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The Poison Root
by Wayne Searfoss
•Box 638, Alamo, Texas 78516 • Apdo. 60.151 Caracas 1060-A, Venezuela
The Introduction of Greek Philosophy into Christianity
Chapter 1
How Christians have been misled into breaking the first commandment
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
Jesus said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."
This commandment is broken because Satan has subtlety slipped another god into our mind to make us offend the first and great commandment.
For instance when someone dies, we say that the death was the will of God. According to the scriptures this is not true in many cases. In the first place we understand that the will of God was for men to serve him and never know death but that now it is the last enemy to be put under his feet. (Warning, the teaching that we can reach a level of perfection and need not die is another new wave of false doctrine.) In the second place we know that according to plain texts in the Bible the circumstances of death is relate to many factors. That, all have sinned and all must die, does not mean that the time, age or manner of the death of anyone is necessarily the will of God, God will never be found to be arbitrary or unjust in any of his kingdom from its inception and for all eternity for he is Holy, Holy, Holy. Some, who are wicked, must die younger as they are cut off in their sins. They could have lived longer if they had not committed them. He that hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, he that surrenders to God will not be. Those who dwell in the secret place of the most High of Psalm 91 are promised "with long life will I satisfy him." Some "choose not to accept deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection" such as Stephen. Some choose to commit suicide, some are victims of accidents by disease or actions of the sinful society. To blame God for many of these circumstances surely to makes it impossible to love him with all of our hearts yet it is common to do so, because we have in our minds, another god alongside the true God. The mysterious pagan god of destiny.
Upon close study of the situation of the church today and the foundation upon which it is based it will be discovered that the God of Aristotle, defined as the unmoved-mover, is taken along side the only true God, Jehovah and in so doing we have disobeyed the first and the greatest of the commandments. This has brought us under the wrath of God.
Investigating the root of Greek Philosophy brought to us by by Augustine and Thomas Aquino and many others, we find that we have two systems confusing the minds of many Christians. One system the acceptance of the god of destiny that says that all is predetermined and nothing can change as it was predestined from all eternity. What is the use of prayer? It is said that resignation to the will of God is required as true worship but it is a great wickedness to practice this worship. The other system says, that what a man sows that shall he also reap, and according as we walk in faith, seeking, finding and obeying as a faithful co-laborer with God, and as we act upon his promises we shall be rewarded. The latter is the God of the Bible; the former is another god of Greek paganism, the god of destiny.
