The Word
God has predetermined that He will purge all evil from his creations and recreate it all to again be righteous, including all humans. Revelation 21:5. In other words, God will make everything all right in the end. But eternity has no end. This fact can only mean that the end which exists when God returns all of His creations to righteousness, and all of the contingencies of history to certainties, must both be happening in eternity at the same time. This fact accounts for Jesus' description of His eternal being in Revelation 22:13. Jesus already exists in the beginning which encompasses infinite contingencies, but He also already exists in the end when He makes everything all right and all contingencies end. This truth accounts for Jesus' statement in John 17:4 when He proclaims that He has already finished His Father's work when He had not as yet been brought to the cross. This truth accounts for Jesus' statement in John 19:30 when He had not yet risen from the dead. This truth accounts for God's assurance to His Church that He has already given it an eternal seat in heaven at the same time as it passes through its history of contingencies. Ephesians 1:3.
God has determined that the history of the earth should pass through seven dispensations, or ages, before He returns it all to righteousness in the end. The infinite possibilities of history made it inevitable that evil would enter into God's creations. But the infinite and eternal power of God's Almighty Love made it inevitable that He would make everything all right in the end. God tested the choices that humans would make in every age. Man always failed His tests, but God always succeeded in bringing mankind closer to His final age of righteousness. When one age ends, then another must always begin. This is the process of eternity as it passes through history. But an eternal God holds the almighty power to transcend history and bring everything that He created back to the certainty of righteousness which ends all contingencies.
But this fact does not mean that God will annul all possibilities which attach to free will and the historical process that results because these constitute a part of His creations. But then how will God continue an historical process after He has burned up the heavens and the earth and has created them to transcend all possibilities with the absolute certainty of an eternal righteousness? II Peter 3:10-13.
The answer to this question may be found in Ecclesiastes 3:14-15. Perhaps, when God dissolves the old heavens and earth to recreate righteous ones, He will also recreate a new heavens and a new earth with a new historical process. Evil will inevitably enter into this new historical process, but God will also rescue all His living humans from that fall for Him to recreate. Perhaps, God will create the same humans that He did before, but because of infinite possibilities, they each will make some of the same, but also some different choices than they made before, so that this new historical process will be different from the one before. The exception to this rule will be all humans saved by grace whom God has promised will remain with Him in heaven unchanged forever. John 12:25. If this process were endless, then eternity would also consist of a new beginning which always follows an end. Revelation 22:13.
The history of this earth begins in contingency and ends in certainty. This means that many of the prophecies in the Bible will relate to either the beginning or the end. Some of the most important messages in the Bible relate to either the beginning or the end. The most important message in the Bible relates the story of how God intervened in history to make everything all right in the end. The prophecies in the historical process in the Bible relates to how the contingencies became the certainties. Prophecies are possible because, no matter what humans choose to do, God can make certainties happen.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
The World and the Word
The Word
God's Set of Ideas are Infinite, but most of the good systems that He creates from them are finite. This means the region of nonexistence that He accidentally caused must also be finite in that God destroys the three regions of death when He casts them into the lake of fire which will consume evil forever. Revelation 20:11-15. This fact means that God holds all the power He needs to eventually purge all evil that causes sin from all of His creations forever. God can create or dissolve any of His systems at will which makes them finite, but His Infinite Set of Ideas from which He forms those good systems remains forever in His Mind. God can also choose to retain some of His good systems forever. God has chosen to keep all humans saved by His grace with Him, with all their identities intact, forever in heaven. John 12:25
Innocence can be thought of as child like. In his excessive and obsessive pride, Lucifer thought that God's innocence was a weakness that he could exploit to overcome and murder God. Little did Satan know that God could use His innocence to voluntarily bear the entire weight of the evil and sins of all mankind and emerge from hell unscathed by it all to an immaculate resurrection to eternal life again. God is a just God. His Almighty Love can cause Him to suffer man's eternal, spiritual death in his place, but His justice would not allow His innocent Son to remain in hell forever. That same innocence that Satan thought was weakness became the very means by which God could rescue His living images in all humans whom He loves with an Almighty Love. Romans 5:10; Psalm 16:10-11.
The fact that God will eventually correct all false systems by eliminating all sin and evil from them and recreating them to be good systems means that His eternal will adheres to His foreknowledge and predestination. But God also allows humans to be free to choose to obey or disobey Him. When God tests a person and he chooses to obey God, then he simply conforms to the goodness that God has already given him, and he will be rewarded at the time of his recreation. When a person fails God's test by disobedience, that does not hinder God in the least. God simply cranks up His great, eternal engine of Love and goes to work to purge that false system of all of its sins and evil and return it to a good and creative system. Since God possesses eternity, He has all time on His side. In this way, God's predestination and man's free will can both exist at the same time. Ecclesiastes 3:14.
God is eternal. He never had a beginning, and He will never have an end. Yet, eternity also passes through time which can only have beginnings and endings. This means eternity encompasses all certainties which are all events that actually happen in reality, but also eternity must encompass all events which might happen which are contingencies. This means eternity must also be infinite because every time a contingency becomes a certainty, even more possibilities are created. Certainties belong to God's foreknowledge and predestination, but possibilities belong to free will. Revelation 1:18; Revelation 22:12-13.
God's Set of Ideas are Infinite, but most of the good systems that He creates from them are finite. This means the region of nonexistence that He accidentally caused must also be finite in that God destroys the three regions of death when He casts them into the lake of fire which will consume evil forever. Revelation 20:11-15. This fact means that God holds all the power He needs to eventually purge all evil that causes sin from all of His creations forever. God can create or dissolve any of His systems at will which makes them finite, but His Infinite Set of Ideas from which He forms those good systems remains forever in His Mind. God can also choose to retain some of His good systems forever. God has chosen to keep all humans saved by His grace with Him, with all their identities intact, forever in heaven. John 12:25
Innocence can be thought of as child like. In his excessive and obsessive pride, Lucifer thought that God's innocence was a weakness that he could exploit to overcome and murder God. Little did Satan know that God could use His innocence to voluntarily bear the entire weight of the evil and sins of all mankind and emerge from hell unscathed by it all to an immaculate resurrection to eternal life again. God is a just God. His Almighty Love can cause Him to suffer man's eternal, spiritual death in his place, but His justice would not allow His innocent Son to remain in hell forever. That same innocence that Satan thought was weakness became the very means by which God could rescue His living images in all humans whom He loves with an Almighty Love. Romans 5:10; Psalm 16:10-11.
The fact that God will eventually correct all false systems by eliminating all sin and evil from them and recreating them to be good systems means that His eternal will adheres to His foreknowledge and predestination. But God also allows humans to be free to choose to obey or disobey Him. When God tests a person and he chooses to obey God, then he simply conforms to the goodness that God has already given him, and he will be rewarded at the time of his recreation. When a person fails God's test by disobedience, that does not hinder God in the least. God simply cranks up His great, eternal engine of Love and goes to work to purge that false system of all of its sins and evil and return it to a good and creative system. Since God possesses eternity, He has all time on His side. In this way, God's predestination and man's free will can both exist at the same time. Ecclesiastes 3:14.
God is eternal. He never had a beginning, and He will never have an end. Yet, eternity also passes through time which can only have beginnings and endings. This means eternity encompasses all certainties which are all events that actually happen in reality, but also eternity must encompass all events which might happen which are contingencies. This means eternity must also be infinite because every time a contingency becomes a certainty, even more possibilities are created. Certainties belong to God's foreknowledge and predestination, but possibilities belong to free will. Revelation 1:18; Revelation 22:12-13.
Friday, January 24, 2020
The World and the Word
The Word
As most people do, Satan also equates innocence with weakness. Satan threw the entire bulk of all the sins and evil of all mankind at Jesus on the cross, and the Father allowed it. Satan believed that the awesome horrors of all that sin and evil would so overwhelm the innocence of Jesus that He would succumb to its power, His Holiness would be destroyed, He would die forever, and Satan would then be free to take control of God's world. Satan's goal is to murder God as revealed in his temptations of Jesus as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11.
When God the Father created Lucifer and gave him free will, God did so in all innocence. At that time, God knew nothing about sin and evil. God only created good and righteous systems based on His set of infinite Ideas in His Infinite Mind, and Lucifer was one such system. But Lucifer discovered a weakness in God's gift to him of free will. Lucifer discovered that he could choose to invent false systems by misusing God's good Ideas; that is, false systems of excessive pride and pleasure which would lead him to rebel against God. Lucifer misled one third of God's angels in his rebellion, and he refused to repent of it. God had to dissolve his system, strip him of all His good Ideas that He had put into his system, and exile him to earth as an empty, negative consciousness. For this reason, the Bible often refers to sin and evil as being vanity which means both excessive pride and emptiness. God used His consuming fire to dissolve Lucifer's system, and He will use His consuming fire to dissolve all human systems within the regions of the dead in order to separate and recover His living images in them and to cast their spiritual deaths which are totally evil into the lake of fire. Ezekiel 28:15-19; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Christ made that separation possible by His descent into hell. God must consign the souls and spirits of all humans not saved by grace to one of the three regions of the dead because sin and evil still remain as a part of their beings. But because Jesus left all of their sins and evil behind in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead, His self-cleansing became God's power to use His consuming fire to separate His living images in all these humans for Him to recreate from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Luke 20:38. But no human can be saved without repentance and faith. God will return the living souls and spirits of all humans within the regions of the dead to repentance and faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. If all humans are alive to God as recorded in Luke 20:38, and God destroys their deaths as recorded in I Corinthians 15:26, then God must save all living humans forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Before God created Lucifer, in His innocence, He knew nothing about sin and evil. After evil emerged into His creations to cause sin to exist, God realized that as a result of His creations, He probably also accidentally caused a region of nonexistence filled with negative consciousnesses called demons. Isaiah 45:7. Whenever a something appears then the idea of nothing must also appear as a means to distinguish that particular something from all other somethings. God uses the idea of nothing to separate objects in space but also to exclude ideas which cannot work in any particular system that he happens to be in the process of creating. God's Infinite Mind knew only positive creations. God had no idea that the useful idea of nothing could also conceal a region of nonexistence. God created darkness before He created light. Genesis 1:2. After Lucifer's fall, God realized that somehow demons emerged through darkness, which can conceal even emptiness, into His creations to exploit the weakness in Lucifer's free will to cause him to rebel against God.
As most people do, Satan also equates innocence with weakness. Satan threw the entire bulk of all the sins and evil of all mankind at Jesus on the cross, and the Father allowed it. Satan believed that the awesome horrors of all that sin and evil would so overwhelm the innocence of Jesus that He would succumb to its power, His Holiness would be destroyed, He would die forever, and Satan would then be free to take control of God's world. Satan's goal is to murder God as revealed in his temptations of Jesus as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11.
When God the Father created Lucifer and gave him free will, God did so in all innocence. At that time, God knew nothing about sin and evil. God only created good and righteous systems based on His set of infinite Ideas in His Infinite Mind, and Lucifer was one such system. But Lucifer discovered a weakness in God's gift to him of free will. Lucifer discovered that he could choose to invent false systems by misusing God's good Ideas; that is, false systems of excessive pride and pleasure which would lead him to rebel against God. Lucifer misled one third of God's angels in his rebellion, and he refused to repent of it. God had to dissolve his system, strip him of all His good Ideas that He had put into his system, and exile him to earth as an empty, negative consciousness. For this reason, the Bible often refers to sin and evil as being vanity which means both excessive pride and emptiness. God used His consuming fire to dissolve Lucifer's system, and He will use His consuming fire to dissolve all human systems within the regions of the dead in order to separate and recover His living images in them and to cast their spiritual deaths which are totally evil into the lake of fire. Ezekiel 28:15-19; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Christ made that separation possible by His descent into hell. God must consign the souls and spirits of all humans not saved by grace to one of the three regions of the dead because sin and evil still remain as a part of their beings. But because Jesus left all of their sins and evil behind in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead, His self-cleansing became God's power to use His consuming fire to separate His living images in all these humans for Him to recreate from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Luke 20:38. But no human can be saved without repentance and faith. God will return the living souls and spirits of all humans within the regions of the dead to repentance and faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. If all humans are alive to God as recorded in Luke 20:38, and God destroys their deaths as recorded in I Corinthians 15:26, then God must save all living humans forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Before God created Lucifer, in His innocence, He knew nothing about sin and evil. After evil emerged into His creations to cause sin to exist, God realized that as a result of His creations, He probably also accidentally caused a region of nonexistence filled with negative consciousnesses called demons. Isaiah 45:7. Whenever a something appears then the idea of nothing must also appear as a means to distinguish that particular something from all other somethings. God uses the idea of nothing to separate objects in space but also to exclude ideas which cannot work in any particular system that he happens to be in the process of creating. God's Infinite Mind knew only positive creations. God had no idea that the useful idea of nothing could also conceal a region of nonexistence. God created darkness before He created light. Genesis 1:2. After Lucifer's fall, God realized that somehow demons emerged through darkness, which can conceal even emptiness, into His creations to exploit the weakness in Lucifer's free will to cause him to rebel against God.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
The World and the Word
The Word
God's Word not only promises the highest form of salvation for all believers in Christ; it also promises a lower form of salvation for all the living souls that God created. In Psalm 37:27-29, God informs humanity that God will provide a special form of salvation for all of His saints saved by grace, but He will also preserve His righteousness that He put into every living soul that He created by His recreation of them to live in His land forever. Even the worst humans who deliberately practice evil nevertheless retain some goodness in their living souls which God will recover at His Great White Throne Judgment for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:5. Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:10, and Revelation 22:12 clearly teach that God will provide positive rewards for all the good works that come out of the righteousness that God put into every living soul that He created. All of these humans have to be alive and recreated in order to receive these positive rewards. Revelation 20:5.
God's Word informs humanity that God will not relent until He has purged all evil from all of His creations and has restored them all to perfect righteousness through recreation. Revelation 21:5. God possesses an eternity to accomplish His goal. God has the upper hand on evil because it can only be finite. But in Romans 9:28, the Lord informs humanity that He only needs to make a short work on the earth.
Over and over, the Word of God informs humans that they can invent false systems based on God's good ideas which always prove to be sinful and ruinous. But God always goes to work on those false systems to eliminate the falsity and recreate them to be good and creative systems. For example, Judah sinned with his daughter-in-law Tamar, but God took control of that false system and caused Judah's and Tamar's son Phares to be one of the ancestors of the Savior. Matthew 1:3. King David sinned with Bathsheba and murdered her husband, but God caused David to be one of the ancestors of the Savior. Other examples can be adduced such as the stories of Joseph and his brothers, Samson, Jonah, and Peter when he denied the Lord. With most of the evil systems recorded in the Bible, the story ends when God eliminates all the falsity in these systems and recreates them to be good and creative systems.
These examples inform humanity that the entire purpose of God's Word must be that God will, through the history of the earth, work all of the evil out of all false systems and use His good ideas that He recovers from those systems to recreate good and useful systems. But the evil system that the Devil injected into the being of mankind with Adam and Eve's fall would cause the eternal, spiritual deaths of all the living images of God in every human if nothing were done about it. Man could not save himself from this spiritual death, but God could. God came to earth as a perfect human to take all of the sin and evil of all mankind upon Himself on a cruel cross, shed His blood and water from His body to cleanse and save all who would believe in Him from the eternal, spiritual death that evil causes. But He also saved the lives of the rest of humanity to be recreated to live on His recreated earth when His Spirit descended into hell to leave their sins and evil behind so that He could rise immaculate from the dead. I Peter 1:18-19; Hebrews 2:9.
God's Word not only promises the highest form of salvation for all believers in Christ; it also promises a lower form of salvation for all the living souls that God created. In Psalm 37:27-29, God informs humanity that God will provide a special form of salvation for all of His saints saved by grace, but He will also preserve His righteousness that He put into every living soul that He created by His recreation of them to live in His land forever. Even the worst humans who deliberately practice evil nevertheless retain some goodness in their living souls which God will recover at His Great White Throne Judgment for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 21:5. Matthew 16:27, Romans 2:10, and Revelation 22:12 clearly teach that God will provide positive rewards for all the good works that come out of the righteousness that God put into every living soul that He created. All of these humans have to be alive and recreated in order to receive these positive rewards. Revelation 20:5.
God's Word informs humanity that God will not relent until He has purged all evil from all of His creations and has restored them all to perfect righteousness through recreation. Revelation 21:5. God possesses an eternity to accomplish His goal. God has the upper hand on evil because it can only be finite. But in Romans 9:28, the Lord informs humanity that He only needs to make a short work on the earth.
Over and over, the Word of God informs humans that they can invent false systems based on God's good ideas which always prove to be sinful and ruinous. But God always goes to work on those false systems to eliminate the falsity and recreate them to be good and creative systems. For example, Judah sinned with his daughter-in-law Tamar, but God took control of that false system and caused Judah's and Tamar's son Phares to be one of the ancestors of the Savior. Matthew 1:3. King David sinned with Bathsheba and murdered her husband, but God caused David to be one of the ancestors of the Savior. Other examples can be adduced such as the stories of Joseph and his brothers, Samson, Jonah, and Peter when he denied the Lord. With most of the evil systems recorded in the Bible, the story ends when God eliminates all the falsity in these systems and recreates them to be good and creative systems.
These examples inform humanity that the entire purpose of God's Word must be that God will, through the history of the earth, work all of the evil out of all false systems and use His good ideas that He recovers from those systems to recreate good and useful systems. But the evil system that the Devil injected into the being of mankind with Adam and Eve's fall would cause the eternal, spiritual deaths of all the living images of God in every human if nothing were done about it. Man could not save himself from this spiritual death, but God could. God came to earth as a perfect human to take all of the sin and evil of all mankind upon Himself on a cruel cross, shed His blood and water from His body to cleanse and save all who would believe in Him from the eternal, spiritual death that evil causes. But He also saved the lives of the rest of humanity to be recreated to live on His recreated earth when His Spirit descended into hell to leave their sins and evil behind so that He could rise immaculate from the dead. I Peter 1:18-19; Hebrews 2:9.
The World and the Word
The Word
In Mark 10:5, Jesus admitted that Moses gave the law of divorce to the Israelites because they wanted it, not because God inspired it. But God allowed Moses' law of divorce to be included in His Word to send His message that manmade laws often do not lead to contentment. Moses made the same mistake that some philosophers have made. Moses attempted to write a set of intricate laws which he hoped would create a perfect society. God directly inspired the Ten Commandments, but He also allowed Moses' laws to be included in His Word to teach humanity that manmade laws always fail to produce a perfect society.
All of the messages and teachings of the written Word of God are inerrant and infallible. Believers who seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit will readily understand when God has directly inspired His Word and when He has included uninspired but truthful messages to His Word.
Some of the writers of God's Word made errors and contradictions. But God allowed these errors and contradictions to teach man the inerrant and infallible truth that humans are fallible, even when writing the Word of God. Many people exist who find it almost impossible to admit that they can make even the simplest errors. Humans suffer from excessive pride. One of the basic teachings of God's Word is that sinners must admit to God that they have done wrong, humble themselves to God, and repent.
Critics of the Bible point out that the writers of the gospels often contradict each other. But the central message of the gospels contains no contradictions. Lawyers and judges in courts of law understand that witnesses will often contradict each other in the minor details of the stories they tell, and yet, the central truths in each story can be the same. In fact, when witnesses all tell the exact, same story, lies are often suspect.
In Mark 10:5, Jesus admitted that Moses gave the law of divorce to the Israelites because they wanted it, not because God inspired it. But God allowed Moses' law of divorce to be included in His Word to send His message that manmade laws often do not lead to contentment. Moses made the same mistake that some philosophers have made. Moses attempted to write a set of intricate laws which he hoped would create a perfect society. God directly inspired the Ten Commandments, but He also allowed Moses' laws to be included in His Word to teach humanity that manmade laws always fail to produce a perfect society.
All of the messages and teachings of the written Word of God are inerrant and infallible. Believers who seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit will readily understand when God has directly inspired His Word and when He has included uninspired but truthful messages to His Word.
Some of the writers of God's Word made errors and contradictions. But God allowed these errors and contradictions to teach man the inerrant and infallible truth that humans are fallible, even when writing the Word of God. Many people exist who find it almost impossible to admit that they can make even the simplest errors. Humans suffer from excessive pride. One of the basic teachings of God's Word is that sinners must admit to God that they have done wrong, humble themselves to God, and repent.
Critics of the Bible point out that the writers of the gospels often contradict each other. But the central message of the gospels contains no contradictions. Lawyers and judges in courts of law understand that witnesses will often contradict each other in the minor details of the stories they tell, and yet, the central truths in each story can be the same. In fact, when witnesses all tell the exact, same story, lies are often suspect.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
The World and the Word
The Word
Many unbelievers criticize the written Word of God by claiming that it cannot be inerrant and infallible because it contains contradictions, and God cannot contradict Himself. The defenders of the written Word of God counter these critics by arguments based on logical and contextual grounds which attempt to show that these contradictions do not exist. This means the defenders of the written Word agree with the critics that God cannot contradict Himself. Sometimes, the defenders succeed in countering the arguments of the critics, but in some cases the critics happen to be right, contradictions do exist. The critics believe only in objective truth, and the defenders make the mistake of trying to defend the written Word on their grounds. The greatest truth, by far, is subjective Truth which only happens when the Spirit of Christ indwells the heart of the believer. This means the believer must rely on the guidance of the Holy Spirit in order to obtain a better understanding of the written Truth of God. John 14:26; John 16:13. God has given humanity His objective, written Truth in order to engender His saving subjective Truth into the hearts of His believers.
Contradictions in the Bible (KJB) do not mean that the Bible is fallible and contains errors. God's messages to humanity in the KJB are always inerrant and infallible despite the contradictions. A perfect example of this truth adheres to Proverbs 26:4-5. In these verses, God deliberately contradicts Himself. But the message of that contradiction will be clear and inerrant to all believers who possess the Spirit of God. A believer who keeps himself in tune with the Holy Spirit will be able to hear from God whether to answer a fool or not whenever he hears him speak foolishness.
The inerrant and infallible Word of God always adheres to the messages from God to believers, not in the written words themselves, even if they contain contradictions. Jesus taught many parables. Some are difficult to understand. Jesus directed His parables to those who really desire to learn more about God and who will call on God to reveal His hidden messages in His parables. Those who do not really desire to learn about God will dismiss His parables with the claim that they contain contradictions. Christ reveals His subjective Truth to those who really want to know it. John 6:60-69.
But the truthful messages in some of Jesus' parables can be different for different believers. For example, some believers interpret the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15 to mean that lost sinners can repent and and return to God for salvation by grace. Other believers interpret this parable to mean that backslidden believers can always repent and return to the Father, and He will always forgive. But the one interpretation does not exclude the other. Both interpretations are inerrant and infallible messages from the Holy Spirit. However, one can misinterpret messages from Jesus' parables, but this always happens because the interpreter fails to seek prayerful guidance from the Holy Spirit.
Some maintain that the written Word of God (KJB) has to be infallible and inerrant because God directly inspired it all. But they base their views on a misunderstanding of II Timothy 3:16. This verse does not state that God directly inspired His entire Word. The key word in this verse is the word "given." God's inspired Word is a gift to mankind. For example, God could not have directly inspired the two pagan poets that Paul quotes in Acts 17:28, but God gave these quotes to the Apostle Paul to include in His inspired Word because of their truthful message. God did not directly inspire the pagan Roman soldier's letter to his governor Felix as recorded in Acts 23:25-30, but somehow Luke acquired this letter and God allowed him to add it to His Word so that readers could better understand Paul's story. God allowed letters written by pagans to be included in the book of Nehemiah so that readers would be able to better understand His messages from that book. Believers must look for the truthful messages that are sometimes hidden in the written words.
Many unbelievers criticize the written Word of God by claiming that it cannot be inerrant and infallible because it contains contradictions, and God cannot contradict Himself. The defenders of the written Word of God counter these critics by arguments based on logical and contextual grounds which attempt to show that these contradictions do not exist. This means the defenders of the written Word agree with the critics that God cannot contradict Himself. Sometimes, the defenders succeed in countering the arguments of the critics, but in some cases the critics happen to be right, contradictions do exist. The critics believe only in objective truth, and the defenders make the mistake of trying to defend the written Word on their grounds. The greatest truth, by far, is subjective Truth which only happens when the Spirit of Christ indwells the heart of the believer. This means the believer must rely on the guidance of the Holy Spirit in order to obtain a better understanding of the written Truth of God. John 14:26; John 16:13. God has given humanity His objective, written Truth in order to engender His saving subjective Truth into the hearts of His believers.
Contradictions in the Bible (KJB) do not mean that the Bible is fallible and contains errors. God's messages to humanity in the KJB are always inerrant and infallible despite the contradictions. A perfect example of this truth adheres to Proverbs 26:4-5. In these verses, God deliberately contradicts Himself. But the message of that contradiction will be clear and inerrant to all believers who possess the Spirit of God. A believer who keeps himself in tune with the Holy Spirit will be able to hear from God whether to answer a fool or not whenever he hears him speak foolishness.
The inerrant and infallible Word of God always adheres to the messages from God to believers, not in the written words themselves, even if they contain contradictions. Jesus taught many parables. Some are difficult to understand. Jesus directed His parables to those who really desire to learn more about God and who will call on God to reveal His hidden messages in His parables. Those who do not really desire to learn about God will dismiss His parables with the claim that they contain contradictions. Christ reveals His subjective Truth to those who really want to know it. John 6:60-69.
But the truthful messages in some of Jesus' parables can be different for different believers. For example, some believers interpret the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15 to mean that lost sinners can repent and and return to God for salvation by grace. Other believers interpret this parable to mean that backslidden believers can always repent and return to the Father, and He will always forgive. But the one interpretation does not exclude the other. Both interpretations are inerrant and infallible messages from the Holy Spirit. However, one can misinterpret messages from Jesus' parables, but this always happens because the interpreter fails to seek prayerful guidance from the Holy Spirit.
Some maintain that the written Word of God (KJB) has to be infallible and inerrant because God directly inspired it all. But they base their views on a misunderstanding of II Timothy 3:16. This verse does not state that God directly inspired His entire Word. The key word in this verse is the word "given." God's inspired Word is a gift to mankind. For example, God could not have directly inspired the two pagan poets that Paul quotes in Acts 17:28, but God gave these quotes to the Apostle Paul to include in His inspired Word because of their truthful message. God did not directly inspire the pagan Roman soldier's letter to his governor Felix as recorded in Acts 23:25-30, but somehow Luke acquired this letter and God allowed him to add it to His Word so that readers could better understand Paul's story. God allowed letters written by pagans to be included in the book of Nehemiah so that readers would be able to better understand His messages from that book. Believers must look for the truthful messages that are sometimes hidden in the written words.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The World and the Word
The Word
God reserves His highest form of salvation for all humans saved by His grace who will live with Him in heaven forever. Job 19:26; I Peter 1:4. God will resurrect all living humans from the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 21:5 can only mean that God will absolutely recover and recreate everything He ever created that has been stained and marred by sin because of the influence of evil. Romans 8:18-23 teaches humanity that God's entire creation, which must include all humans, groans for God's recreation just as believers living in the Church Age groan for the resurrection of their bodies at the Rapture of the Church. Romans 11:36.
But God has also reserved a higher form of the lowest form of salvation for all faithful Jews. In Numbers 18:8, God promised the Israelites that He will preserve the religion of Judaism forever. In Deuteronomy 5:29 and Deuteronomy 12:28, God promised that He will preserve faithful Jews forever. In Isaiah 45:17-18, God prophesies that He will save the nation of Israel forever, and recreate His earth for the resurrected lives of all humans still in their graves. In Isaiah 66:15-24, God promises that all of the unorganized Gentile nations will come to Jerusalem to worship God, and that all of God's recreated people will be able to observe the worms of humans, which symbolizes their total evil deaths which God will separate from His living, recreated people by His use of His consuming fire, as they squirm in the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; Mark 9:44, 46, 48. But in Ezekiel 20:37-38, God proclaims that He will cut off all faithless Jews from His recreated nation of Israel and demote them to live with the recreated Gentiles.
In every dispensation that God has given to mankind, He saves some people by His grace because they exercise some form of faith in a Savior who will sacrifice Himself to cleanse them of all sin and evil and recreate their souls and spirits while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. God wrote the New Testament for all believers saved by His grace. The Old Testament saints were not resurrected to eternal life in heaven until Jesus came and preached to them in their abode in Paradise. Ephesians 4:7-10. The Tribulation saints will read their hidden Bibles, and God will send an angel to preach the New Testament gospel to all peoples during the Tribulation period. Revelation 14:6-7. God will bodily resurrect all of His saints saved by grace and translate them to heaven to live with Him there forever. The Old Testament saints were bodily resurrected with Jesus. The Church Age saints will be bodily resurrected at the Rapture of the Church. The Tribulation saints will be bodily resurrected at the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ.
God will also return all living humans that He had to consign to one of the regions of the dead because they failed to believe in Christ to faith in Christ in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God created these living humans in His image, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-9; Psalm 138:8; Psalm 145:14-21. God will resurrect these living humans and recreate them to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God will allow recreated, faithful Jews to enjoy special blessings as citizens of the nation of Israel which will be the only organized nation on earth and will rule the earth. Isaiah 66:10-24. God will use His consuming fire to separate the totally evil, spiritual deaths of all humans from their living images for Him to cast their deaths into the lake of fire forever. Isaiah 66:24; Revelation 20:15.
God reserves His highest form of salvation for all humans saved by His grace who will live with Him in heaven forever. Job 19:26; I Peter 1:4. God will resurrect all living humans from the regions of the dead for Him to recreate to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. Revelation 21:5 can only mean that God will absolutely recover and recreate everything He ever created that has been stained and marred by sin because of the influence of evil. Romans 8:18-23 teaches humanity that God's entire creation, which must include all humans, groans for God's recreation just as believers living in the Church Age groan for the resurrection of their bodies at the Rapture of the Church. Romans 11:36.
But God has also reserved a higher form of the lowest form of salvation for all faithful Jews. In Numbers 18:8, God promised the Israelites that He will preserve the religion of Judaism forever. In Deuteronomy 5:29 and Deuteronomy 12:28, God promised that He will preserve faithful Jews forever. In Isaiah 45:17-18, God prophesies that He will save the nation of Israel forever, and recreate His earth for the resurrected lives of all humans still in their graves. In Isaiah 66:15-24, God promises that all of the unorganized Gentile nations will come to Jerusalem to worship God, and that all of God's recreated people will be able to observe the worms of humans, which symbolizes their total evil deaths which God will separate from His living, recreated people by His use of His consuming fire, as they squirm in the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; Mark 9:44, 46, 48. But in Ezekiel 20:37-38, God proclaims that He will cut off all faithless Jews from His recreated nation of Israel and demote them to live with the recreated Gentiles.
In every dispensation that God has given to mankind, He saves some people by His grace because they exercise some form of faith in a Savior who will sacrifice Himself to cleanse them of all sin and evil and recreate their souls and spirits while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24. God wrote the New Testament for all believers saved by His grace. The Old Testament saints were not resurrected to eternal life in heaven until Jesus came and preached to them in their abode in Paradise. Ephesians 4:7-10. The Tribulation saints will read their hidden Bibles, and God will send an angel to preach the New Testament gospel to all peoples during the Tribulation period. Revelation 14:6-7. God will bodily resurrect all of His saints saved by grace and translate them to heaven to live with Him there forever. The Old Testament saints were bodily resurrected with Jesus. The Church Age saints will be bodily resurrected at the Rapture of the Church. The Tribulation saints will be bodily resurrected at the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ.
God will also return all living humans that He had to consign to one of the regions of the dead because they failed to believe in Christ to faith in Christ in a great worship service as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God created these living humans in His image, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-9; Psalm 138:8; Psalm 145:14-21. God will resurrect these living humans and recreate them to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God will allow recreated, faithful Jews to enjoy special blessings as citizens of the nation of Israel which will be the only organized nation on earth and will rule the earth. Isaiah 66:10-24. God will use His consuming fire to separate the totally evil, spiritual deaths of all humans from their living images for Him to cast their deaths into the lake of fire forever. Isaiah 66:24; Revelation 20:15.
The World and the Word
The Word
God has divided His written Word into three categories as it applies to mankind. God addressed the book of Job and the first eleven chapters of Genesis to all mankind. God addressed the rest of the Old Testament to the Israelite people whom He chose to write His Word and through whom He would bring His Messiah into the world for the salvation of all mankind. God addressed the New Testament to His Church and to all Old Testament and Tribulation saints whom He would save by His grace.
God's written Word connects directly to His Infinite Mind, and God holds the power to connect the finite mind to His Infinite Mind through the faith of the believer. But the written Word can only be finite to the finite mind because of its limited power. I Corinthians 2:16.
God's message to the entire human race in the first eleven chapters of Genesis and the book of Job is that He will provide a higher and a lower form of salvation for the whole human race. God saved Adam and Eve and Job with His highest form of salvation which is by His grace. Genesis 3:21; Job 19:25-27. Adam and Eve faithfully practiced the blood sacrifices that God gave them which demonstrated their faith in God's promised Savior who would come to cleanse them of all their sins and evil by His blood sacrifice for them. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 4:4. Job believed that His Redeemer, who is God Himself, would cleanse and sanctify him until he would "come forth as gold." Job 23:10.
But God also assured Adam and Eve that He would provide a lesser form of salvation for every human who would ever live. God told Adam to call his wife's name Eve because she would be the "mother of all living." Genesis 3:20. God has created in His image the living souls and spirits of all humans. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God assures humanity in Psalm 36:6 that He will preserve all life, including all humans. Whatever God preserves, He preserves forever. God confirms in Luke 20:38 that all humans are forever alive to Him. I Corinthians 15:21-22 informs humanity that while all humans suffer spiritual death because of Adam's sin, God will resurrect the lives of all humans. I Timothy 4:10 plainly teaches that Christ will save the lives of all humans, especially those saved by His grace. Revelation 20:5 prophesies that in His final judgment, Christ will recover His created lives of all humans whom He had to temporarily consign to one of the three regions of the dead because they would not believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. In John 5:28-29, Jesus prophesies that in a general resurrection in the end of the world He will resurrect His good, living souls that He created, and cast all of their evil into the lake of fire. No verse in the Bible states that God will ever cast living humans into the lake of fire, only dead ones who are totally evil. Revelation 20:15.
God has divided His written Word into three categories as it applies to mankind. God addressed the book of Job and the first eleven chapters of Genesis to all mankind. God addressed the rest of the Old Testament to the Israelite people whom He chose to write His Word and through whom He would bring His Messiah into the world for the salvation of all mankind. God addressed the New Testament to His Church and to all Old Testament and Tribulation saints whom He would save by His grace.
God's written Word connects directly to His Infinite Mind, and God holds the power to connect the finite mind to His Infinite Mind through the faith of the believer. But the written Word can only be finite to the finite mind because of its limited power. I Corinthians 2:16.
God's message to the entire human race in the first eleven chapters of Genesis and the book of Job is that He will provide a higher and a lower form of salvation for the whole human race. God saved Adam and Eve and Job with His highest form of salvation which is by His grace. Genesis 3:21; Job 19:25-27. Adam and Eve faithfully practiced the blood sacrifices that God gave them which demonstrated their faith in God's promised Savior who would come to cleanse them of all their sins and evil by His blood sacrifice for them. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 4:4. Job believed that His Redeemer, who is God Himself, would cleanse and sanctify him until he would "come forth as gold." Job 23:10.
But God also assured Adam and Eve that He would provide a lesser form of salvation for every human who would ever live. God told Adam to call his wife's name Eve because she would be the "mother of all living." Genesis 3:20. God has created in His image the living souls and spirits of all humans. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. God assures humanity in Psalm 36:6 that He will preserve all life, including all humans. Whatever God preserves, He preserves forever. God confirms in Luke 20:38 that all humans are forever alive to Him. I Corinthians 15:21-22 informs humanity that while all humans suffer spiritual death because of Adam's sin, God will resurrect the lives of all humans. I Timothy 4:10 plainly teaches that Christ will save the lives of all humans, especially those saved by His grace. Revelation 20:5 prophesies that in His final judgment, Christ will recover His created lives of all humans whom He had to temporarily consign to one of the three regions of the dead because they would not believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. In John 5:28-29, Jesus prophesies that in a general resurrection in the end of the world He will resurrect His good, living souls that He created, and cast all of their evil into the lake of fire. No verse in the Bible states that God will ever cast living humans into the lake of fire, only dead ones who are totally evil. Revelation 20:15.
Friday, January 17, 2020
The World and the Word
The Word
What is the Word of God? The Word of God consists in His messages to the human race. Whenever and wherever God speaks to humanity, that message constitutes the Word of God. By far, the most important Word of God belongs to the King James Bible which is the pure and infallible Word of God in English. All other versions of the Bible in English are based on corrupt texts, and therefore, cannot be the pure Word of God. The KJB was directly translated from the Greek Received Text which most believers have accepted as being the inerrant and infallible Word of God.
The pure Word of God informs all believers that the written Word is not the only Word of God. Psalm 19:1-7 and Romans 1:19-20 clearly teach believers that God speaks to humanity through His creations. The system that is the vast universe and the extremely complex system that is life could only have been designed and created. Those who maintain that creation only looks designed and advance complicated arguments that it all evolved on its own simply ignore the fact that the odds against that happening are astronomical, even beyond consideration. The best argument adheres to Occam's razor. The universe and life look designed because they are, in fact, designed.
God created absolutely every good system that exists. God created them by using selected ideas from His Infinite Set of Ideas that forms the Infinite Contents of His Mind. Revelation 4:11.
Humans never really create any systems. Humans merely invent systems based on their knowledge of ideas that God gives to them or allows them to learn by experience. Humans can invent good systems that are useful and creative, but humans can also invent false systems that are useless or destructive. Humans can invent false systems because of the influence of a foreign, evil nature which the Devil injected into humanity at the time of the fall of man.
All good systems: such as science, art, mathematics, the laws of physics, law and government, and many others, were created by God for useful purposes. When humans use these systems correctly, they all indicate different forms of messages from God. The findings of science, especially in the field of quantum mechanics, has reached the inescapable conclusion that an Infinite Mind must exist. Great works of art such as beautiful paintings, cathedrals, and music have been invented by man for the glory of God. The laws of physics have been so finely tuned to exact mathematical standards that allows life to exist, that they all had to have been coordinated by an Infinite Mind. The best laws and governments have been based on the absolute moral laws of God written in His Word. Through every good system that God has created, He speaks His Holy Word to mankind.
What is the Word of God? The Word of God consists in His messages to the human race. Whenever and wherever God speaks to humanity, that message constitutes the Word of God. By far, the most important Word of God belongs to the King James Bible which is the pure and infallible Word of God in English. All other versions of the Bible in English are based on corrupt texts, and therefore, cannot be the pure Word of God. The KJB was directly translated from the Greek Received Text which most believers have accepted as being the inerrant and infallible Word of God.
The pure Word of God informs all believers that the written Word is not the only Word of God. Psalm 19:1-7 and Romans 1:19-20 clearly teach believers that God speaks to humanity through His creations. The system that is the vast universe and the extremely complex system that is life could only have been designed and created. Those who maintain that creation only looks designed and advance complicated arguments that it all evolved on its own simply ignore the fact that the odds against that happening are astronomical, even beyond consideration. The best argument adheres to Occam's razor. The universe and life look designed because they are, in fact, designed.
God created absolutely every good system that exists. God created them by using selected ideas from His Infinite Set of Ideas that forms the Infinite Contents of His Mind. Revelation 4:11.
Humans never really create any systems. Humans merely invent systems based on their knowledge of ideas that God gives to them or allows them to learn by experience. Humans can invent good systems that are useful and creative, but humans can also invent false systems that are useless or destructive. Humans can invent false systems because of the influence of a foreign, evil nature which the Devil injected into humanity at the time of the fall of man.
All good systems: such as science, art, mathematics, the laws of physics, law and government, and many others, were created by God for useful purposes. When humans use these systems correctly, they all indicate different forms of messages from God. The findings of science, especially in the field of quantum mechanics, has reached the inescapable conclusion that an Infinite Mind must exist. Great works of art such as beautiful paintings, cathedrals, and music have been invented by man for the glory of God. The laws of physics have been so finely tuned to exact mathematical standards that allows life to exist, that they all had to have been coordinated by an Infinite Mind. The best laws and governments have been based on the absolute moral laws of God written in His Word. Through every good system that God has created, He speaks His Holy Word to mankind.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
The World and the Word
The Infinite and the Finite
The two basic ideas of mathematics are zero and the number one. All numbers higher that one simply consist of systems that comprise multiple ideas of the number one. For example, whenever a finite mind creates a system called a house, it uses basic necessities such as a set of nails, a set of wooden boards, or a set of bricks and so forth; all of which consist of multiples of the number one. The finite mind also uses the idea of nothing to exclude any idea which will not work to build a house such as the ideas of fire or explosives.
But once a finite mind grasps a basic idea that enters its consciousness, whether concrete or abstract, it can never negate that basic idea. Systems can be reduced to nothingness, but basic ideas cannot. One can burn a house and reduce that system to nothing, but one can never reduce the basic ideas that built that system from the mind. One can reduce the system that is 1-1=0 to the idea of nothing, but one can never reduce the basic ideas of one and zero to nonexistence. For these reasons, whenever one mentally reduces any system to the idea of nothing by subtracting all ideas that compose it, one can still never negate the basic ideas of that system, but one can use the idea of nothing which results from that reduction to indicate an absolute emptiness; that is, nonexistence without consciousness or ideas which can also be called absolute nothingness. In other words, when all ideas that compose a system are mentally subtracted from that system, one is left with only the idea of nothing which indicates an absolute nothingness since it cannot indicate any of the subtracted basic ideas.
Just as the Periodic Table comprises its basic, irreducible elements, so the basic idea of something comprises all basic, irreducible ideas. In order to construct any system, the finite mind must use basic, irreducible ideas all of which derive from the basic ideas of reality called something and nothing. For example, if one desires to build a system called a table, then one must use basic, irreducible geometric ideas such as "straight" or "curved." If one desires to build a hard table then one must use a system that incorporates the basic, irreducible idea called "hardness." One must also use the idea of nothing to exclude the basic idea which will not work in that system called "softness." All of the complicated systems that the finite mind imagines and constructs invariably consists of basic, irreducible ideas. Whenever humans imagine or construct any system they must use basic, irreducible ideas much the same as if they performed a correct calculation in mathematics using its basic ideas of zero and one.
But the finite mind, being fallible, can also construct false systems. False systems invariably use good, basic ideas just as creative systems do. The finite mind simply constructs ineffective or destructive systems by misusing good, basic ideas. Ineffective systems are also destructive because they produce nothing useful. Incorrect mathematical calculations provide examples of such false systems. For example, 2+3=6 is a false system. But every basic idea used in this false system happens to be real and true. The "two," the "plus," the "three," the "equal," and the "six" are all good, basic ideas in this false system which is false because it produces no useful effect. Any possible good effect equals the idea of nothing. But this particular and useful idea of nothing also indicates a much deeper nothingness; that is, an absolute emptiness, an absolute nothingness.
God creates only good and useful systems using His set of infinite, basic ideas which compose the contents of His Infinite Mind. In His innocence, God had no idea that falsity could misuse His good ideas to invent false systems that would corrupt His good creations. The finite mind, being fallible, can construct good or false systems, but God, being perfect, cannot imagine or construct false systems. This condition can only mean that false systems must always be finite, and the Infinite holds all power over the finite. The finite mind must misuse God's good, basic ideas to construct false systems because false, basic ideas do not exist. One finds it quite impossible to think of one. For this reason, all of the basic ideas that compose all good and false systems that one experiences must be true and real.
The two basic ideas of mathematics are zero and the number one. All numbers higher that one simply consist of systems that comprise multiple ideas of the number one. For example, whenever a finite mind creates a system called a house, it uses basic necessities such as a set of nails, a set of wooden boards, or a set of bricks and so forth; all of which consist of multiples of the number one. The finite mind also uses the idea of nothing to exclude any idea which will not work to build a house such as the ideas of fire or explosives.
But once a finite mind grasps a basic idea that enters its consciousness, whether concrete or abstract, it can never negate that basic idea. Systems can be reduced to nothingness, but basic ideas cannot. One can burn a house and reduce that system to nothing, but one can never reduce the basic ideas that built that system from the mind. One can reduce the system that is 1-1=0 to the idea of nothing, but one can never reduce the basic ideas of one and zero to nonexistence. For these reasons, whenever one mentally reduces any system to the idea of nothing by subtracting all ideas that compose it, one can still never negate the basic ideas of that system, but one can use the idea of nothing which results from that reduction to indicate an absolute emptiness; that is, nonexistence without consciousness or ideas which can also be called absolute nothingness. In other words, when all ideas that compose a system are mentally subtracted from that system, one is left with only the idea of nothing which indicates an absolute nothingness since it cannot indicate any of the subtracted basic ideas.
Just as the Periodic Table comprises its basic, irreducible elements, so the basic idea of something comprises all basic, irreducible ideas. In order to construct any system, the finite mind must use basic, irreducible ideas all of which derive from the basic ideas of reality called something and nothing. For example, if one desires to build a system called a table, then one must use basic, irreducible geometric ideas such as "straight" or "curved." If one desires to build a hard table then one must use a system that incorporates the basic, irreducible idea called "hardness." One must also use the idea of nothing to exclude the basic idea which will not work in that system called "softness." All of the complicated systems that the finite mind imagines and constructs invariably consists of basic, irreducible ideas. Whenever humans imagine or construct any system they must use basic, irreducible ideas much the same as if they performed a correct calculation in mathematics using its basic ideas of zero and one.
But the finite mind, being fallible, can also construct false systems. False systems invariably use good, basic ideas just as creative systems do. The finite mind simply constructs ineffective or destructive systems by misusing good, basic ideas. Ineffective systems are also destructive because they produce nothing useful. Incorrect mathematical calculations provide examples of such false systems. For example, 2+3=6 is a false system. But every basic idea used in this false system happens to be real and true. The "two," the "plus," the "three," the "equal," and the "six" are all good, basic ideas in this false system which is false because it produces no useful effect. Any possible good effect equals the idea of nothing. But this particular and useful idea of nothing also indicates a much deeper nothingness; that is, an absolute emptiness, an absolute nothingness.
God creates only good and useful systems using His set of infinite, basic ideas which compose the contents of His Infinite Mind. In His innocence, God had no idea that falsity could misuse His good ideas to invent false systems that would corrupt His good creations. The finite mind, being fallible, can construct good or false systems, but God, being perfect, cannot imagine or construct false systems. This condition can only mean that false systems must always be finite, and the Infinite holds all power over the finite. The finite mind must misuse God's good, basic ideas to construct false systems because false, basic ideas do not exist. One finds it quite impossible to think of one. For this reason, all of the basic ideas that compose all good and false systems that one experiences must be true and real.
The World and the Word
The Infinite and the Finite
God is Infinite. Psalm 147:5. Infinity must transcend everything that is limited. This means Infinity has to be an Infinite Consciousness that is also Almighty, Omniscient, and Omnipresent. If Infinity were less than this, then no idea of the infinite would be possible because everything would be finite.
The Infinite Consciousness can be called Father since He is the Almighty Power that engenders all good systems. The Infinite Omniscience can be called the Word since His Infinite Set of Ideas constitutes the contents of the Infinite Consciousness. The Infinite Consciousness uses the Infinite Ideas to create all of His good systems. The Omnipresent Consciousness has to be absolutely everywhere, even beyond the limits of the universe, since if He were less than that, He would not be Infinite. John 1:1.
The finite mind cannot leap to the idea of the infinite. This feat is quite impossible. The Infinite must give this idea to the finite mind even though the finite mind cannot understand it. Like quantum mechanics, the finite mind knows many systems it cannot understand.
The Infinite Mind can create limited, good systems even though He transcends all such systems. The Infinite Mind limits His good systems by His use of the idea of nothing since the Infinite Mind must exclude; that is, consider to be equal to nothing, all ideas that do not work in a particular system that He creates. He never negates His ideas. He simply considers all excluded ideas to be equal to nothing as far as a particular system that He is creating is concerned. For example, when He created the very complex, good system called life; He excluded all ideas and systems that would poison life, such as carbon monoxide.
The Infinite must transcend all limitations. This fact means no thing can be added to it or subtracted from it. For this reason, the Infinite transcends the limited, good system called mathematics. Whenever a calculation results in a symbol for the infinite, then mathematics has exited the finite and has touched the Infinite. Whenever a calculation results in a symbol for the idea of nothing, which is zero, then mathematics has exited the finite and has touched on nothingness itself. In both cases, no further calculations are possible. But both cases also prove that the idea of the Infinite and the idea of nothing must be real; that is, in actual existence. For these reasons, no such thing as an infinite number can exist. Mathematics constitutes a finite system that subsists between the idea of nothing and the Infinite.
The Infinite Mind gave two basic ideas to the finite mind that predicates reality; that is, the idea of nothing and the idea of something. The symbol for the idea of nothing is zero. The symbol for the idea of something is the number one since a one can be considered the unity of all being; that is, every limited system and idea that actually exists. But as far as the details of reality are concerned, the finite mind also holds the power to divide the idea of something into particular, basic ideas that it can use to create systems, and it also holds the power to use the idea of nothing to exclude all ideas which will not work in any particular system that it is in the process of creating. The finite mind can also use the idea of nothing to indicate nonexistence itself. The ideas of something and nothing form the basis of the finite reality.
God is Infinite. Psalm 147:5. Infinity must transcend everything that is limited. This means Infinity has to be an Infinite Consciousness that is also Almighty, Omniscient, and Omnipresent. If Infinity were less than this, then no idea of the infinite would be possible because everything would be finite.
The Infinite Consciousness can be called Father since He is the Almighty Power that engenders all good systems. The Infinite Omniscience can be called the Word since His Infinite Set of Ideas constitutes the contents of the Infinite Consciousness. The Infinite Consciousness uses the Infinite Ideas to create all of His good systems. The Omnipresent Consciousness has to be absolutely everywhere, even beyond the limits of the universe, since if He were less than that, He would not be Infinite. John 1:1.
The finite mind cannot leap to the idea of the infinite. This feat is quite impossible. The Infinite must give this idea to the finite mind even though the finite mind cannot understand it. Like quantum mechanics, the finite mind knows many systems it cannot understand.
The Infinite Mind can create limited, good systems even though He transcends all such systems. The Infinite Mind limits His good systems by His use of the idea of nothing since the Infinite Mind must exclude; that is, consider to be equal to nothing, all ideas that do not work in a particular system that He creates. He never negates His ideas. He simply considers all excluded ideas to be equal to nothing as far as a particular system that He is creating is concerned. For example, when He created the very complex, good system called life; He excluded all ideas and systems that would poison life, such as carbon monoxide.
The Infinite must transcend all limitations. This fact means no thing can be added to it or subtracted from it. For this reason, the Infinite transcends the limited, good system called mathematics. Whenever a calculation results in a symbol for the infinite, then mathematics has exited the finite and has touched the Infinite. Whenever a calculation results in a symbol for the idea of nothing, which is zero, then mathematics has exited the finite and has touched on nothingness itself. In both cases, no further calculations are possible. But both cases also prove that the idea of the Infinite and the idea of nothing must be real; that is, in actual existence. For these reasons, no such thing as an infinite number can exist. Mathematics constitutes a finite system that subsists between the idea of nothing and the Infinite.
The Infinite Mind gave two basic ideas to the finite mind that predicates reality; that is, the idea of nothing and the idea of something. The symbol for the idea of nothing is zero. The symbol for the idea of something is the number one since a one can be considered the unity of all being; that is, every limited system and idea that actually exists. But as far as the details of reality are concerned, the finite mind also holds the power to divide the idea of something into particular, basic ideas that it can use to create systems, and it also holds the power to use the idea of nothing to exclude all ideas which will not work in any particular system that it is in the process of creating. The finite mind can also use the idea of nothing to indicate nonexistence itself. The ideas of something and nothing form the basis of the finite reality.
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