(08/12/2016) In Order To Believe

Today, points are shared on the standard for Christian belief being divine love expressed through law and judgment.  Models for analysis, diagnosis and treatment of behavioral, emotional and psychological disorders among men are inadequate and inappropriate for discussing the methods, motives, and thoughts of GOD being applied in the fullness of Creation.  They also fail to disguise vain accusations against the righteousness of divinity, presumption, pseudo-intellectualism, exaggerated pride, and enmity against GOD.  The fighter at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Bluebootz” (Level 6 with 11,618 points, a member since June 29, 2012) posted the following:

Must one be deluded in order to believe that an all knowing creator would have his first born brutally killed?

"Only the deluded are in danger of, or capable of, such self-sacrifice, you see, or would find it necessary. Only those still bound up in ideas of crime and punishment would be attracted to that kind of religious drama and find within it deep echoes of their own subjective feelings."
---- Seth

THE GOLDEN ARROW:  But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;  How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.  These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.  And of some have compassion, making a difference:  And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.  Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,  To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.  (Jude 1:  17-25, King James Version, KJV)

THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  Becoming A Christian Believer (08/08/2016); Law Requires Genuine Righteousness (07/28/2016); No Excuses For Judgment (07/26/2016); The Purpose of Resurrection (07/015/2016); Natural and Spiritual Law? (06/30/2016); Guided By Divine Truth (06/20/2016); Sign of Divine Love? (04/14/2016)

“Bluebootz”, in order to believe the truth of salvation from GOD as an expression of love, there must be different understandings for both the law and judgment.  Divine judgment pertains to Creation as a formative and reflective process that entails such elements as assigning value expressed as duration; applying criticism, “feedback”, reaction, and response; introducing corrections; and performing experimental, exploratory, and tentative trials.  For mature Christian believers, crime, punishment, and sin are far from being the primary truth of judgment.  The death of Jesus upon the cross was within a framework of covenant law and legal process, not street crime and violence.  The spheres for existence and for life are all generated from the “active presence” of divinity appearing as completeness, diversity that functions like change, divine law, stable order, eternal purpose, and directed will.  Divine law expresses affection, commitment, and selflessness upon a cosmic scale where forbearance, forgiveness, mercy, and restraint also are clearly the framework of divine love.  The work of the law is to continue divinity, give life, further the fullness of divine revelation, and suppress destruction.  Judgment is to make visible the righteousness of GOD as well as to acknowledge those displaying the character, nature, and substance required to exist as eternal companions of divinity.  The imparted, indwelling Spirit that must appear includes inseparable aspects from the makeup of Deity such as balance, faith, holiness, joy, truth, wisdom, and wrath against sin.  Consider how some of this is stated using language from the Bible:

(1.)  1st Corinthians 6:  19-20, King James Version (KJV)  19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?   20 For ye are bought with a price:  therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

(2.)  Romans 5:  6-10, KJV:  6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.  7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die:  yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.  8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.  10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

(3.)  1st John 4:  9-11, KJV:  9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.  10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

There is far more to be said, carefully examined, and spiritually understood.  (For example, (4.)  1st John 5:  1-6, KJV:  1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God:  and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.  2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.  3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments:  and his commandments are not grievous.  4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:  and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.  5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?  6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.)  Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.

THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC