95-Disputations on Faith Not of Ourselves But Unto Foredetermined and Created Good Works (Note: Completed at 2:46 PM EST, Wed., Oct 30, 2013)

Ephesians 2:8-10 NASB  "...For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them...."

Faith of our fathers! living still
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword;
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene'er we hear God's glorious Word:
Faith of our fathers, holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death.
Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
And blest would be their children's fate
If they, like them, should die for thee:
Faith of our fathers! God's great pow'r
Shall draw all nations unto thee;
And through the truth that comes from God
His people shall indeed be free:
Faith of our fathers! we will love
Both friend and foe in all our strife,
And preach thee, too, as love knows how
By witness true and virtuous life:  (TH, 487).

1.)  The gift of God is His awesome grace.

2.)  The gift of God is His Spirit granting faith.

3.)  The grace of God is from His freedom.

4.)  The grace of God is not native to man.

5.)  The grace of God is the instrument of faith.

6.)  Grace is not a work of fallen man.

7.)  Faith is not a work of fallen man.

8.)  The flesh has no spiritual good in it.

9.)  The sinful nature is radically corrupt.

10.)  No one is able to believe from themselves.

11.)  It takes the Spirit and Word to bring faith.

12.)  Faith is a free gift of God and His Word.

13.)  Grace is a free gift of God and His Word.

14.)  Grace is the life and death of Christ alone.

15.)  Faith is pleasing to a holy Triune God.

16.)  Foredetermined good is from the Christian.

17.)  We are quickened by the Spirit for Jesus.

18.)  We are His workmanship for Jesus' glory.

19.)  Reflect God's intent and live holy.

20.)  Live by grace through faith unto good.

21.)  Foredetermined good is what God's all about.

22.)  Faith in the self-existent God-man is life.

23.)  Grace from God the Son is eternal life.

24.)  Workmanship is God's plan for us to do good.

25.)  No one could do good unless it was of the Lord.

26.)  There is civil and redemptive good.

27.)  The civil goodness is those outside of Jesus.

28.)  The unified merit of Jesus is right before God.

29.)  The unified merit of Jesus is all about free grace.

30.)  True faith is a living faith that is by grace.

31.)  True grace is a living grace that brings good.

32.)  Foredetermined good should be all we do.

33.)  Predestination encourages divine and free grace.

34.)  Foredetermination encourages spiritual life.

35.)  Eternal life is all about Jesus Christ.

36.)  Spiritual life is all about love of Jesus.

37.)  Love of Jesus cannot come from us but God.

38.)  Love of good is a work of God.

39.)  God created all good and we ought to do good.

40.)  The gift of God is about God's love.

41.)  The gift of God is about Jesus' love.

42.)  The gift of God is about the Spirit's love.

43.)  The gift of foredetermination is about good.

44.)  God works for either mercy or justice.

45.)  A holy Triune God loves His own.

46.)  There is only spiritual deadness for unbelievers.

47.)  There is only spiritual life for the converted elect.

48.)  It is about the good of Christian honor.

49.)  The honor of Jesus is excellence of grace.

50.)  The honor of Jesus is excellence of faith.

51.)  The gift of love is spiritual salvation.

52.)  The unregenerate hate themselves and God.

53.)  The unregenerate hate each other.

54.)  There is no grace in unregenerate people.

55.)  The nature of man is no good.

56.)  Grace is all-sufficient for being right with God.

57.)  Faith is a gift of the Triune Godhead.

58.)  Divine grace is matchless.

59.)  The merit of Jesus is matchless.

60.)  Faith is a good gift from God.

61.)  Faith does not earn eternal life.

62.)  The unified merit of Jesus earns eternal life.

63.)  No one can earn spiritual salvation who sin.

64.)  No sinners can make himself right with God.

65.)  We are right with God by the grace of faithful repentance.

66.)  We are holy only by God's foredetermined way.

67.)  Good works are God's foredetermined gift.

68.)  Good works do not add to Christ alone.

69.)  Good works demonstrate our faith.

70.)  Good works are all about God.

71.)  No one is saved by good works.

72.)  Jesus is sinless and only His work matters.

73.)  Jesus makes all things right for His people alone.

74.)  True repentance to God means all is right.

75.)  Repentance to God is about faith and grace, contrition and excellence.

76.)  A holy Triune God loves true repentance.

77.)  True repentance does not earn salvation.

78.)  There is a false and true repentance.

79.)  The false repentance is from the sinful nature.

80.)  True repentance is from God's Spirit and grace.

81.)  There is no redemptive love in the unregenerate people who are unconverted.

82.)  Grace enables a true love of God.

83.)  Faith enables a Jesus way of life.

84.)  Love is about Jesus because of grace.

85.)  Everything is about pleasing God.

86.)  No one can please God in unregenerate state. 

87.)  There is civil love of God that is not redemptive love.

88.)  There is a false and true grace of God.

89.)  The grace that is not false is of His Word.

90.)  The grace that is true is not of false religion.

91.)  Redemptive love is only from God.

92.)  Good works are all about the moral law.

93.)  Obedience to the moral law is a picture of Jesus.

94.)  A picture of Jesus is following His thought, word and deed unto conformity to His matchless image.

95.)  Grace that is earned is not grace, but faith that is imputed or earned is not faith.

Marvelous grace of our loving Lord,
Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt,
Yonder on Calvary's mount outpoured,
There where the blood of the Lamb was spilt.
Grace, grace, God's grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God's grace,
Grace that is greater than all my sin.
Sin and despair like the sea waves cold,
Threaten the soul with infinite loss;
Grace that is greater, yes, grace untold,
Points to the refuge, the mighty cross.
Dark is the stain that we cannot hide,
What can avail to wash it away?
Look! there is flowing a crimson tide;
Whiter than snow you may be today.  (TH, 705).

Insane Reformed Thought in "The God Who Glorifies": The Rational and Scriptural Study of Post-Millennial Glorification

By Michael A. Petillo, B.D.

Worthy is the Alpha and Omega who is the Lamb of God to be given glory, honor, veneration, praise, blessing, rejoicing, exaltation, delight, prayer and worship for now and forevermore.  Amen.

1.     The Reformed Dogma of Totally Righteous

2.     The Reformed Dogma of Unconditionally Perfect

3.     The Reformed Dogma of Limited Fruition

4.     The Reformed Dogma of Irresistible Glorified Grace

5.     The Reformed Dogma of Preservation Perfected

Little Part 1:  The Reformed Dogma of Totally Righteous (His Imputed Unified Merit Alone)

This is the perfection of the total righteousness of His life and death alone by faith that works by love in the perfection of His resurrection in bodily fulfillment of His perfectly ascension of Him who is seated in the heavenly places in the perfection of His intercession in the fruition of a thorough-going righteousness that eternity itself cannot contain in the elect sinner perfected in the complete satisfaction of Christ for His most happy glorification. 

Total depravity is turned on its head with the born again sinner by God’s hammer of an oath of legal righteousness so now it is total righteousness alone of Him who is perfection itself and by it all Old and New Testament commandments are fulfilled in the perfected imitation of our Lord Jesus Christ in a positional sense. 

Now we are not a shattered image but is the perfected image of our Lord Jesus Christ in perfection of “thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven” in a positional sense.  The sin taken upon Christ is now taken away in a most complete sense, because there is no more domination with sin touching ourselves but touching those of the unconditional reprobates, the pre-converted elect, the elect who responded in faith and the sinless who are God’s possession now perfected.  The righteousness imputed to us in a unified completeness of His life and death is now us in a heavenly comprehensive way that encompasses the essence of ourselves that is in the preeminence of Jesus Christ in His unified merit. 

Past sanctification is fulfilled in the essence of sanctification because of a now walking of a perfected Christ in a positional sense in words, thoughts and deeds that must reflect the imputation of Christ by faith alone; that is, the progressive sanctification is fulfilled in the completion of final glorification for the blameless who handle the Word of God aright; however, past glorification is the fruition of the certainty of the perfected outward and inward manifestation of the perfected assurance of the perfected knowledge of being a child of God; that is, the final glorification is now the perfected salvation is a modified sacerdos impeccabilis; however, it does not mean we can take upon sin to ourselves but that we can proclaim the Gospel of glad tidings in the perfection of the work of work of work in the completed work of Christ in His unified all-meritorious merit; that is, everyone who is called to the eldership is called to sinlessness or blamelessness like those of temporary condemnation touching salvation who was called from total depravity to the extra nos of Another by the spiritual quickening of our souls in the certain knowing-faith-immersed-hope of eternal life; however, now the elect sinner who is declared totally righteous in the exaltation of the merits of His life and death alone are now the only suitable people for the eldership; that is, it is the perfection of rising from a shattered darkness to a complete light of Christ; however, uplifting His people from a sinner’s proclamation to seated in the heavenly places with our Lord Jesus Christ; that is, the perfection of His intercession is now transferred to the total righteous elder by faith alone (just the Imputed Gospel) in the petition to our Father of Redemption as anotherological Christ who prays for His people in the completion and fulfillment of His work for His people. 

Little Part 2:  The Reformed Dogma of Unconditionally Perfect (Those Who Possess His Unified Merit in a Positional Sense)

The fall of the devil and Adam were touching a conditional perfection where they could fall because of their mutable wills; that is, touching unconditional perfection now no one can fall from a state of unconditional perfection in a positional sense in this life and a absolute sense in heaven; however, it proves that we could not get there ourselves by our corrupted and fallen “freedom” that is not freedom touching freedom perfected; that is, unconditional perfection is like unconditional election where God chooses immutably His people unto holiness and the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Victor Jesus Christ; however, unconditional perfection is touching nothing in the sinner because unconditional election was touching nothing in the sinner; that is, unconditional perfection is regarding the call to the blameless eldershipness and deaconshipness of God’s chosen people; however, it is neither good nor bad they have done in both unconditional election and unconditional perfection; that is, many men have done things to belong to Christ but the process never saved them but they waited under condemnation to gain Christ by His Spirit who spiritually quickened His people; however, in the same way many men have done things in ministry to gain the Word proclaimed in selfish ways but the Lord will call those to whom are appointed unto unconditional perfection for the unperfected perfected leadership of the Reformed churches (the way this is done is a reflection Jesus’ imputed righteousness); that is, many were never called to inwardly to Christ but entered the ministry outwardly like many felt that Christ was there Savior but never possessed Him as Redeemer and Lord.  That is, the leadership and the pews will be the people of God; however, subjectivity was established in past ages of the leadership and the people of God but now an objectivity to establish a precedence of the unconditional perfection unto the fruition of faith in people born again to be immersed; that is, the call to ministry is up to God the Trinity through the unperfected perfected elders; however, others came to faith before Saint Paul but he was the greatest but it just points to the matchless greatness of Jesus Christ; that is, the greatness is God’s choice unto a vessel for His ultimate satisfaction for His ultimate glorification.

Little Part 3:  The Reformed Dogma of Limited Fruition (Those Who are Inwardly and Outwardly Called by Christ Like Authentic Testimonies)

The limited fruition pertains not to a ungreat great limitation; that is, the people of God are God’s particular people chosen unto the benefits the Cross; however, the particularness of God’s people by the eternal decree of God through the Son by His Spirit in the monergistic application of the perfected life and death of Christ alone and the transformation from a heart of stone into a heart of life in every spiritual blessing; that is, limited fruition pertains to the all of the many and it is not unlike the all of the many touching limited atonement; however, the all of the few is likewise the all of the few; that is, what is pictured in the Reformed leadership is pictured in all people who by faith know what Jesus knows but grow in knowing in final and full redemption in completeness; however, the perfectedness of the immeasurableness of the Gospel of His imputed unified life and death of Christ alone that surpasses eternity itself is now exalted in the choice of all of the few or all of the many to a perfected shepherd of the sheep of our self-existent Lord Jesus Christ who is, who was, and forevermore.  That is, the proclaimation of the Gospel is now a perfected word from the lips of sinner’s from the Word of God in the Holy Scriptures that surpasses eternity itself; however, the sin in the preaching of the Word of God as the centrality of worship is taken away and the perfection in inerrantness, infallibility, inspiration, and authoritativeness is now in the handling of the Divine Word whereas in time past in the days of St. Athanasius it was in the sinner’s proclaimation but now the unsinless sinless proclaimation in a positional and practical sense establishes the Word of God Divine but does not hinder or add to its all-sufficiency of the Word of God in the original manuscripts of the Holy Bible but exalts every spiritual blessing including the dreams of the Reformed leadership because the essence of limited atonement is a dream of heaven that earth could not design.

Little Part 4:  The Reformed Dogma of Irresistible Glorified Grace (Those Who Have the Grace of Merit of Christ Alone That Live in Reflection of Positional Truth)

Touching irresistible grace, sinners were spiritually quickened unto redemptiveness; however, the babes who God chose unto unconditional election are now the wise and intelligent unto unconditional perfection in the Reformed eldership and deaconship whereas God did not chose in unconditional election the wise and intelligent but chose in unconditional perfection the wise and intelligent; that is, irresistible glorified grace is now a process of growing in sanctified favor of God touching growth in a mentoring learning and knowledge and wise; however, in irresistible grace it was a redemptive chain of the positive consequences of the Holy Spirit but now the Spirit of Christ who has conformed our minds to Christ to know what He knows; that is, our minds will be in conformity to Christ by the Spirit’s work of perfection concerning His work of helping our weaknesses; however, the pursuit of irresistible glorified grace is the essence of a progressive sanctification that is the learning of perfected knowledge and wisdom and perfected rationalism touching the Reformed knowledge of the Holy Bible.

Little Part 5:  The Reformed Dogma of                Preservation Perfected (Sinless Touching the Soul But Sinner Touching the Body)

The preservation of the saints was accomplished by the Spirit of Christ and the Word of God; that is, Jesus our Savior and Redeemer has kept His people as the Spirit has sealed unto the day of redemption; however, the day of redemption is the preservation perfected and it is a day that begins all other days; that is, we born again sinner’s were given to be by the Spirit of Christ a new creation where old things were pasted away and all was new; however, in preservation perfected it is the same but now touching the Reformed ministry it is a preservation perfected as a Reformed minister of God the Holy Trinity; that is, who has the right to handle the Bible with dirty hands?  Rome’s view of locking the Bible to the churches was wrong because it took away from the people’s handling of the Word of God but now a new Reformation sees the Word of God taught in perfection in a positional sense should gain the outcome of right living because perfection compliments unperfection practical living touching the sins of the body; that is, William Tyndale wanted the Word of God in the hands of the people of God.

95-Disputations on Jehovah’s Witness Theology for Christian Unity

1. The Watchtower says Jehovah God controls their organization (Watchtower, 11/1/1956, p. 666), but there are false prophecies by this same Watchtower  about 1914 (Studies, Vol. 2, early editions, pp. 76-78).  (The references from primary source material are mostly used from Index of Watchtower Errors by David A. Reed, 2000).
2. “True, there have been those in times past who predicted an ‘end to the world,’ even announcing a specific date. Some have gathered groups of people with them and fled to the hills or withdrawn into their houses waiting for the end. Yet, nothing happened...Why? What was missing?...Missing from such people were God’s truths and the evidence that he was guiding and using them.” (Awake! October 8, 1968, p. 23).
3. The Watchtower asserts that to expose falsehood is not religious persecution (Watchtower, November 15, 1963, p. 688) but claiming one religion is not egoistical (Watchtower, November 15, 1963, p.688-689).  Therefore it provides basis for the reality of the Reformed faith set forth in the Reformed Confessions (LCF and WCF).
4. The New World Translation (1984) of the Watchtower organization teaches that Colossians 1:15-20 wrongly and intentionally inserts “other” things in related to the creation by Christ of the world (properly translated versions are those who do not insert “other”: NASB, NIV, KJV, NKJV, and the ESV).
5. Christians should not honor an organization over the Bible, but the Bible over an organization.
6. Christians must believe the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
7. Christians must believe in the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit (Studies, Vol. 5, p. 244).
8. It is better to believe the Bible’s view of the doctrine of faith alone than the Jehovah’s Witness doctrine of obedience unto eternal life.
9. Christians must believe the Trinity of God; one in essence but three in person.  It is not contradictory to believe this Trinitarian formula because it is meant in two different senses.
10. It is not right to lie in court according to the theocratic doctrine of the Watchtower organization (Watchtower, 6/1/1960, p. 352).
11. Christians must believe the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
12. Christians should not follow Charles Taze Russell or Joseph F. Rutherford but the Lord Christ.
13. Christians must believe in the hypostatic union of the Lord Jesus Christ.
14. Christians are called to study other false religions but not take part in them.
15. In 1889 they claimed divine authority for a lie (Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 2, 1889, p. 15).
16. The world did not end in 1914 as they “divinely” predicted.
17. The “Armageddon of anarchy” did not happen (The New York Times, October 5, 1914, p. 8).
18. Christians must believe in sola scriptura devoid of the Watchtower organization.
19. The Watchtower taught that the men of Sodom would be resurrected but no such thing happened.  It better to believe in the final day of resurrection than a fake story.
20. True Jehovah’s Witnesses are not true Christians.
21. Christ never came in 1844.
22.  “Messiah’s Kingdom” did not come about as foretold (Watchtower Reprints, September 1, 1916, p. 5951).
23. Human works do not play a roll in spiritual salvation but only the work of Christ in His life and death saves.
24. The Versions of the Bible (KJV, NKJV, NASB, etc.) are authentic versions but they teach that the New World Translation (hereafter the NWT) is believed to be the best translation by the Watchtower (New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, 1950, p.6 & What Has Religion Done for Mankind, 1951, p. 351). 
25. The New World Translation renders John 1:1 as “In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.”  (New World Translation, 1984, 1327).  But the authentic Versions render the verse correctly in John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (NIV, NASB, KJV, NKJV, and ESV).
26. We know the Watchtower teaches that it is not persecution to reveal falsehoods about false religion (Watchtower, Execution of Divine Judgment upon False Religion, November 15, 1963).  Therefore let us consider there denial of the Gospel of grace alone.
27. The Bible is meant for private interpretation but the responsibility to interpret it correctly lies with us all.  But they teach it cannot be properly comprehended but only through the Watchtower organization (Watchtower, October 1, 1967, p. 587, Watchtower, May 1, 1957, p. 274, Watchtower, December 12, 1981, p. 27 & Watchtower, December 1, 1990, p. 19). 
28. Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal force and an active force (Reasoning from the Scriptures, 1985, p. 380 & Holy Spirit, 1976, p.11).  But the Bible teaches that the Spirit of God is a divine person (Matthew 3:13-17; Acts 28:25).
29. Trinitarians do not believe in three separate gods that make up God (Tritheism), nor do we deny the distinctions within the Godhead (Modalism) (Let God Be True, 1946 [1952 rev.], p. 100, 102).  It is not honest to portray both as if it is Trinitarianism.  It is a purposeful error to sway the reader.  Neither of these theologies represents what Trinitarians believe.
30. Russellites teach that the Trinity is an Egyptian and Babylonian mystery (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, pp. 40-41 & Let God Be True, 1946 [1952 rev.] p. 101), and originated from Satan himself (Let God Be True, 1946 [1952 rev.], p. 101).  In Watchtower thought the Trinity is believed to be an untrue doctrine (Reconciliation, 1928, p. 101, Should You Believe in the Trinity? 1989, p. 31, Let God Be True, 1946 [1952 rev.], p. 111, & You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 39).  In reality, Trinitarians believe that the Trinity is properly explained this way: God is one in essence (Deuteronomy 6:4), and three in person (Matthew 28:16-20). 
31. The Watchtower rejects doctrines that are essential to the gospel.  If a person rejects these doctrines it is not without spiritual harm.  These doctrines are essentials for our spiritual health and well-being.  But we are not saved by doctrine.  Yet it is necessary to let us know how a person is saved, but it is Christ alone that saves.  The question is which doctrines are essential to the gospel of Jesus Christ?  And another question is do you believe the true gospel of Jesus Christ?  If you do not believe the true gospel you are accursed (Galatians 1: 6-10). 
32. The Watchtower is not from God because God does not inspire falsehood.  If you want to hold that it alone correctly interprets Scripture as it says, you will have to concede the point of it being from God.  We know that God cannot lie (Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18).  Therefore we must submit to the divine Surety of the Word of God revealed in the sacred pages of the Old and New Testament alone.
33. Jesus merely pre-existed creation as God’s spokesman and he was not immortal before his resurrection (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 58 & Insight on the Scriptures, vol. 1, 1988, p. 1189).  But the Bible speaks of His deity (Revelation 1).
34. Jesus was a perfect man as Adam was but he was not God (Should You Believe in the Trinity? 1989, p. 15, You Can Live Forever on Earth, 1982, p.63 & You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 39-40).  But the Bible says He was God in human flesh (Philippians 2).
35. Before Jesus became man he was Michael the Archangel, and he was resurrected with his first identity as Michael because it was restored (Reasoning from the Scriptures, p. 218, You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 21).  But Jesus was never Michael because He eternally existed as God the Son (John 1:1; Colossians 2).
36. Jesus was and is not Jehovah God but “a god” (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, pp. 39-40 & You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 40).  But the Bible says that Jesus was God in Hebrews 1.
37.  Jesus did not become the Christ but only when He became baptized (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 138).  But the Bible teaches that Jesus is the Christ at His birth in Luke 2:11.
38. Jesus was not resurrected bodily but as a spirit, and not resurrected in the same body (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, 1982, p. 172, 143).  But the Bible teaches that Jesus rose bodily from the dead (1 Corinthians 15).
39. The Bible teaches that Jesus existed before His birth from everlasting to everlasting (John 1:1-2). He did not merely pre-exist creation.  Rather He is the Eternal Self-Existent One (John 8:58). 
40.  When God the Son became man, He was the Eternal God in human flesh (Philippians 2; 1 Timothy 3:16).  He is truly the Second Person of the Trinity.  He is submissive to the Father but co-equal to the Father.  He did not find equality with God something to be grasped; for He was God incarnate. 
41. Jesus was without sin, or the capacity to sin; He was the sinless God-man (2 Corinthians 5:21 cf. John 1:14). 
42. Jesus was never Michael, nor did He become Michael (Colossians 1; Revelation 1-2).
43. Jesus was the Christ that was proclaimed by the angel (Luke 2:11), and Simeon declared the child the Christ (Luke 2:25-32).
44. Jesus was bodily raised from the dead, and He was raised in the same body yet it was glorified (John 20; Acts 2:22-31).  Doesn’t the Scripture say that Christ is the fullness of Deity in bodily form (Colossians 2:9)? 
45. The doctrine of justification by faith alone is a biblical doctrine; God’s people are justified by faith apart from works (Romans 4; Titus 3:5).
46. The questions are: how can an impersonal force approve someone to a divine task?  How can an impersonal force be holy?  Tell me, how is it that the Spirit of God in Scripture speaks (Acts 28:25), indwells His people (Romans 8:11), convicts the world of sin (John 16:8-11), and even prevents His people from doing what they desired in Bithynia (Acts 16:7)? 
47. Any serious reading of Scripture shows that the Spirit of God is a divine person.  He is called God (Acts 5:3-4) and His title is the Eternal Spirit (Hebrews 9:14).  Tell me, how is an impersonal force called the Lord God (Isaiah 61:1)?  He is the One who changes the heart of stone with the divine Word of God (John 3).  He is the One who works in the life of a believer in sanctification.  He is the One who illuminates the mind of His people.  We do not own allegiance to an impersonal force but to the true living God Who is the Holy Spirit.  It is biblically proper to call the Holy Ghost the one true God.  He is the Third Person of the Trinity.  He is the One that is called God by Luke (Acts 5:1-4).
48. The Watchtower denies Hell is a place but says it’s “the common grave of all mankind” (Live Forever, p. 83).  Hell is a real, eternal place (Matthew 25:41). Disbelieve what you have learned, and submit to the Triune God of Scripture (Matthew 28:16-20).
49. What if there really is consciousness after death known as the intermediate state; for doesn’t the Scripture say to be absent from the body is to be at home with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8)?  Where you will spend eternity is at stake: repent and believe in the gospel of the Spirit of God.
50. The Bible teaches that we should worship the Lord Jesus Christ, but the Jehovah’s Witnesses changed from worshipping Christ (Watchtower, 11/1879, p. 48) to forbidding worshiping Christ (Watchtower 7/15/1959, p.421).
51. Are we to believe that substantial changes of Watchtower doctrine are a “growing process” or “gaining more light over time?”  Or is it an indication that the Watchtower organization had serious errors to it?  It is better to serve the Bible’s message then an errant organization.
52. For salvation a Jehovah’s Witness must always be apart of the Watchtower organization (Watchtower, 1/1/1960, p. 19), but the Bible teaches faith and repentance in the Gospel of Christ (Mark 1:15).
53. For salvation a Jehovah’s Witness must do works to have their names in the book of life (Watchtower, 4/1/1947, p. 204), but the Bible teaches faith accounted as righteousness (Romans 4).
54. Some sins for the Jehovah’s Witness are not forgiven (Watchtower, 8/1/1975, p. 459) and through it salvation comes (Watchtower, 11/15/1981, p. 21), but the Bible speaks of the forgiveness and cleansing of all sin for elect believers (1 John 1:9).
55. One must have faith in “a victorious organization” (Watchtower, 3/1/1979, p.1), but God in His Word says it’s in Christ alone that one has eternal life (John 3:16).
56. Charles Taze Russell should not have been worshipped as a creature (1975 Yearbook, p. 88), but God the Holy Trinity alone (John 4:21-24).
57. The Watchtower teaches that the Lord Jesus is forever dead (Studies, Vol. 5, p. 454), but the Bible teaches that He rose bodily from the dead (John 20:27 opposed to Studies, Vol. 7, p. 57).
58. The Watchtower denies that the atonement body of Christ is the same body of Christ at His resurrection (Watchtower, 8/1/1975, p. 479).
59. The Watchtower denies that Jesus is a man forever after His resurrection (Love Forever, p. 143), but the Bible teaches that Christ is the God-man forevermore (Acts 10:42).
60. The Watchtower teaches that the white race has “some qualities of superiority” (Watchtower, 7/15/1902, p. 3043), but the Bible teaches that God elects men from every tribe, tongue, people and nation (Revelation 5:9).
61. The Watchtower admits that Jehovah’s Witnesses are “not infallible or inspired prophets” (Watchtower, 5/15/1976, p. 297) but understands themselves as a “prophetlike organization” (Watchtower, 10/1/1964, p. 601) and Jehovah’s Witnesses are called God’s people, prophets and witnesses (Awake, 6/8/1986, p. 6).
62. The Watchtower calls its people not to take part “in political activities” (United, p. 166), but the Bible speaks of having Christ determine one’s whole life (Philippians 4:8-9).
63. The Watchtower believes the Second Advent of Christ took place in the Fall of 1874 (Studies, Vol. 7, p. 60), but the Bible speaks of Christ’s Second Coming as a public event (Revelation 1:7).
64. How can salvation be given to “a god” who is not the Divine Christ (Word, p. 52)?  Spiritual salvation is granted by the Incarnate Divine Christ, because only the God-man could satisfy divine justice (John 1:14; 1 Timothy 2:5).
65. The Watchtower spoke of the possibility of military service (Watchtower, 8/1/1898, p. 2345), but refuses it in 1951 (Watchtower, 2/1/1951, p. 73 cf. United, p. 167).
66. The Watchtower says it matters what people believe about Jesus (Watchtower, 2/1/1984, p. 3), but questions how Jesus could be “a god” (Watchtower, 7/1/1986, p. 31).
67. The Watchtower says that there is “no biblical evidence” that Jesus died on the cross (Awake, 11/8/1972, p. 14) but the Bible says Simon the Cyrene carried Jesus’ cross (Matthew 27:32 opposed to Awake, 9/22/1974, p. 28).
68. The Watchtower says it is proper to join in on Christmas (Watchtower, 12/15/1903, p. 3290), but changed its mind (Watchtower 12/15/1979, p. 5) and it is alleged that Christmas is from Satan (Watchtower, 12.15/1983, p. 7).  However, Christmas was good enough for the sinless Christmas angels to celebrate the birth of Christ the Blessed One (Luke 2:7-15).
69. The Watchtower is alleged to be “the one and only channel” of God (Watchtower, 4/1/1919, 6414), but the Bible speaks of a biblically Reformed local church (1 Timothy 3:15).
70. It is better to think that God shows people that Charles Taze Russell is from Satan then to believe Satan causes people to believe he is from him (Watchtower 9/15/1922, p. 279).
71. Vaccinations are considered a “violation of the everlasting covenant” (Golden Age, 2/4/1931, p. 293), but the Bible does not anywhere condemn them.
72. Organ transplants are considered “cannibalism” (Watchtower, 11/15/1957, pp. 702-4), but the Bible does not anywhere condemn them.
73. The Watchtower forbids blood transfusions (JW On Blood, pp. 18-19), but the Bible does not anywhere condemn them.
74. The Watchtower understands itself as a sealed book except for itself (Watchtower 7/1/1973, p. 402), but the organization is erred because the Bible calls us to private interpretation but to do so correctly (2 Timothy 2:15).
75. The Watchtower is considered by itself to be “the channel of communication that God is using” and no one will “progress along the road to life” without it (Watchtower 12/1/1981, p. 27) and it forbids independent thought (Watchtower 1/15/1983, p. 27).  The Bible must be understood as the sole infallible authority, but organizations can make errors; however, the Bible is all for independent thinking as long as it does not commit heresy.  The sin of error is a crime that can damn the soul.
76. The Watchtower wants itself recognized in “organization minded[ness]” nut the Bible can be understood apart from organizational mindedness  (Watchtower, 9/1/1954, p. 529) but every Christian should be in a Bible-based church apart from true providential hindrances (Hebrews 10:25).
77. The Watchtower says that it alone is from God (Watchtower, 3/1/1979, p. 24) but the Bible speaks of Gospel-honoring churches (Romans 1:1) but warns of those who put forth contrary opinions (Watchtower, 3/15/1986. p. 17).
78. The Bible speaks of the omnipresence of God the Father (Jeremiah 23:23-24), God the Son (Colossians 3:11) and God the Holy Spirit (Psalm 139:7-12).
79. The Bible speaks of the omnipotence of God the Father (Job 42:2), God the Son (Matthew 8:3) and God the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:5).
80. The Bible speaks of the omniscience of God the Father (Isaiah 40:14), God the Son (Colossians 2:2-3), and God the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:10-13).
81. The Bible speaks of the eternity of God the Father (Psalm 90:2), God the Son (1 Timothy 1:15-17) and God the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 9:14).
82. The Bible speaks of the divinity and personality of God the Father (Isaiah 64:8; Matthew 3:17).
83. The Bible speaks of the divinity and humanity of God the Son (Isaiah 7:6; 1 Timothy 2:5).
84. The Bible speaks of the divinity and personality of God the Spirit (Genesis 1:1-2; 6:3).
85. The atonement of Christ did not make Him a sinner when He willingly died at Calvary (nor was He a sinner at anytime in His life; He did not freely die to atone for any sin of Himself, but rather, He was and is without sin.  He died for the sin of His people, and He became sin so His people may become the righteousness of God in Him.  He died to God the Father; that is, He offered of Himself, the perfect ransom (a sweet fragrance unto God the Father), and He remains the impeccable, eternal, and unchanging Son of Man, Christ Jesus, the Victor).  He wholly and freely bore the totality of the sins of His people alone in their place in complete fullness.  The just dreadful wrath of our Heavenly Father was satisfied through, by and because of His Beloved Son. The sins of God’s people were expiated, that is, removed from all them as far as the east is from the west, and Christ appeased the wrath of God.  God the Father has accepted what the God-man, the selfless, all-sufficient, spotless, sinner-Seeker, has done for His people.  The sufficient work of the God-man was, indeed, and still is, wholly and completely well-pleasing to His Beloved Father.  What Christ Himself accomplished on the cross at Calvary, was not in opposition to His Beloved Father’s will but was in complete and total harmony with it and perfect cooperation to it.  The cross of the Incarnate Lamb did not merely potentially save God’s people but actually saved His people. The alien righteousness of Christ alone avails before God the Father Himself.  There is no division or separation between the Father and the Son.  Christ Himself, the God-man, paid for our eternal sin debt which we could never pay.  God makes a heavenly and true forensic declaration in their justification of His own, once and for all, which is not a process.  His people’s salvation is dependent upon the Triune Lord Himself not man; indeed, it is God-dependent, that is, all by, from and because of God’s sheer and pure sovereign grace alone.  It is of Christ alone, because of Christ alone, and from Christ alone, wholly in behalf of totally depraved sinners.  When God bestows upon His people, graciousness, it is not from obligation but by His blessed voluntary work of His holy kindness and tender abundant mercies. It is wholly God-glorifying and God-magnifying, which is all divinely predestinated and foreordained, before the world began for His blessed elect only.  The elect of the Lamb will preserve because of the preservation of God Himself.  Those who are truly regenerate will truly preserve unto the very end.  God safely keeps His chosen from truly falling away.  His sovereign work alone is irrevocable and unchangeable.  Indeed, it cannot be undone.  This is what a Christian is, and it is entirely foreign to the WTO (Dr. Petillo, Michael A., The Jehovah’s Witness Controversy, 2009).
86. Revelation 1:17-18 proves the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
87. This would be a good prayer for Jehovah’s Witnesses to say:  “Dear God, whom I hate with all my being precisely because you hate and threaten me with hell, I hate this punishment perhaps even more than I hate you. Or, maybe I should say that I love my comfort even more than I hate you. For that reason I am asking a favor of you. I want you to make me love you, whom I hate even when I ask this and even more because I have to ask this. I am being frank with you because I know it is no use to be otherwise. You know even better than I how much I hate you and that I love only myself. It is no use for me to pretend to be sincere. I most certainly do not love you and do not want to love you. I hate the thought of loving you but that is what I'm asking because I love myself. If you can answer this 'prayer' I guess the gift of gratitude will come with it and then I will be able to do what I would not think of doing now—thank you for making me love you whom I hate. Amen.”  (Gerstner, The Rational Biblical Theology Of Jonathan Edwards, 81). 
88. Christians must believe that the grace of faith is born of God but not through Watchtower errors (Titus 3:5).
89. The Bible forbids us to go door to door, but Christians should know their faith in Christ because God has given us minds to understand His truth. 
90. Easter is a great way to celebrate the bodily resurrection of the Lord Christ.
91. Reformation Day on October 31^st is a great way to celebrate the birth of the biblical Gospel into a dark world in the 95 Disputations of Martian Luther.
92. Holy Thursday as Ascension Day should be celebrated by faithful Christians because it is an essential doctrine and speaks of Christ’s kingship.
93. It is good for a Christian to engage in consistent prayer in the manifestation of an hour of worship on one’s knees to God the Holy Trinity.
94. It is better to worship the Holy Trinity alone than worship a false god.
95. Baptism must be in the Triune Name of God in the last Chapter of Matthew.

A Mere and Tiny 13-Disputations on Psalm 96:15 and Faithful Righteous Judgements

Psalm 96:13 NASB

Before the Lord, for He is coming, For He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness And the peoples in His faithfulness.

"...There are seasons in the lives of all when it is not easy, no not even for Christians, to believe that God is faithful. Our faith is sorely tried, our eyes bedimmed with tears, and we can no longer trace the outworkings of His love. Our ears are distracted with the noises of the world, harassed by the atheistic whisperings of Satan, and we can no longer hear the sweet accents of His still small voice. Cherished plans have been thwarted, friends on whom we relied have failed us, a profest brother or sister in Christ has betrayed us. We are staggered. We sought to be faithful to God, and now a dark cloud hides Him from us. We find it difficult, yea, impossible, for carnal reason to harmonize His frowning providence with His gracious promises..."  (A.W. Pink, The Attributes of God).

1.)  The Lord judges the world in righteousness.

2.)  The judges all people in just righteousness.

3.)  The Lord is always good and faithful and just.

4.)  The coming of the Lord is His plan.

5.)  The majestic way of the Lord is holy.

6.)  No one is as faithful as the good Triune God.

7.)  Faithfulness is about God's perfection.

8.)  Righteousness is about God's character.

9.)  No one is as just and righteous and holy as the God of the Bible.

10.)  Who can stand before Him without the Jesus-covering?

11.)  Who can compare to His utter faithfulness?

12.)  What is holiness?  It simply means to be set apart or undone.

13.)  God's faithfulness is about His holiness.

"...It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection...."  (Louis Berkhof, Systematic Theology, by Permission of Banner of Truth, p. 73).

A Little Study of 10-Propositions on True and Rational Out of My Mindedness

 

 Google Pic..."St. Paul's Attire"

"...Our Lord does not promise to change life for us; He does not promise to remove difficulties and trials and problems and tribulations; He does not say that He is going to cut out all the thorns and leave the roses with their wonderful perfume. No; He faces life realistically, and tells us that these are things to which the flesh is heir, and which are bound to come. But He assures us that we can so know Him that, whatever happens, we need never be frightened, we need never be alarmed..."  (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, © Lloyd-Jones,1959-1960, p. 196. Used by Permission.)

Acts 26:25 ESV

But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking true and rational words...."

1.  Paul saw a post-ascension appearance of Jesus Christ, but the others around Him did not hear the voice.  Its possible to see Christ and not hear Him.

2.  The infallible Word is foolishness touching the world, but a foolishness of God unto wisdom.

3.  Jesus' family thought He was insane or out of His mind, but here is the same reaction to Paul.

4.  There is a biblical out of my mindedness, but it is not a clinical insanity.  That is both of these cases suffer from a spiritual insanity from conception.  The reason why there is a so-called good and rational "biblical insanity" is because the nature of man is totally defiant in total depravity to spiritually comprehend the biblical God-speaking Scriptures.  False religions would be an intense spiritual insanity unto an ultimate justice unless God changes their spiritual situation.

5.  Its the people in authority that look at the true Christian as if he is out of his mind in their secular sense, but even if you give your word it is held in dispute.  The Bible is like the blue and pink pills they give "sane people" in the secular authorities, but the "sane people" think the Bible is not worthy of belief.  I am with Jesus and Paul: namely, I would rather honor God than fallen sinners.

6.  Sometimes the sinful nature is so profound that it takes the mind into hell before the time.  No one could believe unless the Spirit of God is at work in true and rational words, but even true and rational words no one even cares due to man's corruption in a total abyss of hell flaming evil that even possess a civil goodness and a seeking after betterness.

7.  The true and rational words of God-Speaking Scripture is from the Hand of God in the writing on the wall through holy men of old that wrote by the Spirit of God everything we need for justification by faith alone and Christian living.

8.  The true words of the Bible demonstrate the reliable words of Scripture in internal and external evidence of the absolute trustworthiness of the Holy Word of the Bible.

9.  The rational words of the Bible demonstrate a presuppositional actuality of the credibility of the written Scripture as God-breathed: namely, divine inerrancy, infallibility, inspiration, and self-authentication.

10. Have you suffered for the Name?   Are you regarded as out of your mind?  Have you joined the ranks of a biblical insanity?   I remember when its me, Jesus and His apostles in the nut house, but you know I rejoice that I am counted worthy to suffer for the Name without illegitimate self-harm but a righteous pursuit of the glory of Jesus Christ.

Standing by a purpose true,
Heeding God's command,
Honor them, the faithful few!
All hail to Daniel's band!  
Dare to be a Daniel!
Dare to stand alone!
Dare to have a purpose firm!
Dare to make it known!  
Many mighty men are lost,
Daring not to stand,
Who for God had been a host
By joining Daniel's band.  
Many giants, great and tall,
Stalking through the land,
Headlong to the earth would fall,
If met by Daniel's band.  
Hold the gospel banner high;
On to vict'ry grand;
Satan and his host defy,
And shout for Daniel's band.  (TH, 660).