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My book is entitled Knowing God is Physical Sensation. It uncovers shocking truths about the Holy Spirit. Click here to listen to a free audio summary played on your computer speakers, a lecture that begins with a list of sixteen logical contradictions contaminating the theology of all mainstream Christian seminaries and denominations. Click here to download the entire book free in a text format. Or read the following summary right now.
Knowing
God is Physical Sensation
Copyright 2001 by Tekana Histrom, all rights reserved.
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“The term spirit…in both Hebrew and Greek is primarily a material term, indicating wind, air, or breath” (Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, founder and president of Dallas Theological Seminary, from his argument that angels are physical).[1]
This book has two separate domains of argumentation often intermixed within a single paragraph. The first domain responds to the question, “On what basis is a religious conclusion of any kind warranted?” with, “Whenever one’s conscience so demands.” The second domain is my (tentative) revision of mainstream Christianity launched from the (tentative) assumption that it is indeed the true religion. Although I do not presume my opinions to be facts, I am sufficiently convinced to defend them vigorously.
Israel
had to wait (prayerfully) for a loud and clear sign from heaven, such as the
voice of God, a vision of Fire, or an
actual earthquake, before marching into any battle (Gen
25:22; Ex 18:15; Num 9 :14-23 ; Jos 6:20; Jdg 20:27-28; 1Sa
9:9; 14:37; 22:15; 23:2, 4; 28:6; 30:8; 2Sam 2:1; 5:19, 23; 1Ki 22:5-8; 2Ki
1:3, 6, 16; 3:11; 8:8; 16:15; 22:13-19; 1Ch 21:30; 34:21, 26; Ps 27:4). Otherwise
defeat was virtually guaranteed.
Likewise each NT (New Testament) evangelistic and missionary effort
pended a loud and clear authorization from heaven such as Christ’s voice,
earthquakes, visible Fire, audible Wind,
and celestial visions (Lk 3:21-22; 9:1;
10:6; Acts 1:3; 2:1, 43; 3:6; 4:30-31; 5:12, 19-20; 6:8; 8:26, 39; 9:3, 10-11;
10:3, 19; 11:4-14; 12:6-7; 13:2-4; 14:9; 15:12; 16:6-10; 25-26; 18:9-10; 19:6,
11-12; 20:22-23; 22:10, 14, 17-18; 23:11; 27:24; Gal 1:12; 2:2). One specific NT example should suffice to
illustrate the point. In Luke 9 and 10 the voice of God/Christ sent out the
Twelve to heal the sick. They were
successful. Now suppose they had ventured out on their own initiative without
such authorization from Christ. How
many people would they have healed? None.
What the church has completely missed, then, is that failure is
virtually guaranteed for any evangelistic endeavor unauthorized by the divine
voice (or by some other loud and clear signal from heaven). Paul put it like this:
“Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect [mature] by the flesh?…He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” (Gal 3:2 - 5).
Pastor Cho of the
world’s largest congregation relies on
said strategy,[2] as did Charles
Finney. Why hasn’t the rest of the
church, historically, recognized this need to wait upon God for loud and clear
signals? Probably for three reasons. (1) Many assume that they can reliably
ascertain both sound doctrine and God’s will without hearing His voice. (2)
Many fail to seek His voice as a result of supposing, “It’s okay to presume I’m
already hearing Him if my thoughts seem to line up with Scripture and/or the
church’s teaching.” (3) Many do not
realize that a state of complete certainty warrants the conscience in regarding
a particular voice, vision, sign, or cataclysm as a loud and clear signal from
God.[3]
Although in my opinion God is a Trinity, Scripture is inspired, and Christ’s atonement won salvation by faith alone, I do not even presume to know for certain that God exists. On the contrary, I am militantly opposed to presumption because it defines every false religion inasmuch as the members are people who find it satisfactory to insist upon uncertain doctrines (as though certain). To admit that one is human, susceptible to error, fallible is to admit our lack of complete certainty on religious issues. To then insist upon our opinions matter-of-factly is a dishonesty characteristic of, nay, foundational to every religious organization.[4] This book seems to be the only treatise in world history to denounce all presumption. Admittedly its conclusions, with a few trivial exceptions, are merely those of the famous Christian writer Andrew Murray (1828-1917), but he was essentially silent on these points to avoid controversy.
Presumption is evil. Many pastors and parents will encourage a teenager to enter the military to “serve God and country” despite the resulting oath to obey military leaders who may command him to kill “the enemy.” Do we really want to presume this oath appropriate? After all, Islam’s non-separation of church and state postures their religious leaders as political leaders. Thus the Muslim youth who presumes Islam to be true has already entered the military to likewise “serve God and country” under the same type of oath to kill “the enemy.”
You might object, “My presumptions are safe since I am not in the military.” Are you sure? Haven’t you noticed that the early church’s ability to heal all the sick (Acts 5:15-16) disappeared two thousand years ago? Put yourself in God’s shoes as He ponders your denomination. He says to Himself, “Already these people are mistakenly presuming to run the church exactly ‘by the book.’ A gift of healing or evangelism would only increase their presumption because they would conclude, ‘This new success is proof that we have been doing things right all along!’” Doing things right? This book will expose all denominations as arguably (1) insulting to God as a result of defining Him as a Being without merit; (2) self-contradictory in major doctrines; (3) unbiblical in church government; and (4) devoted to man-made traditions.
Presumption is contagious. If a Muslim leader abides in presumption, so too his children. Likewise if a Christian leader walks in presumption, so too his disciples. The result is the blind leading the blind with no one even raising the most critical question of all, namely, “how can each Christian attain to absolute certainty/infallibility?” Most religious people feel 95% certain of their opinions, but their innumerable disagreements disqualify this standard as inadequate. Religion is too serious an issue for us to rest content with any degree of uncertainty. God Himself would be irresponsible if He consigned any Christian to such a standard. Christ’s words to His apostles were not, “You will labor in frustrating uncertainty all the days of your life,” but rather, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (Jn 8:32). For “when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). Indeed the Protestant Reformation’s doctrine of assurance recognized that every Christian can attain to 100% certainty of salvation.
Suppose your child announced to you one day, “I refuse to go to college. I’m going to be a fireman because Pastor Mike claims to be 100% certain that this is the only way of life suitable for me.” You’d be rather upset with pastor Mike even though your son’s career is merely a temporal issue. How much more should we be outraged when a pastor or evangelist feigns certainty on eternal issues? An evangelist should say to his audience, “I know with complete certainty that Jesus is the only way,” only if he possesses, at that moment, the apostolic gift of infallibility. In other words evangelism without prophetic inspiration is not evangelism as God intended.[5] Therefore on Pentecost the 120 believers who received the physical Fire immediately prophesied/witnessed in tongues. Thus “it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you” (Mat 10:20). Christ’s words at Acts 1:8, “After the Holy Ghost comes upon ye, ye shall be my witnesses,” anticipate verses 2:17-18, “I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh and they shall prophesy.” Early evangelism was usually the province of prophets and apostles. Contrary to what Protestants claim, there is very little evidence, if any, that the NT epistles counseled entire congregations to aggressively evangelize. One will, however, find strong evidence in 1Corinthians 14 that all believers are supposed to aggressively seek prophetic inspiration! Rather interesting, isn’t it?
Protestants claim to run the church “by the book.” Let’s consider church government. They plant churches and elect pastors. Whereas in Scripture, infallible apostles planted churches and elected pastors. Here a Protestant will reply, “Okay, I admit that modern church government cannot be found in the Bible but that’s because things have changed since apostolic days.” Were things supposed to have changed? Not in my opinion. But in any case there is still a need for integrity. Let’s stop pretending to run the church ‘by the book.’
At one point I was a member of a congregation in the habit of Saturday morning prayer. Everyone would come dressed in street clothes such as T-shirts, shorts, jeans, and sweatpants. The next day everyone showed up in suits and ties. Yet I haven’t been able to find a single verse in the Bible suggesting that God needs us to wear a set of clothes on Sunday different from that worn on Saturdays. When we practice such man-made traditions, how dare we deny the charge of fabricating our own religion? The very fact that Sunday is the most racially segregated day of the week should alert us to the possibility that our congregations are not authentic churches in the sight of God.
Approximately 99% of my footnotes cite conservative, born-again Bible-scholars quoted from esteemed evangelical commentaries, books, and seminary journals. For extra convenience these footnotes were designed as independent essays readable after the book just like an appendix. Commentary in brackets “[ ]” provides my opinion; for example, “Ye have neither heard his [physical] voice at any time, nor seen his [physical] shape. And ye have not his [spoken/ exhaled] word abiding [physically] in you” (Jn 5:37).[6]
If blind faith (presumption) were acceptable, all religions would be acceptable, because one could convert to any religion on blind faith. One should convert to Christianity not on the basis of blind faith but rather on the basis of an adequate rationale for this decision. Must this rationale be Reason? Not necessarily. For example, as an infant I came to believe that other people exist, not on the basis of reason but on the basis of sensory experience. This seems to be an adequate rationale, to the extent that the sensory experience compelled my conscience to believe. (I define the conscience as a feeling of certainty that a particular set of actions and beliefs is obligatory. Alternatively, I sometimes use the term “conscience” to refer to the mind in its capacity to experience such feelings of certainty).
What, then, is the adequate rationale for conversion, that is, for concluding that Jesus is God and the Bible is inspired? Ultimately, the conscience (a feeling of certainty) is the rationale, but what type of compulsion birthed that certainty? In other words, did the convert arrive at this certainty by looking to Reason? Or perhaps to Sensory Experience (maybe he heard Christ’s Voice or saw Him in a Vision)? The crucial point here is that his “adequate rationale” for conversion – whatever it may be - remains for him permanently authoritative even after conversion. For instance, if I converted to a particular religion on the basis of Reason, I cannot later contend, “Reason is no longer, for me, a final authority. I now rely on an inspired text as my only final authority.” Or, “I now rely on church dogma as the only final authority.” I cannot begin with Reason and then end up denouncing Reason. That doesn’t make sense. If the very origin, foundation, or root of my commitment to a given religion is Reason, to impugn Reason would contradict my own assumptions and thereby renounce my conversion.
As it turns out, Protestants do not regard Reason as the “adequate rationale.” They have always admitted, at least from the time of the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation, that the “inward witness” (the testimony of the Holy Spirit speaking loudly and clearly to the conscience) is the rationale for conversion. The official position of Protestants is that the Holy Spirit, in order to obligate conversion, imparts to the conscience a feeling of certainty that Jesus is God and that the Bible is inspired. What Protestants have not admitted, to date, is the startling implication of this doctrine, namely that the Inward Witness is therefore permanently authoritative even after conversion. The logic is simply irresistible. If I relied on this testimony during conversion, I cannot then say, after conversion, “One should not rely on such testimony to reach religious conclusions, for Scripture is the only final authority for drawing conclusions.” After all, conversion is not an event of the past but a daily reaffirmation of beliefs. If I daily rely on the Holy Spirit’s Inward Witness as my adequate rationale, I cannot denounce it as unreliable. Consistency demands, rather, that I regard the Inward Witness as obligatory whenever it imparts to my conscience the same degree of certainty experienced during conversion.
Admittedly the Holy Spirit’s Presence is felt in the churches, but this experience is merely a small taste of Him. By regarding Scripture as the only final authority, Protestants have effectively silenced and quenched the Holy Spirit. Few Protestants seek the authoritative inspiration given to the prophets because Sola Scriptura prohibits and discourages it. The result is a church without any real guidance from God, and every Sunday the congregations “know exactly what to do” because they simply perpetuate man-made traditions practiced for 2000 years, for instance a 45 minute sermon, 30 minutes of singing, a mid-week Bible-study, regular “evangelism”, occasional “missionary work”, etc., etc., etc.
The three branches of mainstream Christianity are Protestantism, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Protestantism is defined by the claim that Scripture is the only final authority. Catholics claim that the Catholic Church is the only final authority. Orthodoxy claims that the Orthodox Church is the only final authority. All three branches, and therefore all Christians, are subject to the same downfall – the fact that any such claim contradicts conversion. For example, the agnostic cannot say, rationally, “I am converting to Christ because the Catholic Church is the only final authority and so commands.” That doesn’t make sense, because first he needs an adequate rationale (a final authority such as Reason or Conscience) for deciding whether the Catholic church is an authority.
To summarize, God’s alternative to presumption (feigned certainty) is the testimony of the Holy Spirit (the Voice of God) imparting an obligatory feeling of certainty to the conscience.[7] Paul attested, “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost” (Rom 9:1). Andrew Murray commented on this verse that the “Holy Ghost speaks through conscience.”[8]
One
cannot rely on Scripture and the church
to determine or even verify the specifics of God’s will because the rationale
underlying His will takes into account trillions of humanly unforeseeable
dangers and contingencies. It is
situation-dependent and therefore humanly unpredictable. As a result, the Lord
must be willing to voice the specifics of His will at a volume perfectly loud
and clear. As Andrew Murray put it, “Obedience
depends on hearing the voice. Do not imagine you know the will of God. Pray and
wait for the inward teaching of the Spirit.”[9] The perfect nature of His will explains why
love does no harm to a neighbor (Rom 13:8-10). No human being can determine
perfectly harmless forms of behavior based merely on the teachings of Scripture
or the church.
Even to this day Protestant pastors presume that preaching the written Word empowers the church sufficiently. The contradiction here is that the written Word is precisely the law denounced as powerless to sanctify (Rom 8:3), stimulative of sin (7:5-13) and hence a ministry of death (2Cor 3:6–9).[10] The following argument demonstrates that the written Word is not the divine power. The Spirit’s inspiration of Moses to count God’s people is why the fourth book is called the Book of Numbers. This book contains several instances of counting and mathematical sums. Therefore imagine the Spirit likewise inspiring me to write down the mathematical truth that 2 + 2 = 4. This would be an inspired text no different in essence than much of Numbers. Suppose then that I preach my inspired written Word to the world. Would it have any power to change lives? Of course not. In fact even the devil’s children preach the same truth in math classes every day. Reprobate scribes, Pharisees, professors and cults have preached the written Word for millennia without releasing any salvific or sanctifying power. The value of truth is that it is true; it is not, however, divine power. Clearly the Holy Spirit is God’s power. Why then did Paul counsel Timothy to preach/exhale the Word? He was referring to the living divine Word rather than the written Word as we shall see. It is a type of preaching completely lost upon the modern church.
If preaching the written Word were as powerful as pastors claim, why is the divorce rate the same in the church as in the world? This is not a request of pastors to stop preaching the Bible/law. The Holy Spirit helps to counteract the law’s negative side effects while using it, in a beneficial way, to confirm God’s promises to the human heart. The problem is that the law often does more harm than good when the Holy Spirit is not present in sufficient measure to fully counteract the side-effects.
The world’s origin in divine speech depicts
God’s voice as His power. “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please" (Isa 55:11).[11] Thus God’s power is not really conditioned
on man’s free will. Rather His spoken Word always accomplishes His
intent regardless of human volition. Hence any lack of His power/Spirit for
revival, sanctification, evangelism, missions, and miracles is for lack of our
hearing/receiving His spoken Word, as Paul warned the Galatians:
“Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect [mature] by the flesh?…He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles[12] among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God” (Gal 3:2 - 6).
Why
does one receive an outpouring of the Spirit by hearing God?[13] And
why is Paul citing Abraham’s experience of hearing God at Gen 15:1-6 as an example
of receiving the Spirit by the hearing of faith? God’s spoken/exhaled
Word/Breath is His Holy Spirit sent forth to do the miracle, for the Hebrew
word mistranslated Spirit actually means physical breath/wind, as will
be argued later. The Third Person’s true name is neither Holy Spirit nor
Holy Ghost but Holy Breath/Wind whence Christ "breathed on [the
disciples], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy [Breath]” (Jn 20:22). Abraham’s faith came by hearing God
speak/exhale promises at Gen 15:6 when
the voiced/exhaled “word of the LORD came [twice] to Abram in a vision” (15:1;
cf. 15:4).[14] He
was the first man ever dubbed “prophet” (20:7).[15] To the prophets repeatedly came the
voiced/exhaled Word/Breath (the Holy Spirit); they repeatedly received the
Spirit by the hearing of faith. The
Greek word for “miracles” in the Galatians passage is the same word translated
“power” at Acts 1:8,[16] “Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy
Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses.” In a nutshell Paul was
reminding the Galatians to dedicate themselves to waiting (prayerfully) upon
God for more hearings/outpourings of
the Spirit even as Moses always persevered in prayer until God responded loud
and clear. Andrew Murray drew the same conclusion of the Galatians passage
quoted above on which he commented:
The mistake of the Galatian church is
repeated to this day even in the churches that are most confidently assured
that they are free from the Galatian error. Just notice how often the doctrine
of justification by faith is spoken of as if it were the chief teaching of the
Galatian epistle. The doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling as received
by faith and our walking by the Spirit is hardly mentioned…[Unfortunately
today] human effort and human arrangement take a much larger place than in the waiting
on the power that comes from on high.”[17]
To be precise, Murray could not find the Reformed usage of “justification” in Galatians. Reformed justification contradicts Paul’s usage because Abraham was already a saved believer (Acts 7:2; Heb 11:8-10) long prior to the “justification” mentioned at Rom 4:3 and Gal 3:6. But how could Abraham be justified more than once? Only physical metaphysics makes this possible, as we shall see.
Jesus
stated that a prayer warrior who experiences complete certainty about a
petition is guaranteed to receive it.
Here Jesus used the word “verily.” (A good test of one’s theology
is whether it can take Him literally on
each “verily” statement).
“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive, and ye shall have them” (Mk 11:23-24). [18]
On the surface it looks as though Jesus was
speaking too liberally here. It looks as though a wicked person could easily
take advantage of this promise. The reality is that only the divine voice can
generate absolute certainty/faith (it
imparts certainty to the conscience as argued earlier), for faith cometh by
hearing (Rom 10:17), and generally it does so only in response to faithful
prayer warriors such as Moses or Elijah.
Pastor Cho of the world’s largest congregation (over one million members)
instructs his membership to “fast and pray until they get the [loud and clear]
witness of the Holy Spirit that their prayer has been answered”[19] because, says Cho, “faith cometh by
hearing.”[20] They literally intercede for a particular
unsaved person until hearing God say “Yes, he will be saved”![21] Similarly a prophet is basically a person
who waits in prayer to hear God speak, for instance “Anna,
a prophetess…departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and
prayers night and day” (Lk 2:36-37).
Admittedly prayer can be boring until God
outpours joyful revival, but fellowship
is always fun since everyone enjoys friends and dislikes loneliness. “Family
Fellowship” is a new ministry technique here proposed for automatically
creating fun-filled friendships involved in 24-hour corporate prayer.
Traditional summons to 24-hour prayer usually suffer poor attendance, whereas
Family Fellowship is potentially too much fun to resist. For details see the final section of ch. 5 or click here. This is quite possibly the most important
part of the book.
Bible-study is a reasoning process, that is, a series of deductive leaps executed to steadily reason one’s way from biblical data toward a conclusion used as a stepping stone to jump to the next conclusion. Obviously the danger of such leaps is the human tendency to jump to conclusions unwarranted. Whereas God can simply voice to us the appropriate conclusions as to prevent human errors. On earth Christ’s understanding of Scripture consisted of such appropriate conclusions revealed distinctly (loudly and clearly) by the Father (Jn 5:30, 37; 7:15-16; 8:26, 40, 47; 14:10, 24; 15:15; 16:13; 17:8).