The GOD of Scriptures Is Better Than You Have Been Told

This is an account of the truth of God's character, love, achievement, and purpose.

It is not the only description of what is clearly given in Scriptures but it is one that I enjoy sharing. It covers reality by pointing at clear passages and verses. The Scriptures used are not an exhaustive list. Reading the description is enough to tell you whether you believe what God has said of Himself and His purpose. I hope you see what it says. It is important that you know that YOU might be able to see the truth of this while others who you consider to be more spiritual (or who consider themselves to be more spiritual) may oppose this. God addresses this in His word...

... standing firm in one spirit, one soul, competing together in the faith of the evangel, and not being startled by those who are opposing in anything, which is to them a proof of destruction, yet of your salvation, and this from God... Philippians 1:27-28

Don't be shocked when they tell you that the thing you have read is wrong.

God is doing that FOR YOU.

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excerpt from A TRUER GOD

By ROBERT BOWIE JOHNSON Jr.

Chapter II

THE TRUE GOD OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES

Superexcessively above and beyond the best intentions of the

amiable adventurer of Christendom, who wants to save everybody but is

unable to do so, the True God has a purpose worthy of the One Who

created the universe and all the life that is in it. He is Supreme. In the

Hebrew Scriptures, He is El which means Subjector; in the Greek

Scriptures, He is Theos which means Placer. He is the Supreme

Subjector and Placer of all. He “wills that all mankind be saved and

come into a realization of the truth” (I Timothy 2:4), and He is

“operating all in accord with the counsel of His will” (Ephesians 1:11).

The will of the Almighty is paramount. There is no man or spirit who can

withstand it. He is “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from

ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall

stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isaiah 46:10).

What do we know of God’s essential being? He is Spirit (John 4:24),

He is Light (I John 1:5), and He is Love (I John 4:8). Since all is out of

God (Romans 11:36), then creation is out of Spirit, Light, and Love—

Love which purposes, Light which reveals, and Spirit which energizes.

Can we even imagine Spirit and Light intending a final darkness for

much of humanity? Can we entertain for a second that Love will take

pleasure in even a single creature’s unending anguish? Let us consider

these very direct and simple words from the apostle Paul:

Faithful is the saying and worthy of all welcome (for for this are we

toiling and being reproached), that we rely on the living God, Who is the

Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers. These things be charging

and teaching (I Timothy 4:9-11).

Perhaps in all the annals of human history, no declaration so

deserving of acceptance has been so neglected or opposed as this—that

God is the Saviour of all mankind. Yet, as we see from the context, the

assertion that the living God, or True God, is the Saviour of all mankind,

especially of believers, is faithful; that is, unfailing and dependable. The

saying is worthy of all welcome. This means we should embrace it and

believe it. True, all of God’s words are faithful and call for eager

acceptance within their context, but here is a saying marked off with

special emphasis and magnified with special importance.

Paul further instructs Timothy to be charging and teaching this

marvelous precept. This means it is a foundational truth of Christianity.

The True God, the Supreme Subjector and Placer, is not just the Saviour

of a few, or of some, or of many, or of most, but of all mankind. It is

clear also from the context that believers enjoy an especial place—not an

exclusive one—in the plans and purpose of the True God.

Those who are part of the body of Christ are saved prior to the rest.

They will be made like their Lord at the time of His appearing for them

in the air. They will live and reign with Christ during the coming eons, or

ages. They will not be brought into judgment at the time of the great

white throne described in chapter twenty of Revelation. Believers are not

subject to the second death.

Those who do not believe now will be raised up at the time of the

great white throne and will be judged and dealt with according to their

deeds. Then all whose names are not written in the book of life will be

cast into the lake of fire that is the second death—not a place of

punishment, but of sleep, unconsciousness and oblivion.

After this, at the end of the eons, God will abolish death, all death,

and impart the resurrection life of Christ to all. Then it will be clear that

God is indeed the Saviour of all. Other Scriptures reveal what is included

in this salvation. God will JUSTIFY ALL (Romans 5:18, 19). He will

RECONCILE ALL to Himself (Colossians 1:15-20). He will VIVIFY

ALL (I Corinthians 15:20-28). He will SUBJECT ALL to Himself

(Philippians 2:5-11). And finally God will BECOME ALL IN ALL (I

Corinthians 15:26-28). This is truly good news, especially for the

millions of believers who have been told by church authorities that their

deceased “unsaved” loved ones will suffer, or are already suffering,

forever.

Paul explained to Timothy how the knowledge of the True God was

to be passed on: “And what things you hear from me through many

witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach

others also” (II Timothy 2:2). Knowledge of the True God has been

passed down that way, generation to generation, from Paul’s time. Over

many years, it has been passed down to me. This book is my means of

fulfilling a calling to teach what I have learned about the True God. It

explains how the True God, over the course of five eons, brings His

creation to perfection, reconciles all, and becomes All in all of His

creations. In the eyes of the Deity Who is Spirit, Light and Love, a

cleansed and perfect universe is the only fitting result and reward for the

sacrifice Christ has made. And all of this teaching accords with the

Sacred Scriptures, portraying the very essence of them.

But how is it that so many people today have not even heard of the

True God? In chapter seven of Mark and chapter twenty-three of

Matthew, Jesus powerfully demonstrated how the ruling scribes and

Pharisees of His day invalidated the Word of God by reliance instead

upon their own doctrines and traditions. That tendency among “spiritual”

leaders has, if anything, become worse. As the most characteristic sin of

today, it is at the root of all religion—the essence of all error, the cause

of sectarianism, and the mother of creeds and confusion. It should be

comforting to know that the word “religion” appears so seldom in the

Scriptures. Never is it applied to believers in Christ by God or an apostle

or anyone else in sympathy with them. It never occurs in Paul’s epistles

which contain the special truth for today.

In the next three chapters, we will take a brief look at exactly how

Christian “religion” hides the character of the True God, and then in the

balance of this book, examine His true purpose in detail.

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