WHAT IS MAN - Part 2 of 2

 The last commentary sought the idea of What is man? There seems to have been three branches of man: (1) Adam, (2) Ish, and (3) Enosh.  Glorious man, Adam, had soon devolved into Ish then Enosh. A man when from a person of God to a person of Satan (John 8:44) as Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12). Because of devolution the genetic “father” of all mankind is from the “Beast” — the creeping thing (Remes, Gen 1:26).

Remes would be the highest state of the beasts — a modern-man look-alike but without a soul. In other words, modern, common man would have gotten his appearance from some beast, not a truly thing that creeps but a lower state of man. As such, due to sin glorious man has by now devolved to a lower state like the original Beast, “for all have sinned and came short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). We come far short of the first man made from the Glory of God.

What is the “glory of God”?

“The heavens declare the Glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork” (Psalm 19:1), according to King David.

There is much debate as to the meaning of firmament, so to understand the Glory of God, the firmament must be explored.

God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters” (Gen 1:6). Therefore, the firmament (raqiaʿ; רָקִיעַ) reveals the work of God.

From right to left, the letter resh is “head” or first things — the emergence of order; the stars and such. Symbolically, and maybe even actually, stars represent angels, “The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches” (Rev 1:20).

Lucifer was the “morning star” falling from heaven. (Isa 14:12-14). Hence, Lucifer was the first “star” emerging from heaven on the second “day”. Day has nothing to do with time but “hotness”, or processes ( (Strong 2006). Hence, a “day” in the English would have been the emergence of order in order from the beginning until God rested.

Lucifer would not be the head, for God was the “Head” in the beginning, but a lower state of God; not a true “God” but a being of a somewhat lower state, as is written:

What is man (enosh), that You are mindful of him? and the Son of Man (Adam), that You visit Him? for You have made Him a little lower than the angels and have crowned Him with glory and honor. You made Him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under His feet. (Psalm 8:4-6)

That notion applied to both the common, mortal man — Enosh and to Jesus, the “Son of Man.” First off, Jesus was the “last Adam” not in a mortal sense but spiritual, as the Son of God (1 Cor 15:45). Jesus was manifested as a sinless creature like common man, but His death and resurrection made Him glorious man. Death glorified the common man Jesus and His flesh became glorified and of a very different substance. In a manner of speaking, Jesus was the last Adam whose genetics would multiply His divine Kind.

Both enosh and adamic kind were a little lower than the angelic kingdom. Adam’s kind would have had flesh like angels and enosh kind an even lower state of existence, angels with mortal flesh. They were lower states because angels were part of the firmament and mankind came later, not in time but states. That man was created in “our image” (elohim; Gen 1:26), elohim — the Light of God — would have been in the angelic kingdom as well, but as scripture reveals, angels are phantom beings this side of the firmament.

Hence, the first things first idea (resh) should now be somewhat understood.

The next letter in the word translated “firmament” is the qof — a hidden dimension beyond observable reality, to wit, “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead” (Rom 1:20). Hence, the firmament consists of both things that are seen and things that are unseen — the “division of the waters from the waters” (Gen 1:6). There would be two realms each with their own “waters” (mem; מ/ם). The word for water (mayim), can represent the "waters of wisdom" or "springs of understanding". 

The letter “mem” appears in two forms: the open Mem (מ) either at the beginning or middle of words, representing revealed wisdom, and the closed final Mem (ם) at the end, representing hidden, divine mysteries. Hence, both revealed and hidden wisdom, or intellect, was made manifest to man as a second state of construction. (Keep the letter mem in mind as the name, “Adam”, is discussed.

So far, only the resh and qof of the “firmament” (raqiaʿ; רָקִיעַ) have been discussed. Keep in mind that the firmament is the Glory of God, or the things that He has made.

The third letter of raqia’ is the letter yod. Sort of like a comma, or an arm and hand above the base line, yod implies the “handiwork” of God just as King David wrote in the aforementioned psalm. Yod, the ancients have said, began with a point and expanded to the highest of all the letters, as in the “Most High God”. Beginning with a point — the first spark of reality — real things, both visible and invisible — would have expanded; hence the Creation would have been that expansion, Elohim, of God, El. (Note the letter mem does not mean plural but expansion of the knowledge of God, or “virtue”.)

Lastly comes the letter ayin in raqia’ indicates perception from the standpoint of observation. Originally, as the letter qof indicates, all the firmament — the seen and unseen — could be perceived by those with perception — beasts of all types.

All things, both the visible and invisible, are the firmament and its Existence the “Glory of God”.

Before the Hubble telescope revealed only the visible things of the cosmos, but more was hidden than revealed. With data from the James Watt Space Telescope (JWST), using special filters, even unseen things have now been revealed. Together as the cameras of the JWST reveal, the cosmos would be the Substance of the Glory of God, consisting both of matter that was revealed and matter that has been hidden since the beginning. Indeed, men have become as gods (Gen 3:5).

Hence, the “glory” is the creation — both the seen and unseen. After Jesus was crucified, He would be like Adam — glorified (1 John 7:39) and could perceive and even exist in two realms at once. Indeed, Jesus is “Immanuel” — “God With Us” in both realms.

“Glorification” is a higher state than common mortality; glorified men could see into the heavens, just as the woman of Adam’s kind remarked:

 

Then Adam, when he heard the Word of God, and the fluttering of the angels whom he did not see, but only heard the sound of them with his ears, he and Eve wept, and said to the angels:--  "O Spirits, who wait upon God, look upon me, and upon my being unable to see you! For when I was in my former bright nature, then I could see you. I sang praises as you do; and my heart was far above you.  "But now, that I have transgressed, that bright nature is gone from me, and I am come to this miserable state. And now am I come to this, that I cannot see you, and you do not serve me As you were wont. For I am become animal flesh.  "Yet now O angels of God, ask God with me, to restore me to that wherein I was formerly; to rescue me from this misery, and to remove from me the sentence of death He passed upon me, for having trespassed against Him." Then, when the angels heard these words, they all grieved over him; and cursed Satan who had beguiled Adam, until he came from the garden to misery; from life to death; from peace to trouble; and from gladness to a strange (dark) land. (1 Adam & Eve 55:2-6) 

The Bible corresponds with that; “The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked” (Gen 3:7). They were still in the Garden at that time. Nakedness therein would not be naked flesh but seeing things both seen and unseen — transparency.

Glorification is therefore the ability to see things that were not seen before, implying that heaven is not a distant place but wholeness as the letter qof indicates before time ever began. Glorification of the common man, Enosh, would be existence in a higher state than just this lower state of life.

Adam was most certainly glorious man “in earth as in heaven” (Mat 6:1) as the prayer goes.

“Made whole” in the Bible would be made glorious again in the manner of Adam, having the ability to perceive both seen and unseen things from the perspective of here.

So, what is man? Enosh is common, mortal man but the “Son (genetics) of man” (Adam) would be a higher state than common man but lower than the state of angels.

Adam is the proto-man patterned after God, El. He was of Elohim — the Glory of God flowing like living water. Adam is often spelled הָאָדָם — “the Adam”… “the Man” as the first letter hey represents.

Now consider not just אָדָם (Adam) but הָאָדָם.

The first letter הָ means both breath and behold (from the pictograph of arms raised). God breathed life unto the man, Adam, and He was beheld as a man.

The aleph, or el, would indicate the El from Elohim — one particle (El) of Elohim would have been taken from God to create Adam. Elohim would have been the “quickening Spirit” of Jesus and Adam the living soul, El in him (1 Cor 15:45).

Next comes the letter dalet (דָ), the “Way” or entry into existence (space and matter). The El through the dalet comes into the bet. The letter bet is the House, or genetics of God, and then the Elohim expands again to fill the “house” of God, the man.

Recall the meaning of the letter mem from earlier? The letter “mem” appears in two forms: the open Mem (מ) either at the beginning or middle of words, representing revealed wisdom, and the closed final Mem (ם) at the end, representing hidden, divine mysteries. Hence, both revealed and hidden wisdom, or intellect, was made manifest to man as a second state of construction.

Proto-man Adam had intellect, having the revealed wisdom of God, or intellect.

In comparison, intellect and intelligence are very different. Whereas intelligence is the ability to learn, adapt, and apply knowledge, intellect is the capacity to reason in the abstract, deep thinking, and in- depth conceptualization. Whereas intelligence is most often functional and skill-based, intellect is more philosophical and theoretical. Adam was the first intellectual being, knowing even hidden mysteries, whereas Enosh-man lost that capacity. Adam was a higher state of being, and a glorious creature with the intellect of God within, not God, but “very good” (Gen 1:31). Thus, proto-man, Adam, was created with a good body of knowledge but without carnal knowledge (yada).

Beasts were instinctive and pro-created (yada) in the flesh. The creeping things would have been beasts in the order of man but not homo sapiens. Homo means earthling and sapien having knowledge, or intellect.

Whereas Adam was not an earthling but godly, he had intellect. Homo sapiens are human beings with wisdom, exercising their intellect. Hence, by definition common man is homo sapiens and worldly, whereas Adam’s kind would have been Theo sapiens with the intellect of God.

Somehow the worldliness got into proto-man’s kind, and most certainly from a lower state of man, one of the creeping things (Remes man). For instance, “Neanderthal” man came from the Neander Valley of Germany. Is that coincidence that a valley is a lower state of man and so was Neanderthals? (However, that may be pushing the coincidences too far!)

What is man? Depraved man Cain (Ish) — a wanderer like the beasts but with intellect. What is man? Enosh, a common depraved, mortal man without God in him who are the fools, lacking wisdom. What us Remes? A lower state of man that is instinctive like the other beasts without intellect but with knowledge enough to survive the world. What did God intend? Adamic man with both soul and intellect in the form of a man but without the faculties of the common beast — naked in the sense that they had genetics but no worldly flesh to be the vessel for it.

WHAT IS MAN

WHAT IS MAN THAT GOD IS MINDFUL OF US

 

Hidden in the word “man” in the Bible is a dichotomy. Whereas Adam represents the highest potential of mankind, Ish signifies a gender-specific or relational role, often used only after the creation of Eve.

Looking at the Hebrew words, Adam, therefore, is the highest state of man — immortal —while Ish is mortal man. Adam would be glorious man and Ish mortal. Adam was of God whereas Ish was of both the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) and from Isha, “Eve” — the mother (ame) of all living (khahee; Gen 3:20). Eve is giver of Life (khav-vaw), using the Hebrew pronunciations rather than spellings.

Hence, Eve took dominion (Gen 1:26) from Adam for herself, and she became the “god” just as the Serpent warned (Gen 3:5). Consider now the transition from man, Adam, and man, Ish; to wit:

Adam knew (yada) Eve his wife (Isha); and she conceived, and bare (yada) Cain (Qayin, kah'-yin), and said, I have gotten (qana; kaw-naw) a man (Ish) from the LORD. (Gen 4:1) 

First note that Adam watched (yada) his wife, not copulate with her.

Hence Adam was begotten by God, but Ish was begotten by Eve alone, or so she thought. Life itself (khav-vaw; Eve) became the God. [1]

Although Ish seems to have come from Isha, etymologically there is no connection except Eve as the mother of Cain, not fromthe Hebrew letters. Cain (Ish) was from the womb of the woman (Isha), Adam’s wife. Adam knew his wife (Isha) but not in a carnal sense it seems for Cain is of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

Written originally in the Greek, “wicked one” is simply poneros — annoyances. In science, annoyances are “quantum decoherence” — how quantum systems lose their fragile, super-positioned quantum behaviors (coherence) and transition to classical, definite states (decoherences).

In other words, Adam’s kind — in God’s system — lost their fragile state of gloriousness (immortality) which was super-positioned into classical, definite states (mortality). Hence, Cain came short of the glory of God and so have all of us common, mortal men (Rom 3:23).

Hence, Adam’s kind is glorious and Ish’s kind mortal and the most common. (Now that you understand that both Adam and Ish are Hebrew, the italics will be dropped).

The first use of Ish for “man” was after sin; albeit it came before sin in one instance:

Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called ‘Woman’, because she was taken out of Man.” (Gen 2:23)

The Spirit (El) of the woman was taken out of God through Adam. However, the woman was taken, not only out of God in Adam, but from the same substances. Adam would have been the soul (life) in the dust from which Adam was molded.

The Lord God formed man (Adam) of the dust of the ground (adama) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (af); and man became a living (khah-ee’) soul (napes). (Gen 2:7)

 

Adam, therefore, had three states: adam, af, and nehfes. After sin, the woman would have been in a lower state without nehfes — a creature without the breath of God.

In a manner, sin “suffocated” the El in her, and her state of existence lowered. The woman was still a living creature but without an inner existence within her. Her nehfes was most certainly traded for the flesh of a lower state of creature, not Adam’s, but the creeping kind, Remes.

If so, then Cain was half Remes (a creature-like man) and half Isha as the first letter qof in the name Qayin suggests.

The word “ayin” in the name “Qayin” also has significance.  The letter qof points toward the word ayin, from the characteristic of the eye. The ayin after the letter qof would be half observable and half not. That is common man, not totally depraved but depraved.

The root word for Ish (אִישׁ) is Enosh (אֱנוֹשׁ). Note than the yod in Ish (י) is replaced by the nun – vav (נו) in Enosh. Hence, Enosh would have come from Ish, not the other way around.

Yod (sounds as Ya) is the breath of God. That breath is removed and replaced by the nun -vav — the seed of a man as the meaning of those two letters. No longer, with the birth of Enos was man of God, but strictly of the seed of the beast, or the “wicked one” (nehfes). Cain’s line would indeed have been depraved, as the Hebrew letters indicate.

You might be thinking, He’s putting too much emphasis on the letters of the words, but each of those letters have the thoughts of God hidden within them. The Tankh (Bible) was written in Hebrew letters, not words; words come from the order and meanings of the letters.

In summary, we are far from being “sons of God” and after further degeneration after sin, Adam’s kind just disappeared from existence. No longer was Elohim in mankind but Remes — we are the “old creatures” of the New Testament (from 2 Cor 5:17), so humble yourselves and let the Lord lift you up to a higher state (Jas 4:10).

The psalmist wrote, “What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the Son of Man, that You visit Him?” (Psalm 8:4).  An attempt was made today to answer the question; Just what is man that God is mindful of us?

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Admitted in my last two books I mistook the letter chet for hey since they are much alike but with differfent sounds: “h” verses “ch” sounds.

 

THE SLOW DEATH OF THE CHURCH

Within the body of Christ — the Church — lives different kinds of doctrines; or as Paul wrote it, “We, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another” (Rom 12:5).

Now, think about that for a moment; if each one has, let’s say, a “particle” of Christ in them, together, in one accord (Acts 2:1) they are the “body of Christ”.

The Church is essentially a body made up of members just as the body of a person is made up of its members. If one limb is crippled the Church becomes a cripple.

A healthy Church goes unto the world; “Go you into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15) just as Jesus and the apostles did.

Sickness is no excuse to stay where it is comfortable. Your abode is your comfort zone and as such, your local church is very comfortable for you. Preachers preach mostly to believers, not all truth but whatever they feel comfortable hearing. Now, Church is more about it making the congregants comfortable, and the “Comforter” is often found in the back pew. People go to Church because somehow God calls them. That is not the only way. God calls members of His body to do His calling for Him!

The modern Church is crippled and full of malaise. For the most part, the overall Church body is sickly and weak. Your church organ may be blooming but at the expense of others dying. The heart of the Church is still pumping the virtue of Christ, but Christ Jesus has been drained from the blood of the Church as the data shows:

As of 2023-2024, about 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christian, a figure that has stabilized after years of decline, with 40% Protestant and 19% Catholic, while religiously unaffiliated ("nones") make up 29% of the population, according to Pew Research. (Smith 2025)

Gallup first asked about church membership in 1937, at which point 73% of Americans reported being members of a religious congregation. From the 1940s through the early 1970s, more than 90% of Americans identified with a Christian religion. Before the 1940s, approximately 95% or more of people who were raised Christian were still Christian later in life. (Gallup 2024)

 

The heartbeat of the Church body is shown in the following graph (ibid):

 

As the importance of the Church body goes down the insignificance increases. If that was even the body of critters heading toward extension, animal lovers would cry out. God lovers remain silent so long as their branch seems to have life in it.

Because the numbers are now increasing, it seems that albeit on its last leg, the Church is struggling to survive. How can life be pumped into a crippled, anemic Church?

To be a Church, the centroid of the Church — the “heart” must have life in it. Jesus Christ is the life of the Church. He is the Centroid of the body of believers; “I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by Me (John 14:6).

To be born again, a body must first die; die to the world to be born of the Spirit. The problem is that the Body of the Church is now pumped up on adrenalin of some sort, not so pumped up on Christ but the artificial organism of the Church; perhaps entertainment and positive thinking.

Just as Moses was not God but called the troopers to be part of a good thing, the same goes for modern churches.

Denominations are based on men: John Calvin, John Wesley, Martin Luther, Menno Simons, Jacob Arminius; not to forget others: Joseph Smith, Herbert Armstong, William Miller, Joseph Campbell, and Charles Taze Russell. Some women even pump up the body of the Church: Mother Ann Lee, Ellen G. White, and many others. Now even Joyce Meyers has put on a new face, even worse than Tammy Faye Baker.

No longer is the Church the body of Christ but wears a very false face. Too many wrong women are the face of the modern Church Body:

 

Rev. Megan Rohrer: First openly transgender bishop in a major denomination (ELCA), focusing on liberation and diversity.

Nikki Toyama-Szeto: Executive Director of Christians for Social Action, focused on justice and social engagement.

Shantha Ready Alonso: Catholic leader involved in environmental justice through faith.

Dr. Bernice King: Minister, attorney, and civil rights leader, daughter of MLK Jr.. (Graves-Fitzsimmon 2022)

 

Environmental justice is now the blood of the Church, but forgotten is the blood of Christ. Modern theologians have created a new Jesus, one who came physically to save the world, but not the people of the world. Environmentalism is a leading religion in these last days.

Social justice seems the way, but it is not. Recall now, the rich young man that sought heaven?

 

And behold, one came and said unto (Jesus), “Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

And (Jesus) said unto him, “Why call you Me good? There is none good but One, that is, God: but if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.”

He said unto him, “Which?”

Jesus said, you shall do no murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, honor your father and your mother and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The young man saith unto him, “All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?”

Jesus said unto him, “If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven, and come and follow Me” (Mat 19:16-21)

 

That young man was possessed by possessions (Mat 19:22). He had done all the good things that Christians were supposed to do, but he was lacking one thing — he would not give His possessions to follow Jesus. He was socially just but not faithful to Jesus. That rich young man was the face of social justice. Although he did not follow Jesus to become a member of the Church body, many modern era people follow both social justice and Jesus Christ. How can they do that? Being double-minded, they have created a new version of Christ!

The modern-era Christ is like a good dad that rowdy children step on, humiliate, and even deny is their real father. Indeed, the father of even many who call themselves “Christian” is the Devil (John 8:44). The father of that rich youngster would have been the Devil because it was another master whom he followed.

Now some things about the Devil. He is cunning (Gen 3:1) and a con artist. Con artists most often use the bait and switch method. Look at these good things, and then when the person is sold on good things, all the cunning salesman is to sell imitations of the real things.

The so-called “Serpent” was selling the idea that it was it was the “God”, but it was only god-like in its presentation. (Now forget the notion that the Serpent was a serpent, but just a cunning being whose countenance was like the Light of God, a false bringer of light, “Lucifer”.

The Serpent was selling godlikeness, but all the while, it was bestiality from the bosom of the  “Beast”.

In the same manner, modern preachers are as cunning; so many selling “software” as “hardware” for instance.

The hardware, or “boiler plate” of the Bible is that one must believe that Jesus is God in the flesh, as the crucifixion should have revealed to all.

Just a few saw the hardware — God in Jesus, and others the software (some just a man, and others like Mohammed who saw only the phantom existence of a man.)

Most who saw the crucifixion saw only a man, and all too often, modern people see Jesus as only a good man. They have merely been sold on the software version of the real divine Thing!

With Jesus as God, comes both the software and hardware versions of God, and the Acts is then the performance of the software version as good as the hardware.

The modern Church runs more the software version of Christ than the hardware. One is as significant as the other.

One member of the Church (social justice) sells only the hardware version of Christ — the man, Jesus; and another member of the body of Christ sell only he software version — the Holy Ghost, all the while forgetting the man, Jesus. The World Council of Churches sells only the goodness of the man while the apostolic churches mostly the Holy Ghost of the man.

Other members, not liking the real God having three substances, have created many gods each of one substance.

Joel Osteen, like the golden calf of old, has risen to become a god within himself; not called to preach but preaches anyhow. One woman in my acquaintance even said that Osteen saved her! Others sell the same idea, but only Jesus saves.

Jesus is the “salvation of God”. He is Yesua (salvation) called by name, a “jubilee” (50) of times in the Old Testament.

Yeshua is both incarnate God and the pre-incarnate Image of God — “The Angel of God”. The Jews followed both The Angel of God and the Spirit of God, but they refused to follow God’s hardware.

Their God is parts, but the whole God is all three substances of Him. Once they see the whole God, they too will be members of the Body of Christ (Rev 7 & 14).

To be a real member of the Body of Christ requires supra-vision; that Jesus in all three states of God come to the world as One True God.

So many members of the Body of Christ split God into fragments. Most often it is the sincere mention of “Jesus and God” as if they are distinctly different existences. The point therein is that too many in the Church cannot see God as He is but what they imagine Him to be. They see God on His throne and Jesus seated to the right and the Holy Ghost to the left. Not so… all three states of God are the godhead on the throne. That is the real God!

Not only was God torn apart at the crucifixion; that was the real agony of Christ, but His Heart has become weary.

Now, there are many gospels: the social gospel, the doctrinaire gospel, and the universal doctrine. The latter is that you can believe about anything and still go to heaven because mankind is just too important for a good God to punish them.

The social gospel puts works for the oppressed before Jesus, who was most oppressed. Many of them see Jesus as much like the capitalist that gave to the poor, using scripture about the rich young ruler. In their view, Jesus is a communist who was like Robin Hood, taking from some to provide for others without regard to who worked for it.

Jesus was no Robin Hood; He told the rich young ruler to do nothing more than follow Him. Way too many Christians follow their own hearts and not the Heart of Christianity, Jesus Christ.

One of the worst comes in beautiful packages; that the gift of grace comes for free in neat packages and although a beautiful gift, put it can be put away without use. That “software” version is Calvinism. Indeed, Calvinists preach a good gospel, but it is one of “cheap grace” — forgiveness without transformation. To be a real member of the Body of Christ, requires transformation from the old creature to the new one, or as Paul wrote it, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (1 Cor 5:17).

Now put on a true lens: closely look at the members of the Church body; do you see Christ in them or the world? Christ must be in you to become a member of the Body of Christ. How that comes about is debatable, but “transformation” means change. Hence, the Church body is much like the world.

Sin is genetic, and as sons of the Devil (John 8:44), we have the Devil within our genetics.

One popular young lady in her reel, ridiculed a preacher who said that he sensed the Devil and looked right at her.

She looked around for the Devil and saw nobody. How can that be? The old creature still resides in children of God who still sin. The Devil itself was not in the Church but came to church in her genome. The Devil is as real as God and both the Devil and God cannot be together within. As such, most of the members seem to serve two masters, and given time, they must choose one over the other (Mat 6:24).

Calvinists say that the grace of Christ is “irresistible”. However, Jesus said that of their own volition (free will) as Sovereign He gave them one choice — who of the two would master them in the world?

Calvinist doctrine espouses eternal security; that whatever you desire to do, you can do without penalty or consequences. Most reformed congregations live like the Devil while saying they love God. Jesus said that who is followed reveals the one that is loved: “If you love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15), implying that if you do not do what He commands, then there is no love for Him.

Love is often misconstrued. Love, in the doctrine of social justice, is providing money to the oppressed.

Rather, true love is providing the knowledge of Jesus for their eternal well-being. That is divine justice.

Like drug pushers push their god… drugs, Jesus pushers must push their love… Jesus. If you are not a fan of Jesus, then you push another god, most often the one that resides in a non-believer even if he or she claims to be in Christ.

You are right now undergoing a test. You are battling within each moment of the day; to either follow the world or Jesus. Each of your sins reveal who it is you follow. Like a stray beast, sometimes you do get off the right way, but if God brings you back to the true Church, you then continue on the Way to eternal life.

Unlike the doctrine of Osteen, Christianity is tough. Jesus was scourged, beaten, and died. You are to take up your cross and follow Him (Mat 16:24), so like a beast, you have a yoke to bear, but the load is made easier yoked to Jesus in love.

Will you escape The Great Tribulation? None of the apostles did, so why should you?  Calvinists say that you will escape any tribulation. That is a nice hope, but is it true? God will decide that, not your preacher or other theologian.

The Church is a body of believers who trust Jesus and go wherever He goes… His Way.

Christians are now like lost sheep going whichever way the current of the wind goes. Even the church may mislead you to go astray.

Way too many Christians have gone astray like Cain in the beginning. Church dominations often mislead for each have their own versions of the truth, but versions will not get you to heaven. Paul wrote that you must follow Jesus and Him crucified and resurrected. In 1 Corinthians 15 he wrote that the gospel is foundational… "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty" and cites it as an early creed, "Christ died for our sins... was buried... was raised on the third day.” Also, in Romans 8:34, that Christ died, was raised, and now intercedes; in Galatians 1:4 he wrote that Jesus gave Himself for our sins to rescue us, demonstrating that core belief.

Just because you don’t believe in a law does not mean that the law does not exist. We all ignore laws each day, but when least expected, the law finds us. Jesus is the final version of the Law, and if we do not obey, we will be found and sentenced. If your church denomination does not teach that, then it is a false version of the gospel. Indeed, Christians must obey the Law of God to abide in the Kingdom of God.

Many other examples could be provided that the Church is weak and not even a true Church at all, but an imposter. You do the math; does your church live up to the tenets of Jesus? If not, then you are being misled. You may go to Church a sinner, but to go to Paradise in heaven, you must go there a saint. How long to preserve the saints? Until they endure to the end (Mat 10:22).

“Love the Lord, all you His saints for the Lord preserves the faithful and plentifully rewards the proud doer” (Psalm 31:23).

“Saints” are those who love the Lord God enough to be among the worthy. The “elect” is contingent on who loves the Lord God enough to remain faithful, not just faith once, but to the end.

The evidence of sainthood is a proud doer, doing the will of God. His Will to be done are the Ten Words (Commandments). Command-keeping is evidence of sainthood. Just how many in the Church even try to keep commandments? Even the Name of God has become vanity, now used mostly, not for the word, but an exclamation mark!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE

 Theology is the study of both God and the things of God whereas science is the study of things and their origins — “ontology”. The word, “science” stems from the Latin, “scientia” meaning “knowledge” in general in the English.

The study of existence is “metaphysics”, having two parts ontology and cosmology. Metaphysics asks, "What is reality?", while cosmology asks the question, "How did the universe begin and develop?"

The Bible provides answers to those questions; The Book of Genesis is both the cosmology and ontology of the universe. As an ancient book, scientific processes would have been explained using metaphors.

When reading the Bible, especially The Old Testament (Tanakh, an acronym that represents the Hebrew writings); look for metaphors… examples explaining in simple terms complex ideas.  The Hebrew “Torah” is the book of the Law in the manner that physics is a book of natural law.

The original Hebrew letters, or pictographs, would be metaphors for complex ideas. Those strange look symbols in Hebrew dictionaries each have very scientific meanings.

The Torah is a fine example, spelled תורה reading from right to left. There is meaning in those strange looking characters. [1]

Using scientific meanings, תורה which is spelled tav – nun – resh – hey provides answers.

The letter tav presents “scientific information”, or in theology and philosophy “truth”.  The Torah, in the manner of a science book, endeavors to present information.

“Information” is literally factual knowledge… however science is merely theoretical with truth never quite discovered, but only a body of evidence.  

Science is the study of observable or measurable things. In science, truth is supposed, then tested. So is theological truth: “Test all things and hold onto what is good” (1 Thes 5:1). So, there is much commonality between science and theology; even their intent — in search of knowledge.

Ancient men had a much different vocabulary as words like science, processes, quantum, and such did not yet exist. In fact, “The Word” would have been presented in picture graphics (pictographs) — objective images of mental ideas. Truth was represented by the letter tav, so the Torah (תורה) began with the idea of the presentation of truth.

The second letter in Torah is vav; in science, quantum entanglement is represented by a tent peg, the vav. In theology the vav represents the same thing — binding forces, ostensibly binding the letter tav to the letter resh, coming next. The letter resh scientifically represents the emergence of order from an origin point — the “beginning” in both science and theology. Hence, truth and the beginning are entangled as one thought.

The last letter is the Hebrew hey — the picture of a man with hands raised, indicating “beheld” Beholding what? Observing reality, or truth.

Hence, “Torah” is an ancient scientific term that explains the creation. It is not mythology, but the Torah is a way to present observable reality, or the “truth”.

In the beginning would have been, in scientific terms, the zero point energy field. In theology, the point “El” in “Elohim” is where El is God and Elohim his quantum probability function.

God is omnipresent (present everywhere in theology). How can that be? Quantum mechanics is beyond time as the prefix “omni” represents.

Quantum theory is that some particle seems to be right there when it is stopped wherever it is. So, it might be with God (El). In other words, the dynamics of God is very well explained by a quantum probability field, or in theology, either a cloud by day or a fire by night (Exod 33:22); then at rest on the Ark of the Covenant, God appeared as El. His presence follows quantum physics exactly.

That is not to say that God is science, but scientific terms are stated in different ways. Since God is real, then He should be observable scientifically. Quantum physics is a very good lens to observe God in any of His three states: Father (El), the Son (Bet), and the Holy Ghost (Gimmel).

Since science means “knowledge”, is there knowledge in scripture? About everyone has heard of both the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil:

 

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  (Gen 2:9)

 

“Out of the ground” may have some intrinsic meaning.

“Ground” therein is adama. From the man, Adam, God grew things. Hence, Adam was like God, both an individual and a kind as the letter mem implies. Adam would have been scientific and capable of consuming knowledge, requiring intelligence.

Knowledge from God “grew” (tsamach; צָמַח) things: tsade — mem — chet: a quantum path, fluid dynamics, and limits (different states of existence), respectively. In theology, God made things right (righteousness), by “living water” (Elohim), in two different realms, respectively.

“Tree that was pleasant” comes next. Was the author writing about trees or using “trees” as metaphors? Let’s examine that.

“Tree” in that passage is the Hebrew word, ‘es (עֵץ), translated “tree” but more generally it was a firm thing (Strong 2006). Of course, a tree is a firm thing, but so are all things in the Creation.

The first letter in ‘es is ayin, a pictograph of an eye, which means observable. The second letter shin implies fusion by some power. An observable quantumly fused thing is the construction of all firm things.

Hence, in this case, a tree was not only a “tree” but any firm thing, even men as trees, according to the blind man seeing the firm thing of God, Jesus, approaching (Mark 8:24).

Therefore, among moving firm things were mankind “after our likeness” (Elohim), the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. (Gen 1:26); with man having dominion — of a higher state — than any of the other moving firm things. Mankind had dominion — the body of knowledge of God — righteousness, or truth.

The other kinds were lacking dominion and would all have been base creatures without righteousness, or the truth non-cognitive. The lower states of animals would have been base creatures that only had the instinct for self-survival. Only Adamic man was like God with a “particle” of Elohim in him.

Scripture was defining the states of firm things and foremost among them was Adam whose spiritual state was God, , within a firm thing, his body, or “Jesus”.

The Tree of Life as it turns out seems to be Yeshua (Jesus; Rev 22:2). Adam would have had the knowledge of God within his mind, hence innocence from doing evil.

Without critically analyzing every word in Genesis 2:9, let’s skip on to “knowledge”.

If you recall scientia in the Latin is “knowledge”, so the alternate tree whose fruit was not to be partaken was the “Tree of Science.”

Both good and evil imply extended knowledge, not just the good body of knowledge but evil as well. Obtaining the full body of knowledge, Adam’s kind lost their innocence and would have become responsible for wrong choices. Hence, the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge would not have been apples nor figs, but “free will” to choose as enumerated in Galatians chapter five.

The two people of Adam’s kind had something the lower states of animals did not — the freedom to choose right from wrong. Now instinctive, Adam’s kind would generally take the path of least resistance; they became instinctual, doing the things that the lower states of existence would do. Sin lowered their state of existence from glorious man to beasts; hence, the term, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).

Only mankind has three states: thoughts, spirit, and flesh. The other beasts have lower cognition, no spirit, and beastly flesh. By now, as can be seen on the streets of big cities, men are more “beasts” than godly. They are double-minded, holding opposing thoughts at the same time; they are truly deranged and beside themselves.

Now consider, Hebrew daʿaṯ. (It looks like this may have been the Hebrew idea of the English word, “data”.)

Daʿaṯ (spelled דַּעַת) consists of dalet (door) – ayin (eye) – tav (a cross).

Theologically, the letter dalet is the “Way” of Jesus who John described as the “Word” in the beginning (John 1:1-14).

Scientifically, the dalet means a quantum gateway.

As the “Almighty God” the virtue (Greek, dynamos) of Jesus provides the gateway to heaven; and strait is the gate or as Jesus said it, “Strait is the Gate, and narrow is the Way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it” (Mat 7:14). Hence the quantum gateway very adequately describes the “Way” of Jesus.

Through the door (dalet) leads to ayin, in science “quantum observation” — the ability to see things beyond the naked eye. Adam’s kind were naked while in the Garden. They would have seen things beyond the naked eye. (Sacred literature provides the evidence that that is true.) [2]

In theology, ayin presents divine vision and consciousness. Knowledge made the two salient — aware of themselves as independent consciences from God. They had become the “gods” (Gen 3:5) with a higher state of awareness than God intended. They would have become aware of their flesh and put on aprons of fig leaves (Gen 3:7). They would have been dutiful only to God, but soon, they would have been aware of their flesh and the pleasures it senses.

Lastly, in the word da’at comes the letter tav; in science “completion”, and in philosophy and theology, “truth”.

Literally, then knowledge (da’at) is the “gateway to observe truth”. Therefore, da’at is both science and the Way of Christ Jesus.

Because of sin, you are salient men and women conscious of your existence apart from God but seemingly blind to what small amount of Elohim that remains in you. Born again (John 3:7) is perhaps scientific as well. The Greek word for it means “engendered from above”.  

“Engendered” is both scientific and theological. It is God breathing El into a person, or Elohim in persons. In science, el is Power and elohim the distribution of power (virtue), or perhaps the quantum action of Almighty God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] I have developed two charts to reveal all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and both their theological and scientific meanings. They are shown at the end of this commentary.

[2] The “Books of Adam and Eve” (pseudepigraphal works).

THE GRACE OF GOD: JUST WHAT IS IT?

  

A key concept in the Bible is the concept of grace. Covenant theology divides existence into covenants rather than time.

The covenant in the beginning, for instance, was one of innocence — the knowledge of good alone.

Evil was an unknown concept for sin had not yet altered the states of Adamic man.  Gone unnoticed by most covenant theologians is that Adam was still the son of God and protected by the grace of God, to wit: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them” (Gen 3:21). They were covered, or fixed, by grace.

A covenant is what? In the Hebrew beriyth — a “cutting”. Hence a covenant is (in the English) “creating”. Hence, the first act of God was a covenant, “In the beginning God created, or “cut” (bara') the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1). For what reason? Grace. Without revealing the reason, God “cut” (bara) His Kingdom into two: “heaven” and “earth”.

God is Existence Himself as “I AM” indicates (Exod 3:14). In a manner of speaking, God crucified Himself into two; He cut Himself for a purpose — for mankind to exist. If that was a covenant, it would have been one of generosity as the word “genesis” indicates.

The word “crucify” comes from Latin language and means to “fix” or to “fasten”.

Jesus said, “It is finished” at the crucifixion. What was finished? His coming apart; in the beginning God had been cut, and in the ending fixed, “raised (Greek, egeiro) from the dead.” Egeiro means that God was assembled (Strong 2006).

Within the first verse of the Bible is the word “et” in the Hebrew. It appears twice in that same passage and in the Hebrew is has no meaning, The Jews are blind to the letters aleph- tav (אֵת) in the Word, et.

אֵת stands between the heaven/the earth. אֵת refers to God/Jesus. אֵת is the beginning and the end (Rev 1:8), signified by the Greeks words, alpha and omega — the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Then Jesus would be the aleph - tav in the Hebrew. He, as “ET”, would be the beginning and the end.

In the beginning was only the Aleph, or El (God) and in the end on the cross, tav, where it was finished.

El is the Existence of God in Power, Elohim the generation of all things, and the letter tav completion. In the beginning the Power of God would have been cut for He made all things from Himself (El) from His Power (Elohim), and covenanted (cut) Himself into two things, heaven and earth. The sharing of God’s (El’s) power would be the grace of God and Jesus as both the heaven – earth, Spirit and Body, made Him whole again.

Since God was cut apart in the beginning, therefore when He gave up the Ghost in the ending, He was cut apart again as His Spirit separated from His divine Body.

In the beginning “ET” would have been Aleph, or El, and the letter tav — the knife of cross that cuts; hence the letter tav would have been the crucifix where God was fixed and cut apart a second time, again by grace.

It seems that the only covenant ever was by grace, or favor. In the beginning God favored Adam’s kind by grace. He looked at all the creatures and cut them into portions just as He would have the Israelites do at the annual sacrifice for sin.

The other kinds were there, but God cut the living creatures into parts — Adam’s kind from all the kinds. Adam was favored; hence a second act of grace comes from the beginning as well:

 

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” (Gen 1:26)

 

“Let us make” in that passage is simply the Hebrew word, “asa” (עָשָׂה).  The word “us” is not even in there. Literally, asa is ayin – shin – hey: ayin observation, shin biting, and hey the breath of God. God had again divided the waters from the waters — the seed from the seed — and Adam, of all the kinds, was favored by God. “Dominion” indicates that Adam was favored above all the other kinds. That too was an act of grace.

Then after God’s favored kind, Adam, failed, “Noah found grace” (Gen 6:8). Grace pre-existed Noah but he was not hunting for it, albeit was freely given to him from God. Noah would have been the antitype of Adam born again. The sacred Book of Jasher indicates that Noah was born a favored kind even in the womb.

Grace seems to be when the “Seed” of God enters the flesh of a mere man. Hence, “born again” is just that. However, the seed of God is not semen, but “Living Waters” from His “Belly” (John 7:38). Hence living waters would be the Elohim from God’s sole existence, El and perhaps the “belly” in that metaphor. Grace would be the distribution of the Elohim from El.

It is critical to understand that there were not many gods but one God (El) who came apart (Elohim) to enter other things, among them mankind.

El would be the bearer of grace and Elohim His dynamic grace of virtue, or goodness. Adam would have had Elohim from El put into his body. The word, “dominion” from the Hebrew means “crumble”. A particle of Elohim would have entered Adam, and not the other creatures.

Metaphorically, Adam crumbled from Almighty God (El Shaday). The mightiness of God would be ample grace to do all things. Scientifically, grace is akin to God distributing the quantum Power from Himself and giving power to those of His kind — Adam.

The Hebrew word hen (or chen) is translated as “grace”. Its letters are חֵן — chet – nun.

The letter nun represents seed or sperm. It would have come from something — chet. Chet purveys the idea of new beginnings, or a new creation, as in, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17).

For grace, the chet would indicate newness and the nun a creature. Hence, grace is a transformation from an old creature to a new creature. God did that and so does the Spirit of God in Jesus — the El in Yeshua (Jesus).

Jesus sits at the right hand in the Power (Elohim) (Mat 26:24) of God (El). Elohim flows from the Person of God Jesus as “dynamos” (virtue). Therefore, the virtue leaving Jesus to make whole would have been the Elohim from El within the Person of God, Jesus. Again the “substance” of grace would be the Power of God, unseen but as real as any infinite horsepower engine.

Grace was sufficient enough in the beginning to make all things from God, El, Himself, and so it will be at the regeneration of all things: Speaking of the Tree of Life when the Garden Paradise is restored, John saw “the leaves of the Tree (of Life) were for the healing of the nations” (Rev 22:2) — therapeia ho ethnos, a “rendering of a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus” (Strong 2006). Simply put, us old creatures will be rendered new creatures by the might of God (Elohim).

Coming from the Revelation, grace is the last act of God to render some of the old creatures, new creatures, not literally from the leaves of a tree, but the Elohim of the firm Thing of God, Jesus.

Grace always emanates from God in whatever form or state that He appears. Grace is as real as God. To understand the reality of God, God manifested Himself as the divine man, Jesus. John also saw the El in Jesus transforming (Elohim) others by grace: “(Jesus) manifested forth His glory; and his disciples believed on Him” (John 2:11).

The Body of God — Jesus — emanated the glory of God to transform His disciples. Grace would be the emanation of the Glory, or Light (Elohim), of God (El). Of course, Light is ‘or in the Hebrew, but Elohim would be the Light of God shining forth. The substance of that dynamic would be the distribution of grace from God.

Light is also called truth (1 John 1:5). Truth is reality, is it not? About God the psalmist sang, “O send out Your light and Your truth” (Psalm 43:3). God is the Light and its emanation is the truth. Jesus is the reality of God (El) and Elohim His truth.

Like Plato and Pilate, ask yourselves, “What is truth?” Jesus revealed the truth at the crucifixion; that He was El, Elohim, and the Person of God in one — Father, Holy Ghost, and Son, respectively.

Grace therefore comes from God without charge, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8).

Can you emanate God? No! Do you trust that God emanates Elohim to cut a new person from the old creature? Can you do that? If not, then you are not Jesus.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb 11:1)

Faith is the substance of grace, and it is the hope of reality. Hope is cognitive. So, you have faith; it is not of yourselves but from God. Faith according to Paul is that Jesus is the evidence of the unseen God, so trusting Jesus is the Way; to what? Life (the Hebrew letter chet).

Life (chet) comes from the Light of God, or truth. The repentant thief on the cross alongside Jesus encountered truth; that Jesus was (and remains so) God in the flesh. He encountered grace with that realization, so the substance of truth and grace is not works (ergo) but thoughts (katergazomai); to work out salvation how so? By cognition, considering Jesus and seeing the invisible God. Nothing else saves but coming to that realization, the same as when the thief encountered God in the flesh of a common man and realize that He could save him from Hell.

The substance of grace was that realization. Jesus showed the man His three states — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and all the man had to do was nothing, but consider the truth and conform to it. Hence, the Substance of grace is surely the Thoughts of God.

 Scientifically, that is called quantum entanglement. The thief was not physically entangled, but his thoughts were from Jesus. Jesus persuaded the man that He was God in the flesh by His actions. Grace is therefore divine illumination — truth from the Mind of God. You cannot illuminate yourself, but God can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION

 The dictionary definition of the word “election” might provide some insight; the most general which is “the right, power, or privilege of making a choice” (Merriam-Webster 2025). Only God is sovereign, so He has the privilege of granting anything. Because of the influence of Calvinism in the western world, there is also a religious meaning, “predestination to eternal life” (ibid).

In search of the truth, therefore the concept of predestination must be explored.

Predestining is essentially predetermining before-hand an end result as Paul wrote:

 

(God) has chosen us (the favored) in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will… (Ephes 1:4-5)

 

Ask yourselves questions like, Who are the “us”? Paul revealed them in the first verse of that letter: “…the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus” (Ephes 1:1). God favored those who were faithful, so election depends of faith.

Now for the word “saints” we will turn to the Hebrew; “O love the Lord, all you His saints for the Lord preserves the faithful and plentifully rewards the proud doer” (Psalm 31:22).

A “His saints” the Hebrew word is “hasid”. The letter “hey” is the “His” in Engish, and the meaning of hasid is “His kind” that are faithful to Him.

The key word for saint is “faithful” — a “proud doer” from Psalm 31, not a proud lazy person Hence, the saints can be recognized by their deeds. It is not that deeds make them saints, but that saints must do good deeds or works.

Paul was extremely informative, patiently defining many religious terms: He wrote, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). Thus a “saint” has faith evidenced by the things that he does.

God is a “kind” whose main attribute is loving-kindness. Hence, His kind are to love both Him and the all the other creatures like us that God has made — “The Greatest Commandment”. Saints are manifested, therefore, by loving-kindness. Faith operationalized would be revealed in love and kindness. Angry, hateful people are not saints regardless of their claims.

The next question is What is faith? Paul said that “faith is the substance of things hoped for.” “Substance” means both real faith and that the things hoped for are believed to be real.  What is the hope of Christians? Heaven, eternal life, the Presence of God, harmonious existence, perfect health, the lack of stress, without animosity, and so forth.

That environment is “Paradise”, not in this realm, but the realm of heaven. Since God is the Sovereign there, the citizens in His realm must be like their King, the “Big Guy” who sits on the throne in another realm.

Faith is dependent on you; what you think. Both God and the things of God must be real to you, and the paramount degree of faith is that Jesus is the Person of the invisible God.

The things hoped for must be real to you — substantive.

Paradise must be for real to you, God be for real as Jesus, and that your own soul has the real Substance of God to be His son and worthy of His Estate there. You cannot be just a pretender to God but an actual adopted son of God with Him in you.

Hence, election is not from yourself, but since God is sovereign, only God can elect. God has a plan and a future for you, according to Jeremiah (Jer 29:11). That pre-existed the creation of the world. Scripture is quite correct in predestination, but just whom did God predestine? John seemed to have known the plans of God quite well, according to John 1; and he revealed the elect that God favored even before time ever began:

…Whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life for God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life; for God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved” (John 3:15-17)

Who are “us”, as asked before? “Whosoever” that believes in Him. God, as the true Sovereign reserves the right to establish an orderly process for fairness.

The metric for “election” is belief. That word requires examination; pisteuo in the original Greek — trust in God with confidence that Jesus is God, and that as God, He can save. Belief alone is not enough but trust and confidence are the real metrics. Therefore, election is God’s plan from the beginning and is based on who does, and who does not, have confidence in Him

The first sin was essentially trusting the word of some Beast more so than the Word of God who said, “Do not eat.”  

Adam had been favored for He had dominion over the other beasts of the field (Gen 1:26). God favored Adam and his kind (as the mem in adam represents) by putting Himself in the body of the first man. Adam was just a thing until God breathed life unto him. Adam and his kind were the original elect, and as it appears, the Elohim of God (El) filled the inner man of Adam.

(Whereas God is one (El) His Spirit is Elohim, not many, but omnipresent.)

Although God predestined Adam by putting a fragment of Himself in proto-man, sin blotted out the Elohim in him and his woman. Why so? They had more confidence in a talking Beast than in God Himself, and the Beast persuaded the woman that it was God and that she could be as well (Gen 4:1).

Albeit Adam and his kind were elected and were the original “whosoever”, they lacked confidence and lost favor of God who they once favored. They did not deny God but favored real things more so.

Apostasy (apostasia in the Greek; Heb 6:6) means “defection”. Adam’s kind, once having affection for God in whom they knew and trusted, defected from God in favor of the Beast.

Since original sin, mankind has favored the Beast to God, as John wrote, for God seemed to reveal the beginning to him as He did the ending:

 

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)

 

Now, ask yourself who is “you”? in that passage. Those who believed in God but failed to trust Him (i.e., the seed of Abraham; John 8:41).

You can believe, but still be of the Wicked One, for even demons believe (Jas 2:19). Neither did God elect all the angelic kingdom, but selected only Adam’s kind, for God loved him so much that He put Himself (Elohim) into that one man to pass down to Adam’s kind.

According to John 3:16, Adam’s kind should not have perished, but they have due to their own volition. God elected all of Adam’s kind to be His people, and Him be their God, but they favored the Beast more so, and since all of Adam’s kind are more like the Beast than God, according to John, it was genetic from the original sin.

“Born again” (John 3:7) is literally “engendered from above” (Strong 2006). In the beginning the Most High (sovereign) God engendered Adam with Elohim — love from His own Existence (El Saday). Even now, God from above can do the same at regeneration as He did at the generation. As it turns out, God can engender anyone, anytime according to His will. God sees potential in some faithful people and others He created faithful.

Once Adam sinned, God passed the baton to Abel, not Cain, and with Abel dead, the election “baton” went to Seth (Gen 4).

When Seth’s kind (“sons of God”) failed (Gen 6:4), then God passed the baton to Noah who found grace (Gen 6:8) that was of God for free and underserved, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8).

From whom does faith derive? From a remnant of Elohim in us because we too are Adam’s kind. We are not totally depraved, but have the seed of God in us that must be sparked by the Light of God to create a fire in us whose flame we must keep ablaze as scripture reveals. By grace, God lights the fire, but faith is keeping the fire burning. God’s command was, “The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out” (Lev 6:13). Only we can make the working sacrifice, and albeit God is the Pillar of Fire that ignites us, we are told to never let the fire go out. That takes great diligence and confidence.

Believing one time will not keep the fire burning but vigilance will… “Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Prov 4:23).

Faith begins with persuasion. God provides the evidence, then we test it and hold onto what is good (1 Thes 5:1).

Indeed, God is sovereign and rules, but it is us who are the household of God that must obey His divine Will.

Faith is variable all the way from: the lack of faith, to a little faith, to faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, to great faith, to the faith of Abraham, to the faith of God.

That you know that you are saved “without a shadow of doubt” implies it is you that is the sovereign with the right to judge yourselves. Admittedly, I am humbled and have the hope that God saves me by grace.

What is a “shadow of a doubt”? Because we are not God, everybody at times have doubt, and if you think not, you even lie to yourselves. If there is no doubt, then why are you not moving mountains and such, or even simple things like trusting healing by faith? That is crazy talk even to most evangelicals.

However, so many today are so arrogant — God pre-ordained me, they think. They did not you, they continue. I have God in me, and you do not!

Why would God elect only those who enter the doors of a reformed church and whose doctrine is Calvin’s. That makes Calvin the pontificus maximus  — “The Lord of lords”.

I follow Christ Jesus despite Calvin’s decoherence.

It is true, Adam’s kind was predestined and elected, but that waned, not due to God, but due to them. They lost their first love, El, and fornicated with another “god” (Lucifer). Once loving God, they gradually defected from Him to the Devil, and now they have the Devil in their genetics and in dire need of rebirth, according to Jesus, who said “You must be” (John 3:7).

That is your choice, and your election belongs to you because the Sovereign God delegated it to you. A gracious God does not force anyone to do anything. His grace is not irresistible except for very few incidences.

Adam found grace when not seeking it, and so did Abel. Then Noah found grace and soon lost it like Adam before him. God did not remove grace, but people gave it up without even resisting.

Then Abraham found grace because he chose God over the idols that his father Terah had made for King Nimrod. The god/king Nimrod would never be his sovereign for he retained confidence in God withstanding the fire of Ur. Abram faced great tribulation,  and his faith saved him. Soom his faith (birthright) was passed down to Isaac, then Jacob so that the Hebrews became the elect.

The Hebrew lost trust in God while in Egypt in sin. They wandered until they died and never fully had faith in God. Moses was elected to lead them out of sin into the Holy Land. Their destination was not really the Land of Canaan but Paradise in heaven. They failed to understand God but followed Moses wherever he led them. Their faith in God was given to Moses, and again, God’s elect slid down the rabbit hole into Hell. The Jews remain the elect as well but in God’s time, no theirs.

Then after Moses, the baton of grace was passed to Joshua, and he became the “Jesus” in whom they had faith.

Soon, King David and “sons of David”, the Israelites, got the baton and Israel split in two because of the sins of King Ahab and his wife Jezebel who both lost affection for God and favored the Wicked One.

By the time of Jesus, only the Jews remained of all the elect of Adam’s kind. The God came to this world in the Person of Jesus so that all mankind could see Jesus and have faith in God, but the Jews rejected God in favor of Moses and his priests.

Then God grabbed the baton of grace back for Himself to hand off, and then those who followed Christ Jesus became the elect, “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should shew forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light” (1 Pet 2:9).

Hence, over the course of human events, the elect of God changed with the onset of rejection by those who were the elect before them. With that said, God abandoned endless genealogies (Tit 3:9) and “whosoever” inherited the grace of God, despite their credentials as supposed sons of God. It was a faith thing and who God thought could endure for the long haul as James wrote:

 

Blessed is the man that endures temptation (without sinning) for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love Him. (Jas 1:12)

 

Blessedness is inheriting the Kingdom of God, to wit:

 

Every one that has forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Name's sake (Jesus), shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. (Mat 19:29)

 

Hence, inheritance, or divine election, is an individual thing (everyone) based on whosoever abandons the things of the world for Jesus. That rings true for working faith is not cheap grace!

“Cheap grace” is essentially accepting the goodness of God without becoming His servant. It’s like the lazy servant of a king who hates the things and ways of the king but prefers a sloven life to that of royal living.

Despots make things irresistible. Despots sentence people without good cause. Despots make servants, willing or not, to endure his rule to the end. Despots limit their grace. Despots call people “totally depraved”. Despots refer to common people as “a basket of deplorables”. God, however, sees the potential in everyone. God is no Despot!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall… (2 Pet 1:9-10)

 

These “ things” in the above are godly characteristics listed in the previous verses such as “godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity (2 Pet 1:7)