“I hate
Him! I’m furious!”
“Who
master?”
“Jesus,
you imbecile!” snapped Satan,
“Why
master?”
“He just
gets too much glory. You know, Oooo!
Oooo! we worship you Jesus. Thank you for shedding your blood and
taking away
the sin of the world,” the Devil went on sarcastically. “Of all the
self
righteous, sanctimonious claptrap. Jesus being ‘Saviour of all men,
specially
of those that believe’. He’s sooo smug with His ‘I loved the world so
much, I
poured out my blood for everyman, paid for all their sins even though
most end
up in hell’. It gets on my goat, that’s what!”
“But facts
are facts master”
“Shut up!
You dithering idiot, I know that!” said
Satan. “We can’t stop it but we’ll minimize the praise that Jesus gets
this
side of eternity. We need a plan,” he snorted.
A couple
of minutes went by and a smile crept
over the face of the old Serpent.
“That’s
it!” shrieked the Dragon.
“What’s it
master?”
“We’ll
limit his glory! That’s what!” purred the
Devil strutting around the room.
“What
master?”
“Listen
drongo face, it’ll take some effort, but
I think we can pull it off!”
“Pull what
off master?
“Take away
his glory! Clip His wings! Put some
sand in His petrol tank, Fix His wagon! Shoot out one of his propellers
ol’
boy!” said Satan smugly.
“How do we
do that master?”
“Four
ways, Peabrain, four ways.
First,
we’ll get the Bible back into the hands of
the scholar – this time the Greek scholar. While we kept the Bible in
Latin for
a thousand years, we could tell the world what we wanted, but that
little gravy
train eventually crashed, didn’t it!
Second,
we’ll change the words. We’ll take out
all those nasty “thee’s” and “ye’s” and vacuum out all the other words
we don’t
like as well. Then we’ll substitute other words that have watered down
meanings.
Third,
we’ll give the Holy Ghost the credit for
salvation instead of Jesus and Fourth, we’ll tell the mug punters that
believing is a work. Brilliant, even if I say so myself”
Satan said
congratulating himself.
“I still
don’t understand master?”
“Of course
you don’t, nitwit! That’s why I’m me
and you’re not. Right, let’s get down to business. Well, don’t just sit
there
Malbrain, take some notes as I talk,” barked the Old Serpent.
“I
remember when Rome had the ol’ Latin Bible
under lock and key and chained to desks for over one thousand years, so
people
couldn’t read or understand it. They were the days” sighed Satan.
“Don’t cry
master”
“No
worries, Lamebrain. Just because the Latin
gig is up, it doesn’t mean we can’t get the Bible back into the hands
of
scholars.”
“Who
master?”
“The
Greek! The Greek scholar Airhead! That’s
who!” Satan said in a superior tone.
“How do we
do that? It’s all been done – the King
James Bible English is perfect, without error, infallible, inspired.
The Textus
Receptus has upwards of one thousand errors but God corrected them with
the
King James Bible” came the tentative reply.
“You’re
right, my little devil. We’ll do it in
stages.
First,
we’ll tell them that the English is an
inferior language to the Greek – we’ll use phrases like ‘untold
richness of the
Greek’ and ‘Greek nuggets’ and so on.
Second,
we’ll endorse the Textus Receptus as
being inerrant.
Third,
we’ll create special courses in Greek so
the average churchgoer who reads and believes the plain King James
English,
will be made to feel inferior. We’ll make them feel grovelingly
grateful to
those who delve into the ‘deeper mysteries of the Greek’, albeit with
first and
second year Greek Primers under their arms. Fourth, we’ll ….”
“You’re so
clever master. But which Textus
Receptus? There are several.”
“Detail,
detail, detail! No-one could care less.
The average mug in the pew will believe anything we tell them!” barked
the
malevolent one.
“Yes, I am
clever and don’t you forget it
neither” replied Satan. “People won’t suspect a thing, because it’s the
Greek!
It’s supposedly bona fide. It’s legit. It’s reputable. Look, we all
knew the Latin
thing couldn’t last, but the Greek, now that’s different! We’ll tell
them that
‘they translated it wrongly’ or ‘the Greek actually says the opposite’
– that
sort of thing” he went on.
“Ah! The
ol’ Jesuit trick of opposite
contradiction – the ‘Black is White, White is Black’ scenario?”
“Yep! The
sillier it is, the more people will
believe it,” said the Dragon. “If the plain reading in the English says
one
thing, we’ll say the opposite. For example – ‘For God so loved the
world…’
we’ll say
‘No, No, you idiots, God so loved the
elect world…”
“Do you
think they’ll fall for it master?”
“Of
course! Gnosticism, Birdbrain, is the key –
deep, secret and mysterious knowledge. If people ask questions, we’ll
tell them
they don’t understand the deep mysteries of God.”
“But the
Bible says the opposite master.”
“Shut up,
numbskull! This baby won’t get off the
ground if we believe what the King James Bible English words actually
say!”
roared Satan, “We need a break - grab a cuppa and be back in thirty.”
A half an
hour passes.
“Now,
where were we? Oh yes, Point Two – changing
the words - shifting the focus, Nitwit.”
“Ooo!
Hocus, Pocus, Hocus Focus!” mimicked the
Nitwit as he danced mockingly around the room.
“Look for
the last time, shut up! I’m being
serious! We need a God with less emphasis on His love for the whole
world. I’m
fed up with all this Lord God Almighty business – Lord God Almighty
this and
Lord God Almighty that! Too commanding and powerful. That’s it!
Sovereign!
We’ll get
the people to call him Sovereign Lord.”
“But that
word isn’t in the King James Bible
master, it’s ‘NKJV-speak’. What’s it mean?”
“It’s a
less powerful word than “Almighty”.
That’s what it means!” retorted Satan, “that’s the beauty of changing
words and
phrases.” said Satan stroking his chin. “Here’s one – total depravity,
eh, how
about that one then?”
“What’s
that mean master?”
“Anything
we like Dumbkopf! We’ll say that
because men are dead in trespasses and sins, they can’t believe. For
good
measure, we’ll throw in that ‘none seek after God’. Yep, it makes God
seem a
little less reachable and doesn’t make him so loving does it Spaghetti
Brain?
By changing words we seem to give God more glory, honour and power, but
the
opposite will be the case. Get it?”
“How do
totally depraved men get saved master?”
“Obvious,
Kiddiebrain! We’ll lie and tell them
that God must regenerate the totally depraved sinner with the Holy
Ghost before
he can believe.”
“But
that’s a typical Roman Catholic approach
master. The King James Bible says that God justifies the ungodly not
the godly
or the regenerated!”
“I know
that, Birdbrain. But no-one believes what
the actual words say in the King James Bible anymore. Because the
average
pastor won’t believe the plain simple English words, he has been
intimidated
and bluffed by the ‘Greek experts’.”
“I like it
master! It takes the glory away from
Jesus and gives it to the Holy Ghost. Woweee”
“Just
remember Nobrain, despite what people
think, believing is not a work, but my zealous friends, the Deluded
Ones, won’t
have a bar of it.”
“The
Deluded Ones master, who are they?”
“The
Gnostics, you fool, aka the Superior Ones,
aka the Zealous Ones, aka my Fifth Column. I’m so happy they won’t
believe the
simple words of the plain King James Bible English. Ah, professing
themselves
wise… . They’d be mortified to know they’re working for me.”
“You’re
something else master, you’re just
something else!”
“Please!
Please! Stop fawning! It’s really not me
at all. I only work with the raw product. All I need are three things –
ignorance, willing or otherwise, I don’t much care. Second, a superior
self-righteous
attitude and third, a Nicolaitane spirit – all requirements to be a
Devotee of
the Calvin Way.”
“But
master, surely the plain reading of the King
James Bible demolishes your arguments – you know, ‘like sins of the
whole
world’ , ‘all men to be saved’ , ‘taste death for everyman’ , ‘taketh
“You’re
correct Biscuitbrain. We’ll need some big
guns like Spurgeon, Luther, Edwards and Whitefield for intimidation.
By the
way, he never really left us you know?”
“Who
master?”
“Calvin,
you Boofhead, John Calvin.
As they
say ‘You can take the boy out of Rome but
you can’t take Rome out of the boy.’ Let’s drink a toast to our partner
in sin
- three cheers for Calvin and his Rome-type heresy of the presalvation
John
1:29 (KJB) The
next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him,
and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.
1 Timothy 4:10 (KJB) For
therefore we both labour and suffer reproach,
because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men,
specially of
those that believe.
Romans
4:5 (KJB) But
to him that worketh not, but believeth on him
that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Isaiah
5:20 (KJB) Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter
for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
Malachi
2:17 (KJB) Ye
have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye
say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that
doeth evil
is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or,
Where is
the God of judgment?
2 Timothy 4:3 (KJB) For
the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears;
Deuteronomy
28:27 (KJB) The
LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt,
and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof
thou canst
not be healed.
Numbers
12:8 (KJB) With
him will I speak mouth to mouth, even
apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD
shall he
behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant
Moses?
Isaiah
45:19 (KJB) I
have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of
the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the
LORD
speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Isaiah
48:16
(KJB) Come
ye near unto me, hear
ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time
that it
was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath
sent me.
John
18:20 (KJB) 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.
Ephesians
2:1 (KJB) And
you hath he quickened, who were dead
in trespasses and sins;
Romans
3:11 (KJB) There
is none that understandeth, there is none
that seeketh after God.
Romans
4:5 (KJB) But
to him that worketh not, but believeth on him
that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans
10:2 (KJB) For
I bear them record that they have a zeal of
God, but not according to knowledge.
Proverbs
1:7 (KJB) The
fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs
1:22 (KJB) How
long, ye simple ones, will ye love
simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate
knowledge?
Proverbs
3:35 (KJB) The
wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be
the promotion of fools.
Proverbs
12:23 (KJB) A
prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart
of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
Proverbs
14:8 (KJB) The
wisdom of the prudent is to understand
his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs
15:2 (KJB) The
tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright:
but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Proverbs
19:29 (KJB) Judgments
are prepared for scorners, and stripes
for the back of fools.
1 John 2:2 (KJB) And
he is the propitiation for our sins: and not
for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 Timothy 2:4 (KJB) Who
will have all men to be saved, and to come
unto the knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews
2:9 (KJB) But
we see Jesus, who was made a little lower
than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and
honour; that
he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Genesis
49:6
(KJB) O
my soul, come not thou
into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou
united: for in
their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a
wall.
John
1:29 (KJB) The
next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him,
and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
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Harley Hitchcock
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Australian
Bible Ministries
P.O. Box 5058
Mount Gravatt East 4122
Australia
www.AustralianBibleMinistries.com
