plans for the upcoming 3rd edition of "A New Look at an Old Word"

 The preface
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-new-look-at-old-word-preface.html


The Introduction
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-new-look-at-old-word-introduction.html

Chapter 1 Biblical presuppositions
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-new-look-at-old-word-biblical.html
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2024/05/what-makes-the-kjv-special.html

Chapter 2 The Dark History of Egypt
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-new-look-at-old-word-chapter-2-dark.html
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2024/01/egyptology-new-history-for-dead-kingdom.html

Chapter 3 The Catholic Connection
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-new-look-at-old-word-catholic.html

Chapter 4  Textual criticisms history and the New Bible text
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2016/06/a-new-look-at-old-word-textual.html
Addition
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2023/09/lee-strobels-accidental-scoop-leading.html
(abridgement

Chapter 5  The Textual issues
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-new-look-at-old-wordthe-textual-issues.html
Additional texts

Chapter 6 Why the reformation?
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-new-look-at-old-word-why-reformation.html

Chapter 7 Translational issues
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2017/10/a-new-look-at-old-word-translational.html
additional notes.

The appendix
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2015/06/correcting-geislers-scribal-errors.html

https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2023/01/preserved-inerrancy.html
abridged)
End Notes

https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-new-look-at-old-word-end-notes.html

(edited)

 5 REASON’S EVOLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE

1. Evolution was not the blind product of scientific investigation but an attempt to negate the christian worldview and elevate the natralistic worldview.

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

2. Abiogenesis the theory of a single cell forming has been proven scientifically impossible. 1 trillion parts do not accidentally form in order.

Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us."

3. Macro-evolution has not been observed, kinds of animals prodyce their kinds of animals.

1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory."

4. No one knows how evolution happens

Job 38:2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

5. Evolution is improbable.
Not only is it hard for life to just up and form. organs within animals and ecosystem all have to work merely by chance., Millions of generations of microbiology would decay life without the help of God.

Psalm 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"

1. IT HAS AN AGENDA, making it compromised science.

"I am sure you may get into Q.R. [Quarterly Review] what will free the science from Moses, for if treated seriously, the [church] party are quite prepared for it. A bishop, Buckland ascertained (we suppose [Bishop] Sumner), gave Ure a dressing in the British Critic and Theological Review. They see at last the mischief and scandal brought on them by Mosaic systems" Charles Lyell in a letter writing to George Paullete Scrope june 1, 1830

History was no friend of evolution and even the first old earth dates were enough for Darwin

“Human history can not observe the 3,100,000,000 years of life 4,600,000,000 years of earth or the 13,800,000,000 years of the big bang theory. "Civilization, as historians identify it, first emerged between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago when people began to live in organized communities with distinct political, military economic and social structures. Religious, intellectual, and artistic activities also assumed important functions in these early societies."

"Although Historians use documents to create their pictures of the past, such written records do not exist for the prehistory of humankind. Consequently, the story of early humanity depends on archaeological and more recently biological information, which anthropologists use t create theories about our early past. Although modern science has fostered the development of more precise methods, much of our understanding of early humans relies upon considerable conjecture."

Comprehensive Volume WORLD HISTORY by William Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel

"Estimates of the age of various periods were long made on the basis of the minimum amount of time necessary for the deposition of the sediments attributed to them. Since such figures allowed but a few million years for the whole tertiary history of mammals, Charles Darwin and later workers were much concerned as to whether all the known evolutionary of life could have been accomplished in the time allowed." Encyclopedia Britanica(1969) volume 17 "Paleontology"III.The succession of faunas A. The geologic Time scale

"Whatever the method or approach, the geologist must take cognizance of the following facts... There is no place on earth where a complete record of the rocks is present.... To reconstruct the history of the earth, scattered bits of information from thousands of locations all over the world must be placed together. The results will be at best only a very incomplete record. If the complete history of the earth is compared to an encyclopedia of 30 volumes, then we can seldom hope to find even one complete volume in a given area. Sometimes only a few chapters, perhaps only a paragraph or two, will be the total geological contribution of a region; indeed, we are often reduced to studying scattering bits of information more nearly comparable to a few words of letters." Brown Monnet and Stovel Introduction to Geology

"It is obvious that radiometric techniques may not be the absolute Dating methods that they are claimed be. Age estimates on a given geologic stratum by different radiometric methods are often quite different sometimes by hundreds of millions of years). There is no absolutley reliable long term 'clock'" William D. Stansfield, Science of Evolution (New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1977), P. 84.

"Radiomtric Dating would not have been feasible if the geologic column had not been erected first." J.E.O'Rourke " Pragmatism verses Materialism in Stratigraphy." American Journal of Science, Vol. 276 (January 1976), p. 54

'The geological record is extremely imperfect and this fact will to a large extant explain why we do not find intermediate varieties, connecting together all the extinct and existing forms of life by the finest graduated steps, He who rejects these views, on the nature of the geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory" Charles Darwin Origin of Species 6th edition (1901) pg. 341-342

"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of it's construct, in spite of it's failure to fulfill many of it's extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the unitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." Richard Lewonton, "Billions and Billions of demons," The New York Review, January 9,1997.41.

"I am convince that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call the divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the education level- preschool day care or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all it's adjacent evils and misery and the new faith of humanism...

"It will undoubtedly be a long, arduous, painful struggle replete with much sorrow and many tears, but humanism will emerge triumphant. It must if the family of humankind is to survive." Dunphy, John J., The Humanist, Jan. 1983, p. 26

As a result most of western acadamia has fused itself with the teaching of evolution and all the education system would need an overhaul. Which is the though of William Overton in his memorandum of the 1982 creation trial.

""The Act is self-contradictory and compliance is impossible unless the public schools elect to forego significant portions of subjects such as biology, world history, geology, zoology, botany, psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, physics and chemistry. Presently, the concepts of evolutionary theory as described in 4(b) permeate the public textbooks." But yet evolutionist only have a narrow definition of there claims?

2. Abiogensis is impossible.

Abiogensis was a natural aspect of the evolutionary theory

"Abiogenesis, the rise of life from non-living molecules is obviously possible because it happened."

http://www.proof-of-evolution.com/abiogenesis.html

If we do not accept the hypothesis of spontaneous generation, then at this one point of the history of development we must have recourse to the miracle of a supernatural creation. The Creator must have created the first organism, or a few first organisms, from which all others are derived,....." The History of Creation, Vol. I (of 2), by Ernst Haeckel Ch. 13 pg.348-349

"The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with forty thousand naughts after it. It is enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence." Nature, vol. 294:105, November 12, 1981.

"from 1980 on NASA scientist have shown that the primitive earth never had any methane, ammonia or hydrogen to amount to anything." he said "Instead, it was composed of water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen---and you absolutely cannot get the same experimental results with that mixture. It just won't work. More recent experiments have confirmed this to be the case."Walter L. Bradley

“Pasteur was responsible for crushing the doctrine of spontaneous generation. He performed experiments that showed that without contamination, microorganisms could not develop. Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, he demonstrated that in sterilized and sealed flasks nothing ever developed, and in sterilized but open flasks microorganisms could grow. This experiment won him the Alhumbert Prize of the academy.[6]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

3. Macro evolution has not been observed

'The geological record is extremely imperfect and this fact will to a large extant explain why we do not find intermediate varieties, connecting together all the extinct and existing forms of life by the finest graduated steps, He who rejects these views, on the nature of the geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory" Charles Darwin Origin of Species 6th edition (1901) pg. 341-342

"The part of geology that deals with the tracing of the geologic record of the past is called historic geology. Historic Geology relies chiefly on Paleontology, the study of fossil evolution, as preserved in the fossil record, to identify and correlate the lithic records of ancient time."-*O.D. von Engel and K.E. Caster, Geology(1952) p. 423

"No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms." G.ledyard Stibbins, Process of orgsnic evolution, p.1

4. No one knows how evolution happens.

"The fossil records with it's abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change" Stephen J. Gould "{The return of hopeful monsters" natural history June-July 1977 pg. 22

"We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the overconfident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical method of paleontology or biology and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling 'Darwin is God and I so and so is his prophet.'- The recent researches of workers like Dean Henshelwood (1964) already suggest the possibility of incipient cracks in the seemingly monolithic walls of Darwinian Jericho."-Errol White, Proceedings of the Linnean Society, London 177:8 (1966)

"But the danger of circularity is still present. For most biologists, the strongest reason for accepting the evolutionary hypothesis is their acceptance of some theory that entails it. There is another difficulty. The temporal ordering of biological events beyond the local section may critically involve paleontological correlation, which necessarily presupposes the non-repeatability of organic events in geologic history. There are various justifications for this assumption but for almost all contemporary paleontologists it rests upon the acceptance of the evolutionary hypothesis."—*David G. Kitts, "Paleontology and Evolutionary Theory," in Evolution, September 1974, p. 466.

"IT IS OBVIOUS THAT RADIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES MAY NOT BE THE ABSOLUTE DATING METHODS THAT THEY ARE CLAIMED TO BE. AGE ESTIMATES ON A GIVEN GEOLOGIC STRATUM BY DIFFERENT RADIOMETRIC METHODS ARE OFTEN QUITE DIFFERENT (SOMETIMES BY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS). THERE IS NO ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE LONG-TERM RADIOLOGICAL 'CLOCK' WILLIAM D. STANSFIELD, SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION (NEW YORK: MACMILLAN PUBLISHING CO., 1977),P.84."RADIOMETRIC DATING WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN FEASIBLE IF THE GEOLOGIC COLUMN HAD NOT BEEN ERECTED FIRST." J.E. O'ROURKE "PRAGMATISM VERSES MATERIALISM IN The STRATGRAPHY," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, VOL. 276 (JANUARY 1976), P. 54

"IN CONVENTIONAL INTERPETATION THE K-AR AGE DATA, IT IS COMMON TO DISCARD AGES WHICH ARE SUBSTANTIALLY TOO HIGH OR TOO LOW COMPARED WITH THE REST OF THE GROUP OR WITH OTHER AVAILABLE DATA SUCH AS THE GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE." HAYATSU, A. "K-AR ISOCHRON AGE OF THE NORTH MOUNTAIN BASALT, NOVA SCOTIA," CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, VOL. 16 APRIL, 1979 PP. 973-97

"‘What type of biological system could not be formed by “numerous, successive, slight modifications”? Well, for starters, a system that is irreducibly complex. By irreducibly complex, I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly (that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism) by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition non-functional’ [italics in original]."Behe, M.J., Darwin’s Black Box, Free Press, New York, p. 39, 1996.

Embryiology has been debunked!

"Michael Richardson, a lecturer and embryologist at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, has exposed this further fraud, in an article in the journal Anatomy and Embryology,8 recently reviewed in Science9 and New Scientist.

Richardson says he always felt there was something wrong with Haeckel’s drawings, ‘because they didn’t square with his [Richardson’s] understanding of the rates at which fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals develop their distinctive features’.8 He could find no record of anyone having actually compared embryos of one species with those of another, so that ‘no one has cited any comparative data in support of the idea’.8

He therefore assembled an international team to do just that—examine and photograph ‘the external form of embryos from a wide range of vertebrate species, at a stage comparable to that depicted by Haeckel’.8

The team collected embryos of 39 different creatures, including marsupials from Australia, tree-frogs from Puerto Rico, snakes from France, and an alligator embryo from England. They found that the embryos of different species are very different. In fact, they are so different that the drawings made by Haeckel (of similar-looking human, rabbit, salamander, fish, chicken, etc. embryos) could not possibly have been done from real specimens.

Nigel Hawkes interviewed Richardson for The Times (London).11 In an article describing Haeckel as ‘An embryonic liar’, he quotes Richardson:

‘This is one of the worst cases of scientific fraud. It’s shocking to find that somebody one thought was a great scientist was deliberately misleading. It makes me angry … What he [Haeckel] did was to take a human embryo and copy it, pretending that the salamander and the pig and all the others looked the same at the same stage of development. They don’t … These are fakes.’ 11"Fraud rediscovered:

It has long been known that one of the most effective popularizers of evolution fudged some drawings, but only now has the breathtaking extent of his deceit been revealed.

by Russell Grigg www.creation.com

"WELL, WE ARE NOW ABOUT 120 YEARS AFTER DARWIN AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FOSSIL RECORDS HAS BEEN GREATLY EXPANDED. WE NOW HAVE A QUARTER OF A MILLION FOSSIL SPECIES BUT THE SITUATION HASN'T CHANGED MUCH. THE RECORD OF EVOLUTION IS STILL SURPRISINGLY JERKY AND, IRONICALLY, WE HAVE EVEN FEWER EXAMPLES OF EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION THEN WE HAD IN DARWIN'S TIME." DAVID RAUP CONFLICTS BETWEEN DARWIN AND PALEONTOLOGY." FIELD MUSEUM AND NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN, (1979)

5. Evolution is not probable.

In order for evolution to work we need cells to not only to form but have organs work in harmony and have populations of the ecosystem also work in harmony all done randomly.

Math

"The French expert on probability, Emile Borel, developed the “single law of chance” (Ankerberg &; Weldon, 1998: 183). Any process or entity having a probability of existence lower than 1 chance in 1050 is said to never occur. This denominator is incredibly large, but for the benefit of evolutionary theory, it will be used as an example to logically falsify the possibility of any evolutionary process. David J. Rodabaugh, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri, explained that “the probability that a simple living organism could be produced by mutations ‘is so small as to constitute a scientific impossibility’—the chance that it could have happened ‘anywhere in the universe…is less than 1 [chance] in 102,999,942’” (Ankerberg & Weldon, 1998: 182). This probability is 102,999,892 smaller than the “single law of chance” and therefore, must be treated as strictly impossible. For a slight comprehension as to the magnitude of this small possibility, Ankerberg and Weldon write, “A picosecond is one-trillionth of a second. In 15 billion years, there are 1030 picoseconds” (Ankerberg & Weldon, 1998: 185). The age of the earth proposed by evolutionary theory is only 5 billion years. Surely, an evolutionary event with a probability less than 1 in 1050 is proof enough of the irrationality of evolutionary theory." http://chiefcornerstone.info/2011/11/evolution-chances/

Ecosystems: Environmentalist have always focused on the fragility of the environment. but if environments are fragile then does this not point to a design which has certain limits?

Coevolution is defined as:

‘joint evolution of two

or more non-interbreeding species that have a close ecological relationship;

through reciprocal selective pressures, the evolution of one species in the relationship is partially dependent on the evolution of the other [emphasis

added].’3

The problem is, since coevolution requires already

existing ecological relationships, it cannot account for the

origin of ecology.

It is possible for two species in close ecological relationship to refine their relationship through mutual selection, but this does not explain how they came to be ecologically related in the first place. There must be some other explanation.

On the contrary, accumulating evidence from ecology

and biodiversity studies suggests something quite different

from gradual evolutionary accumulation of species and step

by step development of what would eventually become

essential ecological relationships. The current

indispensable nature of many ‘ecological services’, and the relationships that provide them, suggests that, just as ecological services are necessary now, past ecosystems would also have needed them, but not necessarily in identical ways. Moreover, the essential nature of ecological relationships now does not appear to allow time for evolutionary development of ecology.

Ecosystems would have failed many times over without the

full range of ecological services" https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j14_2/j14_2_82-90.pdf

Genetic entropy All these complex genes are more likely to decay over millions of years.

PROOF-OF-EVOLUTION.COM

Abiogenesis: The Scientific Theory of the Origin of Life

correcting a Baptist going sacramental.

 I am a "Baptist" who believes that these elements were the true blood and body of the Lord Jesus, in the form of the bread and wine, like the Holy Spirit, become physical in the form of the Dove during Jesus baptism. God can be somewhere while He is also everywhere at the same time.

"With God, everything is possible" - Lord Jesus Christ. Matt:

 sorry but you just out-ted yourself you are not a baptist. More likely you are a romanist.

But at minimum you are espousing the lutheran doctrine of ubiquity.

Jesus is full human. his divinity is a separate nature from his humanity.

Unlike the monophysites, we believe that jesus physically resurrected, meaning that he has a distinct physical body. it is not the same as the godhead. that would undermine the resurrection. Jesus is spiritually present through the work of the Holy Ghost, but that presence is only mediated through the paraclete(HS) otherwise Jesus is physically in Heaven. Jesus shed his blood upon the earth he did not take his blood to heaven.

Luke 24:39

Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."

If you want the spiritual presence of God you need the presence of the Holy Spirit which is brought to you through the Gospel.

Philippians 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,"

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."

Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."

Sir we have the presence of the Holy Spirit after we have been justified by faith and the object of our faith is in the Gospel. The Gospel is propositional. It is not our acts in which we receive the Spirit.

Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"

Jesus acknowledge that the juice was literally the same.

Luke 22:18

For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come."

This is because the drink offering was first symbolic for the sacrifice of the lamb before it was applied to Christ.

Exodus 29:39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord."

https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/.../mysticism-alternative...

Now when you worship you must not use the worship of Catholicism because it is mysticism and mysticism leads to idolatry.

Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh."

Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;"

With no more sacrificial system there is no more priesthood in the physical system; nullifying the sacramental system.

If you are receiving a spirit from performing rituals you need to beware this is not the Holy Spirit and may be another spirit entirely.

1 corinthians 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?"

Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,"

If Jesus is in your heart then you do not need anymore of Jesus. If you seek another christ than the one of faith you are being polluted by the demonic.

Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,"

Karl Popper learned evolution was pseudo-science

 "Karl Popper and “pseudo sciences”

Popper has subjected the scientific method to a critical examination and has come to some remarkable conclusions. His interest in this subject stems from the time when, as a committed Communist for a short period, he was shocked when some colleagues were killed in a clash with the police. He thereupon subjected the Marxist claim to be based on the “scientific laws of historical social development”. After several years of study, he saw clearly how false this claim was; its use of the label ‘scientific’ (and its implication of inevitable truth) was deceptive in the extreme. As the Marxist theory is founded upon the progress’ of evolution, he showed that this also was unscientific. This led him to examine the whole question of what constitutes a true science and what is only a pseudo-science? Summarising Popper’s view briefly, a true science is one in which experiments can be devised which could refute the theory under consideration. In a pseudo-science, no experiment which would finally refute a theory can be made (usually because some other explanation for non-compatible results can be found). For example, a theory regarding the relationship between heat and temperature can be tested in any laboratory at any time and can therefore be classed as scientific. On the other hand, evolution has only taken place once in the past and therefore no ‘experiment’ of evolution can be carried out. All that can be done is to study such subjects as the fossils in the rocks and offer an interpretation. Even if experiments on animals were to show that completely new species could be made (which they have not yet achieved), this would only indicate that evolution could have occurred, not that it had. Thus, by Popper’s definition, evolution certainly cannot be classed as a true scientific theory" Malcom Bowden "The rise of the evolution fraud" ch. 131 "Is evolution scientific? pg. 151

Sovereign publications Popper had discovered that just because something like Marxism or evolution is labeled science, does not mean it actually IS Science. 1 timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:"

KFA beliefs "We need the Holy Ghost the most!"

 AFA believes that for the salvation of lost and sinful people, regeneration of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential john 3:1-21. titus 3:5
AFA believes in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the christian is enabled to live a godly life.
 
There are essential two different views of this world.  Our world is a paradise lost or our world is a chaos hoping to the heights of the heavens.
In the Christian worldview, Heaven can not be found in a Rocketship no matter how fancy. The only help comes from a loving God who'd send His Son to redeem us,
The secular hope of mastering the universe is often found with a rude awakening that we are not self sufficient.
But man's condition though dying in the body is based upon the reality that we first died in the spirit.
    In the precedent standing court case McGowen vs Maryland it was ruled that religious based law can only be used by the government if it has a secular application. blue laws concerning a Sunday Sabbath were only approved by their positive effect giving drunks time to sober up before going to work.
  This marked a shift from one nation under God to a godless nation.
Now this dose not mean that the ruling was entirely wrong,  But one thing it does prove is that the government is incapable of being a spiritual force for Good.  Because the government rules the flesh.  If we think we are only a few votes away from utopia, we will also be a few votes shy of death.
  The problem with man is ultimately spiritual.  In europe the churches rested upon the kings and magistrates.  Whatever is left among those churches is no longer faith or zeal in the gospel. 
Why because the answer is found in God!
  God the father initiated salvation in sending His Son and the Son released the gift to mankind through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Often the Holy Spirit has been called "The Holy Ghost".  Because when Jesus died and resurrected The Holy Spirit would proceed from Him inaugurating the New Testament.

The Holy Spirit gave apostles and believers spiritual power.  Many scholars have observed That with the birth of evangelicalism we see a new emphasis on the Holy Spirit,  Yet also we see at the same time the world wide missions movement.  A goal in Christianity which The Holy Roman Empire failed to achieve previously.
When we see revival we see blessings upon society.  So many people long for the "old days" but if we want those days or better days we must first.. Be born again!






In McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420 (1961), the United States upheld that laws with religious origins are not unconstitutional if they have a secular purpose.

McGowan v. Maryland

McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that laws with religious origins are not unconstitutional if they have secular purpose. A large discount store in Anne Arundel County, Maryland was fined for selling goods on a Sunday, in violation of a local blue law. The Court rejected an establishment clause challenge to laws saying that most large-scale commercial enterprises remain closed on Sundays. The Court's review of the history demonstrated that Sunday closing laws were originally efforts to promote church attendance. "But, despite the strongly religious origin of these laws, non religious arguments for Sunday closing began to be heard more distinctly."https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/366/420/case.html  

 AFA believes that you cannot serve two masters


In order to serve God we can not serve anyone else. At least not in the sense that we serve God. When the Devil tempted Jesus, he offered him the kingdoms of the world. All this if je would serv Satan,  This was not a complete submission however. It was simply give Satan honor and Glory.  But Christ quoted the Torah stating that is God alone that we serve.
  The God of the Bible has an odd identification.  "Jealous" He wants mankind's devotion to be above al other things.  This is not because God is needy for affection.  Instead it is due to the fact that mankind is in spiritual to an exclusive relationship with  God. However these needs are not necessarily clearly understood in the human heart. Replacements for a personal relationship with god are often identified as idolatry. Moreover, idolatry is not only a fallacy within man , but an opening for parasites within.
We call these parasites demons.
   In the political world there is an effect of the demonic. German philosophers called it Zeitgeist or "The Spirit of the age".  When movements grow, the fanatism is quick to stampede across civilization.
        In our Americas currency it says "One nation under God".  This is so that the nation does not become one nation over God.  Government has often been an idol. Whether the start of Babylon through Nimrod or it's ancient peak through Nebuchadnezzar The Tyrant is the idol, while the idol is the Tyrant.
 Government is a necessary evil which suppresses the uprising of pure evil.
   But this battle must begin in the human heart.  If our lives are in submission to God, then we have no other master and have found liberty.
  We encourage this privately, but also we opposed the other master publicly.  When we see a zeitgeist, for instance communism, we recognize it as such because it declares itself over God denying religious liberty.    It is war that we conduct in words and in prayers in hopes of not resorting to the ministry of the sword in war. Christ was never naive, He encouraged his disciples to be armed for the sake of defending their homes.  Thought he was strict to discourage them from abusing such power. As long as peace is obtainable we seek it.  But this is only won in the victory of the human heart.
  as such the Christian must return to the one Lord Jesus and seek no other master, because He is also our friend who sticks closer than a brother.

The horror of the simple Gospel

The world has a bizarre fear of the simple Gospel

In what way does the good news inspire fear?

1. Evil loses it's power when the kingdom grows, this why God is fearsome,
Genesis 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him."
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
  The glorious gospel is hated by men who love darkness.

romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
  The lost world is enslaved to a spirit of fear.  Without the adopting work of the Holy Spirit the world only functions by fear.

james 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Zachariah 3:2 And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
 The condemnation of Man is Satan's mission and it is thwarted.

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
The Gospel is the enemy in the angelic world.
James 4:7Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
The royal family acquired through the gospel will one day vanquish the opposittion
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you."
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
The devil's mission was thwarted and all he has left is to face his own condemnation.

2. A foreshadow of the coming salvation.
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Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.7 And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:"

Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into salvation that within the veil;"

The promise of salvation is immutable. If sa;vation could be lost then it would be conditional and not immutable.


3. The simple gospel is plain and not a secret riddle.
Habbakuk 2:2And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
John 18:20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said."
   There is no gnostic secret when it comes to the Gospel.  The New Testament gives us a clear revelation of the good news.

1 Cor. 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"

           Paul here defines the gospel and it is a simple Message. No rules requiring works.  Simply Jesus life death burial and resurrection remember in trust.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

4. The simple faith is built even for children

Matthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
        Childlike faith.  Believing in Jesús, just trusting that he can save you.  because a child can not do much else.
Matt 21:16And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"
  We know this truth in our spirit. Jesus is our Savior and Jesus is the answer!
Proverbs 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?"

1 Cor. 8:2 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
      A scholastic faith can make us proud and arrogant. We are to humble ourselves in the truth that we are not worthy of salvation.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
     Why is intellectual Christianity failing? Is it because the Bible just doesn't stand up to criticism?
I have literally written hundreds articles defending the gospels and the bible and I am completely confident of what God has done.
    But the scripture warns us about the antidote to revival.  Which is pride.  We must not approach the lost with our pride.  Because if we put our faith in our abilities then we have laid a false foundation for Christ.  The Gospel is simple so that a child can understand


5. We can be sure of our salvation!
1 John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

         Here we have a doctrine of assurance of salvation. "The witness" implies regeneration.  The "record" is a certification of eternal life.  The reception is faith without faith we are definitely not saved, with faith we are definitely saved.

6. Believers are not automatically spiritual and mature
1 Cor. 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of people resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.3 And this will we do, if God permit."
  When saved people are not properly discipled(for whatever reason), they become hard hearted. Legalistic christians often deny this fact and they tend to abuse the backslidden, identifying them as heathens making the assume the Lord has deserted them. This is not always the scenario of course. Some christians make bad choices, but the danger is letting the backslidden feel as if there is no path in redemption.

Heaven is in the plan!
       1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."
       Election here is functional.  God has chosen the believer from a foreknowledge of faith.  Through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, the elect are prepared for obedience to his service. In regeneration we find the lively hope of the Good News. The inheritance is incorruptible and undefiled.  So your salvation does not disappear. But what is our salvation? it is eternal life and heaven. if you have not ascended to heaven you are not saved. you can only be saved if you are assured of salvation. This is our hope.
Romans 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

The law is our school master
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."

7. Not of works

Romans 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin."

[ephesians 1-2]
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."
  Given the popular movements interpretation of these texts lets take time to exegete.
vs3 the Father is predestining things "in Him" /christ is the vehicle of salvation for the Father.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son"
"unto the adoption of children" Adoption states that we will be free from the law.
5 "predestined unto adoption" In a0doption an orphan is not naturally the child but instead abandoned.  The adoptive parent takes the burden of the child without the child meriting the relationship. The adoption makes the rejected child become an accepted child.
6-7 The process of redemption makes the believer acceptable and this through the blood of Christ
" 9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will"
The will of God in salvation will be explained
10 "dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ"
The eschatological event that is often called the rapture. And the time of glorification/resurrection.
11. the glorification will be the physical inheretance.
12 we are those who have "first trusted" in christ prior to the inheretance
13.  This trust is chronologically after we have recieved the gospel of Christ.
the good news of salvation is applied and only after faith we are sealed with the Holy Spirit implying a regenaration/indwelling.
14 awaiting the redemption of the purchase,,,,, Heaven.

Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:"

2:1 "quickened" means to give life.  So "you" are those regenerated. "dead in tresspassess and sins" some interpreted simply dead and with inability.  However the next verse describes walking and dead men do not walk.  instead this verse is referring to being condemned and guilty of sin.
vs. 3 The flesh is a lifestyle/conversation in the lusts of the flesh.
"Children of Wrath"  We are the "children of wrath because of the sinful desires which break the law and create wrath against sin.
vs. 4 God motivated by love
vs. 5 even though condemned by our sins,, we recieve the reward
"when we were dead"  We believers are currentlyin this life dead in the flesh we have our spirits given life in the form of regeneration.
"(by grace are ye saved)"
If we are condemned in the flesh,then the only means of salvation is by the gift of our father.  and ANY OTHER MEANS IS INEFFECTIVE,
vs. 6 "and hath raised us up together"
Everyone who has been saved is included together in this resurrection/glorification. the inclusion "in heavenly places"  is synonymous with common phrase "Once saved always saved"
vs 7. "in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us"
The act of salvation brings glory to christ and christ alone.  Any works that would have been involved would by implication take glory away.
vs 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith"
the gift of christ, saved- the gospel event accomplished as the act of faith acts as a conduit transfering and imputing rightesousness.
 The nail in the coffin is the context of this passage.
Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."
  Salvation is through the gospel and it happens post faith.

Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father."
      "Accepted in the beloved" We see what is promised to the saints.  The question is how does one become a saint to be predestined?
"we have redemption through his blood"
     Redemption is the whole process of salvation to glorification. it is not the lottery of election to mystically saved, but instead the savior Jesus christ in His work on the Cross (Sola Christa)

8. The transition
Mark 2:21-22 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles."

Matthew 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Luke 7:27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John."
mark 1:The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
     So from here we see that John The Baptist was an Old Testament preacher under the mosaic dispensation.

Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls."
     Salvation is promised and applied to the people at the day of pentecost.  However this promise was fulfilled in 2:21. What was going on in Peter's sermon and baptism would be understood by the jews as Mosaic just like John the Baptist.

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:"

1 Peter 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into."
  This is an essential point. The revelation of grace, though foreshadowed is not clearly or fully revealed until the age of grace. 

Galatians 2:1 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)"

Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

9. The states of the transition.
Acts 8:36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing."

Acts 10:44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

Acts 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts 15:6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they."

Acts 15:13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:"

Acts 16:27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
   Now after the Christians have counseled together and recognized the union of jew and gentile the gospel call is to believe.

Acts 19:1And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied."

Hebrews 4: 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world."
Rest is a form of grace since it is not a work. What activates salvation is faith (in the gospel)

Hebrews 6 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."

John 3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

revelation 1:5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."

2 corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."

10. Adoption
Matthew 17:24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.

Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." 4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus."

11. Repentance

 change of mind/heart
Genesis 6:6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."
Deuteronomy 32:14
And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
transition"
  When God repents he simply changes His mind in what he is going to do.  [evil in 14 refers to destruction.]

Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ."

Repentance of sins, involves works
Luke 3:10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages."

remission) [1828 websters dictionary]
1. Abatement; relaxation; moderation; as the remission of extreme rigor.
5. Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins. Matthew 26:28. Hebrews 9:22.

So the remission of sins relaxes the penalty of the law, But the Jew is still under the law.  The first followers of Christ were still jews under the law.

But as for the christian we are not under this covenant.
Acts 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Romans 7:1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."

Hebrews 7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life."

12,Rewards
2 corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."

1Cor. 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

revelation 4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold."
Our dillegence and disciplleship will be rewarded. All though we will not regard these trophies in light of the greatest reward which is the presence of God.

It is not works based salvation; It is works based Damnation

Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Accursed is another word for condemned to Hell.
Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh."

Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
Romans 10: Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God."

Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain."

Phillipians 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:"
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.