(12/25/2016) The Peace of Christmas?

 

Topics today include the birth of Jesus, Incarnation, Islam, and shared peace.  In the same way XYZ should not appear as part of the number pattern 12345, correctly understood, peace is not an aspect or product of secular knowledge, doctrine, philosophy, and systems of belief.  Even so, there must be a response by awareness, desire, and self-will to operations of the spirit of peace that resides within divine person.  Peace is an inner condition and spirit content that must be projected through and upon events, life conditions, and judgment whereby conflicts are resolved and disputes are settled through law.  Accord and peace both appear as the outcomes of judgment, instead of war; and agreement only results where there first is peace.  The writer at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Troy” (Level 2 with 301 points, a member since October 26, 2016) posted the following:

 

Can Christians and Muslims be at peace with each other on Christmas day?

 

THE GOLDEN ARROW:  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:  that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure:  for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  (2nd Peter 1:  2-11, King James Version, KJV)

 

THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  The Meaning of Christmas? (12/22/2016); Divine Appearances Using Form? (12/20/2016); Saying “GOD is Love” (12/18/2016); African American Christmas? (12/15/2015); The Christmas Spirit? (12/23/2014); Peace The Gift of Christmas? (12/24/2014); The True Miracle (12/23/2012); About the Star? (12/24/2012)

 

“Troy”, whether those who are in conflict against others and within themselves may experience the peace of Christmas depends on the measure of divinity they respond to that exists as part of who they are.  Mature Christian believers will acknowledge the peace of Christmas is a spirit imparted from the makeup of GOD through breath (we also say, life essence, word) that is to continually exist within created beings and living creatures.  The spirit of peace is inseparable from the many other aspects of divine substance (i.e., where you find one, you find them all; and you can not separate the “wet from the water,” so to speak.  Included are faith, forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, joy, longsuffering, lovingkindness, purity, wisdom, and wrath against sin.  While finite, human tools such as emotion, intellect, logic, philosophy, politics, and science will never eliminate sin, or fashion and maintain lasting peace, GOD has used the flesh, and appeared as a newborn child to embody the required completeness, gentleness, eternal possibilities, and sacred purposes that mean genuine peace throughout all Creation.  The peace of Christmas is not to be a “one-time event,” or a “good feeling” that dwindles and fades away.  All may realize the presence of Immanuel, GOD within us, and showing respect to the divine presence among and between us, know peace between the Creator and the created as well as correct reverence, right worship, and the true humanity that is from GOD. 

There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually apprehended.  Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.  Be encouraged!  Merry Christmas.

THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC

(05/21/2015) Asking For Answers From GOD?

Sacred meaning, coming under judgment, and the gift of life are in focus, today.  There is much that carefully must be considered regarding eternal life and salvation for the children (and adults) caught up in such sweeping divine plagues and judgments against sin as Noah’s Flood, the Exodus from Egypt, or captivity by Assyria and Babylon.  Being mortal, children die, yet, all who may die are not damned.  One of the unknown fighters at “Yahoo! Answers” who uses the ID “Anonymous” (the required profile information is withheld) posted the following question infused with subtle accusations against divinity:


Christians what could a newborn child have done that would have made him evil and okay to be drowned in god's great flood?


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.  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.  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.  (Isaiah 55:  6-13, KJV)


THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  About “The Just” (10/29/2014); Antidotes to the Poisons (10/30/2014); That Mortal Children Die? (12/15/2013); Going It Alone? (12/16/2013); A Slaughter of Innocents (12/15/2012); Words Spoken By GOD? (06/05/2013); Teachings on Judgment (06/06/2013); Those Who Never Heard? (06/07/2013); If You Are Sent…? (06/08/2013); Signs of Messianic Belief? (12/16/2012)


“Anonymous”, because their questions are only intended to challenge divinity and are not for obtaining divine nourishment, sacred knowledge, and spiritual growth, most human sinners and the unclean spirits are unable to consider and grasp the following points:

(1.)  Such aspects of divine order as Creation, existence, Judgment, purity, and eternal purpose are not determined upon the basis of affection, behavior, desire, emotion, preferences and other features residing within the character and nature of created beings and living creatures.

(2.)  Those who believe what has been revealed by GOD to clarify the operations of Deity, also accept that only those “born again” (i.e. who experience comprehensive and permanent changes of their inner spirit) acquire the new understandings for language, meanings and values that are vital for being in harmony with the heart and mind of GOD.  For divinity, the Great Flood continues divine law, the existence of earth and heaven, and maintenance of the entire  universe.  Those apart from divinity only may understand the Great Flood as a natural event resulting from the mechanics of such features as air currents, erosion, fissures, and changes in temperature.

There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually understood.  (For example, (3.)  We have to see “with new eyes.”  Ones chronological age and the measure of their temporal duration is not a condition that establishes spiritual perfection.  Only by operations of GOD do a fetus or centenarian have genuine relationship that constitutes eternal life, not merely mortality.  The young also may receive aspects of the divine makeup through the Spirit imparted from GOD such as faith, holiness, joy, longsuffering, reverence, and resilience.  However, aggressiveness, competitiveness, dependency, lack of meekness (readiness to be taught of GOD), parental corruption with many other conditions and qualities from social reality upon the earth oppose human offspring coming to full maturity and sacred perfection.)  Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.

THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC