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Obviously, then, the sin nature being what it is, we need God's Instruction Set of Truth to replace the instruction set in our souls. That's why we have a Cross: to make that substitution. This is by contract, Hebrew of Isa53:10: "If you will give your soul as a substitute for sin" (im tasim asham naphesho). So this webseries is about how that substitution which first was effected in HIM, gets effected in us. It begins with salvation, and it is a true transmutation of nature. Thus we have a Bible, so His Thinking -- His Soul DNA put in writing so it can be built in us -- so His Thinking can replace our own. Obviously this requires continued, repeated consent. Salvation sets up the DDNA structure, and learning Bible under God's System sets up the DDNA function. This building process takes a lifetime. It is fraught with conflict, since Satan & Co. also lose in the Angelic Appeal Trial when enough believers are 'built' via God's System in God's DDNA to a Royal Family Level, aka "Body of Christ".
Major Bible DDNA chapters and books -- all of which have been overlooked by theology -- are Isa 52:14 through all of Chap 55, which detail the DDNA contract and its effects, in the inspired original-language texts; John 14-17 ("mansion" in Jn14:2 refers to a DDNA 'house', royal family of God, not buildings); all of 1Jn; all of Romans (especially Romans 5-8) and Ephesians (really, all Paul writes); and especially, Philippians. Philippians concentrates on the interpersonal effect of DDNA on soul and body, using the "megalunw" theme (term is in Phili1:20); the DDNA webseries is not yet upgraded to properly reference that massive effect. It will take a good year to fix the webseries for Philippians. Frankly, "megalunw" covers what really you 'do' in the body, and it blows me away: it's a transmutation, not even remotely.. works. What you become due to what the Holy Spirit does TO you. I learned of its meaning obliquely through something my pastor said about "magnetism" in connection with megalunw. His query was, how the heck can a sin-nature body, glorify God? Sure isn't works! My life hasn't been the same since that February 2006 day. About a year prior, something else he said tipped me off to the DDNA meaning in the first place, as you'll see later on in DDNA1.htm. This is mammoth stuff. I don't live one second without this knowledge, anymore. Everything else is too small.
As you review the DDNA material in Bible -- and there's plenty of it, we just haven't been looking at Bible as a DDNA manual, for crying out loud -- you can see DDNA transmutation has basically Four Aspects: first, intrapersonal, the transmutation of your thinking from sin-nature thinking to Divine Thinking; second, intrapersonal, the transmutation of how you live in your body; third, the effect on other bodies in your periphery, both now and in the eternal state; fourth, all this is by contract, extending Isa53:10-12 into the Body of Christ (and all believers, but via the Body of Christ).
Click here for the "You, in Me!" table of Part III's Third Reason for Royalty if you want a succinct explanation of this DDNA meaning, to justify reading further.
Of course, there's zippo on the internet of this nature. But when you think of GOD's Nature, and a whole lot of very familiar Bible verses in LIGHT of DDNA -- you smack yourself, Why didn't I see this before? Especially, when going over the Hebrew and Greek of Isa53:10-12. Whole new -- yet very old -- way to look at Bible. Explains everything, a complete theology we've missed for centuries.. without excuse. Can't see what you're not seeking, huh. We've been seeking ways to feel good about ourselves, hence our panourgia for the planaw of works (terms used in Eph4:14). But God's been seeking to give us His Own Son's Spiritual Dendrites, "You.. in Me!" -- see the short table by that name in the red-table links of LordvSatan3b.htm.
Most Important Thing to Know: as you learn and live on Bible in God's System, you are being transmuted into Christ's Own Soul's Thinking. This in turn transmutes how you live in the body, and blesses others in ways you cannot now begin to imagine or see. For example, it's the most patriotic thing you can do for your home nation, to learn and live on Bible, for God will bless your home country SOLELY because you are learning His Son. Paul goes so far as to say you are a traitor if you don't do this, in passages like Romans 13 and 1Tim2; John says the same thing rather dramatically, in the anarthrous constructions in the Greek of 1Jn3:18; also, in Rev17 (macro depiction of politicized Christianity as a harlot of SATAN's invention). You don't (and should not ever) politick or crusade: most evil thing a Christian can do is get involved in politics, sorry. For your seemingly-menial body life is instead used to make the soul-body coordination transmute, such that when you inherit your final (post-death) body, all the proper soul-body connections in it will be like Christ's own. Because, you are in training to inherit YOUR OWN kingdom, in order to honor HIM. So, that kingdom will be kitted to YOU, since you are like Christ once you finish the training (aka "the course", in Bible). It's a functional change built atop the same structural change we all inherited at salvation (i.e., 2Cor5:17-21, all of Romans 8 in the Greek). But since not all believers in Christ will alike choose to learn and live on Bible in God's System -- in fact, 99.9% will opt out -- there will be only a few functionally-developed kings. So the rest have to be kitted out for those kings who did grow up to "Pleroma" (Bible Greek keyword found in Eph3:19 and elsewhere). So you are a whole POLITY in the making, if you are willing to keep on keeping on in God's System to Pleroma completion. Clearly, this is something only God can do to you, so you don't need to feel either arrogant or intimidated by this massive GIFT. For you are a gift to Christ, even as He Chose to be made a Gift for you (theme in last half of Romans 5).
Obviously this is a big topic, and will take a lot of explaining. Please use 1Jn1:9 as you read, so any deficiencies in the text will be corrected by the Holy Spirit as you read. Better still, just start reading those Bible DDNA chapters and books mentioned three paragraphs back, breathing 1Jn1:9 as needed, constantly asking Father to have Spirit point out to you the DDNA meanings. This DDNA doctrine is so very real. Funny we all missed it for so long.
5. In short, you get to live TOWARD FATHER as a Royal Priest to Him, 1Pet2:5,9, Rev1:6, 5:10, as a King-in-Training (ibid), so you have the luxury of no longer having to live for yourself. So there is a lot of thinking to learn, practice, enjoy! No matter what you 'seem' to be, in the eyes of the world down here. So this living toward Father is called "prayer" (which has a wider meaning than people normally assign). Prayer isn't merely asking for stuff, but conversation (see how David is always thinking toward Father, just to BE together); prayer is RELATIONSHIP. God hears your every thought: don't you want those thoughts to be beautiful for Him? So you get the privilege of trying to think well, 24/7. Whether a grocery clerk or the Grand Marshall. This is the best part of the spiritual life, more fulfilling even when hurting than all the world's goodies. Moreover, billions of people actually NEED you to live it, if the welfare of others is a concern (which it will be, since this life is so fantastic you'll often be tempted to think you are cheating others of some good deed you can do for them).
Man doesn't know Love. So man needs to be introduced TO Love. For, man always wins the war, and loses the peace. That, because Adam lost peace when he distrusted God, and ate the stupid fruit. So we've been warring, ever since. Worse, when the Eden couple ate that fruit, they went from being mature adults (which is how God made them), to being perennially childish. So we have been, ever since. Our religions, our politics, our philosophy and other 'wisdom' are just so many bleating babes in the sandbox, each one trying to one-up someone else; each one trying to regain that lost peace. We were not created that way. But we have been that way, ever since Gen3; when the first two souled humans, genius, mature, cultured, civilized, engaged in scientific research of flora and fauna, decided that some stupid fruit would make them as smart as God, Gen3:5. And so we've been fruitful, alright -- with childish, warring notions! Ever since.
When you're five years old, you need "commandments" to teach you the difference between true good, and what your child's mind considers 'good' -- the good of that evil tree, the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Satan's tree. Satan is childish -- though compared to us he's of godlike maturity -- and would like it very much if we all stayed childish, too. So when you're 50 years old, you STILL don't know the difference between true good and that stupid tree -- but GIVE commandments, demanding they be obeyed. Hence we don't know Love at all, and instead we war in the name of a Love we don't know anything about, everyone telling everyone else what to do: aka, religion, Gen3:5 and Gen 3:11. "Who denounced you for being naked?" the Lord rhetorically asked Adam. [Corrected translation. See last bullet in "About Bible Mistranslation" link at pagetop, for more details.] Well, it was Satan who denounced him. Adam knew that, but wouldn't admit it. For, children can't stand being naked, they feel vulnerable. So the Word has been covered up, ever since; so we have been WARRING over it, ever since.
Time to look at the naked truth: God didn't make our souls and biological DNA, for childish warring. He made us to be ADULTS, and for PEACE. "Peace", Hebrew shalom and Greek eirene, really first mean PROSPERITY -- which comes from first HAVING a state of peace. "Reconciliation" is how one GETS a state of peace; which the Bible stresses, e.g., Job 22:21, Luke 12:58, 1Cor7:11, 2Cor5:20. [Greek and Hebrew wordplay is Divorce Trial, husband-wife, metaphorically depicting God-creation: phenomenal! TSK database in BibleWorks (for Luke 12:58) did a great job collecting related verses, so you see the vast scope of meaning.] "Reconciliation", of course, requires a DESIRE to make peace, and a REASON to do so. Which means, you have to ACCOUNT the pro's and con's; which means you need to be SUFFICIENTLY INFORMED. Hence we have a Bible, God's Due Diligence Love Contract to mankind. So Man Can Find Reason To MAKE Peace.
Of course, you can't even get peace in reconciling your checkbook until you can account for every last penny. You can't get peace with God until you can ACCOUNT how He is. You can't ACCOUNT how He is, if you are at war with Him, but you should account that whatever bothers you, would 'bother' Him MORE -- so He must have RECONCILED a PEACEFUL SOLUTION. Because, God has to see it forever, whereas you will forget. So God's Accounting must be PERFECT and INFINITE. Ours, of course, is not. So we war. God doesn't: He doesn't have to war. He mimics our warring by 'warring' with us, but that's only to bless us, Heb12:5-11, James 4:6, 1Pet5:5-7. Hmmm. Wait a minute! If God doesn't war, then there is an answer we don't know about, which if we did know about it, we would be reconciled, peaceful, prosperous. But Religion never accounts for anything. So knows nothing. Hence childishly wars with everything.. in the name of God, of course!
But due to Adam's fall, religion is all we know. So we have a Catch-22: we are totally incapable of learning shalom and eirene, until and unless, we get Replacing DNA. For when Adam sinned, he perpetuated those sin urges on biological material, since the body is imprinted with the soul's thinking, Gen2:17+Rom5:12+1Cor15:22+"flesh" verses. Paul sketches out this problem and its solution, throughout the Book of Romans. So the soul HAS a reason to make peace with God, John 3:16. "For God loved the world SO MUCH that He gave His Uniquely-Born Son, with the result that whosoever ONCE believes in Him, shall NEVER perish, but have [God's Own] Eternal Life." God didn't make Adam and the woman to trash them up, but to build them up. Sin didn't stop His Plan to build man up, either. Religion can't account for all that, but the Bible can. And, does. To anyone who wants to make peace with God, the Bible is an open book. Just ask Him to guide you in your reading of it. You don't even need a cellphone. But you do need to at least suspect that God just might have TOTAL REASON for what He's allowing and doing. And, you need to WANT to know His Reasons. He'll do the rest...
For the only cure for our deaths, warring, and childishness.. is DDNA, Divine DNA -- to replace the corrupted, soul-enacted DNA we acquire during our lives. Only the naked truth is, God's Divine DNA does way more than merely restore us to the pre-Fall status. OH NO. That's not enough for God, Who by the way, never intended that we even STAY in the same state as Adam was created. Hence the Last Adam, Who got filled up with All DDNA, especially during the Cross. So that we become the Very DDNA Of God, 2Cor5:17+:21, aka "sons of God in Christ Jesus", Gal3:26 -- which we become, that very first nanosecond we FIRST believed in Christ as the Sole Payor of our salvation, John 3:16.
So we can stop warring, Rom6-8. So we can grow UP, 2Pet3:18, Eph3:15-19, Eph 4:11-16. So we can see God's naked Love Contract in all its glory, a contract which we also get for OUR future, Isa53:10-12 & John 17. What follows will outline some of the salient features of this contract and what it's designed to do TO us. Wholly run, by God Himself. So we can HAVE peace from our incessant, childish, warring urges that we can or should 'do' something: aka, religion. Stand still and watch the deliverance of the Lord...
Notice how the above verses form Royal Serving Stem of goblet, or dining plate; that Royal Stem design is classic, and you'll find it used from ancient through modern times. Heh. The 'fingers' to hold the stem elegantly, fit around the third-for-Trinity line, which is the Trinity Corporation's Divine Design making you a Son of God in Christ Jesus. That's what holds everything IN the goblet or dining plate. Double-heh. [For more on why I coined the moniker "Trinity Corporation", which is actually what 2Cor13:14 says in the Greek via the deft placement of Greek monadic articles, see DueDisclosure.htm. When you load the page, click on the link "Hupostasis, in Trinity". Nerd Note: in math and chemistry, an arrow is used to mean "yields", to show how a group of variable values "yield" a result. So what follows the "->", is the RESULT of what happened prior. Problem is, I don't know how to make that arrow sign look good in html. So remember "yields" above means the arrow. There are more verses than these completing the formula, obviously.]
Biology has its own 'physics', just as quarks do. Frankly, there's a whole lot of similarity between the nature and behavior of a cell, compared to an atom. But do you have to become a biologist or physicist, to understand God? Well, Adam was being trained in biology for just that reason, but Christ is the last Adam, so -- heck YES! So, you gotta become expert WITHIN God's System, with THE Expert Holy Spirit, teaching you 24/7 so to become LIKE the Last Adam, theme of 2Cor5, Rom6-8, 12 (especially Chapters 8 and 12), Hebrews Chaps 5-10, all of Ephesians (esp. 3:15-21, 4:11-16).
So if you already happen to have any knowledge of math, biology and/or physics (etc.), use them when you learn Bible; for everything spiritual, there is a secular counterpart, and ALL parts fit together in one seamless Whole. Hence there are, enfin, no mixed metaphors -- everything is paradigmal of everything else, whether you're talking the structure of a galaxy, or the structure of a hurricane; or the structure of the polity God Wants To Gift You For All Eternity ("inherit the kingdom" and "true riches" verses in NT). So, then: look for the underlying PATTERNS, especially when learning Bible.
So here are physics-related links in some of my other websites, in case you want to pursue the physics metaphor before reading further. [Someday I need to amalgamate the physics analogy into one page, but that will take a long time for me to do.] It's faster to just type in the page name at the end of the address line in your browser, so the html page names are here listed.
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So the Bible Truth is, God WANTS to make free beings with His Own DDNA. So let's examine more closely HOW His Goal works to solve our limitations. You've probably noticed that a lot of structures in life look alike: triangular, square, etc. These happen in nature, too, and whether crystalline or animal, you've got basic types of structures which are very similar in shape or some other critical factor. A guy recently on Charlie Rose was talking about his new book, which shows the elegance of human anatomy, from the skeletal structure, to nerve endings, to cardiovascular system: he posited that there are basically Seven Designs In All Of Nature, which keep repeating themselves. Seven, the Divine Promise Number. Yeah, Elegantissimo.
So God's Basic Design for all life is very similar, and MODULAR. Which makes both mutation and correction, structurally elegant. Just like He is. Genes, for example, are between 80%-90% or more alike among very disparate lifeforms. So it's likewise elegant to remember that "DNA" is an INSTRUCTION SET (in your genes) which is responsible for making every cell in your body. The "DNA" isn't just of one type, either. In all events, each type of DNA in you is a living architectural manual; and if there were even one 'typo' in that manual, You Would Be Different. Much more about biological DNA is said in the "Production to Love" section, following this one.
Your Very Biology, Just Like Your SOUL, Depends Entirely On Instruction. So You Are Made Due To Instruction. So You Are Engineered Or Changed Based On Instruction. Change the instruction, and you change the nature. So if you have a sin nature (and we all do from birth, Rom5:12, 1Cor15:22), then if God changes that DNA to 'His' DDNA, then your very nature changes, too. It already happens in biology. But here, we're talking 'DNA' of the soul. The instructions YOU have programmed into your soul. You know, all those temptations given into, the ignorance still present, the prejudices, weaknesses, works-pride strengths. Lots of reprogramming needed, in all of us.
Addictive, depressing, eroding, bare, blind. Those are all the effects of sin and its like-rabbits cousins of the Bad Decision Families, which we'll here call "BDFs". Such addictions are FAR harder to reverse than cigarrettes, alcohol, you-name-the-narcotic. Self-righteousness is well nigh incurable, absent some cataclysmic wakeup call (which has no lasting effect, even so). Gross sins tend to be more curable, because the person sinning them falls apart more obviously, and sooner. But the self-righteous BDFs are insidious, are compatible with productive societal structures (so seem like virtues); so kinda like hidden cancer or AIDS, these more-popular BDFs show up only when it's (usually) too late. We all know of someone thus afflicted, and usually try to avoid that person's tongue as much as we can. Because, these BDFs are also highly contagious. Just you try to avoid getting snotty in reply when someone is snotty to you...
In short, it takes years to reprogram the soul from BDFs and their common sin parents. Years. And the reprogramming is NOT humanly possible. All a human can do is cross-addict (go from one type of sin+BDFs to another group which 'seems' of opposite nature). So if you've got some sin habits which trouble you, get in God's System and stay there. Forget all other solutions, for they all pick pimples and then your WHOLE face will become infected, not just that nasty splotch in the corner. Man's 'cure' is always far worse than the disease. Remember those figleaves? At least BEFORE Adam started sewing, he only had a sin problem. But now Adam's WORKS URGE is driving us crazy, too!
So the first reason why God's DDNA plan works is due to the nature of 'soul DNA' being a Volitionally-Created Instruction Set Which Can Be Volitionally Reprogrammed. Now, to the second reason why God's DDNA plan works: the nature of God's Own 'DDNA'. And all of His DDNA, is based on God's Nature being LOVE. His Love is His Integrity, as my pastor frequently explains: all other Attributes are Characteristics of His Love. It's not hard to see why. God being Infinite, has no needs which can ever interfere with Love; but if He chose to stop Loving, then even if all needs were met, life would not be worth living. Hatred destroys -- the nature of hatred depends on destruction, for its own survival. By contrast, Love builds (i.e., 1Cor13:4ff): God BEING Love, doesn't even need an object, to express Love. As per 1Cor13:4ff, Love by nature Preserves, Restores, Propagates. And most of all, supports Truth. No room for hatred, then, if God is Omniscient. Wow, what a Divine Genome!
So because God is Love and Omniscient, God cannot in any way become unhappy. So is at all times, Absolutely Happy. It's His Natural Status Quo. Infinitely sinless, therefore (sin is motivated by a seeking of happiness in all events). He can't be tempted to sin, because being Infinite, He infinitely knows what sin would be, so finds it always totally unattractive, always UNenjoyable. Righteousness is Glorious, Enjoyable. Sin, is not. So God would never enjoy sin, doesn't find it pleasant, and can't be tempted in any way. Because, there's no possible permutation of Truth which could be tempting; and all lies of any kind are forever unattractive.
In his 2000 revised explanation of God's Integrity, my pastor recasts his diagrams as follows: "LOVE" is depicted as a circle (subjective and objective genitive), and 'inside' it are ALL the other Attributes, but four of them are listed: Omniscience, Righteousness, Justice, Grace. These four are thus highlighted as the principal 'operators' (reference points) WITHIN. Now you can see why. How could Love be competent, else? Truth is a subset of Omniscience, and rightly so: for even with all Truth known, Omniscience would have to know all the facts extrinsic to God, else how could Truth be used? Same for Righteousness and Justice. Grace is the most important of all, in a way: for Grace is Love's exhale.
Hence, God has Infinite Love FOR Truth, no exceptions. Love in God, is a Characteristic He Always Chooses. Although God is uncreated, He is Personhood, and hence has Will. Love is a perennial Attitude of His Will, timeless: "God is Love". But note how, God could NOT be Love, if not Infinite. But since Infinite, therefore Infinite Love. Never changes, always CHOSEN, never influenced by anything or anyone else. So Absolute, and Undentable. Hence, Infinitely Happy. So that happiness is likewise a characteristic, and undentable.
So here's the DDNA dilemma -- but also (how richly ironic!) its Permanent Solution: What's Not Infinite, Cannot Be Happy. So if God creates, whatever He creates, would not be Infinite. That's a truth, for Finity Is The Opposite Of Infinity, So Finity Cannot Be Happy alone. Moreover, since God is Infinite and hence FREE, Then It's Unhappiness To Not Be Free. So, then: how can God create a finite soul which is happy? Only if, That Soul Is Designed To Be Connected To God Via Shared Thinking in such a way that, without compromising freedom, That Soul Itself Would Never Also Want To Sin. Wouldn't matter that the soul was less powerful, wouldn't matter how many souls there were; wouldn't matter what kind of outer environment the soul had, so long as the INNER environment was sufficiently SHARED with God. For then, the happiness which is Infinity can be shared -- cycling, so to speak, in the soul thus enabled. Freely.
So let's recap, to see the SOLUTION to this dilemma. God's DDNA plan works on our soul DNA, because the nature of our soul DNA, is volitional. So deciding to get in and stay in God's System, is also volitional, hence what we learn under the Spirit can be used to re-engineer our souls to make us DDNA-compatible. Second, the plan works because of the nature of God's Own DDNA: it's LOVE in a 'composite' structure characterized by His Other Attributes, such that each 'dot' of Truth learned is a 'dot' of ALL His Attributes. So: above all His DDNA plan works, because Love is inviolate; therefore Happiness is inviolate; and Happiness is due to Infinity, and Truth.
So The More Truth We Learn, The More We TRANSMUTE: Romans 12:1-3, Greek (especially the clause "as God has assigned to each one (under a pastor), a standard of thinking From Doctrine"). Because, the more Truth we learn, the more Love is built in us (1Cor13, Rom5:5), so the more Free we become (Gal5:1), so the HAPPIER we become. Freely. [Whenever you see the word "blessed" in English Bibles, just retranslate it to the correct term, "happiness" -- usually, in the plural. Happinesses. God's Happinesses in you. This happiness is also likened to booty, the booty of His Thinking. For example, Isa53:12 (LXX) uses the term merizw, and Paul references it in Eph4:16 and in Romans 12:3. The latter epistle was earlier, so you can see from Eph4:16 what was meant in Romans 12:3. You only get your share through a pastor, a "haphe" (Eph4:16's Greek): who is matched to a congregation. "Haphe" in Greek means joints in the body (i.e., your knees) -- concept that certain ligaments only go with certain joints. So a pastor is matched to his sheep who hear his voice. Personally matched, part of the spiritual giftset each individual receives at salvation. People who think the doctrine of Right Pastor is some kind of cultic invention wouldn't know their Bible if it bit them. Very sad, because they miss out on the greatest spiritual life ever granted to the human race by refusing to sit under whomever God Appointed For Them As A Gift To Them! You don't even have to know the Bible to realize this doctrine is valid: when you get saved, one of the first thoughts occurring to you is Who Will Teach Me? That thought happened to me when I was an incredibly STUPID freshman in college, which was the first year I knowingly believed the Gospel. Many other believers can tell you the same kind of story. God Causes You To Know You Need A Teacher. So a person must reject God, to come up with the wacky idea he doesn't need a particular teacher. Oh well. We all have our sticking points. See 1Peter 5:5-7 for a more blatant statement that you need to be under your own God-appointed pastor. Right and wrong teaching is surely an obvious issue: so you would naturally want to find the right teacher for you, and would naturally want to ASK GOD who that person should be. Even without Bible backup to tell you these facts. Oh well.]
In short, creation can only be happy, to the extent that God 'clones' His Truth into it. Which cloning process, is you living in God's "henotes" -- His System, as Eph4:11-16 deftly outlines in the Greek. For a corrected translation of that passage, see Eph41216.htm. So: Truth means creation must be free, hence this 'cloning' "henotes" (System) must be CHOSEN by that creation. Which itself, can't make the cloning happen, can't make it cycle, can't make it achieve anything -- only God at all times would be able to do that, since finity wouldn't even begin to know HOW to do anything which is opposite to its own nature.
But wait! He won't gerrymander either Truth or Freedom, so how can He make a forever-sinless, soul? The sinlessness is a necessary base for compatibility to SHARE God's Truth Thinking. Even if sinless, one needs to grow up spiritually, since God is not finite, so is Infinite Spirituality. Which you know for a fact, since Christ was always sinless, yet He had to grow up. The Last Adam, He. Just like the first Adam, there is a need to Grow Toward Infinity. So here's the problem sin created for the first Adam and his progeny: sin severs the needed spiritual connection TO grow, Gen2:17 (Hebrew -- English translations are bad). So if severed, the rapport with God can't be had: Adam Died Spiritually, which is why we die physically. Hence the two-pronged problem deftly written in Romans 3:23: "for all have sinned, AND COME SHORT of the Glory of God." God is Infinite, therefore infinitely Happy, therefore Infinitely Glorious. We can't share the Glory of Him, being finite; and being sinners at birth (it's a genetic defect, which is why we are prone to sin), we are cut off from God (theme of Eph2) -- so we have no way to GET a relationship with Infinite God.
So if there is a cure, it must come from INSIDE. No outside stuff can heal what's INTERNALLY wrong. All the world's works and wishes can't fix what the world can't even detect, the immaterial soul. But God can.
The Cross therefore accomplished FAR more than simply paying for all mankind's sins. Since He first BECAME the Truth and then due to His Love for Father (and us) Went Through the Cross, both Love and Truth Fully Wedded In His Humanity. Therefore, Truth and Love can be wedded in US. That is the Primary Message in the New Testament. The enormity of this DDNA accomplishment cannot be overstated. Now you know why Paul and other NT writers use "Love" as a metaphor for "Word" as a metaphor for "Christ". Why "Christ in you" verses are actually Depicting His Thinking in you -- blatant statement of HOW the John 17 prayer would be fulfilled ("Sanctify them in..Word" clause in John 17). So, His Soul's Thinking, which we can learn, means we can learn both Truth and Love HIGHER than any other group of believers in history. That Church has the highest spiritual life legated from Him is clear from Ephesians and Hebrews, and of course I've been learning about it under my pastor for over 30 years. That you can document why this is true, occupies the bulk of Part IV of the "Thinking" series. Hence the Wedding demonstration of LOVE for Trial purposes (the topic of 1Jn4:12-16) via Church, means we are also the biggest targets for Satan&Co. For with us, God's side in the Trial effectively ends, and the Rapture follows: of course, no one knows when (nor can anyone know, it's spiritual-growth dependent).
Ok, so Satan&Co. rebelled. After all arguments were answered and then the sentence was passed, Satan appealed. So Adam and the woman were created for a new reason, level the playing field so Satan could make his appeal arguments. And then things got more impossible. Lower creatures, likewise binged with knowledge, but being lower, the 'perfect' level was far lower. Creatures subject to hunger and thirst; creatures who couldn't just pop off to Pluto by means of willing it, like the angels could. Creatures who were earthbound, dependent in every way. Creatures who knew the angels existed, what the Trial was, and who God was. Who knew what would happen if they ate from that prohibited Tree. Wouldn't YOU feel the pressure?
Then, even more impossible, post-Fall. Every corpuscle in fallen man's being is naturally anti-God and also FAR more needy than ever. Psychological defense mechanisms thus run amok, native to man's convoluted sin-nature wiring. And yet God can prove His Arguments with such DEFECTIVE beings? LordvSatan2.htm takes you through the mind-boggling soul devastation, and how with each passing successful witness, God just makes the next 'covenant' harder to execute than what obtained prior. Culminating, with that hardest-of-all covenants, the Salvation Covenant pertaining ONLY to the Christ. Who executed it anyway. And then, to give That Same Spiritual Life Which He Needed For The Cross -- to Sin-Nature Believers? Whoa: no one would want it. So Satan concluded.
Yeah, and the more impossible it gets, the more the Absoluteness of God's Love, is proved TRUE in the Trial. To understand this, you have to go back to the Garden. The first marriage, failed. Marriage always depicts the relationship between God and creation. That is why it was sacrosanct, in any covenant/Dispensation/"Age" (latter is the Biblical term for what is called a "Dispensation" in theology). Love has many levels, depending upon the relationship. Mild love based on attraction; friendship love, which can be shallow or profound; marital love, Which Is Designed To Be Total. The husband doesn't belong to himself, but to the wife; the wife doesn't belong to herself, but to the husband. Paul explained this in great detail, throughout 1Cor, and Ephesians.
For Christ Bought A Spiritual Life Of Intimacy Which Is Most Analogous Yet Higher Than, MARITAL Love. That couldn't be done, pre-Cross. Christ Threw His Life Away The Entire Time He Was Here. Phili2:5-10's Greek tells you all that. We in Church do not have the same Love Covenant as the OT. They had what was a besidedness, friendship spiritual life, vis á vis God. We have a Marital Intimacy Love Level available to us: John 17. Christ did what a wife would do, so to speak: He threw away His Whole LIFE, For Father. So for Church, unlike any other covenanted group, our own marriages are no longer merely secular: see Eph5. So for us, everything is a throwaway: we are Bride, and we have NO life of our own. The OT believers had a life with God, primarily, but ALSO a life of their own. Not true, for Church. For Church, we have a 100% life FOR Him. 0%, on any laterals, like people and things. Like the NT says, we are NOT our own. We were bought with the BridePrice, on the Cross.
You will never be happy until you love Christ so much, you want to throw away your life on Him; and you will never reach that attitude unless and until you have been grown up in God's System. Works aren't even remotely related to this. It's an ATTITUDE. Notice how no one is neutral, on the topic of "God". Now you know why. Works have zippo to do with attitude, and attitude has zippo to do with works. Same, for morality. You can hate God and be moral; you can hate God and do good deeds; you can love God while in those states, too. And the person who values his deeds and his morality hates God, theme of Romans 2-4.
See, the ALTITUDE of the ATTITUDE is the ongoing upgrade of God's Covenants, starting with the angels. The "Thinking Series", beginning with Part I, walks you through those altitudinal, attitudinal, upgrades. DDNA is still DDNA, but the way it gets built, depended on Christ Being Built. That's why a good 50% of OT Bible text focuses on the Temple. He is the Temple being built. But we are post-Temple, His Crucifixion, He is Built, and Seated at the Right Hand. That's as high an altitude as can be. The Jews were the intended Bride before Church was even announced (in Matt16:18), and they would be 'Church' instead of us, had they not rejected Christ when He came. And they STILL can be 'Church' NOW -- "now" being a Bible term for the Church Age -- by doing what Abraham did before there was any such thing as the Law, Gen15:6, upgraded now to John 3:16. God is consistent: it's always the Altitude of the Attitude=DDNA, built by the Holy Spirit. Buildable now, to the topmost Altitude, the Spiritual Pleroma of Christ Himself, per the Greek in Eph4:13 (in context) and Eph3:15-21.
So of course, Satan&Co. would want to obfuscate this dramatic post-Cross upgrade to "Church". So most Christians cast the spiritual life as if the OT spiritual life were still "on". But Hebrews 7:18, Romans 10:4 tell us that the Law died IN Christ, Because He Fulfilled The Law. Now you know why Christ said what He did in Matt5:18 -- HE is the Law, and when HE got accomplished on the Cross, then nothing passes from the Law, but INTO, Him. Whole Book of Hebrews is dedicated to explaining that changeover, and what we get now. We are ROYAL PRIESTS. We have NO life of our own. Historically, this fact has gone UNtaught. But it's in the Bible, and it takes very little searching, to find it: 2Cor10:5, all of Eph5, Phili2:5 (command to throw away as He did), Romans 8, Rom6:13, and all the hupo- words (like hupotassw, hupomenw, big NT keywords). The list could go on and on. Point is, we have a Wifely Role, since we are Wedded to Christ. Israel was supposed to be the Bride, but at the First Advent, she rejected Him. So we get that role instead. So It's A Far Higher Love Level, Requiring A Far Higher Truth Level. Which our Archegos, Who became the "Way, the Truth and the Life" legated to us. ["Archegos" is Greek for Founder/Grantor/Leader/Pioneer, and is used most famously in Heb 12:2.]
It's utterly impossible that the Life of Christ should be our life, too. But it is. And the Marital Nature Of Our Spiritual Life with God, hardly anyone will even want, let alone be able to discover. There is no excuse for Christianity to have missed this changeover, but it has. I can't find anyone BUT my pastor, who's even taught it. But the Bible is very plain.
Hence ours is the Highest Potential and the Most Impossible Spiritual Life. Going largely unused, historically.
Ask God to explain this to you, point you to the verses you need to see. For I'm sure you've not been taught it, unless you are under my own pastor. LordvSatan3.htm and all of Part IV's subpages explain what can be explained using BibleWorks (for I try to write these webpages as if I weren't taught by my pastor, proving what I can from Bible ONLY, so to prove no bias, and do my own due diligence before My Own God). You need God's Witness to this, as always. Don't not ask -- it's the most important doctrine you can learn. Else, you'll never orient to God's System, and you won't persist, in it. More words from me won't help you. Do your own homework. All I can do is be used as a brainstorming tool via these pages.
Again, the Love Level Christ Bought For Us, The Level Of Eternal Rapport We Can Have With Him, Is The Highest Of All The Covenanted Groups. Don't miss learning about it! End commercial message.
Aha. Now you know why we have a BIBLE. And now you know why the Bible, is ATTACKED. God's Truth is in WRITING. So, it mixes with your soul when you learn it in God's System, parenting Christ in you, the confident expectation of Glory, Col 1:25-27, which is a climactic statement of how the believer being DDNA-transmuted, beats Satan&Co. in the Angelic Trial. God's Truth, DDNA: all those math relationships of REALITY, can get into our heads, main theme of 1Cor. Which we choose, but cannot produce: we are His Production, for only God can make gold, silver, precious stones (main point in 1Cor2 and 3).
Even a brief review of Acts in translation shows you how God originally intended the spiritual life to progress.
As noted in the sidebar corollaries related to God's Love as Integrity above, now history has come full circle, which is why the 21st century is an apex in human history. If you were trying to date the Rapture -- and you should never do that, see Part IV of the "Thinking" series -- this 'full circle' quality of our century, is light-years more important, than what salivators hallucinate happening in the European Union. History has turned back to where God originally intended it. And since God runs God's System, it doesn't matter what brains you have -- they are of no use to you, for God's Brains Are To Replace Your Own (hence the need to breathe 1Jn1:9). God's Brains. Not, religion's.
Of course, religion, and in particular Christianity, has also begun turning back to what was bad about the end of the 1st century AD: Rev17. All those calls for unity you hear today, happened then. And we know how badly it turned out then. We learn from history that we learn nothing from history, so we'll repeat the same ol' lies yet again, this century. Because, Scripture is so available. Just as it was, by the end of the first century, when it was finally completed (the last book was Revelation, written about 96AD).
By the end of the first century, popism began with Clement 1: the concept of "pope" wasn't even Clement's, but started after him, and by him. By the end of the 21st century, it's real likely the Bible will be deep-sixed, again. Every 200 years or so the Bible breaks out, harvests those who learn Him, then goes back in the closet. But this time, the Bible has never been more available since the 1st century. So this time when it gets kidnapped again, will be the darkest of times. Again, you should never try to predict the Rapture, but if you were betting on when it would occur, then bet on it happening in the next 50 years or so. And be FRIGHTENED of not growing up.
For the true meaning of "born again" (John 3:16ff) is that You Become A New Spiritual Being That First Nanosecond You Believe In Christ (Tit3:5, Greek of 2Cor5:17). It's a SPIRITUAL CONVERSION, kinda like a touchdown conversion in football. So the elect angels in the unseen stadium above us, cheer, craning their necks (Luke 2 and 15:10, 1Pet1:12, 1Cor4:9). Or, it's like having been a pauper, yet suddenly inheriting the world owing to a fluke of birth. Only this is no fluke, but the very plan of God! for your life. Ok, so now, what? If you inherited a bizillion dollars but couldn't access the money, it's as if you got bupkis. If you got the money but didn't know how to use it, you'd end up with bupkis, for misused wealth never remains wealth of yours, for very long. Cleverer minds than yours, will part you from your money. Well, spiritual wealth requires even more learning prior to use; requires even more protection, from cleverer minds than your own (seed and talents parables in Gospels). So you need to Learn What God Has Already Made You, That First Second You Believed In Christ. You are absolutely not who you think you are. Ignorance is not bliss, but a death-warrant. Learning Him, by contrast, is Light and happiness. That's not nice Sunday hyperbole, but 1John's hard-headed, heart-hitting, due-diligence disclosure. As you'll see, in the First Aspect (DDNA1.htm, link at pagetop).
Sunday American football bores people who don't understand it was developed as a form of WAR, even like chess was. You have two teams. They are trying to BEAT each other. The goals at either end of the football field grant 'points' to the team (who faces OPPOSITE its own goal) who can RUN THE BALL into the 'endzone' (place where the goal post is). You run the ball to your OWN endzone, and the enemy tries to GRAB that ball and run to ITS own endzone. Of course, if you are truly stupid, you will run the ball YOU have to the ENEMY'S endzone, and thus become the laughingstock of the stadium. For, by doing that, you just gave the ENEMY, a touchdown! [The official term is called "touchback".]
We Christians are in just such a game, and we are quite the laughingstock, all the time. Actually, the whole world is. We all are initially on Satan's team, at birth. But the very nanosecond we 'obey' John 3:16, we are OUT of Satan's kingdom, and IN God's. So, on God's team. That's like a pass conversion which results in a touchdown for the ENEMY team. Satan's not pleased. All the angels in heaven though are cheering, Luke 15:7. We Are Being Watched. Peter talks about how the angels crane their necks to watch; Paul talks about us being gladiators in a Roman-style stadium. Some obvious verses on this are 1Cor4:9, Eph3:10, 1Tim5:21, 1Pet1:12, and of course the beginnings of Job1 and 2. All of Revelation from Chapter 4 onward shows how Heaven Watches The Earth, so if you just scan Revelation, it should be pretty obvious, in any translation. Then there's Hebrews 1, showing that angels serve man due TO Christ's Trial Victory (read through Chapter 2). Terms like "powers" and "authorities" refer to demons, generally, but if you read the context you'll notice it's in a Testimony Connection -- Testimony God Makes To Them. Paul uses these terms a lot.
So: Satan&Co. are one 'team', and "God" is the other. Both 'use' humans to prove Trial arguments, and never is a human used who isn't consenting to being so used. Of course, at God's End, we got a Bible to tell us His Playbook, because we are in this Trial. "Thinking" series (link at pagetop) is based on this Trial: which is a contest, a grand football game of games, a NASCAR race. Paradox.htm is rather more legally-oriented, focusing more on the arguments themselves; DueDisclosure.htm is on the politics of it. Here, though, we're talking biology; yet the 'game' role of this DDNA conversion, which is a pass conversion of an enemy thought (DDNA grabs the ball of thought, as it were), is Exactly How Sins Got Paid For On The Cross: Matt4:4, Rom5:8, all of Isa52:13-55. So of course DDNA conversion is the most important 'service' to God. Again, "works" aren't even on the playing field -- except on SATAN'S team!
So Satan&Co. try to USE the Christian to make touchdowns in the wrong endzone. Church history shows how extremely successful, they have been. Such is the history of Churchinanity, from its founding, forward. Satan&Co. have racked up a lot of points!
Yet God doesn't need numbers, but QUALITY, to win. Chief Witness? Christ, Hebrews Chap1-10. So what 'plays' He made in His Thinking, we get to have. He converted every pass of sin into DDNA, ON the Cross (theme of the First Aspect, DDNA1.htm). So as Peter writes, He is our PlayBook/Copybook (Greek term "hupogrammos"). We imitate Him, and thus win, Phili2:5-10. Not on OUR power, of course -- but on His (Phili2:10-17, Phili 3:8-14, Eph2:10, all translations are mangled). So we instead, though few in number, can (only under the Spirit while IN God's System!) GRAB all the enemy flak (which is eons worse against the few in God's System), and be caused to run into the RIGHT endzone, God's. After all, it doesn't matter how many make the touchdowns, but the number of touchdowns, capisce? That's the point of 1Jn. That's the result of DDNA building in you, in God's System. That's precisely what happened ON the Cross, per Isa52:13-53:12, in the original, God-breathed Bible texts.
God began the touchdown conversion, with the angels. One-third of them, didn't agree God won the game, lol. So God 'lingered' in the making of mankind; He started by restoring the earth (lit., hovering, mother-hen-brooding-her-chicks verb, in Gen1:2); for Satan&Co. had trashed it up (see Paradox.htm for details). The same God lingers over us to remake us into the image of His Son; "grieving" Him means you are saying NO to that desire, 1Jn1:8 or :10. So obviously They love us. So much so, Each Member of the Godhead Indwell us. [For a shortlist, see SalvAttribs.htm and search on "Indwellings", in LordvSatan1.htm. There are many of these verses in the NT; you classify them by the rhetorical style used, and many are multiple-entendre wordplays (i.e., all the "in you" verses). NT basically plays on John 15's "Vine and Branches" explanation to make distinction between Him being in you (Indwelling, His Perfect Rapport) and you being 'in' Him (position in Him via the Spirit; but functionally, being Filled with the Spirit; functionally, How Much Your Thinking has developed compatibly with His Own, Rom12:1-3 in Greek). So you have to parse out all the meaning layers in those hundreds of verses, alone! And that's only one rhetorical category! Obviously, I've not done all that.]
So for mankind, the touchdown conversion begins with salvation. But it doesn't stop there. If anything, life intensifies greatly post-salvation, because the Rapture Occurs When Enough Believers Grow To Pleroma Maturity. (LvS4a.htm and LvS4b.htm explain the bodies-requirement in great detail.) Hence, to get there, you go through a life of soul surgery, which only God does TO you. Each such moment is a pass conversion, and gives you DDNA: even if you are but sitting in a chair, filled with the Spirit, watching your favorite sitcom. For Heb4:12 is a surgical change, post-salvation, our spiritual re-engineering, "Mechanism #4" in God's Soliloquy, the DDNA building program, Rom8:4. It has an obvious learning component, being under your pastor. But that's only one hour a day. The other 23 hours You Live On Whatever Doctrine You Know, Using It To Think Toward Father, Solve Problems, Make Decisions, Resist Temptation. It's a very intense, Personal Inner Life, which (hopefully) those around you cannot see. (Spiritual immaturity needs to be loud. Keep on keeping on in God's System: you will outgrow that phase.)
As just noted, the Trial concerns whether the believer can come to love God. Implicit in that question is the deeper Trial issue about whether God Himself is Loving, or are His claims a sham. So again, the question turns partly on What Is Love. For Loving God isn't the human attribute of Love, but God's Own Attribute Of Love. That's why we need DDNA built in us. Bible Greek verb "agapaw" is usually mistranslated [to] "Love", but should be translated "Divine Love", because that's the ONLY meaning of the word. (Greek uses different words for human love.) So we're talking about a Divine Attribute Being Built Via Bible Learning In God's System. Since Infinity is antithetical to finity, and even more antithetical to sin-nature mankind (see Romans 8), the more you grow in God's System, the more you are essentially at war with yourself. So to add to this Growing Dichotomy a series of Trial testings, is too much for the human to handle.
The 'play' of this Trial in the believer's life as he grows in God's System, is thus amazingly political and lawyerly. Trick is to stay out of the political and lawyerly, but you end up having to think like a politician and a lawyer, to avoid those very traps. DueDisclosure.htm takes you through the issues you'll face. LordvSatan3.htm (Part III of the Thinking series) outlines the structure of the spiritual life (very long); especially, the "First Reason for Invisibility". See, because you are a king-in-training ("inherit the kingdom" means kingship, capisce?) you have to learn subtlety. Babies don't 'get' subtlety, such as why the temptations in Matt4 are works temptations (so yes, good deeds can be and often are SINS). So Satan&Co. can really score big, if they hit you before you are able to discern.
So, when you're spiritually young, you are basically tempted to run around doing drooling works. As a result of which, you'll wet your spiritual diapers and then those already disbelieving Christ will add you to their list of excuses for disbelief. Or, you'll get grosser temptations which have particular appeal to whatever prurient interests you have. In all cases, The Temptation Neatly Manages To Make You Slack Off On Bible Class Or Bible Living. A common tactic is to make Bible Study itself a kind of badge thing, hence turning it into a religion of its own -- at which point, you are winning points on Satan's team. If you find yourself bored in Bible class or doing it because of peer pressure, a desire to get a blessing from God 'in return', or for any other reason than simple desire to know God better, You're Playing On The Wrong Team. This attitude is, frankly, unavoidable: just keep on breathing 1Jn1:9 when you are aware of it, and remember why you want to study Scripture. Repetition of that remembrance will be strengthened by the Holy Spirit, for He always strengthens right motives. Eventually He'll grow you past the wrong motives.
Notice the cruel, lawyerly, political game. Spiritual babies shouldn't be so abused. But since Love Is On Trial, And Even A Newborn Christian Realizes He Needs To Know Bible, well.. even the spiritual newborn doesn't have excuse. God provides plenty of time to regroup and grow up, orchestrates your life despite your own gaffes, so you can wake up to the truth. Just turn on any Christian TV or radio station, walk into most any church or 'Christian' chatroom, see the babies parade. Spiritual growth takes time. So God provides time. When God grows you up, He causes you to literally BUY time, as shown in Mirroring.htm and GeneYrs.xls. Even while you are yet too young, your potential buys the world time. Salt of the earth, not yet saltless due to excessive, self-willed rejection of His Implanted Word (Matt5:16, elaborated on throughout the book of James).
But after 10+ years of your not responding, well.. now you become bitter. All that talk of "backsliding" among believers is really due to people not being interested in God; if you're interested in Him, you have less and less time to be thinking about those nasty ol' temptations. You're too busy trying to use what you're learning in Bible class! But if you're not interested in Him, well.. everything else is totally boring, so after about 10 years you're jaded from it all, always thinking the next purchase, the next vacation, the next retreat, the next church will bring you spiritual nirvana. And you're instead busy with social life, good deeds, running other people's lives.. making lots of points for Satan's team. And getting all the ennui you can eat! Why else do you think pastors have to resort to emotion-filled rhetoric in their sermons? It's no different from drug addiction. In fact, drug addiction is easier to overcome. Emotionally-hooked Christians flock to places which make them feel good by emotion, ritual, etc. Because, their lives are empty of BIBLE, His Thinking. There is no substitute for DDNA. But there is all the ennui and touchdowns for Satan you'll ever want!
Your big hint about Satan's counterfeit is to note what's popular. Works are popular. Ritual is popular. People thinking well of you is popular. How you appear is popular. Shallow is popular. But study of Bible under your right pastor daily, living on what you learn daily; staying away from visible Churchinanity, works and 'Christian fellowship' is NEVER popular, historically. Hint hint, as to what God really wants. Hint hint, as to what Real Love is. After all, we know nothing about The First 30 Years Of Christ's Own Life. Hint hint!
We can't see Satan, but we can see many people who claim God is evil to send anyone to hell. Hmmm. And for what do they go to hell? Because they do not believe in Me, said the Lord (John 16:9, 3:16-36). Think about that for a moment. What human being would ever give you a farthing for simply believing in him, huh? If you believed in me, and expected me to gift you for that.. well, don't hold your breath! So would I be evil and wrong, to not give you something for believing in me? Of course not. So if I offered you a bizillion dollars (how do you put a price on eternal salvation?) if you simply BELIEVED in me -- would I be UNfair to you? No, I'd more likely be unfair to myself. So if I made that offer, and you refused it, who is the stupid person? Who is the bad person? Who is the mean-spirited, masochistic, sadistic person? Not me. Worst you could say about me was that I was cheating myself. But the one who turned that offer down, well.. what would YOU say if your spouse or sibling turned down a wealthy inheritance?
So what gets proved, that so few believers take God up on either the salvation offer, or the post-salvation offer to grow up in His Son, Both Offers Being Wholly Funded, run, and guaranteed by God? And since He IS God, well.. to reject God's offer, reflects evilly on the rejector. So what kind of soul would reject the FREE OFFER worth easily a bizillion dollars, not to mention the bizillions atop it if one grows spiritually, post-salvation? An evil soul, to be sure. And we all were that evil, theme of Eph2. So the only reason we stop being like the people who reject forever, is that God saved us when we first believed in Christ.
Now just where should an evil soul live, if it rejects living with God? The Prosecution rests. Yes, there are few qualified witnesses on the Prosecution's side to witness to His Grace.. but the Billions Of Rejectors Prove Him The More Loving, than all those witnessing for Him on His Team, eh?
It really isn't possible to be more arrogant, than to accuse God. People who claim God can't be God if He judges people are so sick with arrogance, the kindest thing you can do is to avoid them. Alternatively, people who are addicted to maligning and judging others, are just as sick with arrogance. Arrogance is a sickness. It requires drastic SURGERY. Hell is a type of surgery, and the goal is always that the patient RECOVER, 2Tim2:26-3:7. (That passage shows the believer's sickness, called the "sin unto death" in 1Jn5:16. But God doesn't love the unbeliever less. For with reference to unbelievers, 2Pet3:9's "me boulomenos" looks like it's in the gnomic present, which indicates even those in hell, can BELIEVE to get out: see last link (section) in LordvSatanV.htm for a longer discussion of that idea. I find nothing in Bible which says Hell is ever 'imposed' by God with no recourse. It benefits God to grant recourse, ALL sin had to be paid on the Cross or else God is cheated, so people (and angels, even) who are in hell are there by Continuing Choice: here, the choice to refuse to believe. Peter is using the Greek negative "me" here, not "ouk", so God is denying the IDEA of ever being willing. So there must be a recourse which is continually refused, forever.)
For Absolute Love Means There Are Always Reasons for His Love Attitude; further, that No Reason Can Ever Be Sufficient To Warrant Not Loving. Hence nothing He knows -- and He knows Everything, whether real or potential, impossible or possible -- Nothing He Knows, Argues Against This Love.
Have you ever tried to have adult fellowship with a baby? With a dog? A plant? The baby, dog, plant CANNOT RESPOND at your level. It's positively heartbreaking to watch a person degrade; parents see their children turn out badly; children see their parents devolve into babies; husbands see wives, wives see husbands, and everyone is miserable. Lack of shared thinking, degrading in the thinking, retarding in the thinking, is what makes all misery, Isa53:3. True grief is to watch someone else be or become lower than you. That's why Christ yearned for the Cross, Luke 22:15-19.
See, humans always leave things "off the table" -- love is always conditional, in the human race. God's Love is the opposite of that. So if nothing is off the table in your mind, and that keeps on being true, then it's GOD'S Love demonstrated. Which happened Perfectly in Christ, and as a result Can Happen, in you. The entire Trial is about this Love. Never, about works. (Not even Satan&Co. care about works -- they use works arguments to entice people away from learning Bible. See Matt4 to get the strategy and tactics of the works ploy.)
Ponder that for a minute. The inevitable conclusions could begin as follows. No sin or shortfall in you or me, is enough reason to not create us. Not all of what Hitler did, was enough reason to not create him. Not all of what Christian activists do -- far worse than Hitler even dreamed of, since they massacre the Word by their horrible crusading! -- is enough reason to not create them. Nothing is enough reason to not create, but instead, the Very Reason To Create.
So nothing that happens to you, is absent reason. No matter how bad, or how good. It's impossible for there to ever BE no reason, insufficient reason, or wrong reason. No matter what happens to anyone. Period. Because whatever happens, first happens 'to' God, since He knows everything since forever past-future, nontime. So Christ is the Reason for Everything, which is part of what the Greek term "Ho Logos", means. Ponder that. Take a hotel room for solitude, think it over. Will blow you away, as you think over the implications!
As in, First Commandment. After all, God will never command what He Himself, doesn't first Wholly Choose. Which makes sense logically, even if we can't understand how God can just BE, since if one doesn't love, how can one happily live? And we know God is Infinitely Happy: Greek word chara, lit. "unalloyed happiness", as my pastor puts it. Term is used in Heb12:2 and many other verses; my pastor likes to call it "+H, the Happiness of God". Which you get, as you get DDNA from the Holy Spirit in God's System, via Him depositing Happiness in you, which is the Thinking of Christ.
Absoluteness means God has no beginning, wasn't caused by anything, doesn't 'make' Himself stay God, etc. So Love is just THERE. But never, absent reason. So God Chooses to Subordinate Himself At All Times, to Righteousness and Justice, which of course Omniscience, thoroughly knows.. which is super shocking, since the 'printouts' from those attributes re whether it's right to create, are SOLID YES! So "hell" is right to have.. for Love?
Well, knowing God is like having money, since knowing Him is the greatest of all forms of wealth: until you know Him enough and long enough and you know how to use what you know of Him, you don't really know how to have the knowledge, and won't be thus comfortable IN that knowledge. But God knows everything: all the experience of hell is 'in' His 'Mind' at ONCE, so He Is Experiencing It All As One Big Now. Even though, the eternal version of hell, hasn't even come into existence. And Love is still Right? For Him To Have So Much Suffering-Knowledge, More Than All Creation Put Together Forever? Ok, now you need a week in a hotel room, to quietly ponder that one!
So you cannot ever, no matter what you do or are, change/nullify/alter God's Love for YOU. Technically, you could run out tomorrow and massacre half the planet, and God's Love wouldn't even experience a blip of change toward YOU. Even though He would have seen that massacre since forever past and future. Because, His Love is Unmotivated, so "you" don't cause it. So "you" can't lose it, or change it, either.
This doesn't mean God is somehow aloof from you. God -- being Infinite -- is never aloof or apart from anything. He doesn't WANT to be apart. It's not just that He is Omnipresent, but He WILLS to be intimate with all things and beings. Period. Everything about God is absolute, so no object 'changes' Him or His Attitude, ever. The only 'changes' are the EXPRESSIONS due to the object's NEED or other characteristics of the object.
People are motivated from emotion, as well as from whatever they believe true and good, bad, etc. God is not emotional -- Infinity (aka Absoluteness) doesn't 'move' or change. Emotion is a body function which may or may not be stimulated by the soul. People are marionetted by their emotions, and rationalize them to justify giving into their emotions.
God is not like that. Love is not like that. Love is a stasis. Humans are anything but stable, so real love, no human can do. Hence our spiritual life, in which DDNA, aka Bible aka the Thinking of Christ, self-builds God's Own Love, in you. And when you come to have enough DDNA, your love by then becomes real and stable, 1Jn4:19! Note that verse: no one is able to love, without knowing God. Hence the need for Bible in you, the DDNA which makes your soul, forever Happy.
And what's the PRODUCT of His Love Deposits of Bible, Christ's Thinking in believers, especially those privileged few in Church? Do we Church believers really BECOME Like The Most High?
In the Pleroma phase of your spiritual life, this stasis is proven. In the human, the suffering is side-by-side with the Love. The Pleroma person is a Joe Palooka doll, based so firmly that he can be knocked down, but not defeated (2Cor4:7-10, 12:10ff, 1Tim1:18, 6:12, 2Tim4:7). No matter how much you hurt, the love for God remains. You don't curse God and die.. though being human, you should. When you love God, nothing you are or do is enough, so there's a kind of constant grief at being puny. But the DDNA in you, is also constantly there, and all your puniness can't defeat it. So you bob up again, just like that popular Joe Palooka doll in the American 1950's. [Cultural note: the doll was about the height of a five-year old child, had a heavy sand base, and was inflatable. So you blew it up, and it would be the size of the child, so the child would hit it. The doll would bob, and then right itself. The sand base, kept it from toppling. Bible grows like sand in you, one precept at a time (smile here).]
By sad contrast, Religion plays the world's tune: all do do do do do, doo-doo. For which, you get brownie points. For which if you don't conform to its strictures, you get demerits. These standards are drilled into you at all points of your day, and are in everyone's mouth, for all the world's thinking is Just Like Religion. Only difference is, the latter slaps "God" on as a label, to garner votes and money. So you learn to hate God, see. For, no one can long live in this world of petty insanities, without learning to hate it. So one seeks the next car, the next house, the next spouse to get relief. And, since there is NO pea under any of the promised walnut shells, you never get any relief; for, this whole world is just one big disappointment.
Japan, a nation made up of some of the smartest people on earth, actually sponsored this project and made the bell. Japan, is big on the environment. It has to be, with so little land. Notice how "coins" and "children" and "bell" and "ringing" are all emotional words. So the RATIONAL question of exactly what does this DO for the planet? needn't be answered, and needn't make sense, either.
Tell me: how will world pollution ever be addressed sanely, if the SOUL pollution, is this wacko?
Classic satanic ploy, that bell thingy. To make reason, and hence God Himself, foreign to us. Substituting, emotion. Buzzwords. And no one DARE speak against them. Hence tyranny. So the bell tolls for us: ringing out how Satan's "DIOS" plan works quite well, thank-you-very-much. Stealing and preventing, DDNA production. Replacing it with a foreign body in our souls, infecting us with the devil's DNA, instead. Just like he did, in Gen3. Ah, what a message we will send on March 20! ["D-I-O-S" is an acronym developed to explain Satan's strategy, in the "Satan's Script Grand Strategy" intra-page link of SatStrat.htm. "MEGA" table is his tactical strategy which employs "DIOS", and is in LvS4c.htm. You can search on either quoted word in its page, to go straight into that section of the page.]
Everything a soul touches then, turns to doo-doo. As a man thinks in his heart, so he is, Prov23:7. And his thinking is doo-doo, defiling everything, Matt15:11, Mark 7:20, James 3:6. God gives, we wreck. Satan helps.
So sooner or later you realize we've all gone down the rabbit hole with Alice, so if God is part of religion, well.. then He's crazy, too.
Of course, that's what you're supposed to conclude, if you, unlike most of the world, still have a functioning brain. For the brains above our brains have this grudge against God, so don't want you to get interested in Him. So then everything down here has to be religified and insane. So to make you feel hopeless like Winston did in George Orwell's dark novel about tyranny, 1984. As a result of which hopelessness, you finally give up and chuck your brain in the trash; then, like so many before and after you, shuffling along with the mindless bell-ringing crowd. Crying in your teacup how you love Big Brother Satan&Co. For whom the bell, tolls.
Thus far we've seen the big picture: man is constantly childish and warring; God has a solution to that, with the Purpose of Actually Making Sons Out From His Son; that this very mechanic was used on the Cross, so is legated to us to MAKE us like the Son. We've seen how our soul DNA and DDNA can in fact be engineered, because both are volitionally-based. We've seen that the characteristics of DDNA are Love, hence Truth, hence Omniscience of Truth being Loved, means Happiness. That happiness can be deposited via life in God's System, learning Bible quietly, living on it daily. And God runs the whole thing, line upon line, precept on precept, depositing 'dots' of His Son's Thinking in our souls at each discrete freewill consent we make. We've also seen that Satan&Co. attack this DDNA plan, substituting religion; that religion is tyranny, but attracts the warring and childish, human race; that if instead the believer just keeps on keeping on in God's System, he'll outgrow the childish warring.. and Actually Prove Why God's DDNA plan is superior, in the Trial.
Thus armed with the big-picture, spiritual 'macrobiology', it's time to get into the spiritual 'microbiology'. For this, we start again with our metaphor of biological DNA.
Every cell in your body came into existence and remains as it is or changes, due to an INSTRUCTION SET, which we call 'genes'. See, your cells need to be TOLD how to live; they need to be TOLD how to function. Your spiritual life needs to be taught. Everything depends on INSTRUCTION, and instruction, on the Word of God. God, Who CREATED all the universe, and all the micro-universe: the atoms and hence the cells which make up your very body, as well as all atoms and all bodies.
This instruction set for our cells, resides in the "DNA" of our genes. According to Watson and Crick, the two scientists who discovered DNA and built a model of it, each of these DNA instruction chains looks like a long twisted staircase that can be broken apart in the middle, for purposes of replicating itself. Ironically, that's the vivid picture you get, from the original-language text of Isa53; especially, from the action of the five CHAINED infinitives in the LXX text of verses 10-11.
In short, your very biology, like your so-great salvation and spiritual life, is wholly dependent on CLONING. When this DNA splits apart, it resembles a mouth, with the halved 'stairs' looking like teeth. Then in tandem with RNA, one of the sets of 'stairs' makes a new half-strand, and then another. So an exact replica of the first strand of DNA, is made via RNA, and a new cell can be made from it. Mutation and disease occur when either the RNA acting on the DNA during this replication, or the DNA itself, has anomalies within the instruction set. Cancer is one kind of anomaly (though biologists don't all agree it's viral in nature). Viruses INVADE the DNA of normal cells, and genetically engineer them (viral RNA does this) to instead produce new cells like the virus itself. Which is why AIDS acts the way it does.
Notice how the cells are like computers, needing a user (get it?) to tell them what to do. They have NO discernment on their own (hint hint). So WHATEVER instructions they receive, they follow: so if they get BAD instruction, they won't know it's bad, and will happily kill themselves per the instructions. That's what a virus essentially does. Like Satan's bad instructions do to our souls when we ring his bells, when our cells get viral instructions, the cells obey them. Mindlessly.
Notice also how the cells are like little footballs, being carried wherever by volition. Good volition, bad volition. marionetted volition, is still volition. So when these footballs are running the wrong way, and there is a GOD to 'catch' the ball and turn it AROUND, well.. you have a Cross. The Cross is the ultimate pass conversion resulting in all touchdowns: sins come into Christ's head, hitting Him. Instead of them running through His Volition and making Him sin, He instead 'catches' EACH of them with the living Bible in His Head, so a pass conversion occurred, and no fumble, either; then, He 'runs' the thought, which is now converted into Compatible Thinking (i.e., a sin of anger is turned into a Reason for More Love), so He makes the 'touchdown' on an enemy 'pass' ('enemy' being whoever originally thought the sin). So see: we each have sin thoughts during our lives. The actual sin value was 'reserved' in eternity past, like football plays of an enemy, and then the whole 'team' of them was used against Christ on the Cross. He made touchdowns! with each one. For God's 'team'. Of which, happy believer, you became a part, that first nanosecond you believed in Christ. God gives to us the victory, 1Cor15.
But at the uppermost-truth level, how do you 'catch' Thought which makes you think like God does? Well, in order for that to happen, Someone Human had to be developed to think like God does; as a result, since we are human, that Thinking can act as a virus inside our own heads. A Good Virus: God's DNA, God's RNA, can be produced. Unlike a regular virus, however, to get THIS 'virus', you must want God. Himself. For Himself. Which you freely do, if you want to know Him. Thus our salvation, thus our post-salvation life, is His Reply. Which is based on a contract with Son, since forever past, before the universe began, Isa53:10-12.
Isa 53:11, the missing-from-translations LXX portion:
"So the LORD delights to PURIFY by wounding Him [based on the contract], 'If You will give as a substitute for sin, Your [plural, God-Man in One Person!] Soul [singular] will see long-lived seed.' Then the LORD delights to PLUNDER, birthing/carrying out from His Soul's [pregnancy] Labor, to DISPLAY/ POINT OUT/ MAKE KNOWN/ EXHIBIT via Him, the Light. Then to SCULPT, via His Mastery-of-Thinking, so to MAKE RIGHTEOUS/JUSTIFY."
Now it's kinda obvious why the Hebrew OT lacks this verse: who could read it and not recognize the Cross? But the LXX is centuries older than the Hebrew OT (aka "Masoretic") texts we have; the LXX was made from the Hebrew OT Alexandrians had circa 300BC; for, the Hellenized Jews of Alexandria wanted to learn it, but didn't know Hebrew. So, the Lord and the apostles, and most of Judaism used this Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Many quotes in the NT are from the LXX, not the Masoretic text (though some quotes are from the Masoretic, also). In short, like all our Bible books, we have manuscripts in pieces, because the Bible has always been persecuted and torn up, so its larger hoarded original-language manuscripts have only been widely available since about 1850+; because of them, we can cross-check the many pieces with far more accuracy, and even see the original-language texts, ourselves. So there's a huge patchwork of text to fit together: among all the 'patches', you really do have an Infallible and Inerrant original-language Word God preserved. Provably. But no translation is God-breathed (including the one above). Frankly, God's Word is too Genius, to be properly translated.
This genius shows up beautifully, here. In Isa53:11, you can't translate the rhetorical style: it's native to the Greek. This rhetorical style, you'll notice, has no direct objects mentioned in the text; the direct objects are all mankind, as verses before and after this one, make clear. This omission of direct objects intentionally hits you in the face, like the sun coming out from the clouds: it's a frequent rhetorical style in Bible (both in Hebrew and in Greek). Here, it's an Attic Greek Drama method to display Absolute Scope: the climax of a play, where God saves. For the same reason, there are no prepositions where you expect them, a type of wordplay: meaning, inter alia, that ANY preposition of appropriate case you put in the text, would be too limiting -- again, Absolute Scope. (It's a Hebraism that everything is to God, for God, because of God, etc. You'll see Paul use this Hebraism in Col1:16. So leaving OUT prepositions, accomplishes the same thought.) [Oddly, it's due to the lack of prepositions, that translators don't even consider this verse Biblical! Which is why you don't find its text in your English Bible. In Isa53:11, the words autoi and auton bug the scholar, given their placement in the text. It would take too long to explain the problem here, but the higher "Isa53:10-12" link at pagetop, provides a brief refutation of scholar objections. When it's okay to insult and treat God's Word dismissively but NOT okay to say other mere people are wrong, then you know evil holds sway. Bible scholarship/translation generally insults God, cutting off His Head all the time, especially in overlooking how the Greek article is used. Especially, here in the disdain of Isaiah 53:11 in the LXX. No one is more constrained by political correctness and pressure, than the Bible scholar. It's heartbreaking.]
For the human spirit of Christ, was Compatible with His Divine Nature, and the Holy Spirit ran the former, with Jesus' continuing, never flagging consent. That's how He could get DIVINE Thinking into His Human Soul, without being required to 'tap' His Own Godness. So, we who are not God, get the same processor. From which, the Holy Spirit makes DDNA, and builds that in your soul. Not, your human spirit. Because You Think with Your Soul.
That's a lot of reading and pondering, sorry. Would take years to write out the explanation! [Every verse in Scripture has many 'threads' running through it. Usually we only notice one or two threads. So the above text has many threaded themes, but this DDNA theme is one of them. So if you look in the above passages for that thread, you'll probably run across the same DDNA thread in a bizillion other passages. So to limit the search to the easiest passages, I just list the ones above. God's Word is endlessly threaded, gorgeous in the extreme...]
So because DDNA is Divine Thinking, THINKING is how it propagates, and how it develops. To mix metaphors, think of dendrites and axons in the brain. Without them, thought can't travel. The more connections you have (and we start out with billions, never adding any), the more you can think. So the Holy Spirit, Who runs the whole thing, uses DDNA as first building the dendrites, and then running them from the human spirit to and IN the soul, to connect spiritual processing with soul thinking.
Another mission-critical Bible term is "breath" (ruach, pneuma), which is why the Holy Spirit, is really the Holy Breath. You can't spiritually breathe without Him, so you have spiritual apnea in a state of sin (Ps32:5, 66:18, 1Jn1:9, other passages). In short, you're dead with a flat EEG (no mind working), a flat EKG (no heart working) a flat breath (no breathing working). Clinical death is estimated at about seven minutes, for a non-functioning brain, but you can get significant brain damage in as little as 30 seconds' non-function. It's even more true for the spiritual life, but God the Holy Spirit purifies you if you use 1Jn1:9, so keep breathing it!
When you are Filled with the Spirit, those 'lines' are the DDNA, being built; DDNA lines already built, function with thought going back-and-forth; which thought, is also DDNA. They all eventually interconnect horizontally, as well: so that thought zips along in Multiple Connecting Ways, All At Once. The more you grow in the spiritual life, then, the more you see of God's Meaning in far less time, and simultaneously in more Layers Of Meaning, than prior. You are being made into a spiritual genius. For, God is INFINITE Genius, so you have to be made like Him. Bible coming into your soul re-engineers with thought you already have, to make faster and better, these many connections.
So, if you are IN God's System, then the Holy Spirit is doing the impossible: replicating Christ's thinking INTO your soul, which thus affects your brain DNA. You will become smarter over time (which is a biological impossibility, I hope you know), because your brain needs it in order to hold its residual instruction set from what your soul learned. So DDNA is added, more and more as you learn and Grow in God's System. Which the Holy Spirit, hence must run at all times, since you can't even produce more mere biological brain DNA, let alone God's DNA.
All those falsehoods and misconceptions and lies and goofy ideas are RE-ENGINEERED by the Holy Spirit, into DDNA! As noted above for DNA-RNA interactions, RNA acts on any kind of DNA to remake a new DNA strand in the very image of either an RNA virus, or the previous DNA itself. So: you got 'virus thinking' inherited from all your past sins, which upon Learning God's Thinking, act like a 'counter virus' RNA on all that old, messy DNA in your soul. So the parts which are bad, don't get replicated, but what is either neutral or compatible, well.. they get re-engineered into more DDNA! Talk about the Ultimate Recycler, the Same Holy Spirit Who redid the earth, in Gen1:2! Think this paragraph over. It's worth a bizillion dollars' comfort. [Nerd Note: previously, it was explained that thought is immaterial, and God is Pure thought, so the soul is immaterial. So "DNA" is just a metaphor for a very real process which acts just like biological DNA. But the soul is not -- repeat, not -- biological. Because, God is not biological. That's why we aren't evolved: God created and imputed a soul to the exiting body At Birth, see Gen2:7 and NoWombLife.htm (available from the Home Page).]
Of course, if you aren't in God's System, nothing is happening, and your brain is atrophying. That is not good. Long-term effects of not being in God's System are varying types of mental illnesses, frankly. Inability to read, hear, comprehend, and the growing tendency to irritability over ever-smaller things, accompanies spiritual absence from His System: 2Pet1:9 flatly says that absence from His System comes from FORGETTING to "grab" (labwn, in Greek) what we know as 1Jn1:9 (katharismos in 2Pet1:9, cognate of katharizw in 1Jn1:9). Better to have been an Auschwitz victim, than to live outside God's System. [TrueSpirituality.htm goes over the 2Pet1:9 passage, and the corrected translation of that verse is in the same page -- for the trans, search "forgot to TAKE", or just page down to the first set of medium-blue, centered text.]
On the other hand, the more Word you get in you, the more alien to this life you yourself become: Paul describes this increasing tug-of-war beginning in Romans Chapter 7, and how you spiritually triumph if you Stay In God's System Through The End Of Your Life, by the end of Chapter 8. So while it's disaster to be outside God's System, it's an ever-harder (yet infinitely more rewarding) battle if you remain in His System. Due diligence disclosure, baby: it's an occupational hazard, this increasing war, if you want to know God, so think hard whether you really want to stay in God's System. If no, then believe Christ died for all your sins, so you won't ever go to hell. If yes, then expect to catch hell from the world and Satan&Co. for choosing to know His Son. It makes no sense that you'd be hated for that choice, but you are. People won't hate you exactly; you will just be an odd bird, and to those few who know you are addicted to Bible, well.. you'll be odder still. Nothing you say about Bible will sound to others, the way you mean it. Their soul connections, are too different from your own. Again, that's a decision you should ponder: "count the cost", the Lord warned the disciples. Good advice.
Romans 8 summarizes the problem. The flesh is about itself. The Spirit is about Him. The two are at war, and the flesh is utterly incapable of obeying -- and is unremittingly hostile to -- the Spirit. Nowhere does this ineptitude and hostility show itself more clearly, than in religiosity. Religious people are sick beyond measure. Moral crusaders all, they wouldn't be able to read the Bible if it bit them. Sin is above all a hostility to God, and no soul is more hostile than the one which accounts itself good (or makes an issue of how bad it is, same thing). For the flesh is about itself. Itself, not God. Hence all the people-stress in religion, pretending that's 'holy', reveals the greatest evil. People about themselves, make people their god -- in the very name of God. No greater evil, than that.
So it's a miracle, that we all who inevitably start out this way -- immorality is always on the fringes, really -- that we who are so MORALLY CORRUPT with our substitutions of people as our god -- it's a miracle, that we ever learn to want Him at all. And it must BE a miracle, as Romans 8 explains. Our volition has no merit. It's there, it's free, but it can't make DDNA, for crying out loud. What it can make, is doo-doo. But the Holy Spirit can make doo-doo into Diamonds, Isa54:1! Due to, that Eternity-Past Contract to make the Son, Isa53:10-12!
As the Fourth Aspect of this webpage will show in more detail, YOU ARE PART OF HIM; Romans 6 explains why. Romans 5:12-end Chapter 8 is therefore on the design and vicissitudes of the spiritual life, so you can see you are here to become 'pregnant' with His Thinking. (Greek term Pleroma, usu. fuzzed over in translation to "fullness" -- but guess what kind of 'fullness', if the Seed is in you, Luke 8?) Ephesians is much more sexually graphic in Greek (whole book is a tweak on a famous Greek play, "Ion").. as the design of Father to Gift Son since eternity past. So don't expect Ephesians to be properly translated, either (esp. the mangling of the very graphic Eph4:11-16). All this, a "system" (Greek term "henotes", usu. mistranslated "unity") for producing "sons of God". (Book of Hebrews is on the exact same topic, but from the aspect of New King-Priesthood He won due to the Cross.) 1Cor6 and 12 are also graphic. [Paul, the only virgin apostle, was the most graphic of the writers, and thus is the most fuzzed over, in translation. Romans 8 proves the sin nature cannot stand under God's orders; hence God uses the sin nature as a kind of womb to birth out DDNA, which results in a life down here of struggle, which Paul epically depicts as creation being in pregnant labor, beginning in Rom8:11ff. Another analogy: We're the blind-and-deaf guys the Lord cured (Mark 7:33, 8:23) by spitting on His Hands, inserting His Fingers, etc. Notice how He warned the second guy to never return to Bethesaida. Another analogy: Old wineskins, the world's thinking, has no fellowship with God: no matter how often "Lord, Lord" is proclaimed. We spit on God, so God has to spit on us to cure us. So we spit up as babies, until we graduate from milk, to the meat of the Word.]
This Body being built, is invisible. It is built by Learning The Word. It is built no other way, and has no political or official religious structure. All this is quite clear in the original-language texts. Rev17 makes it clear that Fake Christianity is all about religion and politics and visibility. Harlotry is always depicted in Bible as religion; the OT has so many scathing passages on it (i.e., Hosea and Eze16), you almost can't read the text, it is so graphic. So life is Bible class, invisible, going on in your head. Just as happened to THE Head, Whose Head received the imputation and judgement of sin thinking, thus paying for all mankind. Invisibly.
My pastor describes all this DDNA processing, via a rubric he calls "Operation Z", the letter designating the 'flow' of the process. Left-top of "Z", the Holy Spirit feeding you the information, i.e., from your pastor as you hear him teach, or while Filled (Eph5:18) when you turn over what you learn or think. Right-top of "Z", the information is Translated by the Holy Spirit using your human spirit, into a format your SOUL can understand. Left-bottom of "Z", you Consider Whether You Believe The Information. Right-bottom of "Z": if You Believe it, the Holy Spirit Transfers That Believed Information to your believing "lobe" (my pastor's term) of the soul. You Can Only Operate On Information You Believe, whether it is the name of the capital of Texas, astrophysics theory, or what to eat for lunch. So too, with spiritual information. Notice how if you sin at any time during this process, it fails. If you reject or don't believe what is true, if you believe a lie, the Holy Spirit doesn't process that. You still can process whatever in your own soul, but you won't be online with Him, and thus are NOT processing spiritual information. That sets up a potential for Satan's bells to start ringing in your head. Live on 1Jn1:9 -- it's your lifeline.
Carnality is evidenced primarily by progressive focus on body stuff. The body is already hard-wired with the sin nature, so the more you grow spiritually, the more you'll battle your body. By contrast, carnality is the body WINNING over your soul. So you become more obsessed with its urges. It's like drug addiction. People long carnal become smaller and smaller in their thinking, more and more body-preoccupied, more and more delusional, thinking that politics are important, that flashcard knowledge means something, that human opinion and greatness ideas are valid. Poppycock. But if you aren't online with the Holy Spirit, you don't know any better. That's how the world lives, carnal. Again, Romans 8: the flesh is about itself. And when you're carnal, the longer you stay in it, the more body-preoccupied you become. So if you notice yourself being body-preoccupied, just breathe 1Jn1:9, and keep on Z-using whatever Bible you know. It's your lifeline.
Intellectuality is among the worst of body preoccupations. Spirituality, by contrast, is occupation with Christ. So if you're thinking of Him, your intellectual powers skyrocket. That sets up the temptation to become instead occupied with yourself, how high your thinking. It takes a lot of time in God's System, to learn to disregard how powerful God makes your thinking. Along the way, every time you get impressed with yourself (and of course sin), you'll get spanked. Paul got into this problem, as an unbeliever. As a believer, he went overboard with the success in evangelizing the Gentiles -- he wanted to use that success as an entreé into evangelizing his fellow Jews. Because, he was so GOOD at explaining! Hence he went to Jerusalem when the Spirit kept on telling him NO: Acts 15-22 records this story. So love of the information traps into a body-preoccupation, too, even and especially when you start growing spiritually. Very subtle.
Hence the advice in Hebrews 12:2: keep looking at HIM. Hence the "Operation Z" function is critical to building the spiritual DDNA dendrites so you CAN eventually come to see HIM. Spiritual growth is essentially a shifting in FOCUS, away from people and things, and onto.. Him. Just Him. The freedom thus gained is amazing. Misery comes from being stuck on anything but God. Paradoxically, the more your focus shifts, the more you come to enjoy people and things.. because, they aren't important, anymore. Only He is important. John 8:32 and Gal5:1 are real, but they take time to develop; and they only develop, in God's System.
The spiritual-soul connections are similarly structured. Bible terms for their malfunctions are therefore not surprisingly used in medical science today: "hardening" (sclerosis, from Bible Greek term skleros, aka "scar tissue"), and "darkening" (medical terms for "darkening" vary; Greek terms in Bible are cognates of skotos and mataiotes -- latter is a resultant VACUUM of thinking, into which demon doctrines go). So when you see word versions of "hard" and "dark" in Bible, you're looking at some type of spiritual pathology being explained, whether God uses them metaphorically of the universe (as in Gen1), or of the person (i.e., Pharaoh, or Romans 9 folks).
So it's Spirit => human spirit => soul => brain. Brain stores the impulses in its own language, and the brain retains the sin-nature DNA, so the interaction between soul and brain is always glitchy. Doctrine Eaten in God's System eventually Reformats These Connections, so that Coordination Between Brain And Soul via the Spirit's Running your soul in the System, will be much smoother and better, because DDNA has made new and superceding connections. You Literally Are Re-Programmed, And Never Apart From Your Consent.
This transmutation process takes some years (more likely, a lifetime), especially since the soul itself begins reformation in God's System in a trashed ("tohu wa bohu") state. ["tohu wa bohu" is in Gen1:2; elsewhere in Heb OT, just "tohu" is used as shorthand, looks like. Depending on the meaning, Greek uses variantly skotos, mataios, or even outhen (Attic Greek, very strong) to show the devastation meant by "tohu".] You won't necessarily notice much conflict until you've been eating Bible in His System for some time. Then begins a long period of conflict, as His Standards have begun to take over in your soul -- because You Have Been Grown Enough to Love Him (1Jn4:17-19, Romans 7).
If you hang on in God's System -- and of the few who even get into that phase, fewer still, stay -- you will reach a reconciliation phase which my pastor calls Occupation with Christ. At that point, everything in you starts reconciling to the Doctrine you have come to love. It's a big fight, yet is very satisfying: Isa53:11 is your life, and you know it, and you want it. When that process completes, you have completed the Pleroma phase (called that because the goal is to get filled up with Him), and like Paul you can say you'll get the crowns, etc. of the full King-Priest inheritance which is available to every believer who completes the course of training (2Tim4:7-8). You WILL know if you passed (generally your actual death soon follows), and you will be relieved and happy, not self-praising. All concepts of self-praise died in you long prior: you won't even find them interesting.
So at the point of salvation and for a long while afterwards, You Can't Detect The Real Change In You, via your human understanding or your body. However, the more you use 1Jn1:9 and stay in God's System; especially, if you develop the Three Habits in #5 of the "God's System" link at pagetop, you will come to spiritually discern the change relatively quickly (there are no cookie-cutter rules in God's Plan, so one can't predict the timing).
Of course, the converse is also true: it takes a long time before the deleterious effects of refusing to live in God's System, manifest. By then, it is usually too late. That's why we have the blessing of Divine Discipline, Heb12:5ff. Without its warning purpose, we'd likely never wake up. So take seriously a) any unusual lack of problems in your life, and b) any unusual problems in your life. God uses everything to communicate. Always seek His Input. If you haven't been, start. Please take that warning seriously. [An unusual lack of problems is as serious as a lack of symptoms, when there is a serious physical disease. If you are growing in God's System, life is supposed to get more complex, overall, but you have distinctive rest periods. If you are not growing, then Satan&Co. will maybe send you nice circumstances to lull you into thinking you are being spiritual. So ask God, always. And don't fool yourself about the answer, either.]
SpirPath.htm sketches out how spiritual pathology creates mental and physical pathologies, chiefly as God's warning system which mimics the spiritual problem one has, with some mental/physical counterpart, playing Matt7:1-2. Satan&Co. administer this, so far as I can tell (I can't see any verse in Scriptute saying God directly sent a malady, except for the imputation and judgement of sins on the Cross). Also, LordvSatan2.htm goes through the main pathologies resulting from the "religious transmutation fantasy" which was that forbidden Tree (search on the quote, in that page). [Nerd Note: This pathology and punishment mimicking is only true if you are not living in God's System, which only you can know. Don't use it to diagnose other people, since you can't tell if they are breathing 1Jn1:9 or not. Further, believers in the advanced Pleroma stage get tested with maladies, to prove that nothing God does to them, will make them quit the spiritual life, so maladies may be a promotion -- still, with a mimicking quality -- not discipline. Never judge another believer's bad fortune. Matt7:1-2 is a warning that those who do, will get the very judgement they render.]
However, a bigger danger is the SOUL SHRINKAGE which will become a permanent condition, even in the eternal state, if one doesn't grow spiritually. Rejection of God shrinks the soul. It's not God being 'nasty'. You can't reject Infinite Beauty and not get exponentially smaller as a consequence. So whatever the interim pathologies (all of which are correctible by entry and residence in God's System), the ultimate shrinkage problem should be enough to scare anyone to stay in God's System, at all costs.
So how should you think of yourself.. As You Really Are, a "son of God in Christ Jesus" as Paul explains in Gal3; or, how you think you are, based on all this temporary, can-end-in-a-nanosecond, blind-and-deaf, human perception? Peter puts the question this way (my pastor's translation), in 2Pet3:11b: "what sort of persons must you become, in a dedicated-to-God lifestyle?" Keyword "eusebeia", usu. mistranslated "godliness", is pronounced "you-seh-BYE-ahh". Long ago I shortened it to "eus" (pronounced "use"). So, this thought keeps hitting my head: "what use to make of the eus?" To remember how we are, is not how we will be: 1Jn3. To remember not to mistake what you see in the mirror, for reality. Exchange the mirror for His Mirror and see His reflection, James 1:23 and 1Cor13:12 ("mirror" is another metaphor referencing Christ's Thinking, aka Bible).
So the real you, is what got saved on the Cross, pending your first belief in Christ. If you never believe (John 3:16), then your salvation remains in 'escrow'; which by never believing, you refuse to have delivered to you ("delivered" is another meaning of "saved" in Greek). Hence John 3:36 -- either salvation is delivered to you that first second you believe in Christ; or, the 'wrath of God' is delivered, an anthropopathism of Divine pending and future Judgement (see Rev20:11-15, KJV or Greek).
God never loses anything. But you can. But Once You Do Believe, You Cannot Lose What God Delivers. Because, GOD does it. His Thought Cannot Be Undone by any of yours, see. And His Thought, is based on that eternity-past contract, with Son. Who created that universe with but a thought, Gen1:1 (and other verses in Bible explaining it). So look at the power of a thought! Life, or death. Forever. In an instant of time, One Thought of belief you have, Is Made Into The Very Power Of Salvation, Through God in Christ Jesus, 1Cor1:18. [In context of v.17-21, very clever wordplay on Ho Logos, in 1Cor1:5 (Word-in-their-words) and :10 (His Oneness System, not schism in their thinking evidenced by their words), always mistranslated, sigh. What a genius way to introduce His Head Ruling Body, in the last clause of v.10! See how he uses katartizw in his other letters.. fantastic!]
Since you cannot lose what God delivers, then if you get in and STAY in God's System, you cannot lose, period. For then, God will be delivering to you, all the time! That's the Contract of Isa53:11! God committed Himself, so you cannot lose! Paul exults about this fact, playing on the pregnancy metaphor in Isa53:11 at the end of Romans 8 (beginning at 8:11). Check it out, even in translation!
Second Pairing Issue, SPIRIT-SOUL SYNC: soul life and spiritual life are designed to be Precisely Paired to be Integrated, but the two 'lives' are not the same. The goal is, to get enough DDNA so that the two are in SYNC, fully Integrated, Rom8:4 (really, whole chapter), and Eph3:15-19. Ergo, you have a spiritual life in order to spiritually DEVELOP down here; rather than, die immediately after you first believe in Christ. Your soul life is the real you. But God is not a soul, because God is not limited. See, Infinity and finity are not naturally compatible, from finity's 'end'. So God did something about that, by creating a spiritual life.
Note Well: You needed a different type of life, to have a relationship with God, as well. So you can think about God in your soul, but the "dimensions" of your relationship with Him are only as big, as you grow spiritually. Forever. In short, the amount of DDNA you acquire While Living Down Here, determines the 'size' of your relationship with Him both Now and Forever. So take advantage of the time you have! For you can only develop those dimensions, while you are in THIS body, by living in God's System. 1st Aspect (DDNA1.htm, link near pagetop) will explain the dimensions as 1Jn4 records them. Parallel passage is Eph3:15-19.
A really scary corollary suggests itself. The person who doesn't grow up in God's System, not only remains a BABY forever, spiritually speaking (by comparison to the Pleroma of eternity). But also, the amount and method of spiritual processing, will be forever VERY limited. Because, the connections between soul and human spirit, are created only by the DDNA you acquire while down here in this body. This creates a fluency, and depth.. well, the 1st Aspect will cover those results. Suffice it to say here, the person who grows up in God's System, has many varied and broad connections in the relationship. But the one who doesn't grow up, has only a few limited connections. Forever. And this horrible result is by choice, not imposed!
Because only God's Power births and runs the spiritual life, human limitations can't inhibit learning Bible (even in the original languages). But VOLITION, can. The degree to which a person is unwilling to learn will arrest, temporarily or permanently, DDNA growth. (We had two brain-damaged persons in our congregation who learned exegesis and isagogics right along with everyone else; so I don't believe even most brain damage is a hindrance.) So the person BY CHOICE ends up in heaven, alright, but with comparatively few spiritual connections (everyone gets some de minimis, no matter what). So those connections will LIMIT how he processes spiritual information (i.e., fellowship with God) forever. Better to be boiled in oil, than to miss out on the fabulous width length height depth Paul explains, in Eph3! We are meant to grow to the fullness of Christ (Eph4:13)! So many branching dendrites and axons! Missed!
Surely there is someone in your periphery with whom you must deal, with whom you have very little in common. After about five minutes' conversation, you both have nothing to say to each other. Why? Because the 'dendrites' you both have in common, are LIMITED. It's a strain to have a relationship with someone whose thinking is miniscule compared to your own.
That's why in eternity, there are kingdoms: so everyone is connected to someone else, most like himself. But that also means the masses will be LIMITED in their appreciation of God, relative to those Pleroma Rulers. Who wants to be limited, especially since the ONE place where only volition controls the result, is the spiritual life? We are all limited down here, and a lot of the limitation is due to circumstances beyond our control. But your spiritual life is totally up to you. God does all the work, you say yes or no to Him. So in eternity, the masses of SPIRITUAL BABIES are entirely self-willed. Pity. But, they will be happy. And, of course, 'baby' then is light-years bigger than all the world's geniuses in history, put together. Still, one could have much more. Forever.
All it takes, is WANTING. God speaks, and a thing comes into existence. So you get to have that right, too: you 'speak' to Him about wanting to know Him, and then 'eat' what He gives you.. and baby, you won't be a baby very long! One of the brain-damaged persons in my pastor's congregation always wanted a better brain; apparently (per other people telling her story, not her), she was mercilessly teased during most of her life for her complicated disability. Well, she's dead now, having a great time in heaven; and I hope she can out-think all of us put together, forever! [Notice if Wanting is the Criterion, and Matt7:1-2 being true, then what you wanted down here, you get forever. So it's not whether you can do, but what you WANT. Notice also that if you can do but don't, then you didn't want. So Matt7:1-2 play, but.. not happily. Finally, notice how this means no handicapped person is denied anything, but rather, blessed the more; whereas all those who eschewed study in the name of it being too hard for the handicapped (hence it must not be spiritual to study) -- will be trumped BY the handicapped, who didn't or couldn't make that objection. Matt7:1-2 is relentless. Not good, to be on the wrong side of it.]
RNA here, is RIGHTEOUS NOURISHMENT ADDED, Romans 8:4. You gotta get FILLED UP in your SOUL with Righteous Truth, to 'match' the Divine Righteousness you have imputed to you, that first moment of salvation. It's like money: you are an heir, but you can't USE your wealth, if you aren't getting it DELIVERED to you. And as you get it delivered, having been a pauper, You Must First Learn How To Have Wealth. It sounds funny, but you can't be happy with anything, even wealth, if you aren't successfully trained in its use. This is even more critical for the Christian: because you lost your brains at the new birth, you will never be happy, until you've got enough of the Lord's Brains replacing the useless ones in your head. Hence the need for the Holy Spirit's brains, at all times!
Isa53:11, which was quoted in translation above, shows exactly the same process as the interaction between DNA and RNA. Taken together with its surrounding verses in the whole Chapter, you get a very vivid movie of Father 'opening' Son's soul to send in all those horrid sin thinkings of the human race, saved up since Adam's through the end of time; they hit in waves, like javelin stabs, but His Own Thinking 'mates' with them, with the result that THEY mutate into beauty -- More DDNA, for and in Him. True spiritual re-engineering. True conversion of poison, into delicious potable water. So a true conversion happens, in His Soul. As a result, this conversion ENLARGES His Own Human Soul for total rapport with Father. At this point, Son is (on behalf of us) "purified", "plundered", so now "exhibits" Light fully. [Nerd note: the way to handle sin is to hold it. Works-based Reaction (i.e., taking offense) is the heart of ALL sin. So NOT reacting, but holding the temptation with an Alternative Thought of Divine Beauty, is a kind of mating. Hence the temptation mutates into the character of the alternative thought which 'embraced' it. Ascetics who sin by claiming a right/duty to react, will never understand this very process of their own salvation.]
Which then sets up the potential for us to be "sculpted" with that "Light" of Word, so we can be "made righteous" (Rom8:4, post-salv). We are justified that first second we believed in Christ (Eph2:8-9, Rom5:1), but getting the LIGHT to FUNCTION in the new beings we are, well.. that's the next step, and why we still step upon this earth. As a result, the Same Process As Happened To Him, Happens To Us (Fourth Aspect will explain this in more detail). So we Grow Up And Reflect Him. Light reflects light. So we are Justified to be called "great ones" in Isa53:12, the Pleroma. ("Pleroma" is the highest level of development, for Church (covenant/Age)-period believers only -- other covenants' "great ones" are named differently.)
Think about how, if you broke your leg, just because that one leg isn't working, you can do nothing. The rest of you is fine, but your leg, well.. it can't move. Well, that's a too-mild comparison to the mismatch between our human natures (which sin only complicates by trashing ALL our thinking), and the Infinite Quality of Divine Thinking. So the more of it you get, the more dangerous you become, because not only does your sin nature ache to do something to gain a moment's pride, but a Real Love due to the DDNA in you aches much much more to reciprocate to God. But you reciprocate by doing nothing, just as Christ did. Because, it's Too Big, that Divine Thinking, for your human nature to properly use. It's like having a billion dollars. A smart person won't spend it. A dumb person, will. It's like having a loaded nuclear weapon. A smart person won't fire it. A dumb person, will. If you go through Parts III and IV of the "Thinking" series, you'll understand Only God can 'do' something with you, and you'll have to 'work' (heh) at doing nothing. It's the hardest thing you can ever do, light-years more valuable to your family, the world -- and especially to God -- than having a billion dollars or a whole arsenal of nukes properly aimed at the terrorists, k?
As mentioned earlier, you are thus in the same position as God: you 'speak' to God about something you want (aka "prayer"), and "if you ask anything in My Name, I will do it", said Our Lord. So, in the same manner, if you are hearing your pastor, turning over doctrine under the Spirit, you will have countless Desires to Thank Him -- none of which, you can do yourself (who can properly thank, Infinite God)? That urge to 'do' something yourself, is what Satan Wants To Tap. Because the Word in you really IS powerful. So that's another reason (covered at length in Paradox.htm) why you Do Nothing. Wrong hands for the weapon, Satan's. Which is why Christianity's sordid history, has proven Satan's handiwork. Everyone out to do for the Lord -- yeah, lots of murder, lots of tyranny, Scripture being kidnapped for nearly 18 centuries (barring some breakouts here and there) -- ooooohhh, what a lot of good deeds, too. None of which, God wanted. All of which, Satan wants. So Be Carried, not ferried by Satan&Co, 2Tim2:26-3:7, 1Jn2, Phili3:18-19, Pharisee verses, etc.
Notice how to cast all your worries on God, requires Thinking And Prayer. So I can pray over and over (which I do, constantly) that DDNA is being made out of whatever I'm required to do, since what 'I' do of myself, obviously doesn't do squat for God. So, now that care is cast on the Holy Spirit, Whose Specialty is DDNA conversion ex nihilo out from garbage, just like Gen1:2. So now, I can relax, knowing God is Pleased To Do this, so It Really Works so He Is Really Getting The Thank You He Wants. Whew. So far more than anything I could even fantasize doing for God, God Does For God. Just because, I wanted it to. Light Be, baby! I think that a bizillion times a day. Also: He's making DDNA out of this! Whatever 'this' it is, like a telemarketer call, a stubbed toe, traffic, one of my many stupid thoughts, etc. Everything is DDNA-convertible. For Father. Ahhhh...
So the RNA keeps growing, Run By The Only Person Who Knows How To Do It. And this little lamb lies in those green pastures, with the cup overflowing, just like David explained in Psalm 23, a psalm about the efficacy of Being carried, Sheparded, by God, Living in His System. Not, by one's own ideas or by the world. So not, by Satan&Co.
Paul spends a lot of time explaining all this. Philippians is a witty summary of propagation. Greek word "megalunw", usually mistranslated "magnify" really means PROPAGATE. It's that type of "magnifying". Paul loves stressing the pregnancy nature of getting the Word in you, propagating Divine Good. Which is, Isa54:1, gold silver and precious stones. So here's the thing: God makes even your dead-in-Adam BODY propagate, if you live in God's System. Which then propagates into other bodies (spiritual thinking is contagious, even as all thinking is contagious), and they propagate to others, and so on. God births, we benefit, and even the body is made reproductive ("unpresentable parts", as Paul wittily phrases it in 1Cor12:23). So that's the body-stuff GOD wants to make of you. I can't live five seconds without this knowledge, anymore. [Wow, the English Standard Version dared to properly translate the phrase in 1Cor12:23, "unpresentable parts"! Paul's witty euphemism for guess WHAT parts? Mary wittily used it also, in Luke 1:26. Wry, since she was given to 'propagate' the Savior. Who said the Bible was dull?]
Second, the obverse: even if you breathe 1Jn1:9 all day long, but don't learn under your pastor teacher; or do learn, but don't think out what you learn (5th item in God's System link), you'll also go nowhere. Here, the problem will take longer to detect, because you are doing some, but not all, of the God's System elements which are the protein bases for DDNA manufacture. Basically, this is a problem of religifying your activity in the System. A subtle increase of disinterest grows, for whatever motive. So "class" under your pastor, becomes more and more a thing you do, rather than a thing you enjoy all day long (i.e., using what you learned just because you want to, during the rest of your day). Probably only about 5% of Christians, even get into "class" that much; but among them over time, 99% of that group, will end up religifying the study. Because, interest eventually pales, if you aren't increasing in motive, as you keep up study. My pastor warned about this problem in his "mutual flanks" classes, in case you're interested. 2nd Aspect (DDNA2.htm, link near pagetop) will cover the "mutual flanks" issue in more detail.
Failure in either of these scenarios has two effects: failure of volition, begins to disintegrate whatever you had learned under God's System. It depends on how much you'd already learned, how strongly you were functioning, etc. Like in DNA, many cells have to die without replication before you really have a problem. But don't wait long between uses of 1Jn1:9. The second effect is a result of the first: mutating viral ideas will enter and proliferate. In short, you are a walking petri dish, when not in God's System. Any bad thing can grow in you. It's no accident that we lost our brains when we gained Christ. Again, it's not immediate (don't panic if you forgot 1Jn1:9 all day), but.. who wants to delay the growth in DDNA, and who wants to clean UP any viral mess which happens the meanwhile?
There's a third failure, which only applies if one stays out of God's System or never gets in it: spiritual coma.. due to starvation. Biologically (depicting the spiritual truth), starvation's final stages are lethargy, even coma. The starving person at some point no longer feels hunger, and his body parts gradually shut down, conserving energy. So if you never knew what eating God's Food was like, you won't even know the hunger for it, so you will just slip away, becoming in effect a zombie. Go to a grocery store, a mall, anywhere there are lots of people. Ask yourself if they don't look like zombies. For man wasn't made to live apart from God; so when he does, he becomes a zombie. It takes a long time, to starve spiritually, but oh!
Well, just try eating after a prolonged period of not eating, see how sick you get. So it's very difficult to recover. Possible, but difficult.
Cells need nourishment to live. So does your spiritual life. You can't die spiritually, once born, but you can be comatose the rest of your life. You can arrest in growth, never growing beyond a certain babyish soul 'size': that's what 99.98% of believers do, going by the history of Christendom. They believe in Christ, and then get goofy or religious. Never getting Word. But they still go to heaven when they die. But, as babies. Sure, the babiest baby in heaven will be light-years smarter and more beautiful than all the geniuses of the world down here, put together -- but those who grow UP in God's System, will be a bizillion light years ahead of even those babies. The difference? Getting More DDNA, baby. On top of your baby spiritual life. Romans 8, 1Jn, show the mechanics. [Nerd note: "baby" means the thinking is childish. No one who dies, whether baby physically OR spiritually, will have a baby body, in heaven. So forget all those beautifully-painted, but highly-insulting-of-God babies with wings. Angels don't look like that, and neither will you. The term "baby" is used metaphorically, not literally. Bible calls us "adult sons" (term is huios, and it means an adopted son old enough to be an heir); unfortunately, the term is often truncated in translation to the fuzzy English, "sons". By the way, almost 100% of religious art mocks God; the ignorant-of-Bible people who paint that stuff, can't even discern that fact! Christ didn't have long hair, wasn't skinny, etc. Pitiful.]
Better to be boiled in oil, than to suffer prolonged failure, so that 1Jn5:16's capital punishment and Forever Retarded Connections, apply to you.
Spiritual pathogens are many, but all variations of these three. And all these three, come from Volition. Yours.
So in the final analysis, you get in and stay in, because you want to do so. You leave, because you want to do so. God has provided every ability (Holy Spirit's Power is Unlimited, so you don't have a power problem, ever). So failure inevitably and only means we puny brainouts, got distracted or disgusted or disgruntled with God's System, and quit. No other cause, but many coverups.
So let's list Three Common Spiritual Personality Disorders, so you can see how delightful it is, to buck God's System:
Other Christians behave more as you'd expect "crazy" to describe, but some of the craziest ones, appear normal. Like the famous pastor who on live Christian TV claimed there were more abortions committed in the US than in all the holocausts of history. I wondered what special phone to Heaven he used to get that info; but when I heard him totally misquote Psalm 139 (which in English reverses the meaning of the God-breathed original), then I knew he musta used his hotline to Satan&Co., just before entering the pulpit. In short, respectable people outta God's System, say the darnedest things!
Precedence: Adam severed the connection when he sinned. See how wacko Adam immediately became. Exodus generation all went nutso: read their story even in translation! For us, the situation is much worse, because Adam didn't have Eternal Life and God's Righteousness and the same kind of human spirit, as Christ's. So we go much more wacko, as believers. It's no exaggeration to say you lose your own brains when you gain Christ. That's the Design! [LordvSatan2.htm, which is Part II of the "Thinking" series, has an "In the beginning of Man" section, which traces what happened to Adam; SpirPath.htm is a broader webpage of spiritual diagnostics in general. You can take what you learn in those webpages, and then turn on your television or otherwise people-watch, to test 'em. My pastor's "1991 Israel" audiotape/MP3 series proved very helpful in shortening the analysis, if you're interested.]
So one can only guess that it would have been a bizillion times worse for Jesus, had He ever sinned. First four bullets in the "Physics" link at this pagetop, try to analyze how hard it must have been for Him to be both God and Man at the same time, while down here. In the process, much about the properties of Infinity versus finity, are examined. In short, the problem is STRUCTURAL, even before we factor in the immense complications which a sin nature creates.
So now you know the STRUCTURAL reason why insanity demonstrably results from prolonged severance from God's System; as you can readily see, simply by turning on your TV or remembering the last US election. Christian and Crazy do begin with a C for a reason -- you are supposed to REPLACE the last "C" with the First One, by learning His Thinking. Else, you stay.. crazy. And, if you dally too long away from 1Jn1:9, you will accumulate insane thinking, viz., all that religious insanity which people imagine 'spiritual' in Churchinanity, today.
It's a life or death matter, 1Jn1:9. Notice how you must keep Believing to stay in God's System. Believing in using 1Jn1:9 and the remaining three Elements of God's System. These are the protein bases of your spiritual life. Take them seriously. Satan&Co. sure do.
God is precise. Spiritual 'biology' is even more precise, than physical biology. The spiritual life is internally MATCHED to the "covenant" which is given. So your spiritual life, inside and out, is nothing like the OT. In fact, more the opposite of what the OT had. This topic is treated at some length in LvS4a.htm (over 100 printed pages). DDNA-wise, you have the same type of human spirit, as Christ -- since you are to have His DDNA from His Humanity, 'cloned' into you, via learning in God's System. Thus everything about your spiritual life, is both unique and based on His, not on any other covenant. Hence the moniker "Church" and "Body of Christ", to distinguish our group of believers, from others in history. So if you follow the wrong definition of a "covenant" by misinterpreting Bible, you will not only never grow up, but Satan&Co. will be ringing your bells, baby. Obviously, then, it's pretty important to understand your true DDNA need. So these folks aren't getting any DDNA. They showed up in costume at the wrong party altogether: and that party isn't hosted by God. But it is being hosted. Guess by whom, dingdong.
So, as 1Jn explains minutely, just as in Christ's Humanity when He was down here, this Divine Thinking propagates in us, via the Spirit, in God's System. No other way. This alone is the purpose for your life as a believer. This alone is the spiritual life. For it was the spiritual life of Christ; and now, for Church. Exact Same Life. So, obviously: no other definition of the spiritual life is accurate, but the propagation BY the Holy Spirit, TO positive believers in God's System. Works are evil -- well, more accurately, anything you do outside God's System, is evil. Greek word is "adikia": literally, "Not Righteous!" Fake.
Just as DNA determines the Exact Life of Cells, so also Thinking Determines The Exact Quality Of Your Soul And The Life You Live. As a result, people are compatible or incompatible based on 'soul' DNA, which is to say Thinking; and really not due to anything else. If you know someone gave you a gift to show off how wealthy he is compared to you, no matter how much money he spent, you will not enjoy his gift. You will be too upset, to enjoy it. If you are married to someone with whom you are incompatible, you will come to loathe every minute, especially during the times s/he is nice to you.
By contrast, if a little kid wanted to thank you and made a very ugly clay turtle, but was so excited to make it for YOU, you will adore that ugly turtle. Worth maybe two cents' worth of clay. And it will be your most precious possession. Someone with whom you LOVE to be, might be reciting the nightly news programs, but it's heaven, to you. No merit, in reading TV Guide, right? Doesn't matter: it's as precious as heaven. Because you ARE compatible.
So again, thinking alone determines everything: it's your 'soul' DNA. But look how wrecked: the heart of man is deceitful, and desperately wicked: who can know it? moaned Jeremiah. But my people perish for lack of knowledge of God, moaned Hosea. So our thinking life is not compatible: My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor my ways your ways, says the Lord. We notice the ugliness of others' thoughts and actions, not noticing how much more ugly we are, when comparing ourselves to them! "Whited sepulchres", said Our Lord. For grossest evil, is white.. not black. Dried bones, bleached out by a desert of thinking, in 'repose' all alone in a tomb of self-absorption!
So the true offense is that we reject wanting to know GOD, and so God must stand off. Because, Love never coerces volition. Satan&Co. Cultivate The Rejection in order to 'corner' God so He'll 'have to' stand off. That's how they 'help' us become or stay spiritually-comatose.
So it is, between God and the human race. So Greek word "adikia", though a judicial term, is, like All Attributes of God, first a LOVE term: here, God's LOVE is being denied expression in YOU. Doesn't matter that God isn't hurt. Doesn't matter that your denial means God will re-route what He wanted to do to YOU, to someone else (Part IVa of "Thinking" series explains God's re-routing of blessing system). Does matter that you refused. You can immediately cancel that refusal by using 1Jn1:9, at which point you can get back all or some of what you lost (even David didn't permanently lose his kingship when he murdered Bathsheba's former husband, so that tells you how important 1Jn1:9 is). God doesn't WANT to stand off from you, but if you want to stand off from Him, well.. He is perfect Love, hence perfect Integrity, and He will never violate His Integrity. So will never violate free will.
So God's System is a carrying by God of you. Which you reject, every time you sin. Which you again accept, every time you use 1Jn1:9. Which you reject, if you don't stay in all four post-salvation Elements of God's System. So let Him carry you. See 1Pet5:5-7 on this carrying. Verse 7 in Greek is in participles, which means it's how you are to let Him carry you. [Participles, especially when last in a paragraph or sentence, stresses MEANS, since grammatically a participle precedes or runs coterminous with the main verb. See: God's Word is precise in the original languages, not at all fuzzy.] Notice how the word "humble" is used (very wittily, in the Greek). So "humble" is letting God do all the work (like a pack animal, you 'cast' your cares on Him, says the Greek of v.7). Don't put an oar in. Paul tried that in Acts 18-22, and look what happened to him: God carried him to Rome in chains! So if Paul didn't get away with it, we sure won't...
The Gospels illustrate well this rejection and how God must stand off; Christ repeatedly had to fall silent or walk away, and often warned the rejectors. [NASB or NIV manage to convey the flavor well, at least of the Lord's speaking (though the mistranslation of verses like Mark 3:5, making Him look like a sinner, are inexcusable). However, no translation can be free of satanic tampering, so just broadly read the Gospels. What struck me about John's Gospel in Chapters 4 and following is how He gets hated for every nice thing He says or does. Mark's Gospel is even more strident, deliberately sketching the increasing hostility He met with each miracle He did; how He kept shutting everyone up (especially the demons) who wanted to advertise Him -- so clearly, He wasn't looking to gain political (or other) power. Yet He was hated, from the very beginning. Not just by the Pharisees, either. Read the Gospels over and over, see for yourself. Again, you can see this in translation. A review of Mark's Gospel is in PopeMyth.htm. I don't buy for two seconds that common shibboleth that Mark got his stuff from another human being (i.e., Peter). Mark's Gospel is too brilliantly written. Sheesh: why do people doubt God's ability to teach someone a deposition? Moses sure wasn't in the Garden of Eden, was he? So why doubt a different "M", Mark? Oh well. By the way, Bible versions later than the NIV are screwy. In trying to make the Bible more readable, they usually mangle the original text beyond recognition. Every once in awhile a newer translation is brilliant -- but again, ignores the original-text keyword usage, so you can't track what the writer means. At least old translations like the KJV enable tracking of keywords, once you know the KJV rendering.]
So: turn on TV, watch the same rejection 'play' daily, at any hour. Notice how we don't even think about Him, and whatever we claim to think about Him, ends up painting Him as a two-dimensional, cardboard character: Sugar Daddy/Petty Judge. 'Usually, in Punch-and-Judy garb, mouthing silly phrases and platitudes. Almost every movie and TV show about God displays Him as needy and pathetic; or, abstruse and imperial; very insulting, when you think over what's portrayed. Well, the Real God can't be insulted, but He also must Stand Off.
We don't hear Him. We don't want to hear Him. Listen to lives. They are all preoccupied with what other people do and say, what things they own; all their plans are frenetic, and they measure in tit-for-tat terms, everything. Oh, and it's so much fun to relate what horrible experience one had, how bad someone else is, how evil is this or that political party or company or person. We make such issues of our rights, who slighted us.. all the while, slighting God. Do we ever call Him up just to say hello? Or do we treat going to church as a SUNDAY CHORE, like the laundry, to be valued only if what we heard made US feel good. Treating God like a dog, then wondering why others treat us like the mutts we truly are... Matt 7:1-2, baby. It's a law like gravity. For we were not made to reject God.
See how sick we are? See why the Lord prayed, "Father forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing." So God's offense at our disinterest in Him, is that of a Loving Father, aching to heal us.. His Love will never change, Isa53:6ff. But He must stand off unless we opt to get in and stay in His System. And as you'll see in the Third Aspect, if you opt to do that, and finish the course (i.e., 2Tim4:7-8), then God will use you to help heal all those poor unfortunates, who didn't grow up in His System. So the contract of Isa53:10-12, applies to everyone of us (Fourth Aspect) -- a legacy of Christ, designed by Father in eternity past (see Eph1, which references it). That's your opportunity! Yours, and mine! Will we take it? Our choice, every day we are still breathing. "For the Lord is slow to anger", says the constant refrain in the OT, "not willing that any should perish", echoes 2Pet3:9. Showing Moses His Glory, the LORD passed by, as He'd later do for Elijah -- saying that most tender statement, that CHESED (lovingkindness, strongest word for love, emphasizing tenderness): "to those who love Him", echoes Paul, in the exultant Rom8:28. God sunistemi's His Son to demonstrate His Utter Love, Rom5:8. That we may turn and be healed.
In DueDisclosure.htm, much time is spent explaining why Trinity. You can know why. They are Each Uncreated, but there is a Why They are Three. For Love. In short, if you love someone, you don't want to be distant. You don't want to stand off. But if certain issues (like equality of status) interfere, then maybe you MUST stand off. Which tells you right away, why They call Themselves, Father, Son, Spirit. This is a Voluntary Corporation, so They can Justify not being aloof. So since Son Voluntarily agrees with Father to subordinate (i.e., in Isa53:10-11), then Intimacy is not precluded. Even though, and especially because, They ARE Equals (identical Essence/Nature, but Three Independent Persons, kinda like "Triplets", my pastor's very helpful term). So Each One due to Love, subordinates By Sovereign Choice. This is not a loss of Sovereignty, but an exercise of it. So too, with us, we are given Divine Righteousness that first second of salvation (2Cor5:21), but.. do we want to subordinate? Love subordinates. Hatred, doesn't (and hatred will make up no end of excuses to justify itself, all of them noble and self-sacrificing). So if hatred, then we elect "no" subordination. Ok, then Matt7:1-2, we will be distant, aloof. Forever, if we don't get in and stay in God's System. Part III's "Corollary 3B" covers this issue in more detail, for the believer.
Hence Peter's love of hupo-prefixed words in his Greek. He seems to use at least one in every sentence. In 1Pet5:5-7, he piles them up (another writing habit he has). The guy's a genius, and his writing style is very unorthodox (how ironic, since he once was VERY orthodox, as a Jew). All throughout his letters you see him use these "under" (meaning of hupo-) words like wifely abandon, loving her husband so much she will do anything for him. Love doesn't account itself demeaned. So "obey" is a happy word, a Grateful-To-Have-An-Outlet word, not a tyranny. But of course, to hatred such a word will be rationalized AS tyranny. Well, hatred and love are not at all compatible. But God is Love.
So Satan&Co. REVERSE the meaning of the Word to MAKE hatred out of what should be an enjoyment. So they bang the drum on obedience, they make God boring, they strip the Word itself of all its humor and meaning in all translations; incredible, how hard they work at making God a PAIN to know. And then, they SUBSTITUTE emotion as spirituality, so you will become addicted to your emotions, fancying yourself spiritual or unspiritual, based on how you FEEL. And then they sell all manner of dippy activities, so you will consider yourself spiritual or unspiritual based on another BODY thing: what you do. Thus they can HERD you into ANYTHING THEY WANT. You are a marionette, and they are the puppeteers.
The primary NT tracking device for this difference between the evil of man's works and the ONLY WORK BEING GOD's, is the insertion or omission of the Greek article (our "the"). Translations nearly always fail to notice it. So you get the impression from translated Bibles that man's works are important. That's Satan&Co.'s handiwork, k? James is all about how only the Word Works. But read the translation, and you'll think that your works prove your faith. That's exactly the OPPOSITE of what James says. Satan&Co. are not stupid. They know we are so terminally insecure since the Fall, that we are figleafing NUTTY about doing works. So of course, we mistranslated James and most other works verses, to make it look like man does something. Religion, baby. Keeping you a baby, forever.
Again, if you hate what you do, your soul will be tempted to MEASURE or PRICE what you do: especially, toward God. That attitude immediately wrecks the value of the work, theme of Romans 4. But if you love what you do, you will not even want to measure or price what you do, but will be constantly thinking how glad you are, as if you Received a Gift. Which, you did. Morality is a Gift. One of the best gifts God can give to the human race. But the moralists HATE morality, so claim something from God. At which point, they become more IMmoral, than axe-murderers (theme of Romans 2,9,11). Adam's sin nature is in all of us, and we all think this way. DDNA alone can cure it. More importantly, DDNA alone changes how we think. Because, it's Divine Doctrine Not "Adikia" ("wrongdoing", in English Bibles). "Adikia", is the sin nature thought pattern. How we naturally think.
We naturally think like children, at best. Children have no discernment, so you have to give them little things to DO. And when they do them, they do them rather badly, but.. well, you praise them. You're trying to teach them that doing good IS good.. primarily, for themselves. But they don't know that. So they pride themselves over other children if they do a better job or get more praise. Cruelty on the playground. Cruelty as adults, who never learned that the VALUE of morality or of doing good, is innate pleasure at being able to do something for someone other than the self. Instead, we grow up priding ourselves on what we do, demanding from others that they praise or reward us, and getting rather bitter, if the expected reward, doesn't occur. Divorces, broken companies, broken nations result from all this childishness. And it's totally hateful, for look at what the expectation really means: oh, this good thing I did doesn't do ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME EME ME ME ME ME EME ME ME any good whatsoever, so I better get paid. Yeah, how 'moral' is that thought? Not At All. See Isa1:13...
The Three Temptations in Matt4 are temptations to DO works. Read them yourself. Use 1Jn1:9 and think them over, toward Father. See for yourself!
DDNA! Day after day, day in and day out, for the rest of your days on this planet. At which point, you truly are being transformed into the Very Son Who is Your Savior. By Personal Agency of the Spirit, and By means of the Truth, John 4:23-24, Eph3:15-19, 1Jn4:12-17 (in context from 1Jn2:28-3:2). [Nerd Note: it's a rule in Greek that if you have a verb in the passive voice, and what seems to be a "means" done by a person (rather than a thing), you should translate such "means" "by personal agency", because it's that Person acting directly to make the verb occur on the subject; and verse context matters a lot. Holy Spirit always gets messed up in translation, as if not a Real Person. He's even treated as a mere "what", rather than WHO in 2Thess2:6! So no one read 2Thess2:2 or 7, and remembered that "pneuma" is a neuter-gender word? In 2Thess 2:2, Paul uses wordplay between evil spirit, and Holy Spirit, anarthrously. So "spirit" is the ONLY antecedent idea (the ONLY word in the neuter between 2:2 and end of 2:6). First rule in Greek is you TRACE BACK an article used as a pronoun, to find its ANTECEDENT. Really, cool, how the article which belonged with "pneuma", is 'removed' several verses away, since the One Who Will Remove the Restraint via Rapture (so He 'departs' with us), is the Monadic Holy Spirit! What genius of Greek syntax! Oh well.]
Your choice, how much you want to avail yourself of God's LEARN (never earn, never do's) standard. All is here to Learn Something, not to learn like you did in school, where you couldn't wait to get out and do something worthwhile. Go To God's School For The Rest Of Your Life, or get schooled in ennui (Satan's school, this world).
When something is truly worthwhile, it won't be flashy. When something is truly worthless, it will be flashy. The flash, you see, is needed to hook you. Kinda like those long grocery aisles of potato and corn chips in American supermarkets, where the packages all scream with color. But the chips, taste like cardboard. So you try another brand, and another. The package colors keep on enticing you, for surely the inside will be as attractive, as the outside?! Guess again.
God, therefore, doesn't 'do', flash. Yet as you get 'inside' Him via His System, you find Him so GORGEOUS to know.. you come to not want, anyone or anything else. It's not emotional, but Real Understanding. DDNA, baby. You change as a result of knowing Him, just as you change due to anything or anyone you come to know. Of course, since HE's God, well.. you change a whole lot. So much so, people will come to think of you as kinda strange, since you're no longer bored or flash-oriented, like the world. So when you finally get to the point where you yearn to have "the fellowship of His Sufferings" as Paul put it (Philippians 2 or 3), then you realize you are one weird bird, in the world's eyes (if they knew of that desire, which you aren't keen to voice). Well, that's cuz you are alive, and they are aping life. All this, from merely learning and living on Bible? Yep. DDNA, baby: and you're no baby, anymore.
Instead, you are pregnant with the KINGDOM God is developing for you. Third Aspect will be on that. It's shocking, baby. Part III of the "Thinking" series explains it, and Part IV explains why all those people refusing to learn God, will be housed IN you. What happened to Christ, must happen to you, FOR FATHER.. under Him. That's the Contract Meaning of Isa53:10-12! Fourth Aspect focuses on the contract itself. In short, you are to BECOME Pregnant, Paul's main theme in all his writings God gave him. A pregnant woman can't do very much. So you don't, either. It's all done INSIDE you, and TO you, by the Birther, the Holy Spirit, Isa54:1!
Were you born to the Blood Royale (and you are, HIS) -- you would spend most of your childhood years learning, thinking, being trained to just SIT there, while other people wait on you. It's unbelievably ardous. People have the goofy idea that if you're just sitting there you aren't doing anything of value. Peasants do with their bodies, because they can't 'do' with their brains. So, they think the Royal isn't doing anything. That's why royal familes must be SEEN MOVING about in royal splendor. So the masses will think they are 'doing' something. Children need this. Peasants need this. And it's unbelievably HARD, what the Royal really must do: nothing. The job of the Royal is to learn to THINK. Because, everyone else around him, CAN'T. Someone must be the head. So the Head is to get in our heads so we can head kingdoms in eternity, since most Christians will opt for Brother-Foot Churchinanity. So their dendrites in eternity, will be limited, and the only way they can get more enjoyment, is through the HEADS of their kingdoms.
This blessing by association in the OT alone, was extreme. If you've read LvS4a.htm, Mirroring.htm and the GeneYrs.xls (all accessible from LvS4a.htm), then you know that the entire world was held together by just one person in a generation (reason for the roster in Gen5); specifically, due to Noah, the world was granted 490 YEARS of further existence. God made a covenant with Noah personally to repopulate the earth, with his progeny. Idea was, the thinking of Noah (="rest") was so pleasing to God, He wanted to have 'sons' of that thinking. Precursor of the same offer extended to Abram, Moses, David, the Christ.
Moses killed an Egyptian (it wasn't a crime, but he did kill the man). Moses then left at God's behest (see Stephen's testimony in Acts, somewhere near Chap7), but then argued with God over his being appointed as God's mouthpiece. Took 40 more years, after that. What did Moses do, but BELIEVE, and talk? [Nerd note: the verse somewhere which seems to say Moses was afraid of Pharaoh, is egregiously mistranslated. Verb refers to what Moses thought of GOD, not Pharaoh.]
So the world was granted through Israel sets of 490 years each due to ONE person (so if multiple persons were so granted, the quality of that 490 years vastly improved the world's lot); and, due to the mere continuance of the Temple in Jerusalem. Which Temple, foreshadowed Christ Himself, the "Petra" (name of bedrock in the Holy of Holies where the Ark sat). You realize, of course, that most of the time Scripture was lost INSIDE that Temple; that at times phallic cults were actually practiced INSIDE that Temple. So it wasn't Israel's faithfulness, which caused the blessing to continue. It was GOD's faithfulness. So again, not human works.
Even the Lord, what did Jesus do? He obviously Believed In The Word, and talked. Satan tempted Him to DO good deeds, which the Lord refused. So um, you won't find Him recorded as doing even one teeny good deed; in fact, He chided those who chided Him for receiving the ointment, "the poor you will have with you always, but you will not always have Me." Hmmm. That wouldn't go over well in a revival tent meeting, if anyone knew the verse. David, of course, committed adultery and murder. But each of these persons God Blessed Personally with a special personal covenant (Moses turned his down, twice). For what works? Not for works, but for Belief In The Word, as James 2 assiduously explains (it's the theme of his whole epistle, starting in 1:1), would anyone bother to actually read it (Jas2:22 is horribly mistranslated).
Wow. Whole lot of blessing just for believing, huh. Of course, it must be said that back in Gen17, God told Abram long before the Ishmael affair, that Abram's sons would be in SLAVERY for 400 years. And the sons all knew. And they WENT to Egypt anyway, and they STAYED in Egypt anyway, and God DELIVERED them anyway. Whole lot of belief, then, huh. Tell me: what work compares with all that belief? And how would the belief BE there, if not for the Gorgeousness of the God Who was with them? So WHO gets glorified by believing? GOD. And who gets glorified by works? Not God, but the worker. For if you work, God must stand off. For every worker, represents Satan's side in the Trial (it's Satan who's all about works, see Gen3). As Hebrews 11:1 puts it (corrected translation, English Bibles are awful), "It's about Doctrine confidently believed = CHRIST of the [believer] Trials = Evidence, Unseen!" Greek is anephora and heptameter, very dramatic. Notice how no works are mentioned. Belief in HIS Works, always and only -- "Christ in you", the Word sprouting in your head. That's the Holy Spirit's work -- just like, the Cross!
Of course, most of the human race won't even want to believe in Him, let alone, grow up in His Thinking. So down here and in the eternal state, 99.999% of the populus, will be "gumnos", Greek word for "naked" (fuzzed over in translation, to "poor"). Well, naked people have needs. Who will supply those needs? And in what way are they "naked"? Naked of Divine Thinking. So, since thought is a virus, and clothes the person's soul, well -- those with a lot of clothing can clothe the naked. So the naked can think too. Children learn to think from being around those who are of higher-thinking caliber than the children. So too, in the eternal state (and even down here), you learn to think better by being around those who think better. Or, you learn to think worse (or not at all) by the company you keep. Media, TV, radio, friends, family -- everyone 'infects' everyone else. For better or for worse. Well, in Heaven (or the eternal state, which is actually a new universe), it's all for the Better. But it takes a Lifetime of Training Down Here, to reach the "fullness of Christ" (Pleroma) -- being filled up with His Love Thinking. Which, most won't choose to get. Which, if you choose to get, means you will inherit the many (Isa53:12, even in translation), and you will be clothing them. Owning them, and clothing them. And they will love it. So will you.
Best of all, you are owned by God, already. So it's justifiable for you to be intimate with Him. Knowing Him intimately. That was always the promise in the Bible, from Gen3:15 onward (in fact, the very reason Adam and the woman admitted they'd sinned was to keep the relationship with Him). So the more you grow in His Thinking, the Closer to Him You Will Become, Since The More Like Him The DDNA Makes You. So you will own the many and clothe them, but you'll want that So To Gift Them To Him, since you yourself are owned BY Him. Your kingdom will love it. So will you.
Of course, in the world now and in the parallel "Lake of Fire" universe to be spun off from this world (2nd half 2Pet), what people love, is to hate. Everything is priced, but called "love" to SELL what's priced. To strike a deal, make a bargain, tit-for-tat, you-scratch-my-back-and-I-scratch-yours, praising and judging, oogling what someone else has (or how that person looks), on and on and on. So a God Who Has No Price is ugly, to this world. Ugly, to those in hell now (see Luke16:20ff, Isa 53:2-4,7-9, 52:13-14). Ugly, to Satan&Co. They want something to PREEN about!
Because, God is Omniscient. So everything is One Big Now, and forever past and present and future all Thinking is in His 'ears'. Now, dunno about you, but the last thing I like to hear, is bad thinking. Makes me cry, vomit, yell, or something else not-good. So how must it all sound.. to GOD? It's not as though He can forget. He'd have to first choose to Stop Being God, to forget. Well, that's not a choice He'll ever make. So: what to do? Have marionettes, or real free beings? Well, the latter. Ok: then there will be free Results, and those rejecting Him will thus be lacerating themselves fancying themselves martyrs.. forever. Hence, what Thinking can counter all that hell God experiences? Hence, an ongoing 'heaven' (and eternal state). Hence, why allow evil? To train those going to Heaven IN such heavenly Thinking. Which Christ, who went to the only True Hell no creation will ever know for three hours.. paid for. What wealth we can get in Christ. Our Free Choice. His Free Choice. Father's Free Choice. Spirit's Free Choice. Contracted Freely, in eternity past, before even a whisper of matter or energy, existed. Because, God loves Truth: good truth, bad truth, any truth, BECAUSE truth. So God loves everyone, and God will never cancel hell. It must be FREE to exist. Because the first truth, is God exists, and God is free. He never applies a lower standard to anything else. And thus SUBORDINATES to everything else. Sovereignly.
In the "Thinking" series, Part V's ending posits why free will thus remaining in hell also, that those in it can change their minds toward God and He'd pull them outta there, if they yet! believed in His Son. However, they won't want to change their minds. But since they can, the God-Who-is-Love, will never separate from them, so hell goes on forever. Always waiting, even though knowing in advance they won't change. Because God will never change, either. God IS Love, and Love never changes.
Theologians have debated and demurred over the nature and existence of hell ("Lake of Fire", is the eternal name for it). Most who admit Bible teaches of an eternal hell, will claim that God locks the door and throws away the key (nicely-put, though). I don't believe that's true. It's inconsistent with all that He's done since forever past; but it IS provably true that people negative to God reach a saturation point where they reverse all their loves, and hatred becomes a form of self-'love' so high, they are wholly addicted to it. Certainly Satan&Co. are that way: those guys must be billions of years old, by now (if the cosmologists are right about the age of the universe). We humans, being much smaller, don't need so long to saturate ourselves with permanent negativity. You know people like that: they love hating. They thrive on it. Such loving-to-hate ideas are even mainstream, blanketing our media. Oh how we love to criticise. So it makes more sense to say God never gives up, despite what He knows (how else could He justify saving us?) -- not even, on those He foreknows will forever be in hell, which is really their idea of 'heaven'.
So malignant devil's dna, or DDNA, is our choice. Both, with superhumanly-powerful effects. All communicated via Thought. Just as, God can merely THINK a thing and it exists, so thought programs us. And we do it to ourselves. Exception is, if we want God, He does it to us as we choose, which means DDNA is something HE does, but we must first consent, inasmuch as He'll never coerce -- since we are else powerless to get what we want, a relationship with Him. So, the net result is that, like God, our thoughts are utterly determinative. Uh-oh!
So let's see this passage in corrected translation; it's the key to everything, and is incorporated by reference all throughout the NT: it's a 'Grand Central Station' for the writers. Again, Isa 53:10-12's five infinitives are so graphic, you can't miss the meaning of God Decreeing To Replicate His Son's Thinking, In You.
Isa53:10 [Masoretic text] "But the LORD [Father] delights to crush Him [Humanity of Christ getting the Stone-too-heavy to lift], putting Him to total grief; [Hebrew wordplay: "heheli" in the hiphil, is multi-meaninged. Looks like He's crushed with longing, so Father crushes Him with our sins.]
Isa53:11 "Then the LORD delights to PLUNDER, birthing/carrying out from His Soul's [pregnancy] Labor,
Isa53:12 [Masoretic text] "Therefore I [Father] will distribute to Him the booty/spoils/plunder of victory because of the many; |
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So LOVE is the heart, the driver, the Actual Divine DNA, itself. So it is clonable. So -- again -- if (and we know it's true) God is Omniscient, then Love is likewise simultaneously Truth, Righteousness, Justice, etc. -- But Because Love, Would Want To Subordinate To Truth, Righteousness, Justice, etc. Would Want To Propagate Itself. Would Want To Deposit Infinite Truth Into Love-Objects Who Want That Truth. Would Want to Substitute (i.e., Christ substituted for us on the Cross, Rom5:8 and all of Chapter 6). Would Want To preserve, restore. Would Not Want To Judge; Would Not Want Anyone Going To Hell; Would Not Want Distance, But Rather Total Intimacy (owing to the Attribute of Infinity). Etc.
Of course, man has always puzzled over God's nature. Aristotle and Descartes tied themselves up in philosophical knots over Him. Augustine did, too. Plato and Socrates for that matter, were constantly referring to what they perceived as Divine Essence, to figure out the resultant creation corollaries (henotes is a Platonic/Socratic Greek concept of harmony with God's System, which is why the Holy Spirit uses the term to describe our spiritual growth system, in Eph4:11-16). So there is much written rumination on "What is 'God' LIKE?", throughout history.
Your typical theological commentary from about 50 years ago really grappled with God's Attributes. There's kinda been a roaring discussion going on since at least the Reformation. Mostly, everyone's been trying to figure out WHICH Attribute rides over the others, as the 'leader'. The Calvinists, of course, picked "Sovereignty". Most others, picked Righteousness/Justice. Some others, Omnipotence. Love, though picked by still others, wasn't too popular, since everyone regarded it as mushy, so some Other Attribute must 'husband' it. Not too many folks caught on to the fact that what holds anything together, is the degree of love. Not a feel-good thing, but an Infinite Attitude which never changes. So, we've misconceived of God for some centuries, now. Even my pastor feels he got it wrong until the year 2000, and felt he had to redo his "Integrity of God" monograph over yet a third time.
Yet, they all got it right, for one of the rare unanimities among theologians I've found through the centuries is that they all realize God is Uncreated and Unsustained. Which means you CANNOT separate out His Attributes, except for brainstorming purposes (i.e., tracing out which Attribute does what primary function). Bible has a really cool way of communicating this: either there is NO verb (so the Attribute is static), or some kind of unifying/static verb is used. The wordplay on hayah as His Name says it all: Absolute Existence. There are many lesser ways, like the pairing or bundling of Attributes used in connection with some discrete action. When you analyse a verse you realize that while (for example) Righteousness might be your 'window' in that verse, all the other Attributes are functioning within it, metaphorically, for purposes of the verse: often the other Attributes are mentioned by name or depicted, so that you always get a Whole. Great examples of this are in the Hebrew of Psalm 139:11-17, Ps89:14-15, Psalm 23 (David loves Attribute-bundling word-pictures). A bunch of them are in Isaiah as well, but I forget the specific verses.
When my pastor started revising his exposition on God's Integrity yet again in 1997 (he does it every few years), I heard those tapes in the year 2000, not knowing he'd drastically revised the exposition to the perfect statement that "Love IS God's Integrity!" but I got the same idea from his earlier coverage. For I'd run into the same verse (which changed my life back in 1995), Romans 5:5's subjective and objective genitive (hey agape tou theou), and was encountering that phrase in the first short story of James Joyce's Ulysses. So the structure was well known. So the "Thinking" series was born, especially Part I's "Integrity Properties" section. Frankly, that was the birth of the usual theme in my websites, that God is CYCLING Infinity inside finity via Bible Doctrine, in order to Connect Us Functionally. Forever. It Does Solve The Problem Of The Dichotomy Between Infinity And Finity, as the first four bullets in Fixes.htm, explained at some length. The Lord's Humanity HAD to solve the problem that way, since He was (and of course still is) ONE Person with Two Antithetical Natures. Being Perfect Humanity Made Things Worse, not better (we sin-nature humans are deadened by our nature -- Christ didn't have that buffer, due to being Perfect). Again, the first four bullets in Fixes.htm explain this in some detail. [The actual pattern of discovery was really cyclical. The Holy Spirit kept on hitting me with Romans 5:5 as I'd listen to my pastor's 1997 exposition, and thus "Integrity Properties" was born. It was about a year or two later that I realized the Cycling inherent in the subjective and objective genitive, and then I 'just happened' to read James Joyce while taking a break -- and saw the phrase. Bing! So from that point onward, the (now called "DDNA") concept of God pouring His Truth into you as a circle of LOVE, was a continuing theme in the sites. Then, in early 2005 I heard my pastor's 5/7/00 statement that "Love IS the Integrity of God" -- also by a fluke. Yeah, right, no accidents in the spiritual life. That 5/7/00 tape was a 50th anniversary celebration of his ministry, and was gratuitously sent with my regular tape order. Curious, I heard it (out of sequence, which is not my normal study method). And bing! The "DDNA" concept linked up with what I also just happened to be learning about Isa53:11 in my side research. See? God Orchestrates Your Learning, which is why you must find your own right pastor, whomever he may be. It doesn't matter how good he seems to be compared to another pastor: it matters altogether that he is right for you. It's a soul-teaching match criterion. See RightPT.htm for details.]
When you search Bible for all its "love" verses in connection with God, you find out a very interesting pattern: Love As God's Attribute, Is Never Mentioned Alone, except in "chesed" refrains (like in David) UNTIL the New Testament. At least, I can't find it. Even in the NT, you don't find it but rarely standing alone. The FACT that He loves is frequent, as always. But the Identification of Love as an Attribute, is rarely stated alone. Rom5:5 and 1Cor13 are famous passages, to be sure. 1John 4 has two verses of "God is Love" bracketing the spiritual life sketch in dynamic relationship. And even in the Rom5:5 and 1Cor13 passages, Love is used as a metaphor of the Completed Canon. But it's definitely more onstage in the NT as the star of the show, from what I can tell thus far.
That's extremely significant, I think. I can't escape the interpretation that in the NT, Love Is More Revealed/Released, as a Covenantal/Dispensational change. Obviously, due to the Cross. So it was always the 'leader', but didn't take center stage UNTIL He was Seated. The phrase "en agapei" is really common in the NT, but you don't find it anywhere in the OT (equivalent phrase). My pastor spent months on 1Jn4:12-19, explaining how the Completion of Love (idea of developing the First Commandment to its fullest spiritual extent in Church, due to Christ's Legacy) is what constitutes the criterion for the completion of the Body of Christ, and hence the Rapture. (Which is why it can't be predicted: see LvS4a.htm, which is a very long site on precedence and criteria, for details.)
Sadly, this significant change of vocabulary between OT and NT, isn't getting much attention elsewhere: it surely should, for Paul dramatizes Love as Canon and Integrity, every time he uses the term (most dramatically, the "by means of Love, having predestined us" in Eph1:4-5, his fanfare announcement and theme of the book). [That verse pair, like every other Paul writes, 'looks' at Isa53:11's son-making infinitives (LXX). Very, very witty play on the opening speech of the famous Greek play "Ion", to say 'predestined in love'. That Greek play is Paul's allegorical setting, and he plays on the play throughout Ephesians. English is mistranslated, and breaks the verses inaptly. Eph1:1-18 is one long sentence in the Greek.] Worse, today the teaching and theological commentary regarding the Nature of God gets incredibly dismissive, arrogant, short shrift: as if He were just an asterisk or something. Test this claim yourself: for every 1000 hours your average pastor teaches, not five minutes are spent explaining God's Attributes. Why, you're lucky to even hear "God is Love" bandied by people to get you to clean up your act, or to get money from you, or to preen themselves that they actually know a verse in the Bible!
So when this lone statement, "God is Love" is at all taught, well -- today's theologians and even pastors fantasize and thus 'teach' God as being emotional, for crying out loud! Does no one realize that emotion means CHANGE? So how could God be Infinite, if He were emotional? Even we merely have emotions in our bodies -- it's a FELT thing. Technically, the soul cannot 'feel'. It's thought, not feeling. Body is hooked up to the soul, so can only feel. It has no thought. So we live our lives puppetted by our feelings, and then assign that Slavery To Feeling.. to GOD?
Even my pastor, toward the end of his active ministry (he's now retired, but all his stuff is on tape), had to spend every class drilling the congregation over and over in remembrance of the fact that God is Infinite, so has no emotion. You actually get sick of hearing him repeat it over and over and over and over. But what else could he do, since obviously nearly everyone else who has the gift of pastor-teacher, is insisting that God is emotional? Us poor sheep only listen to our pastors: we don't ever even try to figure out anything on our own. So it looks like a competition, one pastor saying one thing, another contradicting... And no one sheep cares to crack open the Book and find the answer to this 'sparring'? No wonder Lot's sheepherders and Abram's, needed to part company. Sheesh.
Why He doesn't zap us all down to the amoeba level for such blasphemy, baffles me utterly.
But here's why God doesn't react to our blasphemies. His Nature really is Undivided And Unsustained: each 'dot' of Him is a WHOLE (Greek word "henotes"), so needs no external 'support'. The earlier (i.e., pre-1950's) theological inquiry concluding that, was largely on target. That God is Undivided and hence Unsustained, means you can't 'divorce' His Attributes of Will from Love from Truth from Righteousness from Justice from Omnipotence from Omniscience from Immutability from Infinity from Perfection from Eternal Life (etc). So, you should consider each 'dot' of God's nature, a "composite" (my pastor's term), not isolated Attributes which have to shake hands, as it were, to work together. Each 'dot' of Him is thus Wholly All Attributes, and LOVE is the WHOLE of God, the other attributes being the Composites of Love. Since Sovereignty is WILL, and Love is a CHOICE of Will, to say God is Love references the Whole of Him, is the clearest way to comprehend Him. (So the only comprehension problem remaining, is to understand what "Love" really is. Which no one comprehends, opting instead for the mushy human idea: it never occurs to anyone to study Scripture in the original-language texts, to learn how Bible defines "Love". Hence man remains confused, hence the usually blasphemous pontifications about God's nature, throughout history.)
Consequently, God is not at all passively 'restrained' by His Attributes (as I've heard some theologians claim in chatrooms). Sheesh. He's not God if He were restricted. Quite the opposite. The inherent Unity of these Attributes means No Boundary, as a result. Even a human body, if it is wholly sound, functions as a whole better, less restricted. How much more, if every Attribute is part of every Other Attribute, indissoluble? That's not restriction, that's Total Freedom. Hence God is Free to do or have whatever He wants, without concern that some mismatch among Attributes could 'rip' His Integrity. That's kinda like knowing you could jump from a plane without a parachute, and would land 30,000 feet below, intact, guaranteed every time. Sure, you might not want to do it -- but you are not restricted.
After all, THE inherent property of Love, is that it JOINS. Hupostasis, get it? Heh. What Joins Is Greater Than The Parts Joined. So LOVE truly IS the Integrity of God, and all other Attributes are Joined Together by it. Indissolubly.
So if there are no restrictions, then even bad stuff serves Him, and in fact All Bad Stuff Was Joined To Him On The Cross. So even the goofy idea God has emotion (which basically makes God a mere bundle of biology, not even human), is Joined In Some Way Within The Structure Of Truth, to result in many DDNA children. Which of course, we know: for even the wrath of man shall praise Him. Hell is like a womb, then, for in hell, everyone loves shaking his fist at God. Which is why people go there. The only reason. Love doesn't love suffering -- unless Love can do the suffering, itself. For, Love Joins Because Love is Innately FOREgoing. Better to give than to receive. So ask yourself: wouldn't Hell be a last-ditch 'home' for still trying to rescue folks from their own self-imposed arrogance? Christ did pay for everyone, 1Jn2:2, so it's not like the rescue isn't forever funded...
Next, note this Ultimate Irony about Love as Integrity: the one 'breakable' Attribute, is LOVE. Because, Love must always be Voluntary. Will, of course, must always be Free, so Free to Love or Not Love. So Here's The Greater Unity: Since Love Must Have Reason To Love (it's not love, if irrational), then the truth must be so awesome, Will 'looks' at Truth and Always Chooses To Love It. Again, that means ALL Truth. No unknowns. No exceptions, nothing omitted to make it 'easier' to Love. Do you realize what this means? God Must Love All Truth, no matter how heinous, how hellish, how degrading are the outputs or the truth-formula relationships. It Must Be That Good, to love ALL of it. Else, God would be Unjust to Himself. So to say God 'must' means It Must Be True That He Does. Continuously. Voluntarily. Even despite the fact that He knows He will forever see His Son on the Cross (Attribute of Omniscience necessarily means all events continuously are occurring, forever past-future, never 'dying').
Christ wasn't kidding when He said, "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." That concept is repeated often: who doesn't remember Gal5:1? Do you see? The More Truth You Know, The More You Will Love The Truth You Know. Freely. And the more truth you know and the more you love the truth you know, the FREER you become. It sure has proven true progressively for me -- but I didn't understand that fact until just now, when typing this paragraph! So no wonder Romans 5:5 uses "Love" to designate Truth, as does all of 1Cor13 (but in the latter Paul's using Christ's HEAD as the LOVE-Truth, very witty). Tooling around other places in the NT, you'll often find "Love" used as a metaphor of Truth: Scripture, in all cases. Wow.
So Because The Truth We Can Now Learn Is Bigger Due To His Becoming The Truth And Then His Thinking Being Codified For Us, the Love Which Will Develop Freely from knowing more of that far bigger deposit cache of Truth, is.. awesome. NT verses on this Covenant-Changing Fact are all over the place: every writer stresses it. Paul usually opts for blatant marital analogies to explain the changeover, most of which are blushingly covered up in translation (Paul loves tweaking ascetism, maybe because it was his own worst sin pattern?) Peter is more oblique, and specializes in the Wifely Subordination as a reflection of His Subordination on the Cross (Peter loves hupo-prefixed words). James stresses the upgrade-from-OT nature of it, using terms like "mirror" and "royal law"; the writer of Hebrews does, too -- in total detail.
John, of course, is given to be the primary expounder: there's this fabulous series of riddle-like verses in 1Jn2 about how he HAD written, and was NOW writing; about how he HAD written about the Old Commandment versus the New One about which he is writing -- but which is not new (yeah, the First Commandment was from the beginning, but beginning with Church, it can now be FULFILLED due to what Christ did). Very witty. [Took me about a month thinking over 1Jn2's wording before I got its meaning. Oh well.] Maybe that's why his Gospel and epistles and Revelation are last, for he ties together all the other NT writers' vocabularies and weaves them together, in 1John; yet the principal metaphorical source for exposition 'remains' the Lord's Vine speech (John 15). Heh: 'remains' is Greek verb menw, a Marital Loyalty verb (also military loyalty, concept of maximum honor so you STAY at your post). Which is a play on "remnant" and "rest", since the Promise Remains Open (Brideship, which Israel rejected, wordplay in Heb4 which John plays on in 1Jn). Truly awesome wordplay! Of course, it was John who got to write that until Christ completed, all this wasn't available (John 7:39). Our "Copybook" (Peter's term, hupogrammos) first had to be the Original (Archegos, Heb12:2), else we'd have no way to emulate Him.
So when, for example, 1Jn4 crescendoes in verses 11-19 to depict Church as being the vehicle of completing God's First-Commandment Fulfillment Plan (my pastor's teaching, but you can prove it from the text), well -- we are truly at an apex, now. For never has there been more Scripture more easily available, yet less interest in God Himself -- since the days when Scripture was still under lock-and-key. The best of times and the worst of times are ahead. Getting into and staying in God's System is far more important, than in past centuries of Church. There's no getting around that interpretation.
We are still in a rollout which began in the 19th century (rollouts tend to last about 200 years, from what I can tell). Its latest phase began, from what I can tell, circa 1950, when the very different from expected Greek grammars were unearthed (near Qumran? I forget where). If past is prologue, the rollout window should close this century, but due to the change in teaching beginning in 1950, the phase might last much longer. Time-windows close on Bible availability, when interest in it atrophies. Interest in Bible is not closing; but instead, opening up further (else there'd be no market for products like BibleWorks).
So here in the 21st century, when interest in God is peaking at both ends, so also Scripture's availability is peaking. It's now more mainstream for individual pastors, to teach (versus denominations); it's now more mainstream to at least refer to the original languages a little bit while teaching (though abused, i.e., people using Strong's and believing it sufficiently accurate (when in fact it's very misleading); believing they are scholars thereby).
Frankly, I'm now convinced that we are in a 'fourth Reformation' epoch of history. The first 'reformation' was the first century, and Paul was used by God as its spokesman; the second 'reformation' (really a counter-reformation) began circa 90AD, with the rise of the Catholic Church (Revelation 17 harlot, timely warned about the very year Clement I began his bid for power, see PopeMyth.htm). The third 'Reformation' is what we actually CALL "The Reformation", spearheaded by Calvin and Luther. But that "Reformation" really degenerated quickly into state religion, rather than the monolithic, multinational, Catholic one (well, not technically monolithic after the Great Schism, but largely so). So this fourth reformation, is a return to the first one, which is the accurate one: individual pastors teaching from the original-language texts of Bible, as Paul explained in the Greek of Eph4:11-16. It's so exact, the language he uses (and sexually graphic, which is partly why that passage is mistranslated).
So God is COMPLETING A CIRCLE, get it? My pastor is one of the spearheads of this fourth reformation, but there are others. It's a quiet revolution (revolving back to True BIBLE), so you can't really tell who are the spearheads, except by who's teaching BIBLE from those original-language texts. They are all spearheads (well, except for the satanic counterfeits, which Matt7 teaches you how to discern -- discern, not "judge"). God likes Quiet. After all, if you want GOD, you don't want to run around advertising yourself, because you are too busy learning Him. [So discern that those pastors promoting themselves, wouldn't know the Bible if it bit them, so are counterfeits. Sadly, there are a whole lot of really interesting pastors of great intellect, who are among this satanic crowd. They don't know they are Satan's dupes, either. Pray for them, don't expose them, running around trying to get people to stop being under Dr. so-and-so. Leave off naming them. After all: How would you feel, what would you want, if you were one of them? How horrified would you be, to find you spent your life huffing and puffing for the Word -- so you thought -- only to find out you were used: and it was your own fault? Pray for them! The power of your prayer is enormous: First Aspect's beginning focuses on the power of prayer, to illustrate the huge value of DDNA.]
So for you and I to get in and stay in God's System, has a far bigger impact than is normal. This window of availability will close, as all the others have. Sure, Scripture will probably stay available, but it will go 'lost' again, due to neglect. In the OT, Scripture was available but "lost", by being neglected, collecting dust INSIDE the Temple. So, it can just SIT on bookshelves, now. That's just what's happening, too: you only had to watch the stupid mini-series "Revelations" on NBC, to recognize how blatantly satanic doctrine can be promulgated. Sheesh: put an "s" for caca on "Revelation"? Then depict all characters, both protagonists and antagonists, exactly as Bible depicts the two anti-christs and the Catholic Church? What hutzpah. It's as if someone studied Revelation and concertedly made a burlesque of everything in it. Which we know, no human is smart enough to do. So if Satan&Co. can get away with THAT kind of obvious derision of Bible, the peaking of negative volition is so high -- our DDNA value if we stay in GOD'S System is way richer than normal.
So we can get in God's System, which is the only way to learn to Love God and get higher-than-normal Pleroma Benefits, since all that DDNA potential in other folks is lying fallow. Isa53:12 depicts the inheritance like a 'pie', being apportioned by Christ to the "great ones". So the DDNA for this generation is huge, but is not being 'invested'; so, the folks otherwise due all that DDNA real money will not be "vested" -- and will forfeit it all. To the "great ones". So guess how big your potential 'slice' of the inheritance 'pie' must be? way bigger than normal. All you have to do is look at Christian activism in the United States to realize the forfeiture 'pie' is gigantic. Right Now.
Look: I do pension plans for a living. In any kind of pension plan, the Assets Are Reserved Solely For Participants, even if they quit; so the quitters' Money Is Reallocated To Those Who Haven't Yet Quit. [US Federal law requires mandatory graduated vesting: if you have 7 years of service, you must be 100% vested, but you still 'forfeit' receiving future Employer contributions, if you don't stay employed until retirement, even in DC plans. DB plan forfeitures are bigger, and take too long to explain.] So, in God's Divine Benefit Plan (explained at length in "Perfect Actuary" section of LvS4c.htm), any participants (believers) who do not stay in God's System until retirement (death) will forfeit the money set aside for them: ALL of it (God practices "cliff vesting"). Ephesians 1 tells us that God set aside the money in eternity past (my pastor uses the secular concept of "escrow" to explain that). So the money can only go to whomever finishes the course. The NT Bible phrase "inherit the kingdom" refers to this Isa53:12 inheritance money-pie splitting.
So in our generation, there are an abnormally high number of believers who have an abnormally low interest in learning Bible. (Because our numbers as bodies are overall so high, the numbers of believers interested in Bible is higher than in past centuries, but the percentage is abnormally low.) So: in pensions, what's forfeited must be allocated to the remaining participants, usually in the following year(s); but in any event, any unallocated funds must be allocated to those in the plan when the plan TERMINATES. Our Divine Benefit Plan terminates at the Rapture; that's when we get the post-death benefits (which are so enormous, you can't even calculate them). The Bema is the event during which those benefits will be conveyed, and everyone will know who got what. We don't know when that will be, but we do know that there's a lot of DDNA Money in the plan which will BE forfeited. A person vests in God's Plan by finishing the course through Pleroma, Eph3:19+2Tim4:7-8. A person forfeits if he quits God's System and instead dies poor, under the 1Jn5:16 capital-punishment clause. Which way do YOU want to end up? When the pie is so LARGE?
Dunno about you, but I do not plan to miss out on my own DDNA portion of this inheritance 'plunder' (term used in Isa53:12). I love too many fellow Christians, and if I get the inheritance they refuse, I'll have that much more to spend ON them, glorifying My Lord.. forever. Then again, if you are reading THIS far down the webpage, you probably hold the same opinion...
So if God puts His Truth into you, you are getting 'dots', so to speak, of All His Attributes. Because, you can't 'divorce' the Attribute of Truth from any of the others. That's why you get stronger. That's why Christ could BECOME, in His Humanity, "the Way, the Truth, and the Life". Note that the latter two, are God's Attributes. And Righteousness is Truth is Life is.. Him. So Now, Romans 8:4 makes sense, especially in conjunction with Romans 5:5. We really can become Functioning Sons Of God, since this really IS God's DDNA, replicated via all those Truth deposits! (Ooops. I let the cat out of the bag too early. Pretend you didn't read this paragraph, and keep reading.)
So those who do not get in and stay in God's System, don't get but a de minimis number of 'dots'. So their soul size ends up being very small. ("Production to Love" section next following will revisit this question with more detail.) The smaller the soul, the more childish. The lower and narrow the range of thinking, pleasure, appreciation. Not a desirable outcome, but certainly better than roasting in the Lake of Fire forever...
You realize of course, this fact about God's Truth going in you changing you internally, utterly destroys all works-claims. For, the fact you become more like God Simply By Learning Bible In God's System, well.. what work could even fantasize doing that? All the works from Adam through the Millenium, don't make anyone even one 'dot' more like God. They are just good works. Whoopee. No wonder Peter said they all get burned, at the end of 2 Peter. Who cares that they are -- If You Can Simply Learn Bible And Become More Like God? Don't people do works in hopes of getting some boon? Who needs any boon, if you can BECOME closer to Him, Himself? Keep all the riches of the world, baby -- have them all, enjoy! I'd rather have the riches of knowing HIM!
It's hard for us humans to understand how God could actually want any hellish truths; why wouldn't He hate casting unbelievers in Hell, for example? Well, there's a whole lot about Hell and those in it, we don't understand. But instead of asking God, of believing that maybe He has Good reasons, we either condemn Him, or fancy all the people WE don't like are sadistically boiling away in the flames, goody goody (glad it isn't 'me'). Neither of those prejudices, is true. Love never coerces. So if you want to go to hell, and when there, still want to stay there, you'll never believe in Christ. Look at the guy in Hades in Luke 16:20ff. Do you see him yet believing in God? Or do you see him manipulate Abraham, and STILL try to torture poor Lazarus, who during life had laid in the guy's scrap heap outside his house, no one even caring for Lazarus' sores, but the dogs (see earlier portion of Luke 16)? So how much is that fire actually bothering the guy in Hades, that he has so much energy and careful thought, to manipulate and cajole? I know if I were there, I'd be yelling at God how wrong I was not to believe in His Son! Do you think God would LEAVE me in hell if I did admit my wrong? Why? His Son paid for everybody, 1Jn2:2. So He could justify pulling me OUT of hell, if I admitted like Adam admitted, in Gen3. It wouldn't be unfair, since God DID get paid. But do you see the guy in Luke 16 doing that? Hell no. Sometimes it takes drastic measures to save a patient. But Infinite Love Would Never Quit Taking Drastic Measures, would it?
You can't write off that passage as a parable. Parables don't have specific names and details like that. And the Lord HIMSELF is the answer to the hypocritical 'prayer' that someone go topside and warn the guy's brothers, doncha think?
Delve deeper: if God shaved truth, how Righteous is He? If I claim to lift 250 lbs, but the weights are hollow, then I'm not so strong: merely LYING about it. Delve even deeper: if God Doesn't Have To Shave Truth and can still make it do an Isa54:1 job (which that verse actually claims, given the context of Isa53).. then how hateful could any truth be? Sure, the Profit would have to be so HIGH that even God is graced out, so to speak -- but if God is rational, then the profit IS that high. Now delve deepest: Would God Judge His Own Son if the resulting profit weren't worthwhile, even at God's Level and TO God? And surely, you don't think 'we' contribute anything of value, do you? We Are A Burden Forever as a result of the Cross. He could have just zapped us into oblivion, once the Son finished His Job. No burden forever, in that case. But that's NOT what happens. So there must be something of so high a value, God the Father Will Do The Worst Thing, What Is Most Against His Nature -- Judge His Perfect Son, the Only Human Who Really And Fully Loved Father for Himself. Not, because of the goodies. I know the Lord's Humanity was totally filled up to full Rapport with Father due to the Cross, because of Isa53:11 in the LXX and kindred verses (most notably, Hebrews Chaps1-2); but if it were not also true that the DDNA value produced as a result of Him in us was mind-bogglingly HIGH (which Isa53:11 also says, in the LXX portion) -- there's not enough reason. So it must be uncountably HIGH. Enough to justify Hell forever. Third Aspect will cover this topic in much detail.
So now you see the Power of Love as an Integrity nothing can assail. Sovereignty isn't just gritting it out, like the traditional Christian ascetic with his dour, black mind likes to imagine. Nor is God some wildly smiling gargoyle, as the emotional crowd likes to fancy "love". Neither one. Rather, the answer is so simple, everyone missed it. God is Absolute Love, even as He is absolute, everything else. Requires no steeling, sourdough strait-lacedness. Gross sin is not attractive, to Absolute Love (nor most kinds of other sane love, even among humans with even a smidgen of empathy). Ascetism is heinous to Love (a fact ascetics miss), as attested by the huge amount of sexual vocabulary the Bible uses to depict the spiritual life in both OT and New (some so graphic, you dare not translate it even in a webpage). That's why Satan&Co. invented the phallic cults, as a kind of burlesque of God's Begetting Plan for the human race.
For, Absolute Love needs no hedonism, either. It's too HUGE for such limited expressions.
Which is why neither ascetism nor hedonism have squat to do with either salvation or the spiritual life. It's kinda easy to see why hedonism isn't used, but for ascetism's evil, look: what if we had to work to be saved? Wow, that's a Sisphyean hell if ever there was! When would the works, ever stop? Whatever you works you did, someone else would do better. Another, would do worse. So we'd all be competing, scratching, biting each other clambering to be 'saved'. Kinda like, we already do down here. Dunno about you, but if heaven isn't substantially different from the tit-for-tat sterility of life on earth, I'd not want to go! THIS IS HELL, right now. With a greater one to come, and a greater one after that, for those stupid enough to think themselves smart for disbelieving in Christ. How could God make it easier, than simply 'believe'? Would anyone you know who claimed to love, give YOU such an unconditional promise? I bet not! I sure don't know anyone ever in life about whom I could say that. Heck, we humans are the mean-spirited ones, constantly fineagling: so we claim we love to GET something, not to GIVE something! So 'obey' John 3:16, and Cancel The Appointment, Heb9:28?
