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CHURCH SLEEPS ON TURNING A BLIND EYE.

CHURCH SLEEPS ON TURNING A BLIND EYE.
THE MISSING SPIRIT OF PRAYER
With the late 19th C. downgrade of church prayer meetings the clergy then (conveniently relegated it to privatized intercession to the home. The increased pastoral control and often made him the hero as sole prayer guru of the assembly, although he too, usually lacks the fire to do so orally before the congregation today.
What happened to the gathering of interceding saints’ weekly meet of the congregation? Their once powerful prevailing mediation for the lost, for the state and the nation has been silenced or at best muted for over a hundred and fifty years?

No wonder congregations die and disappear to leave only the ebullient stage performing pulpits to simulate what has been lost by their irreverent and flippant humour, or unashamed secular jokes; improvised music of the world, and a manufactured sense of excitement to keep the hype going. They are sadly deluded, nothing can replace the abandoned spirit of prayer by the priesthood of all believers wherein oral fervent and impassioned brethren, elders, and deacons participated as moved by the burdens granted by the High Intercessor sitting on the right hand of the Father ever interceding for His body.

Today a nation has floated from its bearings once anchored, for the most part, upon the Rock.
New England Theology built upon the humanistic 18th C Enlightenment that led famed evangelists into liberal philosophy of the FREEDOM OF THE WILL (1746), rewriting the principles of prayer, grace, and salvation by faith through grace as they rejected both the Reformation and evident biblical principles.

This downgrade of the weekly public church prayer meetings urged pastors to reassert control over the midweek meeting and re-elevated their eminence as Commanders-in-Chief to replace the very life-breath of an assembly.

The pulpit replaced the-power-house of fire with a disappearing small slot suffixed to the pastors’ study at the end of his oration.

A “smoking flax” is all that is left of the fire that shook the church and awakened the lost with a hunger to hear the Gospel it preached, soon brought by the Father to Christ Jesus, though ‘the hearing of faith’ (Galatians).

Modern controlling pulpits have in a hundred years silenced both the voice of the pews and quenched the spirit of prayer and now the nation and o/or Union pays the price.

That Spirit of Prayer leaves when there is “no room for HIM in the inn”. But relegated to the stable the doors are locked and soundproofed for fear of that holy fire that once burned in pulpits and pews. The key is hidden in a time capsule as an anachronism of the past.

CHURCH SLEEPS AMID TWO PANDEMICS.

CHURCH SLEEPS ON TURNING A BLIND EYE.

FOUR STAGES OF A BELIEVER (2): The Awakened Believer.

THE AWAKENED BELIEVER.
1. Reading the Word of God produces moral convictions and these grow until the reader is uncomfortable. Why? “That sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.” (Romans 7:11) The seeking believer then has the choice of turning away from his convictions or continuing with the quest of his soul caused by his awakening call of Christ to follow him. Should he choose to turn away he will then be a miserable soul for whatever time it takes for him to relent from his folly and return as a pilgrim seeker.

Easy religionists of our pulpits today would jump in where angels fear to tread and reassure him with false hopes. Such clergy fail to discern the difference between awakening and conversion. The seeker’s soul will never be placated by the ‘rabbit trails’ of water-wine-wafer sacraments/ordinances; ‘full surrender’; infilling of the Spirit; tongues’ speaking; or full sanctification. Clergy making these alternative easy ways to avoid real repentance have not the slightest inkling of biblical conversion or the meaning of faith by grace that the Reformation heralded some 500 years ago and shelved by 99% of the church today.

2. The moral law and the condemnation it produces in man’s conscience is meant to bring the believer to the end of himself and distrust his own efforts, and the false hopes of his own faith, and his own religious creed/ sacrament.

3. Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity for saving grace. The eleven disciples were in hiding, except John, after the crucifixion. They were at the end of themselves in mortifying sorrow facing their cowardice, disbelief, and failure.

4. This was the opportunity for the risen Christ to change their worldly sorrow into godly sorrow of repentance. Concomitantly the Lord Jesus converted their double-mindedness into genuine godly faith enabling them to believe as the day-star of the Spirit indwelling them.

FOUR STAGES OF A BELIEVER (2): The Awakened Believer.

FOUR STAGES OF A BELIEVER.

1) The unawakened believer; (2) The awakened disciple; (3) The enlightened pilgrim; (4) The illuminated convert.

THE UNAWAKENED BELIEVER
It is not enough to believe, and there are many believers in the church who have not been awakened. They have never had an encounter with the living Christ’s spirit because they have never sought him with all of their heart. They were happy to have a quick-fix that the church has offered the world since the 19th C. There are varying degrees of belief towards Jesus in the Gospels of the New Testament.

Many religious have never heard the call of Christ. They may read the Scriptures and attend Christian worship services. One day listening to the Bible-based preacher there is a personal response of the believer. He/she is suddenly arrested by the challenge to follow Christ and do His bidding. His whole being is awakened into the reality of Christ’s presence and he/she becomes an ardent follower or disciple.

Unawakened souls are not disciples of Christ, merely religious in mind. They may be in the church, but they do not have God’s presence WITH THEM and are not yet His SHEEP.

The unawakened believer has no knowledge of the Scriptures and he finds the Bible a mystery which he does not understand. He is classed as a walking dead, or ‘dead man walking’. The unawakened believer needs not to procrastinate too long or the day of grace may pass too soon.

The unawakened person may well have knowledge of creed, confession, and written articles of faith, such as water washes away sins.

Awakening does not happen at one’s own behest or the will of the preacher. It is at God’s behest alone. No decision, prayer, water, wine or wafer can compel God to awaken the lost soul, dead in sins and trespasses.

THE AWAKENED BELIEVER.
1. Reading the Word of God produces moral convictions and these grow until discomforting the reader. Why? “That sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.” (Romans 7:11)

2. The moral law and the condemnation it produces in man’s conscience is meant to bring the believer to the end of himself and distrust his own efforts, and the false hopes of his own faith, and his own religious creed/ sacrament.

3. Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity for saving grace. The eleven disciples were in hiding, except John, after the crucifixion. They were at the end of themselves in mortifying sorrow facing their cowardice, disbelief, and failure.

4. This was the opportunity for the risen Christ to change their worldly sorrow into godly sorrow of repentance. Concomitantly the Lord Jesus converted their double-mindedness into genuine godly faith enabling them to believe as the day-star of the Spirit indwelling them.

THE ENLIGHTENED BELIEVER.
1. To have an enlightened mind is inadequate to understand the spiritual side of the Bible’s sixty-six volumes. It is the most unusual book ever written and one needs something more than an enlightened mind of curiosity and rational reason to understand its message.

2. Though enlightenment produces zealous interest, curiosity, and understanding of the Bible’s characters, history, and moral directives it is unable to give spiritual discernment of Christ’s grace and redemption. Independent reason will prevent the natural mind from fathoming the saga of grace from Genesis to Revelation.

3. Enlightenment is secretly driven by the Father’s magnetic attraction of the believer to His Son in the Scriptures. Though mistaken today for the new birth, it falls far short of one possessing eternal life. He/she needs the illumination of Christ’s regenerating Spirit.

4. Awakening and enlightenment are all part of the Father drawing the believer to His Son. (John 6)

5. The faith of the believer is not enlightened, only his mind but the doubts of the ambivalent will remain. His own faith wavers all the time. He needs the gift of true faith by grace. Until then he is like the first twelve disciples who were lacking in faith.
An enlightened mind is not enough to understand the spiritual side of the Bible in its sixty-six volumes. It is the most unusual book ever written and one needs something more than an enlightened mind. Though that in itself produces zealous interest, curiosity, and understanding of the Bible’s characters, history, and moral challenges, the enlightenment of the mind is unable to give spiritual discernment of its real message of grace and redemption. Man’s independent reason will prevent it.

The first eleven apostles were unconverted until the first day of the resurrection (Luke 24 & John 20).
It is secretly driven by the Father’s magnetic attraction to the Scriptures. More than anything else that drawing of the Father is paramount. It is not universal, but only to the wholehearted seeker. For God the Father alone can reveal the person of the Lord Jesus Christ who then calls the believer to follow Him. However, he is still in need of illumination by Christ’s regenerating Spirit. Awakening and enlightenment are all part of the Father’s drawing the seeker to His Son.

1) Enlightening has to do with the arousal of the mind, not his faith. Though he may well be a disciple of Christ he is solely reliant on his mind until he is illuminated and born of the Spirit. He needs the grace of faith because no matter what method is employed natural faith remains natural regardless of the psychology used. Humans are natural disbelievers, better described as skeptics. At best natural faith wavers and is ambivalent. He needs the gift of true faith by grace. Until then he is like the first twelve disciples to whom Jesus questioned for their lack of faith.

a. One’s own faith, whether it is childlike or not, is natural, and the natural man receives not the things of God for they are foolishness to him. ( 1
Corinthians. 2:14).
b. Freewill faith, now popular among a full cross-section of evangelists, ministers, and preachers everywhere.
c. Freewill faith is sourced in New England Theology. Its modern resurgence was in the humanist Age of Enlightenment of the 18th Century.
d. It elevated the natural attributes of humanity’s own powers of reason, conscience, and faith and made God the source thereof.
e. Yet the NT clearly describes the degeneracy of mankind through the curse that fell on the human race through Adam.
f. That is the very reason for the 1st Advent, for which Christ was born (the Second Adam, says St. Paul).
g. William James, The Father of Modern Psychology, went one step further by linking FAITH to WILL power so that the two became synonymous. James
attributed faith to any human action towards God, though he himself was a convinced agnostic.
h. James tried to destroy biblical conversion and faith by grace emphasized in the Reformation. He discredited the major evangelists of the Great
Awakening and the Second Great Awakening by his book ‘Varieties of Religious Experience’. This masterful philosopher sadly
influenced the evangelicals and the liberals in their theological halls of learning and seminaries.

THE ILLUMINATED CONVERT.
The truly enlightened disciple becomes more frustrated as time progresses and his hunger grows. He is disappointed with himself and his own inner self.
One day he becomes so disillusioned with his own spiritual state that he considers quitting altogether.

1. He becomes sorrowful over his inner state and his inability to grasp the answers.
a. Then still reading the Word, he grows despondent about ever becoming a spiritual person or becoming good enough when he sees so many of his own foibles, failures, and sins.
b. He wishes he could be more than sorry for himself, but genuinely sorry enough to satisfy God.
c. He hungers and thirsts for a resolution with a deep longing.
2. It is then after listening to regular preaching of a godly preacher in a Bible-believing assembly expounding Christ in the Scriptures that a change will at last occur.
a. The risen Saviour invisibly presents Himself to his mind.
b. The glow of His presence is awe-inspiring and HOPE begins to burn within him.
c. Suddenly doubts are replaced by the gift of grace.
d. The Bible with which he so often struggled now seems the LIVING WORD of life which had hitherto only been a book of stories.
e. His eyes are opened and his mind and soul is ILLUMINATED by the regenerating Holy Spirit.
f. Within him, HOPE is accompanied by PEACE beyond human understanding.
g. His exuberance makes his spirit revel in JOY.
h. He has become a new creature in Christ by the power of His resurrection. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

BIBLE REFERENCES.
Preconditions to illumination (conversion).
REPENTANCE: ( 2 Corinthians 7: 8-10)
1. REPENTANCE is neither automatic nor worldly sorrow (being sorry for yourself). The sorrow of the world works death
2. WORLDLY sorrow is ‘but for a season’. The passing sorrow for one’s own consequences.
3. GODLY SORROW is the gift. You were made sorry after a godly manner. For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation

THE TWELVE WERE NOT CONVERTED UNTIL THE RESURRECTION.
1. The awakened and enlightened Peter had yet to be converted (illuminated). Conversion by the washing of the blood purges the conscience. Hebrews 9:14.
(Hebrews 10:22)
2. Natural faith cannot bring salvation. James 1:6-7. Natural faith is fickle.
3. Conversion by illumination comes alone by preaching, not water, wine or wafer.
a. 1 Corinthians 1:21. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

** All scripture quoted from the KJV or King James Version (Public Domain).
BIBLE REFERENCES
1. UNAWAKENED FAITH.
a. James 2:19. …the devils also believe and tremble.
b. 1 Corinthians 15:34. awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of god:
c. Ephesians 5:14… awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
d. Romans 13:11. …it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
2. PROCESS PRIOR TO AWAKENING:
The Father draws the seeker to become wholehearted.[ Deuteronomy 10:12; Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30]
a. John 6:37. All that the Father gives me shall come to me…
b. John 6:44. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him:
c. John 6. 45. Every man, therefore, that has heard and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.
d. John 6:65 … no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
e. Jeremiah 29:13. And you shall seek me, and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart.
f. John 10:16. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice.

Freedom of the Will 1746; Jonathan Edwards: First Great Awakening who later turned against Reformation & paved the way for New England Theology’s Easy Religion that has permeated the USA and the globe.
Varieties of Religious Experience by William James the Father of Modern Psychology added fuel to the fire trying to burn out the true biblical conversion.

FOUR STAGES OF A BELIEVER.

BIBLICAL GUIDE TO WORSHIP PRINCIPLES
Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
James 4:4.
know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
1 John 2:15-17.
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abides forever.
Exodus 32.17-29 (excerpts)
17 And when Joshua heard THE NOISE OF THE PEOPLE …18 And he said,…THE NOISE OF THEM THAT SING DO I HEAR. …19 And … he saw the calf, AND THE DANCING: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. 26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE? let him come unto me. … 28 And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even every man …that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

*All quotes from the King James Version (Public Domain)
JAMES & JOHN’S USE OF THE WORD: ‘’WORLD”.
1. The world is a word standing for the worldlings in the kingdom of darkness.
a. This means their songs, their lyrics, limericks, beat, and rhythm
b. This means their instruments not listed in Scripture
c. This means their loud needless amplification of same into the blast of excessive decibels.
d. This means their corrupt means of attracting and winning an audience
e. This means using entertainment dependent on worldly methods, not spiritual ones.
2. The music of the Hebrew worshippers had radically changed (see Amos 5.23 above).
a. Alignment with an idol changes everything in worship’s music and song:
b. The idols are instruments of the world, the dance rhythm/beat & emotion of worldlings;
c. The dress and undress (progressive immodesty) revealing by exposure or slovenliness.
d. Israel wanted to change worship because of doubt and distrust of traditional worship.
e. This change in music led to unseemly behaviour and sinfulness of their dance and nakedness.
f. The same Satanic delusion of Christian worship in a majority of churches causes the Spirit to be grieved and God departs to let the alternate deceiving spirits come in to simulate tee Spirit’s work and this started in the 1950s, continuing apace today using the world’s methods of attracting an audience with the same sensual rhythms used by sensual vocalists in the kingdom of darkness.
g. These churches rarely see even an awakening let alone conversions by illumination because God has left and man has taken over.
h. These churches (the increasing majority) in the ‘falling away’ of the last times (Matthew 24) rely on creation of excitement to unwittingly copy the inimitable atmosphere that the Holy Ghost brings in a small quiet voice (c. Elijah at Mt. Horeb escaping from Jezebel) 1 Kings 19:9-13
God is not loud, He works quietly in a reverent quiet congregation.
The average preacher and song leader seeks to awaken the interest of the audience so it will come back and support their unique sectarian movement, But only God can awaken and no man or minister can simulate. It will not be accomplished by instruments and songs using the rhythms and beats of the world.
Most new churches/missions/movements claiming to be unique fail to discern the invisible body of Christ by their sectarianism. Their uniqueness is quite frankly their misled humanism and pragmatism based on the 19th C fundamental emphasis of selecting special words/phrases or verses to be arbiters of truth to the neglect of the whole counsel of the whole Bible. It is tabooed private interpretation when this is done, making those words or passages superior to the rest of Scripture.
This allows each denomination to create its own hermeneutic or interpretative system of the Bible for its own biblical and doctrinal nuances, twisting the Word of God to its own destruction.
Thus following the humanist 18th C Age of Enlightenment the19th C pragmatist can twist the Scriptures to its own liking as it creates new unique doctrines. This had created over two thousand new breakaway splinter churches. 2 Peter 3:16.
Thus the 2,800 (Barratt 1977) separate church denominations, movements, and sects go each their own way and “every man did that which is right in his own eyes”- to the great detriment of the emaciated ‘body of Christ whose shepherding pastors will rarely feed the sheep (Ezekiel 13 & 34) as do not discern the body of Christ this eclipsed by their own misled uniqueness. For this reason, they are often sick and asleep (1 Corinthians 11) as their pulpits judgmentally advocate their sectarian bent instead of expounding Christ in the whole volume of the Book.
Western Christianity is fractious, judgmental, pragmatic, and thinks it has the right to freely use private interpretation of the Bible, tabooed by the apostles in Peter’s Epistle [ 2 Peter 1:20] and John in his Revelation [Revelation 22:18-19].
The result is that God the Father is very limited on how He can draw the lost to His Son, and He is obstructed by the false hopes of modern-day evangelists/ pastors who preach the gospel of affirmation, sacrament, decision, or tongues as evidence of the Spirit.
In their easy religion’s boast of numbers and statistics, they have in fact raised goats shown how to wear fleece instead of bringing lambs to birth. Assumptions of automated faith are at complete odds with the Scriptures.
Services are dominated by the bombastic stage performers with their flatteries and unctuous winsomeness. They act as gods and God often departs to leave the congregation in Ichabod.
God has called the preacher and missionary to preach Christ by expounding the Word of God through the foolishness of preaching without a private doctrinal agenda being foisted upon adulating pews.
Many get them to speak in unknown tongues never used on the day of Pentecost, rejected by the founder of modern-day Pentecostal at Azusa Street, Los Angeles 1906 as spiritism ending in witchcraft. Paul tabooed it for public assembly meetings. Unknown tongues (jargon aphasia of the pagans) was neither manifest at Caesarea, nor Ephesus or on the Day of Pentecost.
Only the corrupt drunken and gluttonous Corinthian church was it accepted until Paul banned it. 1 Corinthians 14.
I. Behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?…
II. and he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord…
III. and, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind … but the Lord was not in the wind…
IV. and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake…
V. and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire…
VI. and after the fire a still small voice…
behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
 

Your Trust in Water or Blood?

IS YOUR TRUST IN WATER OR THE BLOOD?
1. So were you baptized to follow the kingdom example of Christ?
a) Did you know that He as a conforming Jew was baptized before He began the kingdom of heaven and that as the ‘Son of David’ in the Messianic lineage of his forbears that he needed to honour and fulfill all the promises of the patriarchs, the prophets and the Psalms of David?
b) He needed to ‘fulfill all things’ as John the Baptist was at first reluctant to baptize him because John himself insisted that he had not been baptized.
c) Did you know that Jesus declined to baptize John, the last prophet of the first testament era: Law and Prophets of which the Lord called John the greatest?
d) To fulfill the promises of the first testament of blood predicting a new High Priest would arise from the tribe of Judah
• Mark’s differing place of ascension- not Olivet-unnamed-
• Baptismal commission yet LJC neve baptized-only the twelve
• No place in the4 gospels where LJC baptized in water-not once-despite dispelled rumour in John 3 &4
• John 3-4 was started by a rumour and hearsay notwithstanding John 4:1-2 reiterated claim that the twelve baptized which has never been corroborated in the Gospels-even once.
• John B prophesiedthat Jesus would baptize others bin fire nopt water.
• The true commission from Jerusalem’s ascension mount of Olivet (Mt of Olives) reported in Acts 1 was not a baptismal commission but one that preempted the baptism of fire 50 days later at Jerusalem on the day of the feast f Pentecost.
• It is commonly known among a wide cross section of theologians (even evangelicals of the right,that the last part of Mark 16 (v9-20) was lost and replaced by another ending. Thus it is thought generally to be an unreliable section of the Word for doctrine and practice not withstanding the radical fundamentalist who may well be a pragmatic bibliolater.
• Many have advocated since the 19th C age of doctrinal pragmatism that the NT teaches baptismal regeneration like the church of Rome

REFORMATION’S NEW TESTAMENT FROM ORIGINAL GREEK.

HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.

HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.
SIMPLE KEYS
TO UNDERSTANDING
AND KNOWING YOUR
BIBLE’S CONTENTS
 
HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.
As we are educated to be doubters and skeptics, one way or another, you need to employ the willing suspension of disbelief at the very start and if you have not believed the following tenets enumerated below you must pretend they are true while reading.
1. Read it as if it is the infallible Word of God.
2. Remember in the first chapter of the first of sixty six books: Genesis, these words appear:
a. “God said-God made-God called”
i. God said what you’re reading
ii. God made the patriarchs, prophets & apostles write them.
iii. God called ordinary men to write His Words. Do not treat them as in any other book.
3. Do not analyse it by your own intellect for logic or truthfulness;
4. Do not judge it by your powers of mental reason or of popular philosophy;
5. Read it as God’s Word demonstrating the waywardness of rebellious human nature cursed by sin;
6. Read it noticing the rare men or women that wholeheartedly seek God sincerely without ulterior motive;
7. Read it noticing the futile attempts of men to keep the moral law, vainly worshipping with lip service;
8. Read it and continue the habit even when you do not understand it for God is secretly at work because the Bible says:-:
a. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God:
i. Romans 10: 17.
b. The pre-eternal Christ’s name is the Word, in the triune godhead of the Father, the Word & Spirit:
i. 1st John 5:7; 1st John 1:1; John’s Gospel 1:1.
9. Read it with out help of church or clergy until there arises within your heart a hunger to wholeheartedly be a daily Bible reader.
10. Read it until God’s grace enlightens the eyes of your understanding to fathom Christ’s message to you in both the Old and New Testaments (excepting the uninspired Apocrypha in some Bibles)
11. Read it noticing the principles of the wise reader found in the following Bible references:-
a. Proverbs 3:5-6; 1st Corinthians 2:14; 2nd Timothy 3:16; Romans 1:17; John’s Gospel 1:17.
12. Keep in mind that the minute your mind asserts superior wisdom over your Bible reading you are a fool.
a. Romans 1:22.
13. The reason the mind blindly argues against the credibility of Scripture that the problem is from the heart:
a. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

PROFILE
John David’s Bible Simply is a Know Your Bible program. Bible Simply has been formed to reach the ‘household of faith’ and the god-fearing pilgrims struggling to understand the Bible. Bible Simply would encourage spasmodic readers to become daily Bible readers and regular readers to become more acquainted with the Old and New Testaments.

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Please write to:- Bible Simply c/- biblesimply@gmail.com or PO Box 366603, Bonita Springs FL 34136.
Bible Simply is neither church based nor sectarian in approach. It does not solicit church attendance or use follow-up methods unless requested.

Bible Simply holds to the tenets of our Puritan forefathers and their early English Bible translations based on the Greek Text of Erasmus, not the unreliable 19th C Greek New Testament of Westcott & Hort upon which most modern translations of the Bible are based.

MOTTO: “Faith alone- by grace alone- through Scripture alone.”
‘The just shall live by faith,’ not of themselves but of grace.

HOW TO START READING YOUR BIBLE.

EARLIEST PUBLISHED BIBLES IN PRINT.

EARLIEST-PUBLISHED-BIBLES-IN-PRINT.
The earliest published English Bibles or New Testaments after Gutenberg’s 1450 invention of the printing press were from the Puritan minded Protestant Reformers in the immediate wake of the Reformation. Though the first book printed in Europe was a Bible it was merely a publication of the Latin Vulgate Bible of the Holy Roman Empire, understood by a limited few in 1450.

After the Reformation New Testament translators used the Greek New Testament of Erasmus producing editions in German, English, French, etc. To the English reader the six authoritative and unadulterated editions of the Bible were printed in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Rome’s Latin Bible, had remained unchallenged for a thousand years since the 3rd century until John Wycliffe scribed it into common English parlance around the1390’s, and Tyndale printed it in 1526 nine years after Luther’s German N.T. Wycliffe, whose bones were later burned in protest, died before he could be martyred and Tyndale was burned and strangled at the stake in 1536. Needless to say the Holy Roman Empire protected its Latin Bible with a vengeance.

By 800 AD it was protected under the criminal code from being retranslated into any other language. The two exceptions were however, in the 4th and 5th centuries, when Constantine and then Jerome revised the Old Latin. Nevertheless, Jerome’s Vulgate perpetuated Roman Catholic dogma of its seven sacraments included in Constantine’s first revision of 3rd C Old Latin N.T.

After the formation of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope in 800 AD, the Vatican ensured that any further revision or translation, within its vastly growing empire, would be illegal and offenders would suffer capital punishment. It martyred any would be reformer. In the Reformation of 1517 many translators and publishers fled to Geneva to escape imprisonment.

Later restrictions were tightened to include any private reading or ownership of any part of the Bible. This was to make sure that its reading and propagation publicly was limited to the Catholic priesthood. Even the priesthood was under this taboo.

John Wycliffe was called the Morning Star of the Reformation 200 years before it occurred. Shortly after Wycliffe, the Muslims conquered Constantinople (formerly Byzantium, now Istanbul) causing the Greek scholars of the church to flee to Europe with their trove of New Testament Greek manuscripts.
Thus Renaissance humanist scholar Erasmus used these to compile a Greek New Testament, the original language in which it had been written. The literati, linguists, translators and publishers like the Frenchman Robert Entienne (alias Stephanus) showed new interest in the veracity and authority of the Holy Bible and versified it for the reading public.

But Erasmus in translating the Greek New Testament ignored Constantine’s seven sacramental inclusions into holy writ of the Latin Bible. This spurred both Luther and Tyndale to produce the first German and English New Testaments respectively. Indeed four more English updated translations of the Puritan era were published in London and Geneva before Roman Catholic scholars began to undermine the translation process in the 18th C Age of Enlightenment. This was a resurgence of Renaissance humanist endeavour, but far more libertine in character. It elevated reason against the sacrosanct inspired preservation of holy writ’s absolute authority.

The six most reliable translations led often to the translator’s martyrdom by the long reach of the Vatican and the Holy Roman Empire based in Franco Germany. Of these translations only two remain in print for the public: the 16th C. Geneva Bible and the 17th C. King James Bible. In 1611 it marked the end of one hundred years that had changed Britain and America and the regions beyond by the impact of Reformation reformers, translators and publishers.

The final demise of respect for inspiration and authority of Reformation’s preservation of Scripture began in the next century by Roman resurgence promoting the re-elevation of the Vatican’s Codex Vaticanus Bible MS in Latin and their scholars progressively influencing Protestant scholars to adopt Reason (logic); Philosophy (Thomas Aquinas etc); and Psychology (William James) to interpret, and, or, translate holy writ.
Bible criticism became a humanist science in itself encouraging readers to understand and interpret the Scriptures.

As a result of the strayed 18th C Enlightenment, two 19th C. Anglo-Roman priests: Westcott and Hort wrote their own Greek New Testament, spurning both the Reformation and the invaluable work of Erasmus. They used the abovementioned libertine rationale of reason. All modern Bible translations from the 19th C to the 21st C are based on this spurious work.

But modernization under the guise of readability in common parlance was totally eclipsed by using a spurious key of hermeneutics: understanding the text through reason employing pragmatic comparison rather than comparing Scripture with Scripture. This which relied upon the rationale of the early post-Reformation Bible’s irrevocable and absolute authority.

The result is today’s mayhem of Christendom polarized between the status quo using different shades of pragmatic Bible reading, and minority right wing bibliolatrous Bible reading by the popular fundamentalists (usually misusing the KJV) who will venerate one word, phrase or verse doing an injustice to both Scripture and the biblical method of interpreting the text.

Somewhere in the fog of apostasy and the mayhem of hundreds of modern translations, most have forgotten the cause for the exponential increase of sectarianism in the 19th C. that ushered in such a rise of controversy that there are now 2,800 separate sects and denominations under the banner of Christendom. (Encyclopaedia of the Christian Church 1977).

NOTES.
(N.T or NT = New Testament. Holy writ = the Bible.)
Article by John David of Bonita Bible Mission public domain.
KJV is the King James Version Public Domain ex (biblegateway.com)

EARLIEST PUBLISHED BIBLES IN PRINT.

EVANGELISM AWRY

EVANGELISM AWRY.
The hidden humanism of the evangelical churches promotes the easy religion of do-it-yourself salvation. Much of this is achieved by twisting
1. God said it.
2. I said it.
3. I have therefore believed it.
4. I have automatically got it (irrevocable eternal life).

This is he humanistic psychology of New England Theology that pervades America and much of the global outreach in the third world after one hundred years of the Golden Age of Evangelism. Refined as faith by William James, the Father of American Psychology, in his Varieties of Religious Experiences in the 1850’s. This plague of easy religion that wet global in the 1948 B.G. Crusades is a complete distortion of the Reformation’s message of grace.

This easy religion offering unconditional acceptance into the Kingdom by SELF FAITH and automated repentance is justified by the moral majority who twist Romans 10:9 away from its context and bibliolatrously venerate it (& verse 13). Then the clergy of easy-religion use them to interpret all other Scriptures. This illogical hermeneutic becomes the arbiter of all New Testament truth and acts as a blocking filter to disallow both the effects of the curse and its legacy of ORIGINAL SIN to deny man’s utter dependence upon the endowment of grace to repent and believe the Gospel.
If the heart of man is as wicked and deceitful as the Psalmist, the Prophets and Jesus maintained, then only grace will enable ‘saving-faith’ unto regeneration, called the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.
Only grace can turn worldly sorrow into godly sorrow (repentance).
Only grace can cause the wanton heart to seek the Lord wholeheartedly.
Only grace can awaken the deadened soul to hear the CALL OF CHRIST TO FOLLOW HIM.
Only grace will thereafter cause the awakened soul to HEAR AND LEARN OF THE FATHER.
Only grace can bring a person to face his/her failed and fallen SELF.
Only grace can show the awakened his sin and his RESURRECTED SAVIOUR.
Only grace can instil and infuse the HOPE OF REDEMPTION by opening the eyes of the awakened to Christ in the Scriptures, and INSTANTANEOUSLY regenerate him and translate him from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of HIS dear Son.
Grace has received a bad name from Christendom’s moral majority. Indoctrinators of sectarianism, especially right-wing evangelicals conveniently see only black or white: viz: Calvinism or Arminianism.
Today this allows them to dispense with ORIGINAL SIN, the weakened state of human faculties from sin and the disabled, dysfunctional conscience that universally leads men to WORSHIP SOMETHING OR SOMEONE rather than Christ. Some unwittingly end up worshipping worship itself in a form mystical mesmerisation, which can hold hypnotic sway over the indulging group. This especially takes place where expectation of signs prevail and physical aberrant behaviour is accepted without question.
Even religious worship is merely an expression of a natural universal inborn desire of humanity to worship ‘THEY KNOW NOT WHAT. whether they are born into a Christian or pagan culture. The apostle Paul saw this at Mars Hill, in Athens. It can be regularly observed in among agnostics, so-called atheists, and various religions including spiritism and animism. Worshipping the god of REASON is nonetheless a religion. This includes the sophists spawned by Thomas Aquinas etc.
Eve was brought into Eden’s paradise in a state of innocence (not righteousness) but she, unlike Adam, unwittingly worshipped a paranormal spirit incarnate in the Serpent. She led Adam to succumb to her worshipful desire for KNOWLEDGE of the gods. Part of the curse endemic to mankind, is the NATURAL BENT TO WORSHIP which when indulged will smooth the dying pillow of the indulger, thus placating any fears about life’s temporariness.
America turned away from the message of its Puritan Fathers when the lapsed evangelist Jonathan Edwards in 1746 wrote ‘The Freedom of the Will. He had not only rejected the Puritan Fathers, but re-echoed the humanism of Origen, Pelagius, and Jacob Arminius. What was their root problem that led them into Christian humanism? They rejected both the Genesis account and the Romans 5 description of hereditary original sin and were deluded by Rome’s notion of Adam’s original righteousness. The logical extension of this main error is to misunderstand the image of God in human creation, and then innately arm all humans with the faculty of preserved freewill and an active light of conscience. Implied in this heresy is the notion of a universal residual vestige of inner faith enabling receptivity to God’s overtures.
1. Adam was crated in a state of innocence from which he and Eve fell when they rejected God’s offer of grace through the tree of life by grasping for paranormal knowledge from the Tree of Knowledge.
2. Adam was made in the tripartite image of God with a body-soul-spirit. As such he was unique to the animal kingdom with his reflective capacity to confer with himself, internalize, rationalize and cogitate accordingly beyond mere instinct. Of the trinity God the Father; God the WORD; and God’s Spirit self reflection is manifest in the Scriptures in Genesis and In the Gospel of John etc.
3. God created Adam with a definitive difference. He gave him a LIVING SOUL unique among the animal kingdom.
4. When Adam and Eve fell from their state of innocence their souls ceased to live. From the deadening effect of the fall into ORIGINAL SIN decay and degeneration had begun. The conscience had been seared and cauterized. Where once its light was God centred, it now self righteously became self centred in its link to the corrupted power of FREEWILL. Where once at the beginning of creation it reflected and echoed the voice of God, now it merely became evil in its duplicity, reflecting self-interest and self centredness. This is why the apostle Paul called the conscience ‘evil’.
John 1:9, truly declares the truth that the inner light of Christ’s indwelling is the only light which lights up the recipients of the Gospel throughout the world. Without it the impenetrable darkness of sin’s deadening effect is thus described in the ensuing verses 10 etc. That caused both the world and ‘His own’ to ignore or reject Him (the LIGHT).
Instead of the Puritan Reformation return to biblical faith through grace, we have come the full circle and made access to divine grace through human faith (that Jesus, the apostles and the prophets said we lack in the sceptical human heart of unbelief.)

EVANGELISM AWRY

WHEN THE CHURCH IS A DISTRACTER. (Intro’.)

WHEN THE CHURCH IS A DISTRACTER.
Introduction
The real church on earth is the invisible body of regenerated believers, called saints, in the New Testament. There are hundreds of denominations who say they are the unique church, or that they alone have the real Christian congregants. The common disease of preachers is sectarianism: not discerning that invisible body that transcends all artificial denominational boundaries.

The falling-away of these last days (Matt.24) has caused multitudinous sheep and shepherds to adopt the worldly trend of goat-filled churches and become sectarian separatists since the 19th C.

These overemphasize their own human visible church and obscure the invisible body of Christ on earth, the sheep of the true flock. Thus they impoverish their walk with the Lord. (Romans.12;; 1st Corinthians 12). Consequently they become a liability to the kingdom, notwithstanding their recruitment of followers. There is no doubt that many have responded to their church and become followers of Christ. But following a doctrine or a method to gain eternal life falls far short of regeneration by faith through grace.

Church expansion under the guise of evangelism requires little more than consistent advertising, and visiting the homes of the community. The birth of new babes in Christ is a different matter and can only take place after travail in the labour ward where brethren meet to wait on God for the lost as the Spirit directs. This fell out of fashion well over a hundred years ago. Merely teaching another soul how to wear a fleece is not the second birth through faith by grace.

END OF INTRODUCTION.
Next post: Part 1 of When the Church is a Distracter.

WHEN THE CHURCH IS A DISTRACTER. (Intro’.)

Warped United Nations Censure of USA.

Warped UN Vote= 60% of the 128 U.N group censuring the USA was from the anti Semite league of three.

(40%) of the whole U.N is now comprised of these alliances
60% of the 128 voting against the USA came from Muslim, Communist, (+ex Soviet states), and EU blocs.

*The Muslim 57 nation Organization of Islamic Co-operation led by Saudi Arabia and Iran usually vote together against Jews and the State of Israel.
*The three anti Semitic alliances (40% of the whole U.N.) were 60% of the censure voters.

128 CENSURING NATIONS ANALYSED.
Bloc voting skewed national representation via (1)the Muslim, (2) the Communist (including ex Soviet states); and (3) the EU nations. This vote was orchestrated antipathy.

These three powerful alliances dominate the floor of the U.N. now defeating free independent and impartial expression of sovereign nation states in the 192 member league. Each of the three blocs have historically shown anti-Semitic bias over the last few decades as the politically correct pressure progressively increases.

The EU now seems to have capitulated to it. This vote of censure was not just against America’s recognition of Jerusalem, but also against Israel itself.

HOW THE THREE ALLIANCES VOTED AGAINST THE USA
1. 18 EU nations of the 28
2. 49 Islamic nations of the 57 in the Org. of. Islamic Co-op.
3. 10 Communist and pro Communist nations.

These 77 nations made up 60% of the 128 censuring nations and 40% of the whole 192 U.N General Assembly

Thus in the U.N the three dominant interest groups have progressively befriended the late Yasser Arafat’s PLO Palestinian cause and alienated the Jewish Palestinian cause (now Israeli cause since 1948) thereby slewing the votes of the General Assembly for over two decades. Combined with the long standing Communist obstructive vetoes in the U.N Permanent Security Council the U.N has become dysfunctional and merely the tool of anti Semitic bias.

The E.U finally yielded to the two other dominant blocs in voting against its own interests censuring the USA’s recognition of the status quo in Israel. This may not the beginning of the end, but maybe the end of its beginning demise. The U.N is already a mere political paper tiger.

UK’s decision, in particular, to censure the USA & Israel showed how one Muslim mayor of London City and his dominantly Islamic electorate could turn the Westminster UK government in the Commons against two of its long standing allies: Israel and the USA. It made Israel a staunch ally: i.e. in Palestinian Jews before ’48 independence (1917-1944). The same growing influence of Islam upon the UK (2%+ of the populace) has within the last two years forced Holocaust denial upon all of their state school children by removing the Holocaust from schools’ curricula.

1. *Afghanistan (Islam dominant-USSR occupation)
2. *Albania (Islam dominant)
3. *Algeria (Islam dominant)
4. **Armenia (USSR until ’91)
5. #Austria (EU)
6. *Azerbaijan (Islam dominant) (USSR until ’91)
7. *Bahrain (Islam dominant)
8. *Bangladesh (Islam dominant)
9. **Belarus (USSR until ’91)
10. #Belgium (EU)
11. *Brunei (Islam dominant)
12. **Bulgaria (Communist Rulers)
13. *Burkina (Islam dominant)
14. *Chad (Islam dominant)
15. **China (Communist State)
16. *Comoros (Islam dominates)
17. **Cuba (Communist State)
18. #Cyprus (Divided Island- *Muslim North/ #EU South)
19. #Denmark (EU)
20. *Djibouti (Islam dominates)
21. *Egypt (Islam dominant)
22. *Eritrea (Islam dominant)
23. #Estonia EU (USSR until ’91)
24. #Finland EU (USSR sphere until ’91)
25. #France (EU)
26. *Gambia (Islam dominant.)
27. #Germany (EU)
28. #Greece (EU)
29. *Guinea (Islam dominant)
30. #Iceland (EU)
31. *Indonesia (Islam dominates)
32. *Iran (Islamic state)
33. *Iraq (Islamic state)
34. #Ireland (EU)
35. #Italy (EU)
36. *Ivory Coast (Islam dominant)
37. *Jordan (Islam dominant)
38. *Kazakhstan (Islam dominant, **USSR until ’91)
39. *Kuwait (Islam dominant)
40. *Kyrgyzstan (Islam dominant-USSR until ’91)
41. *Lebanon (Islam dominant)
42. *Libya (Islam dominant)
43. ♯Lithuania EU (USSR until ’91)
44. #Luxembourg (EU)
45. *Malaysia (Islam dominant)
46. *Maldives (Islam dominates)
47. *Mali (Islam dominant)
48. #Malta (EU)
49. *Mauritania (Islam dominant)
50. *Morocco (Islam dominant)
51. #Netherlands (EU)
52. *Niger (Islam dominant)
53. *Nigeria (Islam dominant)
54. **North Korea (Communist state)
55. *Oman (Islam dominant)
56. *Pakistan (Islam dominant)
57. #Portugal (EU)
58. *Qatar (Islam dominant)
59. **Russia (USSR until ’91)
60. *Saudi Arabia (Capitol 57 nation Org. Islamic. Conf’.)
61. *Senegal (Islam dominant)
62. #Slovakia (EU)
63. #Slovenia (EU)
64. *Somalia (Islam dominant)
65. #Spain (EU)
66. *Sudan (Islam dominant)
67. Suriname (Strong Islamic voice)
68. #Sweden (EU)
69. *Syria (Islam dominant)
70. *Tajikistan (Islam dominant-USSR until ’91)
71. *Tanzania (Islam dominant)
72. *Tunisia (Islam dominant)
73. *Turkey (Islam dominant)
74. *United Arab Emirates (Islam dominant)
75. *Uzbekistan (Islam dominant-USSR until ’91)
76. **Vietnam (Communist state)
77. *Yemen (Islam dominant)

NB UK {(Muslim majority London City)}

COMMENT.
It is fair to say that the power of the Islamic block has changed once democratic UN into a tool of Muslims and Communists to chide and chafe the Western free world and be a constant irritant to the Jewish free state of Israel.
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9 VOTED AGAINST U.N. CENSURE OF USA RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM
Guatemala
Honduras
Israel
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
Palau
Togo
US
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35 ABSTAINED FROM CENSURE OF USA
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Bahamas
Benin
Bhutan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cameroon
Canada
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Dominican Republic
Equatorial Guinea
Fiji
Haiti
Hungary
Jamaica
Latvia
Lesotho
Kiribati
Malawi
Mexico
Panama
Paraguay
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Rwanda
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
Vanuatu

16 nations stayed away & boycotted the vote
9 nations abstained from voting
39 nations voted against UN motion
(33%) of the UN would not vote against the USA

Warped United Nations Censure of USA.