Colossians 1:15-17 “ 15  The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16  For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17  He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. ” - Berean Standard Bible There is only ONE who has free will, the GOD of the universe! Satan HATES verse 16! Satan HATES Jesus Christ and that’s the very reason why this brilliant evil one brilliantly wove the so-called ‘free will’ false dogma into the mind of the acclaimed Augustine, bishop of Hippo and so-called ‘great philosopher and theologian’ way back. One could well say that the coined terms “ casuistry ” and “ sophistry ” stem from this very man who is still so highly esteemed by the church ‘intelligentsia’ in their ivory towers across all borders. Besides, philosophy revolves around human nature at the core. Augustine, the rhetorician who was cautiously assembling his words to infiltrate the minds of his listeners, was clay in the hands of the God of the Bible. God made sure that the ‘wisdom’ of this arrogant man was turned into foolishness. What else is more foolish than the unification of ‘free will’ and the predestination of God? These two disparate concepts TOTALLY oppose one another. See below how God thwarts the wise: 1 Corinthians 3:19 “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”” - Berean Standard Bible Job 5:13 “He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.” - Berean Standard Bible Moreover, Jesus Himself referred to the academics when He said the following: Matthew 11:25 “At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.” - NASB 1995 Since God is purposeful, He always gets what He wants and He therefore makes the will of human beings to fit HIS Will, never the other way around. Philippians 2:13 “For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.” - Berean Standard Bible Based upon the above, is Satan acting on behalf of God’s good purpose? Yes. And further, does it look like Satan has any moral ethics? No. So then, what’s the moral of the story here? Moral ethics is a human term that determines what is good and what is bad and since Satan knows the Bible by heart, i.e. the original unadulterated Word of God, he was initially given his intelligence by Christ for his main assignment, to flip good and bad into their opposite formats, mocking Christ around every corner through rhetoric . Satan’s focus was never supposed to be on Christ, but on himself only. What is the “ism” of humanism other than mortal man being made the focus of attention, rather than our Saviour. The Renaissance in all its genres is a brilliant example of the rhetoric of art expression, brainwashing people into seeing ugliness as being beautiful, into seeing darkness as being light. Freemasonry is founded upon the Word of God, albeit its manipulated flipside. Romans 8:6 “For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the spirit is life and peace:” - English Revised Version Romans 8:16 “The S pirit Himself testifies with our s pirit that we are God’s children.” - Berean Standard Bible Why do you think God gave Satan the name Adversary? Because it’s of paramount importance that the counterfeit god of this world has to be painfully experienced by all mankind and Satan was given the job playing that role! And the rationale? So that ALL people will desperately seek HIM and find HIM ( Acts 17:27 below)! The GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is never ever to be either mocked, or taken lightly. Most people have a huge problem with evil and the judgment of God, but this will be addressed a little later on the very next page in actual fact. Those in secret societies are deep down in despair by the clutches of the devil and are in fear of the death penalty upon breaking their oaths of secrecy. So they just stay put. God created darkness and evil, the breeding ground of secrecy and the most prevalent playground of Satan to this day! Playground? Yes, freemasonry for example in all its branches, is the secret society that he upholds via its addictive rituals in their macabre fashion, rituals depicting the oldest religion ever. But, before I carry on with the vulnerability of the human being, the deceptive hermeneutics of Acts 17:27 in ALL Bible versions, in terms of God’s Divine goal of having all humanity being unified with Him, has first to be exposed. This is only one of Satan’s dirty tricks on scribes, only to prove Jeremiah to have been so right in his prophesy in Jeremiah 8:8 . So here goes… Below is what virtually all versions look like, scribes scrambling around this verse in panic, resorting to the only way to conceal God’s loving grace by adding their ”perhaps’s” and “mights”. To conceal God’s saving act of grace to all humanity in finding Him, reflected in this verse, is obviously on their agenda! The verse below (and all the others) is appalling. Oh my goodness! Acts 17:27 “to seek God, if perhaps indeed they might palpate for Him, and might find Him. And indeed, He is not far from each one of us.” - Berean Literal Bible To SUFFER, to SEEK Him, to anxiously GROPE for Him and to FIND Him! Because of all the incongruence around this verse, I decided to give my own version here below, transliterated from the Westcott & Hort 1880 Greek version: Acts 17:27 “ζητεῖν τὸν θεὸν εἰ ἄρα γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ εὕροιεν, καί γε οὐ μακρὰν ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα.” - Westcott & Hort 1880 Back to the vulnerability of mankind The vulnerability of the human reproductive physiology has been Satan’s target number one since the days of ancient Egypt, exploiting the human body where sacred physiology is put into place to produce offspring and expand God’s family on earth. What’s supposed to be beautiful, Satan’s job was to transform into vulgarity, preying on the addictive reward system God wove into the human brain, enslaving precious human beings to worship him (Satan), the god of this world, instead of the God of the Bible. And how does Satan keep not only the secret societies of darkness, but also fake ‘Christianity’ around the world captive? FEAR, with either fear of the death penalty, or with fear of ‘everlasting torture in hell’ respectively. Moreover, since Satan knows his gruesome destiny of doom in the Lake of Fire, albeit temporary, he is saturated with fury. His anger is expressed fear and this fear he successfully carries forward! Test it. Tell a ‘Christian’ who believes in an everlasting hell of damnation that there’s no such thing and experience his/her anger. It just comes natural! Revelation 12:12 “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”” - Berean Standard Bible Does this look like Satan is in control and has free will? Of course not! He knows he has NO free will and that God is calling the shots! He can do NOTHING if not ordained by God. Does God love Satan? Of course He does, but He detests his deeds. So why then did a loving God create evil in the first place, letting all its practices be carried out? Why not just made everyone obedient and believe in Him from the start? Two crucial questions and very exciting to answer, a little later. But before I come to the “a little later”, just a few reminders… John 13:27 “And when Judas had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to Judas, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”” - Berean Standard Bible Had it not for Satan and Judas, ALL of us would have been in BIG trouble today! Besides, does this verse above show Jesus Omniscience around his “what you are about to do…”? Yes, it does; Jesus knew then already the sequence of events ! Luke 23:34 “Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing .” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.” - Berean Standard Bible Jesus HAD to go through humiliation and scorn, for YOU and ALL of mankind! He took it ALL upon HIMSELF before creation already! Never ever forget this, especially whenever the “I have free will” begin to touch your lips! Exodus 9:12 “But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.” - NET Bible Exodus 10:1 “The LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants , in order to display these signs of mine before him,” - NET Bible God did that, simply because ALL actions in the universe are orchestrated by HIM only, at every nanosecond. The time for showing His miracles to Pharaoh was already allotted way before, it’s time preceding that of the Israelites’ departure! Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” - Berean Standard Bible And to conclude these few (out of millions of) reminders with one more… Psalm 139:14 “I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.” - Berean Standard Bible My dear ‘free will’ advocate, where do you draw your line of having ‘free will’ and based upon what? When it suits you, of course, because having control is an innate human trait of self determination since the fateful day in Eden, the trait that fosters hatred and division around the world, the trait which gives the Adversary a crocodile smile, mile upon mile. Let go of grasping this futile straw of self-determination and rather stay away from any drugs to let GOD keep your little Bowman’s wonder happy.