Today,
reply is on reasoning together with GOD. Divinity has provided
messages, pronouncements and words to the living that are to
establish law, order and peace; to encourage Christ-likeness; to
settle disputes and resolve conflicts; to nourish continued
discovery, gradual growth, learning, and progression; to demonstrate
forbearance, forgiveness, and reconciliation; and to make known
eternal and unseen events. The character and process for
communication, exchange and interaction by divinity with mankind is
decisive, defining, forward-looking, instructive, judicial, and
promissory. Divinity acknowledges confession, fasting, intercession,
petitions, and supplication from mankind; even so, GOD may not be
influenced, manipulated, and persuaded by the actions and speech of
the living. A
fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and
Spirituality who uses the ID “missgreen”
(Level 2 with 271 points a member since August 09, 2008) posted the
following:
Isaiah
1:18 does God compromise with us? Or can we compromise with God?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and
every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of
lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of
his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a
kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved
brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to
wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,
and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save
your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and
not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a
glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the
perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a
forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed
in his deed. (James 1: 16-25, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Not By Bread Only (02/22/2019); Sinners Must Become
Convicted (11/27/2018); How Are We Justified? (03/05/2018); The
Option of Atheism (02/11/2018); Through Love Not Persuasion
(01/18/2018); Human Nature, Divine Spirit? (05/18/2017); Non-existent
Debt? (03/06/2013); My Sheep Hear My Voice (03/08/2013)
“missgreen”,
created beings and living creatures can not manipulate divinity using
mind, intelligence, logic, utterance, and words. GOD has
communicated with mankind using sacred dreams, trances and visions
along with divine law, covenant relationships, prayer, proclamation,
promise, and prophecy. Because the divine intent is immutable and
unchanging, revelation from GOD is understood as fixed, permanent,
and unalterable. Even so, the single revelation provided to all
appears by the use of diversity, fresh endowments, re-statement, and
the expression of added possibilities. As sinners who become
developing Christians, most of us continue to approach our Creator,
Judge, and Savior using the same devices and tools we rely on in our
carnal, material, and social living. The operations and process of
our awareness and self-will must be transformed to maintain an
uninterrupted accord with the will of GOD. In addition to
bargaining, negotiating, self-justification (I'm right when I'm
wrong, because...) exaggerated pride, and self-promotion (I am holier
than the Pope), immature, inexperienced and untried believers will
express errors based on secular knowledge, rather than sacred knowledge; hopes that are void of eternal purpose
and sacred substance; or overwhelming morbid concerns that include
anxiety, damnation, death, depression, fear, perdition, punishment,
sin, and the wrath of GOD, rather than his love. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Genesis 28: 20-22, King James Version (KJV): 20 And Jacob vowed a
vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way
that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21
So that I come again to my father’s
house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be
God’s house: and of all that
thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
2.
Leviticus 26: 40-44, KJV: 40 If they shall confess their iniquity,
and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they
trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto
me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and
have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the
punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant
with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant
with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43 The
land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while
she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the
punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my
judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet
for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not
cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly,
and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD
their God.
3.
Ezekiel 18: 29-32, KJV: 29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way
of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal?
are not your ways unequal? 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of
Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD.
Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so
iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your
transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new
heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord
GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live
ye.
4.
Matthew 11: 28-30, KJV: 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find
rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 5. Numbers
23: 19, KJV: 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the
son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do
it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
Washington,
DC
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