CHAPTER 35: RESURRECTIONS LAWS: CONDITIONAL OR NOT UNCONDITIONAL

CHAPTER 35: RESURRECTIONS LAWS: CONDITIONAL OR NOT UNCONDITIONAL

The error-filled doctrine in the OTW of Matthew 27:52-53 attempts to mould God and Jesus into possessing the human carnally biased idea of what is fair and equitable. The OTW teachers believe this human attribute would make God a more understanding and forgiving sovereign.

An underlying statement put forth by the teachers of the Doctrine of OTW is: "It wouldn't be fair nor just for God to withhold the Holy Ghost and the First Resurrection from the OTW". The Fallacy of Fairness is an argument style popularized by the OTW doctrine. The Fallacy of Fairness in this doctrine is a cognitive distortion Proverbs 16:11:

Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

The fallacy measures others by their own equality, assuring everything is fair and balanced in life and therefore should be the same in biblical scripture. This belief in this fallacy compels God to let the church regulate the church by what is judged humanly fair instead of Godly ordained.

It is this belief that the Doctrine of the OTW uses to measure what is fair for the OTW. It propagates the idea that there are bias inequalities in most of God's doctrines, including the First and Second Resurrections. The OTW claims the elect are separated and chosen by God because of their bias within themselves. The OTW proponents repeat this concept at every opportunity until the fairness of the doctrine is accepted by their congregations.

The doctrine of the First and Second Resurrections is conditional, without exception. The First Resurrection requires followers to be overcomers and "dead in Christ". The Second Resurrection requires all members to be just and unjust, neither overcomers nor dead in Christ. In reality, the OTW did not meet the requirements of the First Resurrection; however, the concocted doctrine created from Matthew 27:52-53 allowed them false access to the Second Resurrection.

Teaching the doctrine of the OTW allows exceptions, which are deceptions, to the standards set by biblical doctrine. For there to be an actual physical resurrection of the OTW in Matthew 27, the First and Second Resurrections would have to be changed into the "Doctrine of Unconditional First and Second Resurrections". In other words, the Doctrine of the OTW would disavow God's restrictions for whatever scenario is imagined. It would create a demand that all of God's doctrines have some kind of special hidden clause for exceptions to any condition imaginable.

Teaching doctrines with hidden clauses leads to far reaching exceptions and deceptions not scripturally based such as:

• All babies belong to heaven, because they are innocent.

• If a person died immediately after receiving the Holy Ghost, they would be taken to Heaven.

• If a person died having the Holy Ghost, lived as a overcomer, but wasn't able to be Water Baptized, they can bypass Water Baptism and still make the First Resurrection.

• If a person did only positive things or enough positive things, they would be accepted into heaven, especially if they were related to a Christian family.

• A person's faith in the name Jesus and God's grace will get them to heaven, etc.

In this doctrine of the OTW, emotional deception is more significant than actual fact. It is driven by the fallacy of fairness. And within this doctrine is a hidden agenda to allow each person believing in the doctrine of the OTW the possibility of an exception for themselves, or loved ones. This will enable them to be part of the First Resurrection. According to the OTW teachers, a physical resurrection is acceptable in Matthew 27. This proves that exceptions to the First and Second Resurrection teachings are true for us today as well.

In reality, if an exception is allowed to a doctrine, then this exception promotes the idea that both the doctrine of the First and Second Resurrections should be tested. Perhaps the conditional demands of the First Resurrection doctrine can be discarded. It suggests that if you live a virtuous Christian life, but are unable to fulfill the requirements for the First Resurrection, God can make an exception for you. This is just as God did for the OTW.

Exceptions and deceptions are introduced when human logic is misused in God's doctrine. Doctrines don't work the way the carnal mind wants them to work. The cliché rebuttal is "the exception of the doctrine is what proves the doctrine". Many teachers think that this cliché somehow allows them to ignore the exception. They hide the deception, continue using the strict doctrine deceptively, until the time comes to take the hidden clause out and use it for themselves.

The account of the crucifixion in Matthew 27 did not allow for any exceptions to any of the biblical doctrines. The deception starts with the simple question; "Who was it that was resurrected"? That is the wrong question. The question should be: "Is the resurrection of the of Matthew 27:52-53 physical or spiritual?"

If the OTW resurrection is tested and proven to be a physical fact, then it is an exception. If, however, it is proven to be spiritual then it is an analogy.   

A rule of the First Resurrection states "the dead in Christ shall rise first" 1 Thessalonians 4:16. If the resurrection in Mathew 27 is spiritual, there is no exception to this rule and this type of resurrection is part of an acceptable doctrine.