The skeptics believe that there can be no certain knowledge. One cannot trust even one's own senses that has been objectified by consciousness to be real and certain because even the same experiences can be different for different persons according to conditions. A healthy person with normal taste buds will taste honey as being sweet, but a sick person many taste honey as being bitter. A person close to a tower many view it as being square, but a person who views it from a distance may see it as being round. Skeptics contend that because different experiences can obtain under the same conditions, then no one can ever be certain that anything can be real in the way it is experienced.
But a way can be found that will counter these skeptics' arguments. Experiences are always real exactly as they are experienced. Whether experiences are direct through the senses or abstract ideas in the mind, both are equally real. Abstract ideas can be gained through the senses or be given directly to the mind. In both cases, they are always certain and real. The idea of infinity has never been experienced through the senses, nevertheless, this idea, like all other such ideas, can only be certain and real.
The reason that all experiences and ideas can only be certain and real is that consciousness happens to be the only power, the only engine, of the universe that can establish reality. Only consciousness can tell the difference between something and nothing. Some have argued that consciousness is not real, and therefore, all of reality is but an illusion. But if reality is but an illusion, it nevertheless can only be a real illusion because those are the only experiences that the mind can have. In fact, it is quite impossible for the mind to have any experience which is not real because the mind establishes reality and nothing else. In addition, reality can only be certain and real because human consciousness can invent and construct true combinations of real experiences and ideas that produce desired results such as happiness, justice, and machines that produce a desired result. Illusions never produce desired results except as fictional characters such as fairies and unicorns.
All of reality consists of true combinations of real and certain experiences and ideas that produce desired results, and also false combinations of real and certain experiences and ideas that fail to produce any desired results. This fact happens to be a universal truth. For example, the false mathematical combination that is 2+3=6 produces no desired result and actually equals nothing indicated by the real and useful idea of nothing. Nevertheless, every number and sign in this false combination is certain and real. This simple example happens to be true of all false combinations in reality.
All of reality consists of true and real combinations of ideas and experiences and false combinations of true and real ideas and experiences. Mathematics demonstrates this truth. All of mathematics consists of true combinations of real numbers and false combinations of real numbers. But in both cases, all of the signs and numbers are certain and real.
Unicorns do not exist, but horses and horns do exist in reality. Unicorns only non-exist as a false combination of real horns and horses. The same is true of all false combinations in reality.
A sick person may taste honey as being bitter, but all of the germs or chemicals that cause the sickness are real which makes the bitter taste of the honey real even though it all is but a false combination. The false combination happens to be the sick person's disordered mind caused by real germs or chemicals that cause the sick person to have a real taste of bitter when that person tastes real honey. In other words, such a false combination happens to be exactly like all false combinations in mathematics.
If a person observes a square tower to be round from a distance, that false combination happens because the distance, which is real, causes the shape of the tower, which is a real, to be vague, which is a real idea, which in turn causes the person to see the distant tower as being round, also a real idea supplied by the mind. Whenever there happens to be a hole in reality, the mind always fills it with a real idea.
If a person observes a straight spoon that appears to be bent in a glass of water, that false combination happens because light, which is real, reflects, which is real, off the water in such a way as to cause the spoon to appear, which is real, to the observer as being bent, which is a real idea supplied by the mind. All false combinations in reality consists of true and real experiences and ideas.
In fact, the mind cannot experience anything except that which is true and real whether concrete or abstract. Reality can only be established by consciousness. The mind never experiences that which is not real. Just as the mind can make mistakes in arithmetic, the mind can construct false combinations of true and real ideas and experiences.
This means that whenever a skeptic tells a realist that she can never be certain that her experiences and ideas are certain and real, that realist can reply that she can be certain that all of her experiences and ideas are true and real whether they occur in true or false combinations.
Since consciousness happens to be necessary for reality to exist in the universe, and absolutely nothing can happen without reality, then consciousness has had to exist in all of eternity. An Infinite Consciousness must exist. Genesis 1:1.
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Arguments against the Skeptics
Monday, June 20, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 39-47 continued
Jesus rebuked these unbelievers because they had seen the love and compassion that their Father had for them in the miracles that Jesus did, and yet, they refused to believe in Jesus as their God and Savior. Jesus exposed their evil natures to them when He told them that they will often believe in fake teachers and ignore their true God. To this day, humans will often readily honor crackpot, religious leaders instead of returning to faith in Christ their Savior.
Jesus informed these unbelievers that He would not accuse them to His Father. Jesus' statement agreed with His teaching that He would not judge the world while He was in the world. John 12:46-47. Jesus took the judgment of the whole world on Himself on a cross while He was in the world, and He reserved His final judgments to the end of the world. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9. Jesus did this so He could judge by the use of His fiery wrath against evil in order to dissolve all human systems and separate the spiritual deaths of all living humans from their repentant, spiritual lives that He had created and loves. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13. Jesus came to utterly destroy all of the evil works of the Devil, not living humans whom He creates and loves. I John 3:8; John 12:31-32.
But Jesus did inform these unbelievers that Moses would accuse them to His Father. Evidently, when God resurrects them, Moses will rebuke these unbelievers before God because they failed to believe Moses' prophecy that Jesus would be their Messiah and Savior. Jesus lightly rebuked these unbelievers because they did not believe Moses' writings about Him. Deuteronomy 18:15-19.
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 39-47
Jesus then began to preach that the scriptures testify that He is God and their Savior. Jesus knew that these unbelievers would not come to Him for salvation and that knowledge seemed to grieve Him.
When Jesus said that He did not receive honor from men, He did not contradict that which He said in verse 23. Jesus simply meant that He would not receive human honors such as being called merely a good teacher or a prophet. Jesus insisted that humans must honor Him as being God and their Savior.
When Jesus told these unbelievers that they could not believe because they had no love for God in them, He meant that they had allowed their evil natures to suppress the love for God that He had put into them when He created them to the extent that they could not have enough spiritual discernment to be able to recognize Him as their God and Savior. God will allow the Devil to do his worst to humans, but God will never allow the Devil to make evil so strong that it will annul the good, spiritual nature that God has put into every human. Job 1:12; Job 2:6. God's Love nailed Him to a cross to prevent the Devil from ever being able to annul the spiritual nature of any human. Hebrews 2:9. Any eternal spiritual death that could annul spiritual life, Jesus suffered on the cross, but being totally innocent, spiritual death could not hold Him in the grave. Should the Devil ever be able to annul the spiritual life of any human, then that event would be a subtraction from God's creations and that can never happen. Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Since the Devil has injected spiritual death into every human, most humans have allowed their evil natures to dominate their spiritual natures. Romans 1:18-23. But God knows how to cause every living human to return to faith in Him of their own free will that lies latent in their good natures and that will prove beyond all doubt that His Love is real and that it always wins. The Devil has wagered that he can somehow cause God's Love to fail. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 15:22.
Friday, June 17, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 37-38
Jesus preached that His Father had borne witness that He is God. Jesus preached to unbelievers when He said that they had never heard the Father or seen His shape. Some believers have heard the Father and have seen His shape. Moses heard the Father, and he saw His shape, but no believer has ever seen the face of God the Father. Exodus 33:18-23; John 1:18.
Jesus further preached to these unbelievers that they could not believe that He was God because they did not have the ability to hear God's Word within their inner natures. Jesus meant that they possessed more of a material nature than a spiritual nature. They all had a spiritual nature because God creates every human in His image, but all these unbelievers had allowed the spiritual deaths that the Devil had injected into them to take power over their spiritual natures. Very few humans with a predominantly material nature ever become saved by God's grace. But Thomas was one of these. John 20:24-29. Believers who become saved by grace possess a spiritual nature that God can cause to overcome their material natures when they put their faith in Christ. John 10:26-27.
The Bible (KJB) teaches that God creates every human to be His servants and to accomplish His Will. Psalm 119:89-91. God creates most humans in a manner that causes their material natures to predominate over their spiritual natures, but He also creates some humans whose spiritual natures will gain power over their spiritual deaths and allow them to trust in Christ as their Savior while they are still alive in the flesh. But their spiritual natures, being only a limited copy of God's image, cannot be good enough for God to accept them into Heaven, and He desires that they live with Him forever. So God recreates their spiritual natures by giving them the perfect, spiritual nature of Christ Himself by which He can accept them to live with Him in Heaven forever. II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:21; II Corinthians 3:17-18; Romans 8:14-17.
God has created the entire human race to accomplish His Will and manifest His Glory. Romans 9:14-24. This fact can only mean that God has determined to have mercy on the entire human race because they all will accomplish His Will, and He will cause them all to return to faith in Him of their own free will. God's Love is Almighty. I Corinthians 13:8. God will prove that no matter what the Devil does to the human race, he will never be able to cause any living human that God has created to ever curse God to the extent that they become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever. God will cause all humans not saved by grace to someday repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will which will prove that God's Love is real. Revelation 5:11-14. Even humans who have cursed God will someday repent because they do not possess the inner power necessary to ever abrogate their spiritual natures even though the Devil continuously attempts to force that power into them.
The entire book of Job relates about God's provision of a higher and a lesser form of salvation for the whole human race. In the end of the book of Job, God commands Job to offer burnt offerings for his uncaring friends. The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolize God's lesser form of salvation for all living humans who do not obtain salvation by His grace. In the end of the world, God will resurrect all repentant, living humans for Him to recreate to live forever on His new earth. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Job 42:7-9; Job 2:9; John 5:28-29; Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Isaiah 45:20-25; Revelation 21:1-5.
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verse 36
Jesus then preached that the miracles that His Father had given Him to do bore an exact witness from Himself that He was God in human form. But there had to be a difference between Jesus' miracles and those of the prophets because some of them had done most of the miracles that Jesus did including raising the dead back to life. The difference had to be that Jesus said that He came "to finish" the works that His Father gave Him to do. The Father's salvation of the human race could not be finished until Jesus rose from the dead. When Jesus died on the cross He said, "It is finished." John 19:30. Jesus also preached to His disciples that He had "finished the work" that His Father had given Him to do. John 17:4. Jesus proclaimed these prophecies before He was resurrected which finished His work. But God's Word is an eternal Word which means that God had finished all of His creative acts from the foundation of the world, and God has also just begun all of His creative acts. In eternity, everything has just begun, and everything has already been finished. In eternity, everything that begins ends something, and everything that ends begins something new. For that reason, God has divided eternity into different Ages. Hebrews 4:3; Revelation 1:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14-15. The Pharisees knew that Jesus claimed that He would rise from the dead, and when He did, they should have believed that Jesus was God because no prophet ever raised himself from the dead. Matthew 27:62-63.
Monday, June 13, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 33-35
Jesus then changed the aim of His sermon, and He began to preach about all of the various witnesses to the fact that He was God. Jesus preached that most of the Jews believed that John the Baptist was a prophet, and since prophets can only preach the truth, then they should have believed John when he preached that Jesus was their God and Savior. When Jesus taught that, "I receive not testimony from man," He meant that He did not desire that humans try to prove that He is God by any form of human reasoning. Jesus meant that humans who believe should preach the gospel to bring humans to faith that He is God and their Savior. The Bible (KJB) offers a witness that God exists, but it never offers a proof. If God provided a proof of His existence in His Word, that proof would abrogate free will. Christ desires that living humans choose to repent and believe in Him through the spiritual power of the Holy Spirit who preaches His Word. God will cause all living humans to repent and believe in the Lamb of God of their own free will which will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that His Almighty Love is true and real and that He has not programed His creations to believe. The Devil accused God of having programed Job to believe, but God allowed the Devil to do his worst to Job because God knew that Job would always choose to adhere to the faith that God had put into him when He created him. This exchange between God and Satan symbolically illustrates the entire history of the human race. Job 1:7-12. God's Love cannot fail. I Corinthians 13:8. God knows that the faith and free will that He has put into every human that He ever creates will cause all living humans to return to repentance and love for the Lamb of their own free will. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. God even allowed humans to put flaws in His Word to give humans a fair reason to disbelieve. Hebrews 8:7-13; Ezekiel 20:25.
The Holy Spirit alone preaches the gospel to humans and causes them to become saved by grace. John 1:9. But God also allows believers inspired by the Holy Spirit to preach His gospel so that living humans will hear the Holy Spirit and become saved. God desires to give rewards to his witnesses who obey Him. But if a believer disobeys God when He tells him to witness to a person or group of persons, that does not mean that some of them may be lost forever. God knows every believer who will become saved by grace. Ephesians 1:4-6. God will simply cause those persons to become saved by His grace in another way. John the Baptist's "light," symbolic of the Holy Spirit, would save living human by God's grace, not his preaching. But Jesus again preached past these unbelievers to those who would read the gospel of John.
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 30-32
Jesus continued His sermon by telling these unbelievers that if He were merely an ordinary human He could not do the miracles which they saw. Jesus preached past these unbelievers to the future readers of His Gospel who would possess strong spiritual natures with the ability to repent and become saved by His grace.
Jesus further taught that He would make only the judgments while He was on the earth that He heard from His Father. Jesus' judgments while He was on the earth had to be just, and He never told any living human that God would cast that person into an eternal lake of fire. Jesus did teach that God would cast their "worms" into the lake of fire, but He used that word in the same symbolic sense that Isaiah used it to mean the dead, spiritual nature of humans. Isaiah wrote that resurrected living humans would be able to see their own "worms" in the lake of fire. Mark 9:44,46,48; Isaiah 66:22-24. One of the judgments that Jesus made happened when He told an unbelieving Pharisee that he would be rewarded for his good works "at the resurrection of the just." Jesus could only have meant that He would resurrect that Pharisee's living image of God within him in the end of the world. Luke 14:12-15; John 5:28-29. Jesus also told a group of unbelieving Pharisees that "the Kingdom of God is within you" by which He could only have meant that they possessed the living image of God that He put into them when He created them. Luke 17:20-21. Jesus clearly taught that He would make no final judgments until the end of the world, and those final judgments are exactly described in Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5, and Revelation 20:11-15.
Jesus further preached that He could only do the Will of His Father, and every human could see God's Will being done through Jesus. Jesus taught that if He were an ordinary human, then whatever He said about Himself being God could not be true, but that which He said about Himself had to be true because His Father had provided the evidence that Jesus was God by the miracles that Jesus was able to do.
Friday, June 10, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 20-29 continued
The Jews correctly believed that God is the source of all life, and Jesus claimed that His Father had given Him that same source of life. In this statement, Jesus made an unquestionable claim that He is God. Jesus claimed to be Life itself. God is Truth, Love, and Life itself. John 14:6. God created man in His own image which means He gives humans a limited copy of His own love, righteousness, faith, and life. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8.
The Father has given to His Son the authority to execute all judgments. Jesus taught that He will make no final judgments until the end of the world. John 12:47-48. Jesus clearly taught that He would make no judgments of unbelievers while He was still in the world. This fact can only mean that all of Jesus' judgments prior to His final judgment can only be temporary. Hebrews 9:27. Jesus taught that He would only make a final judgment of unbelievers in the end of the world. Revelation 20:11-15 exactly describes that judgment. Jesus will cast only the unbelievers; that is, the spiritual dead separated from every living human by God's fiery wrath, into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:11-15. Since God can never lose anything He has ever created, and since He has promised "to make all things new," then God must cause all living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-4; Revelation 21:1-5. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every system to separate their repentant, living natures for Him to recreate from their evil, dead natures that He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; John 5:28-29; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5. Just prior to Christ's final judgment, He will raise all repentant, living humans from the dead for Him to recreate in soul, spirit, and body to live forever on his recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Luke 20:38; Revelation 21:1-5; I Timothy 6:13.
Jesus then returned to a better explanation of His prophecy in verse 25. Jesus said that "the hour is coming" in both verses which can only mean that He will effect a general resurrection of the living and the dead in the end of the world. II Timothy 4:1; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43. Jesus prophesied that "all that are in the graves shall hear His voice." This prophecy can only refer to a general resurrection in the end of the world because all of the saints saved by grace God will have already resurrected which are: the resurrection of the Old Testament saints, the coming resurrection of the New Testament saints, and the coming resurrection of the Tribulation saints. Matthew 27:52-53; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:4.
Jesus further prophesied that He will resurrect back to life all living humans who have done some good. Jesus could not have been speaking about any resurrection of saints saved by grace because God does not resurrect these saints because of their good works. God resurrects them only because they are in a state of grace. Christ will raise back to life even the most evil and rebellious humans because they all will repent and believe in the Lamb. Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 68:18; Psalm 107:10-15. All living humans have done some good no matter how evil they may be. Jesus has promised that He will reward even the least good work that any living human has done. Matthew 10:42; Revelation 22:11-12. But evil humans possess a small, living nature whom Christ will resurrect with few rewards and a restricted life on His new earth. John 12:25. No living human can ever become totally evil because God will not allow that to happen. In that case, God would lose a part of His good creations, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Jesus also prophesied that He will cast all of the separated, evil natures of all humans in this final resurrection into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:11-12.
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 20-29 continued
Jesus then taught that a person could honor Him and His Father with faith while still alive in the flesh. Jesus proclaimed that if a person believes His Word and believes in His Father, then that person will know that Jesus is God and that person will immediately receive everlasting life from God. That person will never come to a place of condemnation by Christ. Romans 8:1. When that person saved by grace physically dies and faces Christ in judgment, Christ will never cast the soul and spirit of that person into any region of death because that person will possess the everlasting life of Christ Himself in their soul and spirit. Hebrews 9:27; Romans 8:10; II Corinthians 5:21. Any person saved by grace will be as acceptable to God as Jesus Himself happens to be. Romans 8:17. Jesus' exclamation that a believer "is passed from death unto life" can only mean that Jesus will annul that believer's spiritual death inside of them and replace it with His very own everlasting life the moment that person believes. In other words, that believer will be "born of the Spirit" and will belong to Christ forever. John 3:5-6; I Corinthians 12:13; John 10:27-30. Believers saved by grace immediately become saved forever with no water baptism or any other religious ceremony or any good works being necessary. Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 11:29.
Jesus' teaching in the next verse has a double meaning as does many other scriptures. Jesus taught that a time will come, and a time is present, when the dead will hear Jesus' Word and believe and live. Jesus put a double meaning to that which He taught. Jesus' first meaning was that those who believe His Word while still alive in the flesh will pass from spiritual death to everlasting life which is His life. Colossians 3:4; John 5:24.
Jesus' second meaning happened to be a prophecy that a time will come when all those who are still dead will hear His voice, believe in Him as the Lamb of God, and they will repent and be saved with a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. Jesus' prophecy will be fulfilled when He appears in all His Glory to all living humans on the earth and under the earth within the regions of the dead. By the force of His Majesty and Glory, He will cause all of the dead humans at that time to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God of their own free will. Revelation 5:11-14. Because they will come to faith in Christ's sacrifice to save them from eternal death, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their systems in order to separate their living souls and spirits from their eternal, spiritual deaths. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3. Christ will forgive them all, cleanse them of all their sins and evil by the use of His fiery wrath, and He will resurrect them all and recreate them in spirit, soul, and body to live forever on His new earth. All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this form of salvation. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15. Christ will then cast their separated, dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15.
I Corinthians 3:11-15 describes God's salvation by the use of His fiery wrath. These verses relate about "any man" and "every man's" good works and evil works. These verses cannot relate about any human saved by grace because their good works have nothing to do with their salvation. God will burn the evil works of "any man," and He will reward him for his good works. Revelation 22:11-12. God will save all the lives of "every man" by the use of His fiery wrath. These verses cannot pertain to anyone saved by grace because they can only become saved by being washed clean by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross and by His resurrection from the dead, never by God's fiery wrath. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul revealed that God has a lesser form of salvation. I Corinthians 3:11-15. In I Corinthians 3:16, the Apostle Paul returns to a discussion about humans saved by grace. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Peter also wrote about God's salvation by the use of His fiery wrath. II Peter 3:9-13.
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 20-29 continued
When Jesus taught that His Father judges no man, He meant that His Father had committed all final judgments to His Son. Jesus makes no final judgments until the end of the world. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. The Father often judged humans in the Old Testament with His fiery wrath against evil, or He used the Israeli army to destroy evil people in order to eliminate some of the lasting effects of evil in His world. God judged evil in order to shorten His work in the world. Romans 9:28. If God had not shortened His work in the world by purging evil from it, then human suffering would have lasted much longer, and God would have had to cast many more people into the regions of death. All of God's judgments in the Old Testament were only temporary. Christ's judgments of living humans immediately following their physical deaths are also only temporary. Hebrews 9:27. God means to permanently purge all spiritual deaths with all of its sins from every living human whom He has created in His image and preserve them all forever. Hebrews 2:9; Psalm 36:6. God will save some by His grace, and all others in a great worship service just prior to His final judgment. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14. In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath to dissolve every human system consigned to one of the three regions of death in order to permanently separate their repentant, living natures from their evil natures so that He can recreate their cleansed, living natures to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead, evil natures into the lake of fire. II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15. God can never lose anything He has ever created, including the lives of all humans. Everything that an Almighty God creates can only last forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 36:6; Genesis 3:20-21; Luke 20:38; Revelation 21:5; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 11:36; Psalm 111:7-8.
When Jesus proclaimed that all humans should honor the Son to the same extent that they honor the Father, He undoubtedly claimed to be God. When Jesus taught "That all men should honor the Son," He meant that they all had a choice in this matter. But the Bible (KJB) also teaches that God desires to save every living human. II Peter 3:9. No scripture exists within the entire Bible that teaches that the will of humans can countermand the Will of God. But God has provided scriptures which teach that an Almighty God can certainly devise a plan that will cause all living humans that He ever created to repent and believe in His Son of their own free will. Isaiah 45:20-25; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 86:9; II Peter 3:9; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 13:8. Since God's Love can never fail, then He certainly cannot fail to save every living human whom He loves. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Jesus actually prophesied in this verse that eventually all living humans will honor the Son to the same extent that they will honor the Father. John 5:23.
Monday, June 6, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 20-29
Jesus softened His tone toward these unbelievers, and He began to preach to them to give them reasons why He was God. Jesus knew that they would not come to faith in Him, but He also knew that His Apostle John would later write down His words for those in the future who would come to faith in Him.
Because Jesus preached to unbelievers, He directed His sermon to God's relationship with the entire human race and not just to believers. Jesus told them that His Father loved Him and that He could do anything His Father could do and that they would see Him do even greater miracles than His healing of the impotent man. He said they would all "marvel" at His miracles, and yet, they would not believe.
Jesus preached about the Power of His Father to do miracles, and His own Power to do miracles. Since He had already claimed to be God, then His miracles and His Father's miracles had to be the same. Jesus preached that His Father had the Power to raise the dead back to life and that He had that same Power. When Jesus said this, He had to have meant every human who ever lived because every human possesses both spiritual life given to them by God, and spiritual death within their inner beings that has been injected into them by the Devil. All humans also physically die. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14. Both Jesus and the Apostle Paul often spoke about dead believers saved by grace as being merely asleep, not physically dead. John 11:11; I Thessalonians 4:13-15. Jesus even said that believers saved by grace would never die, by which He only could have meant that they would fall asleep. John 11:26. In addition, the Apostle Paul prophesied that a particular time and day will come when Christ will judge both the living and the dead. This prophecy can only mean that Christ will raise all living humans who failed to obtain salvation by grace because He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him of their own free will. II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5. In this same verse, Jesus preached that he had the Power to abolish the inner death and restore to life anyone who believed in Him while still alive in the flesh. John 5:21. God must consign every living human who fails to obtain salvation by grace to one of the regions of death when they physically die. Hebrews 9:27. Christ may rebuke believers saved by grace for their unrepentant sins, but He will always allow their souls and spirits to go straight to Heaven. II Corinthians 5:5-10. But because God can never lose anything He has ever created and because He has abolished death itself and because every living human has to be alive to Him forever, He will cause every living human confined to one of the regions of death to repent and believe in the Lamb of their own free will, and He will raise them all back to life for Him to recreate in soul, spirit, and body to live forever on His recreated earth. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; Luke 20:38; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 16-19
The unbelieving Jews persecuted Jesus by threatening to kill Him, probably by stoning Him to death, simply because He had healed the impotent man on the Sabbath. They threatened Jesus with immediate death many times in His ministry, but His Father always protected Him until the time came for Him to go to the cross. If they had stoned Jesus, or thrown Him off a cliff, the Romans probably would not have cared. But when those who hated Jesus finally arrested Him and sentenced Him to death, they ignored their own law and turned Him over to the Romans to be crucified because they wanted to humiliate Him and cause Him to suffer in the most horrible way possible.
Jesus did not back down from them. In fact, He gave them an even better reason for their desire to kill Him. Jesus told them that He could do the same good works that His Father could do. Since there happens to be only one God, then these unbelieving Jews understood perfectly that Jesus claimed to be God. Jesus' claim enraged these unbelievers even more, but they could not hurt Jesus because He used His great power to neutralize their wills to do so.
Jesus must have enjoyed watching them become even more enraged, and yet impotent in their wills to stone Him because He doubled His claim to be God. Jesus told them that He could see everything that His Father did and that He could do everything that His Father did. One can only imagine how enraged they became after Jesus said that, and yet, they were not able to pick up any stones to throw at Him. One wonders why they did not ask themselves why they were not able to stone Jesus.
Friday, June 3, 2022
Commentary on the Gospel of John
Chapter Five
Verses 1-15
Jesus went to Jerusalem to observe one of the Jew's feasts. Jesus found a man who was at least partially paralyzed who had been lying beside a pool called Bethesda for 38 years hoping that someone would put him into the water first because an angel who troubled the water from time to time healed anyone who first entered the water. Jesus asked the man if he desired to be healed. Jesus already knew that the man desired to be healed, but He asked him that question in order to evoke some faith in this man when he answered Jesus. The impotent man revealed that he had some faith that God would heal him. When Jesus heard him express his faith, then Jesus told him to "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." Jesus immediately healed him, and he took up his bed and walked on the Sabbath day.
Some of the Jews saw him and rebuked him for carrying his bed on the Sabbath. By his answer to them, the healed man demonstrated that his faith had increased and that he now directed his faith toward Jesus. This man now believed that if the man that healed him could tell him to take up his bed and walk on the Sabbath, then that man must have some authority over the Sabbath, and therefore, must have been sent from God. The Jews then asked the healed man who had healed him. The man answered that he did not know Jesus or his name. A little later, Jesus found him in the Temple where he had evidently gone to worship God for his healing. Jesus told him that He had made him whole which could only mean that He had also saved him by His grace. Jesus also commanded this man to stay out of sin and warned him that sin causes great pain and suffering. This man then demonstrated his new faith in Jesus because he felt compelled to go and tell the Jews that Jesus had made him whole.
Faith in Christ for salvation by grace can come suddenly and unexpectedly on a person as it did with Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. But faith in Christ as one's Savior can also develop gradually as it did with the woman at the well and with the impotent man whom Jesus healed. Jesus knows every one of His sheep that He saves by His grace. He cannot lose a single one of them. They all chose to become saved by His grace when He planned the history of mankind before He ever created the world. John 10:26-30; I Corinthians 2:7; Acts 15:18; II Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 4:3. For these reasons, Christ proceeded to save by His grace all living humans whose faith was growing, but who could not come to a full understanding of how He saves them through His sacrifice and resurrection for them. Before His crucifixion and resurrection, Christ saved by His grace all living humans who had some subdued faith in Him because He knew that He would visit them in Paradise under the earth where they all would be. He would preach the gospel to them so that they all would come to complete faith in how He saved them so that He could translate them all to Heaven when He ascended. Ephesians 4:7-10.