The Recent ADL Attacks on Free Speech and What it Means to Christogenea - 07-27-2012

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Defamatory: calumniatory: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.

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No editorial control, but they will dump a customer fast if the ADL does not agree with the content, regardless of the subjectivity of the claims.

The Gospel of Luke, Chapter 9

The Gospel of Luke, Chapter 9 – July 20th, 2012

1 Then calling together the twelve He gave to them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of Yahweh and to heal those with illnesses.

There are two words in the New Testament which are nearly always translated as devil in the King James Version. They are διάβολος (Strong's # 1228) and δαίμων (1142) or its diminutive form δαιμόνιον (1140). A διάβολος is literally an accuser, and by implication a false accuser. It is the root of our English word diabolical. The word is translated as slanderer in 1 Timothy 3:11, but is it elsewhere devil. A δαίμων or δαιμόνιον is the Greek word from which we get the English demon. The diminutive form δαιμόνιον was also used by secular Greek writers, and I will conjecture that one’s interpretation of it is dependent upon one’s perspective – whether one is Christian or pagan - to denote “the divine Power, deity, divinity...” but also “a spirit, a being inferior to God...”, both according to Joseph Thayer's Greek-English lexicon and also in secular Greek writers cited by Liddell & Scott is it defined as “...an inferior divine being, a demon”. A δαίμων (found in the N.T. only at Matt. 8:31) is according to Thayer “a god, goddess; an inferior deity...” in the common Greek language. In the New Testament, these words describe evil spirits.

The Gospel of Luke, Chapter 8

With a lengthy answer to the heretical belief that Satan is in Heaven.

Satan is NOT in Heaven! Last week I had a conversation with Don Spears. Don is a dear friend and a good brother, and I really and honestly did not want to try to beat up on him in a debate, especially since I would have had to out-yell him in his own home just to get a word in, something which I did not desire to do. So I basically left it to him to convince me that Satan was in heaven, which he believes, and in the end I am not convinced. Don's highly charged emotional arguments are not enough to persuade me, especially when all of his Scriptural references offer only inferences and not one clear indisputable witness to prove his point. Don insists that Satan is in heaven, and he says that if I do not understand that, then, as he insists, I do not understand the spiritual things of God. Yet in the passage he referred to, Paul was talking about the things of God, and not about the things of Satan which are opposition to God.

An Evening with Don Spears - July 7th, 2012

My answer to this conversation with Don Spears is found with my Luke Chapter 8 commentary, since it was presented as a part of the July 13th, 2012 Christogenea on Talkshoe segment - William Finck.

One of Don's claims, upon which he bases a great deal of his "Satan in heaven" theology, is that the reference to "gods" in the 82nd Psalm refers to Satan and his angels. However an inspection of the Psalm reveals that it is referring to men, and not Satan, just as Christ tells us in John 10:34-35. If the 82nd Psalm is referring to men, then Don's entire "Satan in heaven" theology disintegrates.

The Gospel of Luke, Chapter 7

The Gospel of Luke, Chapter 7 – July 6th, 2012

Last week we talked about the purpose of the Sabbath. This is something that practically every Biblical commentator misses or skims over in the words of the prophets, and I have been guilty of doing so myself. The words of Yahweh our God in Hosea concern the ancient Israelites, who are about to be deported into captivity by the Assyrians. In Hosea 2:11, Yahweh said through the prophet: “I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.” Likewise, the Septuagint at Hosea 2:11 says “And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.” So we see that these things as they were known to the Israelites of the ancient kingdom are removed. Now, as it was stated here last week, it should be clear as to why Paul said in Colossians chapter 2: “16 Therefore no one must judge you in food and in drink, or in respect of feast or new month or of the Sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of future things. Whereas the body is of the Anointed”.