God's Advocate

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I bought a new Bible yesterday. My old Bible is falling apart. I finally broke down and got a large print, New King James Version. My old Bible is a New International Version. I decided to change versions after I found out about a verse that was removed from the NIV. In Luke 9:51-56 Jesus tells his disciples that calling fire from heaven is not from his spirit. The NKJV puts Jesus’ words in red letters. The NIV removed Jesus’ words. Somebody decided to censure Jesus Christ! NKJV 55 But He turned and rebuked them, [b]and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 [c]For the Son of Man did not come…

In Genesis 32:28, ‘God’ changes Jacob’s name to Israel. In Genesis 35:10, ‘God’ again says that Jacob is now Israel. When Jesus refers to the patriarchs in Matthew 8:11, he uses the name Jacob, not Israel. That means that the spirit who changed Jacob’s name was not God, but the deceiver. The promises to Israel were not fulfilled, and the kingdom of Israel was destroyed twice.

There are many contradictions in the Bible. They serve an important purpose — they show us the Spirit of God and the spirit of the enemy. A spirit told the Israelites to genocide the Canaanites. It wasn’t God, because God does not kill people, as demonstrated by Jesus Christ, who never killed anyone. Jesus says that Satan is a liar and a murderer. It is Satan who incites people to murder. It is Satan who uses the forces of nature to kill people. Natural disasters are not ‘acts of God,’ they are ‘acts of Satan.’ Jesus controlled the forces of nature, and did not allow them to harm people. We…

After Jesus was crucified, the Jewish leaders called him an ‘impostor.’ Jesus was nothing like the diety they were following, so they labeled him as fake. If Jesus is the genuine personification of God, then the Jews were worshipping an impostor, the deceiver. The analogy of making bread is used in the Bible to show us that we must separate the grain from the hull, the wheat from the chaff, in order to get a good result. We must ‘rightly divide’ the word of God to separate the true from the untrue. Psalm 37 tells us that the blessed of the Lord inherit the land, while the wicked are defeated…

It appears that Jesus was telling his disciples that they should read the Bible looking for the fruits of every spirit. A good spirit does not produce evil fruit, and an evil spirit does not produce good fruit. Based on that rule, we can conclude that God did not cause the Great Flood, Satan did. God did not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Satan did. Psalm 37 says the righteous inherit the land, while the wicked are defeated and destroyed. Israel was defeated and destroyed, twice. They were the wicked. The people who inherited the land were the righteous.

Reading the Bible is like playing Sudoku — there are simple rules we must follow. In Luke 9:54-56, Jesus tells his disciples that calling fire from heaven to kill people is not an expression of God’s spirit. So when we see fire from heaven in the Old Testament, we know it is not the spirit of God at work. In Job 1:16, Satan uses ‘the fire of God’ to kill Job’s servants and sheep…not God. In Genesis 18, Abraham meets ‘the Lord,’ who is deciding the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the next chapter, the cities are destroyed with fire from heaven…not God. Jesus never called fire from heaven,…

This question is repeated twice to Abram/Abraham in Genesis, once by Pharoah in Egypt, and again by Abimelech in Canaan. As Abram traveled through Canaan and Egypt, he asked his wife to tell people that she was his sister, because he was afraid that he would be killed by someone wanting to take his wife. When Pharoah saw Sarai, he took her into his palace as his wife. He and his people suffered serious illnesses. When Pharoah found out that Sarai was Abram’s wife, he called Abram in and asked him, “What have you done to me?” Pharoah expelled Abraham from Egypt. Abraham did the same thing in Canaan, telling…

In the Bible, the Israelites tried to genocide the Canaanites, but they failed. They made the Canaanites slaves…, but how did that work out? The Israelites were taken into captivity by the Assyrians, and never returned. What the Israelites tried to do to the Canaanites befell the Israeites, instead. It’s called the Law of Sowing and Reaping — what you sow, you will reap. The Israelites did not honor the treaty Abraham made with Abimelech, the Treaty of Beersheba, to treat each other with kindness. Jesus said the same thing in Matthew 7:12 — the Golden Rule. That is the One Law God gave to mankind. The Israelites disobeyed, and…

I looked for this book at the library, and at a used book store. Nothing. Then I found it on Amazon. This is my affiliate link to buy the book if you are interested. Written in the 1890’s by Charles Sheldon, this book was the inspiration for the ‘WWJD’ movement of the 1990’s! More on this later.