I found this today by accident while I was doing research on something unrelated. This was from over a year ago, back in March of 2019. Here is the video reference, the link has the time stamp, so you will not have to watch the entire video, and his answer is only about five minutes long:
https://youtu.be/fT3CWYKsS-4?t=700
I found this ironic, since he has a website called "biblethinker.org," but his foundation is not based on Scripture, it is based on Greek grammar dictionaries. I left a Youtube comment, and I'll quote it here, with a little color and spacing to organize it for easier reading since Youtube is terrible for making thorough comments. After that, I'll leave you guys to comment on the details; I'll be interested to see your analysis of the video.
Comment can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT3CWYKsS-4&lc=Ugy1IZSu6AyOWqzFwSB4AaABAg
My name is Christopher Johnson, and I am the teacher of third question of this video about Creation Liberty Evangelism. I just want everyone who might read this to understand that this man, Mike Winger, is scamming you. The foundation of this man's doctrine and philosophy is Greek grammar dictionaries, not the Word of God, as you can see from his own statement (14:04):
"What you kind of want, if you can find it, is a resource that gives you more data than that, right? Like, more information about the word."The problem is that, after he said this, Winger did
NOT point people to the context of the Bible for that extra data, allowing God to explain what He means by what He says (as we are supposed to study Scripture, which the Bible teaches us to do in
Isaiah 28:10-13), but rather, Winger points them to very expensive "bible tools," which are basically Greek grammar dictionaries, and I have some teachings on our website where you can get more information about how Mike Winger is scamming you all into thinking he has Scriptural understanding, when he does not. I will simply give you the titles, as I do not want to spam links in this post on his video, but you can look them up on my website:
The 'Original Greek' Scam (keyword search 'greek')
The Dangers of Using Lexicons and Concordances (keyword search 'lexicon')
I will provide just one link. If you want to hear the gospel on repentance that Mike Winger does not understand, the following link is my teaching on repentance where you can learn the context of God's Word, rather than going to secular sources for information:
http://www.creationliberty.com/articles/repent.phpWhen you forsake the worldly ways of Mike Winger, and choose to put your trust in the Lord God, you can go to God's Word for understand, and He defined repentance at the very beginning:
"And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." -Gen 6:6-7The Bible (at least, the King James Bible) has a built-in dictionary for most words, and repentance is defined here as "grief" in general. Did God "turn" from making man, or did He "change his mind" from making man? Obviously not, or we would not be here right now; rather, God
GRIEVED that He had made man, because it hurt him how wicked they had become. The fact is that, if God turned or changed from making man, then it would make God a liar because He already foretold the coming of Jesus Christ in
Gen 3:15, and so Winger's doctrine is not only inconsistent when you look at Scripture, but it directly contradicts Biblical prophecy.
To show more deception, the man who asked the question, Christopher White, did indeed write me, but his so-called "rebuke" did not consist of any doctrine, Scripture, or anything else substantial to prove his points. Instead, he went to majority opinion and respecting the persons of worldly "scholarship" as his justification, as you can see for yourself - here is his entire "rebuke" letter:
"After further study of this issue, I have concluded that you are plainly in error. Nobody sir, almost nobody teaches the meaning of repentance as you do. You have convinced yourself that you can't trust greek, lexicons, dictionaries, bible versions and concordances just so you can avoid the obvious. The fact that a man, with little to no formal seminary training, can thumb his nose at over 500 years of biblical scholarship and then teach a subject in error ( that almost no one else teaches) is outlandishly arrogant. You are bound as a servant of Christ to examine your teachings and we will all answer for what we teach. May the Lord rebuke you sir, if you do not correct your abhorrent teaching of repentance. I do not expect i'll hear from you again but i'll pray for you."Of course, majority opinion is rebuked in Scripture as well, especially since the majority of "Bible scholars" in the days of Jesus Christ were against Him too:
"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:" -Exd 23:2I answered him thoroughly, and showed him the Scriptural problems with what he was saying, but he refused any further communication with me, and then immediately came to Mike Winger, a student of worldly theology, to help justify himself. That email was sent to me on Mar 11th, 2019, and so this video from Winger took place the following day; demonstrating that White refused communication with me after his "slap-and-run" comments, and then sought out Winger to give him an excuse for doing it.
The reason Mike Winger and Christopher White cling to lexicons is because it gives them an excuse for the pride of their hearts (see
Jms 4:6), so they would not have to be humbled to repentance (i.e. grief, or in terms of salvation of mankind, godly sorrow of wrongdoing) before God, and instead believe that their "turning from sin" or "changing their minds" (which is the definition of
CONVERT, not repentance) is the foundation of the gospel of Jesus, which is a works-based doctrine. This is why the Holy Spirit has told us in the Word of God that He does not choose the intelligent, lofty, well-educated, and mighty people of this world to preach His Word, but instead, He more often chooses the lowly, foolish, uneducated, and despised to preach, so that no flesh would glory of themselves in their presumed knowledge:
"For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence." -1Co 1:26-29I realize that most of you likely respect the person of Mike Winger, and therefore, you will not hear me out (which, by the way, is sinful if you do that,
Jms 2:1 &
Jms 2:9, and also against wisdom of God,
Pro 18:13), but I can only pray that one of you out there might read this and decide to look into (and study,
2Ti 2:15) the matter yourself because Mike Winger is
NOT teaching you to think Biblically. I hope that helps someone.
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