All of me or All of Christ?

   What do you think of when you hear the word "synergism"? 

Energy? A business model? Relationship? Maybe you just don't care because it isn't a word you use. Well, in the most important realm of all human knowledge, theology, the term synergism denotes a particular way in which God acts. It describes a togetherness of God and man in the working of salvific power over a rebellious, sinful heart. It states that we cooperate with God in assuring our own salvation. You have been exposed to synergism if you have ever heard the statement, "Just allow Jesus to come into your heart!" or "Let go and let God!"

Synergists teach that that we are born as God's children by the will of man but the Bible teaches that we "were born, not of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:13)

Do you see that? 

No one can believe in Jesus unless God grants it.

In context verses 12 and 13 say,

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.   No man receives Christ unless God first opens his heart in regeneration. John continues this theme throughout his book in chapter 3 and again in chapter 6. No one can believe in Jesus unless God grants it (John 6:65) and ALL to whom God grants it will believe (John 6:37) The Spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing (John 6:63).
This is resistless logic. This is a syllogism which leaves no room for synergism.

The opposite of synergism is monergism.

   Monergism of course states that it is God alone who effects the act of salvation over a sinful, rebellious heart, and only at that point, after God has worked the miracle of a born again life, may a person then become a co-laborer with Christ. Even then, we know that truly good works performed by a saved person are works prepared before the foundation of the world as written down in Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
This is the right and true way of how God works. This is called regeneration

Walk a minute with me through Scripture.

"All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out." (John 6:37)

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. (John 6:44)

It is the Spirit who gives life (quickens, regenerates); the flesh is no help at all. ..."This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." (John 6:63, 65)

Simply put, no one can believe in Jesus unless God grants it and all to whom He grants it will believe.
The Spirit quickens [regenerates, saves, makes born again], the flesh counts for nothing.
John 6 is one of many Bible passages which clearly demonstrates that regeneration is intimately tied to faith and that salvation is by Christ alone, utterly abolishing any remote possibility of synergism. 

Christ not only commands us to believe but gives us what we require to do so.
A great theologian of ancient times names Augustine said this:
"When God crowns your merits, He crowns nothing but His own gifts."
This is a profound quote that one can spend a great deal of time dwelling on! 

Is faith a requirement for salvation? 
Of course it is, but that very faith is itself a gift from God!!

Philippians 1:29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,

The reason why one person believes the gospel and not another is not because one person was more prudent or wise but because of the grace of God in Jesus Christ alone.
Synergistic theology leaves the saved person with something in themselves in which to boast. However, God is very clear in His Word that there is nothing whatsoever that a person may boast in save God's glory alone.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Jesus clearly told Nicodemus that in order to even see the Kingdom, an act entirely of the Holy Spirit must be done and He called it, 'being born again'.

John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is  born again  he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

You see then that if even the act of choosing to believe hinges on the sheer volition of the individual, then it is true that one could say salvation is all of oneself, one's own choosing.

However, if one actually adheres to the Biblical declaration that salvation depends entirely upon the will of God Almighty, only then can one honestly say that salvation is All of Christ!

Synergism is a lie.  Monergism is the only thing the Bible teaches.

GMO = God Move Over

   {This post is also to be found at my alternate blog Exposing the Darkness. It is of such great importance I included it here as well]


   Recently, it has been amazing to me that there are people who actually argue for the existence of GMO's.  While some are simply thinking about technological advancements which could benefit society, many others are going full steam blitzkrieg and refusing to look at real data, swallowing the lies of Big Pharma and chemical giants like Monsanto.

    One very important thing to remember in any debate is to define your terms. The GMO issue is certainly no exception.
 An argument I've seen several times in support of GMOs is this: 'Hey, what's the big deal, GMOs have been happening since the dawn of time!" One individual was so deluded on the issue of GMOs that he actually said to me with regards to his defense of GMOs that his family had been in the seed breeding business for many generations. Obviously, he had not spent any time learning the seed business, because a GMO is not simple seed breeding!!!
Additionally, the very existence of GMOs is eliminating the age old practice of breeding your own seed in agriculture as the modified seed is engineered to produce zero sowable seed SO THAT more seed will have to be purchased!!!!  Sheesh!
Another argument was brought up about genetic mutations in nature in an attempt to justify GMO. It is wearying to have to labor with people over these things, especially when they call themselves Christian. Just as we would handle the arguments of an evolution-pushing scientist, so it is that the answer is that mutations happens inter-species and they ALWAYS mean that information is being lost in the DNA strain! This is exactly opposite of not only the macro-evolution myth itself but the very process of lab-engineered genetically modified organisms.

                                                 
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So, If you’re comparing GMOs to how a grapefruit is made or how a multi-colored rose is made, you're a bit off and we need to get on the same page. A grapefruit or a new rose is made by hybridizing two members of the citrus family or of the Rosaceae family respectively. Hybridization can occur naturally....in nature. 

   GMOs combine genes of completely unrelated species, say a tomato with a fish. They also interject artificial material in the gene splicing in the form of pesticides, herbicides, etc.
This is completely unnatural and the long-term effects of these foods within the diet, as well as the possible impacts these GMO seeds may have upon the environment, have not been studied to a sufficient degree.

 One particularly alarming study would be the sharp rise in respiratory disease in the Indian farmers who handle GMO seeds by hand in the sowing process.

   Creating combinations of plants, bacterium, animals, sea life, humans and insects was never meant to be.

                                                 This is not advancement, its perversion.

                                                                        

    The honest truth is that the effects of these non foods will not be fully realized until decades, even centuries later.
 Just simple nutritional deficiencies took hundreds of years to understand; deficiencies like scurvy.
Even today many people who suffer from nutritional deficiencies such as b vitamins(Re: Abram Hoffers work) and serotonin/melatonin are given drugs(Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil) or are locked up. Drugs and incarceration are the results of ignorance and fear, as well as literal actions of  intentional slow-kill by the establishment, but I digress.

     Clearly, nutritional deficiencies take time to develop, let alone pathological conditions involving foreign proteins/ genes that have never existed before. So any assurance that you hear coming from these chemical companies is sheer snake-oil, peer reviewed or not!
              This is the folly of human "science". It hails itself as the great vindicator of itself. Nonsense. It is a myth that science is the great source and progenitor of all truth.
             All attempts by humans to "improve" upon nature have been a failure! Antibiotics kill all bacterium which are required by the human body! They destroy the immune system, and kill its ability to create various vitamins such as k, intrinsic factor, and so forth. All the while, natures antibiotics such as garlic, pau de arco tea, Vitamin D, nascent iodine and so many others are ignored, demonized, or otherwise discarded so that Big Pharma can just keep rollin' on..
       One must remember that mad cow was created by humans feeding cows other cows. What did they hope to discover? Who can determine the outcome of this bio engineering experiment which has no oversight rules as to the amount of genes added or taken out? Not only this, but what gives these companies the "right" to alter our food and to avoid labeling.
  This removes my choice and this removal is not democracy but is arbitrary law forced upon citizens by a multinational company that has bought out politicians who enacted laws which are unconstitutional. This is only a B-Gates' idea of applying a monopoly over the food supply just like Microsoft was to the software industry.

  I love my country. I love Christ. I reject the lies of evolution and global warming. I will keep my guns and relinquish them only bullets first. I was raised on a decent sized crop farm. We used Monsanto seed, Round-up, 2-4D, and Sinbar. I now understand their destructive nature and will continue to speak against them.
 The thing is, could my dad have found alternative methods? Sure! But at the total cost of the farm. You see, most farmers can't do anything but the conventional methods, because they have been subjected to nothing short of an hostile takeover.
In 1913 100% of corn and wheat were farmer owned. Today, 95% of these crops are corporation owned and 90% of these crops if not more are GMOs.

    Make no mistake, we are talking about weaponized biology. They know exactly what they are doing and what they are doing is taking over the number one resource used to enslave cities and nations down through history-----FOOD.

Ephesians 5:11
                                                                     

GMO = God Move Over