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“Biblical truth set forth with disciplined clarity and doctrinal depth, to glorify God through Jesus Christ.”
Biblical Articles, Studies, and Doctrinal Writings
A collection of Bible studies and doctrinal writings devoted to the authority of the King James Bible,
the defense of sound doctrine, and the edification of the body of Christ.
All biblical articles and studies authored by
George Calvas, Th.M.
Master of Biblical Theology
Statement of Purpose
Statement of Purpose
To glorify God through Jesus Christ by equipping the saints with a deep, biblically grounded understanding of doctrine that is often overlooked in standard biblical training. By providing concise yet profound teachings, I aim to ignite a passion in believers to diligently search the Scriptures, verify truth for themselves, and grow in discernment, knowledge, and obedience to the Word of God. Secondarily, this work is written with the prayerful desire that those who are yet lost may see and understand the wisdom of God, be confronted with the truth of their rebellion, and repent from their sins and turn unto the Lord Jesus Christ, who loved them and gave Himself for them.
Preface
Preface
These articles are theological works and devotionals, not casual opinions. They are wrought through more than forty-five years of disciplined study, preaching, and life in Christ, and they stand exclusively upon the pure, preserved words and final authority of the King James Bible. This work does not exist to satisfy curiosity, chase relevance, or cater to the modern appetite for tweets, soundbites, and two-minute videos that are shallow productions designed to generate clicks while bypassing the conscience and dulling the fear of God which is the beginning of wisdom.
If your appetite is for quick opinions, emotionalism, or trend-driven religion, this site is not for you. It is written for Bible believers, for students of the Scriptures who take seriously the command "Study to shew thyself approved unto God" (2 Timothy 2:15). These writings are intended to lay doctrinal foundation upon the eternal Book, the written revelation and manifestation of God in this world, not to entertain, but to instruct; not to soothe, but to establish truth.
My prayer is that the reader would not merely consume information, but be confronted by Scripture, corrected where necessary, and grounded in truth, growing in the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, and in reverent submission to the holy Scriptures, "for thou [God] hast magnified thy word above all thy name" (Psalm 138:2).
Biblical Articles and Studies
The Exhaustive Study of the Doctrine of Foreknowledge and Forcausation
The Exhaustive Study of the Doctrine of Foreknowledge and Forcausation
The distinction between foreknowledge (biblical word) and forecausation (biblical concept) is a pivotal issue in understanding the biblical truth of what God knows and when He knows it, particularly within the doctrines of divine omniscience, providence, and human responsibility. These terms are defined as follows and are fully developed later in the document:
· Foreknowledge refers to God's perfect and eternal general knowledge, encompassing actions, decisions, and circumstances throughout history.
· Forecausation, by contrast, implies that God directs and primarily causes certain events or actions before they happen.
While both concepts affirm the omniscience of God, they diverge significantly in theological implication. The issue is what does God know of the future: Scripture is clear that He reveals, proclaims, and brings to pass what He intends to do, from the start (Isaiah 46:10; Acts 15:18), yet His knowledge does not necessitate determinism, thereby eliminating genuine human volition. A biblical understanding must distinguish what God knows from what God causes, lest we impugn His character or negate the reality of human responsibility.
This paper examines the biblical and doctrinal relationship between foreknowledge and forecausation, demonstrating that God’s foreknowledge does not require Him to be the author or determining cause of every action, and especially not of sin. The distinction upholds both the supreme power and control of God and the moral accountability of man, consistent with the testimony of Scripture and the holiness of God's nature.
The biblical position does not diminish the knowledge or glory of God; it magnifies both. God unquestionably can know and declare things before they happen. He can say, “I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass” (Isaiah 46:11). But foreknowledge does not necessarily require exhaustive forecausation- that is, that every action, choice, and event involving man must be predetermined and caused beforehand in order to bring a prophecy to pass; nor does prophecy require that every detail was eternally decided before the prophecy was spoken.
One of the great presuppositions of Calvinism is that exhaustive predeterminism gives the greatest possible glory to God. Therefore, anything less than every event being eternally fixed beforehand is treated as though it diminishes His knowledge, power, or sovereignty. But that conclusion is not established merely by repeating it. It must be proved from Scripture.
In this way, Calvinism has, as it were, “crept in unawares” and introduced “cunningly devised fables” through a philosophical necessity that functionally destroys the plain force of every passage in which God commands, warns, invites, rebukes, rewards, or judges man according to his response. If every thought, choice, act of obedience, and act of rebellion was exhaustively predetermined before man existed, then man’s will was never truly free from divine causation in the very matters for which God later holds him accountable. To suggest that God can possess exhaustive knowledge of all things (omniscience) before they occur while having no determining involvement whatsoever in their outcome is not a defense of omniscience, but an outlandish and illogical assertion that exposes an ignorance of the Scriptures they claim to uphold. Yet the Scriptures repeatedly speak as though man genuinely can hear or refuse, obey or disobey, receive or reject, repent or harden his heart. God said, “choose you this day whom ye will serve” (Joshua 24:15); Christ said, “ye will not come to me, that ye might have life” (John 5:40); and Stephen charged Israel, “ye do always resist the Holy Ghost” (Acts 7:51). These statements lose their ordinary meaning if the very refusal being condemned was irresistibly and eternally caused by God Himself.
The Bottomless Pit
The subject of the bottomless pit is one that demands careful, unhurried consideration, for it is neither casually mentioned nor lightly described in Scripture. This study is the result of prolonged reflection and deliberate biblical examination, not speculation. The Bible references the bottomless pit explicitly only seven times, and every occurrence is found in the book of Revelation. Such concentration alone signals that this is a matter tied directly to God’s final dealings with the created order. In this document, we will begin by examining the first two references, found in Revelation 9:1–2, allowing the text itself to establish the boundaries of our understanding.
The Lies of Slavery
One of the greatest perversions of Scripture in the modern age arises from a false understanding of biblical servanthood. Modern readers who are conditioned by the horrors of trans-Atlantic slavery, race-based chattel bondage, kidnapping, forced breeding, and lifelong chains impose that wicked system upon the pages of the Bible. This is not only historically wrong; it is a satanic distortion that directly attacks the righteousness of God’s laws and the integrity of Scripture.
The King James Bible guards the reader from this deception by faithfully using the word “servant”, a term that reflects the biblical system of regulated servitude, which included:
· Voluntary servanthood
· Debt restitution
· Protective servanthood for the poor
· Household servants with rights, dignity, and legal recognition
· The possibility of freedom and inheritance
The KJV’s translators understood the biblical context and deliberately avoided the word “slave”, because that term did not accurately represent the biblical concepts, nor the moral character of God’s instructions.
The False Premise of Blessing Israel
(Revised- 1/25/26)
I know what I am about to write might offend some, but the Bible says, “Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them” (Psalm 119:165). I write this for your learning and admonition (Romans 15:4). You need to seriously consider these matters, for most Christians today blindly follow the traditions of men, pagan ideas like Easter and Christmas, that have no biblical foundation (Colossians 2:8, 2 Thessalonians 2:15). There is no biblical justification for the support of the Israel of today. It is under judgment, not blessing.
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. (1 Thessalonians 2:15-16)
The Doctrine of Salvation
Eternal security is not grounded in emotion, but in the very words of God. It is those words and those words alone that establish the truth concerning the doctrine of salvation. Therefore, if we truly love the Lord our God, we must believe the words He has given us. Not selectively. Not loosely. But entirely, as He has spoken them.
To love God is to trust His word absolutely. Any doctrine of salvation that rests on feeling, on performance, or on religious sentiment rather than upon the revealed Scripture is built on sand. The permanence of the believer's standing before God is secured not by the strength of his grip on Christ, but by the strength of Christ's grip on him.
Romans 8:38-39 establishes a foundational and non-negotiable truth: nothing in all of creation; no power, no principality, no height, no depth, nothing present or to come shall be able to separate the believer from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. That is not a conditional promise. It is an absolute declaration from God Himself. Therefore, when a well-meaning teacher argues that an absence of works renders faith vain and salvation forfeit, he has not corrected the believer, he has contradicted the scriptures. That is not exegesis; it is private interpretation, one that imports his own presuppositions into the text rather than drawing truth out of it. The error is not with the Scripture, for the Scripture is plain. The error is with the one who handles it carelessly.
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