That the life, death and
resurrection of Jesus pertains to more than simply salvation for mortal beings
is considered, today. Also, there is more on difficult passages within the
Scriptures that impress some as pornography, and the error of reading the Bible
to locate spicy material. A “Yahoo! Answers” writer using the ID “God’s Father”
(Level 4 with 2,554 points, a member since October 20, 2012) posted the
following:
Christians, was the whole Jesus dying for
our sins thing just a token ceremony...?
...or did it literally alter God's brain in a way
that he was able to let sinners into heaven, something that he would have been
unable to do before this?
If someone does something bad to me, and I can't
forgive them, but I then have a son who gets crucified, will it change my brain
chemicals so I'm suddenly able to forgive the person who wronged me?
THE BATTLE AXE: Pornography
from the Bible (11/26/2012)—Many of us have had the experience as children
growing up of looking in the dictionary to find “forbidden” words (ain’t,
cain’t, and hate) as well as those ending with the letter “k” (d i_ _, f u_ _,
puss_k). Titillated and thrilled, we were eager to show off to our friends, who
rejoiced and agreed it was “totally scandalous!” In a sense, that is a
normative pattern in child development. Similarly, in spiritual development,
believers are often mislead to read the holy writings as if they may be
understood using only the frameworks of carnal, material and social living.
Thus, for example, that Ezekiel records prophecy, a revelation of Divine Person,
and sacred visions appears irrelevant to readers who are not yet mature. Those
adults who are malicious, and who seek to overthrow the salvation of GOD through
Jesus Christ, can not be regarded as in the innocence (or the ignorance) of
children. Failing to realize the proper application and the eternal value of
such writings as the Song of Solomon, the teachings that speak in terms of
adultery, or the epistles identifying intimate relationship for Jesus and the
Church, those who share negative critiques of the Bible presume to destroy
divine condemnation and sacred judgment. However, what they offer in place of
redemption and salvation must be recognized as finite, lacking divine substance,
temporal, and weak. Most NFL fans would love to have a copy of their coach’s
playbook when only the most trusted players are to have it.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: For the
grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us
that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope,
and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who
gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto
himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. (Titus 2: 11-14, King James
Version)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: How Was
GOD Known Before Jesus? (10/06/2012); Jesus, King of Earth? (10/07/2012); By
Grace (09/04/2012); The Work of Jesus (03/13/2012); Signs of a Prophet
(03/14/2012); Grace and Law (01/20/2012)
Many mature Christian believers now understand
the appearance of GOD upon the earth in human flesh (called the Incarnation) is
more than a sacred process for the salvation of mankind. Apart from the intent
of making divinity known and visible to created beings and living creatures,
there are imperatives of divine existence that must be fulfilled for the
balance, beauty and completeness of divine person. Saying this another way, for
GOD to be all that GOD is, was and ever shall be, many possibilities of form and
substance also must be made extant. Understanding that GOD is an eternal,
unchanging spirit, we acknowledge Christ as a distinct appearance of GOD in
flesh subject to both divine and natural law, and (therefore) capable of change,
with the Holy Spirit, as the active aspect of divine will.
Sin is not a material substance; and, despite
that sin was first identified among the angels, sin is not a spirit, or
substance having spirit matter. Sin has not been created by GOD, or by any
living thing. Sin opposes the existence of divinity, and all the emanations
from the divine. Included are authority, humility, law, love, person, truth,
wisdom, and wrath against sin. While sin is no “thing” that exists and lacks
dimension, form and divine substance, sin may dominate the self-will of created
beings and living creatures. Sin has effect, direction, and presence. Almighty
GOD and his Christ have demonstrated that sin cannot overwhelm divine will; and
the process for altering self-will to add divine substance, requires divine
disclosure, revelation, consciousness and choice in the living.
There is far more to be said, correctly
applied, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, grace is the aspect of
divinity whereby sin is dismissed through forgiveness, and a divine apparatus is
put forth to reconfigure the Creation. Through grace death is established as a
divine tool and is used in such divine operations as mercy, judgment, re-birth,
regeneration, sanctification, and resurrection to secure both the dead and the
living as well as make permanent a fellowship with GOD that may be spoken of as
eternal life with GOD.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it
unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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