Today,
reply is on Spirit as the process and substance for Christian belief,
rather than the frameworks of mechanical and natural law; time and
space; or intellect, logic, and carnal reason. GOD is immortal,
incorruptible, and invisible, however, divine authority, influence
and power are to be acknowledged by believers that express divine
prerogative, eternal purpose, and the sovereign will of GOD. The
full glory and power of Jesus
Christ are yet to appear and be manifest among mankind because they
must be apprehended through Spirit. The Creation of heaven and earth
are now in a season of grace that allows repentance, rebirth, and new
life through the resurrection of Jesus. Rather than a system to
focus ones intelligence, recall, and thought, Christian belief is a
system to focus growth and transformation of ones indwelling spirit
through such operations as acknowledgment, commitment, discernment,
joining, service, and the exercise of self-will (willpower) in
conformity. It is written: 1st
John 4: 1-6, King James Version (KJV): 1 Beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many
false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the
Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is
that spirit
of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even
now already is it in the world. 4 Ye are of God, little children,
and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than
he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak
they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he
that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. One of
the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion &
Spirituality using the ID “Anonymous” (no profile information
appeared) posted the following:
Why
do Christians exempt God from the logic they impose on our own
existence ?
Do
they not understand this is special pleading? Christians argue that
our intelligence and the general complexity of our existence demand
an explanation that can only lead to the existence of their God. But
God, an entity that would be even more intelligent and complex
doesn’t need an explanation for its own existence. God is
“eternal”, as if that phrase somehow exempts God from the very
logic that is imposed on our own existence. It’s special pleading.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Seek ye the LORD while he may be
found, call ye upon him while he is near: 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. For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the
LORD. For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than
your thoughts. 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: 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.
(Isaiah 55: 6-11, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Miracles and Christian Belief (01/30/2020); Not
Impossible With GOD (01/06/2020); From Purpose and Substance
(12/27/2019); Only Divine Resurrection Saves (12/24/2019); I Am So
Satisfied (12/18/2019); More Required Than Crucifixion? (12/10/2019);
The Tools Of Divinity (12/09/2019)
“Anonymous”,
Christian belief is not the product of operations by the intellect,
the mind, and other aspects of the flesh; rather, there is the
joining of divine spirit matter to the same sacred content that
exists within the living. Sinners who turn to GOD through Jesus
Christ are not simply given academic instruction; challenged to apply
logic, carnal reason, and critical thinking; or guided in using
finite human tools such as history, philosophy, science, and secular
knowledge. Those who come to GOD must undergo a transformation
of the life essence (i.e., breath; spirit; word)
imparted to mankind at Creation from the makeup of divine fullness
(we also say, divinity; the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy
Spirit). As developing Christians, sinners are to acquire the sacred
knowledge (definitions, meanings, operations, values) whereby
divinity makes themselves knowable, known, accessible, and
approachable. While GOD is active presence, and the process
and substance of GOD is spirit, divinity has used multiple sacred
events to communicate with the living on the earth. Included are
birth, death, expectation, forbearance, forgiveness, Incarnation,
judgment, prayer, praise, promise, prophecy, reconciliation,
repentance, resurrection, and sanctification. As vessels containing
divine DNA (so to speak), the living are to display the image of GOD
as offspring and sacred heirs; and are to resemble, reflect and
reveal the character and likeness of Jesus Christ. Those who are
“born again” receive a fresh endowment of such inseparable
aspects of divine fullness as balance, commitment, completeness,
faith, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without
sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin). Even so,
through discovery, gradual growth, learning, practice, study,
unselfish service, and suffering, developing believers must mature
and ripen for harvest by the Lord at his appearing (we say, Advent;
the Rapture; the Second Coming). Consider again the following that
uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the music ministry
of Steve Amerson:
(1.)
Numbers 23: 19, King James Version (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?
(2.)
John 4: 24, KJV: 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship
him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
(3.)
Romans 8: 5-9, KJV: 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind
the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death;
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the
carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to
the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in
the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in
the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any
man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For
example, (4.) https://youtu.be/HlYp5ek4I4E.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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