“Take Heed, That No One Deceives You”

Anyone teaching a three-gods theology, also known as trinity doctrine, is deceived. That false doctrine was conceived in 325 AD, by deceived men at the first council of Nicaea*. Their false doctrine was born during a time when different ideas about Christ’s divinity arose. Their doctrine clearly states that the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is not the Father, but that all three are God which when looked at analytically can only equate to three separate gods, each with 33% or 1/3 authority. The problems with that bogus theology are that Jesus is 100% the Father, the Holy Spirit is 100% the Father, the Father is 100% the Holy Spirit, and there is only one God, not a corporation of three Gods. There are not three separate god-beings but instead one God in three positions or roles. Interestingly enough, that bogus trinity doctrine gave way to Mary being worshipped as the mother of God. God is Spirit. Mary was not the Creator’s mother. She simply was the vessel that God delivered His Son-of-Man (aka Son-of-God) biological earth suit through. So, take heed that no one deceives you. If you have a relationship with God, then you can certainly ask Him what is truth and what is fiction.

This leads me to talk about the fictional doctrine being promoted at the Grove Church in Titusville. Barry Russell, with his limited understanding of truth, is telling the congregation at that church a false theology about women being ruled by men. So, I’m going to take the time here to debate his stance.

In Barry’s nauseating sermon on Sunday (2/9/25), he tried to paint a picture of all women needing to submit under the rule of men. He started with using Adam’s and Eve’s punishment as proof of God’s design. When in fact, God’s design was to create Adam and Eve to live in harmony with each other, not to punish all of creation for their sin.

The truth is that Adam’s and Eve’s punishment was only their punishment, not ours. God does not punish all women for Eve’s sin, and He does not punish all men for Adam’s sin. The punishment was specifically their punishment. In fact, the passage is primarily warning us of our individual sin consequences, since each, including the serpent, received different punishments. I’m adding a long passage of Scripture below so that you can read it for yourself. Where in the passage does it say that anyone other than Adam and Eve were punished for their sin? Eve’s punishment was in part that her husband would rule over her – not that all men would rule over all women. Note that Eve said that the serpent deceived her. (Hint: just like the devil deceives people into teaching false doctrines). We’re just looking at this one passage for now, because other Scriptures that were refuting Gnosticism (another false theology) refer back to this and can be taken out of historical and cultural context to make it sound like all men and women were punished for Adam/Eve’s sin in the garden. This is why we cannot have a one-verse theology when studying the Bible. Language translations between different cultures can cause confusion too. Please read the passage carefully and ask God to give you wisdom.

“But the LORD God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’. He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’ And he said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?’ The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then the LORD God said to the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’ So the LORD God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, ‘Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.’ (16) “To the woman he said, ‘I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’” (17) “To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ ‘Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.’” “Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.’ So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.” (Genesis 3:9-23 NIV)

So let’s look at the second passage of Scripture that Barry has misused to confine all women to men’s lordship over them. The word “head” in the Ephesians 5:23 text (and in 1 Corinthians 11:3) should be correctly translated “source/origin” (like in the word “headwaters”) not “boss/authority”. It’s a chronological term rather than a hierarchy term in the original language. Paul is referring back to when God formed woman from man in the garden. Adam was the source/origin of Eve since God took a rib from Adam to create the first woman. We can discern this translation difference from modern English because just two verses earlier in the passage, husbands and wives were told to submit to one another in reverence for Christ. It would be odd for Paul to quickly contradict himself by saying that man is the authority over woman. But it would not be out of context for the passage to remind that man is the source/origin of woman referring back to God’s original design of creating woman from man. The Ephesians 5 verse is not saying that all women were punished for Eve’s sin and thereby are to be ruled over by their husbands. In the same passage, it is further noted that Christ is the source/origin for the church. The chapter ends stating that it was about Christ and the church, not about husbands and wives. (See my post from 2/6/25 “Many Gods and Mini-Gods @ The Grove Church” for earlier debate on this topic.)

At its core, male chauvinism is rooted in a hatred for women and has been used to keep women in spiritual bondage. If a man really wanted to know God’s intent on the subject, all he would need to do is study the Scriptures with God present so that he could ask God questions when he needed discernment. Unfortunately, Barry at the Grove Church does not hear God’s voice in prayer so he is free to create his own doctrinal stance against God’s heart. Paul correctly stated as recorded in Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (NIV) It’s interesting that the slavery thread runs through many of the passages from Paul.

Why would a man who claims to love his wife want her to be in slavery rather than in freedom? Maybe it’s because he really loves himself and hates his wife. Maybe it’s because his little man parts/ego can’t handle that a woman can truly be anointed by God for God’s purposes outside of housework, childbirth, and sexually pleasing her husband. Kingdom women are equally commissioned to go and make disciples of all nations. Kingdom women can be anointed by God with every manifestation of the Spirit gifts and service gifts just as Kingdom men can. Kingdom women should be fully submitted to God as should Kingdom men. Deviating from God’s design of obedience to Him, like Adam and Eve did through their sin, will result in individual punishment. Teaching false doctrine will result in eternal damnation. Is that what you want, Barry?

The two pages attached are 1) Stop Blaming All Redeemed Women for Eve’s Sin; and 2) Solutions from the Prophets. This prophet is telling you that the solution to doctrinal misunderstandings is to learn at the feet of Jesus by hearing His voice in prayer. True wisdom comes from God, not from twisting Scriptures to benefit one gender over another.

Source: The Rogue Prophet Magazines: “Spiritual Crimes Against Women in Ministry” dated August 2023, page 18 ; “In God We Trust”, dated June 2022, page 11.

*Please study for yourself about the council of Nicaea. I do not want to verbatim quote a source for this historical evidence.