Today, points are shared on Incarnation, revelation, the GODhead, and worship from mankind. Obedience to divine law, prayer, revelation and worship all pertain to directing the consciousness, concentration, and focus of human awareness and self-will for the apprehension of oneness without sameness. The full revelation of GOD to created beings and living creatures requires responses from divinity where Deity is active and present as a knowable and recognizable event, object, or person; and demands manifestations that are both external (we say, independent; material; objective; separate) as well as internal (we say, inward; of ones nature; subjective). Before the finite platforms of the firmament were shaped to serve as heaven and earth, GOD existed being diffuse, and without measurable dimension or duration. Divinity does not exist outside of the knowing and mind that are imparted and projected from GOD. Responding to created beings and living creatures, GOD is now partly known having used forms that include image, word, and inseparable spirit substance (e.g., faith, holiness, longsuffering, meekness, mercy, wisdom, and wrath against sin). The complete revelation of GOD must unveil the extent of divinity within man, man within GOD as well as GOD continuing eternally as exalted, immutable, preeminent and sovereign over all. The fighter at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Brian” (Level 6 with 12,874 points, a member since June 11, 2006) posted the following:
Trinitarians, did Jesus worship a man-god or did he worship Jehovah God?
Trinitarian worship a trinity god that is fully god and fully man.
Jesus claimed Jehovah (YWHW, YAHWEH, Yahowah] as his God.
At John 17:3 he calls Jehovah the only true God.
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
At John 20:17 he tells his followers that Jehovah, the Father that the Jewish people worshiped, was his God as well.
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Did he worship Jehovah, or did he worship a man-god like the Trinitarians do?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Acts 17: 24-31, King James Version, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Blame, Sin and Salvation? (02/13/2017); The Title of “Savior” (01/27/2017); Exalted By The Father? (01/26/2017); The Spirit and Prophecy (01/04/2017); Divine Appearances Using Form? (12/20/2016); True and Living GOD (08/03/2016); 3 Persons, 3 Minds? (02/03/2016); Authority, Dispensation, and Unity? (08/20/2015); Divinity Has Person? (05/19/2015)
“Brian”, revelation has been unfolding in stages. Sinners on the earth are not granted full knowledge of the things pertaining to GOD; yet, we are allowed to discern and recognize patterns (ABCDEFG…) that give us a correct sense of expectation (…XYZ is coming). Increasingly, mature Christian believers holding to sacred knowledge from the imparted, indwelling Spirit accept that the operations of the Creator to become knowable, known, and “visible” to all created beings and living creatures have been “additive” (i.e., introducing more and new information to complement, refresh, and reinforce what was provided as the original, intended “information content” of the living). Unlike the angels (who are neither all-knowing nor immortal), mankind is to acquire knowledge through gradual change, experience, growth, and learning.
The processes of fellowship with GOD were put into place to provide for continuous discovery of the divine character, makeup and substance, therefore, revelation is interactive, promissory, and prophetic. Within the joined, eternal fullness of divinity (we say, the GODhead), there is no need for an ongoing process of revelation, nor should we expect the elements of ceremony, obedience, ritual, submission to authority, and “worship” to appear. The longing for a memorable and recognizable appearance of GOD who is “spirit” (we say, breath, life essence, word) has been addressed through faith, divine law, his audible word, and all that appears within the spheres of life (e.g., beings, hearts, minds, objects). Even so, those who exist having carnal and material form (we say, the flesh), depend upon social interaction, organize information using the frameworks of time and space, rely upon appetite, emotion and sense experience (e.g., hearing, seeing, tasting, touching), and are vulnerable to the operations of sin that may dominate awareness and self-will in the living. Mankind, therefore, requires other manifestations of fundamental truth.
Man is to accept that divinity has appeared on the earth using flesh, and having person as Jesus Christ, an offspring of both Adam and GOD. Beyond a simple revelation of Deity, multiple eternal purposes and operations of the Holy Spirit have been addressed and fulfilled including atonement for sin; fulfillment of proclamation, promise, and prophecy; both judgment and salvation of sinners; rebirth; sanctification; the elimination of death and sin; the perfection of existence as well as the transformation of mankind to serve as immortal, incorruptible companions of divinity. In no way should the sacred practices to fulfill the divine will be regarded by believers as opposing the continued existence of divine law (iniquity, transgression, and sin), or violating the sacred law.
There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, since the day of Adam and Eve, revelation from GOD has been by establishing a relationship of full disclosure, intimacy, personal sharing, reconciliation, respect, and self-exposure. Ultimately, mankind is to exist with GOD upon an earth that will include no night and day marked by the sun and moon, no oceans, and no physical structures for gathering to worship GOD. Death and mortality as we now know them will not exist. The GODhead will be the only necessary light.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
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