Purpose

The purpose of Good God Ministry is to reveal the true nature of our Father and clear away evil misunderstandings about His character. You will be set free from the evil Old Testament image of God, as well as misunderstandings from the New Testament, such as eternal punishment by fire, Ananias & Sapphira, and the Book of Revelations. You will come to see the goodness of God more clearly, your love for Him will increase dramatically, and your faith will become much more effective because doubts about Father’s character will be cleared away. Amen!

Problem

The problem we are facing is that the bible is filled with contradictions concerning the true nature of God. In the Old Testament, we see a wrathful God who was constantly stealing, killing, destroying, bringing forth sicknesses, plagues, and curses. He continuously performed great atrocities, such as acts of genocide, infanticide (killing babies), warfare, savage repayments of evil for evil, rape of women, mauling to death of children, burning to death people & animals, drowning of all living creatures, acts of terrorism against Egypt, among countless other evil deeds.

When we turn to the New Testament, however, we see Jesus going around doing good things such as healing the sick, casting out demons, raising the dead, fulfilling the needs of the people, forgiving rather than punishing, redeeming us from sin and death, redeeming us from law & curse, etc. We also see that He never did any of the evil deeds that Yahweh did in the Old Testament: killing, making sick, bringing curses upon people, putting evil spirits upon people, plagues, punishments, or harm in any way.

Jesus is very much opposite the god of the Old Testament in many regards. Given that Jesus is the exact representation of Father, and “if you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father,” how do we reconcile these two very different portraits of God? And just when we were thinking that the NT was better than the OT, we get to the Book of Revelations and God seems to be back to the evil Old Testament ways.

What is going on in the Bible and what do we do about it? How can we love a God who is half evil? How can we trust God for good things when we see Him doing evil things? How can we believe that He will heal us of sicknesses when we see Him afflicting people with plagues & sickness in the Old Testament?

The major issue that we are facing is the veil over the Old Testament. The Holy Spirit tells us through Paul that when the Old Testament is read – even to this day – a veil lies upon our hearts. What does that mean? It means that we cannot see God nor Devil clearly in the Old Testament. God and Devil were mingled together as one character who did both good and evil in the Old Testament.

The Old Testament clearly says that God creates good & evil and light & darkness, yet the New Testament says that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. How can that be? It is because of this veil! We cannot see God nor Devil clearly, rather their words & actions are mingled together.

2 Corinthians 3:14-15 NKJV  But their (children of Israel) minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. (15) But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

Let’s take a look at one quick example of this veil.

The passages below are both describing the same event, yet the Chronicles account was written 4-500 years later. In the Samuel account, it says that Yahweh (LORD) was the one who tempted King David to sin, and then he slaughtered 70,000 innocent people as punishment against David. In the Chronicles account, it reveals that Satan was the one who tempted David, and Yahweh was responsible for slaughtering 70,000 innocent people. We actually see the names of Yahweh and Satan being used interchangeably in these passages, and clearly the deeds of temptation, sickness, and killing of innocents are of the character and nature of the Devil and not of Father God. The Old Testament is filled with countless examples of evil deeds done in the name Yahweh whom most people believe to be Father God. Clearly that was not the case in this passage! Father is innocent of all evil – He is light and in Him is no darkness at all! Amen!

2 Samuel 24:1-15 NKJV  Again the anger of the LORD (Yahweh / Jehovah) was aroused against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. (15) So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.

 

1 Chronicles 21:1-14 NKJV  Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. … (14) So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

Solution

The solution to our problem is to focus upon Jesus to get a true image of Father. “The law came through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” “Jesus is the express image of the Father.” Jesus said that no one has ever seen, heard, or known God at any time; therefore, one of the key responsibilities that Jesus had was to reveal Father to us. In fact, the character of God that Jesus revealed was so different from the Old Testament god that most Jews didn’t even recognize Jesus as being from God! Jesus did not resemble their Old Covenant god of law & curse, plagues, wrath, sickness, sin & death, destruction, violence, temptations, punishments, trials & tribulations, etc.

To establish a true picture of what Father is really like, we need to ask ourselves some questions concerning Jesus, realizing that He was the true image of the invisible God upon this earth. What sort of deeds did Jesus do? What plain-speech things did He say? How did He respond to sinners? How did He respond to people that did evil to Him? How did Jesus deal with evil deeds & sayings from the Old Testament? When we answer these questions, we will have a true & accurate image of Father. Amen!

The conclusion is that we must rightly divide the bible to accept things that align with the character of God that Jesus revealed, and we must reject things that disagree with Jesus’ characterization of Father. Importantly, we must listen to Jesus who said that no one has ever known Father; therefore, god as revealed in the Old Testament is not the portrait of our Father. We should also realize that the name of God which Jesus revealed to us is “Father” – He did not declare His name to be Yahweh (aka Jehovah) as most believe. In fact, Jesus said that people will know the true love of God by His name “Father” and all the positive thoughts that align with that.

Matthew 11:27 NKJV  All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

 

John 16:2-3 NKJV  They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. (3) And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

 

John 17:25-26 NKJV  O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. (26) And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.

Approach

We need to take a systematic approach to studying the bible to get the answers to our concerns about evil supposedly being done by God throughout the bible. Here are some key aspects:

1. We need to learn about the full salvation that Jesus provides and other aspects of God’s goodwill which are revealed in the New Testament, and also prophesied in the Old Testament. Additionally, we need a set of immovable truths that we can use to rightly divide the bible with.

2. We must learn about dominion / authority / rulership / godship over mankind and the earth. People fail to realize that after the sin of Adam & Eve, Satan became the god of this world and he was ruling & reigning throughout all the Old Testament times.

3. We need to face head-on the evil deeds done by “God” and not avoid them, but resolve them. We need to be bold to “call evil evil” and quit agreeing with common theology which justifies the evil deeds of “God” and calls them good. Woes come upon those who “call evil good.”

4. We need to learn how to rightly divide the word, and then begin to do it. Jesus demonstrated this throughout the gospels, and we need to learn from Him, and draw courage from Him to divide the Word because He exemplified it as a good & necessary practice.

In Closing

As you begin to consider new ideas about the true nature of God, certain things are likely to happen to you. First of all, you may feel that you are committing blasphemy by challenging the bible passages in which “God” is doing evil deeds of plagues, acts of terror, stealing, killing, cursing, and destroying. Actually, blasphemy is the opposite of what we are doing. We are challenging scripture to prove that Father is innocent of all evil deeds. Jesus defined blasphemy to be accusing God of being evil, which is exactly what most religious people do who are steeped in Old Testament, hell, and Revelations theology. People have been lured into “calling evil good” because they believe the bible is the inerrant word of God, yet they fail to realize that it must be rightly divided as Jesus demonstrated.

Secondly, people will inundate you with doctrine, with statements that you are going to hell, with “His ways are higher than our ways, so who are you to challenge the bible,” etc. We must realize that Jesus was constantly rightly dividing the word.

For example, in Matthew 5, Jesus was rightly dividing every time that He spoke like this, “You’ve heard it said (something by Yahweh)… But I say to you (the truth)…” He was stating something that Yahweh said in the Old Testament, then He was rejecting or correcting it. Jesus was rightly dividing the scriptures, and He did not accept the evil things that Yahweh gave as laws and commands, such as repayment of evil with evil (eye for an eye), hatred of enemies, taking of oaths, etc. Jesus blatantly contradicted & rejected evil sayings and deeds of “God” in the Old Testament!

Let us also keep in mind that Jesus never promised to give us a bible to lead us into all truth – Jesus promised us the Holy Spirit who would guide us into all truth. The bible is not perfect, it is not entirely the inerrant word of God, yet it does contain many inerrant words from Him. If it was perfect, then Jesus would not have rejected & corrected numerous passages. If it was perfect, it would have prophesied that John the Baptist was coming to make straight the ways of the LORD, but instead it said Elijah was coming. The bible must be spiritually discerned and rightly divided as Jesus demonstrated.

 John 16:12-13 NKJV  I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. (13) However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

Thirdly, you will have many people reject you as heretical and come against you with near-violence. Somehow there is a near-violent reaction that many people have towards you when you start declaring that God does not kill, curse, make-sick, destroy, etc. Believe it or not, people will attack you for proclaiming that He is good and only good. Unbelievable!  Therefore, pray for boldness and courage as you begin this quest.

Fourth, as you begin to believe that God is only good, your love for Him will flourish, your faith will prosper, and your fruitfulness in prayer will increase exponentially. Why? Because you will love and trust Him rather than fearing Him and being uncertain of His will.

Lastly, don’t forget that “Jesus is the reset button.” What do I mean? Whenever you feel that you are off track with your beliefs about Father, refer back to Jesus. What deeds did He do? What deeds did He not do? What plain-speech things did He say? How did He respond in real life situations? When you do this, you will see evidence of God’s goodness in Jesus, and you will be reassured that Father is the same as Jesus revealed. Amen!

Now I encourage you to flip through the pages of this website and take the teachings on each topic. In doing so, you will quickly arise in a new and liberating perspective of God.

God bless you!
Bobby