Flexibility in Preaching the Gospel

I received the following request on youtube:

Would you, as a gesture of friendship and in the interest of a discussion in good faith, edit your profile so that it does not reflect your aggressiveness towards Allah, the Quraan and the Muslims? Thank you. 

My profile reads as follows:

 I believe strongly that Islam is modern day Nazism--where Der Führer has been replaced by Allah. My approach to combat this false religion of Islam is to show that it is logically impossible.

We must show Muslims, that when the Bible and the Quran are compared via unemotional and honest academic examination, the Quran, which adduces the Bible as evidence of its validity (Surah 10:94), cannot stand. Thus, the only intellectually honest reaction to the Quran is to reject it, and Islam with it as the Bible calls them accursed:

"But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!" Gal 1:8-9

My response is that I will pray about it since my goal on the internet is to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to excercise my spiritual gift of teaching (Eph 4:11). If the above statement prevents this goal, then it should be changed per 1 Corinthians 9:

 19For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; 21to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. 22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. 23I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it. 1 Cor 9:19-23

Bible Believers should NEVER be Unitarian Hypermonotheists!!!

Bible Believers should NEVER be Unitarian Hypermonotheists. The error of this false doctrine is demonstrable in a myriad of ways from the Bible. However, one strong indirect proof is that the Quran directly affirms Unitarian Hypermonotheism. The Quran dogmatically states:

Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah: (Surah 4:171).

Thus if you deny the Trinity, you are worshipping the Muslim God Allah.

ישוע הוא יהוה Jesus IS Yahweh

The following verses, taken together, prove that Jesus IS Yahweh:

A. These will wage war against the LAMB, and the LAMB will overcome them, because HE IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS Rev 17:14

B. The next day he saw JESUS coming to him and said, "Behold, the LAMB of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29

C. For the LORD YOUR GOD (יהוה אלהיכם Yahweh Eloheichem) is the GOD OF GODS and the LORD OF LORDS Deut 10:17

This is a simple application of the transitive property of mathematics which states:

if A=B, and B=C, then A=C

Since , the Lamb is the Lord of Lords, and Jesus is the Lamb, then Jesus is the Lord of Lords and also everything else in the three verses: King of Kings, God of Gods and...

the Lord God (יהוה אלהים Yahweh Elohim)

Does 1 Chronicles 16:30 teach a Flat Earth?

Evolutionists claim that 1 Chronicles 16:30 teaches that the earth is flat. Let's drill down and the verse and see what it says:

חילו מלפניו כל־הארץ אף־תכון תבל בל־תמוט

Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world (תבל - tebel: a poetic word meaning the inhabited world) is firmly established, it will not be moved (shaken, overthrown). 1 Chronicles 16:30

The conxtext (1 Chron 16:8-36), shows that this is a psalm of thanksgiving thanking God for all his provisions, one of which is a world in which we can live that is stable, it cannot be moved, shaken, or overthrown. God has established a fixed order (cf Jer 31:35-36), He is fully in control.

This verse certainly says nothing about the earth being flat. Silly Evolutionists.

Summary of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture Position

Theology is just a filing cabinet with which to organize the Biblical Data. Any theological position that does not fit the Biblical Data must either be revised or discarded. The Pre-Tribulational Rapture position is the only one that fits the Biblical Data. Here is the essence of how it coordinates the Biblical data:

Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people (the Jews) and your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place Dan 9:24

Sixty nine of these weeks have passed (7 + 62):

So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince (Jesus Christ) there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; Dan 9:25

Thus one week still remains. This "week" is a seven year period belonging to the JEWS (your people--Dan 9:24). The interventing period (the Church Age) between the 69th and 70th week is a GENTILE period in the "Times of the Gentiles":

and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Luke 21:24

The Gentile Church Age ends abruptly with the Rapture and then Daniel's 70th Jewish week occurs. You can see this timetable clearly reflected in the book of Revelation. The Greek word for Church (ἐκκλησία - ekklesia) is mentioned numerous times in the first three chapters of Revelation. Then, suddenly, at the very end of chapter three, the Church (ἐκκλησία - ekklesia) is not mentioned again until the very end of Revelation, Chapter 22 verse 16.

This is because the Church is gone, raptured. Chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation describe the "Seven Churches." Seven is the Biblical number of completion--these two chapters summarize the entire Church Age which ends at Rev 3:22--it is completed--the number seven:

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches Rev 3:22

Rev 4:1 then reads:

After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here...

This is directly parallel to 1 Thess 4:16

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God,

The "voice" of both verses is the same voice. The "shout" in 1 Thess 4:16 is "Come up here" in Rev 4:1--the "like a trumpet " in Rev 4:1 is the "trumpet of God" of 1 Thess 4:16. This is the Rapture of the Church.

The Church does not return to the Earthly scene until Rev 19:14:

And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses

The Church is part of these armies.

Rev 22:16 is the summary statement to the Church:

I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."

Thus Jesus is commanding us in the Church Age to take a very very close look at the Book of Revelation, and when we do, we see that the Church is raptured prior to the start of the Tribulation, and  does not go through the horrible judgements described in Chapter 4 and following.

Question on the Etymology of Nehushtan

He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan. 2 Kings 18:4

Question: Is NEHUSHTAN in 2 Kings 18:4 above derived from two root words NAKHASH and SATAN?

Interesting theory. In 2 Kings 18:4 it says that the children of Israel were calling the נחש הנחשת (nachash haNechoshet) or bronze serpent נחשתן (nechustan). I would posit that this name change may have come about from first starting to call it נחשת-תן (nechoshet-tan) תן (tan) being another word for serpent, thus still "bronze serpent" but with a different word for serpent. Over time, נחשת-תן (nechoshet-tan) contracted to נחשתן (nechushtan).

However, since they were worshipping it (burning incense = worship), certainly HaSatan (השטן) Satan was involved but given the fact that HaSatan (השטן) has tav instead of tet for the T sound, and, more importantly, that it has sin for the S sound and not Shin, it probably is not related to נחשתן (nechustan).

Holocaust Denial and Denial of the Crucifixion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

There are people who deny the Holocaust. They do so based on presuppositions. Their presuppositions are more important to them than the evidence. Those who deny the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ are doing exactly the same thing. They allow anti-supernaturalist or other presuppositions to prevent them from accepting the evidence of the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ--including the fact that He predicted it all in advance. The evidence for this fact is just as strong as the evidence for the Holocaust. The only difference is that the Holocaust is a recent event so there are living witnesses while the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ are events of antiquity. However, both facts are equally supported by eyewitness accounts.

For example, Peter while addressing a large crowd in Jerusalem said:

22“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know— 23this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. 24“But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. Acts 2:22-24

Note that Peter was an eyewitness of these events and was able to state to the crowd "just as you yourselves know" and "you nailed to a cross...and put Him to death." And what was the response of the crowd to what Peter said:

37Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” Acts 2:37

Luke, who wrote the books of Acts as a sequel to the Gospel of Luke, states his method for writing these books:

1Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, 2just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, 3it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus; 4so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught. Luke 1:1-4

Note that Luke recorded "eyewitness" accounts and that he "investigated everything carefully from the beginning."

One of the eyewitness accounts Luke records is that of the men on the road to Emmaus:

18One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which have happened here in these days?” 19And He said to them, “What things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people, 20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him. 21“But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened. 22“But also some women among us amazed us. When they were at the tomb early in the morning, 23and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive. 24“Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women also had said; but Him they did not see.” Luke 24:18-24

Note the Cleopas said: “Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which have happened here in these days?” Clearly it was known by all in Jerusalem that Jesus was crucified, died and was resurrected.

Luke further adds that Jesus presented proof of His resurrection for a period of forty days:

1The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. 3To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. Acts 1:1-3

Thus the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is a fact of history, supported by eyewitness accounts, just as the Holocaust is.