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SHOUTING FROM THE
ROOFTOPS!! Hello everyone. I’m not sure what is drawing to a close more quickly, my own life or this present world order. My name is Robin Todd and I am a (rapidly aging) singer and witness for the one God of the Bible. As this age draws to a close and the return of the Messiah Jesus is imminent, it is my purpose to proclaim the one true gospel of God and Jesus once again to this dark world of religious confusion, beginning right here in my home town area of Olympia, Lacey, and Tumwater, Washington. What I have to bring you in word and song, I bring in the worship of Yahweh, the One true God, and in His miraculously begotten and now exalted human Son, Jesus of Nazareth. In this ministry I ask you to please consider that human tradition has perhaps led to a mishandling of divine truth. I implore the leaders of the Christian churches of our tri-city area to reorient their instruction to the true and simple monotheism of the Bible, returning to the pre-Nicene understanding and worship of God and Jesus. The trinitarian doctrine so prevalent today is out of step with the early new testament church's teachings, having come upon the Church afterward through a syncretization of Greek philosophy and Eqyptian mysteries. In accordance with the original faith of Abraham (called the father of the faithful), and according to the plain teachings of Jesus, the prophets and apostles, there is only one person who is God Almighty. That person is referred to simply as “the Father” in the New Testament. Jesus on the other hand, is the miraculously begotten human son of God, raised from the dead and made immortal, now sitting at God's right hand awaiting his time to return and set up the government and kingdom of God on this planet. Jesus is the son of God, not God the Son. He has been GIVEN functional equality with God, but is not himself Deity. To state and teach otherwise is to go against the overwhelming proof of biblical data, and is to run the risk of preaching “another Jesus” and “another gospel”, concerning which the apostle Paul was dead set against. Further, the holy spirit is simply yet remarkably the operational power and presence of God, not a "person". There is only one God, and He is referred to thousands of times in the Bible as a single person. It was not until several centuries after the death of Jesus and the apostles that the rising “official” church decided God was an “essence” composed of two or three persons, all equal and coeternal. Oh, how different the words of Jesus and his apostles! There is simply not enough room on this page to list the hundreds of occurrences where God and Jesus are clearly differentiated from one another. Jesus never said he was God and always pointed to his Father as the only one who is God (Mark 12:28-29; John 17:3; and many, many others). Even the resurrected Jesus has a God and said so plainly (Jo. 20:17; Rev. 3:12). The first Christian martyr, Stephen, saw in vision the resurrected and glorified Jesus sitting at the right hand of God (Acts 7:55-56). On the other hand, those very few verses (perhaps a dozen or so) which have been used to support the idea of a “trinity” of three god-persons, have simply been either mistranslated or misinterpreted through the eyes of Greek philosophy and church tradition, rather than through the eyes of the inspired Hebrew biblical writers. The “good news” (gospel) of Jesus is the message he preached regarding the coming of the Kingdom of God to this earth, and the fact that he is the prophesied Messiah who will be ushering in that kingdom. Also that through him we have forgiveness of sins and can enter that kingdom. His resurrection from the dead is confirmation of that future event. And central to that gospel message is the resurrection of the dead at his second coming. The idea that men and women go immediately to heaven or hell when they die because they possess “immortal souls” is yet another unbiblical teaching, and completely upsets the kingdom message of the bible. It comes from the Greek philosopher Plato (and he received it from Egyptian priests), not from God or Jesus. The biblical fact is that the dead are asleep and await life at the yet future resurrection when the first immortalized human, the glorified Jesus, returns with God’s Kingdom. The truth matters, though we may not always understand how at first. Jesus said the truth will set us free. Yet he questioned if he would still be able to find "the faith on earth" when he returned. As it turns out, he was right to be concerned. That biblical faith he taught has been all but extinguished as we approach the close of this age. The central theme of that faith is simple: God is one, the Father. Jesus is the now glorified human Messiah, returning soon to raise the dead from their graves and establish the Kingdom of God on a revitalized planet earth. Churches need to start teaching this gospel as taught by Jesus and his apostles, so that Christians can start believing it as they did in the early New Testament church. For those who possess a love for the truth and want more information, write to me at robinsings4u@comcast.net. If you will have me, I also make myself available to proclaim and sing the good news of the one God and Father, and of His appointed Christ Jesus. |
