What Is Episkopos Really Teaching? Read His Own Words

[bdavidc]

I purchased one of @Episkopos's books. It'll be nice to read what he has to say without having amigo, lizbeth, or behold jumping all over him.

I did purchase it, and it is full of false teachings. If that is what you are looking for, then you will find it there.

 

[bdavidc]

Bless you brother... :)

It's amazing how anything deeper than a very shallow interpretation is seen as evil. I pray you will be blessed by the book.

A peer reviewer (PHD) reviewed my book and said that my bible exegesis was sound....but that my conclusions were not according to any tradition he knew of and they would be controversial.

Was Jesus not controversial? Was He executed because He towed the party line?

Being controversial does not make a man like Christ. False teachers are always controversial to actual born-again followers of Jesus Christ. The question is not whether your conclusions differ from tradition, nor whether another false teacher with a PhD found your exegesis technically sound. The question is whether your conclusions agree with the plain teaching of Scripture; they don't.

Jesus was not executed because He offered novel private interpretations. He was rejected because He testified to the truth, fulfilled the Scriptures, and exposed sin. He said, “The scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35). The apostles likewise warned that men would arise speaking “perverse things” like you are doing to draw disciples after themselves (Acts 20:30).

You keep treating correction as proof that others are shallow. That is not an answer. When your conclusions overturn or deny what Scripture plainly says, calling them “deeper” does not make them biblical it just shows you are a false teacher and you don't know what you're talking about. Peter warned that unstable people twist the Scriptures “unto their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:16).

And a reviewer’s approval does not settle truth. If he reviewed these teachings, called your exegesis sound, and accepted conclusions contrary to Scripture, then his review deserves the same biblical scrutiny. False teaching often gathers its own admirers and endorsers. “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20).

Stop comparing yourself to Christ because people challenge you. You will answer for what you are doing on judgment day.

 

[bdavidc]

If there is anything in particular that gets the dander up in my critics....it would be wiser to challenge me on what I teach than just slander and grandstand as if some here are inquisitors. It's dishonest and ungodly to say the least.

Premise. I teach a salvation into the perfection of Christ who knew no sin...according to the truth. This is unto GLORY.

AND I also teach the mercy of God on the meek and those who work righteousness in humility and the fear of the Lord.

All the ways of God are mercy AND truth.

I also hold to the VERY controversial views that Jesus is BOTH God and man.

Your own words are the issue, and anyone who wants to see what you teach can click the links already posted. You teach a salvation into Christ’s sinless perfection and then speak of God’s mercy upon those who “work righteousness.” That is not the gospel. Christ alone “did no sin” (1 Peter 2:22), while John says, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves” (1 John 1:8). Paul said he had not already been made perfect (Philippians 3:12).

God justifies the ungodly through faith, not those who have reached perfection or established themselves by works: “To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness” (Romans 4:5). Good works follow salvation. They do not become a condition by which sinners obtain mercy.

I do not criticize you for believing Jesus is both God and man. Scripture plainly teaches that. You bring that up as a shield because it is orthodox, while avoiding the errors I am actually exposing.

 

[bdavidc]

Much of what you are saying is true, and much of what @Episkopos said is not...but so was what John Lennon said and believed. So what? God loves them both. Imagine--neither sayings whether right or wrong condemns or saves. Being wrong is not the problem--by definition--we are all wrong. But even the smallest seed of truth buried within what one believes, is enough to save.

Even so, it is indeed another matter--to teach what is wrong.

But better than calling one out, is to give your own witness or testimony. For this reason Jesus spoke of seeing the speck in our brother's eye and not the log in our own.

Well, I have called you out ScottA, as you are another false teacher on this forum and here you going again with more of it.

God’s love for sinners is not the same as God saving sinners while they reject His Son and believe a false gospel. That is the error in your reply.

“Even the smallest seed of truth” in what someone believes is not enough to save anyone. If it were, every false religion would save, because every false religion contains some fragment of truth. But Jesus said, “He that believeth not is condemned already” (John 3:18), and, “If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins” (John 8:24). Peter said, “Neither is there salvation in any other” than Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12).

Being mistaken about a minor matter is one thing. Teaching that Jesus did not come to forgive sins, denying righteousness imputed apart from works, and claiming people can be saved whatever their religious belief is, is not a harmless error. It is another gospel. Paul did not say to excuse it because God loves the teacher. He said, “If any man preach any other gospel unto you... let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:9).

And do not misuse Matthew 7 to silence biblical rebuke. Jesus condemned hypocritical judgment, not discernment. In the same chapter He commanded, “Beware of false prophets” and said, “Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:15–20). How are believers supposed to obey that command if no one may identify false teaching from a man’s own words?

I gave Scripture and direct links to Episkopos’s statements so people can test them. That is not grandstanding. That is obeying 1 John 4:1: “Try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

 

[ScottA]

Well, I have called you out ScottA, as you are another false teacher on this forum and here you going again with more of it.

God’s love for sinners is not the same as God saving sinners while they reject His Son and believe a false gospel. That is the error in your reply.

Per usual, a lie, then projection of your own false doctrine used to justify yourself. Well, again you failed. Two sentences, and you do all that, and then condemn Israel whom Christ came to save, as well. Such amazing, self-righteous error!

 

[bdavidc]

"So what?" wasn't the attitude to false teachers that we see in the new testament. Paul especially fought hard to keep wolves from defiling and deceiving the church.

I created this podcast and song just for @Episkopos and @ScottA, hope you enjoy it.

 

[bdavidc]

Something else Episkopos is teaching:

"We are ALL bought with a price. Jesus purchased back the WORLD (and the church) with His own blood. That is NOT exclusive to believers.

Jesus paid for those who obey Him whether they know Him or not."

The Book of Remembrance

This is worse than a vague statement. Episkopos is directly denying the biblical gospel.

Scripture does not say all people are redeemed by Christ’s blood. It says Christ purchased a people for God “out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (Revelation 5:9). It says He “gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people” (Titus 2:14). His blood actually saves His people. It does not redeem the unbelieving world while leaving them condemned for unbelief.

Jesus said, “He that believeth not is condemned already” (John 3:18), and, “He that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12). So the claim that Christ paid for people who obey Him “whether they know Him or not” is directly opposed to Scripture. Jesus said eternal life is knowing “the only true God, and Jesus Christ” (John 17:3).

Then he replaces salvation by faith with his own claimed heavenly experience: “Being saved now is about being translated into heaven... like I did.” That is not the gospel preached by Paul. Paul wrote, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31), and “By grace are ye saved through faith... not of works” (Ephesians 2:8–9). No apostle told sinners they needed Episkopos’s claimed experience of being translated into heaven.

Finally, Micah 7:20 is not teaching that people inherit eternal life because they are already righteous and mercy is then granted to them. It is God’s promise to fulfill His covenant mercy and truth to Abraham and Jacob. Episkopos is wrenching the verse from its context to support a salvation Scripture never teaches.

This is not deeper truth. It is a fabricated gospel: universal redemption without faith, salvation without knowing Christ, mercy earned by the righteous, and special experience substituted for the apostolic message. Paul’s warning stands: “If any man preach any other gospel unto you... let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:9).

 

[ScottA]

I created this podcast and song just for @Episkopos and @ScottA, hope you enjoy it.

Your behavior is actionable. It will cost you more than 2 cents.

 

[bdavidc]

Per usual, a lie, then projection of your own false doctrine used to justify yourself. Well, again you failed. Two sentences, and you do all that, and then condemn Israel whom Christ came to save, as well. Such amazing, self-righteous error!

You are the one who is following your father, the father of lies. That is an empty accusation. You have quoted no sentence where I condemned Israel, because I did not.

Christ came first to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24), yet Scripture also says, “He came unto his own, and his own received him not” (John 1:11). Paul makes the matter plain: “They are not all Israel, which are of Israel” (Romans 9:6), and “at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace” (Romans 11:5).

No Jew, Gentile, or anyone else is saved while rejecting the Son. Jesus said to His own Jewish hearers, “If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins” (John 8:24). Peter said to Israel, “Neither is there salvation in any other” (Acts 4:12).

Calling that “self-righteous error” does not erase Christ’s words. God’s love does not cancel His judgment, and His promises to Israel do not create salvation apart from faith in Jesus Christ. “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12).

 

[ScottA]

You are the one who is following your father, the father of lies. That is an empty accusation. You have quoted no sentence where I condemned Israel, because I did not.

More lies. Yes, I quoted you...but you know not what you do.

 

[Episkopos]

I created this podcast and song just for @Episkopos and @ScottA, hope you enjoy it.

These are more like confessions that describe your purpose here. The blind can't see themselves. If your eye is dark then everything is darkness.

 

[Episkopos]

This is worse than a vague statement. Episkopos is directly denying the biblical gospel.

Scripture does not say all people are redeemed by Christ’s blood.

This is a strawman argument. And God hates a false balance. It doesn't say that for God so loved the church. The scale is wrong if one does that. Jesus came to take away the sins of the world.

God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Of course not everyone is personally redeemed or included in those who will be saved.

But you have a miniature understanding. And from that feeble position you seek to condemn others that God does not condemn....including anyone who has a bigger and better vision than you do. Pathetic.

John says....not only an atonement for us who believe but also for the sins of the whole world.

Paul says... Who is the saviour of ALL men, especially those who believe.

You are unlearned in bible exegesis. And in your ignorance you are going directly against any sound counsel.

It says Christ purchased a people for God “out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (Revelation 5:9). It says He “gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people” (Titus 2:14). His blood actually saves His people. It does not redeem the unbelieving world while leaving them condemned for unbelief.

This is again at the wrong scale. This is speaking of the saints only that are chosen from among God's people....who are charged with unbelief. Many are called, few are chosen You are too simplistic in your views.

You don't charge unbelievers with unbelief the same way you don't charge civilians with nonmilitary behaviour.

I don't think you have enough IQ to understand such simple things.

Any account of unbelief is always a charge against His own people. Read the bible.

Jesus said, “He that believeth not is condemned already” (John 3:18), and, “He that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12). So the claim that Christ paid for people who obey Him “whether they know Him or not” is directly opposed to Scripture. Jesus said eternal life is knowing “the only true God, and Jesus Christ” (John 17:3).

Again this is mixing standards. The bible makes things clear....you muddy the meaning and conclusions with your terrible analysis.

Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus about condemnation for unbelief....not the united nations. This is about God's people. Jesus came to teach and warn HIS PEOPLE....not the world. If you want to hear Jesus preach to the whole world read the sermon on the mount.

Salvation is conditional on obedience. And the people who will be charged with disobedience is ONLY God's people. The world will be judged by their works. Anything else is a twisting of the meaning of the bible.

Then he replaces salvation by faith with his own claimed heavenly experience: “Being saved now is about being translated into heaven... like I did.” That is not the gospel preached by Paul. Paul wrote, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31), and “By grace are ye saved through faith... not of works” (Ephesians 2:8–9). No apostle told sinners they needed Episkopos’s claimed experience of being translated into heaven.

You defend a LACK of experience against an actual experience. Talk about grasping at strawmen. For you God is only a concept. But I know God.

Finally, Micah 7:20 is not teaching that people inherit eternal life because they are already righteous and mercy is then granted to them. It is God’s promise to fulfill His covenant mercy and truth to Abraham and Jacob. Episkopos is wrenching the verse from its context to support a salvation Scripture never teaches.

All the ways of God are mercy and truth. If you understood this you could be purged from your very prominent hypocrisy and iniquity...as it says in the bible.

This is not deeper truth. It is a fabricated gospel: universal redemption without faith, salvation without knowing Christ, mercy earned by the righteous, and special experience substituted for the apostolic message. Paul’s warning stands: “If any man preach any other gospel unto you... let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:9).

The gospel in full resolution is about victory in Christ. Separating a Bride unto the Lord. But for many others mercy will triumph over judgment. Our God is a merciful God.

You are an example of someone who is false and unlearned.

 

[Episkopos]

Being controversial does not make a man like Christ. False teachers are always controversial to actual born-again followers of Jesus Christ. The question is not whether your conclusions differ from tradition, nor whether another false teacher with a PhD found your exegesis technically sound. The question is whether your conclusions agree with the plain teaching of Scripture; they don't.

In your religious opinion.

Jesus was not executed because He offered novel private interpretations. He was rejected because He testified to the truth, fulfilled the Scriptures, and exposed sin. He said, “The scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35). The apostles likewise warned that men would arise speaking “perverse things” like you are doing to draw disciples after themselves (Acts 20:30).

The truth is novel to any religiously indoctrinated person like the Pharisees or yourself.

You keep treating correction as proof that others are shallow. That is not an answer. When your conclusions overturn or deny what Scripture plainly says, calling them “deeper” does not make them biblical it just shows you are a false teacher and you don't know what you're talking about. Peter warned that unstable people twist the Scriptures “unto their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:16).

And a reviewer’s approval does not settle truth. If he reviewed these teachings, called your exegesis sound, and accepted conclusions contrary to Scripture, then his review deserves the same biblical scrutiny. False teaching often gathers its own admirers and endorsers. “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20).

The irony....

Stop comparing yourself to Christ because people challenge you. You will answer for what you are doing on judgment day.

Listen to your own words. Stop pretending you are God's grand inquisitor. Seek the Lord to actually understand the bible. Ask questions, don't make accusations that will condemn you. Be wise not foolish.

 

[amigo de christo]

I would love to visit a website that presents @Episkopos views. But, I doubt there is one.

Oh there indeed is such a place . But the doctrines wont all be identical to one the other .
But oh yeah there is such a place that has been selling these inclusive views for a very very long time .
ITs called christendom and its ecumeincal plan .
Many sadly do agree WITH EPI , but as i said their doctrines are not identical , BUT THE LIE IS IDENTICAL .
The lie is the same . And it leads them as one man to the day of their own sudden destruction .
Inclusvism has engulfed not only mainstream false relgions but mainstream christendom .
AND it has done its work and it has prepared them all
to recieve and to beleive the DELUSION . And come to the table
and be as one man , one heart , one love , one peace , one unity
ONLY IT AINT UNDER GOD OR CHRIST . T his w orld has been prepared
and prepared it surely has been .
UNLIKE john the baptists who prepared them to receive Christ and had preached REPENTANCE
IT has preached ACCEPTANCE and it has prepared them all unto that which is of anti christ
and of the beast . Great war will be raged by the inclusive god
and by means of a highly powerful and fully fuctional AI image speaking digital leading system
IT will enforce the law of inclusivity upon all .
And all who did not conform to the all inclu sive god who came in by means of false love
by Whom its HARLOT had prepared them all unto . This god gonna rage war against the one true sheep .
ONLY those who sit under it , THEY will never know what is going on at all
and will only see it as a means for world peace n safety an dthat it is the very will of GOD .
WHEN IT WAS ONLY OF SATAN . SO folks better watch out . Because many are already under its sway
to some degree and the longer they stay in its chambers the more convinced they will become OF THE LIE .

 

[Marvelloustime]

Oh there indeed is such a place . But the doctrines wont all be identical to one the other .
But oh yeah there is such a place that has been selling these inclusive views for a very very long time .
ITs called christendom and its ecumeincal plan .
Many sadly do agree WITH EPI , but as i said their doctrines are not identical , BUT THE LIE IS IDENTICAL .
The lie is the same . And it leads them as one man to the day of their own sudden destruction .
Inclusvism has engulfed not only mainstream false relgions but mainstream christendom .
AND it has done its work and it has prepared them all
to recieve and to beleive the DELUSION . And come to the table
and be as one man , one heart , one love , one peace , one unity
ONLY IT AINT UNDER GOD OR CHRIST . T his w orld has been prepared
and prepared it surely has been .
UNLIKE john the baptists who prepared them to receive Christ and had preached REPENTANCE
IT has preached ACCEPTANCE and it has prepared them all unto that which is of anti christ
and of the beast . Great war will be raged by the inclusive god
and by means of a highly powerful and fully fuctional AI image speaking digital leading system
IT will enforce the law of inclusivity upon all .
And all who did not conform to the all inclu sive god who came in by means of false love
by Whom its HARLOT had prepared them all unto . This god gonna rage war against the one true sheep .
ONLY those who sit under it , THEY will never know what is going on at all
and will only see it as a means for world peace n safety an dthat it is the very will of GOD .
WHEN IT WAS ONLY OF SATAN . SO folks better watch out . Because many are already under its sway
to some degree and the longer they stay in its chambers the more convinced they will become OF THE LIE .

@amigo de christo

 

[Lizbeth]

This is worse than a vague statement. Episkopos is directly denying the biblical gospel.

Scripture does not say all people are redeemed by Christ’s blood. It says Christ purchased a people for God “out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (Revelation 5:9). It says He “gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people” (Titus 2:14). His blood actually saves His people. It does not redeem the unbelieving world while leaving them condemned for unbelief.

Jesus said, “He that believeth not is condemned already” (John 3:18), and, “He that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12). So the claim that Christ paid for people who obey Him “whether they know Him or not” is directly opposed to Scripture. Jesus said eternal life is knowing “the only true God, and Jesus Christ” (John 17:3).

Then he replaces salvation by faith with his own claimed heavenly experience: “Being saved now is about being translated into heaven... like I did.” That is not the gospel preached by Paul. Paul wrote, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31), and “By grace are ye saved through faith... not of works” (Ephesians 2:8–9). No apostle told sinners they needed Episkopos’s claimed experience of being translated into heaven.

Finally, Micah 7:20 is not teaching that people inherit eternal life because they are already righteous and mercy is then granted to them. It is God’s promise to fulfill His covenant mercy and truth to Abraham and Jacob. Episkopos is wrenching the verse from its context to support a salvation Scripture never teaches.

This is not deeper truth. It is a fabricated gospel: universal redemption without faith, salvation without knowing Christ, mercy earned by the righteous, and special experience substituted for the apostolic message. Paul’s warning stands: “If any man preach any other gospel unto you... let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:9).

I believe there is something about the call to holiness, and "be ye perfect".....but since Episkopos clothes that with so much that is false and denies the foundations of the faith, I have to also question how he is presenting the part about holiness.

 

[Lizbeth]

I created this podcast and song just for @Episkopos and @ScottA, hope you enjoy it.

On the first video "Wolves on the Church Porch" (haven't seen the second one yet).......two things come to mind.

One is that I love the Negro spiritual sound......the Lord giving them songs in the night, like a desert song.....it really highlights to me how suffering is for our spiritual good, as it was for the slaves...the good that came from it, a silver lining in an awful cloud. Not that we want to suffer or want to see anyone else suffer, but it DOES serve for good. And God bless Christian grass roots America, both the blacks and whites of it and everyone in between. Think things are going to get harder in both our countries....may the Lord strengthen His people to endure and remain faithful, knowing that the glory to be revealed will far outweigh the difficulties and hardships.

Also I had a dream several years ago about being in the temple of God..........and I looked out a window at the porch....the Lord pointed out to me that the foundation of the temple and its porch are all of one, a single solid piece. I didn't understand it very well and went searching in scripture to see if I could find out what the porch signifies without success.........but recently thankfully the penny dropped that the porch is an allegory for the entrance to the kingdom, as Jesus is the door to it and its foundation. And yes, the devil pursues us right to the porch/entrance.

 

[Eternally Grateful]

I believe there is something about the call to holiness, and "be ye perfect".....but since Episkopos clothes that with so much that is false and denies the foundations of the faith, I have to also question how he is presenting the part about holiness.

He does nto understand what true holiness is. And no one could make heaven according his standard. because no one reaches that level in this lifetime.

Typical of a modern day pharisee who pumps his chest. and would crucify Christ today if he had the chance

 

[Lizbeth]

He does nto understand what true holiness is. And no one could make heaven according his standard. because no one reaches that level in this lifetime.

Typical of a modern day pharisee who pumps his chest. and would crucify Christ today if he had the chance

Well, except we are called to that.....? Be ye perfect....be ye holy.....til all come to the measure of the full stature of Christ....? etc. So the potential is there. And we are told to walk in the Spirit....? But I believe these things need to be understood in spirit, not the carnal mind. There are other Christian witnesses to this or something akin to it.....though some might call it by different names and have some differences in how they understand or describe it. And I think the Lord highlights certain scriptures to us as we are ready to begin to see them...it is not perhaps so explicitly laid out.

 

[Eternally Grateful]

Well, except we are called to that.....? Be ye perfect....be ye holy.....til all come to the measure of the full stature of Christ....? etc. So the potential is there. And we are told to walk in the Spirit....? But I believe these things need to be understood in spirit, not the carnal mind. There are other Christian witnesses to this or something akin to it.....though some might call it by different names and have some differences in how they understand or describe it. And I think the Lord highlights certain scriptures to us as we are ready to begin to see them...it is not perhaps so explicitly laid out.

I do not think Jesus is telling us to be perfect. He was telling them if they want to be righteous by the law like they were trying to do. they must be perfect.

I do believe he tellsu us to be holy. sperate from the wortld. to seek after the things of the spirit. to follow the law of love. But as far as reaching perfection Goes. If we say we have no sin we decieve ourselves.

If I remember right. Epi said he has reached that state twice in his life?