Today,
reply is on language used by Christian believers declaring that they
“know” GOD. As those “born again,” Christians are to speak
and proclaim the teachings of Jesus, rather than their own opinions
along with divine assurances that have been provided as faith, hope,
and love. Many today seem to confuse “knowing about” GOD with
knowing GOD. Where there is genuine relationship, accountability,
commitment, and adding value (we say, giving love) also should
appear. The fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” Religion and
Spirituality forum using the ID “Serve The Servants” (Level 7
with 36,411 points, a member since November 20, 2010) posted the
following:
Why
do people claim that they know God when nobody alive has met him?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that
he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though
after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh
shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall
behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within
me. (Job 19: 25-27, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Meaning of “Faith” (03/28/2018); Confessing
Your Own Salvation? (03/02/2018); Certainty, Conviction and Faith
(01/05/2018); About Using “Sacred Logic” (11/19/2017); Tools For
Knowing Divinity (05/12/2017); Knowing GOD and Sin? (02/03/2017); How
To Know GOD? (12/12/2016); Knowing? (05/24/2015)
“Serve
The Servants”, GOD is ever-present, however, men are not
ever-aware. Where religion and spiritual convictions are concerned,
many are not careful as they use language to communicate and express
their own feelings and thoughts, and will mistakenly respond to the
intentions, messages, and understandings shared by others. Thus, as
with your use of “know”, here, ones discussion may generate or
result in spiritual confusion, for there can be multiple definitions
and meanings that advance many very different statements and beliefs.
For example, “to know” is to have data, facts, information, and
knowledge. “To know” is to be determined, to be resolute, and to
have a “made up mind.” When some say “I know...” they expect
the hearer to acknowledge their unspoken words too (e.g., “more
than you,” “in part;” or “sometimes/this time”). Also, “to
know” is to be sure and to have certainty, rather than to apply
unsupported information (i.e., assume), guess, speculate, or merely
“think so.” “To know by faith” or on the basis of ones
expectation and trust (we say, “to hope”) is not a matter of
foretelling events or reading the thoughts of others; rather, it is
matter of completing and conforming to a fixed pattern or sequence
(e.g., we can predict, after ABCD, XYZ is coming, even where there is
some delay like HIJK). Going further, “to know” another person
is to regularly communicate, exchange, have direct contact, interact,
and share with them (we say, to be in a continuous or perhaps even
“intimate” relationship).
Applying sacred knowledge in place of secular knowledge, Christian believers will increasingly operate having a consciousness
of divine fullness (we say, the active presence who
appears as the person of GOD; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit;
the Godhead). The primary goals for sinners who choose to become
mature Christians are to have their character, makeup, and spirit
substance become permanently changed through operations by the Spirit
of GOD. Finite human consciousness, desire, and self-will may be
dominated by such carnal elements as appetite, sensation, and emotion
along with sin. Sin is no ordinary object or thing created by GOD or
mankind, and can not be eliminated by simple acts of destruction,
reversal, or violence. Sin opposes the continued existence of sacred
law, the Creator is who both the lawgiver and judge, and the
platforms of divine order throughout the universe.
Christians
only become Christlike as they receive, embody, and display the same
spirit that has been manifest on the earth within Jesus Christ.
Water baptism to become a new creation through Christ
depicts the death, burial, and resurrection from the dead by ones
inborn spirit. A sinner becomes a vessel of divine DNA, so to speak,
and is “born again.” By receiving fresh endowments of life
essence (we also say, breath; spirit; word) the sinner is
transformed to “grow up again” as an offspring and heir of
divinity with Jesus. Inseparable aspects of the divine makeup are
imparted that include faith, forbearance, holiness, longsuffering,
lovingkindness, oneness without sameness,
wisdom, and wrath against sin.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, GOD reveals divinity through spirit, and
becomes knowable, known, accessible, and approachable through shared
personhood and sacred truth. A developing believer is built up
(edification) through divine process that includes discovery, gradual
growth, enduring hardship, fellowship with other believers, praise,
prayer, prophecy, regular study of the holy writings, unselfish
service, and suffering.) 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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