God Centered Dad

   This is a topic that I have spent countless hours considering and researching over the last several years. I grew up believing that there is coming a removal from the earth of those who love God prior to the advent of the Anti-Christ and the Beast System. This was not necessarily preached in the church that I grew up in, it was just understood from those whom I looked up to around me in the church. I took for granted that they were correct, and as a child, I did not have the mental acuity to research it myself. I carried this view well into my adult years, still without studying it much myself. I don't really know what finally prompted me to read into it for myself; it may have been that a local pastor lead a series of sermons on Revelation. I didn't listen to his teaching, but he was the pastor of a large local church, so a lot of people were talking about this series of sermons. I guess that got me curious. There are many followers of Christ that believe that Jesus will c...

    Once Saved, Always Saved is a Theological Myth – Part Three  In my last couple of articles, I have spent a lot of time laying out the doctrine of Once Saved, Always Saved (OSAS), how it aligns with the despised doctrine of the Nicolaitans of the first century church and what the arguments and Scriptures are that are used in defence of this doctrine. At long last, I am able to get to how the Scriptures actually refute this doctrine. In fact, the Scriptures absolutely destroy the notion of this doctrine.  I will re-iterate again that there will be those who support OSAS that will argue against all that I have written so far, stating that those people who persist in many of the evils that are mentioned in the description of the Nicolaitan belief system were never actually followers of Christ, because real followers of Christ would not act in those ways. There is some truth to this assertion. There are those who will say the words of confession about Jesus but wh...

  Once Saved, Always Saved is a Theological Myth – Part Two  In my last article I laid out how the modern doctrine of Once Saved, Always Saved (OSAS) is in alignment with the first century doctrine of the christian sect of the Nicolaitans, a group that is believed to have been started by Nicolas who we saw get ordained by the Apostles in Acts 6. It is possible that Nicolas’ mixed past of religious beliefs tainted his understanding of what he was being taught by the Apostles. It is also entirely plausible that Nicolas didn’t like the restraints that the new belief system placed on him and had a longing to return to pagan worship practices that he may have practised before. Nicolas also managed to attract a following of people who may have had the desire for the promise of eternal life, but who did not want to give up the things that they enjoyed in their life from before they converted to Christianity.  I also showed how Jesus Himself called out the false beliefs of th...