Today,
reply is on whether “believing” there is GOD is a matter of
acknowledging a broad range of attributes and characteristics (e.g.,
authority, ethnicity, faith, lovingkindness, personhood, power, race)
that require meaningful human responses, or is a simple act of
definition for a common object in the life of mankind. According to
Christian beliefs, as an emanation from divinity and a creation of
GOD, the completeness, integrity, and quality of human existence and
life for mankind should vary as a function of divine prerogative,
sacred law, eternal purpose, and sovereign will. Thus, it is
written: Malachi 1: 6-10, King James Version (KJV): 6 A son
honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be
a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master,
where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts
unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have
we despised thy name? 7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and
ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of
the LORD is contemptible. 8 And if ye
offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer
the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy
governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith
the LORD of hosts. 9 And now, I pray you,
beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your
means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD
of hosts. 10 Who is there even among you that would shut the
doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine
altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD
of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. The
fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and
Spirituality who uses the ID “Wisecracker” (Level 05 with 9,341
points, a member since April 07, 2019) posted the following:
Believing
in God means more than simply acknowledging His existence. Agree or
Disagree?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD.
Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?Ye
have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it
that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully
before the LORD of hosts? And now we call the
proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they
that tempt God are even delivered. Then they that feared the
LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD
hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written
before him for them that feared the LORD, and
that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD
of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare
them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye
return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him
that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (Malachi 3: 13-18,
King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: According To Divine Purpose (06/09/2019); From Spirit
Not Mud (02/26/2019); That GOD Is Judge (11/01/2018); The Origin And
Source (04/26/2018); Sacred Operations By GOD (04/12/2018); What Is A
Spirit? (03/06/2018); The Meaning of Worship? (07/09/2014); To Serve
GOD Acceptably (07/10/2014)
“Wisecracker”,
correctly understood, many take “believing” in GOD to be only an
emotional, intellectual, and mental process. In fact, however,
acknowledging and responding to GOD are operations that depend on
spirit process and substance. Where a person thoughtfully reflects
on divinity (we also say, divine fullness; the Godhead; the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit) as being more than another physical
object like themselves that definitely has existence, and might also
have life, the method and process to make an accurate and complete
consideration involves posing multiple questions, pursuing patterns
of logical connection, and organizing all the data one may collect to
provide a clear presentation of ones process and findings. Academic
descriptions, information about “the gods” and reports on their
activities will be very different from those presentations shared as
priestly sacraments, revelation, and utterances from divinity to
maintain communication, exchange, and interaction with mankind.
For
many, Christianity has been the most challenging belief system that
shares the thoughts and words from divinity to make divine fullness
knowable, known, accessible, and approachable. Included have been
divine law; covenant relationship; and the appearance of GOD through
thousands of events, within thousands of lives, over the course of
thousands of years. While divinity ordinarily exists as inseparable
spirit substance (e.g., faith, holiness, forbearance, forgiveness,
gratitude, humility, personhood, oneness without sameness,
righteousness, wisdom, and wrath against sin), divinity also has
appeared on the earth as Jesus Christ using the forms and operations
of human flesh (we say, the Incarnation).
The
character, process, and substance of divinity is Spirit; therefore,
GOD is held to be boundless, limitless, and without measurable
dimensions. More than this, GOD is the origin for all that exists,
for order throughout the universe as well as for all that have life.
In Christian belief, it is possible for created beings and living
creatures that have consciousness and self-will to receive benefits
and privileges sharing relationships with GOD that become possible
through spirit substance imparted from the makeup of GOD, divine law,
sacred promises, prophecy, eternal purpose, and the sovereignty of
GOD. Through devices such as Incarnation, the use of anointed
spokespersons (we say, prophets, kings, apostles), the establishment
of governments and nations, and the founding of a church on the
earth, the existence of GOD is experienced as that of a sentient
being who determines multiple aspects of human duration and survival.
Consider again the following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Hebrews 11: 6, King James Version (KJV): 6 But without faith it
is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God
must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek him.
2.
Isaiah 55: 6-12, KJV: 6 Seek ye the LORD while
he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my
thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh
down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but
watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word
be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12 For ye shall go
out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the
hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of
the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn
shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up
the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for
a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
3.
Hosea 6: 5-7, KJV: 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the
prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy
judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I
desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than
burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant:
there have they dealt treacherously against me.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Jeremiah 9: 23-24, KJV: 23 Thus
saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the
rich man glory in his riches: 24 But let him that glorieth
glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am
the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness,
in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
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