Joel 194: Did God Create Us Evil? Why Does God Hide? Who Blasphemed the Holy Spirit?
We begin with discussions of the errors of Calvinism and Arminianism. We are not in a position where we have to hold on to our own salvation, but the Arminianism position is one of self-aggrandizement thinking they are secure because they only have sins of omission and not commission. The Calvinistic position is that of God causing those who are elect to persist in the faith.
We’re moving into a subject that is related to Ephesians 1 and that is MOND, Modified Newtonian Physics, which destroys the Einstein position. This relates to the Calvinistic and Arminianism positions. I’ll let pastor get into this with you because there is so much to cover and it’ll be much more interesting when you hear pastor tell it. This is fascinating stuff, such as the orbit of Mercury around the sun and the gravitational problem that discovery presented. It made scientists wanted to abandon the Newtonian model so, they invent Dark Matter to try and explain things. But the problem is more than just with Mercury.
In this discussion we go into the invisibility of God and when God leaves and the return of Christ. Romans 1:20 talks about God’s invisibility and that we are not excused, because of Word of God, Jesus Christ. Then there’s the lie of Satan, accusing God of creating us evil. Acts 14:15-17 says that God allows all nations to walk in their own way... so God did not predestine evil. Now we move on to Colossians 1:16-20 where we see that all things were made by Him and consist by him.
Now we move into Ephesians 1:3-14. So, open your TextBooks and fire up your note taking devices. You’re about to learn some really good stuff.
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Notice: This is a very in-depth and fascinating study of Joel, Daniel, Revelation, Ecclesiastes, Job, and Genesis, by our pastor Stephen A. Chronister. You’re watching Lecture Number 194 in this series. Current and past lectures can be found at www.cliffside.org in the Media page, and Podcasts are available on iTunes, https://cliffside.podbean.com/, iHeart.com, and
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Ephesians 1:3-14, Colossians 1:15, Genesis 3, John 1:18, Romans 1:19-20, Romans 8:28, Colossians 1:26-27, Romans 11