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Geestelike Oorlogvoering, Engele, Demone En Hoe Om Waarheid Te Vind

Geestelike Oorlogvoering, Engele, Demone En Hoe Om Waarheid Te Vind

As gevolg van my program Geestelike Oorlogvoering: Engele, Demone, Kwantumfisika En Jou Brein, het ek baie terugvoer ontvang – sommige positief, sommige verward en sommige negatief.

Terwyl ek besin het oor die kritiek wat baie oor die program geopper het, het ek besef dat baie van die meningsverskil spruit uit die feit dat ons nie almal ons begrip uit dieselfde databasis put nie. Dit is ‘n gegewe dat as ons ons gevolgtrekkings maak uit verskillende inligtingsbronne wat uiteenlopende data bevat, ons noodwendig nie sal kan saamstem nie. Ons eerste prioriteit om hierdie kwessies aan te spreek, is dus om die datastel te bepaal wat ons “gesaghebbend” vind, die standaard waarteen ons eie idees en ander inligtingsbronne getoets sal word.

My standpunt (vooroordeel) is dat die 66 boeke van die Bybel ons skriftuurlike standaard is, en watter gevolgtrekkings ons ook al maak, moet daarmee ooreenstem en dit nie weerspreek nie. Verder, op ‘n verskeidenheid maniere, leer die Skrif dat God drie bewysdrade voorsien het wat geharmoniseer moet word sodat ons tot ‘n akkurate begrip kan kom. (Sien my blog Die Ou Testament, Moderne Onderrig En Die Integrerende Bewysgebaseerde Benadering.) Hierdie drie bewysdrade is:

  1. die 66 boeke van die Skrif (geskrewe openbaring)
  2. God se ontwerpwette wat in die weefsel van die werklikheid (wetenskap en natuur) ingebou is
  3. en lewenservarings (hoe dinge werklik werk).

Ons doel is om waarheid te vind waarin al drie hierdie fasette harmoniseer. Ek demonstreer dit op baie plekke, soos my praatjie getiteld Die God-Gevormde Brein en my boek Die God-Gevormde Brein: Hoe Jou Siening Omtrent God Jou Lewe Verander.

Een van die waarhede van die Skrif is die oorkoepelende storielyn, die beloofde Messias van Genesis 3:15. Dwarsdeur die geskiedenis, tot en met Christus se oorwinning aan die kruis, het Satan en sy magte aktief teen God en sy plan oorlog gevoer en probeer om daardie mense te vernietig wat saam met God gewerk het – die weg waardeur die Messias sou kom. Daardie oorlog was soms fisies, met die verskillende nasies wat Israel en Juda aangeval het, maar nog belangriker, dit was ‘n geestelike oorlog met voortdurende aanvalle deur nie net heidense aanbidding nie, maar ook valse profete met valse profesieë en valse geskrifte, soos met Bileam (Numeri 22, 23; 2 Petrus 2:15) en die profete van Baäl, maar ook die valse profete wat beweer het dat hulle profete van Jahweh is (1 Konings 22:13; Jeremia 14:14, 23:25-28; Esegiël 13:3-6; Miga 3:5).

Namate die valse profete en hulle valse geskrifte deur God se volk aanvaar en gebruik is, het die foute wat hulle geleer het, filters geword wat toegepas is om die Bybel te verstaan, en die waarhede van die Bybel is verdorwe deur die mense wat op hierdie valse Skrifgedeeltes staatgemaak het om die Bybel te verduidelik.

‘n Voorbeeld van hierdie dwaling word in die Nuwe Testament opgeteken, wanneer Jesus die Fariseërs konfronteer oor hul praktyk van Korban, wat die gebruik was om ‘n persoon se eiendom by sy dood as toewyding aan die tempel te verklaar; daardie eiendom kon dan nie gebruik word om vir sy eie ouers te sorg nie, net vir homself. Jy kan Jesus se veroordeling van hierdie gebruik in Markus 7:11 vind. Maar waar kom hierdie praktyk vandaan? Uit die Misjna (geskrewe Joodse mondelinge tradisie en rabbynse literatuur), (Misjna [Ned III. 6; IX] verklaar dat enigiets wat as ‘n qorbān afgesonder is), ‘n valse tradisie uit valse skrif, wat gebruik is om die Bybel verkeerd te interpreteer en mense te lei tot praktyke wat strydig was met God se ontwerp van liefde en vertroue.

Jesus veroordeel Korban tereg en bevestig, deur hierdie kontras te beklemtoon, dat ander geskrifte, idees en praktyke deur die geïnspireerde Woord van God beoordeel moet word, nie andersom nie, wat op baie plekke in die Bybel bevestig word (bv. Jesaja 8:20). As ons toelaat dat ander tradisionele geskrifte, apokriewe en pseudo-apokriewe boeke as bronmateriaal gebruik word, bring ons foute in in ons begrip van die Skrif. En as enige van hierdie ander geskrifte deur Satan en sy volgelinge geïnspireer is, dan word ons begrip van die Bybel verdorwe, iets waarvan die Bybel waarsku, in hierdie tyd in die menslike geskiedenis, sal gebeur:

Die Gees spreek uitdruklik dat in latere tye sommige van die geloof afvallig sal word en ag gee op verleidende geeste en leringe van duiwels (1 Timoteus 4:1 AFRB’23).

Daarom beveel ek aan vir enige van diegene wat nie saamstem met wat ek aangebied het nie en wil betrokke raak by betekenisvolle studie van hierdie belangrike onderwerp dat ons ons gevolgtrekkings oor hierdie onderwerp slegs bepaal deur wat ons kan dokumenteer, demonstreer en bevestig deur die 66 boeke van die Bybel, geharmoniseer met wetenskap/natuur en lewenservarings.

As iemand bekommerd is dat my insluiting van kwantumwetenskap en breinwetenskap nie uit die Skrif kom nie en daarom glo dat dit goed is om ander nie-Skriftuurlike geskrifte, soos die pseudo-Apokriewe in te bring, sou ek verweer dat daar drie tipes bewysdrade is soos hierbo beskryf: Skrif (geskrewe materiaal), wetenskap en natuur (God se skepping en die wette waarop die lewe funksioneer en werk), en ons persoonlike ervarings met God (hoe dinge werk). Die Bybel leer ons om die drie verskillende tipes bewysdrade te integreer soos Jesus met sy gelykenisse en illustrasies gedoen het. Maar enige nie-Bybelse geskrewe materiaal moet deur die 66 boeke getoets word en nie andersom nie.

Ons moet verduidelikings van die wetenskap slegs verwerp wanneer dit die Skrif weerspreek. Ons sal nooit die wetenskap self hoef te verwerp nie, want wanneer dit reg verstaan word, is dit altyd in ooreenstemming met God se Woord. Ons sal egter baie wetenskaplike verduidelikings vind wat verwerp moet word omdat dit die Bybel weerspreek – soos die teorie van goddelose evolusie, wat daarop dui dat die wetenskap leer dat daar geen God is nie en dat ons uit laer lewensvorme ontwikkel het.

As daar kommer is dat my aanbieding van die wetenskap op een of ander manier die Skrif weerspreek, vra ek gretig bewyse om dit te dokumenteer, want my doel is altyd om die suiwerste voorstelling van waarheid, van die werklikheid moontlik, te lewer, en ek wil opreg hê dat enige misverstand, fout of valse gevolgtrekking verwyder word uit wat ek aanbied.

Daarom vra ek diegene wat dalk nie met my aanbieding saamstem nie, en wat my wil help om my begrip te verbeter, om die enigste datastel te gebruik wat ek gesaghebbend vind, die 66 boeke van die Bybel, in harmonie met wetenskap/natuur en lewenservarings. As ander geskrifte gebruik word, soos ek met Luther in my aanbieding gedoen het, word daardie ander geskrifte nie gebruik om die Skrif te interpreteer nie en vervang nie die Skrif nie, maar word bloot gebruik om die feit te dokumenteer dat my gevolgtrekkings van wat die Skrif leer nie myne alleen is nie, net soos die Lutherse aanhaling wat ek gebruik het, gedemonstreer het.

My doel hiermee is nie om vir enige ander persoon te sê wat om te dink nie, maar eerder om die waarheid en liefde van God met ander te deel sodat hulle kan dink, studeer, bid, redeneer en self kan besluit – sodat elke persoon ten volle oortuig kan word in hul eie denke (Romeine 14:5). Ek wil diep persoonlike studie stimuleer, motiveer en aanmoedig wat God se koninkryk van waarheid en liefde bevorder. En sy koninkryk word nie bevorder “deur mag of deur krag [Newtoniaanse fisika] nie, maar deur my Gees [kwantumfisika], sê die HERE, die Almagtige” (Sagaria 4:6 NIV 84).

Dit is as ons op die waarheid reageer en die waarheid kies dat ons verander word; die waarheid maak ons vry (Johannes 8:32). Soos ons die waarheid internaliseer, inneem, waarneem soos Jesus dit geopenbaar het, word daardie waarheid vasgelê in die substruktuur van ons brein en verander die resonerende harmoniese deeltone van ons kwantumhandtekening, wat ons al hoe meer in harmonie met die hemel bring. Soos ons God vertrou, as ons kies om sy metodes en beginsels uit te leef, word ons verder verander, getransformeer en gevestig deur ervaring in ‘n lewende vereniging, band, vriendskap van geloof, vertroue en liefde met ons Skepper.

Ek moedig jou aan om diep te dink, persoonlik te studeer en getrou te bid, en God se Gees uit te nooi om jou te verlig, te bemagtig en te transformeer – en wanneer jy ten volle oortuig is in jou eie gedagtes oor een of ander waarheid, kies dit, sê ja, en waarheid vir waarheid, keuse vir keuse, sal jy getransformeer word en daagliks groei in jou liefde en vertrouensverhouding met God.

 

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I’m a native Ghanan, but am currently in France for my master’s degree. Prior to this, during my final years at undergraduate studies in Ghana, I was introduced to your ministry and I’ve been immensely blessed by what you share, especially about the Design and Imposed Laws. God richly bless you for that.

One of the first things I did when I arrived in France was to buy all four of your books. They not only helped me, but those I shared them with. I shared the message with an atheist student and I marveled at how God worked mightily in his life. Today this person shares the Love of God with others and debunks theories of who God is not. I want to share what you present in your “Heavenly Sanctuary and Investigative Judgment” pamphlet, because the message brought rest to my soul and I live today as a healthy person.

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I can tell you that this new, “present truth” message is far grander and life-changing than when I shifted from being an agnostic and then a nominal Christian. It has radically altered my worldview, because it reveals a God that makes sense. It is a revolution. I believe that Dr. Jennings’ message is the final message that must go to the world. If any message could be called “righteousness by faith,” as abused as that term is by the right and the left, this is that message, because Jennings’ biblical message identifies a God who is different, whose character isn’t an impossible contradiction.

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Testimony 39

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Warm greetings from Tanzania! I just wanted to take a moment to thank you and your team at Come And Reason Ministries for the amazing work you do. Your teachings have opened my eyes to deep biblical truths and how to live them out in real life. I started following the ministry back in 2018, and ever since, my walk with God has grown so much stronger. I’ve found freedom from fear-based faith and now live with more peace and trust in Him. I’ve also been sharing what I’ve learned, especially through Bible School discussions. Your lessons are so insightful and well-explained that I try not to miss a single one. May God continue to bless the work you’re doing.
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Testimony 54

I had a lot of pressure, as a pastor’s kid, to conform and be “good.” I was good at being “good.” I thought my life was going along well until it all started falling apart and I could not figure out why! In my search for “why is this happening to me, God?” I came across your book, “Could it be this Simple,” and God started revealing to me the many distortions I held about His character, His principles, and how He has designed His universe to operate. I remember thinking, “Wow, I have had this all backwards.” I was happy and angry all at the same time. Happy to have the light of truth break through the darkness, revealing a wonderful, beautiful way of understanding God and His plan for His children, and angry, because I felt deceived and cheated by the church, my family, and myself!

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Testimony 73

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Testimony 35

I am so pleased with the response your message is receiving at my church from the middle-aged to the young adults. I have given out 100 copies of the first two seminars and there are more request every week. One of my [class members] came to me after viewing the series, grateful and impressed with how easy the message was retained. He had been a Seventh-day Adventist in fear all his life, and felt like the scales were removed from his eyes after viewing the seminars. I am so impressed by the change I see in members who have received this message, we are in one accord. However, I am sadden by the negative response of the older people. I am verbally attacked anytime I talk about imposed laws, but I believe my mission is to enlightened everyone I can. I watch your Bible Study Class on YouTube every Friday night and I feel like I am apart of the class. All of you are in one accord and I am so blessed to have found you. I pray that all of you continue to spread this message and I am committed to doing my part.

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Testimony 47

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