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 Tel. (210) 781-2361 Alamo, TX 78516-0638Tel. (02) 242-9152 Caracas, Venezuela©1992 #TX 547256
The Poison Root
 by Wayne Searfoss•Box 638, Alamo, Texas 78516 • Apdo. 60.151 Caracas 1060-A, VenezuelaThe Introduction of Greek Philosophy into Christianity
 Chapter 1
 How Christians have been misled into breaking the first commandment
 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
 
 
Jesus said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with allthy soul, and with all thy mind."This commandment is broken because Satan has subtlety slipped another godinto our mind to make us offend the first and great commandment.For instance when someone dies, we say that the death was the will of God.According to the scriptures this is not true in many cases. In the first place weunderstand that the will of God was for men to serve him and never know deathbut that now it is the last enemy to be put under his feet. (Warning, the teachingthat we can reach a level of perfection and need not die is another new wave of false doctrine.) In the second place we know that according to plain texts in theBible the circumstances of death is relate to many factors. That, all have sinnedand all must die, does not mean that the time, age or manner of the death of anyone is necessarily the will of God, God will never be found to be arbitraryor unjust in any of his kingdom from its inception and for all eternity for he isHoly, Holy, Holy. Some, who are wicked, must die younger as they are cut off in their sins. They could have lived longer if they had not committed them. Hethat hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, he that surrenders to Godwill not be. Those who dwell in the secret place of the most High of Psalm 91are promised "with long life will I satisfy him." Some "choose not to acceptdeliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection" such as Stephen. Somechoose to commit suicide, some are victims of accidents by disease or actionsof the sinful society. To blame God for many of these circumstances surely tomakes it impossible to love him with all of our hearts yet it is common to do so,because we have in our minds, another god alongside the true God. Themysterious pagan
god of destiny
.Upon close study of the situation of the church today and the foundation uponwhich it is based it will be discovered that the God of Aristotle, defined as the
unmoved-mover,
is taken along side the only true God, Jehovah and in sodoing we have disobeyed the first and the greatest of the commandments. Thishas brought us under the wrath of God.Investigating the root of Greek Philosophy brought to us by by Augustine andThomas Aquino and many others, we find that we have two systems confusingthe minds of many Christians. One system the acceptance of the
god of destiny
 that says that all is predetermined and nothing can change as it was predestinedfrom all eternity. What is the use of prayer? It is said that resignation to the willof God is required as true worship but it is a great wickedness to practice thisworship. The other system says, that what a man sows that shall he also reap,and according as we walk in faith, seeking, finding and obeying as a faithful
 
co-laborer with God, and as we act upon his promises we shall be rewarded.The latter is the God of the Bible; the former is another god of Greek paganism,the
god of destiny
.Defaming God?Is not God defamed by the concept that he is responsible for everything thathappens? This insensitivity to the plain declaration of the Bible and experiencethat he is Holy,Holy, Holy. All that happens is not to be construed, as it is inthe doctrine of Absolute Predestination, as the responsibility of God. Thisdoctrine immediatly raises questions about the purity of motive of God, just asit did with Eve. Is God playing games with us? Was Jesus really tempted? Can just anyone be saved? Was Jerusalem foreordained to reject Jesus? Did Jesusnot know? Was his weeping over Jerusalem only an act as he knew the resultsbefore the foundation of the world?In 1 Cor. 15:24-25, 28. we read,
"Then cometh the end, when he shall havedelivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. …and when all things shall be subdued unto him,then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."
This plainly teaches that God is notresponsible for all that happens now. There is a rebellion going on and He isworking through it, with holiness, justice and mercy. Everything is not insubjection and not predestined. On the contrary our Saviour and we ourselvesare working to bring about total subjection to Him without destroying the freewill of his eternal subjects, that are redeemed, and will be the fruit of this stageof the construction of the Eternal Kingdom.An illustration of this limitation is in Mark 6 when Jesus could do no mightymiracles there because of their unbelief.The Fulness of Times
 "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us inall wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will,according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the
 dispensation of 
 
 the fulness of times
he might 
 gather together in one
 
 all thingsin Christ,
both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: Inwhom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according tothe purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
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