Abel Damina draws biblical controversies around himself

1)            A neighborhood acquaintance, wondering about the kind of teachings Dr. Abel Damina is known for, quoted what he watched and heard him saying, “Anytime I drop something about the Bible, and they busy themselves with it, I quickly go back to do some research and drop another bomb at them.” It seems to me that the founder of Abel Damina Ministries International who is also the CEO of Kingdom Life Network loves having fun doing what he does with the Bible. This man has said so many things. Is everything he teaches wrong?

Let us go through some of Dr Abel Damina’s teachings: 1. You cannot lose your salvation. 2. There are no mansions in heaven. 3. Jesus is God. 4. The falsehood of “What God cannot do does not exist.” 5. Jesus did not ascend to heaven. 6. God did not tell Noah to build an ark. 7. Tithing is not for the New Testament Church. 8. God never entered into covenant with man. 9. If you follow the Bible, you will be poor all your life. 10. God has never been angry. 11. You do not have a separate spirit of your own. The spirit inside you is the Holy Spirit; because you and God are one. 12. There is no Trinity. 13. Jesus is not the Lion of Judah. 14. Abraham was a dubious businessman; Jacob too used Benjamin as collateral to make money.

Can a true Christian lose the salvation?

Let me start from the first one having to do with the security of salvation. Most definitely, no true born again Christian will lose the salvation wrought on the cross. I have many posts on Security of Salvation. It is the substitutionary death which Jesus entered into for the justification of whosoever believes in the finished work of Golgotha sanguinary sacrifice, and receives Jesus as Lord and Saviour, has received justification of eternality. There are so many Scriptures proving the security of salvation. John 3:16 reads, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The reason why it is ‘everlasting’ is because this ‘life’ is not psuchē (psoo-khay’): ‘breath, the breath of life.’ Psuchē, apparently, from its definition, is transient, ergo, noteternal. It is not bios (bee’-os): ‘life extensively; the period or course of life.’ Bios too looks like what will come to a termination, one day.  Biōsis (bee’-o-sis) is not the Greek employed for this ‘life’ which is defined as, ‘manner of living and acting, way of life.’ Biōsis looks more historical that comes to a natural end. It is not even biōtikos (bee-o-tee-kos’): ‘Pertaining to life and the affairs of this life.’ The Greek word for ‘life’ in this verse is zōē (dzo-ay’): ‘of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic “logos” and to Christ in whom the “logos” put on human nature.’ Zōē is God’s eternal kind of life; and this is why zōē must be the right Greek word appropriately employed to explain the saved lives of the born again Christians. If the born again receives the eternal life of God, it definitely, cannot be lost!

“Never thirst” denotes eternality of life in Jesus.

John 5:24 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” The word ‘believeth’ is pisteuō (pist-yoo’-o): ‘1. to have faith 2. to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith.’ To prove the Divine fidelity towards the soteriology, Jesus asseverates that the born again shall not come into ‘condemnation’ which is the Greek krisis (kree’-sis): ‘a separating, sundering; a trial (in legal sense); judgment.’ The interesting thing here is that the words ‘shall’ and ‘come’ are the same Greek erchomai (er’-khom-ahee): ‘to come and go.’ What does this connote? “In coming (of condemnation),as far as the believer of the finished work of the cross is concerned, condemnation will not come;” meaning that the born again Christian is doubly insured and protected by the power of Divinity against any condemnation – this is true justification.

Colossians 3:2-4 2) “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” The true person of Christianity died to sin when he received Jesus as Lord and Saviour. On account of this soteriological actuality our lives as God’s children are hidden in the Divine Second Member of the Godhead. To corroborate the doubly insured life of the believer, we see in Colossians 3:2-4 that he does not only have his person hidden in Christ, an extension of security of the believer says, “Christ is our life.” Dead to sin, the born again Christian has not a life of his own. How can Christ be my life and something will make me lose it? It is impossible! Many pastors will make noise so loudest, reminding Christians that they must do everything to maintain their righteousness. Philippians 3:9 “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” therefore, the righteousness of the Christian dwells not in himself. Can Jesus lose His divine righteousness? If the answer is, “No,” then as a Christian, I cannot lose my righteousness, and, consequently, my salvation. Selah!

Get born again by saying this simple prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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