# The Remnant Radio — Exposing "Cracking the Time Code" (Candice Smithyman) **Summary.** Joshua Lewis of The Remnant Radio reviews *Cracking the Time Code* (Candice Smithyman, Destiny Image, 2025), a book claiming Christ's death and resurrection broke a "curse of time" and moved believers into a heavenly "eternal time zone" of abundance, healing, and wealth. Lewis's thesis is that the branded vocabulary and Einstein veneer are packaging: underneath sits 1980s word-of-faith prosperity theology, propped up by fabricated Greek and Hebrew word studies. His two most serious charges are not about the prosperity teaching at all — they are a **gnostic anthropology** (the body as a disposable "earth suit") and a **low Christology** (Jesus's sight spiritually degraded by looking at poor people). (Source: [[3. Resources/Readwise/Full Document Contents/Articles/The Worst Book I Have Read This Year Exposing Cracking the Time Code|The Worst Book I Have Read This Year Exposing Cracking the Time Code]]) --- ## Key Claims 1. **The book's core claim.** The fall placed a "curse of time" on humanity — scarcity, aging, financial lack, deadline pressure. The cross broke it, relocating believers into the "eternal and everlasting time zone," modeled on Eden, where healing and wealth are already fulfilled in eternity and need only be "walked out" here. Lewis's framing verdict: strip the vocabulary and "it's just the prosperity gospel with a time traveler soup slapped onto it." 2. **Two distinguishable patterns of language abuse.** The analytical spine of the review, and its most reusable contribution. Either Smithyman **invents** a meaning found in no lexicon and builds doctrine on it (roughly 18 instances), or she gets the word **right** and then imports a whole theological system into it as though the lexicon delivered it. "Either way, the function is exactly the same. It's not translation work. She's using a word study as a rhetorical authority move." 3. **Four checkable inventions.** Lewis picks the ones a reader can verify on Blue Letter Bible: - ***regel*** (Joshua 1:3) — rendered "to walk as step, to endure in the journey, and possess time." It means **foot**. Priests wash their *regel*; Ruth uncovers Boaz's *regel*. "There's no lexicon on the planet — Strong's, BDB, it doesn't matter — that gives 'possess time' as a definition." - ***yada*** (Matthew 13, chapter 9) — presented as a covenant/marriage-vow word because it "is pronounced 'I do.'" It is one of the most common Hebrew verbs and means **to know**. "That's not word study. That's an English pun." - ***halak*** (Genesis 5, Enoch) — "walked," broken into supposed roots meaning "to prosper." No such breakdown exists in Hebrew grammar, and the identical word describes Noah walking with God through a mocked century of labor before the flood. "If *halak* secretly means to prosper, I'd love for you to explain that to Noah." - ***avad*** (Genesis 3:23) — presented as curse language, "toil, bondage, slavery." The same word appears in **Genesis 2:15**, before the fall, for Adam's work in Eden. Either Eden was already cursed, or the doctrine is invented. 4. **Correct word, smuggled theology — two cases.** - ***anablepo*** (Matthew 14) genuinely can mean "look up" or "recover sight." Smithyman uses it to claim Jesus was overwhelmed by the crowd's poverty, dropped into "natural earthly sight" — the same fallen register as sin — and had to recover his spiritual sight to perform the miracle. - ***aion*** versus ***chronos*** is a real distinction any first-year Greek student knows. She inflates it into two coexisting parallel time zones syncing at "kairos moments" to release blessings. "She's taken a genuine vocabulary distinction and inflated it into a science-fiction multiverse." Lewis notes the danger: because the underlying lexical fact checks out, "the whole structure gets a free pass." 5. **Word-of-faith theology underneath.** Three places Lewis calls undeniable: **faith produces income** (Romans 4's justification-by-faith pivoted to "your employer isn't the reason you got paid — it was your faith"); **perception can nullify God's power** (small thinking "renders the blessing powerless," which builds in a ready excuse for unanswered prayer and makes human perception, not divine sovereignty, the operative variable); and **death is optional** (Enoch's translation extended to any reader whose "heavenly attunement" is calibrated — "death is a problem you can train your way out of if you get the doctrine right"). 6. **Gnostic anthropology — carefully qualified.** Lewis defines classical gnosticism (divine spark trapped in evil matter; salvation as escape rather than dealing with sin; rejected early, Irenaeus c. 180). He is explicit that Smithyman **never says believers are or become God**, so the charge is *gnostic-adjacent* — the shape, not the claim. The evidence: the body as an "earth suit," a "disposable container" the real self merely wears; and her account of receiving healing power by literally restricting her eyes from seeing the room. "Perception of the physical world isn't neutral in this framework — it's the obstacle you have to shut down to get to what's real." 7. **The two lines Lewis calls reprehensible.** The review's climax, and both are about God rather than money: - **"You have no beginning and no end"** (chapter 3) applied to the believer. That is language for God's own self-existence — the Alpha and Omega. "She has flattened the single most important distinction in all of Christianity — the distinction between the Creator and his creation — in a throwaway sentence in a self-help chapter about not feeling rushed." - **Jesus falling from spiritual to "natural and earthly sight."** "Either Jesus is God, and God doesn't get spiritually degraded by looking at a crowd, or he isn't God, and the book has a bigger problem than bad Greek." Lewis notes the church spent four centuries settling whether Christ's human nature could compromise his deity, and the answer east and west was no — "not while he wept, not while he hungered, not while he bled on the cross." > [!quote] > "It's not really trying to help expound the text. It's actually trying to create this feeling of exegetical depth and insider information. Here's what your English Bibles are hiding from you. This is what the text really says. It subverts the reader's critical thinking. And once the claim has been dressed up in Greek and Hebrew clothing, the reader sees it as scholarly rather than an invention." — Joshua Lewis > [!quote] > "The life of a Christian is painfully ordinary. We suffer, but not without hope. Our hope is anchored in Christ, not a magical formula for health and wealth… He is not a formula you control through the force of your faith." — Joshua Lewis --- ## Analysis for this wiki The third Remnant Radio source, and the most methodologically useful of the three. Where [[2026-07-09-remnant-radio-bethel-point-of-no-return|Is Bethel Church Past the Point of No Return? — The Remnant Radio]] inspects the fruit of an institution and [[2026-06-18-remnant-radio-reformers-spiritual-gifts|Did Protestant Reformers Believe in Spiritual Gifts? (The Remnant Radio)]] argues a historical position, this one dissects a **rhetorical technique** and hands the reader a portable test. **The word-study authority move is the wiki's cross-tradition pattern.** "Here's what your English Bibles are hiding from you" is precisely the engine of [[The Passion Translation]] — Brian Simmons producing renderings no lexicon supports and selling them as recovered Aramaic depth. It is also the structure McClellan attacks from the other side in [[2026-07-14-mcclellan-jesus-in-the-old-testament|Dan McClellan — \"Jesus in the Old Testament Is Beyond Dispute\]], where mistranslations of Psalm 22 and Isaiah 7:14 are offered as evidence for the readings that produced them. Three sources, three traditions — cessationist-leaning critic, continuationist insider, and secular academic — converging on one mechanism: **untestable language claims used to manufacture authority over readers who cannot check them.** That convergence is the strongest argument yet for treating this as a named node rather than a recurring observation. **Why the continuationist vantage matters.** Lewis is not a cessationist. He affirms that "God still grants signs, wonders, healing, and prophetic revelation." That makes his critique structurally different from [[Holly Pivec]]'s: he cannot be dismissed as someone who rejects the supernatural, because he does not. The wiki has noted this before on the Bethel source; here it does more work, because the charge is heresy rather than misconduct, and it lands from inside the charismatic tent. **The gnosticism charge is unusually careful.** Lewis distinguishes the *shape* of Smithyman's teaching from its *claims*, and refuses the easy accusation — "to be fair to Smithyman, she never actually says you are God." That care makes the charge more usable, not less. It also connects to [[2026-07-02-mcclellan-image-of-god-divine-council|Dan McClellan — What Does It Mean to Be Created \"In God's Image\"?]], where McClellan identifies "flesh is inherently sinful" as a middle-Platonic/Gnostic import rather than a Genesis teaching — two sources, opposite traditions, naming the same intrusion. **An echo worth tracking.** The Eden charge in [[2026-07-14-pivec-nar-distraction-false-gospel|Holly Pivec — Are Your Church's Teachings Distracting You From Jesus?]] — secret knowledge plus divine power, "you can be like God" — is the same diagnosis Lewis develops here at length, reached independently and without the shared vocabulary. > [!note] Tradition / source-caution > Continuationist evangelical discernment media; a one-sided book review, self-described as "going hard in the paint," with no reply from the author and no engagement with any defense of the book. The Greek and Hebrew claims are checkable and appear sound — *regel*, *yada*, *halak*, and *avad* are ordinary words carrying the meanings Lewis gives them, and the Genesis 2:15 point against the *avad* curse-reading is decisive — but they are Lewis's characterizations of Smithyman's book, not quotations a reader can verify without the book in hand. The "roughly 18 inventions" count is asserted, with four shown. The historical framing of gnosticism is a compressed popular summary of a contested scholarly category. > > **Transliteration drift in the vault note.** The LLM-generated Document Notes block prepended to the Readwise capture garbles several of the words the video is *about*: it renders *yada* as "Eddu" and calls it Greek, spells *regel* as "Regal," and gives *chronos* as "Kronos." The transcript itself is correct (and even carries an editorial bracket — "[actually she means the Hebrew]" — noting that Smithyman labeled the Hebrew *yada* as Greek). This page follows the transcript. Flagged because a summary that misspells the vocabulary in a review of misspelled vocabulary is exactly the failure the source warns about. > > **Name variant.** The transcript audio renders the author as "Dr. Candace Smithyman"; the book and the note's reference list give **Candice Smithyman**. Used here as Candice. > [!question] Concept-page candidates surfaced — one at its pre-registered trigger > **Prosperity gospel / word of faith.** The 2026-07-12 cycle held this candidate with the note that "a dedicated source would tip a standalone page." **This is that dedicated source** — a full-length treatment of word-of-faith mechanics (faith-as-income, perception-nullifies-blessing, death-as-optional) with the 1980s lineage named. Third and decisive data point alongside the Gupta/Bonhoeffer critique ([[2026-07-05-holy-post-725-americas-story-gupta-paul|Holy Post 725 — America's Story + Nijay Gupta on Paul]]) and the McClellan wealth-etiology jab. The trigger the wiki set for itself has been met; held only because concept creation is a directed-pass decision. > > **Invented-etymology / word-study-as-authority.** Now supported across three traditions (this, [[The Passion Translation]], [[2026-07-14-mcclellan-jesus-in-the-old-testament|Dan McClellan — \"Jesus in the Old Testament Is Beyond Dispute\]]). Would sit naturally beside [[NAR Fallacy Taxonomy]] as a named fallacy. > > **Gnosticism as a recurring import.** Two independent sources (this + [[2026-07-02-mcclellan-image-of-god-divine-council|Dan McClellan — What Does It Mean to Be Created \"In God's Image\"?]]) identify gnostic anthropology intruding into teaching that does not name it. > > **Entity candidates.** Candice Smithyman (apostolic-prophetic minister; Dream Mentors International; Glory Road TV; *Your Path to Destiny* on the It's Supernatural network) — a new NAR-adjacent figure, not currently in the wiki. Destiny Image — the publisher, an institution node that would connect several existing NAR entities, and one [[readwise-nar-pivec-geivett|A New Apostolic Reformation? A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement]] already names as an NAR publisher network. Both new; held. Joshua Lewis / The Remnant Radio remain past threshold at three sources, as flagged since 2026-07-10. (Named as plain text per the tracked-stub convention; carried as wikilinks in the index Open Threads.)