves? How powerful is a god who sits back with tied hands awaiting
man to come to him before he can act on their behalf?
But more than that, notice the words in
the middle of the above verse… a teacher of lies. That is exactly what Arminius
was…a teacher of lies…and it is what those that continue to teach the Arminian
belief are. They are teachers of lies.
Teachers of half-truths, deceptions,
outright lies, that they go around teaching to others, filling their heads with
those things until they can’t see that there’s any mistruth to them.
Where does such a deception come from?
You are of your father the devil, and your
will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he
speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. John
8:44
I have heard many a preacher tell his audience
that if the devil isn’t afflicting them then they aren’t ‘right with God’
because the devil doesn’t need to try to tempt those that aren’t ‘right with
God’. Based off that statement…I have to ask…does the devil even need to mess
with the ‘church’ in America today? His lies were spread far and wide and the
many believers have fallen victim to them, they worship a god that doesn’t
exist, they hold to doctrines that aren’t true, and they refuse to believe the
‘lies’ of people that try and show them the God of the Bible.
Idolatry is rampant in what is commonly
believed to be ‘God’s’ people. They worship a god that doesn’t exist and
because their god allows it…they worship many of the things of the world. Their
god is a god of the secular mind, a god that lets them live as they want to and
hold fast to ‘god’ at the same time.
People study the Bible, think on its verses,
interpret them with their ideas of what they should be instead of seeing them
for what they are, they write it in books, put it in movies, teach it as
gospel…and other people grab onto it like it’s a rope thrown to a drowning man.
Christians are to keep themselves from
idols…
Little
children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:21
We are to keep ourselves from idols
whether they are physical idols or mental, real or imaginary. God hates
idolatry. He specifically spoke against it in the Ten Commandments, warned
against it time and again in Scripture, gave examples of what it is.
Idols are imaginary gods made up by
man’s deprived mind to give the sinner something to focus on because he can’t
focus on Christ. No matter what the idol is, what form it takes, it is simply
something that takes the place of Christ. Idols are useless things that serve
no purpose beyond the need that the unregenerate place on them. They have one
purpose…that of leading people far from Christ. Sinners minds and hearts are so
busy following after their idols that they have no room for Christ.
Arminianism is an idol that pulls
people far away from the real God and gives them a ‘god’ that they can grab
onto. It gives them a ‘god’ that has no
real value, a ‘god’ that is held captive by the will of man, a ‘god’ that can
do nothing unless man allows him to. A ‘god’ that serves the whims of man, a
‘god’ that caters to his desires, a ‘god’ that is what man wants him to be.
You can find this ‘god’ in just about
any place that you see the term ‘christian’. If you don’t like the ‘god’ that’s
in one ‘Christian’ establishment you can shop around until you find the kind of
‘god’ that you like.
That ‘god’ has no value beyond what man
places on him. That ‘god’ does nothing for man’s soul. That ‘god’ gets his
believers no closer to salvation than they were when they caught him.
Years ago while attending an Arminian
‘church’ I was taught that the earth is only a battle ground where souls are
tested so that it can be figured out which ones follow Satan and which ones
follow Jesus. That isn’t what I believe now but it was widely taught in that
‘church’ building. Earth was essentially seen as a war zone between Jesus and
the devil. People were put here so that Jesus could know who followed Him that
way only those that believed in Him would make it into heaven.
Let me say…I do not believe that way,
I’m not sure I ever did, but it was taught in a ‘church’ I went to.
But…if a person subscribed to that philosophy…why
would the devil need to do anything in the modern American ‘church’? The battle
for souls has already been won there…if it were a battle…because the masses of
people that flock to their buildings, that fill their pews, believe in a ‘god’
that doesn’t exist. There’s no need to fight over something you already own.
The truth of why man was put on earth
is far different than the reason that was given in that ‘church’. There is no
battle because God doesn’t need to fight for those that are His.
But if things were as that ‘church’
said…why would the devil have to battle when he’s already won?
The Bible is clear that idolaters will
go to hell. Those in the idolatry of the Arminian belief are already lost. If
earth were a battle ground the war for those souls is over.
Sadly, that’s just one of many of the
false teachings served up in the Arminian ‘church’. The ‘deep darkness’ of the
Arminian belief system perpetuates that which does not come from Scripture and
they do so at an alarming pace, converting as many as they can to their belief.
And many of them do so in ignorance.
Will ignorance save them from
condemnation from the God that they don’t serve? Scripture says it won’t.
My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected
knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have
forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6
Week after week, service after service,
the ‘god’ of Arminianism is worshipped, often in ignorance. He’s perpetuated
far and wide. He’s accepted and revered while the true God of the Bible is
forgotten.
I don’t know about you but I find the
verses about God forgetting our children, or visiting the iniquity of the
fathers onto the children… I don’t know what it makes me feel exactly other
than the fact that it is a vivid reminder of the power of God and how far He
will go in His wrath against the wicked.
He will forget the children because the
parents forgot Him. While Arminians believe they are worshipping God, they have…instead…no
knowledge of Him. The ‘God’ they worship is not the God of the Bible.
You shall have no other gods before[me. Exodus 20:3
… for I the Lord your God am a jealous God…Exodus 20:5
If you read through Exodus 20:3-5 you get a
very clear picture of what God thinks of idolatry…
You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You
shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is
in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
the earth. 5 You
shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me
Those verses pretty much spell out the
whole of idolatry. Have no gods before me. Do not bow down to serve them. I am
a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children…of those
who hate me.
God equates idolatry with hating him and
the punishment doesn’t stop with the person that commits it but is passed onto
the children for three and four generations.
Arminianism is serving a ‘god’ that isn’t
the God of the Bible. It’s idolatry. It’s worshipping a ‘god’ that doesn’t
exisit. And it’s being taught to people in a repetitious cycle that is passed
from parent to child.
Does that sound like a god that loves his
people or does it sound like the wrath of a God that is punishing not only the
parents but the children too?
As I write this post I find myself thinking
of what I wrote toward the beginning. The god of Arminianism was created in the
mind of a man, he was taught to others through deceit and lies, through
sneaking. He crept into the minds of young people that were deceived by lies.
That ‘god’ is now considered to be the living ‘God’ of ‘Christianity.’ He lives
in the hearts and minds of people that claim to put their faith in Christ. He
is taught from their pulpits, in their movies, in their books, in their songs,
and in their Bibles.
Stop and think about that for a brief
moment. The Arminian ‘God’ was created in the mind of a man.
That ‘God’ must be happy about that.
The Arminian ‘God’ has taken over the God
of the Bible as the ‘God’ of ‘Christianity’.
Their ‘God’ must be happy about that.
The Arminian ‘God’ lives in the hearts and
minds of people that claim to seek God.
Their ‘God’ must be happy about that.
The Arminian ‘God’ is taught from their
pulpits and in their entertainment.
Their ‘God’ must be happy about that.
Now I ask you…Does their ‘God’ sound like
God…or does it sound like lies that have been fed to people. Does it sound like
God or does it sound like a warped version of God? Does it sound like God or…
Satan?
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